Comments that which don't warrant a thread

[bob_barron 0]

Steve Martin makes me so fucking mad now. Every movie after 1991 pisses over the memory of all the work he did in the 70s and 80s. Fuck Pink Panther and this imposter Steve Martin.

 

You completely ignore his writing, which is great. I loved Pure Drivel and Born Standing Up, and his pieces for the New Yorker are hilarious.

 

His movies are hit and miss since then, but he does the movies to fund his art collection and to allow him to continue to write. I love Bowfinger though, that's a great movie.

[King Kamala 0]

There was a really interesting documentary on Steve Martin from about ten years ago or so that I saw on Ovation or Trio. He basically admitted that writing was his number one passion and he only does a lot of his movies to allow him to live comfortably and fund his art collection. Unfortunately, his lackadaisical attitude towards being in movies really shows.

 

But I'd venture to say that Born Standing Up is about as awesome as his films since 1991 have been crappy. Though like Bob, I kind of liked Bowfinger. I also enjoyed Leap of Faith.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Wasn't "Shopgirl" supposed to be pretty good?

[Youth N Asia 0]

No...Shop Girl sucked pretty hard

 

Leap of Faith was on ok movie to see once

[bob_barron 0]

Shopgirl was pretty good, I thought, though a little too slow.

[Youth N Asia 0]

No, I'm gonna say I'm right this time, Bob

[Gary Floyd 0]

I kind of liked Bowfinger.

Seriously, how could anybody hate "Bowfinger?" That movies awesome.

[luke-o 0]

45 minutes is a bit long for a short film. I think that's the cut-off between a short and a feature.

 

To be honest, the film wasn't inteded to be that long. The script was 32 pages long, it just got extended via action sequences.

[King Kamala 0]

You know I should have the same vitriolic hatredthat Chris has towards the recent work of Steve Martin given the fact that I watched Bringing Down The House twice thanks to my dad's love of that movie. But again, I love The Jerk, Pennies From Heaven, and Born Standing Up too much for me to allow that happen.

[bob_barron 0]

You know I should have the same vitriolic hatredthat Chris has toward the recent work of Steve Martin given the fact that I watched Bringing Down The House twice thanks to my dad's love of that movie. But again, I love The Jerk, Pennies From Heaven, and Born Standing Up too much for me to allow that happen.

 

You can't hate on the guy. It's not like he does paycheque movies for the sake of paycheque movies like Eddie Murphy.

[strummer 0]

Yeah I watched The Jerk on HBO a week or so ago and it's sad to see how awesome he was and what happened post 91 (like Bowfinger though)

[CBright7831 0]

You know I should have the same vitriolic hatredthat Chris has toward the recent work of Steve Martin given the fact that I watched Bringing Down The House twice thanks to my dad's love of that movie. But again, I love The Jerk, Pennies From Heaven, and Born Standing Up too much for me to allow that happen.

 

You can't hate on the guy. It's not like he does paycheque movies for the sake of paycheque movies like Eddie Murphy.

Meh...I liked The Nutty Professor.

[bob_barron 0]

I like the Nutty Professor too, but family friendly Eddie is getting old. Did you see the trailer for Imagine That?

[CBright7831 0]

I like the Nutty Professor too, but family friendly Eddie is getting old. Did you see the trailer for Imagine That?

No. I'll just bite the bullet and watch it. Surely to God it cant be as bad as Norbit and Meet Dave.

 

 

 

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[Youth N Asia 0]

It looks way better than Norbit and Meet Dave...with that being said though it still appears to be a turd that I will never see. Eddie...I give up

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Steve Martin makes me so fucking mad now. Every movie after 1991 pisses over the memory of all the work he did in the 70s and 80s. Fuck Pink Panther and this imposter Steve Martin.

 

You completely ignore his writing, which is great. I loved Pure Drivel and Born Standing Up, and his pieces for the New Yorker are hilarious.

 

His movies are hit and miss since then, but he does the movies to fund his art collection and to allow him to continue to write. I love Bowfinger though, that's a great movie.

 

To be fair, I wasn't aware he had ever written anything so can't judge that either way. However, I love old Steve Martin movies, most of his stuff with Carl Reiner is pretty decent (The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid). Besides, I was purely talking about the movies he has done since 91. I think Bowfinger might be the exception to the rule on the 'post 91 movies suck' assumption. Though that's only funny because it takes the piss out of Eddy Murphy and Steve Martin.

