OPO: Joel Schumacher movie

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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Phone Booth (2002)
Bad Company (2002)
Tigerland (2000)
Flawless (1999)
8MM (1999)
Batman & Robin (1997)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Batman Forever (1995)
The Client (1994)
Falling Down (1993)
Dying Young (1991)
Flatliners (1990)
Cousins (1989)
The Lost Boys (1987)
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
D.C. Cab (1983)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

I have a feeling The Lost Boys is going to win by a landslide. I almost want to give it to The Client cuz I like the lead performances in that, but no. I vote for The Lost Boys.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

PHANTOM

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM YOUR ANGEL OF MUSIC, MICCIO

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen Phantom yet, I admit. or D.C. Cab.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you haven't seen DC Cab?!?!?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I will admit that any movie with Mr. T, Gary Busey, Bill Maher and Jill Schoelen in it is probably a must-see.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

must-OWN!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the 'look, an eskimo pissing' joke in The Client=highlight of JoelSchumacher's career.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tigerland wasn't so awful.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I always want to imagine Schumacher sounds like Roger Debris from The Producers. "ooh, yes! Batman will be dark and gothic, the caped crusader, grr...and then OUT COME THE FLOURESCENT DANCERS! 1, 2, KICK, TURN! 2, 2, KICK, TURN!"

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

tie between incredible shrinking women which has a gorilla that flips the bird and st. elmo's fire which has judd nelson.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can OPO for most fabulously awful: A Time to Kill, which is the only one I've seen on this list that I want to revisit for completely illicit purposes.

Haven't seen Phone Booth yet, though. I imagine it is inferior to Cellular.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

phone booth is such a turd.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen all of the films listed, but I have seen a few of them, and every one was a stinker to some extent. I guess "flatliners" was the least worst. the 2 batman ones were the joint pits. Maybe "lost boys" is the "pick", b/c it's generous w/the roffles but I remember it coming out at abt the same time as near dark and i think of the utter utter pwnij that results in comparing there 2 films every time I think of it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

his two upcoming features

The Crowded Room (2006), The true story of Billy Milligan, who developed twenty-four different personalities during his horrific childhood, and who would go on to commit several robberies and rapes. Written by the guy who did The Beautician And The Beast.

Centricity (2006), with Monica Bellucci.

Still got it!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

A time to kill has a few fantastic moments, though. The Klan members being attacked with Molotov cocktails and "Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Could you put together a good film if you took all the best bits from joel schumacher's ouvre, and put them all together in an editing suite? I mean, the end result couldn't make any less sense than "batman and robin", could it?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

d.c. cab by miles

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have listened to Veronica Guerin all the way through probably ten or eleven times. I've never seen it though.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a scene in VG where Colin Farrell is watching a football match from outside a pub, through the window at the tv, and he sees Veronica and they get chatting, and then he invites her for a drink at a different pub. This should plausibly be included because it makes absolutely no sense.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually might go for 8mm in a pinch

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus dude.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no soul left

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

He likes Colin Farrell, doesn't he?

Most of these are watchable enough, but none of them are great. If forced to pick one, it would probably be Phone Booth. WIth St Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys close behind.

It definitely wouldn't be Dying Young.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 May 2005 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, now - to be fair to the Beauty & the Beautician writer (Todd Graff), he also wrote the scripts for, um, Death to Smoochy and the Hollywood remake of The Vanishing. And he wrote AND directed Camp (an IFC original) (it looked good) (I think Rosemary would big up it)!

I'll take the hott Edward Herrmann akshun in Lost Boyz. And FOR FUCK'S SAKE Strongo!

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

phone booth

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what this thread needs are pictures of joel schumacher

http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/events/reports/crimescene2003/images/blanchett-schumacher.jpg

http://www.artstreiber.com/folk/joel_schumacher/JS5a_2_20_500.jpg

http://www.japantoday.com/dbfiles/newsmaker/joel.DC.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

so why do you keep posting self-portraits?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

IT ALL MAKES SENSE

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, David!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 29 May 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

So clearly Flatliners by a mile that it's not even funny. If you think otherwise, suicide is painful, but mandatory.

