I had to think on this. I think the wrong note in Popeye is Robert Altman. Which kinda sucks because he put the whole thing together at a time when people would back anything he did. Everything in the movie: the cast, the sets, the songs, even - you could argue - the script - was solid, it just felt like everything…
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“Annie” got mostly 3 star reviews, but it went way over budget. Iirc it broke even-ish. It’s a fine enough version.
Don’t forget all the 1960s sitcoms! I’m solidly GenX, but I can describe most of the episodes of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and Gilligan’s Island to this day due to repeated exposure.
How long until the stupid horror public-domain version?
It made 2 1/2 times its budget, (20 mill vs 50 million) which for 1980, was pretty impressive. ESPECIALLY when you consider it was a musical. Pirates of Penzance, as a comparison, made 700k (not sure as to its budget). Little Shop of Horrors made 39 million on a 30 million budget.
Jesus Christ Superstar, while it only…
songs written by Harry Motherfuckin Nilsson
It was weird and perfect and, somehow, a musical.
the Altman Popeye rips, ya joyless hacks
A by-the-book actioner that’s sunk by indifferent performances, muddled storylines, and stilted dialogue.
Shouldn’t that last one be Ethyl the Aardvark?
‘”It’d be nice if we got a proper adaptation of the Teen Titans to wash the Titans out of our memories.”’
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And they had fuck-all budget, too. That little behind-the-scenes as to how they did it all is amazing. 35 people, almost no budget.
Godzilla swimming behind the boat and taking machine gun fire to the face is the scene that locked it up. That whole sequence was fantastic. There were other good bits, and some bits that (though great) were still Godzilla Movie boxes that needed to be checked. But the consistency of Minus One’s fx held throughout.
They could have mentioned that Cillian Murphy also tried to kill Batman.
Starling?! You got that right. Lol. Also fucking Hoyt Curtin wrote every. single. Hanna-Barbera. cartoon. theme. ever. Like more than 200. Those two dudes scored my entire childhood ages 2 to 12, Williams took the baton after that.
She was good in Fahrenheit 451! She did what she could with a terrible script.
Still pulling for Sofia Boutella to get a win.
I can literally HEAR this gif.
In the intro: