We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
Whatever happened to the lovely Geena? In the late 1980s and early 1990s she was in prestige movies that were commercial and/or critical hits such as Beetlejuice, The Fly, Accidental Tourist, A League of their Own and perhaps the one that audiences will most remember her for Thelma and Louise.
However she’ll never dethrone Myrna as Cogerson Queen because in the past 17 years since 2002 Geena has had just 7 movies released. 4 of those have been in the past 6 years, two of which went straight to video with the other two collectively earning a derisory $2 million worldwide. She also released a documentary in 2018 of which she is executive producer and in which she plays herself. It explores sexism in the Hollywood film industry and runs for 97 mins. She has also appeared in 21 TV productions throughout her career and has released 8 music videos.
Top 11 films for POSTERS in my opinion (1) Me, Him Her (2) Stuart Ladd 2 (3) both for Earth Girls are Easy, the 1st one very raunchy (4) Hero (5) Quick Change (6) a leggy League of Their Own (7) Beetlejuice (8) The Fly (9) Tootsie (10) Accidents Happen and (11) Thelma & Louise
Top 10 STILLS are for my money (1) a very raunchy Transylvania 65000 (2) Both for Cutthroat Island (3) Speechless (4) Earth Girls are Easy (5) Stuart Ladd [one] (6) with Bill Murray (7) with Chevy (8) with Hanks (9) with William Hurt in my own fave Geena film The Accidental Tourist and (10) with Tootsie.
Debuting in 1982 Geena was too late for potential 1983 Love from The Master in his book and to date WH has shown scant interest in her so, as I’ve always liked her, it’s refreshing to see this video of yours appear and it is “Voted Up” with a 97.5% rating quality compensating for relatively low quantity. As the saying goes short but sweet. Overall Geena has 10 acting awards and 29 noms to her credit and she enjoys a reported net worth of $30 million.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Geena Davis video, appreciate the generous rating and info. Glad you enjoyed the picture gallery.
What did happen to all the screen sirens of the 80s and 90s? Many have faded away. Probably because there’s always a new kid on the block taking roles that would have gone to them.
Where will Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johannson be in 20 years time? Playing parents in sitcoms? While ageing male actors segue into playing the young hero’s wise mentor, or turn into lethal Vietnam War vets with ‘special skills’. 😉
Two of Geena’s films have scored 10 out of 10 – Tootsie and Thelma & Louise. There are no 9s, four more scored 8 – The Fly, Beetlejuice, The Accidental Tourist and A League of Their Own.
Geena on Thelma & Louise being considered a male-bashing movie – “Most guys don’t relate to the truck driver or the rapist, and if they do, their problems are bigger than this movie.”
Thanks for your usual thoughtful and comprehensive response. My perception has always been that in the 1930s the great female stars such as Garbo, Crawford, Shearer etc were more dominant than their male counterparts but that that all changed in the 1940s when Gable, Tracy, Cooper, Grant, Crosby and Hope etc came to the forefront. You had some mega female stars in the 1950s such as Doris, Deborah Kerr, Marilyn and Liz Taylor but the new wave of males such as Burt, Kirk, Rock, Newman and ole Mumbles usually more than held their own with their women counterparts.
I believe too that In the modern era since the 1980s and 1990s males such as Hanks, Cruise, Willis, Arnie, Denzel, Stallone, Mel Gibson etc have been far more dominant than the actresses and that there have been only a few of the latter such as Streisand, Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock, and for a short while Cameron Diaz who could “open” a movie with many of the rest being as much the product of hype and over-promotion than true stars.
Those that you name [Johansson, Portman and Lawrence] are in my opinion really “creatures” of these repetitive self-selling franchises that we get so many of nowadays and if you take away their franchises what are you left with? Jennifer for example has a combined total of three X Men and 4 Hunger Games and minus those films you are left with [per Work Horse] a total adjusted domestic gross of $545 million over 13 movies with an unimpressive average of about $42 million per movie. Globally Lawrence’s 13 non-franchise films average out at about 89 million in adjusted dollars according to WH’s comprehensive Lawrence page – ie her worldwide average for the 13 doesn’t even come near Bruce’s magical $100 million domestic yardstick for the most successful movies.
The short answer to your question is that W o C’s Curse of 39 will sadly get the whole lot all too soon.
Just added Steve’s Kim Basinger You Tube Video To This Page. My thoughts on Basinger and Steve’s video…which are found on his channel are listed below.
