{"id":2735,"date":"2009-07-17T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2009-07-17T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:50:37","slug":"joe-vs-the-volcano-1990-john-patrick-shanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2735","title":{"rendered":"Joe vs. the Volcano (1990, John Patrick Shanley)"},"content":{"rendered":"

July is “Movies I Rented & Copied But Never Watched” Month. I figure there are about 75 of those, and tragically only 31 days in the month.<\/p>\n

Dan Hedaya + prosthetic arm:<\/em>
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Rented this for our Florida trip. Made it halfway through with Katy but she didn’t seem interested in the second half. I gotta agree that for a cult comedy it’s awfully slow and talky, and the second half is slower if anything, but I still think it’s great. A crazy movie. There are big, loud, blues-song music-video segments, a slow two-minute pull-away shot of Tom leaving the doctor’s office and petting a dog, a puppet of a hammerhead shark, and Meg Ryan in three roles, two of which are impersonations. I’d at least admire the movie for all that even if I didn’t find it hilarious and wonderful.<\/p>\n

In Ossie Davis’s follow-up to Do The Right Thing<\/a><\/em>, the movie that took on Driving Miss Daisy’s<\/em> view of race in America, he plays chauffeur to a white man.<\/p>\n

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Abe Vigoda plays the village leader like the Three Stooges in tribal makeup:<\/p>\n

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The great Robert Stack (House of Bamboo<\/em>, Written on the Wind<\/a><\/em>) is the doctor who gives Tom his fatal “brain cloud” diagnosis:<\/p>\n

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The great Lloyd Bridges is the rich man who pulls the strings, including Stack’s:<\/p>\n

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Meg Ryan is kinda awful as Hanks’ coworker at the rectal probe and artificial testicles factory with a Little Shop of Horrors<\/a><\/em> New York accent, and worse as Lloyd Bridges’ daughter, doing an over-the-top Katharine Hepburn impression, but she’s kinda good as that girl’s un-accented half-sister who captains the boat to the island.<\/p>\n

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July is “Movies I Rented & Copied But Never Watched” Month. I figure there are about 75 of those, and tragically only 31 days in the month. Dan Hedaya + prosthetic arm: Rented this for our Florida trip. Made it halfway through with Katy but she didn’t seem interested in the second half. I gotta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,725],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}