tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post770494434378555040..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: May/December Yet AgainSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-20694810438026423402015-12-09T12:43:31.658-06:002015-12-09T12:43:31.658-06:00Emily is an interesting movie not just for Garner&...Emily is an interesting movie not just for Garner's enterprising performance and some of the observations it makes but also because coming as it did between Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music it provides Julie Andrews with a less sanguine role than was her lot once Maria typed her into the Little Mary Sunshine roles that defined her screen persona for years. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-70964899094444988532015-12-09T12:28:28.153-06:002015-12-09T12:28:28.153-06:00I'm a child of the '70s and '80s, so m...I'm a child of the '70s and '80s, so my first thought of James Garner is always as Jim Rockford, a guy who was cool enough to have an answering machine before most of us really knew what it was.<br /><br />He had a very rare quality, one that I think is shared by Tom Hanks and a few other people. He's almost impossible to dislike when the camera is on him. <br /><br />I should track down <i>The Americanization of Emily</i> some day. I've had it mentioned to me more than once--it's on my "to watch" Letterboxd list.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-48828602709446170282015-12-09T12:01:19.145-06:002015-12-09T12:01:19.145-06:00I think sweet is the perfect word for this. Everyo...I think sweet is the perfect word for this. Everyone, Garner, Sally Field even supposed monkey wrench Brian Kerwin, are just so darn likable that it's hard to feel there is any great tension in Sally's decision other than Kerwin's immaturity making him a challenge to live with. Pleasant would also work as a description. I'd never made the connection between Sally's hairdo and Kristy McNichol but you're so right! I'm sure that wasn't the intention.<br /><br />As far as Garner playing a flat out villain I'm not familiar with any movies where he went to that extreme but he did make some interesting films in his early days where he was at least at times shady. Skin Game, The Americanization of Emily and the very odd Mr. Buddwing (that has an amazing supporting cast of actresses-Suzanne Pleshette, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury and Katharine Ross) where he plays an amnesiac who some of the people whose path he crosses tell him he was a bastard previously all are characters where he isn't necessarily ol' amiable Jim the entire running length. <br /><br />Despite his rather extensive list of film projects I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't think of him first and foremost as a television star. For me the first thing that pops into my head is the series of Polaroid commercials that he did for years with Mariette Hartley that were always so fun.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-12096700726661662142015-12-09T10:52:56.849-06:002015-12-09T10:52:56.849-06:00I've seen Barbarians at the Gate, and the Garn...I've seen <i>Barbarians at the Gate</i>, and the Garner character comes across frequently as misunderstood in the media. The people around him are much more conniving and evil than he is. He is, more or less, a lovable rogue in that, too.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-88302572425063076582015-12-09T10:40:07.103-06:002015-12-09T10:40:07.103-06:00This is another one I saw a long time ago and have...This is another one I saw a long time ago and have never seen since. For whatever reason I remember the scene where she tries to put up her ad in his window an he objects because "you're covering up my causes." I generally remember liking it. I don't have a problem with age differences in movies, in either gender combination. Sally Field played Tom Hanks' lover in one movie then his mother in the next.<br /><br />You asked about movies where Garner is a villain and the first thing that popped into my head was Barbarians at the Gate - an HBO movie about the hostile takeover of R.J. Reynolds. But then you went on to say something where he isn't a lovable rogue. I'm not sure he's lovable, but he's definitely not a moustache twirling bad guy. And the movie's got enough laughs in it to possibly make it a comedy/drama. Garner plays the CEO of the company, who gets in on competing for the buyout.<br /><br />And I can't remember if he was good or bad in Twilight (no, not the one with the sparkly vampires; the one with the topless Reese Witherspoon.) His part might have been smallish in that one, anyway. It's much more a Paul Newman movie.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-13544212700514677362015-12-09T09:26:07.407-06:002015-12-09T09:26:07.407-06:00I'd love to see a Ladyhawke redone with a soun...I'd love to see a <i>Ladyhawke</i> redone with a soundtrack that doesn't make me cringe, because I absolutely love everything else about it.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85650561258133156772015-12-09T00:13:26.441-06:002015-12-09T00:13:26.441-06:00Wouldn't it be nice to have "Ladyhawke&qu...Wouldn't it be nice to have "Ladyhawke" re-scored by Don Davis, the guy who did the Matrix films?<br /><br />And yeah: who can possibly hate James Garner?Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com