CHUD.com Community › Forums › THE CHEWERS › The Chewers Catch-All › Movie Stuff I Learned Today
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Movie Stuff I Learned Today

post #1 of 147
1/20/04 at 2:20pm
Thread Starter 
Reginald VelJohnson was in "Crocodile Dundee". He played a limo driver named Gus.
Reply
post #2 of 147
1/20/04 at 2:52pm
Reginald Veljohnson was in a shitload of stuff. I keep seeing him in cop roles whenever I watch stuff from the '80s.

He's hard to spot because back then he weighed a lot less.
Reply
post #3 of 147
1/20/04 at 7:07pm
I watched George Mieles' A Trip to the Moon, and Edwin S Porter's The Great Train Robbery. Yeah, I'm taking a Development of Cinema class. It's a prerequisite for the Film and Video Production major.
Reply
post #4 of 147
1/20/04 at 7:17pm
You guys need to check out Wolfen then.
Reply
post #5 of 147
1/20/04 at 11:36pm
VelJohnson is in A Trip to the Moon.
Reply
post #6 of 147
1/21/04 at 4:05am
Also... in my fantasies.
Reply
post #7 of 147
1/21/04 at 10:45am
He plays "The Moon".

(courtesy of 'Obvious Gags Inc.')
Reply
post #8 of 147
1/21/04 at 10:53am
VelJohnson is in Ghostbusters. His first movie and...he plays a cop.
Reply
post #9 of 147
1/21/04 at 2:37pm
Thread Starter 

Learned 1/21/04

The girl that plays the teenage version of Amy Smart in "The Butterfly Effect" played the young Margot Tenenbaum in "The Royal Tenenbaums".

Knew I recognized her from someplace. Thank you IMDB.
Reply
post #10 of 147
1/21/04 at 3:00pm
Reginald VelJohnson was also in Yuletide in the 'hood .


...and a good time was had by all.
Reply
post #11 of 147
1/21/04 at 3:27pm
VelJohnson... I'd tap that ass.
Reply
post #12 of 147
1/21/04 at 3:35pm
treat williams played both in deep rising and once upon a time in america
Reply
post #13 of 147
1/21/04 at 3:36pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Loki
treat williams played both in deep rising and once upon a time in america
And he stole all of our hearts in doing so.
Reply
post #14 of 147
1/22/04 at 4:02pm
Thread Starter 

1/22/04

That John Michael Higgins, Natasha Lyonne, Patton Oswalt, James Remar (!), and Callum Keith Rennie (who was great in the flick "Last Night") are all in "Blade: Trinity".

Interesting casting all over the place in that movie.
Reply
post #15 of 147
1/22/04 at 8:42pm
I learned that silent comedies done by Mack Sennett or Charlie Chaplin are hilarious.
Reply
post #16 of 147
1/22/04 at 11:34pm
Quote:
Originally posted by DJ Dylan
I learned that silent comedies done by Mack Sennett or Charlie Chaplin are hilarious.
Why, of course.
Reply
post #17 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:12am
I learned today that "Fletch" would be funny if Chevy Chase hadn't tried so hard.
Reply
post #18 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:19am
I wish only Matchstick could post here.
Reply
post #19 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:23am
Thread Starter 

1/22/04

Quote:
Originally posted by billylove
I learned today that "Fletch" would be funny if Chevy Chase hadn't tried so hard.
Yeah, this one has me losing my will too.

To keep on track:

I learned yesterday that Don McKeller has a new movie he's working on called "Childstar". I think the guy is extremely talented and look forward to catching anything he's involved in. Just a taste of his career: He wrote, directed, and starred in a really nifty, low budget end of the world movie called "Last Night", wrote "The Red Violin", appeared in Egoyan's "Exotica" and Cronenberg's "eXistenZ". Anyway, the guy has had a nifty career so far, and I'm glad to see he is keeping it up.
Reply
post #20 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:28am
Quote:
Originally posted by billylove
I learned today that "Fletch" would be funny if Chevy Chase hadn't tried so hard.
This statement is so wrong it transcends words.
Reply
post #21 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:02pm
Thread Starter 

1/23/04

That the ubiquitous Brian Cox was in the Amanda Peet flick "Whipped". He played Italian Bicycler.
Reply
post #22 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:19pm
Seems I struck a cord with some folks.
Reply
post #23 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:29pm
Today I learned there are still Pokemon fans in this world, albeit ever since Star Leauge put down their evil cult, its followers are few and scattered.

