DramaGuyCJM
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Post by DramaGuyCJM on Apr 6, 2008 23:32:35 GMT -5
Never seen "Big", believe it or not. I do plan on getting around to it though.
Here's some free Tom Hanks advice, don't bother searching for the 1982 made-for-TV movie "Mazes and Monsters". It is garbage! I saw it on I think a channel I think was called "chiller" or something to that effect. LOUSY!
...and yet, I picked up a copy on DVD for $4 a couple weeks ago when I saw it at the store I work at. What can I say, I have a weakness for bad movies. Curse you MST3K for making me the man I am today.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on Apr 6, 2008 23:40:06 GMT -5
Thanks to Big I learned that you can go from living in a sleazy hotel and having a dead end job to living the high life and being at the top of a huge corporation in the manner of weeks just by having no real job skills and acting like a kid. In a movie wherein a 12-year-old boy becomes a 35-year-old man overnight because he wished for it on a coin-operated fortune teller, some suspension of disbelief may be required. And yeah, it was a good movie which I probably haven't seen in a decade. That needs to be rectified.
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Post by Rocky Van Heineken on Apr 7, 2008 0:55:52 GMT -5
I read about the alternate ending-Sounded great-can't believe it didn't test well. Anyone got the special edition dvd? Whats on it? The alternative ending is just a new girl coming into class that resembles Elizabeth Perkins. She takes Josh up on his offer to go back with him.
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Goldenbane
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Post by Goldenbane on Apr 7, 2008 2:39:12 GMT -5
Great movie. I've always wondered though what happened to his red head friend. That kid shows up in Terminator 2 but I never saw him after that. To bad because he had the look of a new Danny Bonaduce. Come to think of that might not be a good thing. But seriously anyone what happened to that guy? Jared Rushton According to imdb he was not in Terminator 2. The only two things of note he did post Big was 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids' and 'Pet Sematary II' (In which his head explodes near the end). Really? I thought that was the same kid who was in Salute your Shorts and all those Nick shows?
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Apr 7, 2008 8:16:12 GMT -5
I love this flick to death. This is how you do a film about a kid trapped in an adult's body the right way, unlike in the super knockoff 13 Going On 30. Tom Hanks is just awesome. I'd pay money to sit in the theater and watch the guy read the phonebook for 2 hours.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Apr 7, 2008 9:36:23 GMT -5
Awesome film. Just so fantastically put together
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Post by big nasty on Apr 7, 2008 9:43:27 GMT -5
liked it at the time, unfortunately everyone and there mother had to learn to duet n the piano like they do in the toy store. possibly the most annoying fad in my little town, ever.
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Post by T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens on Apr 7, 2008 10:18:35 GMT -5
Tom Hanks is just awesome. I'd pay money to sit in the theater and watch the guy read the phonebook for 2 hours. Interestingly the guy that beat him for the Oscar that year (Dustin Hoffman in Rainman) basically did just that. I just watched a Family Ties last night with Tom Hanks as the alcoholic Uncle Ned. I remember being surpised watching that as a kid because funny Tom Hanks was so heartbreakingly sad in this pretty serious part. That guy was always good.
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TuneinTokyo
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Apr 7, 2008 20:51:13 GMT -5
Big was great.
Another lost Hanks film that is the Man with One Red Shoe. it was on HBO one summer and I watched it like 50 times.
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TuneinTokyo
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Apr 7, 2008 20:53:20 GMT -5
Tom Hanks is just awesome. I'd pay money to sit in the theater and watch the guy read the phonebook for 2 hours. Interestingly the guy that beat him for the Oscar that year (Dustin Hoffman in Rainman) basically did just that. I just watched a Family Ties last night with Tom Hanks as the alcoholic Uncle Ned. I remember being surpised watching that as a kid because funny Tom Hanks was so heartbreakingly sad in this pretty serious part. That guy was always good. How about Hanks as a judo bully on Happy Days... And of the course the greatest sit-com of 1982. The show that introduced me to billy Joel
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Post by Paul Servo on Apr 7, 2008 21:35:08 GMT -5
When this film came out it was immediately compared to LIKE FATHER LIKE SON (with Dudley Moore and a pre-"you're going to Hell" Kirk Cameron) and VISE VERSA with Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage because of the child thrown into a man's body plot. While I thought Reinhold did that aspect best out of three, I prefered LIKE FATHER LIKE SON best overall (Cameron did the dad trying to be cool trapped in a "cool" teenager's body greatly). I liked BIG and would watch it once and a while, it just didn't thrill me as it did most Thanks to Big I learned that you can go from living in a sleazy hotel and having a dead end job to living the high life and being at the top of a huge corporation in the manner of weeks just by having no real job skills and acting like a kid. That was sort of my problem. He does mature at the end and starts acting like an adult. That seemed to make it loose some of it's charm. Now that original ending, I would have liked to have seen. Woudl have been happy on all accounts. He gets back with his mom and he gets the woman he fell in love with. Interesting fun fact about David Moscow, the kid that played young Tom Hanks in this film. He later went on to co-star in a show called LIVING DOLLS with was a short lived spin-off of WHO'S THE BOSS which starred Leah Remini and introduced the world to Halle Berry
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Apr 7, 2008 23:53:41 GMT -5
"I got it, that's the guy from Big. Tom Hanks, that's it. Funny guy, everything he says is a stitch."
"I have AIDS."
"Bahahahaha!!!!"
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