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There's A Wire On Your Arm
Jan. 28th, 2005 10:56 pmI've been thinking for a while that I wanted Simon to watch "The Muppet Movie". I certainly had warm memories of it from my childhood. However, apparently I was remembering a) watching it when I was older, and b) watching it after having watched the Muppet Show dozens of times. Because Simon did not get into it at all. He found the bits with Doc Hopper(the frog-legs guy)particularly scary, no matter how many times I assured him that everything turned out well in the end. Through browbeating, I managed to get him to watch the first half hour(just before the first Electric Mayhem scene).
I watched the rest myself, tonight, because it's going back to the library tomorrow. I recognized a few more of the cameos than I did the first time, and noticed a few more things, since it's probably the first time in twenty-odd years that I've watched it, or at least the whole thing. Steve Martin's cameo as the waiter, which must have been fairly early in his career, was pretty good. The ending doesn't make that much more sense to me than it did then, unfortunately. I also noticed more of the foreshadowings of Gonzo's apparent alien origins. (Though I haven't seen any Muppet movies past "The Muppets Take Manhattan".)
On the DVD they had something called "Jim Frawley's Test Reel". Frawley's the director, I believe. I imagine it was taken from an actual test reel, and the picture and sound are of often execrable quality, but it does contain some funny, doubtless extemporaneous, in-character conversations between Kermit and Fozzy. The one where Kermit is trying to convince Fozzy that he was not a real bear was priceless. "You don't even have any bones! Real bears have bones. You just have fake fur and foam rubber."
I suppose I could mention here that we saw "The Forgotten" at the cheap theatres last week, and I'd have to say that it was much better than any of the lukewarm reviews I've read of it. Admittedly, at times the story is a bit of the "cool initial enigma followed by the trite/prosaic/mundane explanation" school, but in the end I'd say it pulls it off. It got some flak for allegedly pulling in UFOs, but I'd have to say that they were done very tastefully--no big saucerlike spaceships, no short hairless people with big eyes. Julianne Moore was good as the mother, and Dominic West not too bad either. I'd recommend it.
We rented "Men With Brooms" yesterday, finally, and will probably watch it this weekend. The Brier's in Edmonton this year, and I almost got Nicole some tickets for Christmas, but they didn't have tickets for sale at a fine enough granularity yet--only for a whole day or two days, not for just one or two games, which is all we'd be able to make. We'll see closer to the date. (When is that, again?)
I watched the rest myself, tonight, because it's going back to the library tomorrow. I recognized a few more of the cameos than I did the first time, and noticed a few more things, since it's probably the first time in twenty-odd years that I've watched it, or at least the whole thing. Steve Martin's cameo as the waiter, which must have been fairly early in his career, was pretty good. The ending doesn't make that much more sense to me than it did then, unfortunately. I also noticed more of the foreshadowings of Gonzo's apparent alien origins. (Though I haven't seen any Muppet movies past "The Muppets Take Manhattan".)
On the DVD they had something called "Jim Frawley's Test Reel". Frawley's the director, I believe. I imagine it was taken from an actual test reel, and the picture and sound are of often execrable quality, but it does contain some funny, doubtless extemporaneous, in-character conversations between Kermit and Fozzy. The one where Kermit is trying to convince Fozzy that he was not a real bear was priceless. "You don't even have any bones! Real bears have bones. You just have fake fur and foam rubber."
I suppose I could mention here that we saw "The Forgotten" at the cheap theatres last week, and I'd have to say that it was much better than any of the lukewarm reviews I've read of it. Admittedly, at times the story is a bit of the "cool initial enigma followed by the trite/prosaic/mundane explanation" school, but in the end I'd say it pulls it off. It got some flak for allegedly pulling in UFOs, but I'd have to say that they were done very tastefully--no big saucerlike spaceships, no short hairless people with big eyes. Julianne Moore was good as the mother, and Dominic West not too bad either. I'd recommend it.
We rented "Men With Brooms" yesterday, finally, and will probably watch it this weekend. The Brier's in Edmonton this year, and I almost got Nicole some tickets for Christmas, but they didn't have tickets for sale at a fine enough granularity yet--only for a whole day or two days, not for just one or two games, which is all we'd be able to make. We'll see closer to the date. (When is that, again?)
