I hope hes a good guy. He is one of my favorites but I’m a bit hesitant to be a huge fan because I can picture him being a real jerk.
I’ve had that problem with a lot of actors lately. You can only get burned so many times before you just give up on fandom in general
I’m more a fan of his banjo playing than his acting and comedy, but I agree he’s underrated. The only Steve Martin movie I really enjoy is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Maybe pieces of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
I really enjoyed his part in The Muppet Movie (1979), but that was barely an early-era guest part.
Ummmm… Little Shop of Horrors?
Nahhhhhhhhh.
The only musical I adore is Chicago.
A soft place in my heart for Hamilton but only when watching it with friends.
Oh snap, we dont disagree on a lot but Little Shop is superb
Also, Chicago is incredible so I feel ya, fam
Yeah, it’s a goofy, fun movie along the lines of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or A Fish Called Wanda.
Not sure if serious… Lol.
Actually though I think he’s a decent guy. If I remember right he was known for a while as a regular in the $4/$8 LHE game at the Snoqualmie Casino outside Seattle.
Holy shit really? Snoqualmie was my home casino. Any idea when?
Well, I was playing at Snoqualmie a fair amount when I first got into poker around 2010 or so. That’s when I heard players talking about him, although I never saw him myself.
Of course, another bit of local lore is/was that Bill Gates would play small-stakes LHE at times and I never saw him either, so who knows.
That wouldnt surprise me. He has an amazing place on the east side of Lake Washington so that’s probably the best card room option for him when hes there.
Looks like the Steve Martin thing would have been before my time
Ha that Peggy Sue trailer is indeed terrible.
My favorite trailer is the one you don’t expect. Obviously this cannot work here, but in the theater between two ipad commercials that was amazing. Probably the only time I later went to see a movie purely on the fact that the trailer earned it.
That whole series is goofy fun
L.A. Story confirmed very good.
Another good, overlooked Steve Martin movie is The Spanish Prisoner. Not a comedy, written and directed by David Mamet.
It‘s basically Car Chase Scene - The Movie. Any high octane action scene can only be so long before I get numb to it and bored. It‘s not keeping me at the edge of my seat and that‘s why Fury Road wasn’t for me.
Me, too. I like to know as little possible including not even knowing the genre. This was the case for me when I watched Room (the Brie Larson one):
super mild spoilers
The movie starts and I wonder why is she in that room? What‘s outside? Nuclear fallout? Alien invasion? Zombies? Then it dawned on me. That‘s a cool experience all by itself.
You might enjoy this book 
“Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film, Above haunts as it illuminates. Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times” (Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe).
Above is a riveting tale of resilience in which “stunning” (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. Like the bestselling authors of Room and The Lovely Bones before her, Morley explores the unthinkable with haunting detail and tenderly depicts our boundless capacity for hope.
Kidnapped on her way home from a summer festival in her corn-country hamlet of Eudora, Kansas, 16-year-old Blythe Hallowell spends the next two decades of her life in an abandoned Cold War-era missile silo, dozens of feet underground. Her abductor, high-school librarian Dobbs Hordin, is a “conspiracy theory du jour” survivalist who has chosen Blythe to play Eve to his Adam when the apocalypse comes. Having outfitted the silo with all the building blocks for a new civilization, Blythe and Dobbs are left to play a deadly and protracted waiting game as one scenario for annihilation after another fails to occur. And then one day, well into middle age and accompanied by the teenage son she bore while in captivity, Blythe manages to escape her insane captor’s grasp, only to discover the awful truth waiting for her in the life she left behind.
It ain’t even that I think Little Shop is less than suberb, it’s just not to my taste.
Chicago is that rare musical I can watch endlessly live or as the movie. The rest of the time I’d rather be listening to a recording of the songs without all of the other stuff.
I found Room on Kanopy and added it to my list. Thanks for the pointer!
Speaking of Brie Larson, have you seen Free Fire? The setup is a bit of a gimmick, but it’s pretty hilarious if you’re in the right mood.
No, haven’t heard of it and will check it out when I get the chance.
