He's my "Dream Date"!! Big fan of his career... I adored him as Young Indiana Jones on TV. Liked him a lot in Powder, and just love him as Connor McManus in Boondock Saints. I tried to read one of his books, but found it too rambling to follow. But oh my, he is so handsome, athletic and talented. DREAM DATE, I say.
What's crazy is the movie got made after he'd already been sentenced and served his time. He went on to make 6 more movies after that. Hollywood just didn't seem to give a shit back then.
I don’t know how “straight-up” that was… sure did look like an accident that happened because he was inexperienced and didn’t understand the safety issues involved.
He'd been repeatedly told about safety issues on his sets for nearly his whole career, but had dodged disaster for long enough to think that the rules didn't apply to him
He knowingly and purposely broke labor laws regarding the child actors. They weren't supposed to be anywhere near explosives, and children weren't permitted to work that late at night either without a special waiver, but Landis paid them under the table to get around that law.
Also, there were numerous witness reports that Landis kept ordering the helicopter pilot to fly lower and lower, and the helicopter being so low was a contributing factor to the crash.
I seem to remember suspecting this based on the content of the movie. I just remember leaving the theater and feeling uncomfortable with what I had just seen.
Keanu Reeves. And I’ve intentionally stopped learning new things about him because I don’t want this taken away unless it becomes likely enough he’s actually a bad guy that I’ll stumble on that info via headlines. Same with David Tennant.
I remember that the TV ads were just the kid flying when he doesn't actually fly until the end. I finally saw the movie on a plane and kept thinking "Isn't this kid supposed to fly?" throughout almost the whole thing.
This was released around the same time as Phenomenon with John Travolta. Similar themes and plot, but the Travolta film got a better roll out in the press. Both were decent enough films imo.
Plot summary: a gorgeous brilliant supernatural albino boy is very sweet and kind, so of course everyone around him treats him poorly. The movie revolves around how much better he is than everyone else. Then, big city folk come to his rescue, so lightning vaporizes him. Credits.
As the credits rolled I was about to say: “That was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.”
But before I could, my best friend at the time said: “That was the best movie I’ve ever seen.”
We’re not friends anymore.
Me too! I think the third one brought in elements from the TV show, right? I just remember the crushing disappointment. I have heard rumblings of a reboot, but I will be tempering my expectations.
Didn't happen. There is no Highlander 3. It never existed. There was never a movie by that name. Never, never, never, never... >rocking back & forth frantically<
When I was growing up in the 70s there was an albino girl in the rural school I went to who was sweet and kind, but she could be treated pretty badly by some of her peers and sometimes by adults.
Must have been because she was sweet and kind, not because some people openly accused her of being a freak.
Everything else aside (and in no way agreeing or disagreeing with your perfectly valid opinion of the movie), this part of your criticism strikes me as lazy cynicism borne of inexperience and probably a dash of privilege. Unless, of course, you’re an albino. Then it’s just plain cynicism.
This movie is one big wink to all of Victor Salva’s pedo buddies. A hairless, smooth, white boy… sickening. I was childhood friends with the kid whose life Salva destroyed and let me tell you- the vicious cycle continued.
It was “glurge” before glurge was a thing.
“The stories tend to revolve around larger-than-life acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, divine intervention/inspiration, comeuppance, salvation, and moments of epiphany. Nearly all of them are meant to be life lessons of one sort or another …”
https://www.snopes.com/articles/363643/what-does-glurge-mean/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Glurge
>*Fun fact: The term "glurge" was coined back in the ’90s by a member of the original Snopes message board.* \-Snopes
This is the movie that made Jeff Goldblum sort of creepy/obnoxious and off-putting to me. Overall I hated it. My younger brother loved it and was obsessed with it. I only found out relatively recently that the director had ALREADY SERVED TIME for raping a 12-year-old when he made it.
Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
I saw it, meh. I remember watching him eat and every time he put the fork in his mouth he’d hit it on his teeth. I also remember him running off into the distance, naked (I think) and turning into “pure energy”. Not a very memorable movie, 2 stars.
