Written by Dan
For testing purposes, our projector installer, Lanny, gave me an old film that was gathering dust in his garage. "You can keep it," he told me. And so, ladies and jelly spoons, I give you the film that christened the Moxie's porthole:
Shining Through, starring the indomitable team of Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith... and Liam Neeson. Unfortunately, Liam's not on any of the reels we have, so I'm not sure if he's really in the movie.
"Ed Leland is an American spymaster who needs to spy on a high level German Army officer during World War II. Because of her pastry-baking skills, he decides to send in his secretary, Linda Voss. For this part, the producers bravely (if stupidly) cast Melanie Griffith."
Spy-baking. Mmhmm...
¤ Posted on September 6, 2005 @ 10:40 pm
She has the same last name as I used to have!
¤ Posted on September 6, 2005 @ 10:41 pm
haha. what an appropriate title. but you know what we REALLY want to know. the one thing you will not tell us: the opening night feature! when do you think you will be announcing what movie will be showing?
¤ Posted on September 6, 2005 @ 10:58 pm
youre not going to make anyone else watch that .. are you?
... err i mean.. im sure it has its good points.... *cough* credits *cough*
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 1:30 am
yes. i have the same question as mr. caleb...
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 6:51 am
I put that on my netflix queue because her last name is Voss.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 7:29 am
You might want to take it off...although we only saw it for about 30 minutes and without sound, so who am I to judge?
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 8:08 am
Hey, I REMEMBER this one! My mom rented it one night; I must have been pretty young...Even then I remember thinking: "That girl's voice is really squeaky and she seems awfully miscast. I think I may go play Excite Bike."
But I will watch anything set around 40's era Nazi-spy-intrigue type stuff. Anything. No matter the level of crappy.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 8:29 am
Did anybody else laugh at the phrase "christened the Moxie's porthole"? Anybody? Anybody?
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 8:46 am
If you take into account that I don't care for either Griffith or Douglas...I didn't totally hate this movie.
Then again, I'm not sure I could watch it again, either!
You're better off waiting for the not-yet made/released 'The Good German'; much better material and cast.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 9:32 am
Solo dos semanas! Ayeeee!
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 11:26 am
Actually, it wasn't THAT bad, The film is based on a true story.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 5:51 pm
The only bad part is the Griffith is supposed to speak convincing lower-class German. But she can't. At all. And it just makes you groan. Yes, I've watched the whole movie... (sigh) there goes my indy cool cred.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 8:10 pm
That was my favorite movie for years! Besides the whole moving being fabulous, I love the part near the end where they're watching "Tristan und Isolde" and Liam takes her hand -- brilliant! Meanwhile, the book is even more superb -- it covers (generally) the same story but at a different time, mostly pre-what the movie covers. Really well written and an easy read.
¤ Posted on September 7, 2005 @ 9:27 pm