MR is a great movie. TBS/TNT was having a run on the film a few months back.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
le nubian - Jul 09, 2008 4:12:41 pm PDT #6876 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sean K - Jul 09, 2008 6:28:23 pm PDT #6877 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Midnight Run is one of my all time favorite movies.
Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2008 10:48:29 pm PDT #6878 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Tonight, I watched Escape from New York, because I think John Carpenter was supposed to have made good movies back in the day. It was really boring and cheesy. I thought it was supposed to be an action movie. There wasn't a lot of action. I enjoyed the "Heard you were dead" gag, though. And Adrienne Barbeau's breasts deserved their own credit.
Then I watched The Blob, with Steve(n) McQueen. It was much more entertaining. But sillier.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2008 3:06:34 am PDT #6879 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Love Midnight Run!! Charles Grodin was just awsome; I don't think he ever had a better role. And he and DeNiro played off each other perfectly.
Ninety-nine bottles of beer. On. The. Wallllllll!
There were some good looking chickens back there, Jack.
I want chorizoan eggs.
Also love TBB, of course.
Tom Scola - Jul 10, 2008 3:14:01 am PDT #6880 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Mike Mignola, on working with Guillermo del Toro: [link]
Even though I don't speak Spanish, we speak the language of monsters.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2008 6:06:40 am PDT #6881 of 10000
"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
A friend of mine once cracked up most of a theater by yelling "Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead!" when the preview for Escape from LA started playing on the screen.
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2008 7:57:26 am PDT #6882 of 10000
brillig
Though of course the only proper reply is John Wayne's from "Big Jake": I'm going to kill the next person who says that.
Kathy A - Jul 10, 2008 8:35:39 am PDT #6883 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
An interesting article on filming the stunts of Dark Knight in Chicago.
JZ - Jul 10, 2008 11:20:13 am PDT #6884 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I love Midnight Run dearly; Hec has never seen it (so far, the only occasion in our entire relationship history when I've gotten to be the one who screeches, "WHAT? How could you never have seen that? How is that possible? I don't know if I can be with you!").
I saw it again during the recent TNT or whatever it was run, but it was of course redubbed because of all the bad words, so I didn't insist that Hec sit down and watch it with me because I didn't want his initial viewing experience tainted with abominations like (whitefonted just 'cause) "I got two words for you. Shut the [...hell] up."
Clearly it needs to go on the Netflix queue.
Miracleman - Jul 10, 2008 11:37:09 am PDT #6885 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Dennis Farina is classic in Midnight Run.
"You two morons better start getting more personally involved with your work or, I swear to God, I will blowtorch the both of ya."