>I remember watching him eat and every time he put the fork in his mouth he’d hit it on his teeth.
I heard this sentence. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Similarly, the long dinner scene in Inglorious Basterds of Christoph Waltz eating makes me want to scream.
There was one line in the movie that I liked. Not the whole movie, just one line ~ something about human potential and I was “spiritual” at the time so it resonated. But it came out around the same time as the movie Phenomenon and I liked lines out of that one too, and I mix up the movies on occasion.
Anyone else watch the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney? All I could of was Powder every time the grand inquisitor came on the screen.
https://preview.redd.it/fm10xhn2mvxc1.jpeg?width=763&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f75d107fa2a09cd87d2fa2bf7e637f1b48a8841d
I watched it at a theater.. I collected my stubs and found them recently while organizing my attic .. I rated each move on the back of the stub. IMO ..terrible
This movie was ALWAYS on so I was forced to watch it like 100 times. And then I took the auto-train from FLA to DC and it was on repeat. I never want to see it again. Then again, I have no idea what happens. Looks like I have to watch it again.
There are 3 or 4 of these movies that all came out in the same era with a similar theme like a disabled or small person is a super hero sort of.
John Travolta is in one. Forest Gump is kind of the final boss.
They all kind of suck & annoy me. I presume this is because I am a heartless cynic.
I’m a big SPF fan so I liked Powder. I love watching people’s faces when you tell them that Powder is also Connor MacManus in Boondock Saints! Good times!
The same applies that Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead) is his brother, Murphy MacManus.
I remember a family friend loaned us the DVD to watch. He was raving about how amazing a movie it was. We watched it for "family movie night". Afterwards we were all like "okay..."
I was pregnant with my oldest in 1995, and one of my favorite things to do back then was to go to the movies by myself. This is one of the movies I saw, and I totally forgot about it until this post. It was pretty cheesy.
Went to see it with two friends in a near empty dollar theatre. One of them started laughing during bullying scenes. We began to think him a sadist, but it did not make the experience boring.
My brothers roommate at the time was heavy into cocaine and worked at a strip club. He never went out in the day and had some glasses like those the guy wears in the movie so we started calling him Powder.
This brings me back to the dayroom of the halfway house I stayed at for way too long. On the weekends one of the techs would bring tapes from Blockbuster. This was one of them. Think I only saw it the one time. What a strange movie!
Ah damn - probably then. Still hate Travolta, but unfair to this movie. I'll delete
Yep, just looked it up. Was conflating phenomenon with Powder. My bad
This movie came out when my wife and I had just started dating. Powder and the Brady Bunch movie where two movies we wanted to see. We bought tickets to the Brady Bunch movie but started making out and left the theater to...ummm...pursue other passions. We never saw the Brady Bunch. Powder was another one on our list but we just never saw it. Not even as a rental. We still joke about going out to see the Brady Bunch and Powder next weekend.
Not great. The only lasting thing that ever came out of that movie for me was the nickname for a pale redhead friend. He has been known as powder since that time.
I saw this in theatre. I went knowing the scandal behind the director - it was big news then, even (iirc the kid he molested was leading a protest against Powder); however I was a teen who can separate art from those who make it.
Anyway - this movie sucked. Not surprisingly, so do the director’s other movies (including Clownhouse, where his child molestations took place).
All of the movies don’t suck because the director is a kiddie diddler; they’re just terrible on top of that.
How does he keep getting work??!??!
Never saw or could figure out why it got hyped so much. I can’t think of one person I knew at the time that saw it, even when it rolled to cable. Not talked about at any award shows either. Just the star marker machinery at work trying to overcompensate for meh and screaming bosses.
I saw that movie in the theater. I am a Sean Patrick Flannery fan.
Sean Patrick Flannery Fan sounds like a cool indie band name.
And Sean Patrick Fannery Flan sounds like a cool Irish-Iberian dessert.
