ThomasJefferson Geronimo

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Re:News & Politics
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"Do tales of the Phillips family at least serve to make anyone feel better about their own kin? Kind of makes that tabloid story about Ryan O'Neal not recognizing Tatum and hitting on her at Farrah Fawcett's funeral sound wholesome, doesn't it? Remember when any tawdry tidbit about a present or former celebrity got a movie-of-the-week? " [More]

Re:A film name?
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in HORROR MOVIES 101
"I think I've heard of that; is it a Greydon Clark? You just convinced me I need to see it. EDIT: it is a Greydon Clark. God have mercy on you, Dr Gor. " [More]

Funny People and stand-up on film
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"Anyone seen Funny People yet? It has some good performances and is honestly funny here & there but drags more than a bit in the second half, and the cynicism vs sentimentality balance never quite works. Adam Sandler is very good, though he seems to be aging into John Turturro. I'm not expert on stand-up culture, but I imagine Funny People probably has more truth to it than the loathed-by-many Tom Hanks & Sally Field vehicle Punchline. It still seems the Jerry Seinfeld doc Comedian may be the most insightful look into the culture & lifestyle of the comic. " [More]

The Collector (2009)
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in HORROR MOVIES 101
"Hi horror group, I caught The Collector last night; I was shocked to have mostly really, really liked it. Apparently it was conceived as a Saw prequel, and the advertising pushes the writers' involvement in Saws 4-6. They did a decent enough job turning it into something different enough to stand on it's own. It spends enough time developing charcters and plot to get the viewer invested in the events, and sets everything within the film up well. I don't like the "torture porn" label, but since it seems to have taken, I'll use it here. If you've not been a fan of the genre, Collector will definitely not be for you; if you've come to at least be able to tolerate it, give this one a shot. I'll also note that Gary Tunnicliffe of some (all?) of the Hellraiser series does effects here, and that you can tell; I don't know if he designed the villain, but one or two set-ups & some torture gore are evocative of that work. " [More]

Re:News & Politics
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"I guess both really; there's not only a place for both, it's pretty important that films (as well as other arts) exist reflecting both. " [More]

Re:What are you reading?
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"That Welles Trial movie is pretty neat, it turns up on TCM a lot, and I think it's a public domain cheapie on dvd. " [More]

News & Politics
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"Why the hell not? Couldn't get too ugly, could it? " [More]

What are you reading?
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"I'm working on Dealing: or the Berkely to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, a 60s "counterculture" novel about collegiate pot dealers by "Michael Douglas," a pen name for michael Crichton and his brother Douglas. Not great, not awful. Anyone else? " [More]

What have you just watched?
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in Sewer of Miscellany
"I just watched Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour myself. Really good stuff, but not so much to say about it. It was my second Bunuel after The Discreet Charm of the Bourgousie, which I also like a lot, and am not sure what to really say about it. If feel like talking about what you've watched lately, do so here. " [More]

W.C. Fields and Me

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By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in ThomasJeffersonGeronimo Blog
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"I’ve always liked WC Fields, but haven’t seen a lot of him. He’s not on tv too much anymore. The bad biopic WC Fields and Me was on this morning though. I’d heard of it before; I remember it getting a lousy review in an issue of Shock Cinema magazine. All the bad I’d heard may be for real; I know little about Fields himself, Carlotta Monti, or her claims about him in her memoir. Rod Steiger doesn’t so much play Fields as wear a fake news and do a Fields imitation for 2 hours; it may not be his fault, as the script plays the “stick Fieldsisms in in place of real dialogue” game. I don’t know what to make of Valerie Perrine, who plays Monti; I spent half the movie trying to figure out what I’d seen her breasts in before. (I had to break down & ask the internet; she was Montana Wildhack in the Slaughterhouse-Five movie.) I think I let myself be charmed by her, same as Steiger. The most godawful meta-moment in the movie: WC ... " [More]

Re:Anyone still watching heroes?
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in sci-fi
"it's been a month since anyone has posted here. Dare I ask... Anyone still watching Heroes? " [More]

here's one for you...
By ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in missing a film
"Something has beaten me. I figured maybe somebody could help me figure out the movie (or short film or tv show; Im not so sure) in which a character, attempting to get laid, lies & tells women he was the little kid in the garden with Marlon Brando in The Godfather. i think he does this a couple times. As I mentioned, i'm not even sure it was a movie, but I want to say it was, and an early 90s "indy"-styled one at that. " [More]