#mixed nuts

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Mixed Nuts (1994).

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Happy crimbo, throwback to that time we were talking about holiday movies and this happened

but then it was that Felix

(I have not seen the movie)

[personinthepalace]

Mixed Nuts - Spy x Family Musical

a video edit of some of my favorite sxf musical moments - hope you enjoy it :)

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Liev Schreiber in Mixed Nuts (1994)

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I recently made a bunch of tiny replicas to fill these decoy cans with, it took forever and I love these little treasures.

[eldraftsman]

Day 4: Favorite Opening?

Another difficult question: when I think of anime openings I can't just think of the song itself but how it's used and how the subsequent animation tied to it looks. And due to that, my brain goes into nerd mode and starts dissecting the video instead of solely focusing on the music. Which makes a hassle when the openings to compare all do something really nice in the visual department compared to each other. That said, I'm gonna have to go with the first opening, Mixed Nuts by Hige Dandism

From a visual design perspective, it's not necessarily the most technically impressive nor experimental out of the whole collection so far: The second opening Souvenir has an absolutely gorgeous use of lighting and compositing to bring the warm autum color palette to life(as well as having some of the most heart warming shots over the other two) that paint a touching picture of the fleeting nature of happiness, while the third opening Kura Kura has the kind of visual dynamism only someone like Masaki Yuasa could bring to the table for an opening that exudes wacky energy. But Mixed Nuts just hits so many of my favorite visual stylings that those achievements of the other openings can't quite top it. Between the mixture of the chidlren book illustration aesthetics of the first half(with a healthy dose of UPA thrown in that fits the faux vintage setting of the story like a glove), to the dynamic shifts in colors that simultaneously evoke the stylish flair of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the pop art of the Persona series and the panache of Lupin IIIrd, it just communicates a lot of different facets of the show in a way that also manages to pay homage to some of it's Japanese precedesors in manga/anime related spy fiction. And from a musical perspective? I could really summarize it by simply saying I'm very partial to jazz. Not only is it a very fitting genre to the spy genre, but the general peppy energy of the OP really gets you going. If there's a negative side to this opening is that, understandably, doesn't quite capture the tonal changes you see later in the series. It also doesn't feature Bond and leaving the dog out of the family picture doesn't feel right. Oh well, nothing in this world is perfect.

[dr-bengay]

This is how I feel after looking at reviews of some of my favorite movies and seeing that it's very widely hated

[sin-ophelia]

[jar-of-rocks]

in honor of all you adam sandler fucks who somehow pull goth baddies, here's adam sandler pulling a goth baddie

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Mixed Nuts - SPY×FAMILY OP [Piano] / Official Hige Dandism

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Mix Nut Mooncakes 🥮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🌕🏮

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Spy x Family OP - Mixed Nuts by Official Hige Dandism Live in Concert

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

Love love love love love the band.

Love love love love love their performance.

I miss Spy x Family.

[smackdownhotel]

Today’s yogurt

PB&J Royal nut medley

[personinthepalace]

Mixed Nuts - The Comedy About Spies x Spy x Family

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In today's episode of "cats who look like Liev Schreiber characters" (Liev Schreiber characters who look like cats?):

it's HER

[adamwatchesmovies]

Mixed Nuts (1994)

Remakes are rarely what they should be. In theory, what you should do is take a movie that’s either bad or almost but not quite there and try it again, taking the opportunity to fix the blemishes. In execution, we most often get something akin to "cloned with damaged DNA”. I haven’t seen Le père Noël est une ordure so I’m assuming Mixed Nuts is the latter because it shows promise and then builds to an ending so lame and lazy it sours the rest of the film.

In California, on Christmas Eve, Philip (Steve Martin) is the head of the suicide-prevention hotline “Lifesavers”. The organization is about to shut down thanks to the eviction notice from the landlord, Stanley (Garry Shandling). On what is sure to be Lifesavers’ last day, Philip and his co-workers Mrs. Blanche Munchnik (Madeline Kahn) & Catherine O’Shaughnessy (Rita Wilson) will have to deal with a trailer-trash couple, an annoying neighbor that loves to make up bad songs (Adam Sandler), a depressed transvestite (Liev Schreiber), angry rollerbladers (Parkey Posey and Jon Stewart) and the “Seaside Strangler”.

Directed by Nora Ephron (which she co-wrote with her sister, Delia), a fair number of jokes land - particularly if you’ve got an off-kilter sense of humor. All of the characters are so neurotic that a normal, everyday scenario would end up with tears, outrage and a gun being fired. On Christmas Eve, at a suicide-prevention hotline, in a building whose elevator is out of commission and whose tenants are all being evicted, with a serial killer on the loose, the question is how big of a mess this will become and how the weirdos will fit together. Despite all this, I swear Mixed Nuts isn’t as ridiculous as it initially sounds.

I probably shouldn’t have enjoyed the film as much as I did and I must confess that thinking back, I can only think of a few times it made me laugh. The most noteworthy element of the film is Liev Schreiber in his film debut. His character is over-the-top like there’s no tomorrow but the performance is surprisingly sensitive when the jokes simmer down. Also enjoyable are key interactions between Catherine and her callers. She’s so empathetic towards them it’s a wonder she can do her job. While this raises some questions about how the operation could’ve possibly worked and requires you to find the humor in suicidal thoughts, it just might be bizarre enough to make you smile.

The ridiculous feels-like-they’re-improptu-but-they-actually-aren’t songs courtesy of Adam Sandler’s character (who speaks in the same annoying childlike voice he chooses when he isn’t playing a fantasy version of himself), the various neuroses and escalation lunacy manage to rack up enough points for you to like the film. You're having a good time, wondering why people are so down on Mixed Nuts. Then, we get to the final act. The conclusion doesn’t come out of nowhere but that's only because someone went back once the script was finished and added hints of what was coming retroactively. It starts by making you cringe, then keeps getting worse until you’re sitting there, wondering “Did I somehow convince myself I was having fun earlier, or was the whole movie like what I'm seeing now?”.

There are a lot of big names in Mixed Nuts and they should’ve added up to a Yuletide comedy for the ages. It doesn’t live up to its potential. In fact, I’m now in the position of trying to defend a movie that I’m not even sure I enjoyed that much in hindsight. I thought of concluding this review with "Mixed Nuts is a mixed bag" but I'm filled with such doubt about the end results that I'm not sure I can even muster that statement. (December 20, 2021)