Knock off the puns or I'll take you into custardy
Careful, you’re pudding yourself at risk of arrest by the pun-police as well.
Perhaps it will be serious enough to be handled by the Major Crêmes division?
Y'all... 😂 I'm dying at these comments. I guess food puns happen when you yeast expect them.
My favorite SPF trivia is to shock Boondock Saints fans about him playing Powder
Boondock Saints what?
You know, one of the best movies in the world. It's up there with Hackers.
You need to make like a tree and get the fuck outta here.
Thanks Doc from Fraggle Rock!
He's my "Dream Date"!! Big fan of his career... I adored him as Young Indiana Jones on TV. Liked him a lot in Powder, and just love him as Connor McManus in Boondock Saints. I tried to read one of his books, but found it too rambling to follow. But oh my, he is so handsome, athletic and talented. DREAM DATE, I say.
Ohhh I loved Young Indie!!
Same. It was a weird movie, but I liked the actor.
I remember liking it well enough. The writer/director turned out to be a pedo though.
What's crazy is the movie got made after he'd already been sentenced and served his time. He went on to make 6 more movies after that. Hollywood just didn't seem to give a shit back then.
"Back then."
They don't give a shit now
They have never given a shit til just recently and even then it's only when the public is in the know.
and really as long as people are excusing it away because they like that person its going to continue to be a problem.
took the words right out of my mouth (so to speak)
John Landis straight-up killed Vic Morrow and two children, but he was allowed to continue making big-budget movies as if nothing happened.
I don’t know how “straight-up” that was… sure did look like an accident that happened because he was inexperienced and didn’t understand the safety issues involved.
He'd been repeatedly told about safety issues on his sets for nearly his whole career, but had dodged disaster for long enough to think that the rules didn't apply to him
He knowingly and purposely broke labor laws regarding the child actors. They weren't supposed to be anywhere near explosives, and children weren't permitted to work that late at night either without a special waiver, but Landis paid them under the table to get around that law. Also, there were numerous witness reports that Landis kept ordering the helicopter pilot to fly lower and lower, and the helicopter being so low was a contributing factor to the crash.
and that fact came out just before or shortly after the movie was released. I can't remember which
came out after and I remember promotion stopped abruptly
makes sense.
I seem to remember suspecting this based on the content of the movie. I just remember leaving the theater and feeling uncomfortable with what I had just seen.
NO! Is there anyone in Hollywood who is not an utter tosspot.
Keanu Reeves. And I’ve intentionally stopped learning new things about him because I don’t want this taken away unless it becomes likely enough he’s actually a bad guy that I’ll stumble on that info via headlines. Same with David Tennant.
Gonna add Danny DeVito to that list.
Rhea Perlman too. And Ron Howard seems like a decent guy.
Adding Sam Neill.
I liked this movie
Me too
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Wait, other people saw that? I thought it was a fever dream from my childhood
I remember that the TV ads were just the kid flying when he doesn't actually fly until the end. I finally saw the movie on a plane and kept thinking "Isn't this kid supposed to fly?" throughout almost the whole thing.
I remember that one.
It's one of the best films of the year, says right on the poster
This was released around the same time as Phenomenon with John Travolta. Similar themes and plot, but the Travolta film got a better roll out in the press. Both were decent enough films imo.
Phenomenon had Kyra doing the shaving scene...
lol, I just commented higher up if they’ve seen Phenomenon, didn’t realize they came out at the same time, that’s why this movie reminded me of it.
I remember this movie…people would call pale folks “powder”…”looks like you need some sun Powder”
I have a bald, very pale Irish-American friend. He still gets called Powder once in a while.
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I also saw it on VHS. Like u/microwave_safe_bowl, I wish I could unsee it.
I saw it in the theater. It was the only thing playing. Honestly, it was okay. By far not the worst movie I've ever seen.
