Edgy MD
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But hardly the only.
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The problem I find with action sequels is that they amp up the action beyond the level of coherence, replacing the story elements of the initial installment with adrenaline, empty calories, and multiple villians teaming up for extra marquee power. So I fear this a little bit. I'm also a little eye-rolley about Downey's Stark/Ironman being the superhero vehicle of choice for women of my age demographic to swoon to.
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Robert Downey Jr. returns as semi-reformed asshole weapons manufacturer Tony Stark, donning a suit of armored weaponry to fight bad guys with grudges, crazy-assed Russsians, and the US Congresss unhappy with him keeping his asskicking technology to himself.
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Looks like someone saw Observe and Report besides me.
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I recommend WonderBoys for whatever ails you, and I actually consider disregarding Michaeld Douglas to be somethign of a hobby. The point holds though. Downey is another smuggie in that.
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Why is he cooking for himself in A-Ball? He should have some shiny happy family cooking for him.
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Was it his 2 2/3 of winning scoreless relief over Lexington last night that inspired me to gobble this guy up? Not quite. Is it his awsome Burnitz-like chin-and-sideburns combination? No. Do I have a soft spot for 23rd-round draft choices with an undistinguished debut season under their belts? No I do not. What moves my heart is that, playing in the Sally League, they have their shit so not together, that --- rather than keep their files carefully so they know which photo goes to which player --- they make the player hold up a name plate so as to make clear who he is for the team's press office and, when the player makes the news, the newspaper's photo editor. So when said photo editor is too lazy or disengaged to crop out that name plate, his parents see their son in the paper posing for what looks like a Mudville mugshot. Anybody who endures that sort of indignity in pursuit of his dream is OK with me. Let's go, Juan Iglesia.
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Both performances, though, are infused with smugness.
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Really, can that possibly be bad? Is there anything that adds more to a movie than rock 'n' roll file footage of bellbottom 70s debauchery?
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Just relax. The remake of Ice Castles is coming out this year.
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I hear you. I've never seen anything that ranked above modestly awful on a bus, but I think at least part of that has to do with the viewing experience.
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Sounds like the kid of comprehension one gets watching a movie on a bus. Dad wasn't a football coach but rather owned a string of fast food restaruants. She was an interior designer. The Theisman play in the prologue was to explain the defintiion of "the blind side" in a Tim McCarvery "assume the viewer is completely unfamilar with the sport" kind of way.
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Game six, son. What the hell was wrong with you?
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Watching this NOW!!!! Nobody told me Tim McGraw was in it. I don't know country superstars too well, and couldn't recognize Tim without the goatee, the hat, and/or maybe some spikes in his hair, but he doesn't look like him, he looks like Tug. Like a lot.
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It's an automatic. Tries to get you in as well as the younger kid hip to that whole eighties vibe, if often only ironically. I mean, what defined the eighties more than Harry Hamlin/Burgess Meredith action movies? Really, I'm certain all they think about in Hollywood is "How can we can this market segment and that market segment behind the same piece of shit?" The original CotT was Ray Harryhausen's last film, but the guy is still above ground thirty years later.
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Besides experimenting with Sha Na Na, I'm not sure.
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That would be very bad from my point of view.
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I was 11 once, and I've got to imagine that he noticed the boob. Cherie Currie was in the original cut of This Is Spinal Tap, playing the lead singer of a band called The Dose that opens a few gigs for the Tappers and infects them all with VD.
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Cherie Currie had a lookalike (twin?) sister named Marie. Fortunately, nobody got the idea that sibs = sexploitation gold until she left the runaways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlv8wwZAehc
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It's the movie that brings horny middle aged men and trashily-dressed teenagers together in one theater.
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Pretty cool how the guitarist became a rock icon and the bass player became the chair of the Republican party.
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TransMonk wrote: ...and she was born a decade after the Runaways were even around. Wait a minute. They have to be young. It's a movie about teenagers.
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Why (oh, why!) didn't you jerkweeds tell me (beg me!) not to dial up a clip of that John Hughes tribute? That was... awful! I need to wash my brain.
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John Hughes is a funny case. He apparently hated (or at least resented) Hollywood, but Hollywood loved him. Worth mentioning though is that, in producing Home Alone, he came up with the best grossing comedy ever to that date and, in doing so, struck a vein of box office gold, the reasonalbe-budget family-oriented slapstick/cartoony/pratfall vilolence comedy, that became tired pretty fast, but made a lot of bigwigs very rich men. Silence of the Lambs wasn't a winner. It was a sweeper, taking Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
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Frayed Knot wrote: Two easy rules: Go for sweeties in the supporting actress roles: funny old ladies or irrespressible cutiepies. Go for creepy performances in supporting actor roles. Creepazoids who've been bringing it for decades and are probably more or less likeable in general get extra juice. Like, Gary Busey will never win for playing a creep because it's hard for anybody to think it's a stretch for him. And handicaps roles. Those get loads of votes and wins. Handicaps in the leads. Creeps and sweeties in the supporting roles. Guh!
