Love the pick Drunk!
My favourite line: "Ah... Fra gee lay... must be Italian"
By some cosmic coincidence I read your post just as I was channel surfing on the satellite and started watching "It Runs in the Family" (1994) which is the unofficial followup to A Christmas Story, and based on further memoirs of the same screenwriter Jean Shepherd.
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Eberle said, "It was one of the more special ones I've had. You don't score your first NHL goal too many times."
I love A Christmas Story! I was thinking about picking a holiday movie with my last pick, but couldn't pass up Boondock Saints.
But I love when Ralphies mom gets on the phone with the mom of the kid Ralphie says told him the bad word, and you can hear the kid getting creamed on the other end. Brings me to tears every time.
But I love when Ralphies mom gets on the phone with the mom of the kid Ralphie says told him the bad word, and you can hear the kid getting creamed on the other end. Brings me to tears every time.
On the way back from getting the tree, the tire blew out, The Old Man lost the bolts and Ralphie has said the ”F” word
Mother: [ Takes soap out of Ralphie’s mouth ] All right… where did you hear that word?
Ralphie [ Narrating ] Now I had heard that word at least 10 times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists would work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master. But… I chickened out, and I blurted out the first name that came to mind:
Ralphie as kid: SCHWARTZ!
Mother: Oh… I see. [ Puts soap back into Ralphies mouth, goes to phone, calls out Mrs. Schwartz ]
Mother: Hello, Mrs. Schwartz? Yes. I’m fine. Um… Mrs. Schwarts, do you know what Ralph just said?
Mrs. Schwartz: [ On phone, indistinct ]
Mother: No. He said… [ Whispers curse word ]
Mrs. Schwartz: NO! NOT THAT!
Mother: Yes, that. Do you know where he heard it?
Mrs. Schwartz: Probably from his father.
Mother: NO! HE HEARD IT FROM YOUR SON!
Mrs. Schwartz: WHAAAAT?! WHAAAT?! WHAAAAAAAT?!
[ Sound of footsteps, spanking sound, screaming sound ]
BTW - If CP wants to get me a Christmas gift, here it is - only $250.00
Sounds like a must-see Itse! I will have to check it out and let you know what I think. Maybe it was the mention of De Sica's Bicycle Thieves in that review you quoted that sole me.
Hey, if I get someone to see Aki Kaurismäki films, I'm always delighted Such a brilliant filmmaker.
If you like Bicycle Thieves, Kaurismäki-films are propably not a waste of time. Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (The Match Factory Girl) is also one of my favourites, although it's a lot more cynical and has about the least dialogue I've ever seen in a non-silent film. (I believe the first piece of dialogue is spoke at about the half-hour mark.)
Anyway, time for me to make a pick, and if I'm right and this hasn't been picked yet, I'm simply stunned.
First, I'll move Bound from Drama to Wildcard #3 (we got more of those now, right?).
As our 17th round pick, the surprisingly accurately named Selfmade Heroes is delighted to pick Stand By Me (1986) in the Drama category.
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird.
Not seeing this film should be made a criminal offense for everyone who has ever been twelve years old, more so for those who have been twelve year old boys.
It's the only really good depiction of childhood I remember ever seeing, the only one that manages to capture what childhood felt like. (And I can't emphasize enough how good it feels to see it in pictures.) It was such a different time, and yet if you knew someone in that age, you'll know them forever.
Stand by Me is a rare gem among films, so perfect in style, with great acting and excellent writing (among the only things by Stephen King I actually like).
The basic story is really simple: four young boys, driven mostly by curiousity and a sense of adventure, set out to find the body of another kid, apparently hit by a train somewhere in the woods.
The kids are a wonderfully archetypical collection. Gordie (Wil Wheaton) is sensitive, intelligent and painfully ignored by his parents. Gordie's best friend Chris (River Phoenix) is the leader with the bad family background who feels he'll never get out of the town. Teddy (Corey Feldman) is the weird kid who obsesses over his abusive father. Vern (Jerry O'Connel), the fat one is "the easy target", the one with more imagination than brains, but nevertheless a part of gang just like everyone else. All roles are played to perfection by kids only a few years older than the actual characters, and supported by a equally good actors, most notably Kiefer Sutherland as the leader of an older gang of bullies and Richard Dreyfuss as The Writer who provides us with the voiceover as he's telling us this story from his own childhood.
Teddy: I'm sorry if I'm spoiling everybody's good time. Chris: Its ok, man. Gordie: I'm not sure it should be a good time. Chris: You saying you wanna go back? Gordie: No. But going to see a dead kid... maybe it shouldn't be a party.
"[voiceover] Finding new and preferably disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother was always held in high regard. "
What's the movie about? Growing up, mostly. About being human, and starting to realize what the world around you is like, about how growing up has it's ups and downs, and it was really like to be a kid. Life.
Stand By Me is a STEAL. Great movie and teh second best film adaptation of a Stephen King story.
River Phoenix was special. Huge loss...as is the loss of his little brother to the music industry. No more movies for Joaquin.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Stand By Me is a STEAL. Great movie and teh second best film adaptation of a Stephen King story.
River Phoenix was special. Huge loss...as is the loss of his little brother to the music industry. No more movies for Joaquin.
The part at the end, where Phoenix' character waves goodbye before he vanishes off the screen while Dreyfuss narrates his untimely demise, is all the more poignant given River Phoenix' actual death.
Stand By Me is definitely a great film; incredible that both it and The Shawshank Redemption (as well as the underrated Apt Pupil, to make 3) came from the same book - a collection of 4 SK novellas. Talk about a golden goose.
That's What She Said is proud to select in the Fantasy category, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe.
This film was like all 3 Lord of the Rings movies wrapped in one, in that it was fresh, sweeping in its scope and full of breathtaking cinematography.
Not a lot of time for a write-up now, but this was a movie I enjoy every time I watch - it was imho the best of the Narnia books and its charm will not be easily matched in any future films (as we have already seen in the sequel Prince Caspian). This movie has many levels and will suit many different types of movie watchers for many different reasons - part of what makes it such a great grab this late in the draft.
For the next selection for the B-List Celebs we are proud to select in the category of Western, Shanghai Noon.
A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O'Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another.
Just another reminder that I'm shopping Jurassic Park for either another Action movie, or a draft pick. If you already have an Action movie selected, JP would be great for shoring up one of your Wildcard spots.
Such a brilliant filmmaker.
