tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post5336449715496891685..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Shine sweet freedom...Alan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-87705549936683442182007-05-03T17:38:00.000-04:002007-05-03T17:38:00.000-04:00Loved this movie as a pre-teen and still do.Loved this movie as a pre-teen and still do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-2254016026720033462007-05-01T21:25:00.000-04:002007-05-01T21:25:00.000-04:00I love this movie, AND I love "Stakeout."I love this movie, AND I love "Stakeout."Sarah D. Buntinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12886679277960866788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-71349433947143316032007-05-01T12:14:00.000-04:002007-05-01T12:14:00.000-04:00Not to turn this into an insane-ass-'80s-clothing-...Not to turn this into an insane-ass-'80s-clothing-nostalgia thread, but I rewatched 'The Last Dragon' last month after a decade or two.<BR/><BR/>Holy El DeBarge.Pete Prochilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071453177683930557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-2462509518342271442007-04-30T12:21:00.000-04:002007-04-30T12:21:00.000-04:00I saw this movie more than once in the theater. O...I saw this movie more than once in the theater. Of course I remember it as a summer movie during a summer when you went to movies for the air conditioning. Also I loved Billy Crystal's "Oh no!" voice. Didn't he say something about "hot cocoa with mini-marshmallows?"Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17320664957973551031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-25422542451948521892007-04-30T10:42:00.000-04:002007-04-30T10:42:00.000-04:00RUNNING SCARED is a fun movie with the fakest-look...RUNNING SCARED is a fun movie with the fakest-looking fake snow I've ever seen.<BR/><BR/>For bottom-of-the-barrel buddy cops, you need to see Jay Leno and Pat Morita (!) in COLLISION COURSE and Forest Whitaker and Anthony Edwards (!) in DOWNTOWN.Marty McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084642122976337263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-71739463969590433042007-04-30T08:05:00.000-04:002007-04-30T08:05:00.000-04:00OK, I've never seen this movie, either. But when I...OK, I've never seen this movie, either. But when I read your description of their rollerskating outfits, I was sure I experiencing one of those moments when I suddenly "get" something about a Muppets movie that I never noticed as a kid without a reference.<BR/><BR/>In The Muppets Take Manhattan, there's a scene where Gregory Hines is getting ready to go rollerskating, and he's wearing red short shorts, a pink tank top, and knee-high socks. After Piggy steals his skates and he helps Piggy and Kermit make up, he says "keep the skates! I just like to run around in shorts."<BR/><BR/>I thought for a second when I read this that it must have been a reference to this movie. But upon further research, the Muppet movie actually came out two years earlier. So...neither outfit is meant to be ironic? They were considered normal enough outfits for people to just wear?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-3827771125667136592007-04-29T22:24:00.000-04:002007-04-29T22:24:00.000-04:00I absolutely love this movie. I also love White N...I absolutely love this movie. I also love White Nights. Hines as a Communist? Does that qualify as having "surprised you by being convincing in a role to which they're so obviously unsuited?" Whenever he popped up you were sure to get a great performance, even on Will & Grace. There is just something about quirky buddy movies like this, or Sneakers to name another, that I find so enjoyable. <BR/>My take on the clothing - it showed how fish out of water they were in Key West.<BR/>I still laugh at the scene where they are driving around in Smits car talking to him on the cell phone - "Tell him I said hello!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-76763106909141568482007-04-29T22:06:00.000-04:002007-04-29T22:06:00.000-04:00my friends and I still quote "he didn't know Ipswi...my friends and I still quote "he didn't know Ipswich clams" and "deut-er-ooooonamy" all the time.<BR/><BR/>We are nerds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-17455341271671298742007-04-29T18:59:00.000-04:002007-04-29T18:59:00.000-04:00My favorite part was when they killed Jimmy Smits....My favorite part was when they killed Jimmy Smits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-37987927879015267112007-04-29T16:31:00.000-04:002007-04-29T16:31:00.000-04:00"Excuse me, we're from Noisebusters. Do you know w..."Excuse me, we're from Noisebusters. Do you know where the Menudo concert is?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-80163068856038470482007-04-29T15:57:00.000-04:002007-04-29T15:57:00.000-04:00Earl was lame and is getting lamer.The Grey's expe...Earl was lame and is getting lamer.<BR/><BR/>The Grey's experience just isn't the same when after I watch it I can't come to this site the next day and join the complaining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-47764119027038859322007-04-29T15:29:00.000-04:002007-04-29T15:29:00.000-04:00just an idea, since i've never seen the movie, but...<I>just an idea, since i've never seen the movie, but the clothes sound gay in a very stereotypical way. maybe it was a send-up of key west's reputation as a historically gay-friendly place?</I><BR/><BR/>Except that the entire sequence features the two guys dating a series of hot women in bikinis.Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-24157381816913508782007-04-29T15:19:00.000-04:002007-04-29T15:19:00.000-04:00just an idea, since i've never seen the movie, but...just an idea, since i've never seen the movie, but the clothes sound gay in a very stereotypical way. maybe it was a send-up of key west's reputation as a historically gay-friendly place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-16581417405010276342007-04-29T14:03:00.000-04:002007-04-29T14:03:00.000-04:00Running Scared is a traditional Christmas move in ...Running Scared is a traditional Christmas move in our household, along with Mixed Nuts. I had not seen either movie before marring into Katey's family.<BR/><BR/>I think my favorite scene in Running Scared is where Hines knocks on the apartment door and gives the finger to the 7 year old in retaliation. It's mean spirited, but sooo funny because he's doing something you'd love to do, get back at a small child who has made fun of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1618825859225059582007-04-29T13:41:00.000-04:002007-04-29T13:41:00.000-04:00It's funny, I've got huge love for this movie... i...It's funny, I've got huge love for this movie... it was one I had on video (taped off HBO) and I used to watch it every couple of weeks back when having my own VCR was kind of a new thing for me.<BR/><BR/>What's funny is that a buddy of mine just recently caught it again on cable, and as a result, we've both been simultaneously drawn back into talking about it, including quoting Billy Crystal's famous "Oh no!" voice at one another. So it was kind of funny timing that you just re-watched as well.<BR/><BR/>Short answer: Yep, definitely got some love for this movie.<BR/><BR/>As for dated clothes, etc. I'm sure there are some, but I can't think of any at the moment. Actors who surprised me, though... <BR/><BR/>Michael Keaton as Batman. He wasn't perfect, and his Bruce Wayne was basically him mugging for the camera, but I remember being surprised at how dark he made Batman.<BR/><BR/>Robin Williams in One Hour Photo. He'd done dramatic before, in Dead Poet's Society, Good Morning Vietnam, etc. but usually there was an undercurrent of his jokey improv personality. In One Hour Photo, he was just a quiet, disturbed, dangerous man.Randy Landerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01927023143072517623noreply@blogger.com