Mindless movies

[PaulinNJ]

When you're blue, what's your favorite movie to just 'veg' out to and distract yourself?
To name a few of mine:
1) The Brady Bunch Movie
2) Priscilla, Queen of The Desert
3) To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

And so much more but you're all up!

Paul

[BT65]

One of my absolute favorites is "The Birdcage."  I don't think it's a mindless movie, but it is one that can lift my spirits.

[Oceanbeach]

There was a Chinese take-out place on Broadway and Falcon in Long Beach.  I was across the street from the Falcon Bar.  I spent many mornings, afternoons and evenings with my friends at the Falcon.  The Chinese take-ouy place was called Wong's.  When they closed their doors one year, we left a sign on the window...

TO WONGS FOOD, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING- Julie Newmar

Have the best day 
Michael
(A jock on a rock in a frock)

[cayucosguy]

1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
2. The Birds
3. Dune
4. Nat'l Lampoons Vacation (I miss John Candy & always wanted to go to Wally World!)
5. Any porn w/ Jeromy in it!!!!!

[404error]

1.  Pee Wee's Big Adventure
2.  Superbad
3.  South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
4.  Any Harry Potter movie
5.  Back to the Future

[anniebc]

One of my absolute favorites is "The Birdcage." 

I loved that movie..I have watched it several times and it still makes me laugh.

Hugs
Jan

[ademas]

The Producers
Muriel's Wedding
Love Actually
Shall We Dance (the Japanese version w/subtitles)

[lucas clay]

Any star wars.


                          Lucas

[strykern]

1.  Breakfast Club
2. Young Frankenstien ("Werewolf, there wolf, why are we talking like this, I don't know, I thought you wanted to"
3. Something About Mary  (Franks and Beans, Franks and beans!)

[Oceanbeach]

When you get past some of the logistics in the 1995 L.A. crime film w/ Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer and Al Pacino I like the film Heat.

The opening scene is not believable because Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer are riding on the Blue Line to steal an ambulance from a hospital.  They get off the train and steal the ambulance but... there is no hospital on the Blue Line.  They would have had to change trains for either the Green Line or the Red Line to have open access to a hospital.  Then the first robbery starts, they are approximately two blocks off the Blue Line and the main transit terminal at 7th and Flower.

I went to see The Craft with S. Jason Black shortly after his book Urban Voo Doo, a Beginners Guide to Afro Carribean Majic was released.  In this film 4 high school girls begin practicing majik.  One lives in Long Beach, another lives in the Valley while another lives in West L.A. and they all attend the same school and walk everywhere.  In one scene they walk from school to Hollywood and Vine and then to the Long Beach harbor.  In real time, it would take hours to get there by car but they walk? 

In The Lost Boys  Jason Pactric and Kiefer Southerland are racing their bikes South from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and the come upon the caverns where the vampires live.  In real life, you can cross the train tressel and end up at the 3rd Street Beach but, the caverns are actually a few miles to the North and underneath University of California, Santa Cruz.  At the time this film was made, vampires were not actually living in Santa Cruz which was famous in the day for having the most Witches in California.   However comma that's Hollywood.  Have the best day
Michael

[Robert]

michael...

talk about faux pas... what about The Graduate?  Near the end Dustin HOffman is riding his motorcycle back across the Bay BRidge to Berkley.  They show him on the upper lever heading north.  Only the upper level heads S. into San Francisco. The lower level is one way north, only how could you film him?  You wouldn't be able to see him.

Now, when it comes to feel good films, a couple of my favorite are China Town and Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino robbing a bank for his boyfriend.

time for bed....robert

[404error]

When you get past some of the logistics

I like things like that in movies.  Like in Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx" for example.  It's shot in Chinatown in Vancouver, with the Northshore mountains looming in the background!  Wrong country, wrong topography and not a black person in sight but entertainment nonetheless... 

