AndyDursin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:58 pm Her sexuality should've been part of her appeal, like it was for a time. There's nothing wrong with that either -- or there shouldn't have been. I mean, I get that she was seemingly uncomfortable becoming a "bombshell" but she could have interestingly bridged her looks with a smart selection of roles that played off it. There's even a moment in THIS movie (when she's rocking on the horse) where she's doing just that, playing off her looks to trick the crooks. Alas, all we got was this, THE HOT SPOT and a couple of other movies before that was it, before she started downplaying it and then making cosmetic adjustments to off-set it.

Dark City was our last glimpse of Prime Jen. After she played a gaunt junkie in Requiem For A Dream, she sadly kept that look for the last 20+ years. Granted, the last two decades have gradually neutered sexuality in cinema across the board, so it's not just Connelly who has leaned away from presenting herself as a desirable object. Think of all the lecherous heavy breathing Scarlett Johansson elicited from male moviegoers when she first broke out in the mid-00s, but can you think of the last time she played up her looks? Don Jon was eight years ago, and that was the last time a movie really gratuitously leered at her. I totally get how "wrong" these attitudes are towards women (Sexist! Male Gaze...!), but it's depressing, considering the era we grew up in, to realize that the vast majority of adolecent boys growing up these days seemingly have zero interest in nudity and sex, mainly because the movies refuse to serve it up to them anymore. The days of the Big Sex Scene are long past, and even the superhero cinema doesn't objectify its female characters anymore. The title character of Captain Marvel may as well been played by a man for all of the femininity on display in Brie Larson's affectless performance. What, there's no room for a woman who's a good role model for little girls and sexy as hell?

Agreed. It's too bad, but Connelly clearly didn't like how she was sold in CAREER OPPORTUNITIES and people lusting after her, and then decided to be a "serious actress" (whatever that really means these days). At least one of the anecdotes in the commentary here touches upon it, how one of her professors at Yale mentioned the standee that had her on it in the theater. I guess it made her ashamed that it "wasn't her" but that, regrettably, was an error. But you're also right -- had she been around in a different era, her career would've been very different.

Such a weird movie. Lots of deleted lines and scenes in the trailer that aren't in the movie. It was also shot in late 1989, but didn't get released until March '91, by which point Hughes had reshot parts of it. In the end he didn't like the movie and wanted his name taken off it, especially after HOME ALONE -- which was shot afterwards but released prior -- became such a big hit. I didn't realize he was also having so many issues with Universal at that point too, which precluded the sequel from UNCLE BUCK ever happening (he was furious over the short-lived, high-profile TV spin-off which had nothing to do with him also).

The score in the movie is absolutely wretched. The noise that accompanies the Mulroney brothers has to be the worst s---t Newman ever composed.

I just saw this...hilarious it's called KEVIN'S COUSIN ALONE IN THE SUPERMARKET in Germany!!



https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/movie/detail/- ... m/11832559

Supposedly this sold so well Kino's giving it a 4K release.

Wonder why...

Dude, a 4K upgrade for THIS...yes. Absolutely.