Willow re-visited.

[layne67]

It was fun, watching the movie Willow again. I remember watching it seven times at the theaters and I remember my ( short-lived ) crush on Val Kilmer. I mean, Madmartigan! Who wouldn't fall in love with him?



Awww, baby Elora, who wouldn't fall in love with her? I certainly did.


And I only just knew that Warwick Davies was Griphook / Flitwick in Harry Potter!

Next in line : Sherlock Holmes ( *must* watch that before the second movie comes out ), Children of Men and Rebecca ( finally managed to get that ).

Comments

[chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com]

I had a crush on Madmartigan, too!

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm with you on the (rather brief) Val Kilmer crush phase.

I haven't seen the first Sherlock Holmes movie either, but I'll probably get around to it. I did get a DVD of Rebecca, but it was from Korea, I think. I turned the captions off, which helped, but it was a used copy and it froze up at least five times. In very important scenes, of course. I had to keep turning the DVD player on and off, trying to get the picture to move forward, so I kept missing bits and pieces. Still, I liked it overall. (Notice how I'm avoiding giving away spoilers!)

[ckll.livejournal.com]

You remind me a movie i really liked back in the days.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Never heard of Willow. By the way have you seen Top Secret? Kilmer was hilarious there! :D

[katikat.livejournal.com]

You must watch Sherlock Holmes, it's awesome! Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are perfect together - well, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are THE Sherlock and John for me, but Downey Jr. and Law are my second favorite Sherlockian couple.

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Wait. You... HAVEN'T seen Sherlock Holmes yet? *brain short circuits* Can't. Compute.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oh that baby was just adorable!

I remember loving Willow back then, too!

[tigriswolf]

Dude, Rebecca scared the crap out of me when I was little.

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

AND he played Wicket in Return of the Jedi! :D I loved Willow as a kid. :)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Oh, he was beautiful as Mad Martigan.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The Han Solo of that world!!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I think I went off him some time after Batman. I still liked him in The Ghost and the Darkness though. Have you seen that one? One of my favourite movies!

I turned the captions off

They're good for some laughs though :DD

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I LOVELOVELOVE that movie!!!!! And thank goodness after all these years, I still find it good. You know how sometimes after a lapse of many years, movies that you thought was good before sometimes will seem cheesy now? Willow ( and Madmartigan ) still rocks my world :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I was 19 I think, when the movie came out. You must have been still in school then.

No, I haven't seen Top Secret. But if he was as hilarious as he was in Willow, than it must have been a wonderful movie!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I know, I MUST watch it!! Esp now that I'm really keen to watch the second movie :)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Hubby has seen it and he said he fall asleep halfway. But I didn't put much stock in that since he's the "bang bang shoot 'em dead" kind of guy ( his movie taste I mean lol ). Then BBC!Sherlock came and I supposed I'm a bit reluctant to see someone else as Sherlock but see it I must because I heard that the second movie is going to be even better!

Btw, my subtitles are sorted out now. Thank youuuu!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Willow gave us much to squee about yeah? But back then, the word "squee" wasn't in my vocab yet lol.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The book was very haunting so I'm very curious as to how Hitchcock translated all that into a movie.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

That movie must have been about 20 years ago I think? My, how the time flew!!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

He was, he was!! And hilarious!!!! And the two tiny brownies made me think of Merry and Pippin lol.

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

The subtitles worked? Yay!

Also, Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock is BADASS. Seriously.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

I just looked up the movie and it really doesn't seem like my cup of tea, but I'll think about it.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

Butting in here to add my rec of Top Secret, and also Real Genius. Top Secret is a spoof of spy movies, and Val gets to do some singing and dancing. It's a must-see! Real Genius is also hilarious, with Val as a brilliant college student who causes all kinds of trouble. It's been a while since I've seen these, but I've seen them both multiple times.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

It was very well done, and I'm hoping I can find a better copy so the suspense isn't constantly interrupted with DVD problems. I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure how faithful an adaptation it was, but it's very compelling.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Val Kilmer and Michael Douglad were stalked by two ( gay hehe ) lions when they were in Africa. It was a chilling and creepy movie, how the lions were able to "think". If I'm not mistaken, the movie was based on a true story.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

Yes, from what I read, it was based on a true story, and it wasn't just the two lions, but a succession of lions, I guess, that had been stalking and killing hundreds of people, over decades. I guess there was some kind of supernatural element to the movie. Maybe I'll give it a try.