“Welcome back. Kim Basinger is a great way to start a new batch of movies. I have seen 27 of them movies. Favorites would include #2 Batman, #14 Blind Date…I thought she and Bruce Willis made a good screen couple. #20 The Marrying Man….I think it is pretty funny…though I know many feel it is one of the worst movies ever made. #30 Cool World….could have been better….but I liked the adult version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The ones I have not seen? Ready to Wear, Hard Country (the late JMV looks like a baby in one of the photos) and Fool For Love. I actually got a chance to met Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin. I was working at a grocery store in Wilmington, North Carolina when they knocked on the store’s doors (we had just closed)…and they we in desperate need of baby formula….so we let them in. Normally…we did not let people in….but if Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger show up….you open the door….lol. At the time, they were both still in love…and they made for a very nice family, and they were very appreciative that we helped them with the baby formula. Voted up and shared.”
Hi Bruce, 27 out of 30 is great, I’ve seen 17, Flora 4. Great story about Kim and Alec popping into your grocery store, if only you had a camera on hand. Nowadays everyone has a camera in their pocket wherever they go. I saw Ready to Wear aka Pret-A-Porter but didn’t like it much. Thanks for the comment, vote and share.
Best POSTERS in Basinger video (1) While She was Out (2) Bless the Child (3) Mother Lode (4) I Dreamed of Manchester (5) The Marrying Man – very raunchy (6) No Mercy (7) The Getaway (8) 9 and Half weeks – leaves little to the imagination! (9) foreign language one for Never Say Never – some filmographies don’t regard that as part of the official Bond franchise and apparently it was based on the Fleming novel Thunderball which of course was one of the early great successes under the official movie franchise
POSTERS continued. (10) both ones for The Nice Guys – bit of a contradiction associating Russell Crowe with that title! (11) an exceptionally raunchy 1st one for LA Confidential – you don’t really give us time to catch our breath, do you?! and (12) The Natural [ my favourite Redford movie and my fave Basinger one as well – “With or without the record books young boys everywhere will always remember Roy Hobbs”.]
Great STILLS (1) Cool World (2) McCoy (3) My Stepmother is a Hirschhorn – you clearly illustrate here why she was once nicknamed Kinky Kim (4) The Marrying Man (5) Grudge Match starring DeNiro and Methuselah Stallone (6) Nadine (7) two with Gere (8) Kim with the Bruce who has real talent – and hair! (9) with Douglas Junior (10) alluring as always in Cellular – I really liked that movie (11) 8 Mile (12) the two with The Joker and his nemeses – “I’ve found a name for my pain – it’s called Batman!”
Kim came on the scene too late for any potential Master Love and it appears she is yet too soon for any Work Horse attention so I welcome your tribute to her with a 98.5% rating. Some exceptionally magical stuff in this video as my comments above indicate. Some of the raunchy ones would never have gotten past the old Hays Office of the early Classic Era of movies!
Kim Basinger’s last two films 50 Shades Darker (2017) and 50 Shades Freed (2018) were box office hits but she was well down the cast lists of both of them and in fact in the 2018 one she was in the unrated version of the movie only and IMDB actually lists her role in it as uncredited.
Indeed in the 20 years between LA Confidential in 1997 and 2017’s Fifty Shades Darker Kim was in only one seriously commercial movie, 8 Mile (2002) in which she played the mother of the film’s star Eminem.
She made 18 other films in that period and collectively they collected just $370 million in adjusted US grosses, a paltry average of approx. 21 million per film over those 18 flicks. 3 of her last 5 movies went straight to video/DVD.
IMDB credits Kim with 14 acting awards and 24 nominations overall and she is said to have a net worth of $40 million.
Hi Bob, it’s the end of May, and long overdue too. Farage is celebrating today. The two top parties have taken a richly deserved pummeling.
Oh… nearly forgot, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, much appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the raunchy posters and naughty stills. There’s more to come.
Gorgeous Kim was one of the highlights of rogue Bond movie Never Say Never Again. I once had a ‘fan edit’ of that film rescored with composer John Barry’s Bond themes. It’s a good movie but lacking a Bondian music score.
Cellular’s a favorite of mine too. And Statham is the villain for once!
One film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources and that is LA Confidential, another favorite of mine. There are no 9s. Five films scored 8 out of 10 including Batman, The Natural, The Nice Guys and 8 Mile.
Kim on Sean Connery – “I fantasize about riding an Arabian horse bareback with him along a sandy beach. We fall naked to the ground and, as the horse wanders off along the water’s edge, we make passionate love in the moonlight. It always leaves me hot and bothered. I just love the man.”
“My favorite movie of anything I’ve done is 9½ Weeks (1986). I ran the gamut of emotions you could ever possibly do as an actress. It was like an exorcism for me. There was nothing I couldn’t do after I did Nine and a Half Weeks.”