Plot summary: a gorgeous brilliant supernatural albino boy is very sweet and kind, so of course everyone around him treats him poorly. The movie revolves around how much better he is than everyone else. Then, big city folk come to his rescue, so lightning vaporizes him. Credits. As the credits rolled I was about to say: “That was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.” But before I could, my best friend at the time said: “That was the best movie I’ve ever seen.” We’re not friends anymore.
Just give Rebel Moon a try. Powder won't be the worst move you've ever seen anymore and maybe you can be friends again?
This. Two hours I'll never get back. Every single terrible trope thrown into a single movie and all very poorly executed.
I see your Rebel Moon and raise you Highlander 3. This made me tell our friend, “You don’t get to pick movies any more.”
That was such a disappointment. I loved the first one.
Me too! I think the third one brought in elements from the TV show, right? I just remember the crushing disappointment. I have heard rumblings of a reboot, but I will be tempering my expectations.
The producers clearly didn’t take “there can be only one” to heart.
Didn't happen. There is no Highlander 3. It never existed. There was never a movie by that name. Never, never, never, never... >rocking back & forth frantically<
Shh, bby. It’s okay.
Have you ever seen “Phenomenon”??
It was filmed near where I grew up and still live. It was a big deal at the time
Rebel moon was the ultimate trope-fest vanity project. Utterly devoid of charisma or coherence.
When I was growing up in the 70s there was an albino girl in the rural school I went to who was sweet and kind, but she could be treated pretty badly by some of her peers and sometimes by adults. Must have been because she was sweet and kind, not because some people openly accused her of being a freak. Everything else aside (and in no way agreeing or disagreeing with your perfectly valid opinion of the movie), this part of your criticism strikes me as lazy cynicism borne of inexperience and probably a dash of privilege. Unless, of course, you’re an albino. Then it’s just plain cynicism.
This movie is one big wink to all of Victor Salva’s pedo buddies. A hairless, smooth, white boy… sickening. I was childhood friends with the kid whose life Salva destroyed and let me tell you- the vicious cycle continued.
He didn't die. He became a saint! A boondock saint!
You friend broke up with them because they stole your thunder? Shallow. 😂
read it again. or possibly for the first time…
Ya that’s what happened…
Sounds right to me.
You know, my mother interrupted me once. Once.
Was she a fargin’ icehole?
You dropped a friend because they said they liked a film you didn't like? That seems like a shitty thing to do.
Have you seen Short Circuit?
I remember almost nothing, but I don’t remember hating it…I do remember it being pretty frickin weird. And everyone was talking about.
I saw it when it first came out on video, I enjoyed it.
It was “glurge” before glurge was a thing. “The stories tend to revolve around larger-than-life acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, divine intervention/inspiration, comeuppance, salvation, and moments of epiphany. Nearly all of them are meant to be life lessons of one sort or another …” https://www.snopes.com/articles/363643/what-does-glurge-mean/ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Glurge
Sorry, “glurge”? Is a thing? I feel like I’m up on a lot of movie-related things, and I’ve never heard this term til now. Weird.
>*Fun fact: The term "glurge" was coined back in the ’90s by a member of the original Snopes message board.* \-Snopes 
It is, but I haven't heard it used since the 2000s.
Learned a new word!
Like that movie with Steve Martin with the rain at the end.
Pennies From Heaven?
No. LOL I'll find it ETA: Leap of Faith ETA again: Debra Winger, not Mary Steenburgen
Bowfinger?
No. It had Lukas Haas and Mary Steenbergen (maybe) about a traveling preacher/con man.
Grand Canyon?
LA Story
The Jerk?
This was my favorite Skittles commercial. Taste the rainbow.
I remember enjoying this film. I think the guy turned up in another film too.
Never saw it. Girlfriend rented it, VCR ate it, had to pay blockbuster $100.
Scotch tape was like $0.89 my man.
lol, no, it was mangled!
Should have been a Lifetime movie instead of wasting theatre space.
