Silent Burbs

It constantly amazes and delights me that many people have not seen the movie The 'burbs, since that means I have the chance to introduce them to it. Featuring Carrie Fisher and Corey Feldman, two Preserve favorites, it's almost a sure winner.

Another character which was a favorite of mine is the suburban para-military neighbor, played by Bruce Dern. I'd never made an effort to see him in other movies, though I understand he was the go-to for the role of the 'heavy' for years, even being one of the few villains to have killed John Wayne (in The Cowboys, 1972).

Someplace on line recently, I believe in connection with Joel of MST3K fame, I was pointed to another 1972 movie featuring Dern, by the name of Silent Running. So far it looks pretty awesome, I am 15 minutes in and felt I had to write about it! It may seem a slight connection, but such are the things that exciting times are made of, and the more slight the connection the even more precious it becomes!

As a teaser about how awesome this movie looks - they're in a space station, with a bunch of robots, and this was one of the first lines:
"You know, he told me a whole story this morning, about how they're going to re-foliate the Earth...again."

Here is an idea for a movie event - a series of movies which all culminate in actors from the previous movies being together in the final film. For Example:

• Carrie Fisher: Star Wars
• Corey Feldman: Goonies
• Tom Hanks: Mazes and Monsters
• Bruce Dern: Silent Running
• Final movie: The 'burbs!

Posted by charlie on November 17th 2007
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