Still, quite disturbing that even a few remain.
Reply
post #24 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:32pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Nick Nunziata
I wish only Matchstick could post here.
Seconded. I also wish Matchstick had a weekly column of sorts at CHUD.
Reply
post #25 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:52pm
I learned that the film HERO is sex for the eyes.
Reply
post #26 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:56pm
Matchstick -- I play this game alot. And it's a fave. Great idea for a thread. Or a column.
Reply
post #27 of 147
1/23/04 at 2:56pm
Jesus, I said "fave" again. After promising myself I wouldn't.
Reply
post #28 of 147
1/23/04 at 5:41pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Nordling
I learned that the film HERO is sex for the eyes.
I love Geena Davis too, Nord.
Reply
post #29 of 147
1/23/04 at 5:46pm
Thread Starter 

1/23/04

I bust "fave" in Literati quite a bit, for some reason. Anyway, thanks for the kind words. You guys should chime in with your own "movie stuff". That's why I created the thread. I figured it'd be a cool place to collect tiny movie info that struck folks as odd/interesting/non-essential/ completely essential. I'm an IMDB junkie so I'm constantly finding out weird bits of (possibly incorrect) info. I also watch a lot of movies on tv so it's fun to uncover shit just by watching them. For example, I watched the tail-end of "40 Days and 40 nights" last night on some movie channel and I uncovered the fact that I laughed at the final joke.

That was a sad realization.

Also, watching that movie it reminded me of the fact that good old Glenn Fitzgerald is in it, who has been good in everything I've seen him in - "Flirting with Disaster", "Series 7: The Contenders", and "Buffalo Soldiers"
Reply
post #30 of 147
1/23/04 at 5:48pm
I learned this last weekend: Mischa Barton is the dead girl who was poisoned by her mom in The Sixth Sense.

I also vote for more fun posts by Matchstick. He funny.
Reply
post #31 of 147
1/23/04 at 10:23pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew Sweeney
I love Geena Davis too, Nord.
Shit, you made me LOL.
Reply
post #32 of 147
1/23/04 at 11:55pm
Today I learned that Paul Walker had more acting chops when he was 13 playing Professor in the cult fave Monster In The Closet than he could even fathom nowadays. Maybe that dong-thing that came out of the monsters mouth sucked the will to go beyond a Troma level of acting...
Reply
post #33 of 147
1/24/04 at 7:49am
i learned that in wishmaster these actors played:

Tony Todd (the candyman)
Robert Englund
Kane Hodder
Ted Raimi (sam's brother)
Verne Troyer
Reply
post #34 of 147
1/24/04 at 10:46am
did you know the editor of whishmaster also edited Survivor
Reply
post #35 of 147
1/24/04 at 4:05pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Loki
did you know the editor of whishmaster also edited Survivor
Ebonics?
Reply
post #36 of 147
1/26/04 at 8:48am
This weekend I learned:

"Mindy Marin" was the casting director for the last two pictures I saw theatrically (Open Range, Paycheck) taking over from "Mike Fenton" and "Mali Finn" as the most ubiquitous name I've noticed occupying that cheeky post-supporting player credit slot in films. She seems to work a lot with John Woo, which means she was responsible for the sublimely cast Face/Off, though she also thought Noah Emmerich would make a convincing racist in Windtalkers, a casting mistake that ranks up there with her worst: Winona Ryder as a grungy exorcism survivor in Lost Souls.
Reply
post #37 of 147
1/26/04 at 9:04am
This weekend I learned seeing C. Thomas Howell violently die from shotgun wounds still doesn't make up for having to sit through an hour and a half of Jake Busey poorly trying to echo Rutger Hauer while still looking like the long lost brother of the Chatterer Cenobite.
Reply
post #38 of 147
1/26/04 at 9:12am
Spoiler! spoiler! spoi......oh, right, I'm not actually going to see this picture...
Reply
post #39 of 147
1/26/04 at 9:21am
I'll happily send you the DVD if you're ever in the mood for a bout of S&M rivalling the last two Batman movies.
Reply
post #40 of 147
1/26/04 at 5:02pm
Thread Starter 

1/26/04

While looking up Udo Kier on the IMDB, found out that "Dracula 3000" is going to exist. Casper Van Dien plays Van Helsing. Perfect.

