My Left Footloose

You'll See A Woman Dressed Just Like You: Green Scales. Wings. Sunglasses.

New York cabbie Pete Robbins (Michael Sarrazin) shares a house with invisible dragon Elliott (voice of Barbra Streisand). Acting on a tip from another driver, Pete decides to invest in pork bellies, but needs $3000. Elliott decides to get the money by dealing with various disreputable characters: loan sharks, cattle rustlers, and Pete's abusive adoptive parents

For Pete's Dragon's Sake

Cheat sheet For Pete's Sake | Pete's Dragon

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Turning In Her Ovaries For A Bunch Of Balloons | You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious

The Invisible Dragon Sure Sounds Like James Bond

Dennis Quaid stars as Pete, a disillusioned ex-knight fleeing the evil King Terminus (Jim Dale), accompanied by his invisible green dragon companion, Elliott (voiced by Sean Connery). But the past is not so easily evaded, as an old act of loyalty draws Pete and Elliott back to the kingdom of Passamaquaddy to right a great wrong and free the people they had turned their backs on.

Pete’s Dragonheart

Cheat sheet Pete’s Dragon | Dragonheart

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Luck Dragon Tails | Second Star to the Right, Then Straight On ‘Til You See the Big Goat Guy

It’s a very cheesy movie, but I like Dragonheart. Here’s a fan-made trailer that I think captures some of the best elements of the movie.

An Extraordinary Young Man at a Crossroad in His Life. Also, a Dragon.

Master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) and the unacknowledged love of his life, Yu Shu Lien (Helen Reddy) search for the thief of the Green Destiny Sword – actually a disguised cartoon dragon named Elliot – tracking it to Pasamaquaddy, Maine. There, they find it in the possession of a young man named Pete (Zhang Zhiyi), who uses his extraordinary martial arts abilities and Elliot’s fiery breath to fight off the evil duo of Dr. Terminus (Jim Dale) and the Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-Pei) while saving a ship in a terrible storm and taking part in extravagant musical numbers.

Crouching Tiger, Pete’s Dragon

Cheat sheet Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Pete’s Dragon

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through the Tang Dynasty, son. | Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh, my what a crapulent day!

And if you think that’s a strange mix, check this out.

In the Dark Ages, Dragons Were Cartoons

Apprentice wizard Pete (Peter MacNicol) is sent by his master to slay a dragon to stop its terrible practice of demanding virgin sacrifices. When he meets the dragon, however, the two form a friendship that allows them to stand against the mundane oppression of the outside world. And then the dragon has to go and kill the princess, ruining everything.

Pete’s Dragonslayer

Cheat sheet Pete’s Dragon | Dragonslayer

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These No One Understands Him But His… Prince? | I Rolled 2D6 With Some Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti

Aside from the title, this little clip really has nothing to do with either movie. But the guy shoots of a home-made bazooka – how cool is that?

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No. Really. Get Me to the Church on Time. I’m Not Kidding.

To win a bet, the Bishop of Aquila (Rex Harrison) undertakes to transform a common woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) into a noble hawk and a gallant swordsman (Rutger Hauer) into a vicious wolf. Young thief Philippe The Mouse (Matthew Broderick) works with a retired Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) to undo the transformation before the Bishop can present the pair at the Embassy Ball. Features such famous Lerner and Lowe musical numbers as “Wouldn’t It Be Wolverly” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Beak.”

My Fair Ladyhawke

Cheat sheet My Fair Lady | Ladyhawke

Contributor Rick
Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Friend-friend, or euphemism-friend? | I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No

The wonderfully fun first meeting between Philippe and Navarre in Ladyhawke. I love this movie.

Dark Secrets Revealed About One of the Greatest Love Stories Never Told

Miss Beatrix Potter is a young woman whose mother has forbidden her to enter the local school of sorcery. However, the temptation is too much. She applies, is accepted, and attends the school where she learns all about wishing and mycology. When an amorous changeling half-rabbit/half-man named Harry begins chasing her about campus, Miss Potter uses all of her powerful education to transform herself into a scarecrow and frighten him away.

Miss Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Cheat sheet Miss Potter | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Editor Miss Spell

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Won't you come with me, little girl, on a magic carpet ride? | Leapin' Lepus!

