So I finally saw Raising Arizona.
Er.
Yeah.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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Strega - Jan 20, 2007 11:30:25 pm PST #7072 of 10001
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2007 11:32:35 pm PST #7073 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Much like A Life Less Ordinary, I find that that movie is gold when Holly Hunter is on screen and very questionable when she's not.
Nutty - Jan 21, 2007 4:10:26 am PST #7074 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm sorry, how can you not love a chase scene involving stolen Huggies and a random old man in a pickup truck telling Nicolas Cage, "Son, you got a panty on your head." while the hilbilly soundtrack wails and a pack of suburban dogs invades a household --?
I despair of you people.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 21, 2007 4:29:50 am PST #7075 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What Nutty said. Though Holly Hunter does intersect that scene at several points. Son of a bitch.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2007 5:05:00 am PST #7076 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It never occured to me that My Name is Earl has quite a bit of the ambience of Raising Arizona, with very little explicitly in common. No wonder I like them both.
Jessica - Jan 21, 2007 6:26:11 am PST #7077 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I couldn't tell most of the actors in The Covenant apart, which made the plot really hard to follow in places. I mean, the basic premise wasn't difficult to get, but I couldn't keep track of which cloned Abercrombie & Fitch model was supposed to be the evil one.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 21, 2007 7:25:57 am PST #7078 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm sorry, how can you not love a chase scene involving stolen Huggies and a random old man in a pickup truck telling Nicolas Cage, "Son, you got a panty on your head." while the hilbilly soundtrack wails and a pack of suburban dogs invades a household --?
You forget, I live among rednecks. And rarely find them funny.
Ash - Jan 21, 2007 7:53:19 am PST #7079 of 10001
You forget, I live among rednecks. And rarely find them funny.
Tell me about it. I don't need to watch fictional stereotypes when real ones glower at me from time to time.
Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2007 8:07:01 am PST #7080 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Much like A Life Less Ordinary, I find that that movie is gold when Holly Hunter is on screen and very questionable when she's not.
Actually, I found her character pretty shrill and annoying most of the time. I tire of the Woman Whose Sole Purpose in Life Is to Have a Baby.
I'm sorry, how can you not love a chase scene involving stolen Huggies and a random old man in a pickup truck telling Nicolas Cage, "Son, you got a panty on your head." while the hilbilly soundtrack wails and a pack of suburban dogs invades a household --?
It did occur to me that that was one of the weirdest chase scenes I had ever seen.
It never occured to me that My Name is Earl has quite a bit of the ambience of Raising Arizona, with very little explicitly in common. No wonder I like them both.
But I love MNIE, however.
Sean K - Jan 21, 2007 8:13:52 am PST #7081 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I couldn't tell most of the actors in The Covenant apart, which made the plot really hard to follow in places. I mean, the basic premise wasn't difficult to get, but I couldn't keep track of which cloned Abercrombie & Fitch model was supposed to be the evil one.
Just watching the trailers (which were not at all cool, IMO) I was baffled as to why anyone would make this movie.
I mean, there is no point or reason to having a car hit a semi head on, explode into flames, and then
reassemble on the other side of the semi,
other than doing it for its own sake. Once you've put the one instance of that in your film, there's no reason to bother giving a point to anything. You're movie is going to just be a string of really spectacular stupid looking events that exist only for their own sake. Why would anyone want to see a movie like that?