[Oceanbeach]

I got some "extras" work on a Jim Carrey/ Lauren Hutton film called Once Bitten.  There was no movie in the history of film, that was dumber than this, but the pay was good and I can't find myself in it. Have the best day
Michael

[Oceanbeach]

michael...

talk about faux pas... what about The Graduate?  Near the end Dustin HOffman is riding his motorcycle back across the Bay BRidge to Berkley.  They show him on the upper lever heading north.  Only the upper level heads S. into San Francisco. The lower level is one way north, only how could you film him?  You wouldn't be able to see him.

Now, when it comes to feel good films, a couple of my favorite are China Town and Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino robbing a bank for his boyfriend.

time for bed....robert

I was wondering why they were building a new Bay Bridge.  In the remake Dustin Hoffman's grandson will have to ride the motorcycle to berserkly.  Have the best day
Michael

Do you remember the Mercury Cougar commercial where the cat rips a cover off the new car?  That cat belonged to a couple named Ed and Pat, it continued to rip out the car interior in one take.

[BT65]

when it comes to feel good films, a couple of my favorite are China Town and Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino robbing a bank for his boyfriend.

I love Dog Day Afternoon!

[Buckmark]

OK, here ya go:

1. Eurotrip
2. Caddyshack
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Superstar

Cheers,

Henry

[PaulinNJ]

OK, what about CRUISING - or is that too close to home and scary???

[Oceanbeach]

Hey Paul,

I only saw Crusing once and it was too disturbing but... If you look closely at he desert trails in Henry's favorite Blazing Saddles (before the limo picks them up) you can find tire tracks on the trails. 
Have the best day
Michael

[superkim24]

Here are a couple I can watch and "Veg Out" to.

1. Dirty Dancing (oh Lover Boy!  Come Here Lover Boy ! )
2. Pretty Woman
3. Finding Nemo (childish I know but it makes me laugh)
4. Any ole Musical (FAVS... Pal Joey, The King and I, etc )
5. Four Weddings and a Funeral

[Oceanbeach]

Another mindless movie I enjoy is St. Elmo's Fire.  In one scene the Mare Winningham's character gets a new Chrysler LeBaron convertible (if she get engaged and... she gets the car).  Soon her character is in a cafe with the father character who asks... "Did you get your car fixed?"

I wondered why a new car would need to be fixed.  Last year, I bought a used Chrysler LeBaron convertible and found out why the car would need to be fixed.  It was a Chrysler LeBaron convertible.  Have the best day
Michael

[PaulinNJ]

The fart scene in Blazing Saddles alwyas gets me laughing. Also, there are sone of John Water's OLD movies (before Crybaby and Hairspray) i.e. Desperate Living, Polyester, Female Trouble etc that are SO gross, they make you forget anything that might be going on in reality for at least two hours...warning: you MUST have a twisted sense of humor and a stron stomach if you decide to watch any of these!

I love when you catch things (like the tire tracks in Blazing Saddles) that are obvious flubs in movies. Almost every movie has one...in fact, there must be a site or book out there covering the topic!
Paul

[frenchpat]

Too bad the site is only in french but it does not take much effort to navigate and enjoy the mistakes they dug up... (click on "les erreurs" to get the list of films)

http://www.cinefix.com/

Pat

[bear60]

For me, if I am BLUE, as was the thread originally, I cannot watch anything but comedy.

Anything by Bette Midler will do it.  RUTHLESS PEOPLE  comes to mind.

Al Pacino would put me over the edge.


edited for spelling ( as usual)

[Winiroo]

Oh man! who knows how many times I have watched Dirty Dancing and Red Dawn?
It boggles the mind. LOL

[Oceanbeach]

The Birds-

The house and the school used in The Birds are not actually in Bodega Bay, they are both located a couple of miles inland in the town of Bodega.  The school was really a church and is now a museum (and gift shop).  There is a bar next to the museum where lunch and dinner are served.  Everyone in town calls the owner Mom, she owned it then and she owns it now.  The cast and crew ate all their meals at her place during filming because there was no other place to go back then.  Mom, makes the best burger I have ever had.

There was an alternate ending to The Birds which was not used because of the cost.  As the family escapes Bodega Bay, they head to San Francisco, reach the Golden Gate Bridge and the Birds are waiting on the bridge.

