Day Ten: Mumbai Wildlife, Will Wheaton and the Hight Water Mark
I really don’t have much and I have even little since being distracted by Stand by Me that started the moment I got back to my hotel room. So I leave you with a photo before I turn in for the day…and remember the age old question:
How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?
Cheers
How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?
Cheers
Labels: 80's, India, Mumbai, Steven King
posted by Jimbo at 7:21 PM
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Ah, Stand By Me, in my opinion the fourth best screen adaptation from arguably the greatest writer of the 20th Century. Which leads me to a Top 5 for today. Obviously there are many flicks one can choose from... but the list below are my favorites:
Top 5 Steven King Film Adaptions:
5. The Running Man - Classic 80's flick. Arnold, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura? Sign me up! Features unbelievable classic Arnold lines like, Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero.
4. Stand By Me - Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss... John Cusack?
3. Misery - The 2nd Reiner directed film on the list... but maybe the most memorable. I love how they stayed true to the patience of the story arc. After repeat viewing, still chilling.
2. The Shawshank Redemption - Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of sh!t and came out clean on the other side.
1. The Shining - Kubrick... Jack... King... the perfect storm of a movie. Edges out "The Dead Zone" as my favorite King book too.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I would've probably swapped 3 and 4 on that list, but I agree anytime Stand By Me is the third or fourth best is a good f'n list...
I was initially going to give a top five for this post entitled, top 5 80's Films that I will stop on watch on TV and sit through the commercials for:
5-Real Genius...the popcorn blowing up Will Atherton's house always workd
4-White Water Summer...Samwise and Six Degrees loving nature
3-OutsidersWe gotta win that fight tonight. We gotta get even with those Socs! Let's do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for Johnny!
2-Back to the Future-is actually enhanced by commercials
1-The aforementioned King Adaptation starring Will Wheaton...
Stay Gold Pony boy....Stay Gold
All great movies. It takes the right kind of movie to sit and watch it on KCPQ on a sunday afternoon...
Real Genius: classic feel goog flick with a Tear for fears soundtrack... And yes, I did believe the "popcorn ending"
White Water/Outsiders: two movies I would watch as a kid anytime they were on HBO.
Hmmmm
Top 5 80's movies that I'll stop and watch (even with commericials)
#5 Ferris Buellers Day Off. The official "slacker" film of 1980's
#4 BeetleJuice. Michael Keatons greatest role...
#3 Stand By Me. Yes like everyone else this makes my list
#2 Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2
Great on TBS on a Saturday afternoon
#1 Top Gun. It stops my surfing every time
Honerable Mention. Dirty Dancing. Because "Nobody puts Baby in a Corner.."
I actually need to make a substitution at #3 and replace Outsiders w/ Goonies and throw Outsiders to an honorable mention...
That give me back to back quality Samwise 80's flix...
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My Sunday Morning KCPQ 80's movie marathon would be...
Honorable mention: Goonies, Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers
5: Pee Wee's Big Adventure - "There's no basement in the Alamo"
4: Stand By Me - come on Richard Dryfuss does the voice over. Plus it's got two of the Young Guns and well it's a lodge staple.
3: The Right Stuff - the space race movie sucks me in everytime.
2: Golden Child - " I want the knife" possible Eddie at his best.
1: Lethal Weapon 2 - "Diplomatic immunity"You've never hated South Africa this much. Riggs and Murtaugh deal with Apartied their own way...
the Outsiders is almost never on (At least not while im surfing)
I think Shawshank and Armegedon are shown more than any other movie in Cable history
used to be Roadhouse and Shawshank...ahh....the days...
That's what's wrong with the world....
No more after school specials and Saturday morning cartoon...
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