I don’t think it’s forgotten, not when Obama is the articulate, hard to object to fulfillment of Sidney Poitier in Guess who’s coming to the Presidency.
Which would make Joe Biden the old white guy getting the ice-cream order screwed-up.
And he is even found in Hawaii, which is oddly predictive.
I’d argue the better comparison is In the Heat of the Night.
“They call me MISTER President!”
Disagree. I think the first two hold up fine…the third has it’s moments, but in no way does the second equal Caddyshack II or Meatballs II.
I’d start a “Once extremely famous actors/actresses now all but forgotten” thread, but I fear for the crazy answers we’d see. “Tom Cruise!”
Anyone besides me remember Edward Scissorhands?
EVERYONE?
That movie is still pretty popular. Shown regularly on cable and has merchandise available.
Yeah, I think it’s pretty much widely considered Tim Burton’s most…Tim Burtonish movie.
I am not sure if it is the book or the movie, but “Forever Amber” got a lot of mention in late 1940s early 1950s radio and television shows.
I haven’t scrolled through every page, but has the Crying Game been mentioned yet? That’s a movie that seems to have dropped into a black hole. It was a huge sensation just about 20 years ago, and given that transgender issues are such hot topic nowadays, you’d think that’d make some kind of comeback. (I know a lot of transgender folks were a bit miffed at the way Jaye Davison’s character was portrayed, but if younger gays can embrace “Cruising” as an ironic camp classic, you’d think the transgender community might do the same for this.)
You should not include any sci-fi or fantasy films because nerds never forget.
3 from 1993, oddly enough: Philadelphia, The Firm, Boxing Helena. Haven’t heard a mention of these from anyone in forever.
Not sure if this confirms or disputes it, but in 2012 there was a primetime network show. It crashed and burned, making little noise and getting cancelled after one season. IMDb says that 22 episodes aired, so it’s not like a “two episodes and pulled” fiasco, but still. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it bombed because the book/movie had faded into obscurity.
Interesting. I’m not a big movie fan, so my perspective may be skewed, but when I came upon this thread this was one of the movies I immediately thought of. I saw it about ten, fifteen years after it came out, and it was still very fresh in people’s minds…and I think I haven’t heard anything about it, other than the comments in this thread, in close to a decade. I’m not sure I’ve even heard anybody say “Plastics”…which it seems like I used to hear all the time.
I’d also disagree that the plot being “still relevant” matters. This movie is one of many, many books and films that deals with the question of Life After College, and while it may have been among the earliest “modern” ones, I don’t get the sense that any of the more recent works on this theme are looking back to The Graduate in any significant way. Your M obviously Vs, but “big pop culture splash” now “disproportionately forgotten” sums it up pretty well from where I sit.
What?
You presume to think that we transgender people should embrace a specific role in a specific film from decades ago because “younger gays” can embrace some other film as a camp classic?
Why not? You dont speak for all transgenders.
I’m didn’t claim to. Kindly let him respond.
I think you should dial down the outrage . He said “you’d think” they “might”. He didn’t say they should.
No outrage, just sort of boggled my mind.
Interesting that the only two replies have been personal criticisms, rather than addressing the real subtopic. I’ll give it another day then stop checking this thread.
Well, it’s not as though he proposed embracing Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs…(I know, nitpickers–he wasn’t really transgender).
Ew.