“I love men. And I love sex. It’s very important to me–the romance part and everything else. You can have wild and nasty, wonderful, crazy sex, and you can be romantic too, all in one. You can have the whole package, man. You have have anything you want!”
HI STEVE Good feedback – much appreciated. Also you have given me some interesting quotes from Bawdy Basinger. However it strikes me as ironic how she can openly boast about loving sex and in effect wanting to go to bed with Sir Sean [thank goodness it wasn’t Statham she lusted after!]and yet not an eyebrow is raised; conversely the poor ole Mumbling King made Last Tango and many quarters pilloried him for it. Have times changed dramatically or is it just that our feminist fellow citizens now lord it over us in the way that some of our chauvinistic male brethren have disregarded women’s rights and liberties in the past?
Dan-like linking that question to your celebratory comments about Mother Theresa’s demise, some political writers are saying she was driven from office not because she had the wrong policies or was incompetent – but because she was a woman! Those journalists forget that Thatcher was of course female and she was returned in 3 general elections whereas Mother Theresa lost he majority in her one election.
But don’t celebrate the fall of Mrs “Strong and Stable” perhaps too prematurely. I am reminded of the nightly lengthy televised US Senate Watergate hearings that brought Richard Nixon down. A Yankee viewer who was glued to the hearings night after night because he hated the Tricky One and wanted to see poor Richard destroyed, later confessed to a journalist that now that Nixon was gone he, the Yankee viewer, had fallen into depression and his life was empty. It had been the chase that thrilled him the most and not the kill. He missed his old, crooked President! You too could yearn for the return of Mother T so that you could see her destroyed all over again so prepare for a little emptiness in your life for a while.
By the way – a favour to ask. The blue link that you kindly gave me on Peck’s page to your videos has now become well buried again and I’d be grateful if you could once more move it to the top of the Peck page. Continually having to dig it out does of course expend time that I could usefully employ on other things – for example writing more caustic comments about Hirsch! Many thanks. Take care.
Bob, your wish is my command, I’ve posted the links at Greg’s page.
I’ve already forgotten Mama T (oh Steve that’s cold) Boris Johnson is prone to buffoonery, he’ll be our new whipping boy. (if he gets to no.10 that is)
Who’s your pick – Esther McVeigh?
I don’t have a favorite. We might have some fun with Boris but will he take us out of Europe or try to compromise like May Day? I don’t think fed up Brits will ever vote for a female PM again, not in our lifetimes anyway.
But anything’s possible… Trump becoming President of the USA was surreal. In the Ukraine a TV comedian with no political experience has won that country’s presidential election, a landslide too! It’s a funny old world. 🙂
Hey Steve and Bob…..here in the states…we are experiencing a nice long three day holiday weekend….so it seems strange to read that Steve has a new video. Mainly because it feels like Sunday right now…versus the Monday it really is. About to go check out Steve’s Kim Basinger page….who will be getting an UMR page very soon. Good talk about Basinger, English politics, Gregory Peck and The Great Joel. Good stuff.
Added Steve’s Eli Wallach You Tube Video To This Page. Our thoughts on Wallach and Steve’s video…which are found on his channel are listed here as well.
I did not originally like Eli Wallach. I loved Good, Bad & Ugly but did not like his character at all. As I got older and understood more things, I began to realize that Eli actually steals the movie from Clint….and that I actually like when Tuco is on screen. I had hoped he would work until he was in his 100s….he got close…as he passed away at the age of 98…but really stopped working at 94. Playing the bad guy in Godfather 3 at the age of 75 was pretty impressive too. I have seen 18 of the movies listed. Including 15 of the Top 20. And 9 of the Top 10. Favorites include #12 MacKenna’s Gold…underrated western. #11 Cinderella Liberty…filmed in my neck of the woods. #7 How To Steal A Million….Hepburn and O’Toole made a great screen team and #25 Tough Guys….though a recent revisit downgraded the movie a little. Of course my favorite is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. That is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watch it on a regular basis. As for #5 The Misfits….a very famous movie with a Hall of Fame cast…that I did not like at all. Good video. Shared. Voted up. Enjoy your break.
Nice post Bruce thanks, appreciate the vote and share.
From the films you mention I haven’t seen Cinderella Liberty, and it’s been ages since I last watched Tough Guys. I want to give How to Steal a Million another spin. I agree Mackenna’s Gold is underrated, lots of fun, plenty of action and sounds great in stereo too!
Your tally 18, Flora 13 and mine 12. You win this round.