Steve Martin films: The Eighties POLL

all of me has some dumb shit in it too (ie the wacky guru) but martin and tomlin carry it

yeah there's enough of what i can remember from all of me to prevent me from watching it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unseSFWjuqs

This is my favorite Steve Martin scene ever:

OTM. But I'd say "All of Me," vs. "PTA" vs. ... gosh. I almost always love Steve Martin. "Little Shop of Horrors" is a great role

Cameo showdown!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77hlCV1flk

http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2012/11/18/ptafreeze.gif

"What do you think the temperature is?"

"One."

all of me has some dumb shit in it too (ie the wacky guru)

eff u, Richard Libertini is the man. "Backinbowl!" Also played the Senor Wences-style general in The In-Laws.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508844/

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/missoulian.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/f5/3f565e30-d1fe-11e1-8680-0019bb2963f4/5008a065cf4a1.preview-620.jpg

Martin and Sons.

"you need a cup of my Java.. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Bjt0Z0psY

I am a huge Steve Martin stan and I love DMDWP and TMW2B but come on, no love for the casual surrealism of The Lonely Guy?

All of Me by a good way for me

saw The Lonely Guy for the first time a few years ago, didn't love it but appreciated the unique tone. Grodin better than Martin in it, though.

was he thinkin' baot things in it?

I skipped TLG cuz of the Neil Simon credit. He's one of three writers billed (the others are quality '70s sitcom guys), so I prob shd see it.

P,T,A
Little Shop
Parenthood

watched PTA last night because it's one of the few of these movies on netflix streaming. apparently i had never seen the whole thing? i knew the big setpieces but a lot of the in between stuff was not familiar at all. anyways, very funny movie obv. and calling martin just the straight man in it really underplays how good he is in it, his slow burn is masterful.

I got to see Dead Men for the first time twice.

When I first saw it as a kid, I laughed at him shaving his tongue and the whole cheese thing at the end.

Then later, I was all "Wha? You mean those were all scenes from old movies?"

omg i used to love the man with two brains as a kid!

i swear, this guy

Man with Two Brains would be my second, I can't help but feel like he was going gently downhill after Roxanne

voted DRS because it never fails. but then again several of these never fail. it was a tough one.

i love the lonely guy, but my love for grodin almost overshadows steve in that one (someone upthread mentioned something similar).

am a huge three amigos fan, but similarly don't ever think of it as a steve martin movie in the way some of the others def are steve martin vehicles. once, in high school, at some kind of fundraiser, two friends and i lip-synced the theme song. "...we are the three a-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...." a video existed of this ill advised performance. would love to see it, then destroy it.

haha oh yeah...a couple of years ago went down to a local video store (RAO, pplains, which the owner has claimed was the very first rental place of its kind in the country) with the intent of renting three amigos. it's a notoriously unorganized place, so i just asked for it at the counter and the guy brought it to me. got home and popped it in and it was indeed the three amigos. this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301934/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
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doh!

Martin's jump-the-shark moment is My Blue Heaven

Freddy Soto!

that a large number of you haven't even SEEN All of Me... smdh

three people said they haven't seen it

man i loved my blue heaven when i was a kid. was it not 80s?

ah, 1990

Yeah, My Blue Heaven and L.A. Story just miss out on this poll being from 1990 and 1991, but they're of a kind with the rest. And great!

i'm taking those 3 ppl as reps for the lurkers, git me

LA Story would get my vote if released two years earlier.

pointy birds,
o pointy pointy.
anoint my head,
anointy-nointy.

Home sick from work today, rewatched All of Me. It's kind of slight as a film, but Martin's and Tomlin's performances were really really charming.

l.a. story would totally fit here esp considering how much of his nineties and beyond is either kasdan level oscar fodder, mediocre extensions of parenthood, or depressingly awful reboots of characters that were played by irreplaceable geniuses

I've seen all of these except for The Lonely Guy, Movers & Shakers and Parenthood. Not sure how I'll vote, but it'll be between Dead Men..., ...Two Brains and All of Me, all of which I saw in theaters (my dad was a fan).

in the late '80s I saw him play Didi in Waiting for Godot opp Robin Williams

http://www.robin-williams.net/images/plays/godot/image03.jpg

wow!

i wonder if anyone got that on tape?

I remember that. sounds torturous.

they were both good, esp Williams I thought; directed by Mike Nichols. I stood in a standby line for 7 hours for it. There's a few minutes here:

http://www.robin-williams.net/godot.php

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just wrong

pretty good if you erase #1

which you haven't seen

Roxanne doesn't really hold up for me, sadly. A few big laughs ("Afraid of WORMS?!"), but too much time wasted on those stupid firefighters (and yet not nearly enough shots of Matt Lattanzi in uniform) and Schepisi's direction is way too lackadaisical.

roxanne i haven't seen since high school, when i thought it was slow, but "he's got the whole world / in his nose" passes across my brain like monthly.

i don't love planes/trains/automobiles and take more or less the morbz view of john hughes in general but n/a otm upthread about martin's slow burn. learned from the devil's candy last week that he was suggested more than once for the lead in bonfire of the vanities, which would hardly have saved anyone but which i thought was a sharp idea.

various people otm that the real cap to this run is l.a. story. just loled at this stray quote (from 1999) in the wiki for all of me: My mature film career started with All of Me and ends with L.A. Story. anyway, all of me.

Goodbye to my greatest mentor in movies and in life. Thank you, dear Carl. https://t.co/H7A4ZwIqfc

— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) June 30, 2020

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About 20 years ago when I was living in L.A., there was a screening of Pennies from Heaven followed by a talk with Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper and others. One of them said this was the first time they attended a screening where the audience actually liked the picture.