GF and I got dragged to see it in the theater, thinking it was just a fluffy teen movie. We were very pleasantly surprised. We both loved it (we have it on DVD and still watch it on occasion). As we live in the Valley (818 area code), a fave line of ours is, "Don't go 818 on me, Claire!"
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
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Glamcookie - Jun 27, 2007 5:47:06 am PDT #9710 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Frankenbuddha - Jun 27, 2007 5:50:23 am PDT #9711 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Olyphant was also great in Go.
He wasn't doing the righteous part, but he was working that same freak-eyed intensity he used for Bullock, except with a Santa hat instead of a mustache.
I love that movie as well. Just so wonderfully random.
Strega - Jun 27, 2007 6:20:09 am PDT #9712 of 10001
Dave White on Live Free Or Die Hard:
What I love most about this, and movies that steal from it, is that plausibility is dispensed with early on, and there's never such thing as Too Much when it comes to piling on the threat or destroying property. It's like, "Oh, I'm dangling over a pit of molten metal? And you're shooting at me with a machine gun while I dangle? Well, check this out: I just happen to be dangling in the exact spot where the secret lever that releases liquid nitrogen lives! Now it is you who are doomed!" That's what I came to see, and that's what I got, and now I'm happy. (No, that example isn't actually in the movie.)
Tom Scola - Jun 27, 2007 6:24:15 am PDT #9713 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
(No, that example isn't actually in the movie.)
Darn.
Strega - Jun 27, 2007 6:32:27 am PDT #9714 of 10001
I enjoy imagining Bruce Willis saying, "Now it is you who are doomed!"
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2007 7:49:51 am PDT #9715 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think Dave White and I would get along.
I love that movie as well. Just so wonderfully random.
Tantra, baby.
Scrappy - Jun 27, 2007 8:15:40 am PDT #9716 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also, Olyphant is the sports guy on Indie 103.1, the local fringe-ish radio station which is home to such way cool shows as Jonesy's Jukebox, a free form daily romp with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols which kicks ass. Did I mention that David Lynch is the weatherman for the station? You gotta love that.
Hayden - Jun 27, 2007 8:30:46 am PDT #9717 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
You don't need a backwards-talking midget to know which way the wind blows.
Laga - Jun 27, 2007 9:21:54 am PDT #9718 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Indie 103.1 has sports? And weather??? I knew the Suicide Girls had their own show.
Scrappy - Jun 27, 2007 9:46:32 am PDT #9719 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Not only does it have sports, but Crispin Glover filled in for Olyphant recently. It's a three-minute segment each day or something like that. Olyphant does a sports rundown, and then jokes around with the morning guy, usually. Olyphant = funny guy.