The Editors speak

[mmcirvin]

The Editors of The Poor Man have delved once again into movie criticism, and provide the following priceless comment about the Neil Simon movie Biloxi Blues:

There's a point - for me it's the scene where fresh-faced recruit Matthew Broderick blushingly loses his virginity to a hooker with a heart of gold, but your results may vary - when I realized that I might as well just go play My Little Ponys as watch this movie about military recruits in 1940's Mississippi. Could Matthew Broderick - already adorned that dewy whatsits granted to aspiring teen-age writers in movies - be any more blushingly innocent? Could the hooker's heart be made any more completely out of gold? I want to have this scene made into a hand-painted commemorative plate so I can put it in my grandmother's china cabinet, right between Liberace and Princess Di. I want the Franklin Mint to issue a set of ceramic figurines in honor of this scene so I can arrange them next to the unicorns in my glass menagerie. I'll stop now.

This is after I confessed that I had liked it when it came out. (Though, come to think of it, I remember almost nothing about it now except that Christopher Walken was pretty good in it. Actually, a lot of movies are like that.)

Comments

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Biloxi Blues is probably the 'Empire Records' of boot camp. It's what everyone hopes boot camp/record store employment will be like but when you get there, it's really a haven of crap and more crap.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I remember almost nothing about it now except that Christopher Walken was pretty good in it.

That could be said of SO many movies. He is one of the best actors ever. Even in really fun romantic comedies in which everyone is funny, like Blast From the Past, he somehow still stands out as the funniest. OK, maybe Dave Foley was almost as funny in that one.