They didn’t have earbuds in Charlie Sheen’s arrival. Solid 11 years before the iPhone was introduced.
And the winner is, DJ South Carolina Man! Here’s the 80:80, in which Peter Mullen is just offscreen dragging Jack O’Connell somewhere he doesn’t want to go.
Have you actually seen The Liability, Mr. South Carolina Man? What a great movie. A buddy assassin road-trip thriller that really shows off why Jack O’Connell should be a star. Also, exasperated Tim Roth is the best Tim Roth. There should be a movie that’s just two hours of him giving people weary looks.
The Liability is so unreasonably good considering the director, Craig Viveiros, was basically a grip. But there are places in The Liability where you can see this is a guy who knows his cinematography. I love this scene:
You’d think you were watching a Nicholas Winding Refn movie. Tallulah Riley has never been so hot. I was glad to discover her part in Westworld wasn’t just a throwaway appearance in an early episode.
Since Liability, Viveiros has been doing British TV. Bleh. IMDB says he’s working on an adaptation of a book called Corrosion, by a writer named Jon Bassoff, who writes weird dark Jim Thompsoney kind of stuff. I read Corrosion. It’s about the strange relationship between a veteran with a burned face and a kid who locks up a woman in a dungeon. Basically, unfilmable, so I hope he gives it a shot.
-Tom
Djscman
1866
Nope, haven’t seen it, but thanks for the recommendation. Also, thanks to charmtrap for hosting the previous wins on a much-easier-to-search Google Doc instead of the old thread.
Here’s the next 20-something. Not sure if it will be easy or hard to guess.
Djscman
1867
No nibbles? Okay, here’s the 40:40.
Newsies, with baby Christian Bale?
Djscman
1869
Bam, there it is. The singin’, dancin’, Newsies. The story goes that Disney was almost done filming the movie when they made a horrible realization…it was boring as shit. Alan Menken happened to be hanging around and agreed to write some songs, and razzmatazz, they pivoted and made it into a musical.
The 60:60. Remember, in the midst of a choreographed bareknuckled riot, to keep a recognizable grown-up actor in focus. Mind the horse.
The 80:80. Christian Bale famously lost 20 years to play this role, then aged 25 years for The Dark Knight Rises.
The 100:100. Here’s the real star of this movie…the printing press!
Back over to you, charm!
Woo! First win in a while! It was a major flop, but I kinda liked Newsies…course I didn’t see it til years later after all the flop stink had worn off.
New 20 here:
baren
1871
Is that The Island of Dr Moreau?
Warmer, but not Future World.
Devil’s Rain! I even had it at the 20:20!
I hope the 80:80 is from the Road Warrior style RV chase.
-Tom
Oh, so close! Right sub-genre, but still not quite there…
Wait, did I get the name wrong? It’s where Peter Fonda and Warren Oates see a cultist ritual, as shown in the 20:20, and then fight the cultists. There’s a rattlesnake in the RV and the climactic chase with redneck satanists in pick-up trucks. I just watched it again about a year ago!
Argh, I did get the name wrong. I call first dibbs for guessing the 80:80!
-Tom
Well, then. No reason to put off the inevitable:
That’s the one!
Seriously B, but a pretty good occultists-on-a-rampage thriller for all that, considering it’s a Peter Fonda movie from the mid-70s. Warren Oates is awesome as usual. And bonus Loretta Swit (not pictured).
Your go, Mr. Chick.