 

As for Eddie Murphy - the less said the better. He's another victim of the 80s turning into the 90s.

 

RIP Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

So off the Steve Martin Train for a minute, I finally got a chance to see Smokey and the Bandit 3. Ive heard how terrible it was but I never really bothered to try and catch it, and then low and behold it was on HDNET Movies this morning. I think I just saw quite possibly the worst 85 minutes of cinema ever.

I was trying to wrap my head around why it was so awful, from the disjointed cuts and continuity errors (B.T. Justice has not one but TWO tires blow and he's like, fuck tires I dont need tires and two seconds later he's driving on 4 perfectly inflated tires again) and horrible dubbing (I dont think Gleason or Reed actually had 50% of their original dialog left and the word subbing was rediculous considering the ammount of nudity..you can show pussy but you cant say it?) not to mention the fact that the lack of Burt Reynolds for all but 90 seconds of that 85 makes you realize that they just threw this together to cash in on the S&B craze even when Burt really wanted nothing to do with it after the questionable sequel (which I always thought was ok but nothing compared to the first).

 

THEN...I find out that the original plan was for Gleason to play Justice and the Bandit in a dual role and that got shit on by test audiences and they went back and reshot everything with Gleason as the Bandit and replaced it with Cledus. I also was able to use the HD to freeze frame at the points where it was noticable that the stunt driver for the Bandit was an old fat guy which I didnt notice the first time through. This makes everything make sense other than why the hell the movie was actually released, since at some point someone had to go "You know, this is a pile of shit" (which would have been an understatement). Also, I now desperately want to see the original test version (Smokey is the Bandit!) just to see if could have actually been worse than what they ended up with (Me thinks that the test audience probably were dumbasses but it does sound really stupid)

 

Im also quite thankful that Smokey and the Bandit 4 (thousand) (basically Smokey and the Bandit in space/future) never saw the light of day (yet) though now Im waiting for the remake which I would think is all but inevitable...

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I watched bits and pieces of a movie called "Monster Ark" this morning - I'm certain it was awful and ripped at least two scenes off from Raiders (I suppose it could have been 'paying tribute', but come on...) but it featured Tony Lister, Renee O'Conner (still hot), and Amanda Crew (hot since I first saw her on some Canadian show about tennis), so I kept going back to it.

[cd213 0]

IMAGINE THAT doesn't seem like the type of movie that I'd be interested in seeing, but it looks like it might be a good family/children's film.

[TheFranchise 0]

No Oscars thread?

 

People are walking down the red carpet now but the actual awards aren't being shown in England (I don't think?) I'm flipping through channels and nothing.

 

What time do the awards kick off?

 

Edit: Found it.

 

It's being shown live at 1am on Sky Movies Premiere over here.

[Aero 0]

I'd assume that everyone was planning on using the Nominations announcement thread or prediction thread for Oscars.

[bob_barron 0]

Yea, the predictions thread should be the Oscars thread

[Fuzzy Dunlop 0]

Steve Martin's WASP is incredibly funny.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Im not sure if this should go here or not but anyway:

 

Best Buy cutting back sales of Anime

 

Best Buy is about to dramatically change its anime strategy, eliminating most anime from nearly half its stores, according to an industry source. The change will focus Best Buy’s anime efforts on those stores that have historically done best with the category, and nearly eliminate anime in stores that have produced a disproportionate share of anime returns.

The new strategy will kick off March 1st, when 50% off anime closeout sales will begin in over 460 stores nationwide. After the sales end on March 21st, those stores will offer only around 20 core anime SKUs.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Oh, man. That's gonna bring in the weirdos to Best Buy. I'll never forget the amount of old men who came in daily to buy hentai DVDs when the Sam Goody I was working at started cutting prices in their closing sale.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Well there's some simultaneously good and bad news.

[CBright7831 0]

Meh...Akira (the one movie that I do not own) has been discontinued on DVD so no reason to travel to Best Buy.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

I just saw a commercial for "10 Items or Less." Never having seen a second of this show, I base everything I know of it on its painfully unfunny ads, and I ask how the hell did this show get a second season?

[Youth N Asia 0]

Don't question TBS, apparently they know comedy

[Ravenbomb 0]

Don't question TBS, apparently they know comedy

 

Very funny.