I’m going to see the ‘X-Files movie’ soon, and my genial co-host and I discuss it in our ‘Preview’ section of this week’s episode - due out on Friday; we mostly devote out time to exploring the notion that ‘The Dark Knight’ is one of the most politically interesting mainstream films ever made; personally I feel it should be re-titled ‘George W Bush’s Retirement Tribute Video’. The Maestro wasn’t a fan of the ‘X-Files’ movie; which leads me to guess that I won’t be either - but I’ll keep an open mind. And, as is often the case with these things, it just makes me want to watch my other favourite alien/conspiracy/mystery movies; the list starts with ‘Close Encounters’, ‘Vertigo’, and ‘The Parallax View’, and expands to include ‘The Game’ and ‘Les Diaboliques’, along with a healthy dose of alien-human musical comedy in what I consider to be one of the most undervalued ‘movie movies’ of the 1980s - Frank Oz’s perfect ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the best film you could imagine starring Rick Moranis, Bill Murray, Steve Martin and a man-eating plant. (I’m sure it eats women too, but I don’t recall any being fed to it in the picture.)
Tune in from Friday for Chapter 30 of the conversation that never ends!
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+ interesting technical note re: 'Little Shop of Horrors' = they found when looking at the 'dailies' that the plant wasn't animated enough - so they shot the film with the actors miming to slower versions of the songs then sped the footage up!
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it's been a few years since i've seen 'little shop' but, i thought audrey II tried to eat audrey at one point! ;)
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The musical, I believe, has a more gruesome ending, where all the characters are eaten by the plant.
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