btw the title is Bram Stoker's Dracula (which it's not)
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
btw the title shoulda been winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
what do I like about Peggy Sue... pretty much every scene with Nicolas Cage in doowop greaser mode, his line readings are hilarious. I have a soft spot for Kathleen Turner as well. the time travel/paradox/"what if I had my life to live over?" was given some real emotional resonance. the greaser/beatnik guy.
I haven't seen it in a long time, maybe it's clunkier than I remember.
xp
― lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
i remember my family attempted to take in a viewing of peggy sue gets married but it was sold out, dont think i ever saw it
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
this week in fascinating francis ford coppola stories!
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i dunno, cage seems to verging in on something great in that movie, but ends up being kind of terrible imo. sort of a weird, risky performance i guess, but ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
the greaser/beatnik guy
lol
What was that character's name? I wasn't saying that was my choice last night btw. I haven't seen this in at least 15 years. I just feel like I watched it a lot when I was a kid and remember it being really really strange.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was on TV a LOT for some reason in the mid-90s?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
(btw since we're sharing important coppola stories, was just in sonoma last weekend and considered going to his winery, but didn't)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
good thing, since his winery is in Napa
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
nope in sonoma. drove right past it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
the one scene that really sticks with me is the one in the basement where Peggy is telling Nic Cage that he's never gonna make it as a singer and he should be more realistic and whatever and he's just not having any of it/cannot take the blow to his ego (afore-ref'd "I've got the TEETH! I've got the HAIR!" line) - it's just so strange and sad. I react to the scene in Freaks and Geeks where Nick says he'll never be the guy on the drum riser, maybe if he's lucky he'll be the guy who pushes the button that makes the drum riser go up and down... something about that terrible despair of youthful naivete being crushed. I dunno, it gets me.
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
the time travel/paradox/"what if I had my life to live over?" was given some real emotional resonance
otm. a lot of these i haven't seen, but iirc The Rainmaker isn't terrible and Rumblefish is better than the Outsiders. it would prob come down between Rumblefish & Peggy Sue for me.
― je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
to expand on that I appreciate how the time travel thing isn't handled in a glib/gimmicky/silly way (a la say Terminator or Back to the Future) - instead it all hinges on Peggy trying to realize her desires about making things different but being ultimately unable to, she repeats the past because she can't help herself.
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
The Rainmaker has terrific performances by the supporting cast. Marred by Claire Danes, Matt Damon's distracting floppy hair, and Grisham's dumb Manichean plot dynamics.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
the outsiders is not very good, but i don't think that's coppola's fault. the acting is so bad. he does a nice job matching sound to image iirc.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
he does to those Hinton novels what Spielberg did to The Color Purple.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol there are two of them, apparently! who knew?
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
i guess i didn't! definitely hard to miss from the 101 in sonoma. though i was hoping it'd be shaped like an enormous patrol boat from apocalypse now.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Coppola is in Sonoma, NIEBAUM-Coppola is in Napa; we went to NC and kind of crashed the reserve tasting room (which was the BOMB)
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
Kevin J O'Connor is v hot in Peggy Sue
also an early Jim Carrey appearance
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
laurence fishburne played the same character in 'the cotton club' as he played in 'hoodlum'! ed o'ross was also in both of those films.
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
should have had fishburne play bumpy in 'american gangster' as well.
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
godfather III better not get a single vote. if it does, i demand identities so I can SB without abandon
point of pedantry, you mean with abandon
― frog in a bs place (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
you see what thinking of that movie does to his grammar?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://thestuffyougottawatch.com/picse-h/gof3a.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
he's working on a prequel trilogy i hear
― what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html (am0n), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
who'd he cast as Obi-Wan?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
ben corleone
― what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html (am0n), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
solozzo shoots first
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol Alfred
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
funny thing is I sat there for five minutes before posting debating which was right and after much thought, still fucked it up
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
Jar Jar Barzini
Luco Brasi sleeps with the Jawas.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:29 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
lols
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
Leave the light saber. Take the canoli.
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wish I could come up with some good lines. I only know one of the franchises, though.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Help me, Michael Corleone. You're our only hope..."
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
clemenza I know it's just a display name but every time you post i sorta picture the actual Clemenza posting....
diff movie, but it is sort of funny that harrison ford's one apocalypse now scene has lines about "the dark side" ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to post this on the WDYLL thread, but I guess I'll put it here:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110106190642/godfather/images/4/42/Young_Clemenza.png
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
― aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Peggy Sue Got Married. there's a strange eerie beautiful atmosphere at least in the first half and the scene where she meets her Grandma who has died in the 'present' is wonderful.
critics raved about Tucker didn't they?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
totally would have voted for One From The Heart
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
it's really quite odd
― sarahel, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
I would've too, but I threw support behind Tetro, since it seemed a more viable contender.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
I find Peggy Sue Got Married really compelling for some reason I don't entirely fathom. I think it's because it just seems so emotionally honest, it's sentimentality doesn't feel cheap or unearned. It's one of those things I will always watch if it happens to be on.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
I remember Peggy Sue being tonally messy, but the scene with the grandparents destroyed me at the time, probably because I watched it not long after my own grandfather passed away.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link