The Movies that Made Us

[Greg]

Dammit! I watched the first season of this show. There has to be a post around here somewhere. The first season did Home Alone, Die Hard, Dirty Dancing and Ghostbusters

But I have started the second season. Thank god they have a new narrator because the narrator from the first season was horrible.

Last night we went behind the scenes of Pretty Woman and Back to the Future.

I love Back to the Future. It rocked my world when I saw it. It's almost the perfect film. It was nice to see the film's gestation. Lots of talk about Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis. They showed a lot of clips of when Eric Stolz was the lead. I though he was only on for a week before they fired him. He was on for almost six weeks. He thought he was in a drama. I can also see why they didn't want Crispin Glover back for Back to the Future 2. 

Pretty Woman was all right. The only big reveal was Garry Marshall's method of making the film. No one in the cast believed there was going to be a film at the end of the day until it was a big hit.

[Greg]

Polished off the last two episodes of this series which covered Jurrassic Park and Forrest Gump. The best part about the Jurassic episode was interviewing the arrogant SOB who came up with the 3-D dinosaur animation. I knew so many people like him. All in all, a good episode. The Gump episode was good, too. There were lots of stories of the production crew going to war against the production company which is always entertaining.

The whole show is funny and does gives a deep dive into movie making.

[Greg]

More Episodes. I think they did it for Halloween since a lot of the episodes have a horror bent, ie Friday the 13th and Jaws. Last night I watched the episode about Halloween. The method of making the films is starting to wear on me. Too much jokey McJokeface. They don't interview Carpenter or Jamie Lee but they do have the original producer. There wasn't a lot of drama in the production. The producer needed money and his producing partner gave him money. They got a crew together and shot the film. Donald Pleasance was the only pain in the ass. He didn't want to be there. But I just heard an interview of him saying it was one of his favorite roles because he didn't have to play a crazy person in it. There was some good backstory on Carpetner's 2nd film, Assault on Precinct 13 which brought him to the eye of the producer. This episode wasn't as dishy as some of the other installments. I felt I knew a lot of the stuff going in. One more thing. They did show Jamie Lee on an episode of Columbo.