just add cocaine and swimming lessons to that list and it sounds like a perfect evening out for michael barrymore
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
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― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I am sickly fascinated with this movie. It's so unbelievably terrible! I think I've seen it twice, as I had to watch again, because I didn't think it could be that outstandingly bad. It was.
Things that are so bad, I think they're fascinating:
The neon signsThe name of their bar: Cocktails and Dreams (!!!!)The scene in the snooty nightclub with the yuppie poetryThe fact that they work at a TGIFThe college professor who belittles all his students"Couglin's diet: cocktails and dreams."
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― ENBB (expatrica), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Clueless rich brat tries to take a cruise to Hawaii, gets on the wrongship because something is in front of the sign, winds up drifting atsea with the girl he's in love with, etc., etc.
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
[Last Barman poem]Brian: I am the last barman poet / I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make / Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake / The sex on the beach / The schnapps made from peach / The velvet hammer / The Alabama slammer. / I make things with juice and froth / The pink squirrel / The three-toed sloth. / I make drinks so sweet and snazzy / The iced tea / The kamakazi / The orgasm / The death spasm / The Singapore sling / The dingaling. / America you've just been devoted to every flavor I got / But if you want to got loaded / Why don't you just order a shot? / Bar is open.
― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 March 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i grew up with this movie's soundtrack
― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 March 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Last Barman poem is the Rosetta Stone of 1980s cocktail culture.
― Dane Cook's Illustrated (I DIED), Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Cocktail is the Rosetta Stone of my soul
― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
god help me
― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i remember ages ago when some gals i knew were squealing with delight because tom cruise actually tended bar in a couple of upper west side joints as research for the role and they were going to check him out but i can't remember if they got there while he was still on duty
― velko, Sunday, 22 March 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I would purchase Cocktail and Cabin Boy together for one low price. Yes I would.
― kenan, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe they put them together because the names have a nice ring. "Cocktail and Cabin Boy." They fight crime.
― kenan, Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Aruba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYjZDuGRHho
On FB I have disgusted VegemiteGrrl by linking this. Alternately, surm is thrilled and amazed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
i have this in full hd and have watched it twice in the last year.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Salut.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
SPOILER WARNING (yes i know this is ridiculous for a film that came out a quarter of a century ago)
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i never found coughlin's suicide convincing. he's a happy-go-lucky character, he'd have skipped off back to australia, or the caribbean, not ended it all.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 11 June 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
It was responsible for this, Mr Ned Raggett sir. I feel justified in my disgust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5_AD9wXuY
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
i love the font in the opening credits
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 June 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
The bar poem was bizarre enough (he said, rewatching), the bad flirting/sex scene that followed even more uh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
Also how did I miss that said photographer in sex scene was Gina Gershon! Between this and Showgirls she is the queen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
More about the Beach Boys obv but still a great read:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/06/beach_boys_kokomo_worst_song.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
That song reminds me a lot of the song in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, "Substitutiary Locomotion" or something like.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
So proud to have worked on the gorgeous Blu-ray of Cabin Boy, out today. @NickPinkerton's essay is essential, and there are endless hours of bonus features. Buy it for the culture: https://t.co/YhzvlQG4Af @KinoLorber @KLStudioClassic— R. Emmet Sweeney (@r_emmet) September 18, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
Good piece
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/12/5/18124195/cabin-boy-chris-elliott-anniversary-adam-resnick-comedy-get-a-life
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link