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I gotta give it to Stand By Me. Though My Girl is an awesome movie. But Stand By Me is one of the greats.
Which movie named after an oldies song do you prefer?
I gotta give it to Stand By Me. Though My Girl is an awesome movie. But Stand By Me is one of the greats.
Have gun will travel reads the card of a man..a knight without armor in a savage land..
"And all your father's are gonna get a call from me..except the looney..the looney up in tokus"
"I'm gonna rip off your head and down your neck!!!!!"
Looney Looney Looney.
When I first watched Stand By Me, I had not yet discovered vagina. So the choice is simple
Plus the scene with the leaches is the most memorable of the two films
& "Ace" has a certain class to his pathology. A true psychotic in the frame of "Roat" from "Wait Until Dark" he'd have no problem slittin' a throat over the ownership of a dead body. But, his link with "Gordie" is tied heavily with Gordie's late brother..."You must have some of your brother's good sense, Lachance." I'd love to see "the movie" of their relationship in the town, at school. I God's, can you imagine it?
It doesn't tell us, but, shows us the hot steam of divorce starting to creep into the nation (after WW2) as Ace's gang is well off the tracks with "parents" nowhere in sight.
Reiner hits this movie with everything he's got. Sure, we can forgive him the flashback to the pie eating contest, even the smugness of (the boys), but, that's King, always King whether it's Shawshank, The Green Mile, or, here.
We see two souls lost in death, as Gordie's parents lights are on, but, their miles away now, and may never return, and their only son is pushed further away than he'd already been when his brother's brilliance burned bright for the entire family. As the father forsakes his youngest "Denny" kept the child closer, yes, the pseudo father. Denny saw his father, but, loved him nonetheless. That's how we do it in this country.
Reiner makes a masterpiece of Gordie buying the provisions at the country store, the owner telling it all over chopped meat as he relives Denny Lechance's gridiron glory..."Jesus, Mother and Mary could he throw.":::then:::"What do you do?" he heartlessly queries the 12 year old child.
It's an American moviePERIOD
Well we knew your answer, Dale. Your go to phrase is a classic line from that movie.
That said...I agree. Stand By Me is in a class of it's own. Really wish we could have seen what kind of actor River Phoenix became as an adult. I think he had the chops to become an all time great.
Yes, I do enjoy "Ace" in this film. Sutherland plays him perfect. And he takes some of the stuff and uses it a year later in "The Lost Boys." The resentment of civilization, his self ouster from it in both films. He at once recognizes the ball cap and strong arm robs it immediately upon sight. Yes, he & "Denny" had a history. Ace had to watch as Denny gets the beautiful girl while he is rutting on the wrong side of the tracks in the dirt with town trash. "Gordie" is his last chance to mete out punishment to this family. He thought the death of Denny would quell the rage, but, he was wrong. He's always wrong. Sooner or later he'll play chicken in the car and be a split second y.Well we knew your answer, Dale. Your go to phrase is a classic line from that movie.
That said...I agree. Stand By Me is in a class of it's own. Really wish we could have seen what kind of actor River Phoenix became as an adult. I think he had the chops to become an all time great.
"Ace" drives this movie, sets it on fire, makes you wait for him along the way.
Nice connection reference with The Lost Boys. Never thought about those two characters being strikingly similar.
Gordie's parents are a study as well. He's broken her (McCain a fine actor in her own right). Now she cowers, though rises up in her dining room chair, eyes freighted in fright, but, going on nonetheless to fight for her boys, struggling to maintain a balance in their lives (women always do that, "Miyagi" too), encouraging Gordie's writing & Denny's dating. And the results are apparent= Denny isn't on a football island, or, a girl island. He's complete and will take his brother with him. He touches him repeatedly in the sparse scenes containing the brothers and it is then and only then that Gordie glows, almost translucent in the magnificence of the human touch of a brother he loves. The parents never touch, before, or, after Denny's death. They don't even look at each other, before, or, after Denny's death. Their marriage has been over for years, the disconnect permanent. The father never found balance, so now that God has cheated him by taking his boy as God is apt to do he is finished.
These 2 roles broke Sutherland although his success was probably inevitable. The casting and soundtrack for Lost Boys made the difference between that being a pretty good movie or a piece of . And Stand By Me is my pick between the 2 movies. Maybe the 2nd best Stephen King adaptation as well as one of his best stories in the best collection.
Both classics but I definitely prefer stand by me
Absolutely. He was on the edge there before those 2 films. & just like that he was made.
& you're right as well on the King adaptation. It's clarity is rare among his materiel to film. We're immediately settled by Reiner thru the au es of Dreyfuss, his countenance of body and voice. We know then it's going to be an experience and not just a money grab at the ticket takers we just s ed out to.
And years later the young among us are able to now realize thru Spielberg's "Private Ryan" why Duchamp's father put "Teddy's" ear to that stove and is now up in Tocus where he belonged after coming off that Normandy beach. Teddy, he already knew. Did his father tell him before the black curtain fell for good? Probably.
Weeks after my father and I saw Saving Private Ryan, he met a silver-haired, frail-of-build gentleman. In his aged kindness and graciousness to our family, one would never believe he was a man, whom 50 years prior had returned from WWII where he spent his days as a paratrooper surviving Normandy, The Bulge, and the March between, only to return home so thankless of his own surviving he'd take a wife, emotionally and physically abuse her, spawn three kids, the oldest of whom he berated and abused to the point of emasculation, then abandoned them to prospect and drink his life away from the early 1960s through 1980s.
By the time we'd met him the decade between had made him frail, his spirit meek, but in attempts to help him reconcile himself with his family, the stories they told of him were almost unbelievable if he himself had not admitted to them in apology.
The oldest son refused any and all attempts, the wife only wanted to speak with him to spit venom, and the daughter painted a picture of a man who used ridicule and physical depravity to emphasize his point.
One example she gave was he caught his eldest son as a teen sneaking liquor, so he sat him in a chair, tied his hands and force fed booze to the kid. When the son couldnt drink or spat it out, he mocked him or beat him with the booze bottle. Nearly drowned the kid in alcohol to teach him to be a man and ask for booze, not sneak and steal.
was ed up...
lean on me
"That's Chopper?!"^
A complete, and total, barf-o-rama
My Girl
Wish you were
Blue Velvet. Hands down the best.
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