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.
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."
"Make yourself a sandwich, drink a glass of milk, do some fuckin' thing." Love him in that movie, so much.
eta the perfectly correct quote, because the rhythm of it is just so delicious.
"Sydney, I swear to God if you don't shut the fuck up, I'm gonna stab you troo da heart with dis fuckin' pencil."
And Yaphet Kotto!
The only, single thing I could possibly ask of that movie is that it have more female characters in it than just the ex-wife and the sad daughter. But that complaint is one I could lodge against, well, depressingly close to every product of Hollywood in my lifetime. But on its own terms, aside from any meta complaints? Damn near perfect.
And Yaphet Kotto!
Stealing Marvin's cigarettes and lighters!
Okay, did *anybody* know there were
three
TV movie sequels to Midnight Run? Starring Christopher MacDonald as Jack Walsh.
Harrrrrrr. I was thinking that the Troll Market in Hellboy II sounded a little like the Floating Market in Neverwhere and the Faerie Market in Stardust, but then I thought that it's not an uncommon trope. And then I remembered that Gaiman actually worked on Hellboy II. Narf.
I am actually super-excited to see this movie.
Neil's Faerie Market in Books of Magic predates all those uses of the concept.
Somewhat on topic, I love the disappearing and reappearing store in the Discworld series.
Cute TCG Hellboy story: When we were first dating we rented Hellboy and I ended up watching it alone because TCG just wasn't into that type of movie. Fastforward 3 1/2 years to the present when a commercial for the new Hellboy movie comes on TV and I hear TCG exclaim, "Hellboy!" I have completely corrupted him.
