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Dana reminded me of "Raising Arizona."

We saw the new "Oliver Twist" last Saturday and quite liked it.

Let's have a movie thread!

"...Awful good cereal flakes, Miz McDunnough."

Every morning. Every breakfast. Every time I have a bowl of cereal, my wife has to hear this. I've been saying it for years. It wasn't until we recently re-watched "Raising Arizona" that she realized where the line came from. She yelped when they said it onscreen.

Also, after we had the baby and my wife had a bit of the old post-partum, I used to make fun of her by holding the baby and pretending to cry saying, "I love her so muu-uuuu-uuch!"

I'm a bastard.

Trivia that everyone knows:
When HI gets a job drilling sheetmetal at the start of the movie, what's the name of the company he works for? Hudsucker.

I did not know that.

Coen brothers movies just have the most quotable lines, i.e., ...there ain't no pancake so thin it ain't got two sides.

The reason I found the RA script in the first place was that I was trying to explain to Vidiot that "I'm crappin' you negative" is from that scene where Glen is propositioning HI.

I'm rather surprised that he was unfamiliar with it. We might have to schedule an emergency therapeutic screening for all parties involved.

I had to stop reading because I was laughing out loud in the office.

"You ate sand?!"

"These blow up into funny shapes at all?"

I'm rather surprised that he was unfamiliar with it.

I feel chastened. Haven't seen the movie in far too long, and I need to rectify that, you betcha.

*hangs head in Coen-y shame*

[Unrelated: Someone really needs to send up the Migs signal, stat]

I've seen the movie a bazillion-trillion times, and I never caught "I'm crappin' you negative".

I hang my head with Vidiot.

Hang your head!

Metal health'll drive you mad!

You could probably convince MiguelCardoso to help you with this. Of course, inevitably, the note he wrote would a) be way too long, and b) lead only to a discussion of the merits/flaws of Miguel Cardoso.

Or c) work perfectly!
posted by Hildago at 8:48 AM PST on October 5

HA!

I dunno, they were jammies! They had Yodas'n shit on 'em!

"Son, you got a panty on your head."

"We released ourselves on our own recognizance."

"Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard..."

It's not as funny when I do it, is it?

Yes, it is. Definitely.

...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.

Hoooo lord, I totally forgot about that "menstrual cramps" scene.

Et voila!

Just about any line from Raising Arizona will make me smile. Even if it's someone else butchering it. And jonmc nailed my favorite scene. I dread going through the tv dial right before I go to bed and seeing that movie, becasue I always end up staying up to watch the whole damn thing and up very tired at work the next day.

And I'd like to go on record saying that Nicolas Cage pretty much sucks in everything else ever.

I'll stick my neck out and say "Leaving Las Vegas" too, kaf.

Hey, I liked The Rock and National Treasure, so shaddap. Hell, even Con Air is better than 95% of the crap that came out this year.

Not to mention Moonstruck:

"Chrissey, over by the wall, bring me the big knife."
"No, Ronnie!"
"Bring me the big knife, I'm gonna cut my throat!!"
"Maybe I should come back another time."
"No, I want you to see this. I want you to watch me kill myself so you can tell my brother Johnny, on his wedding day, OK? Chrissey, bring me the big knife!!"

"Malachi! You take that diaper off yer head and put it back on yer sister!"

*swoon*

Hmm. OK. Leaving Las Vegas was good. Especially the part with all the drinking.

As far as those other movies, they may have been fine, but it's Cage himself that I don't like. I felt like he ruined Adaptation, too. But, you know, I don't know squat.

You can feel free to channel my contempt for Nicolas Cage to whatever celebrity you see fit. I suggest [Insert name of actor everyone hates here].

Crash! I love Moonstruck!

"... love don't make things nice, it ruins everything, it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We're not here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die!"

You can feel free to channel my contempt for Nicolas Cage

I dunno. It's tough for me not to like a man who named his son Kal-El at least a little bit.

Moonstruck was very, very good. Which breaks my heart to say so, 'cause it's Cher.

