I watched the old Popeye cartoons when I was waiting for the real cartoons to come on ( 
) so I got it. Two lines have stuck with me from the Robin Williams film: ‘I said pfui, and I meant pfui!’, and ‘You owe me an apology!’ I like the film. (And yes, I have the DVD somewhere.)
The Popeye film somehow seems like a better film now than it did in 1980. Stylistically, it could have been made yesterday.
I kinda hate to say it, but it’s not quite as gonzo as I remember.
Robin Williams? I think Shelley Duvall was genetically engineered to be Olive Oyl.
Shelly Duvall was actually rather pretty.
Olive Oyl must have had something going for her; she had Popeye and Bluto practically fighting to the death over her.
Apparently VIDIOTS in Los Angeles is putting together a showing on a big screen in a couple of weeks…and I’ve never been sadder to have left Los Angeles.
(Around late 2019, I decided I was going to try to get more involved with some of the movie revival groups in LA…basically so I could get them to do screenings of two movies… Popeye and Joe Vs. The Volcano…then covid happened and then I moved away)
According to the JustWatch app, yes it’s on Starz.
I’ve seen The Blues Brothers.
Me and a couple of friends would quote Head Office to each other.
Dis-Co-nect
Top of the head, hardest part of the body…
(Might be a minor misquote, but it’s what I remember most from that movie.)
ETA: I just checked, and that was it. Somehow that line has stuck with me for 30 years.
How about another boxing movie? Diggstown released in 1992, the same year as Gladiator, stars Louis Gosset, Jr. and James Woods before he went full on crazy. It’s been more than 30 years since I’ve seen it, but I remember it as a decent movie about conning a worthy target.
God save Mrs. Ethel Stoat.
Keep moving, keep moving.
Saw it in college over 50 years ago, still remember it. Great choice.
Zachariah a Western based on Siddhartha and written by half of Firesign Theatre, though the only Firesign bit was the used wagon salesman. A bomb. I have the soundtrack, though.
And Hellzapoppin the brilliant Olsen and Johnson movie based on their Broadway musical (which my mother saw and loved) with Martha Raye. She did things before she hawked denture cream. It doesn’t seem to be officially released, but I have a DVD of good quality. When I got a copy at Christmas one year I banished everyone from the living room to see if it could be nearly as good as I remembered it from TV. It was. I invited people in to watch the initial hell scene - Johnson - finally a cabbie who takes me where I tell him to go - and they all stayed for the entire movie.
Several months ago, I ordered a movie called “Coda” from the library, and when I saw that it was actually about an elderly concert pianist and not Children Of Deaf Adults, I decided to go ahead and watch it anyway. It was okay.
It fits very well for the kind of movie it’s in, but it’s rather cartoonish overkill in terms of a car chase.
There is something about that movie that I love. Lots of humor, and the bad guy gets his comeuppance in the end.
“The world’s most irrational multinational.”
I give it a thumbs down.
its my aunts favorite horror movie … michael moriarty was in it…its funny tho the parody tv commercials fit right in with todays …
that movie is one reason ive always wanted my own horse