Not all imaginary giant rabbits are our friends.

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Where There Is No Intelligence, There Is Epic Fantasy (Or, Don't Bug Me, I'm a King)

[We briefly considered doing a Thursday Three-Way of bug movies in June. ("June Bugs." Get it?) In the intro, Phil would have said something to the effect that his anal obsessive-compulsive precocious freak-nerd nine-year old self would have impatiently pointed out that "June Bug" is incorrect nomenclature. They are, in fact, May Beetles. But nearly forty years later, mellowed by good food, better beer, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, Phil is now prepared to accept the popular sobriquet. And besides, it's a B-52s song. As a farewell to June and its bugs, here is one spectacular bug-movie mash-up from Phil.]

To save them from the Blitz, the four Pevensie children are sent to the countryside to stay with their uncle, eccentric entomologist Dr. Nils Hellstrom. There they travel through a mystic portal to a strange realm where insects rule. With Tilda Swinton as the evil sorceress Thysania, James McAvoy as Mr. Attagenus, and Liam Neeson as the voice of the messianic Myrmeleo.

The Hellstrom Chronicles of Narnia: The Antlion, The Witch Moth, and the Wardrobe Beetle

Cheat sheet The Hellstrom Chronicle | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Lion Thing | Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

When I was nine years old my mother took me to see this movie, resulting in nearly four decades of screaming nightmares. Thanks, Mom.

Meat Your Maker

Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser) is a Silvertongue, gifted with the mystic ability to summon characters out of books. Unfortunately, he has been reading a muckraking expose of the corporate food industry (written by Michael Pollan, natch) and has therefore unleashed a horrorshow of industrial meat production, petroleum-based fertilizer, and environmentally-unsustainable vegetable harvesting. Can Mo send these nightmares back into the book, restore the world to an organic free-range Utopia, and rescue his wife (Sienna Guillory) from a non-Temple-Grandin-designed beef slaughterhouse before she is clubbed to death? Featuring Andy Serkis as Michael Pollan and Paul Bettany as The Force-Raised Chicken.

Food, Inkheart

Cheat sheet Food, Inc | Inkheart

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These My Precious! | The Dangers of Meatpacking

The documentary Food, Inc, released in Canada last September, comes to the U.S. today.

In Space, There Can Be Only One

A police marshall (Sean Connery), working for a mining colony on Jupiter's moon Io, discovers that an organized crime ring smuggling a drug called "Quickening" is run by a brutal immortal warrior from the Russian steppes (Clancy Brown). In a surprise plot twist, the marshall is revealed to be another immortal, originally from ancient Egypt, and he recruits and trains a third (!) immortal warrior (Christopher Lambert), who is from the highlands of Scotland, to battle the drug kingpin. Much violence and explosive decompression ensues.

Outlander

Cheat sheet Outland | Highlander

Contributor christo4o
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These There Can Be Only One (Way to Organize My Record Collection)! | Fire All Your Guns And Explode Into Space

Won't You Come With Me, Little Girl, on a Magic Carpet Ride?

Harry Potter (Jim Breuer) discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half Baked Prince" and teaches his friends Ron (Harland Williams) and Hermione (Guillermo Diaz) a few long-hidden secrets of herbology (ahem). When Ron is sent to Azkaban for accidentally killing Professor McGonagall's diabetic hippogriff with food he purchased on a munchie run, his friends set up an illegal herb racket with wizard-rapper Sir Smokes-a-lot (Dave Chappelle) to bail him out. Magical hijinks ensue.

Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Prince 

Cheat sheet Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Half Baked

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Editor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Avada Kedavra! | Do You Feel Lucky, Dad? Well, Do You?

Today is the birthday of prolific My Left Footloose contributor The Procrastinator (Squeal Like a Pig!, Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.) and we thought we'd celebrate by messing with her favorite actor, Alan Rickman. A gift? This delicious clip of Alan singing... just for you. Happy Birthday!

If that made you cry, buck up with John Sessions' excellent Alan Rickman impression in this excerpt from British panel show QI. Stick around 'til the end for why Rickman actually sounds the way he does.

