#film watching

[sharpestasp]

Foul Play

Foul Play, a movie thread

I have not seen this since I was less then ten, I believe. it's from 1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, opens with the murder of a church official.

Burgess Meredith, Dudley Moore, and Brian Dennehy in supporting roles.

Chevy Chase is very Bruce Wayne as played by Michael Keaton in his first scene

There will be numerous themes that were contemporary to the 70s, but I want to see if it was as slick an homage to Hitchcock as I remember it being touted as. Oh, yeah, there's the open-your-sexuality theme for the divorcee

"I don't pick up strange men."

"That's your problem."

"So, why don't you try it?"

Ahh, Barry Manilow, who was part of my childhood soundtrack.

Dialogue is vaguely stilted. Convertible yellow VW Bug! And wow Marlboro Reds have not changed the box design THAT much in all these years. Okay. The dialogue thing is part of the Hitchcock thing, given how THAT conversation went.

EEEEE! BURGESS MEREDITH! I love him so much. Red herrings. I love the red herrings in this. Snake warning, btw. Oh I love Burgess in this.

+blinks+ This came out in the year of Three Popes. The plot is centered on an attempt to murder the Pope. I am… amused?

"Rape's not an act of sex. It's act of violence." --Well that's a message.

Very easy to see how Dudley's character jumped to the idea of sex. Poor guy.

And I know I missed the reference of "beaver trap" as a kid. I had not encountered that euphemism that early. CW: "spanish fly" bee gees ftw (Side note: music rights for film back then were far more permissive, but on the same hand, the artists got paid far less, and that's why there are rights' disputes in later works, when it is time to license to DVD) I feel like Goldie's character is a little neurodivergent

"plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is" She stabbed him with knitting needles. We had a shower scene moment. The cuckoo clock was cuckoo-ing. Rear Window moment too.

Hello Brian Dennehy. You look young but still manage to look very mature.

This is such a a silly movie, and YET.

Also, the casual affirmation of masculine security, because now Chevy has hit on Brian playfully.

I think that little old lady just played "fuck" on the scrabble board And her opponent added "er" yes, yes. Because original tried to play 'mutherfucker'

"I always had a yearning for the criminal life"

"But you're a cop"

"Same difference"

Twice now, men have told her that they believed she believed what she said. And further 'she may be ND', she remembered a licence plate in the dark and rain while trying to avoid being killed

And the pieces come together… Chevy has them and is putting it all together.

Mistaken Identity in progress. Billy Barty is GREAT, by the way. I love him. That was a great Rube Goldberg sequence.

Reference to Panty Hose wearing quarterback! LOL I lol at Chevy's character. He's playing this with humor, but subdued in a way that makes it charming. Free Love themes running freely through this.

deliberate view of birds flying over water The dog's name is Chaucer. Amused.

Aww, Burgess is so sweet to her. And the plot device was just destroyed but that's okay

Burgess and Chevy acting together to rescue Goldie is adorable.

Rex Harrison's ex-wife is the mastermind here. Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress. Who is now having a kung-faux match with Burgess Meredith.

This movie manages to combine humor, action, and a half-decent plot very nicely. I am just absolutely amused at the mix of humor into this movie.

She just calmed a pair of immigrants in the taxi Chevy commandeered by comparing him to Kojak, and they're big fans. I miss movies being ludicrously fun like this car chase.

We are having a shootout backstage during an opera

There's an analogy in the Pope leading a cheering applause when there's two people visibly dead on stage now…

Overall impression: a fun once in a while re-watch movie. Dudley Moore was over the top which is best Dudley Moore. Chevy Chase was a delight as he often was in his earlier films. Goldie Hawn is not an airhead and helps substantially in her own fate. Burgess Meredith is HEARTS. Brian Dennehy was great support. All of this movie entertained, but I am certain the pacing, as well as how the humor meshes with the action, would be a no-go for many modern viewers. I did not catch all the Hitchcock references, I think, but enough were his more known films for me to pick up on them.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[callisteios]

hii i recently fell in love with movies again so i made a uquiz where you can find out which actor would play you in a film about your life.

[theneptunianmind]

[53v3nfrn5]

Krabat: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1978) dir. Karel Zeman

[secretdazedragon]

[edains]

Rick Riordan constantly trashing the movies for not sticking to his books then releasing a show in which he rewrites everything and loses the spirit of the books entirely

[cromwelll]

*adds a show to my “to watch” list knowing it will be months or years before I do, in fact, watch it*

[lesbiancolumbo]

btw

[utilitycaster]

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[beif0ngs]

Nimona (2023) official art

[dukeofdadykes]

Finally got around to watching I saw the tv glow and I’ve had an incomprehensible sense of dread ever since 🙂‍↕️

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today