BB 11/16/15

Good morning Phoenix! It’s time for another edition of Movie Monday!

Today’s selection is another good Thanksgiving movie – Grumpy Old Men.

Plot: John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exchange stories about how their friends are now dying when they are not busy insulting each other. They have a contemptuous rivalry that goes back over 50 years. A very attractive woman named Ariel, who is a little younger than them, moves in across the street during the days before Thanksgiving.

Trivia:

• After filming this movie in Minnesota in freezing temperatures, Walter Matthau was hospitalized with double pneumonia.

• At the end of the theatrical trailer, there is an outtake of Walter Matthau in the bath tub saying directly into the camera "If I'd known there was going to be a nude scene, I would've asked for an extra million." The crew found this so hilarious, they ended up using it as a post credits scene.

• Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were strongly considered for the roles of John and Max, respectively, but both declined because of Martin's frail health which prevented him from taking the role. Martin died in December of 1995, right around the exact same time that this movie's sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995) was released in theaters.

• When John (Jack Lemmon) applies after shave, his expression mimicks Macaulay Culkin's character, Kevin, from "Home Alone" (released 2 years prior).

• When Max is changing John' s TV channels you will see 3 different little Caesar pizza commercials from 1992.

Goofs:

• Ariel tells John to move King's Rook to Queen's Bishop three in his chess game. The piece he subsequently moves is in fact a bishop.

• When John watched the lottery results the announcer says it's for a $3.4 million prize. The screen shows the prize as being $6.4 million.

• When John puts the fish in the back seat of Max's vehicle, it is a largemouth bass. When Max finds the fish it is now a yellow perch.

• When John sprays Max with the garden hose, we can be quite certain that an outdoor garden hose in Minnesota during ice fishing season would certainly be frozen solid, if not shut off completely.

• The chess pieces change places on the board when Ariel and John are talking in his house.

Try to have a fangtastic Monday!  <3 Brock V"""V