This came up while I was home for the holidays in December. Zorknapp came over to hang one night and some of you might not believe it (of me, at least), but we can just talk and talk and talk, and a good fun chunk of it has to do with what's entertaining us lately...
Somewhere between lamenting Fox's moronic treatment of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and my confession that I actually watch and enjoy PRISON BREAK, Zorky brought up the little gem of a scary-esque movie, LAKE PLACID (heh heh).
We both seem to recall it being a very fun link in something of a chain of odd beastie movies that came out one year. I think that BATS (which is "stab" backwards) and DEEP BLUE SEA (SUCH a crisp and fun bit of "B," w one of Samuel Jackson's greatest roles - the best of course being his bit on BOONDOCKS! =) were adjacent links in the chain. Zorky had said that he'd just watched it again, or maybe it was that he remembered the Defense of the Dark Arts instructor (from HARRY POTTER AND THE FOURTH THINGIE) as being the sheriff in PLACID...? I hadn't seen it since we saw it in the theater, but I remembered flashes of its goodness... that Defense of the Dark Arts guy was definitely the sheriff (frack, can't remember his name, and I *just* read about him in my H!ITG guidebook - frack!)... Bill Pullman as good guy park ranger type, Bridget Fonda as city girl fish out of water and cute grad student, Oliver Platt as world-famous croc worshipper, and Meredith Salenger as boobsy, Corey's dream girl.
Oh, and Bettie White in her greatest role ever! Kindly lakeside recluse and rancher's wife... with the mouth of a teamster - yow! Even if somehow you don't enjoy any other moments of the movie, it's worth it just to see Miss White cut loose in her scenes. =)
It also brought to mind perhaps my one and only perfect encapsulated review of a movie ever...
LAKE PLACID... You think it's a movie about a giant man-eating crocodile, but really, it's about small town life. See it. =)
Keep on keepin on~
1 comment:
I have to agree, Lake Placid is well worth watching. It really is more about the City/Country conflict than it is about a giant alligator.
But, I wouldn't have seen it except for the giant alligator.
It's also worth it for the part where a cow is dangled from a helicopter as "bait" for the alligator. It's hard to go wrong with a scene like that.
And, it did come up in conversation because of the Harry Potter/Lake Placid crossover.
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