Caddyshack-

I think of this film every time I see a Baby Ruth candy bar in the display of any market 
Have the best day
Michael

[marc11864]

Groundhog Day has always been a favorite. Partly because I used to live less than thirty miles away from Punxatawney for a number of years, partly because it helped me get through a rough time while living in SF and partly for it's strong Buddhist flavor.

Little Miss Sunshine is pretty high up the list now as well! 

[BT65]

Scarface is another favorite of mine.  Just about anything with Al Pacino in it, although I don't think of all his movies as necessarily "mindless." 

[PaulinNJ]

SCARFACE??? I find that an odd choice for a mindless movie when you got a case of the funky blues, but to each his own, eh?

Sci-fi anyone?

Paul

[bear60]

Sci fi?
Oh big time!
Jean Luc Picard is one of our most familiar characters....
ALL the " Star Treck " movies

[PaulinNJ]

"Make it so!"
Gotta love it!
Paul

[BT65]

SCARFACE??? I find that an odd choice for a mindless movie when you got a case of the funky blues, but to each his own, eh?

Well, not when it first came out, but I've seen it so many times that I can pretty much laugh through the whole Tony Montana thing.

[PaulinNJ]

OK, OK (said in a Joe Pesci/My Cousin Vinny voice)...

I am from NJ, I am Italian (well, half - the rest is German and Black Irish) and I have never seen SCARFACE or any of the GODFATHER movies, nor do I know any of the Sopranos.

OMG, what's wrong with the world???

LMAO!

Paul

[BT65]

Wow, Godfather II is on A&E right now.  You're missing a good movie.   BTW, I love Joe Pesci.  He's a really good actor and very amusing.

Edited to add: I'm trying to remember the movie he was in with Robert DeNiro where they played thugs and Pesci was going to be "made" but then got killed.  I can't remember the name of it and it's driving me crazy!

[PaulinNJ]

Oh, yeah! Does anyone remember the club Whoopi Golberg went 'across' the street to in SISTER ACT? Supposedly, the church was in SF but that club was in LA - I lived a block away and used to do my laundry at that laundromat next to the club. On Sunday nights, it became a co-sexual S&M/leather/fetish bar called Club F*ck. The interior scenes in the movie are actually done inside the bar as well. Just thought ya outta know...

[PaulinNJ]

I hereby PROMISE to have a movie marathon one day and watch all these movies Betty! That's a promise! I'll keep you in mind when I see the horse's head! LOL
Signing off for now...Paul

[PaulinNJ]

GOODFELLAS!
G'nite!
Paul

[BT65]

GOODFELLAS!
G'nite!
Paul

Yes!  That's it!  Thanks Paul, I would have been thinking about this all night and been unable to sleep well.

[Oceanbeach]

There was a dirt parking lot on First and Elm in Long Beach and if anyone who had not paid the monthly rate for parking tried to use that lot, there was always someone yelling "move your car".  On day, a Union 76 gas station was suddenly being built and I wondered wehy because, there was a Union 76 station on Ocean Drive, just two blocks away. Strange indeed unless we have seen Lethal Weapon IV.  That station was built for a 1 time pyrotechnics explosion-  If it failed, the movie was to be scrapped.

One of my friends was a landscape designer in Orange County and did not notice all the new palm trees on First Street were made of plastic.

Remember the round building where the blond girl was tossed over the balcony in Lethal Weapon?  That too  is on Ocean Drive in Long Beach.  Dr. Fred, who owned the company I worked for lived in that building, about 3 floors below.  We were having a loud party for the event.

Remember the scene in Pearl Harbor where they leave the party in New York to take a police boat to a ship?  That ship is the Queen Mary and has a permanent cement foundation in Long Beach.  The little islands with the red and green lights are oil wells in the Long Beach harbor.  Have the best day
Michael

[PaulinNJ]

Well. well, well, Michael! I used to live in LA and am still amazed at movies (new and old) where I have to pause the movie and think about where that scene was shot. In the Michael Douglas movie FALLING DOWN, the store where he aquires ammo from the Nazi freak owner was right around the corner from me - acroos the street from Club F*ck and the laundromat on Sunset Blvd in SISTER ACT which I mention in a prior post.

