Popeye (1980)

[kingsley_zissou 2]

The 1980 adaptation of the 1930's cartoon about an ornery sailor. Here's a few wonderful facts about this film.

• Directed by the legendary Robert Altman and produced by the incomparable Robert Evans, who got into fistfights on the set
  
• Written by the satirical cartoonist Jules Feiffer
  
• Robin Williams at one of the peaks of his popularity
  
• The forearm prostethics
  
• The abandoned child
  
• Shelly Duvall in the role she was fucking born to play
  
• Ray Walston as his hate-filled father
  
• The singing
  
• Sweethaven, a mind-boggling amalagam of Kafka, 19th century aesthetics, and 70's set design
  
• Strange racial undertones amongst the supporting characters
  
• The fact that it was an allegory for Vanderbilt's control of steamboat transportation in New York, with Sweethaven standing in for Staten Island.
  
• Animatronic octopus
  
• Backflips
  
• BACKFLIPS
  

This trailer captures the madness:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruD3vzHxu0

[Shannon 2953]

ohhh I adore this movie so much. I've seen it more times than I can count, I had a really huge obsession with Shelly Duvall when I was a kid because of this movie, her fairytale tv show, and Mother Goose's Rockin' Rhyme

 

 

I sing this song kind of all the time...

[sillstaw 414]

I recall reading that there was some kind of controversy when I think Robert Evans was caught bringing cocaine into Malta where the movie was being shot. I take it it comes across on film that there were a lot of drugs involved.

 

Also, I haven't seen it (though I'm sure my siblings think I have and that I just don't remember), but I just love the idea of a Robert Evans-produced, Robert Altman-directed family musical with people like Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in the leads. Nothing about that fits together at all.

[ac00perw 3]

ohhh I adore this movie so much. I've seen it more times than I can count,

 

Me too. Fantastic movie. Great music.

[Gemmariemcc 5]

I watched this movie all the time as a kid, and I loved it, but I very much doubt it would still hold up if I watched it now.

Still sing that Shelley Duvall song from time to time though...