NathanGordon

Ruth Gordon made an impression on me as a youth; I loved how she wore her hair in Harold and Maude (in braids) and how special it seemed when her hair was down, when they were in bed together.

And for a different sort of film within a film, Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep is wonderfully meta.

Can we talk about this: I had to look up IMDB because I thought maybe a different person played Cranston while he was The Shadow, but nope -- it's Baldwin with a prosthesis. Was the point of the crazy nose to hide his identity? Because isn't that what the mask, cape, and hat were for? I don't get it.

well this thread took a turn

Eh, there's approximately a gorillian of these shitty SyFy/Asylum/Red Box originals. We've had three Sharknados on the podcast, I think that about covers it.

Best part of the movie, right here: That's Mad magazine level.

Mean Girls is a more important film than Breakfast at Tiffany's.

My mind hasn't changed since the homework thread. I think Breakfast is a good movie with a great Audrey Hepburn whom you can't take your eyes off. And that's it. The front half of the podcast was Amy and Devin fawning over Hepburn, and then acknowledging that there's a bunch of other stuff that doesn't work in it. It's not just Mr. Yunioshi, it's George Peppard, it's the lack of chemistry, it's the sexuality changes from the novel, it's basically most everything except for Audrey in her little black dress. I vote no, even though I played Moon River on accordion for a friend's wedding. I'm glad Amy brought up Hepburn's relationship with eating -- people idolize her beauty, but she struggled with her body all throughout her youth, through very trying circumstances. The result wasn't just that she couldn't gain weight, she also had difficulty with pregnancy, suffering half a dozen miscarriages. I think it's worth remembering that she wasn't just this skinny little manic pixie. (She later would use her fame to help alleviate the poverty of others through her humanitarian work with UNICEF.)

"Why don't you come down and see my beryllium sphere sometime?" I love how he was leering at Naomi Watts Penelope Ann Miller. I just wish he had more scenes in this movie. So I don't get it -- is The Shadow supposed to be a good guy? He used to be an opium warlord, now he saves people but puts them into indentured servitude, plus he uses his abilities to hit on Penelope Ann (reading her mind about champagne and peking duck) and make things difficult for the police (who are just trying to stop bad guys). It's funny that his power is basically gaslighting people.

Brother brother brother, brother, brother brother. Brother -- brother brother. Brother, brother brother brother brother brother... brother, brother. Brother brother brother? Brother. Oscar was kinda fun, but I hated the generically handsome tortured rock star guy. Wahlberg was the bright spot and I could have done without the rest of the film -- his scenes were clearly shot in a single afternoon.

Not much of a fight, Intolerance is better in every regard, and a towering achievement in film.

Is it CG? I don't remember this film very well, even though it was one of my favorite rentals as a kid, but the snakeman was definitely stop motion.

It's a case of a beloved novel not quite making the transition to screen; I think a lot of things that work on the page don't work when filmed, and I honestly don't see why this story (or any of Tom Robinson's) needed to be a movie in the first place. I'm not sure that Gus Van Sant was the right director for this project either; he works best with smaller realist fables. That said, there's some lovely images, and parts when Robinson's hippy humor is effectively translated. Uma Thurman is young and beautiful, so there's that.

/thread Devin is racist against tigers so I'm pretty sure how that would play out.

If anyone is on the fence about this show, give it at least three episodes. The first ep is actually kinda meh, but it gets much better after that. It's kinda like Freaks and Geeks meets Super 8, with really cool music. I feel like I haven't seen Winona do anything in forever!

SHOWGIRLS IS HAPPENING!!! . . . . . . in a few months!

This is going to happen sometime in October, as per Paul in the most recent minisode!

I'm pretty certain I'm in the majority opinion on that film. It's not good, but I do enjoy elements of it.

p.s. please don't turn this into a political or pro/anti-feminist debate, this forum is like my safe space from the rest of the internet.

For whatever reason, people like to split up pop culture eras into decades, when we know it's really not like that at all. Disco's biggest mainstream hits were in the 80s. Cocaine never went away, either, but crack cocaine certainly was widespread in the 1980s. The notion of it being an "epidemic" doesn't paint an accurate picture because it implies that urban drug use wasn't a problem before. I think the bigger conflict in Boogie was less about drugs (I mean, obviously Dirk had a problem) and more about how the porn industry changed. Honestly the film could have gotten much darker, if it wanted to get into the early 80s AIDS crisis.

The Coppola film is mostly bullshit, apart from some of the production design and art direction (the Hammer-esque exteriors, Dracula's incredible suit of armor).

DW Griffith's Intolerance vs Herbie the Love Bug Rides Again North By Northwest vs Hellraiser 2 Knife In The Water vs Beverly Hills Chihuahua

I think it's hard to not notice this, given that there's a title card immediately after the murder-suicide. I actually think that bit of editing is way too on the nose, and feels too obviously "UH OH HERE COME THE 80s".

Okay first ep. I don't have much to say -- I felt like this wasn't as funny or insightful as it needs to be. Most political shows go for comedy or analysis and it seems like this podcast is attempting to walk a line between. Based on this one episode, it felt a little too lightweight in both regards. I did enjoy the Brexit discussion, but you can find that everywhere. I guess what I ask myself when deciding to commit an hour each week to a new podcast is "what is this show doing that I'm not hearing elsewhere?" I hope with time, this show finds its groove.

I agree. I watched it a few years ago after not having seen it for a decade or so, and was surprised by how "meh" I felt towards it. I don't think it's held up as well as its iconography and legacy would suggest. Audrey Hepburn is without a doubt supernaturally beautiful and elegant, and Mancini's maudlin score is memorable stuff, but there's a lot of it that isn't that great. Mr. Yunioshi is beyond offensive of course and the film is almost worth rejecting for that alone, but I feel that the writing isn't generally good, and all the scenes with Paul's sugar momma and Holly's farmer daddy are pretty bad. What does work is when the film captures the brief, elusive magic of youth -- the cat jumping around the apartment party, Paul and Holly stealing the five and dime masks, Holly playing guitar on the fire escape, the two of them holding the cat and kissing in the rain. I think Breakfast at Tiffany's does a better job than most at evoking that weird, all too short moment of young adulthood where things seem so damn IMPORTANT because your heart just has so much dang love in it, if only someone could just understand you. The other funny thing about this film is that there's no way Holly and Paul stayed together forever. I give them maybe six months at best. Her impulsiveness would drive anyone crazy. There's better Hepburn romantic comedies to canonize -- how about the supremely enjoyable Roman Holiday?