Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. Everybody knows the quote, but it’s surprising how few have read the book or seen the movie based on it. We have. Why haven’t you?

Most Disney movies try to teach us something – an important life lesson, as it were. Sometimes it’s quite surface-level, sometimes it’s profound and intelligent. In this week’s movie, we learn that it’s important to have lofty ambitions and avenge your father’s death by performing the death-defying stunt that he died trying to perform.

… Sorry, let me correct that. It’s important to try to perform the death-defying stunt. It doesn’t really matter if you succeed or not, it’s just important that you wanted to and that you probably could have had things turned out differently or something.

Show notes and links:

* Third Man on the Mountain (1959) (imdb.com)

This week, the gang has a misadventure in the Australian Outback and find themselves walking aimlessly, looking for civilization… Or at least some kind of a plot or subtlety in the message, at least. Anything would be better than this, right?

Show notes and links:

* Walkabout (1971) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* The Secret Life of Pets – Sausage Factory Scene (5/10) | Movieclips (youtube.com)

Imagine asking a 56-year old Austrian man to write a story about a 17-year old American girl. You’d get something like this.

Show notes and links:

* Gidget (1959) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Frederick Kohner – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

A few weeks ago, we talked about the Tom Hanks movie Sleepless in Seattle. In it, the movie An Affair to Remember appears in the background several times. So we figured, hey; why not watch that for Valentine’s day? So we did.

Show notes and links:

* An Affair to Remember (1957) (imdb.com)

It’s time for us to travel back to 1997 and see what all the fuss is about. The Teen Mystery Horror Thriller Genre-bender named I Know What You Did Last Summer is next on the Movieing On schedule!

Show notes and links:

* I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) (imdb.com)

We’d done far too many movies from the last two decades of the past century, so it was time to pay a visit to the 1950s and see if your mind can be changed by Juror #9, played by Henry Fonda.

Show notes and links:

* 12 Angry Men (1957) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* 12 Angry Men (TV Movie 1997) (imdb.com)

The 1997 version of the movie mentioned every so often during the episode.

It doesn’t take a real genius to understand the Value … eerhm … I can’t think of a good way to make a pun using Val Kilmer’s surname. I mean, “The value of killing mermaids” is the closest I get, but that doesn’t work, now, does it? Either way; good movie is good. Enjoy!

Show notes and links:

* How I helped inspire the lead female character. (slate.com)

Interesting article from Slate about how a real person served as the inspiration for Jordan, the movies’ lead female.

* Real Genius (Film) – TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)

* Real Genius – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

In this week’s episode, we take a look at an action thriller starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and the most hamfisted interpretation of the law we’ve seen in quite some time.

Show notes and links:

* Double Jeopardy (1999) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Double Jeopardy (Film) – TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)

* Double jeopardy – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Guilty as Sin (1993) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Malice (1993) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Final Analysis (1992) – IMDb (imdb.com)

I say this a lot, but … I can’t believe it’s taken us this long to get to this movie. I mean, okay, it’s not a great movie, sure, but it’s got that scene in it where he holds a boombox over his head, so that’s cool.

Show notes and links:

* Say Anything… (1989) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Say Anything… (Film) – TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)

* Flatiron Building – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Bob’s Java Jive – Tacoma, Washington (atlasobscura.com)