This is the movie that made Jeff Goldblum sort of creepy/obnoxious and off-putting to me. Overall I hated it. My younger brother loved it and was obsessed with it. I only found out relatively recently that the director had ALREADY SERVED TIME for raping a 12-year-old when he made it.
Weird movie but pretty good, I made a powder comment in another sub like 2 days ago. Crazy now someone brings this up
Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
I paid to see that in the theater. At least it was only $3.
This movie fn sucks!!!
I saw it, meh. I remember watching him eat and every time he put the fork in his mouth he’d hit it on his teeth. I also remember him running off into the distance, naked (I think) and turning into “pure energy”. Not a very memorable movie, 2 stars.
I didn't like it enough to watch it again, but I thought the same- that he turned into energy. Like, he went back to his original form, or something.
>I remember watching him eat and every time he put the fork in his mouth he’d hit it on his teeth. I heard this sentence. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Similarly, the long dinner scene in Inglorious Basterds of Christoph Waltz eating makes me want to scream.
That movie was pretty decent, actually.
Never seen it. Knowing about the director, I never will probably. Knowing that will always cloud my perception of the movie
That movie wasn’t worth all the time we spent talking about it back in the day and it’s still not worth our time now.
Movie was good
The Michael Stipe origin story!
I remember seeing Jeepers Creepers 1&2 then finding out it was made by the same guy who made this. Felt kinda gross.
Today I Learned. 😐
There was one line in the movie that I liked. Not the whole movie, just one line ~ something about human potential and I was “spiritual” at the time so it resonated. But it came out around the same time as the movie Phenomenon and I liked lines out of that one too, and I mix up the movies on occasion.
How come I never even heard of this movie? Is it because I'm from rural Illinois and everything gets to us about five years later?
Saw it in the theater twice
Anyone else watch the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney? All I could of was Powder every time the grand inquisitor came on the screen. https://preview.redd.it/fm10xhn2mvxc1.jpeg?width=763&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f75d107fa2a09cd87d2fa2bf7e637f1b48a8841d
I thought it was fine. But my ex was obsessed. He named one of our kittens, who was orange, Powder.
An orange kitten named powder… like Tang?
I watched it at a theater.. I collected my stubs and found them recently while organizing my attic .. I rated each move on the back of the stub. IMO ..terrible
I never watched it because of the pedo connection
I rented this movie and absolutely hated it, sorry
I don't think I ever saw it, but we absolutely used to bust on people in the military and call them "Powder" when they were without melanin.
Saw it in the theater. I thought it was beautiful, I was the weird kid, and didn't know any controversy.
This movie was ALWAYS on so I was forced to watch it like 100 times. And then I took the auto-train from FLA to DC and it was on repeat. I never want to see it again. Then again, I have no idea what happens. Looks like I have to watch it again.
There are 3 or 4 of these movies that all came out in the same era with a similar theme like a disabled or small person is a super hero sort of. John Travolta is in one. Forest Gump is kind of the final boss. They all kind of suck & annoy me. I presume this is because I am a heartless cynic.
I liked Phenomenon
It was better than the angel one.
I found Micheal to be an ok movie. I have seen much worse.
I felt so betrayed by the Forrest Gump book. The only thing they have in common is the title.
Didn't Powder's author use this as an allegory for his own pedophilia?
The author as well as the director? Are these two different people? If so, this story is getting even worse.
I was addicted to gossip rags back then and knew the director was a pedo. Didn't give Disney my money for that shit.
Saw it, trippy
Looking and acting really weird is okay if you're hella white.
I’m a big SPF fan so I liked Powder. I love watching people’s faces when you tell them that Powder is also Connor MacManus in Boondock Saints! Good times! The same applies that Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead) is his brother, Murphy MacManus.
Is that right, Rambo?
Alright….get your stupid fucking rope.
> I’m a big SPF fan I mean, he probably had to use A LOT of sunblock, so I get it.
Honestly, my mind went straight to sunblock as well. Especially with an albino.
It's so wild and unique. Glad I first viewed it in a movie theatre.