And I liked Face/Off a lot. And Adaptation. And, dare I say, Honeymoon In Vegas.

The only other Cage movie I like is Wild at Heart. Whenever I do karaoke, I do Elvis' "Love Me" as an homage to that movie.

(I liked Leaving Las Vegas when I saw it. But I've never had the urge to see it again, stangely.)

And, I have to say, Lupo looks simply fantastic in a snakeskin jacket.

"Did I ever tell you that this here jacket for me is a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom?"

"I wanna apologize to you gentlemen for referring to you as homosexuals. I also want to thank you fellas, you've taught me a valuable lesson in life."

Speaking of karaoke, I think one of the best karaoke songs would be the one Peter Cook sings on Top of the Pops in Bedazzled.

Also, even more incidentally, I sang Footloose during an extremely drunken karaoke night recently, and came very near to killing myself when, driven insane by the moment, I jumped on a table covered in beer bottles. The table tipped over, and in one of those moments of grace that can only occur when you are seriously tanked, I was completely unharmed.

"Little Flo" would be a better Peter Cook song for karaoke. Short, but better.

I have the Bongwater version of it if you want, kaf.

Butterstick has gotten bigger.

(by the by, I never have to go too long without a monkeyhouse fix now.)

"Bedazzled" as performed by Drimbl Wedge & the Vegetation in the movie of the same name. A fave of mine since highschool. If I'm not mistaken, he refers to the song as "death rock" in the movie. Nick Cave also did a cover of it, but I've never heard it. This would be a killer karaoke song.

Way to make me jealous, Vidiot!

(the phone AND the lady panda wrangler)

That should be me!

Thanks, Meester Slack! Love this song.

I've only ever sung four songs on karaoke night:

Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go

Ricky Nelson - Travelin' Man

Jim Stafford - Wildwood Weed

Lyle Lovett - She's No Lady

Oddly enough, all the ladies in the bar when I did the Lovett tune smothered my wife with "Oh, that's so romantic" quotes and shit, so apparently they not only didn't LISTEN to the lyrics, but didn't READ them, either.

Crash, I have absolutely loved that song for a long time. I think I want it as the first dance at my wedding.

(and: are the women at the karaoke bars you go to deaf and insane?)

Yes, they are. Deafness helps when I'm on stage, and insanity when I'm not.

I once sang Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush". I was good. So good a strange woman ran up to me and kissed me hard on the mouth. For a long time. Apparently, it was her favorite song.

My date didn't appreciate it.

Pretty much my entire karaoke repetoire consists of "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line".

I Walk the Line is pretty tough to sing though.

There is no greater karaoke song than "Summer Lovin'" from Grease. It will, however, require a partner. Done well, you well make the hearts of the crowd swell until they burst. Done poorly, you will live forever in shame and misery, with a scarlet "G" burned into your forehead with a thousand cigarette lighters.

Anything whatsoever connected to Grease is teh suck.

Oh yeah? What about Olivia Newton John? Does she "suck" smart guy? Well, does she?

Oh, wait. Yeah. She does.

Carry on.

The Vandals cover of "Summer Lovin'" is delightfully obscene.

I have never had even remotely enough alcohol in my body to participate in a karaoke, although I have been unfortunate enough to witness various debacles of this particular genre.

I did, once, however, deliver an absolutely buttclenching rendition of Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" to a peck of mildy astonished and more than a little nauseated sorority girls at a catered affair back during my tenure as The Unlikeliest Frat Boy Eva.

In my defense, I was on a significant amount of acid.

a capella, I might add. No mean feat, even with the acid.

And none of them were wearing hats.

*waves, blows kisses from Amsterdam work trip*

Tits, tulips & tokes. I like this town.

I just remembered one other thing that doesn't suck about "Grease": Stockard Channing.

I expect an apology.

[Oh shit. I must have de-spammed Fes's (?) comment out of existence. Sorry. I'll try to recreate it here:]

Oh, Stockard Channing most definitely does suck, with relish.

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