I had an uncomfortable experience watching American Gigolo on VHS at the house of my only friend that was well-off enough to have a VCR and her dad came in right at the beginning and watched it with us and that was a LONG and completely silent 2 hours.
I had a VCR into my 20s so I could watch the original Star Wars. 🤓 But American Gigolo came out in the early 80s, so it makes sense to have watched that on VHS.
My son was home for Christmas, and we tend to go to movies together when he’s here. He mentioned wanting to see Poor Things. I knew little about it at the time, and we didn’t end up seeing it. I saw it alone, and he saw it with his gf. All for the best 😅
Almost as uncomfortable as that sex scene on the staircase. Which is what I remember about the movie because I KNOW it was supposed to be as sexy AF but I just couldn’t stop thinking about how freaking uncomfortable it would be.
If I say I've seen this movie 100x that's probably not an exaggeration. Partly because I love it and partly because it's on movie channels and every streamer constantly.
Definitely will. Though I'm very aware that once I do I'm going to have to talk about how I have even more evidence of how fucked up my relationship with my dad was, which feels like it'll take some of the fun out of it 😂
Can't say much more because I'm paranoid about giving away my identity online, but he has a nice little scene with Pierce Brosnan and said that on-set he was really, really funny on-set.
Said something like, "You wouldn't expect a guy that handsome to tell a good fart joke."
I saw it three times in the theater and watch it any time it's on TV. Easily one of the best caper films of all time, even though it's a remake. Humorously enough, Pierce Brosnan hosted a series on the greatest heists of all time in the past few years.
The Insider and The Matrix come mighty damn close.
Ultimately, though, I have to give 1999 top honors to Bowfinger. Pure comfort food, screamingly hilarious.
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SO MUCH WORD TO THAT
It helps that director Frank Oz is such a wonderfully mad scientist in the realm of film. Sure, to be fair, not *every* single film he's done was a banger, but the overwhelming majority of them were, and Bowfinger certainly applies.
Instant bad day antidote, that.
Steve Martin doing A+ comedy game and then Eddie Murphy shows up and outcomedies him by like a fucking mile without trying hard; Murphy is just so, so brilliant
It's *unreal* how adept at comedy Eddie Murphy is.
Like, stop giving him those lower-tier screenplays. If you can give Murphy a comedy screenplay that's respectable and *not* something along the lines of Norbit, he WILL give you magic. It's that simple.