He was the beginning of the end
The corniest film you inexplicably love
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End of what?
Sorry, not to belabor or be too literal but Star Trek is hardly ending. It might not be to your or my liking, but that doesn't change that. I don't like TNG but that didn't mean Trek was ending. Or, fill in whatever show here.
Abrams has not responsibility towards Trek currently so blaming him for the beginning of the end strikes me as bit...strange.
I don't know if its "corny" per se, but I adore "Ferngully: The Last Rainforest". Robin Williams did it before he made "Aladdin", and Disney actually tried to talk him out of it...but he stood his ground, and I personally think he's just as funny with the Batty Koda personality, as with the Genie.
@Moviefan2k4 And Tim Curry as the villain as well.
Not really a corny film but I love Envy with Jack Black and Ben Stiller. It was a box office failure but has some very funny and manic moments like the horse burial and Christopher Walken as the oddball, barfly J-Man. Ben Stiller is the perfect choice for a character where nothing goes right for them.
He was great as Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red October.
Definitely my favorite of all his films. Nice to see him play it straight for once. He does look very Russian.
"You'll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain."
Definitely my favorite of all his films. Nice to see him play it straight for once. He does look very Russian.
"You'll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain."
Seeing him opposite Connery made me think he should’ve been in a Bond film, albeit he’d probably have been better suited to the Moore era.
I love him as Frank N Furter (things like Rocky Horror are my thing, I listen to the soundtrack a lot - aka wacky, queer, musical, camp and slightly creepy) however I always feel bad for loving him in that when he hated the film and playing in the stage show
I always feel bad for loving him in that when he hated the film and playing in the stage show
Did he hate playing Frank or did he hate the fact it was the character he became so associated with (almost to the point of, at least as a leading actor, typecasting)? Just wondering. Never heard the story.
Mainly he said he was scared of being typecast/not doing “scarier” villains (i also i read somewhere that he didn’t love doing the stage show, because of how much he’d have to be Frank but I don’t know how true that is), and so tried to move away from the role.
Yeah, he was both crazy and completely hilarious at the same time. I also loved him as Cardinal Richelieu, in Disney's 1993 version of "The Three Musketeers". He stole every scene he was in, and so did Oliver Platt as Porthos. That movie has so many quotable lines, from almost all the cast - I've seen it countless times. It also has the historical distinction, of being the first film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, where a character actually commits suicide.
That was followed up though, by a fairly serious moment...
"Mrs. DeWinter, I will not be so kind."
Trivia Fact - a great deal of the film was actually shot in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, where Rebecca De Mornay attended high school and college.
Young Lords With Swords, as some wag dubbed it at the time, given its Young Guns connections.
The thing I never got about that, was only two cast members from "Young Guns" (Kiefer and Charlie) were actually in "Musketeers". Its not like the whole cast jumped in - if they had, I might have understood the mockery.
I think Mr. Platt is a very underrated actor - he's had a pretty extensive body of work over the past 36 years. His acting debut was in the 1988 crime comedy "Married to the Mob", co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Dean Stockwell, and Alec Baldwin. Some of his other notable projects include "Flatliners", "Executive Decision", "A Time to Kill", "Lake Placid", "Casanova", and "Frost/Nixon". But my personal favorite was when he starred opposite Robin Williams in "Bicentennial Man", as a scientist who helps Robin's character in his 200-year quest to become more human. The film was not a box-office hit, grossing just $87 million on a $100 million budget. I blame the marketing people for this - they advertised it as a zany comedy, when the bulk of it was actually a heartfelt drama. Still, the movie has found a supportive audience since its release, and I'm still surprised that Disney has put it on Blu-Ray yet.
That should read "hasn't" - I hate that I can't edit my own posts yet!
