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Óli Gneisti (English) @[email protected] · 2024-10-06 · 21:24 UTC

I just watched The 4:30 Movie. A semi-autographical film by Kevin Smith about high-schoolers in 1986 who go to the cinema.

I really enjoyed it though I wouldn't put it up with Cinema Paradiso or Matinee, the best in the movies-about-movies genre. Really funny at times and great 80s bad movie pastiches.

Kevin Smith was a guest on The Movies That Made Me podcast last week and was extremely happy to hear that Joe Dante had been up for directing Batman (before Tim Burton got the job).

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Óli Gneisti (English) @[email protected] · 2024-10-01 · 09:02 UTC

The Movies That Made Me podcast is my favourite podcast about film. Instead of talking to filmmakers about their movies they discuss the, you know, "movies that made them".

Kevin Smith doesn't stick to the rules in his appearance, he even talks about his own mental health. He also made me interested to see his latest film *The 4:30 Movie* (not 420). Movies about movies is one of my favourite genres.

One of the movies Kevin mentions as having made him is *The World According To Garp" which he saw in a theater at an "inappropriate" age. I only saw it on TV but I was also quite young, about ten I think. It has stuck with me. I even read the book about a quarter century later.

I wasn't the only one in my school to see Garp. I remember talking about that one scene, you know.

I did wonder where the name Garp came from because it is quite similar to the Icelandic/Norse word "garpur" (which means something like hero/champion). The word was used as the Icelandic name of He-Man (Garpur og hetjur himingeimsins).

I sometimes wonder about "inappropriate" films and now I think about which movies my sons will talk about having watched with me at an inappropriate age.

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