I have a confession. Whenever anyone mentions Heaven’s Gate as being the biggest bomb in the history of moviedom, I think they’re talking about Heaven Can Wait.
I have only recently discovered what Heaven’s Gate was even about (it’s a cowboy movie!).
Anyway, I find Warren Beatty unwatchable. He creeps me out.
Joe Pendleton dies.
Leo Farnsworth starts dating Julie Christie around the same time he buys the Rams.
Leo Farnsworth makes himself (!) QB of the Rams sending Jarrett to the bench.
Farnsworth is murdered. and Julie Christie starts dating Jarrett.
Sounds like one of those ID channel ‘true crime shows’.
I seem to recall it being on HBO about 1979 or 1980. Think I watched it that way. But yes, I remember it being very good. I too don’t like football, but I find I do like football movies. For some reason, those are always interesting. I guess it’s because they’re never really about the game itself.
I saw it at thge theater when it came out, and I thought it was a decently enjoyable comedy.
But my mind was blown by all the Oscar nominations it received. Cripes, romantic comedies almost NEVER get that kind of Oscar love… and it wasn’t THAT great anyway.
Just saw it again, and loved it all over again. Yes, he paid $67 million; one of his board members is pissed off that he overpaid for the team, as it had a book value of only $19 million.
Heh, I heard - I’m hoping apocryphal, kinda - that all the posters had to get recalled, just before release, because that certain area in those grey sweats looked too camel-toe-y to Beatty, and had to get a lump air-brushed in.
Always fantasized (ok, well, not fantasized) about him being Ned’s brother.
I wouldn’t call this a Zombie thread. In view of the subject matter, maybe it’s a sort of Re-Incarnated Thread.
I liked Heaven Can Wait, too. When they first advertised it, they put up movie posters of the sweat-suited, winged Warren Beatty, but with absolutely no words, so it wasn’t obvious what movie they were starting to advertise. I did prefer it to the original Here Comes Mr. Jordan, but liked that one, too. “Heaven Can Wait” was the title of the play both were based on, and was the working title for th original film. I didn’t like the title “Here comes Mr. Jordan”, and used to think that they couldn’t use the title for some legal reason, but nothing I’ve read corroborates that – it might have been the studio’s decision for some money-grubbing reason.
Ha! All of this applies to me. I saw this at age 12 with my parents and it is one of my fondest memories. Why would a tween girl do an impression of an older man, you ask? Because I could:) And it made my mom laugh.
I taught myself to play the tune on my clarinet but I didn’t know there were any words. I can still hear it in my mind.
Not to sound like an old fogy, but do they make movies like this anymore? I can’t think, offhand, of a recent movie that is aimed at the whole family, i.e. sophisticated enough for adults to enjoy yet still appropriate and fun for kids. Maybe the Pirates of the Caribbean series?
Could be, I guess, but my parents, for instance, would not have taken the family out to see an animated movie. Not that I’m knocking them, I watch them when they come on tv but I would think I’m in the minority.
What an odd coincidence. For some reason, out of nowhere (I haven’t seen the movie in years) I was thinking about this exact same thing on the drive home from work the other night. And then this zombie… er, reincarnated… thread pops up. :eek:
Still one of my favorite movies. Everybody in it plays their part so perfectly.
Other little things…so without some intervention the Rams would have lost their starting QB in an accident and their backup QB killed in the frigging Superbowl??
I thought it was pretty cool, the QB trailing the final play and picking up the fumble for the winning score.
Maybe Brady will do that…nahhhh…that would require him to run and trail the play.