Funny, It Doesn't Look Cubish: the Goldie Hawn Thread

I watched There's a Girl in My Soup the other night. I probably saw it three or four times on TV in the mid-'70s. It's kind of terrible. But I had a crush on Goldie Hawn, and still do. I'll give it a 5.5 when I list it on the last-x-movies thread, and all the points will be for the three times Goldie giggles.

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A function of my age (36), I suppose, but the films I most readily associate her with are Housesitter and Death Becomes Her (both 1992). Loved both at the time, and last time I checked in (still probably 10+ years ago), they hold up.

If memory serves, I like her two films with Chevy Chase, too.

I figured that if anybody posted in this thread, it would be about her early- and mid-'80s films, Protocol and all that. Except for Swing Shift, I haven't seen those movies--haven't seen hardly anything after Foul Play. I most associate her with Butterflies Are Free and There's a Girl in My Soup. I saw Cactus Flower long, long ago and remember nothing--I'd like to see that again. She's great in The Sugarland Express.

I'm not sure how as a life-long Houstonian I'd managed to not see The Sugarland Express before (it had to have been on late night tv sometime), but I found a used copy yesterday and screened last night. Fantastic, although due to my heritage the hash they make of local geography is pretty distracting. YMMV. I liked how unapologetically white trash Hawn's character was without developing into a cartoon. The 360 shot inside the moving stolen car when Ben Johnson is talking to them from his car was jaw-dropping (and apparently the first of its kind?).

One of my favourite shots ever:

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I think it offends some people if you say you think The Sugarland Express and Jaws are much better films than Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List (not to mention the dreary Munich).

I sometimes think Spielberg peaked with Sugarland Express.

"think" less

clemenza you really know absolutely nothing about cinema, your posts are dreary.

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Grissom/Old Lunch: I'd link to it if I could, but Kael's review of The Sugarland Express in Reeling is one of the three or four best in her greatest book. She realizes right away how great Spielberg is in a way that I bet almost no one else did at the time. And it's one of those reviews where her style is perfectly in sync with the film she's writing about.

I watched Private Benjamin for the first time a week or so ago and meant to seek out this thread. Very funny and actually sweet, even if the third act drags (most reviews I've read echo this). The suggestion, without a hint of scorn or ridicule, that Eileen Brennan's character is bisexual feels astonishingly progressive; I'm not even sure that a film from 2018 would permit such a non-binary portrayal without making much of the focus of the film/character specifically about that character's bisexuality. A far better mainstream feminist comedy than the same year's overrated 9 To 5, I say.

For someone who started this thread, I don't think I've seen any of her big commercial hits after Foul Play (which played where I was an usher at the time). I know I'd enjoy Goldie at the very least.

If you actually polled her films, I assume Shampoo would win. I must have started this thread with a Photobucket image--can't remember what it was.

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I mistakenly bought Deceived on a Pal disc last year, but I had to buy an external DVD drive last week for something, and in conjunction with VLC software I was able to watch it. Not a bad build up, but ends with a long chase scene and some atypical histrionics from John Heard. Mediocre, Goldie good as always.

Watching Cactus Flower for the first time. Funny: a swinging hot spot in 1969 that fills the dance floor with muzaky covers of "To Sir with Love" and "I'm a Believer."

(I post above that I saw it long ago...I really don't think that's right.)

I must have started this thread with a Photobucket image--can't remember what it was.

IIRC, it was a still of Hawn and Peter Sellers from There's A Girl In My Soup.

Publicity still, but good enough.

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Dr Morbius sure was salty in this thread ten years ago.

I saw Protocol when I was 16. All I remember from it is Goldie has to get something surgically extracted from her butt. Now I wonder if the title was a pun on proctology.

I noticed...Munich currently sits at 3,198th on the TSPDT list, The Sugarland Express at 3,487th; clearly I was way off there.

I never saw Munich but I think Sugarland Express is kind of a flawed curiosity, so I guess I kind of agree with what Morbius was implying.

I just love it--I view it like Mean Streets, this mercurial talent just exploding on the spot.

Just rewatched Sugarland Express after reading John Bleasdale's new Terrence Malick bio - Kael's pan of Badlands in comparison to Sugarland features prominently & reminded me I hadnt seen it in decades. It remains a blast and Goldie is fantastic in it, still super underrated imho. I would also take it over Private Ryan or Schindler 10 times out of 10

I dunno, there were a lot of films about driving across the US and uncovering what a bunch of kooks Americans were in this time frame. Imo Badlands is the better film, but there are others in the genre.

Sugarland's got some problems, but Hawn ain't one of them.

It would be hard to find two American films released in the same year that are basically about the same thing--road films about outlaw couples on the run--but are made with such different sensibilities than The Sugarland Express and Badlands. (You could throw in Thieves Like Us, too--also '74--somewhere in the middle.)

Guessing that Cactus Flower felt dated in 1969, let alone today--the kind of leering studio comedy that the Altmans and Coppolas set out to bury. (Of course they didn't.) Goldie's great, and Ingrid Bergman does well in a terrible role (watching her frug and pony is surreal). Bizarre that Walter Matthau was momentarily thought of as a desirable romantic lead. A few atmospheric record-store scenes, with numerous famous album covers visible in the background. I give it a 6.0, so for those not smitten with Goldie, it's about a 4.0.

Wildcats was her best

At the time I thought she was a delight in Everybody Says I Love You or at least Woody Allen wrote her a good role.