Oompah, Loompah, Doopedee Dale, We Work for a Chocolatier Whale…

A poor young man named Jesse (Jason James Richter) works to free candy-making whale Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) from captivity in a chocolate river. Memorable mainly for Willy’s madcap dialogue and the scene where he rides a glass elevator over the head of Jesse, as he the boy stands on a fudge embankment.

Free Willy Wonka From the Chocolate Factory

Cheat sheet Free Willy | Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These The CIA’s Got a Golden Ticket | Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

We always knew Wonka was just a little bit more sinister than portrayed in the movie...

An arm, clad in tight, gleaming spandex, reached from the water…

In war-torn dark ages England, King Arthur (Nigel Terry) rises to power, bolstered by his round table of mutants and the enigmatic wizard Xavier (Patrick Stewart, who also plays Leondegrance, Arthur’s father-in-law). The glory that is Camelot’s School for the Gifted is short-lived, however, as the rivalry between Lancelot (Nicholas Clay) and Wolverine for the love of Queen Guinevere (Famke Janssen) tears the round table apart, leaving them vulnerable to Arthur’s illegitimate son, Magneto (Ian McKellan).

X-Calibur

Cheat sheet X-Men | Excalibur

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Evolution, Revolution – What’s the Diff? | Things That Go SNIKKKT! in the Night

A very impressive recut of the Excalibur trailer. Nice work, guys!

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Why? WHY?!?!?

Wanderer and Vietnam war veteran John “Lancelot” Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) runs afoul of King Arthur (Sean Connery) in a small town in the kingdom of Camelot, resulting in a chase through the woods. Seeking revenge, Lancelot sneaks back into town wearing a mask and wreaks havoc at the prom attended by King Arthur’s young queen, Guinevere (Jamie Lee Curtis). Falling in love with Guinevere, Lancelot surrenders to the officials and destroys Camelot by seducing its queen.

First Bloody Prom Knight

Cheat sheet First Blood | First Knight | Prom Night

Contributor Rick
Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Do We Get To Win This Time, Jiminy Cricket? | Why Ain’t You Dead?

Is First Knight the greatest movie ever made? You be the judge!

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Lion Thing

Based on the post-apocalyptic children's novel by CS Lewis. In the year 2707, Thomas Jane leads a campaign of orphaned children through a mystical piece of furniture to Narnia, which has been destroyed by a war among four corporations and devastated by a mutant menace (Tilda Swinton) which threatens to kill all remaining human life.

The Mutant Chronicles of Narnia 

Cheat sheet Mutant Chronicles | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Contributor Jane 
Editor Jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Aslan's Not a Zombie, No Matter How Many Times He Comes Back to Life | This Thing Called Love

The screening of Mutant Chronicles at ComiCon was roundly hated, but the director's been given the time and money to rework it so there's hope. The new version opens tonight with "Automatic small arms fire, explosives, and <pause> swords."

Cold Feet

Short people with large, hairy feet traveling in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting orc that assumes the appearance of the people it kills. Led by a trigger-happy elf with a strange resemblance to Snake Plissken, our hobbit heroes must protect their minds and bodies from the beast while also singing battle songs and returning a mysterious and dangerous artifact to its icy home.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Thing

Cheat sheet The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | The Thing

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Editor scott

If you Liked This, You'll Love These This Thing Called Love | The Chinaman is Not the Issue! 

If you haven't seen The Thing, go rent it now.

Living Buy 'n' Large

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot descends into a drug-fueled mind-trip that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Pink Floyd The WALL-E

Cheat sheet Pink Floyd The Wall | Wall-E

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These  I Have Become... Comfortably Rich | I, Robot, Take You, Robot...

I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years, and I'm just now waking up.

After 14 years of working for people who are beneath him (literally: they're dwarves) Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is awakened by the kiss of Prince Charming. Unfortunately for Lester, the Prince is not his type and his "thanks, but no thanks" to Charming Chris Cooper results in his getting his brains blown out all over his living room. Annette Benning co-stars as Mortgagificent, the Evil Queen of Real Estate.

American Sleeping Beauty

Cheat sheet American Beauty | Sleeping Beauty

Contributor christo4o

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Be My Quest | Skin Deep

Kevin Spacey Slays a dragon...

