wait, wouldn't his body think it was like 180 years old by the time he graduated from high school
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol Jack.
Despite my love for Gary O, I don't think I've ever actually seen Dracula.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol I can't read, never mind
Jack: Mom, am I a giant?
― what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html (am0n), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
dracula is def not "good" but still awesome
^^^otm there's a lot of enjoyable things about it but it is just ridiculous and doesn't work on a basic level. I always lol at the old-school overlay of Oldman's eyes watching them on the train through the countryside or whatever
xp
― lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf0m_YmQSOA
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
godfather 3 might actually be the /best/ movie here
― summer is coming (cozen), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I saw "The Cotton Club" once about a bazillion years ago but liked it at the time
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Continuity: Jack tells his class that his birthday is on September 12, but his parents were at a Halloween party the night he was born.
― what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html (am0n), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
godfather 3 is close to being in the same 'bad but awesome' category as dracula - many lols to be found in that movie. i watched an interview with robert duvall last year where they asked if he regretted not doing part 3, and he was just like "heh. no."
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
i totally love coppola's dracula movie and i hope it smokes all the other shit on this poll
― goole, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Coppola has stated that the films he made during the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s, such as The Outsiders, The Cotton Club, The Godfather, Part III, Jack and The Rainmaker, were done to pay off the debts incurred by the production of One from the Heart.
lol
― goole, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
one of the AV Club doofs (Tobias?) repped hard for One from the Heart; I really want to see it...
― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
it seems kind of obvious that he has no interest in the medium and hasn't for some time (unlike Scorcese)
Not a lover of Tetro, but give me the "interest in the medium" it displays over Shutter Island's any day.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
OMG that video clip. Jack would be a spectacular movie if an old man with a hands-free mic introduced every scene.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's... interesting. really pretty and unique looking but not very engaging
― goole, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
*I use the term 'doof' affectionately of course...
― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen Shutter Island and don't plan to
― lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
no interest in the medium?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
no interest in Lenny D
― lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
I think I've pretty much regretted watching every movie I've seen with him in it
you regretted "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"?
(lol)
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
did we ever find out what was eating him?
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
It wasn't the obese mom?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
top guesses:
rodents infected with hantavirusdennis cooperthe basic gnawing regrets of life
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
kate winslet
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
think you got that one reversed
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, would love to hear what peggy sue defenders like about it -- i found it pretty unwatchable. out of the ones i've seen here, i'd probably vote for tucker or dracula? dracula just for the vibe, which is totally over the top but in a fun way.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
outsiders and rumblefish r both straight classic looks into the heart of juvenile delinquency
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 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
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