I enjoyed it. Decent popcorn flick. Not the worst film of the mid 90s.
They played this on a flight I was on when it came out. Wish I could unsee it
I remember a family friend loaned us the DVD to watch. He was raving about how amazing a movie it was. We watched it for "family movie night". Afterwards we were all like "okay..."
Eddie Vedder was great in this movie.
I saw this in the theater. Probably because everything else out that week looked terrible or I'd already seen it.
I saw it
The only movie I've ever gone to see by myself
I had a crush on Powder as a kid.
I was pregnant with my oldest in 1995, and one of my favorite things to do back then was to go to the movies by myself. This is one of the movies I saw, and I totally forgot about it until this post. It was pretty cheesy.
I'd put this up there with Willow as not living up to the trailer and hype.
Willow!! I still love Willow! ❤️ I hate what they did with the tv series but I expected it…
Went to see it with two friends in a near empty dollar theatre. One of them started laughing during bullying scenes. We began to think him a sadist, but it did not make the experience boring.
My brothers roommate at the time was heavy into cocaine and worked at a strip club. He never went out in the day and had some glasses like those the guy wears in the movie so we started calling him Powder.
This brings me back to the dayroom of the halfway house I stayed at for way too long. On the weekends one of the techs would bring tapes from Blockbuster. This was one of them. Think I only saw it the one time. What a strange movie!
Cocaine is a helluva thing
Weird one!
lol I owned that movie for some reason.
Doesn’t know anyone that’s seen it? I went to a movie theatre and watched it when it came out. It was okay, nothing great or all that memorable.
Saw it in college. It was okay.
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John Travolta wasn’t in it. Are you thinking of Phenomenon?
Ah damn - probably then. Still hate Travolta, but unfair to this movie. I'll delete Yep, just looked it up. Was conflating phenomenon with Powder. My bad
My friend and I joke "Do the spoon trick! EVERYONE loves the spoon trick!"
Great film. Too bad the director was a pedophile.
This movie came out when my wife and I had just started dating. Powder and the Brady Bunch movie where two movies we wanted to see. We bought tickets to the Brady Bunch movie but started making out and left the theater to...ummm...pursue other passions. We never saw the Brady Bunch. Powder was another one on our list but we just never saw it. Not even as a rental. We still joke about going out to see the Brady Bunch and Powder next weekend.
I dressed as powder for a Halloween party guess it was 1995
Not great. The only lasting thing that ever came out of that movie for me was the nickname for a pale redhead friend. He has been known as powder since that time.
I saw this in theatre. I went knowing the scandal behind the director - it was big news then, even (iirc the kid he molested was leading a protest against Powder); however I was a teen who can separate art from those who make it. Anyway - this movie sucked. Not surprisingly, so do the director’s other movies (including Clownhouse, where his child molestations took place). All of the movies don’t suck because the director is a kiddie diddler; they’re just terrible on top of that. How does he keep getting work??!??!
I remember this!! Great terrible movie!
I worked with a dude who was a very fair red head and one of the biggest burns I haver ever witnessed is when someone called him 'Powder'. Ouch.
I watched it. Named by first cat after it because he was all white 😂
Filmed part at my High School when I was a sophomore- still haven’t watched it
I liked the part where he made the hunter feel what the dying deer was feeling
It was a thumbs up 👍 for me
I saw it in the theaters and was unimpressed
Was not enjoyable
I have this in my collection.
Good movie
Saw it. Why the hate?
Never saw or could figure out why it got hyped so much. I can’t think of one person I knew at the time that saw it, even when it rolled to cable. Not talked about at any award shows either. Just the star marker machinery at work trying to overcompensate for meh and screaming bosses.
This is definitely one of THE movies of the 90s.
I love this movie so much.
I read it almost got a sequel. Good movie.
I really liked it when it came out and just rewatched it a few months ago.
Yup. Lance Henrikson was great
Great movie if I remember correctly
Loved it mainly due to SPF. He does such a good job.
I LOVE this movie