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And I have no idea about Working Girl. Wasn’t that a theatrical movie? An IMDB search just turns up a short-lived sitcom starring Sandra Bullock, long before she was famous.
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Am I being whooshed here? Working Girl, was a very famous mid-1980s movie starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver, and directed by Mike Nichols.
And it appears in an IMDB search before the Sandra Bullock sitcom, which was spun off from it.
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And it appears in an IMDB search before the Sandra Bullock sitcom, which was spun off from it.
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D’oh! That’ll teach me not to read the first line of a web page!
I’ve been known to confuse Philadelphia with The Philadelphia Story, though I’ve never seen either, and so thankfully can’t confuse them too much.
I’ve also never seen The Philadelphia Experiment, but I don’t get confused about that one.
There’s Flash Gordon and then there’s Flesh Gordon - :eek: AH Ahhhhh!
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There’s Jack Frost the comedy, and then there’s Jack Frost, the scary version.
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Neither of which is the version that was done on MST3K.
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I’ve told this story before, but it’s relevant, so here goes:
My ex-girlfriend’s mom went to see Leaving Las Vegas because she thought Nicholas Cage had made a sequel to his delightful romantic comedy, Honeymoon in Vegas.
He hadn’t.
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Was the mom’s name Gena?
I asked this last time you posted this, but got no answer.
Big Bear Trucking 1 and Big Bear Trucking 2. No comparison.
And then there was 1968’s Madigan, a gritty police story starring Richard Widmark, and Elvira Madigan, a 1967 Swedish artsy-fartsy lush romantic movie which one critic, I believe it was in Time, called one of the most beautiful films ever made. (There is also a 1943 version of the Swedish movie.)
Rumour has it that American Beauty did well at the box office, in part because many of the audience thought they were going to see American Pie.
True story - I wanted to rent the video of Double Jeopardy (hey, i’d seen the trailers, it looked an interesting premise.)
I actually got a totally different movie which I don’t remember. Maybe this one or this one. Whichever one, so boring that I only remember it because of the name, and not a single detail of the plot.
Everytime I tell people one of my favorite movies is The man who came to dinner, they think I’m talking about Guess who’s coming to dinner.
Schindler’s Fist…
The Professional, starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman, came out only a few months after The Specialist, an unbearably bad movie starring Sly Stallone.
**Marathon Man ** and The Running Man–definitely not the same. Nor are Salem’s Lot and The Lottery
One year I eagerly set up the video recorder to capture Genesis II, a science-fiction program from the seventies with this cool transcontinetal subway. Imagine my disappointment when I reviewed the recording to discover an informercial for Genesis II, the hair restoration product…
When Night is Falling is the lesbian one. Before Night Falls is the gay one.
Either gay men go to bed slightly before lesbians do, or we really need to get more creative about how we title our movies.
Oh, and Like Water for Chocolate and Better than Chocolate = completely different.
little Heat with Burt Reynolds, Heat with Al Pacino, and Heat by Andy Warhol.
(Well you might like the first, by Warhol one is a littleent…and was listed in the tv guide as Andy’s and it turned out to be Burt :mad: )
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When Night is Falling is the lesbian one. Before Night Falls is the gay one.
Either gay men go to bed slightly before lesbians do, or we really need to get more creative about how we title our movies.
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If Before Night Falls doesn’t utilize a dog as a Christ-figure, it automatically is the superior movie.
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Am I being whooshed here? Working Girl, was a very famous mid-1980s movie starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver, and directed by Mike Nichols.
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And Melanie Griffith won an Oscar for her performance.
My two examples are Parenthood and Father Hood. I actually did get these confused one time. Really enjoyed the former, then later picked up the latter one time thinking it was the former.
how about a trifecta
American Beauty
American Psycho
American Pie
who want to make sure you had the right right one when your mum comes over