tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post2660140727582664246..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1989)Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-34452416299201337232012-12-04T21:44:21.193-05:002012-12-04T21:44:21.193-05:00Mister S. said...
"But it is an iconic f...<i> Mister S. said...<br /><br /> "But it is an iconic film moment" </i><br /><br />Hey, is that <i>the</i> Mister S? How you doing, buddy?! Haven't laid eyes on you since the Nats were in RFK!<br /><br />I'm not even sure my e-mail is the same as it was then, but you can always scroll down the right hand side of the page to "View My Complete Profile" -- e-mail is tucked away there.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-797827934411755732012-12-04T16:42:31.160-05:002012-12-04T16:42:31.160-05:00Do you know what it's like to watch Blue Velve...<i>Do you know what it's like to watch Blue Velvet with your mom?</i><br /><br />Oh my <i>God!</i>Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-27104448558889707112012-12-04T15:25:57.291-05:002012-12-04T15:25:57.291-05:00"BTW, I saw this movie with my then-girlfrien..."BTW, I saw this movie with my then-girlfriend and her mother. If I could have vanished through the cracks in the floor during this scene, I would have gladly done so."<br /><br />Could be worse. My mom came home with a rented movie one night in 1990, saying "the critics all say this is the best film of the 80's." Do you know what it's like to watch Blue Velvet with your mom?Erik Beckhttp://nighthawknews.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-40031620448032449252012-12-04T15:07:25.727-05:002012-12-04T15:07:25.727-05:00"But it is an iconic film moment"
Boy..."But it is an iconic film moment" <br /><br />Boy is it ever. I remember seeing this film (at the Uptown in DC) and the punchline at the end got perhaps the biggest laugh I've ever heard in a movie theater. So yeah, Mister Muleboy has a point about selling out Sally's character for a 40-second joke, but since we all still remember that joke 23 years later, you could argue that Reiner didn't make that bad a trade.<br /><br />BTW, I saw this movie with my then-girlfriend and her mother. If I could have vanished through the cracks in the floor during this scene, I would have gladly done so.Mister S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-76898063497315180522012-12-04T11:53:44.318-05:002012-12-04T11:53:44.318-05:00tough guy.
Did you see the Nats signed Dan Haren ...<i>tough guy.</i><br /><br />Did you see the Nats signed Dan Haren to a one year deal? Sort of another one year rental of an Edwin Jackson-type pitcher without having to give Jackson himself a three-year deal.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-57158925168148171132012-12-04T11:51:22.666-05:002012-12-04T11:51:22.666-05:00But the Sally character has been established as th...<i>But the Sally character has been established as the sort of character who would **never** act that out, and certainly not in public.</i><br /><br />You're not going to get an argument from me.<br /><br />But it is an iconic film moment, thus the award, and I guess you could argue that Sally <i>has</i> matured by that point to being able to say things like that out loud. At least that was my take on it at the time.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-35458878887198926032012-12-04T10:53:00.112-05:002012-12-04T10:53:00.112-05:00I don't want to get started on When Harry Met ...I don't want to get started on <i>When Harry Met Sally</i><br /><br /><br /><br />but I must<br /><br />Nothing that Billy Crystal did has aged well with me, but I can handle this one -- maybe best. His acting limitations seem suitable for the creep [read: "any guy"] he portrays.<br /><br />Meg Ryan is as her best, which I don't think is all that good.<br /><br />But <br />[GIANT pet peeve here]<br /><br />Reiner and Ryan's choice to include the film's best-known set-piece makes me want to scream.<br /><br />The fake orgasm in Katz's is great, <i>really</i> affects Harry (deeply, and in-the-moment embarrassment over the noise), and sets up Reiner's mom for a killer punchline.<br /><br />But the Sally character has been established as the sort of character who would **never** act that out, and certainly not in public. The straitlaced, keep-my-pine-nuts-out-of-my-dressing,, persnickety neurotic that they spent a movie developing<br /><br /><br />dis-a-fucking-pears<br /><br />in service of a forty-second joke.<br /><br /><br /><br />I hate shit like that, tough guy.mister muleboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367123802128879318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-49648564366741160912012-12-04T08:46:56.963-05:002012-12-04T08:46:56.963-05:00You're right -- by "good," read: bes...You're right -- by "good," read: best of the decade, top to bottom. Years like that come along every now and then, and you wind up happily spending what feels like every free weekend in a theater.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-49370994137175561962012-12-04T07:09:15.051-05:002012-12-04T07:09:15.051-05:00Not explode. Just a mild tingling. I'm glad ...Not explode. Just a mild tingling. I'm glad you showed love to Connery and San Giacomo, neither of whom got love from the Oscars.<br /><br />If I have a gripe, it's your "good year". I think it's one of the single best years for film. But I think you do too and we just being more subtle.<br /><br />I also think that you, like me, probably show some influence from Danny Peary's Alternate Oscars here. Though I disagree with much in that book, it was his choice of John Cusack for Best Actor for Say Anything that made me re-evaluate his performance in what has always been one of my favorite films.<br /><br />“I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you’re here at like the Gas ‘n’ Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?”<br /><br />“By choice man.”Erik Beckhttp://nighthawknews.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com