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  1. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Edgy MD wrote: I think we should open with Bar Mitzvah footage. Mom is all proud of pious young Chaim while he's sneaking into the girls' room to ogle cousin Ruthie. Too cheap? No I love it. I probably need to pay Ken Sharp to adapt scenes from his NOTHIN TO LOSE oral history and I don't know anything about how to write scripts but godamn what a story
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    My new screenplay (working title: DRESSED TO KILL) follows young Stanley Eisen from his days as an teenage outcast ashamed of his deformed ear and hounded by a fuckedup parents to a meeting with brash, horny, opinionated mama's-boy Chaim Bloom as young rockers in a big, dangerous city with big, dangerous dreams. Along the way they recruit a hearty-partying guitar whiz and a sour, would-be Brooklyn gangster drummer; hook up with a manager who teaches them the tricks of long-vanished vaudeville magic and together, with only a few songs and even fewer ideas, they leapfrog contemporaries with better chops and bigger followings, on their way to domination (of 13 year old boys). Flick ends with the release of ALIVE! leaving just enough breadcrumbs to promise sequel after sequel after sequel. My only concession to Hollywood is to cast good looking young actors
  3. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Rock biopics have come a long way from Athens: Inside-Out As discussed here previously the Van Halen origin story could be a dynamite movie. The KISS origin story: Are you kidding? Would be so fucking great. The latter idea is such a guaranteed Moneymaker I'm surprised Gene $immons hasn't done 3 versions already
  4. Johnny Lunchbucket
    How could they screw that detail up?!? I may be remembering FBGs as KYA... I just remember it totally didn't sit well with me and every moment after that I met with complete cyncism.
  5. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Plus for pendants a lot of stuff coming out of sequence, playing Keep Yourself Alive years too soon.
  6. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Enterprising pole dancers turn the tables on Wall Streeters. Hijinx ensue.
  7. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Don't have the energy to finish in 11th place again, much less build em up to finish 6th
  8. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I'm bailing on the Lunchladies they're up for sale
  9. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Escorchation in Action.
  10. Johnny Lunchbucket
    First there was Jefferson ✈️... And then, Jefferson 🚀 ... And finally, there is Jefferson 🔥 ... Don't you need somebody to love? Do you believe in Miracles, baby? Then meet Jefferson Escorcha!, my 19-year-old lefty adoptee from Venezuela. Jefferson scorched the Appalachian League last season, going 7-1 with a 2.38 ERA in 15 releif appearances, punching out batters like Hell's Angels at Altamont. This after building a city on the broken bats of DSL hitters for 2 seasons. He's been sureallistically pillowing up near the end of some top prospect lists out there, noting his ability to induce weak-ass contact behind a sizzling curve that leaves hitters finding their way back to the bench. Jefferson Escorcha!: Ride the Tiger!! http://www.milb.com/images/672543/t506/180x270/672543.jpg
  11. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I had a hard time making the connection to real-life marriages like yours and mine this relationship wanted to reflect in the extreme. I mean, I guess. I know it was also based on a novel I didn't read but which I assume gets more into the source of her wealth and its impacts, but that whole aspect also didn't seem to make a salient point in the flick other than to contribute to its length. All that said, the performances were pretty good -- the lawyer, his sister etc -- and it held my interest as a story.
  12. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Guy has hot wife. Hijinx ensue.
  13. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Not mentioned in the movie is that the hospitalization it begins with was for injuries sustained fighting for the Grammercy Riffs
  14. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Rapture is in the soundtrack. LWFS got it, it's primarily a visual--and aural--snapshot of the moment, but the "story" such as it is, has a certain charm in the telling too as a mix of gritty realism with a literal fairy tale ending.
  15. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Jean-Michel Basquiat plays a semi-homeless NYC artist/musician on the Lower East Side in 1981. New Wave hijinx ensue. Art-house flick shot in 1981 but finished 19 years later shows a disappeared scene w/ lots of real-life musicians and hangouts including Blondie, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Fab Five Freddy, James White & the Blacks and several others who weren't as successful. [YOUTUBE]X6GoKk-iMOs[/YOUTUBE]
  16. Johnny Lunchbucket
    So, my take: Good but not great. Relevant and eye-opening, good performances, but about 70% of the movie is Driver delivering outrage monologue, and I kinda wanted it to hurry up and finish with 20 minutes left. Annette Bening is a hawt Dianne Feinstein.
  17. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Senate staffer is tasked to investigate CIA Gitmo torture abuses, 7,000 pages of political hijinx ensue. Steaming now on ammyzon [YOUTUBE]VHmn9U3c0zA[/YOUTUBE]
  18. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I hardly ever go to the movies anymore but I do like movies. But we just moved within walking distance of a googleplex and we're considering buying a pass, at least for the 'Pail. Unlimited flix,10% discount on concessions with the app for $18 a month. That would pay for itself with 2 visits a month. Wouldya? Apropos of the subject I also like old movies. When you see one, especially a good one, even if its old, start a poll on it here.
  19. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I can never think of his name, it's far too normal. BTW I got interested in this after watching a youtube rerun of "Bands Reunited" featuring the Alarm. I suspect I've already desert-islanded them but don't remember.
  20. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Where it fell short for us was the whole tacked on melodrama of the fatherhood angle, and I really never found the bandleader compelling enough. The songs were all by the Alarm singer, who makes an appearance at the opening funeral scene.
  21. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Has-been Welsh rock band reforms behind a new song, but finding no market for dad-rockers hires young imposters to execute the ensuing musical hijinx. Based on the true story of a modestly successful caper pulled by the Alarm, with considerable liberties. [YOUTUBE]TnYx_1FaxHA[/YOUTUBE]
  22. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I thought it was alright. I liked the concept a lot, liked the lead actors, really really enjoyed the music. I thought watching it with Lunchpail was great for him. But disagreed on the terrificness of McKinnon, and really most of the side characters (his parents etc) who were too sitcommy and over the top and made the lead character look stupid and just naive.
  23. Johnny Lunchbucket
    i stopped paying attention in July. Rumor is the Lunchladies might be on the block. Forbes values the franchise at 1.5 dollars
  24. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I just finished a book on how intertwined the careers of the Beach Boys, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, CSN, the Byrds, the Doors, the Wrecking Crew, Mama & Papas etc became in that area, all built around a culmination in the Manson Family murders. EVERYDODY HAD AN OCEAN (William McKeen) is a little unweildy at times but pretty comprehensive and insider-y perspective on the connections of the people in those bands. I'd read about a million BBs bios before so knew that stuff pretty intimately but learned more about the Dennis Wilson & Charlie relationship and a lot I didn;t know about Cass Elliott and the rest of em.
  25. Johnny Lunchbucket
    She probably liked it more than me, as did a lot of critics, apparently. I had a hard time buying the central issue of the teacher's brutality or the students' reaction to it; that said, it's well acted and composed, not too long, and has cool music performances, so it's not a complete waste of your time.
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