This is not negotiable.

This may be satire.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

he is so inconsistent. the most consistent aspect of his body of work is its tastelessness, but there are some partial exceptions to even that. he seems to make pretty much whatever the situation calls for, or doesn't call for. i haven't seen the second of his batman movies. his own self-image seems at odds with his actual public image. his sight&sound poll was funny--he evidently thinks of himself as part of the great auteur tradition. the obvious reason he doesn't belong there is because he doesn't really have a stylistic signature, but that's not necessarily the right reason (does oshima have a stylistic signature?). so what is the reason? or does it not matter?

i don't really know what else to day about schumacher. there's something callow about him, so i was shocked when i learned that he was pretty old.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 30 May 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

His supreme contribution to pop culture was probably the lines of dialogue he wrote for Lindy in Car Wash, specifically "I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get."

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 30 May 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

holy moly - i'm actually kinda stunned to find out he wrote car wash! he also was the costume designer for interiors! and he also directed the video for inxs's "devil inside"!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 May 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My choice would be Flawless. Have any of you seen it? It's really quite good. Phone Booth is also fine.

A Time to Kill may have some good moments, but the overall moral of the story is questionable; what it's basically saying is that it's okay to murder for vengeance, if your cause is "just". I mean, there's no doubt Samuel Jackson's character wasn't *really* unaccountable for his actions, is there?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

So, I just saw Falling Down for the first time. Does anybody care enough about this one enough to comment on it?

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

frederick forrest scene, yeah

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

dc cab

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I finally saw part of dc cab with the sound off at work. Lots of cabs in that.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I looked up at the screen once and saw Bill Maher pick up a vibrator from the seat, double take, then throw it out the window.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the Frederick Forrest scene was good. I will probably forget this movie within a week, but for right now I'm wondering if D-FENS's entire rampage was a calculated suicide-by-cop, not just the bit at the end. I'm probably overthinking it.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

All I really remember about that movie is how surprised I was that Robert Duvall's part was huge, as all the ads I'd seen focused almost solely on Douglas.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

just good bit of stunt-cast b-movie, nothing too deep. it was fun to see in the theater with nobody getting it, not that there was much to get

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

i just watched flatliners

― kwisatz haderach, give a dog a bone (latebloomer came rolling home) (latebloomer, Sunday, 23 July 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Oops.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

From the A Time To Kill wikipedia

The district attorney, Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey), decides to seek the death penalty, and presiding Judge Omar Noose (Patrick McGoohan) denies Brigance a change of venue.

LOL. Matt McConnaughey plays strong-minded lawyer Joseph Equality, while Samuel L Jackson is Leroy Militant, in the town of Racistville

― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 May 2012 09:37 (fourteen years ago)

it never occurred to me that 8MM was the first movie he did after his 'not dark enough' Batman flicks. talk about overcorrection!

― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:58 (fourteen years ago)

Never heard of "Twelve" before reading Ned's link there and hoping that Joel had directed Twelve!, a musical based on "12 Angry Men"

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

...hmm or maybe Mel Brooks updating The Twelve Chairs for Broadway

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Memories!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7c3dc610ffacc6109a37b9335330005/tumblr_mod3emZMzl1qar3r2o1_1280.jpg

Dear god look at that.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2013 02:43 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

i just watched flatliners

― kwisatz haderach, give a dog a bone (latebloomer came rolling home) (latebloomer, Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:44 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same.

I remember the bullying scenes making a strong impression on me when I was young, though that's now been mostly demystified. Anyway, the lighting is great.

― geoffreyess, Saturday, 4 November 2017 04:45 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

His movies, which also included “The Lost Boys” and “Batman & Robin,” were cinematic mileposts of the 1980s and ’90s.

NYT obit blurb a leetle overstated for ppl over 14 at the time

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 11:52 (six years ago)

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