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I recently bought Pennies from Heaven, The Man With Two Brains, and Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid in my local videostores insane "get rid of everything good we have" sale.
I dont know how this place is managing to stay affloat. In the last year I reckon they've emptied 70% of their shelf space (everything that wasnt on dvd or in the foreign section which people probably dont even ever look at let alone rent from). That's a lot of space to fill, even if they intend to go the Blockbuster route (as I speculate) and fill it with many copies of a few bad movies.
Speaking of bad I picked up some 20 movies from them the other day for 10 bucks. Mostly crap like Cool as Ice (the vanilla ice movie), Breakin' (an 80s break dancing movie), and Thrashin' (an 80s skateboarding movie with the same plot as Breakin'), but some okay looking ones in there as well, like Romeo is Bleeding and The Underneath.
EDIT oops, better write some more about Steve Martin in this post. EDIT
I'd seen The Man With Two Brains and Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid when I was a kid so was glad to get to see them again. Man With Two Brains didnt really click with me at first but on reflection I think I'm liking it more. The bouncing glass gag was classic as well as the eloping with a brain story. Never seen Pennies before so am looking forward to watching it for the first time.
Bowfinger had a similar effect on me when I saw it a few months ago. Watching it a lot of the humor seemed too dumb or obvious or something but the more time goes by, the more I think about it and realize I'm remembering it farely fondly. Maybe that's how Steve Martin's humor works. Dumb when you watch it, funny when you think about it.
Last edited by linespalsy; 09-05-04 at 04:23 AM.