amazon has the naked tango, but I like VDO but not for $80 dollars.

Wonder why that one is so expensive. I checked out Thumbsucker and you can get it at Amazon for $2.99 used. The prices go up from there, but not very expensive.

Naked Tango is extremely hard to find and routinely goes for upwards of $150.00 on ebay. Not the best plot of any movie I've seen, but VDO is SUPER HOT in it.

*Thumbsucker* is on the Starz network if you have it.. guess it will be on this weekend...actually it's on right now!

*bug*

sorry to double post... and I know ya'll probably have already discussed this.. but I noticed the guy playing VDO's son was in an eppy of CI.. and he was fatherly to him in that episode too..

that's quite all right, bug. His name is Lou Pucci. He's a really good young actor. The ep he was in was "Cruise to Nowhere", season five, I believe.

Yes, bug, I had noticed that, too. Not knowing for sure what year Thumbsucker came out, if the eppy came afterwards I had wondered if VDO was especially fatherly toward him in LOCI because of the movie. Although I realize it would have been more up to the writers as to his response to him on the LOCI ep.
Lauren

The movie was made in 2005.. or maybe that's when it came out.. made earlier.. anyway.. it was marvelous!!
I watched because VDO was in it and I like seeing how he portrays different characters.. but I got so enthrawlled with all the characters!.. No villians here.. just people trying to get by...people thinking *what if* probably everyday.. and we see thier lives through the eyes of this teenager. I loved the realization at the end. All the actors we eccellent,, I especially like the scene in Justines bedroom when his dad came in actually looking for some solice as Justine had searched for the same from his dad.. I think that was the turning point in thier relationship. ( I wonder if his dad ever found out what he feared wasn't actually so?).. I like to think so... this was really a nice movie.

What I found interesting was how the mother worshiped this Actor played by benjamin pratt, how she wanted to meet him and how he turned out not to be so perfect. Didn't use a fork or something else to try to get drugs out his rectum? and ended up bleeding from the rectum. I don't recall, but she had to come in and save him.

yeah.. she yanked that sucker right outa there..I've worked ER before.. you wouldn't believe some of the things we had to remove..lol.. so that was totaly believable.

Nurse here, I know

I'm a retired OBGYN nurse for 23 years, what's ailing ya, Bug?

OMG.. retired OB/GYN here too! .. just helped out in ER..ok,, how wierd is this!

Ok.. to keep on topic.. if you hve cable or sat.. starz is free this weekend... so if you haven't seen Thumbsucker.. check it out.

Hmmm....wonder if that's just in AL. I'll have to check it out because I don't get starz. What night is it on?

well not sure.. i don't have a guide for starz.. but maybe can go online at thier website... I figure it may come on again later tonight.. surely sometime again this weekend.. you know how the movie channels run the same movie forever.

lol ob/gyn and peds here tooo, lol

must be D'Onofrio weekend on starz.. *Strange Days* is showing as well.

I love the his movie Happy Accidents
he was really good in it and amazingly gorgeous!

Great! I will! How weird?

Ok.. I just found out that Starz is only free this weekend if you are a *dishnetwork* customer..sorry.

Well, then, I guess that would explain why I can't find it anywhere! We have cable, which BTW, hubby is still trying to coodinate with the sound system, TV and all. I finally just left the house this morning and went scrapbook shopping. Came back; he's sitting there with 2 remotes in his hand; showed him my purchases and as he's pushing buttons is going "uh huh, uh huh". Gotta love the man.

Lauren

Thumbsucker is a pretty cool movie. Did anybody realize that the kid who played VDO's son in the movie was the kid from the "Cruise to Nowhere" episode?

Gosh, I hope so...

thats pretty funny, karr. poor dejablue (like your name), hope you dont take itpersonally,its helpful to me, because i hadnt seen the other posts and now i want to see thumbsucker and cruise to nowhere,which i have probably already seen, just dont remember,so i will look it up.

i was writing this (look down) on the off topic thread because lauren was talking about his movies,then decided i would put it here instead.

to laurengoren:

also, happy accedents is a really good one to see, laurengoren (i just like typing your name out because i like it. that was a complement) i think that movie is very creative in the way of the filming. this is kind of sad, but i watched the whole commentary thing, and apparently they did all the filming by hand/shoulder.

i also watched steal this movie, and loved it. vincent is truely a great character actor. whole wide world is good too, its really interesting because he acts very similar to the old goren, with his hand movements and spurts of energy. so, those two, i think you and everyone alive should see.

i believe those are all the vincent movies ive seen, wait no, i saw advenntures in babysitting, and laughed my butt off. he was only in like a five minute scene, but oh my god, it was great. you should see that. i watched the whole movie though, also just slightly sad, but less so because it was an okay movie. you really should watch that, its so funny.

I really wasn't sure where else to post this .. but i just watched *Rich in Love*.. if any of you are familar with it you know it stars a very young Kathryn Erbe. filmed in 1992 and It is delightful.. she is surrounded by such notable actors as Albert Finney, Afre Woodard, Jill Claybourn and others but she is definitly the star. It's set in the south.. and let me tell you.. I cringe!! at movies set in the south because I know I am gonna hear some horrindous southern accents.. and .. I was not wrong this time either.. except.. Kate's was pretty darn close.. the most believable of all.. but the movie is terrific.. if you get a chance.. you gotta give it a look.


*bug*

Watch in Cruise to Nowhere when Goren reprimands Lou Pucci's character for biting his nails - funny inside joke!

Yes, whitecat, a real double-take moment.

Welcome to the CI board, we hope to hear more from you.

