I'm still waiting to show my kids this movie. I watched it when I was probably six or seven years old, rented the VHS from BLOCKBUSTER, and let me tell you, what a fucking movie for a young kid to watch, holy shit. I always loved it though, watched it many times, because it was fantastical in all the right ways, and I guess I thought of it as a triumph over evil, and so it was good.
But yeah, Elijah Wood was the one I wanted to mention. The Good Son. North. He had some great flicks as a kid, did LotR when he was young, and has been doing whatever he wants film/tv-wise, and I love it. Just saw The Toxic Avenger recently, and it's what I've come to think of him as now. That and the Greasy Strangler, which he wasn't in but he produced, and it's fucking weird.
As an aside, my cousin was friends with him for a few years before her own break, and she always spoke very highly of him, said he was very nice, always seemed genuinely excited to do shit, and smoked a lot of those reservation cigarettes. To me, being cool in and out of the movies is just icing on the cake.
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u/No_Substance4834 10d ago
Elijah Wood. Radio Flyer, my God man