I am really getting a kick out of this blog post.

I just watched that movie last weekend all the way through for the first time.

It was a good performance by this Wil... Wheaton... guy.

As a nobody myself, it's good to see that I am in good company.

Saw it the other night on AMC... How old does that make you feel, wil?

Wil isn't a noboday, he has a blog!

/just kidding, we love ya, Wil!

Evidently, Wil needs to go in and out of rehab repeatedly, crash a car, give the paparazzi a crotch shot getting out of limo, and shave his head.

I guess that would make him a celebrity "somebody."

Hiro Nakamura: Saw it the other night on AMC... How old does that make you feel, wil?

It's weird. I know that I'm looking at myself, but I feel like I'm watching someone else.

It took me until about a year or so ago to get far enough away from Stand By Me to really feel like I could watch it objectively, though I still recall all the behind the scenes stuff and associated memories that go with each scene.

Does that make sense? I guess I'm old enough to watch it as just a movie, but it also stirs up a ton of childhood memories when I do.

Like I said, it's weird.

VictoryCabal: Evidently, Wil needs to go in and out of rehab repeatedly, crash a car, give the paparazzi a crotch shot getting out of limo, and shave his head.

I guess that would make him a celebrity "somebody."

Yeah, that's what made me laugh about TFA. If what I'm doing with my life makes me "a nobody," I'm quite happy to not be "a somebody."

Evidently said blogger does not fark, or he'd know better than to call you a nobody.

I think it would be very weird to have so much of one's childhood documented in a movie shared by so many.

Heck, Wil, you could always get with Jessica Simpson if you wanted to be famous. Options, options.

Or take Demi away from what's-his-name.

wil: It took me until about a year or so ago to get far enough away from Stand By Me to really feel like I could watch it objectively

Yeah, that makes sense. So what do you think of it, now that you have a more objective point of view? Some buddies and me were comparing top 5 '80s movies the other day, and it was in everyone's except for mine. I thought it was a pretty good movie myself, but I never got as much out of it as a lot of people did.

/it's hard to post something like this without coming across as a fawning idiot or flaming a-hole. Just trying to be honest

Hiro Nakamura: wil: It took me until about a year or so ago to get far enough away from Stand By Me to really feel like I could watch it objectively

Yeah, that makes sense. So what do you think of it, now that you have a more objective point of view? Some buddies and me were comparing top 5 '80s movies the other day, and it was in everyone's except for mine. I thought it was a pretty good movie myself, but I never got as much out of it as a lot of people did.

I'm very proud of it. I've noticed, over the years, that it's a different movie when watched at 20 than it is at 15 than it is at 30.

I'm not sure if it's in my top 5, because that's a moving target for me: I loved Goonies when I was a teen in the 80s, but didn't understand Wall Street at all. I loved Scarface when I was 20, but watching it now I think it's kind of silly. Since I experienced the 80s firsthand (and all my lame 80s fashion embarrassments are documented in tens of thousands of teen magazine pages, unfortunately) it's harder to come up with top 5 80s movies than it would be to come up with top 5 Sci-Fi movies or Top 5 Indie films from the 90s.

/it's hard to post something like this without coming across as a fawning idiot or flaming a-hole. Just trying to be honest

Hey, I'm a nobody. What are you worried about?

I once edited a promo for Stand By Me. Does that make me somebody? I hope so.

When the movie came out, it had enormous appeal to people who were about 10 years older than the principals in the film - it was about the childhood stuff we sort of thought we had just had. It was innovative on many levels, without being film school-y. My 25 year old didn't get it, when she was a tween/teen, but now she really digs it.

It's hard for me to think of a better coming of age movie. There are some other good ones, but they're usually set much more strongly inside some nuclear family unit (and seem really dated). I can't imagine my kids watching Shoot the Moon or that one with Bob Duvall and the basketfall - or even Breaking Away.

Wil's performance did all the things a leading actor's performance is supposed to do and that's part of the allure - that someone so young could do that. I'm not alone, film critic Sarah Chauncy says:

Some movies are perfect for their time, and some movies are perfect forever. Stand by Me is one of the latter, perhaps the best coming-of-age movie about boys ever written...Then there are the performances. Stand by Me was cast perfectly, and every one of the kids committed thoroughly to his character...even though Reiner had to give them a crash course in movie acting, you'd never know it from the final product.

I didn't realize, until today, that there's a documentary about making the film - gotta see that too.

Bah! I played three roles* in a movie (Twilight of the Dogs) and am happily a nobody!

*True story. and it had its theatrical release in South Korea. You know it's bad when the fen root for the cow over the 'hero.'

Were you really "mean" to Jerry O'Connell?

You big-headed Hollywood types...

This is a great Sunday thread.

Thanks Wil for your perspective.

co-conspirator: Were you really "mean" to Jerry O'Connell?

