Friends slow down, they even stop

[usmc0331horn 934]

Cool is adorable! Adorable! Why didn't you write us you when had a son?

[Herpa Derpa 6102]

Well, I thought someone in this house ought to be having sex. I mean with something that doesn't require batteries.

[Teebox 89]

Big opportunity....huge

[BigDHornfan 6515]

What’s that?

An electric ear cleaner.

It was kind of big!

It sure was!

[YGIFS 19447]

You must be very proud. 

[henrygandorf 29169]

42 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

You must be very proud.  how proud you must be.

gil, you have a good memory, was it yours or helen's or susan's wedding i got drunk at?

it was all 3 dad, congratulations.

well which one did i punch the band leader?

that was mine. we have photos. i'm having them blown up for the commitment hearings.

[UTGrad98 2256]

My God Susan you look great. If you weren't my sister

[NWBuck 8536]

<squeaky noises and chaos>

"Your lower intestines!"

 

(still the way I make balloon animals).

[66BUFF 2543]

[mdleast 8238]

Show him, honey.

[YGIFS 19447]

Wow, think about that cast.  Reeves' launchpad role, same for Joaquin Phoenix.  Peak Rick Moranis.  The great Jason Robards.  Arguably Dianne Wiest's best film role (next to "The Birdcage").  Peak Mary Steenburgen.  Fresh off awards season Tom Hulce.  And of course, the wonderful Steve Martin.  6 Oscar nominees in a film that also catapulted Ron Howard's directing career into another atmosphere, so to speak.

 

[BigDHornfan 6515]

When you're sliding into third and you lay a juicy turd, diarrhea!! 

[David Dennison 18488]

19 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Wow, think about that cast.  Reeves' launchpad role, same for Joaquin Phoenix.  Peak Rick Moranis.  The great Jason Robards.  Arguably Dianne Wiest's best film role (next to "The Birdcage").  Peak Mary Steenburgen.  Fresh off awards season Tom Hulce.  And of course, the wonderful Steve Martin.  6 Oscar nominees in a film that also catapulted Ron Howard's directing career into another atmosphere, so to speak.

 

[henrygandorf 29169]

i saw him the other day...

what a loser, huh?

...in a rolls.

yeah, i meant me.

 

peak lowell ganz and babaloo mandel.  in the late 90's when i was an intern, an executive told me every comedy script that got made for a decade spent some time with the two of them.

[YGIFS 19447]

Well, yes.  Obviously "Bill & Ted" put him on the map, but that was a cartoonish role.  He actually showed a lot of heart and potential in "Parenthood."  I think it's the movie, save for some action roles, that truly showed he was capable of actual theatrical range.  

I think I've told this story before but for most of my childhood, people (strangers and friends alike) would often tell my father that he reminded them of Steve Martin.  They both looked alike and had a similar sense of dry humor.  Now that I am almost 51% grey/white and funny about once a month, I get it a few times as well (but honestly my dad was a dead ringer for Steve, me?  not so much, got too much Mexican blood).  And "Parenthood" was a favorite movie of Dad and me.  And now, as a father myself, I watch that scene at the baseball field between Jason Robards and Steve Martin and his "fatherly advice" on how parenting never ends and I think to my deceased dad in Steve's role and how I didn't live to see him in Jason's role dispensing parental advice.  And I'm not crying, you're crying.  

[Nole-4-Life 800]

Great film. The hospital scene at the end with the rollercoaster effect always sorta tears me up. 

I'd keep knocking Mary Steenburgen up too.

Also, Rick Moranis' wife was too hot for him.

[usmc0331horn 934]

37 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

Great film. The hospital scene at the end with the rollercoaster effect always sorta tears me up. 

I'd keep knocking Mary Steenburgen up too.

Also, Rick Moranis' wife was too hot for him.

She's a teacher and he's a professor. They all mostly look like this couple dynamic.

[usmc0331horn 934]

2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Wow, think about that cast.  Reeves' launchpad role, same for Joaquin Phoenix.  Peak Rick Moranis.  The great Jason Robards.  Arguably Dianne Wiest's best film role (next to "The Birdcage").  Peak Mary Steenburgen.  Fresh off awards season Tom Hulce.  And of course, the wonderful Steve Martin.  6 Oscar nominees in a film that also catapulted Ron Howard's directing career into another atmosphere, so to speak.