My fave movies are Mystic Pizza The Newton Boys but the other ones i have seen Full Metal Jacket, The Cell, Strange Days Men in Black The Salton Sea are all different in their own ways i must say i was a bit disturbed when i saw The Cell and Strange Days of the role he was playing.
But on that note it shows how much a talented actor he is of doing all these films and how much characteristic he puts into them

On which Thread this belongs, I don\'t know; but, this seemed the most logical.

I thought you may be interested. Until now, I have seen VDO\'s height listed as 6\'3\", 6\'4\", or 6\'5\" (depending on who and where I looked). VDO is quoted below as saying it is 6\'4\".



Thursday, August 30, 2001

<H1 class=title>D\'Onofrio\'s Happy Outlook </H1>by

Is actor Vincent D\'Onofrio bitter that his new romantic indie Happy Accidents — featuring his turn as Marisa Tomei\'s unsettlingly quirky suitor — only just hit theaters after sitting on the shelf for a year? Hmm... could be!

\"If I say what accounts for the delay in the film\'s release, then I\'ll get in trouble,\" he explains mysteriously. \"A big company [expletive] us.\"

Truth be told, D\'Onofrio doesn\'t really concern himself with such extraneous details. In fact, unlike many of his peers, the star of such varied fare as The Cell and Steal This Movie doesn\'t even give much thought to what impact his choice of projects will have on his career. \"Obviously I haven\'t set out to be a superstar,\" laughs the actor, who stars in NBC\'s Law & Order: Criminal Intent this fall. \"I do things for the sake of doing them. But I make really good money!\"

While most of his cash comes from brief but scene-stealing roles — like his incognito alien in Men in Black — the Brooklyn native still credits his success to director Stanley Kubrick, who gave him his big break as \"Gomer Pyle\" in Full Metal Jacket.

\"I was so lucky to get Full Metal Jacket and have my whole character-acting career set up like that,\" he says. \"Let\'s face it, I\'m a 220 lb., six-foot-four Italian guy. I barely get away with what I do now!\"

If you watch The Whole Wide World with the comments 'on' you can hear him describe himself as 6'4".

If you haven't seen this movie please do! I watched the first time with the comments off and then (several times) with them on, and then off, and then on, etc (you get it!). This is a reallllllly gooooood movie!!!!

My all time favorite!

Whitecat...please go to the old movie of the month thread for the whole wide world and add your comments...I'd love to know your thoughts!

Here's a link, so you don't have to wade through months of topics!

The Whole Wide World Discussion Thread

Happy Accidents was such a cute movie, and one of the first VDO flix I'd seen in which his character didn't croak.

My fav VDO acting stint outside of LOCI has to be in Homicide:Life on the Street, the "Subway" ep. I know it's not a movie per se, but he was SO good in it. I cried the first time I watched it.

I thought he was gonna be this sympathetic character right off the bat, and instead he's snarky.

VDO really deserved the Emmy nom he got for that ep, imho.


spookycc

Good news for those with access....

The very difficult to obtain, Household Saints will be airing on the Sundance Channel September 29 at 10pm eastern time.

Thanks, kar.

Just have to say I'm the proud new owner of Pelham 1-2-3 and The Player!

Congratulations! Good finds.

as much as I love VDO I must say the original Pelham 1-2-3 was better. I have someone sending me a copy of The Naked Tango, just charging me for the postage and DVD that she made the copy, can't wait to see it.

I remember the original and it was good. Can't wait to see the remake.

I thought Tango was horrible. IMO, turn down the volume and just watch VDO.

Not a great film, agreed...worth it for VDO...he is SMOKIN' hot in this one.

He's definitely off the charts in that one! That's why I want to see Pelham. From the pics I've seen, I don't care how good the movie is!

Aw...how I missed talking about all of this....

I know this is going a back a few pages, but to anyone new around here who is looking for VDO movies, I have almost all of them on DVD. I am willing to copy any of them and send them for cost of postage and blank DVD to anyone who's interested. Ask anyone on here, I was like a movie sending maniac last spring (well, we kind of all were)!

I'll have to update my list on the Trading Post thread for you guys, but just pm me if you are interested. Even the not-so-good movies are well worth it most of the time!! And I don't care what GF says, Naked Tango is TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!! SOOO HOT!

Welcome home, cali-ooops! And I didn't say he wasn't at his hottest in it, just that the movie sucked!

But, GF, from the sound of the movie title, (I've never seen it, myself) I think it'd be worth it, even if there was no plot line.... LOL.

-BF-

Hey. Too young, BF, too young. Haven't seen it either, but in your words "from the sound of the movie title", you are too young. Hear me?!!!! Listen to your older brother. LOL

Andy

The movie would have been better if it had no plot! It was very weird and the only good thing about it, IMHO, was VDO. He danced throughout the entire movie. He walked doing the tango, he fought, doing the tango. I just know if there was any other actor in it, I'd be hysterical laughing throughout (or for as long as I could watch it)!

VDO dancing.. fighting .. naked.. (please tell me he's naked.. I'm gonna be so put out if he isn't).. sounds .. interesting

HAHAHAHA Oh my goodness, When I think of VDO dancing, I think of all the clips I've seen of him running! LOL. Hopefully he's a better dancer than runner!

-BF-

If anyone else is like me and can't sleep (well I hope no one is Like me cause I gotta a flippin virus!) anway.. if you can't sleep for any reason .. *The Cell* is coming on at 1:05 tonight, and yes that would be in the *a.m.*.. on this here USA.

*bug*

Hey. Mom, you are embarrassing me. If you don't stop this, I'm telling dad.

Andy

You've seen him dance in a few eps of CI. He's a much more graceful dancer than runner. Thank goodness!

I don't remember any VDO nudity in Tango....but that's okay, it would be superfluous anyway...He's so hot in this movie, if he were naked we'd probably all spontaneously burst into flames!

Wear your asbestos jammies for this one, bug.