More perfect, however, is the plot:

"Count Dracula terrorizes the crew of a spaceship."
Reply
post #41 of 147
1/27/04 at 5:43pm
Thread Starter 

1/27/04

According to the IMDB, John Cusack has nothing in the works for 2004. Um...please tell me I've been misled.

As a side note, Piven does.
Reply
post #42 of 147
1/27/04 at 6:10pm
Moe had it in his contract that he got to choose new Stooges when the others started dying/retiring, hence the Shemp/Curly/Shemp/multiple Curly Joes succession.

Well, I think it's interesting, goddammit.
Reply
post #43 of 147
1/29/04 at 12:15pm
I just learned that San Dimas is actually a town in California.

For some reason, I'd always just assumed it was a fictional place made up for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Reply
post #44 of 147
1/29/04 at 12:47pm

Re: 1/26/04

Quote:
Originally posted by Kevin Matchstick
While looking up Udo Kier on the IMDB, found out that "Dracula 3000" is going to exist. Casper Van Dien plays Van Helsing. Perfect.

More perfect, however, is the plot:

"Count Dracula terrorizes the crew of a spaceship."
And Coolio playing "187" which, for people who don't know, is the police code in LA for murder. If that isn't a clever character name, I don't know what is.

I'm so buying that when it comes out on video. I'm also sending my kids to San Dimas High.
Reply
post #45 of 147
1/29/04 at 12:59pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Dave Davis
I just learned that San Dimas is actually a town in California.

For some reason, I'd always just assumed it was a fictional place made up for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Yeah, and none of the people talk like surfers either. Damn mis-leading 80's movies.


The only reason I moved down here was to hang with the likes of Stoney, Bill and Ted, and that chick from Valley Girl.

But the goddamn movies lied to me. No one acts like that anymore. Or ever.


Oh, and the SF Valley isn't all rich people.....unless by rich people you mean people buying fruit from the back of trucks on Sherman Way. And there are about 10 trucks in a 4 block span.


Oh, and if you go within 1,000 feet of the Fox Plaza with a camera you'll be sniped with a high powered rifle. That shit hurts!

I just wanted a picture of me saying "Welcome to the party, pal!" in front of the building. Am I so wrong?


LA's not all it's cracked up to be.
Reply
post #46 of 147
1/29/04 at 1:02pm

Re: Re: 1/26/04

Quote:
Originally posted by Matt Goldberg
And Coolio playing "187" which, for people who don't know, is the police code in LA for murder. If that isn't a clever character name, I don't know what is.

I'm so buying that when it comes out on video. I'm also sending my kids to San Dimas High.
Coolie was in a movie that was shot in my school over Christmas break. My school has 150 students.


*adds Coolio to idol list*
Reply
post #47 of 147
1/29/04 at 1:03pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Dave Davis
I just learned that San Dimas is actually a town in California.

For some reason, I'd always just assumed it was a fictional place made up for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
But does their high school football rule?
Reply
post #48 of 147
1/29/04 at 1:32pm

Re: 1/27/04

Quote:
Originally posted by Kevin Matchstick
According to the IMDB, John Cusack has nothing in the works for 2004. Um...please tell me I've been misled.

As a side note, Piven does.
I thought Cusak was going to be in the next Uwe Boll adbomination Alone in the Dark, which I also thought was coming out this year.
Reply
post #49 of 147
1/29/04 at 2:16pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew Sweeney
But does their high school football rule?
Indeed it does. This year they won back the SMUDGEPOT.

http://www.sandimashigh.com/page.php?id=224
Reply
post #50 of 147
1/29/04 at 10:47pm
Thanks to the film known as Porn Star: The Ron Jeremy Story, I know know it is possible for a man to suck his own cock!
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: The Chewers Catch-All
CHUD.com Community › Forums › THE CHEWERS › The Chewers Catch-All › Movie Stuff I Learned Today