 

Not to mention Clint Howard is even perfect in the role of the overbearing little league parent. "HE HAD NO BUSINESS BEING OUT THERE!! NO BUSINESS!!!

[Hank Kingsley 20599]

That's a parent? 

[South Austin 51976]

Really one of the best quotes about parenthood:

”There is no end zone. You never cross the goal line, spike the ball and do your touchdown dance. Never.”

[horngrad03 1147]

"Pretend you're a caveman.....or your father."

[billfromlaketravis 11330]

Joaquin Phoenix carrying around a brown paper bag full of porn is very on brand. 

Edited July 5 by billfromlaketravis

[YGIFS 19447]

Wife took the little one into pediatric care today for a multi-day high fever.  Half the kinds in our neighborhood and her camps have something.  She’s doing better, thank the Lord.  
 

But I think back that scene when Robards talks to Martin about him scaring the hell out of him because he was worried his son had polio.  And Martin says “yeah, mom said something about it once.”   And I remember thinking “how the hell does fucking polio only come up one time in what would have been the 40’s/50’s?”  
 

then you have kids.  And it’s RSV or hand/mouth and strep and Covid and MRSA and the thing after that.  And the next thing.  Granted polio was much rougher than those, but it’s just a series of worries and infections and picking at scabs.  You really never do get to the end zone and spike the football.  That never happens.  They were right.  It never ends.  But yet we perpetuate as a species just the same 

and what do we say when a cute girl walks by?  Hubba Hubba. 

[billfromlaketravis 11330]

So Larry gets killed by the mob and nobody cares? Just a weird and unnecessary story line. 
 

With Larry it’s a multi-season dramedy.

Without Larry, it’s a 2 hour comedy. 

It has to be one or the other. 
 

 

Edited July 6 by billfromlaketravis

[YGIFS 19447]

We don't know that he gets killed.  I always assumed it was another scam he pulled on his family to get some quick cash and he just ends up in another country running confidence schemes.  The brilliance of his dynamic with Robard's Dad character was they both knew the scam and went along with it anyway.  Contemporary America in a nutshell.  

[billfromlaketravis 11330]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

We don't know that he gets killed.  I always assumed it was another scam he pulled on his family to get some quick cash and he just ends up in another country running confidence schemes.  The brilliance of his dynamic with Robard's Dad character was they both knew the scam and went along with it anyway.  Contemporary America in a nutshell.  

Maybe? It’s pretty clear that Bobard didn’t give him the $26k. He agrees to give him some moving around money for Peru, and that’s it. Bobard tells Cool he’ll never see his father again. And that’s that. 
 

I’m probably pointing out the wrong thing. It’s a nice little movie about the perfect imperfections of life. Grandma’s rollercoaster analogy was a great scene. 

Edited July 6 by billfromlaketravis

[futureman 22384]

On 5/7/2024 at 9:50 AM, YGIFS said:

 Peak Rick Moranis.  

umm, sir.

[usmc0331horn 934]

16 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Maybe? It’s pretty clear that Bobard didn’t give him the $26k. He agrees to give him some moving around money for Peru, and that’s it. Bobard tells Cool he’ll never see his father again. And that’s that. 
 

I’m probably pointing out the wrong thing. It’s a nice little movie about the perfect imperfections of life. Grandma’s rollercoaster analogy was a great scene. 

Larry obviously used his dad to get the mobsters off his back so he could then plan his escape to another country where he'd just run another scam. Larry is just being used as an example as the fucked up kid in the Robard's family that has always been bailed out and favored by his father. He dumped Cool off knowing they'd take care of him so he can be on his way to his next scam adventure.

[YGIFS 19447]

18 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Maybe? It’s pretty clear that Bobard didn’t give him the $26k. He agrees to give him some moving around money for Peru, and that’s it. Bobard tells Cool he’ll never see his father again. And that’s that. 
 

I’m probably pointing out the wrong thing. It’s a nice little movie about the perfect imperfections of life. Grandma’s rollercoaster analogy was a great scene. 

What was her helium quote, “when I was a little girl your age, Grover Cleveland was President?”  
 

And people need to give it more credit.  It started that conservation on cards deal to express your feelings like 30 years before the internet went viral on it.