...as does Prince Philip.

You've Got Your Good Thing and I've Got Mine

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the party picks a tall-haired and hapless icon of despair as his replacement. His running mate is a squealing mutant baby, and his campaign manager is a strangely lumpy girl who lives in a radiator. An international banking crisis is symbolized by a swampy bed that sucks the candidate and his party into a murky, swirling pit.

Eraserhead of State

Cheat sheet Eraserhead | Head of State

Contributor the procrastinator

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Has the whole world gone crazy? | Seven Words We Never Wanted to Hear

And the campaign song...

I like the Pixies' version better.

I Have Become... Comfortably Rich

Under the tutelage of a ruthless corporate raider, a young and ambitious stock broker descends into madness as he experiments with drugs and insider trading. 

Pink Floyd: The Wall Street

Cheat sheet Pink Floyd: The Wall | Wall Street

Contributor mobflix

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Spectacular Spectacular! | The Cover of the Rolling Stone (September, 1806)

Squeal Like a Pig! (Or, You Shore Have a Purty Magic Wand)

A young witch (Burt Reynolds), on her mandatory year of independent life, runs an air courier service along the soon-to-be-flooded Cahulawassee River in the Georgia mountains... but she finds fitting in with area life difficult, as the locals are somewhat insular and their initiation rituals for outsiders are kind of distasteful and dangerous.

Kiki's Deliverance Service

Cheat sheet Kiki's Delivery Service | Deliverance

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If You Liked This, You'll Love These  Dueling Guitarrones! | No Moleste | Does the Apatosaurus Have Large Talons?

Meanwhile, we kind of love this blog of thought-provoking graphs:

Guns May Not Be the Best Weapon Against the Plague

Ingmar Bergman's celebrated surrealist western about a Mexican peasant village that commissions seven gunfighters to help defend them from a chess-playing Grim Reaper and the Black Plague.

The Magnificent Seventh Seal

Cheat sheet The Magnificent Seven | The Seventh Seal

Contributor christo4o

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Treasure of Sierra Leone | I'm an Excellent Driver, Pilgrim

There Can Be Only One (Way to Organize My Record Collection)!

Immortal Scottish record store owner Connor MacLeod recounts his top five breakups, including his first (with mentor Sean Connery) and the one in progress. Tim Robbins (in stilts) costars as Ray, his immortal nemesis.

HIghlander Fidelity

Cheat sheet Highlander | High Fidelity

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If You Liked This, You'll Like These I Hear Pfizer Has a Pill for That | Can't Stop the Signal

Scene immediately prior to epic swordfight...

Do You Feel Lucky, Dad? Well, Do You?

It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts and things are just getting worse. Not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher who may be a werewolf, but he also has to track down convicted serial murderer Sirius Black, who has escaped wizards' prison and is lobbing Cruciatus curses at random victims in San Francisco.

Dirty Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban

Cheat sheet Dirty Harry | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban

Contributor christo4o

If You Liked This, You'll Like These Avada Kedavra! | Did You Come Six Times, or Only Five? | The Buck Stops Here

A Scarecrow Has Black Eyes, Like a Doll's Eyes...

A freak tornado hits Amity Island and Chief Brody is swept away to a magical land of singing dwarves and witches of all stripes. There he befriends a Cowardly Lion (Richard Dreyfuss), a Tinman (Lorraine Gary), and a Scarecrow (Robert Shaw). His journey home is interrupted, however, by the Great White Shark of the West and her flying monkey minions.

The Wizard of Jaws

Cheat sheet The Wizard of Oz | Jaws

Contributor jane

Related posts Like a Doll's Eyes | Over the Painbow

By combining Jaws with that flying monkey movie, we've mashed together two of the three things that scared us most as a child. If we'd managed to include Bug, we'd be awake for weeks.

I Hear Pfizer Has a Pill for That

A immortal Scotsman arrives in twentieth century New York to investigate suspicious goings-on at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous. In the process he must confront his own phobias - of birds, of heights, and of really tall guys with stitches in their necks.

Highlander Anxiety

Cheat sheet Highlander | High Anxiety

Contributor christo4o

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