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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on February 25, 2008, 05:13:47 PM

Title: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 25, 2008, 05:13:47 PM: I'm watching Bowfinger. What a great film. What happened to Steve Martin?
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Tauntaun on February 25, 2008, 05:15:33 PM: He's a jerk!

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Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: treythemovie on February 25, 2008, 05:16:19 PM: He became a Disney flick dad
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 25, 2008, 05:35:20 PM: Quote from: treythemovie on February 25, 2008, 05:16:19 PM
He became a Disney flick dad

That and started writing mediocre fiction that people read and enjoyed because it was written by Steve Martin, later to be adapted into a film by Steve Martin.

Really Federwang, the script for Shopgirl has to be worse than everything you've ever been involved in COMBINED. Even if you add in Transformers by association.

Ok, maybe not that bad. But still, it's pretty fucking terrible.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Eric P on February 25, 2008, 05:36:12 PM: he was just on SNL this past week
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 25, 2008, 05:39:59 PM: He never was funny. He just went from having moderately talented writers to moderately horrible writers
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 25, 2008, 05:48:46 PM: yeah, he got squashed by a gigantic, pissed off monster.

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Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Mandark on February 25, 2008, 05:48:57 PM: I liked his book of comic essays (there has to be a better term than that), but I read them in the middle of my Teenage Years of Untrustworthy Aesthetic Judgments.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: bagofeyes on February 25, 2008, 06:29:03 PM: I remember when I travelled to America and Bowfinger was played on every flight. I must have watched it 4 times in the space of a month.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 25, 2008, 08:01:10 PM: Steven Martin either has bad judgment or a lot of bills to pay.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Shuri on February 25, 2008, 09:29:38 PM: Pink Panther really fucked his career.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Ichirou on February 25, 2008, 10:05:27 PM: He screwed his own career. Dude was in The Spanish Prisoner, building a legit career for himself as a serious character actor, but he couldn't resist the siren's call of big paychecks for starring in crappy family flicks.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 25, 2008, 10:10:48 PM: He should play a creepy character, like a pedo or something.
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: DJ_Tet on February 27, 2008, 10:06:41 AM: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels :-*

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Is Steve Martin dead?
Post by: Mandark on February 27, 2008, 02:23:45 PM: Quote from: Ichi on February 25, 2008, 10:05:27 PM
He screwed his own career. Dude was in The Spanish Prisoner, building a legit career for himself as a serious character actor, but he couldn't resist the siren's call of big paychecks for starring in crappy family flicks.

Might not even be that. Martin's always had a bit of a snooty, method-acting approach to wacky physical humor, so there's a good chance he considers even his recent mainstream stuff as auteurism. At least, I'm pretty sure he'd feel that way about the Pink Panther remake, since he was following Peter Sellers, who's a God to comic actors everywhere.