Steve Martin films: The Eighties POLL

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.