So My Lovely Wife and I are having breakfast and she’s got the box on, and that Meg Ryan movie When A Man Loves A Woman is playing on Oxygen, and, heartless smart-alecks that we are, we’re making fun of it. Like so:
Meg Ryan (to Andy Garcia): I don’t know…
Me: …if I can have sex with you sober.
MLW: …usually I could just lie back and close my eyes and pretend you were someone else, but now I’m not sure…
But we’re really not sure we can take it, so MLW calls up the cable guide. “Look,” she says. “We can toggle between Meg Ryan in this AND Kate and Leopold on A&E.”
That was funny. In mere seconds, it got a lot less funny.
“Holy shit, Sleepless in Seattle is starting on TBS in five minutes!.…and Courage Under Fire is on HBO Signature…followed by…I.Q.!!!”
Run, people. I tell you: run.
That’s some cold shit. Funny, but cold.
You might want to check VH1-Classic to see if they’re showing that 30-imnute version of The Doors. And I’m sure ActionMAX will be showing Top Gun sometime this weekend.
All you need to do is wait for HBO-Family to air the underrated Innerspace. (Joe Dante Rules! Just ask Rosenbaum.)
I only wish someone would start showing D.O.A. again. It had a great noir-ish poster and Quaid gave a terrific performance. I remember thinking it worked better as a whole than Polanski’s Frantic, which only had a great first half.
Ha. The Hackman-Caine Theory from PCU is replaced.
Innerspace. One of the most fun times I’ve ever had at the flicks.
Happy days.
(Weeps for lost childhood)
Just wait till a year from now, when there’ll be twenty Ben Kingsley movies clogging up your cable schedule!
@ cadavra
There already are. I think he’s been in at least ten movies in the last five years, probably more like twelve.
Hey, there were five just this summer: ELEGY, TRANSSIBERIAN, THE WACKNESS, WAR INC. and (gasp, choke) THE LOVE GURU.
And that was from a time when Ryan was still supposedly considered an actress of note. Wait till you start getting the truly sub-par Ryan films!
(over here in Britain our TV schedulers knew what to do with Against The Ropes – they premiered it at at 3.15 a.m. on a Wednesday morning with a superimposed person in one corner providing signing for the deaf!)
@ colinr
So the British hate the deaf and want them to suffer?
Hey, we’re an equal opportunity society where suffering is concerned! 😀
Well, I liked: Joe Versus the Volcano, When Harry Met Sally, Prelude To a Kiss, French Kiss and City of Angels. I saw the trailer for The Women and I will probably end up seeing it even though its seems like it has no substance. I still want to give Meg a chance. She used to be naturally pretty. What did she do to her face? She does not look like she used to. I used to enjoy her even if I did not like the movie. She had an interesting face and gait.