She’s my favorite author. She just satisfies on all levels for me. Her work is so grounded in the world we’ve been living in for the century or so and even the horror stuff also holds that sort of world we can recognize.
I can’t recommend her enough, and happy to recommend her to anyone who asks
Who is your fave? My is a tie between Crow’s Lucy and Joel’s Brenda Vaccaro
The psychological drama? thriller? where Anne Hathaway plays a hugely successful pop star who incorporates Catholic imagery in her her work
Did anyone’s parents drag them to see this as some sort of warning?
I find his reactions very genuine. To me Madonna reactions are like a good musical or horror movie or slasher movie. You’re just sort of waiting for that big kick and if you’re familiar with the kick, then watching somebody who is not kind of lets you relive it through them again. To me, I relive a good Madonna reaction through my own naive introductions to her and it’s always fun to see an new reaction
I most certainly did NOT grow watching He Man, although i blasted Madonna on my little green he man boombox I’m sure my brother picked for me. HE was the one who LOVED He Man. He had the green castle playset and the action figures and loved the cartoon. Me, not so much. I did use his green castle to play Slasher Movie with any dolll or action figure I could find. When the original movie came out we got to rent it with (my pick) Who’s That Girl? and I ended up loving Masters of the Universe 87 and I’m sure gorgeous Dolph Lundgren (who I recognized from Rocky IV: Rocky goes Flashdance With Musical Montages) had a lot to do with that. Plus it was just a fun movie for a 7 yr old.
So, on a whim, I decided to watch the new one since I saw it was free on Amazon. HOLY shit this opening just about grabbed me by the neck and blew me away. The opening music helped A Lot! It was so shamelessly bombastic and gloriously OTT. The whole opening sucked me in and made me get so engaged. I can see how this wouldn’t catch on, but I can’t wait to finish watching it: I actually had to stop after the opening just to write this. I finished it and I think it definitely deserved a bigger theatrical life. It was just a lot of fun and even though I know it only spawned from an excuse to sell toys, it still felt less cynical than a lot of recent blockbusters based on pre existing media
1981’s Happy Birthday to Me gets my vote. It goes so gleefully off the the rails in the last third
1997 Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is one of my favorite movies. I think its quotability factor is up there with Addams Family Values and Wayne’s World.
What is your fave quote, quip, moment ?
I always thought this was best album art and title. And, although the finished product didn’t live up to either for me, Falling Free is my second (after Secret Garden) favorite album closer
This one was so bizarre but so entertaining and nothing at all like the Meryl Streep Roseanne remakes even though they both follow almost all the same plot points
Kind of makes me mad that a remake of this miniseries starring Roseanne and Steep could’ve been way better
I had practically bought my ticket halfway through watching this trailer for the first time. It was listed the EW fall movie preview issue as slated to come out in Dec of 94 then I got pushed back to March 95, either way when it came out I tagged along with my older brother and sisinlaw who were watching Tommy Boy. I was blown away, and the auditorium was mostly filled with (def not sold out) a crowd that absolutely understood the material and reacted accordingly, it was a good experience but Dolores Claiborne never caught on. Even now it’s not even considered a cult classic. It’s so well made, effective, and moving. Why has it been so neglected or passed over?