The Making of The Making of...

Some genius somewhere decided that there weren't enough flicks about Hitchcock...and then decided that two flick should come out at the same time.

Saw them both...liked one better than the other, hands down...and of course, it lead to THIS discussion:

So what if a movie was made about the making of "The Shining"? 

Oh shit...

And who would play who? 

We're glad you asked.

Stanley Kubrick:  Dominic Cooper

Stephen King:  Nicholas Hoult

Jack Nicholson:  Christian Slater

Shelley Duvall:  Rebecca Hall

Scatman Crothers:  Mario Van Peebles

Joe Turkel (Lloyd The Bartender): Burn Gorman or Joseph Gordon Levitt Or James Franco (ok now we're just having too much fun)

and so on and so forth for the rest of the cast because the film would really be focusing on Kubrick's day to day dealings with the cast...and who are the actual cast members he would dealing with the most?  So there you have it...your cinematic earwig for the rest of whatever.  Oh wait... now imagine if it was written by Aaron Sorkin... And now you want to watch it!!

DREAM CAST: Buckaroo Banzai ...

If you read that going , "Whaaaa??!?!" 

Step into my office and let me introduce to a world that my pop walked me into without knowing it...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension is a great flick.

It's got everything!!!  Action, drama, love, science, fantasy, CHEESE!!  LOTS of cheese...  especially the red framed glasses that the studio didn't want Peter Weller to sport in the THREE whole scenes he has them on... fantastic!

We had this on during dinner a few nights ago and it came up that this movie was WAY ahead of it's time and we were almost GLAD that it didn't catch on when it did, so it could be a nice little cult classic for us to geek out over and not everyone knows the "secret handshake" about this great little flick.

BUT, the other edge of the sword is that it's great... it really is!  And I would like to spread the greatness to share with everyone!  And I want to say to someone I barely know, "Didn't you just LOVE the bubblewrap glasses?  And the Rasta Alien good guys?"  and they can say "YES!!" instead a mouth agape look of shock and confusion...  that would be nice too...

In conversing about how we sort of wish they would remake this, and not screw it up, we started to say, "In a perfect world..." and all that... so then ... Dream Casting Buckaroo Banzai jumped off the session...

Buckaroo Banzai:  Brandon Routh

Dr. Lizardo:  John Turturro

Perfect Tommy:  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Rawhide:  Jacob Pitts

Penny Priddy:  Brie Larson

New Jersey:  Justin Long

John Bigboote:  Jemaine Clement

the rest of them can pretty much be figured out during general casting, but these were our musts and thought they would really make the remake if ever anyone decided to tackle such a thing :)