You big-headed Hollywood types...

Heh. I was not. I wrote about it in my blog.

Wil, if it makes you feel better you were an answer on a Nickelodeon game show I was on when I was 13.

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wil: Heh. I was not. I wrote about it in my blog.

But why would I read a "nobody"'s blog? You're trying to trick me, wil. But I'm too clever for your head games.

Anyway, someone told me that someone told him that he heard you were a meanie. So it must be true.

Again -- Hollywood. Pffft.

At my school the Stand By Me soundtrack was a must have when the movie first came out. I still remember myself and my friends being a little creeped out by the movie, but we were only 8 or so.

2wolves: Bah! I played three roles* in a movie (Twilight of the Dogs) and am happily a nobody!

*True story. and it had its theatrical release in South Korea. You know it's bad when the fen root for the cow over the 'hero.'

I'd like to see it. Sounds perfect for Fark TV.

Atypical Person Reading Fark:

I'd like to see it. Sounds perfect for Fark TV.

Way too cheesy for Fark TV. My, then shapely, buttocks do make major screen time. Link (new window)

Wil, I gotta say, "Stand by Me" was en emotionally moving movie for me. I especially liked the part where you raised that shell over your head and yelled "I HAVE THE CONCH". Also when Chunk shared his candy bar with Sloth.

beautiful performance!



/ikd

Wil who?

/i keed, i keed
//liked stand by me

wil: VictoryCabal: Evidently, Wil needs to go in and out of rehab repeatedly, crash a car, give the paparazzi a crotch shot getting out of limo, and shave his head.

I guess that would make him a celebrity "somebody."

Yeah, that's what made me laugh about TFA. If what I'm doing with my life makes me "a nobody," I'm quite happy to not be "a somebody."

That's why I dig you, man. You're centered.
Cheers!

I love these. (new window)

That is all.

Wil, I'd just like to say that I really regret not saying "Hi" when I saw you at on the picket line at Paramount. From everything I've read you sound like a cool guy.

/But I did get to talk to Harlan Ellison, and he was nice!
//I was the guy helping the woman do the pizza delivery from Fans4Writers.com

TFA: ...although I guess he was good in Star Trek:TNG.

Who's bringing the pitchforks and who's bringing the torches? It's time for a castle-storming.

Wil really needs to do a film with Walken in Florida.

Then we could have a Photoshop contest to design the tag for it.

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Apparently you're somebody enough to get the celebrity edition of Fark.

I suppose in the grand scheme of things, we're all nobody.

Anyone who's anybody knows that Wil Wheaton is amazing, even if he is a nobody.

WHo the hell is Wil Wheaton?

wil had said years ago that he wanted to do a downloadable mp3 for sale that would serve as his audio commentary for the movie. I think he mentioned having his mother involved at one point because she knew a lot about the making of the film.

I dunno about you fellas, but I still would like to see this. Either that or wil and Mike Nelson go Rifftrax all over it. Or both.

Really enjoyed the movie, wil. Took me back to my boyhood at that age.

My 12-year-old kid trek was doing a rafting trip down the Suwannee River for a week in the summer. Sleeping under poncho tents along the shoreline in deep woods, the owls at night, snakes climbing on the raft, swimming in the river and springs all day long.



/Sucks to be grown up sometimes.

cretinbob: WHo the hell is Wil Wheaton?

Kitwilly's ALT

wil: co-conspirator: Were you really "mean" to Jerry O'Connell?

You big-headed Hollywood types...

Heh. I was not. I wrote about it in my blog.

Wow. Feldman sounds like a nightmare.

And I did the same thing to my little brother. In fact, the situation was damn near identical. I still feel like shiat about it.

I was not crushed by a nobody!

Wil, if it means anything, I got laid after I watched Stand By Me (the first time) on video, in college.

wil: I am really getting a kick out of this blog post.

We all know you submitted this link so that his blog would get flooded with comments.

And I dig that about you, man.

When I watched it as a kid, it was up there with the Goonies. It scared me, and it was action-packed.

Watching those two movies now, Goonies is just funny and fun, not at all scary. Stand By Me, now, is kind of a sad drama. I still love it, but it's definitely changed over the years.

You should record a rap album to strike back at the haters. Or not, your choice.

/Stand By Me is awesome and always will be

Wil,
Did Stephen King have any hand in making the movie and if so, did you meet him?

Well, he's OUR nobody.

shanrick: Wil,
Did Is Stephen King have any hand in making the movie possessed by the devil and if so, did you meet him?

FTFY

FTFA:
Watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It's a bad as I remember it,

Say what you want about Wil, but I'll be DAMNED IF YOU INSULT TEMPLE OF DOOM!!!

wil: I am really getting a kick out of this blog post.

How do you feel about that Wil, do you feel strange but also good?

wil: I am really getting a kick out of this blog post.

So much win.