And I hope you slept well Betty!!!

Paul

[Iggy]

My favorite mindless movies are the crap slasher films series, mainly the Friday the 13ths.

Also love Rock & Roll Highschool with the Ramones...and most zombie flicks.

[PaulinNJ]

Now that's mindless. Iggy. As long as it isn't realistic...love the fake slasher movies. Have you seen SERIAL MOM?

[BT65]

And I hope you slept well Betty!!!

Paul

Paul, I watched the rest of Godfather II and then read for awhile.  I didn't go to sleep until well after midnight and didn't get up until quarter to 10 this morning.  Zzzzzzzzzzz

[PaulinNJ]

Betty, Betty, Betty...don't you know we must be in bed by 10 PM? LOL
I've needed some sleepy nights myself lately and actually had THREE ten hour nights this past weekend. Now I am raring to go! We did watch the end of a mindless movie on TNT last night...but we're going to Madison Square Garden to see Kathy Griffin tomorrow night. YAY!
Paul
PS Yes, I am one of her gays!

[Oceanbeach]

I have spent more than my fair share of time in this nameless small town in Northern California.  I used to spend a lot of nights in the bar at the lodge and knew almost everyone.  There was once a film being made in that town, Robin Wright had the starring role.  She had a 6 page spread in Vogue at the time.  Rae Dawn Chong was the Producer and on many nights after shooting the cast and crew would meet in the bar at the lodge for adult beverages.  The town got used to having celebrity in their midst because Robin Wright was there every day but... When Rae Dawn Chong showed up, the bar was so excited to have the daughter of Cheech and Chong as a guest.  No one got it so I had t tell them... Rae Dawn Chong was Tommy Chongs daughter and... Cheech Marin was the comedy partner of Tommy Chong, not one of the parents.    Have the best day
Michael 

[Winiroo]

deja vu

I was watching some of Commando the other day with Rae Dawn Chong and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When asked by my boyfriend what I was watching I replied and gave the characters names.
I had to explain who Rae Dawn Chong was to him. It took him a couple of times of me explaining for him to grasp that she was Tommy Chong's daughter. LOL maybe he had some pain pills in him. I dont know.

[Oceanbeach]

deja vu

I was watching some of Commando the other day with Rae Dawn Chong and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
When asked by my boyfriend what I was watching I replied and gave the characters names.
I had to explain who Rae Dawn Chong was to him. It took him a couple of times of me explaining for him to grasp that she was Tommy Chong's daughter. LOL maybe he had some pain pills in him. I dont know.

And they made HIM the Govenor, I jus don't get it  Have the best day
Michael

[randym431]

The Childrens Hour
The Bad Seed
Rosemarys Baby
The Grapes of Wrath
Rebecca

[PaulinNJ]

OK! Who has seen FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC?  see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/
with  Louise Fletcher ...  Grandmother - Olivia Foxworth

        Victoria Tennant ...  Mother - Corrine Dollanganger

        Kristy Swanson ...  Cathy Dollanganger

It's a 'fun' movie with an edge to it.

Off to see Kathy Griffin at Madison Square Garden tonight!!! YAY! It's a Christmas present to us (John and me) and with all going on, we almost forgot till the other day that we had the tickets. I'll post tomorrow about her show - and "My Life On The D List" starts sometime this summer (June?).

[PaulinNJ]

deja vu

I had to explain who Rae Dawn Chong was to him. It took him a couple of times of me explaining for him to grasp that she was Tommy Chong's daughter. LOL maybe he had some pain pills in him. I dont know.

Winaroo - perhaps instead of pain pills did he get out of a suspiciously smoky car??? LOL

And Randy- Rosemary's Baby? What a hoot? I always picture that creepy woman carrying THE baby from room to room taking care not to drop the Anti-Christ!

[Winiroo]

Winaroo - perhaps instead of pain pills did he get out of a suspiciously smoky car??? LOL

And Randy- Rosemary's Baby? What a hoot? I always picture that creepy woman carrying THE baby from room to room taking care not to drop the Anti-Christ!

LOL possibly!