― Spitoon Corrie, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― ath (ath), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
"Yes."
"How may I help you?"
"You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosy fucking cheeks. Then you can give me a fucking automobile. A fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick. Four fucking wheels and a seat."
"I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me."
"And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car right fucking now."
― ath (ath), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.playusa.com/DVD/Region_1/3-/83605/-/Product.html
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images.play.com/covers/4566m.jpg
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
And any time we drove down the highway in Australia, I had that "YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!" scene playing in my mind.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
CLASSIC.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― ath (ath), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul Kelly (kelly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Classic all the way.
― acidmouth (acidmouth), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
wtf @ the ending?!?! can someone explain this to me??
― chaki, Thursday, 11 October 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
John Candy was married to Tyler Durden.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 11 October 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZMo05Vs1I
― fuckin' (jeff), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS0jS2jJ248
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXTrS5O0z8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq6MhRtkNsE
― fuckin' (jeff), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
people train runs outta stubbville
― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, March 1, 2006 5:23 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
http://i41.tinypic.com/5wob8.jpg
"her first baby, come out sideways. she didn't scream or nothin" *snorts mucus*
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you believe that guy is the dad from Todd Solondz's 'Happiness'?
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/events/466017246746053/?fref=tck
― del griffith, Friday, 19 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to Marathon. May I help you?"
"How may I help you?
When she repeats herself is so fucking funny when you know whats coming next
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
'runway' btw is all-time
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 19 October 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
^^ yes x1000
― cwkiii, Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
The bit where Steve Martin realising they're fucked and trying to get the word "truck...truck" out as they're going the wrong way is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
That whole extended sequence is brilliant. Candy playing piano on the dashboard!
― cwkiii, Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
I was home sick with the flu all weekend and yesterday too (had to at least get a weekday off work) and so naturally I stayed in bed and ate a lot of soup and watched a lot of forgettable, not very good movies on Netflix that I hadn't seen before and didn't really enjoy.
The best of these not very good movies was probably Heavyweights (1995). I liked Heavyweights. Did you know that Christopher Meloni's Gene the vietnam vet camp cook from Wet Hot American Summer was totally probably based on a super brief, uncredited cameo by Peter Berg as the scruffy camp cook? It's so weird, it's the only time this guy's in the movie, and he only says this one line after Josh goes mysteriously missing after talking back to evil Ben Stiller. You can't ignore the costume similarities, look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdVtzn9gNU
But this post isn't about Heavyweights (1995), it's about Dutch (1991). You know, Dutch, it's got Ed O'Neill in it. Working class guy escorts his girlfriend's snotty boarding school son home for Thanksgiving. I'd never seen Dutch before. Apparently it was a huge flop, and for the last 25 years I've associated it with the memory of being annoyed at having to constantly see it on the shelves at the Video Discount for years after I initially decided it didn't seem interesting or funny enough to want to see. Seemed like it took Video Discount half my adolescence to finally move it from the New Releases section to the back of the store. I'm not sure why I rejected it unseen. Maybe because Ed O'Neill seemed like such an appropriately familiar TV face that it was off-putting to visualize him in a movie, or maybe the hockey stick on the cover made me think it had something to do with hockey, which I don't care for. It was probably a combination of the two.
So yeah, I never bothered with it and I'm glad I didn't, because this movie is a complete rip-off of my favorite movie of all time: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)!!!! And the weird thing is, it was written by John Hughes! I couldn't believe it. It has to be some reworked early draft of PT&A that John and director Peter Faiman (of Crocodile Dundee fame, and nothing else) thought they could fool people with for some quick cash. Pretty inexcusable if you ask me.
Here is a list of similarities between Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Dutch that proves that Dutch is a rip-off of Planes, Trains and Automobiles:
― del griffith, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
Used to get Curly Sue confused with Dutch, mostly because they were both on the Blockbuster shelves together long past their prime.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
Curly Sue's the one where Jodie Foster's retarded, right?
― del griffith, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
i didn't understand the "those are pillows" joke for way too long. once i finally did i felt ready for adulthood
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
areN'T pillows
I went back and watched the ending again, after reading all about this:
Originally, Martin escapes his accidental travel companion Candy, hops a train, goes home to Chicago for Thanksgiving – and finds Candy has followed him home in a cab, a relentless pest. “I realized I don’t like this guy at the end…He just went from being a pain in the ass to a tragic pain in the ass.” Hughes decided to make Candy “a noble person” who catches the hint, lets Martin go back to his family, and goes off to suffer alone – until Martin realizes Candy’s a tragically lonesome noble person, and invites him back for Thanksgiving.
The whole Martin-reminisces-fondly-about-their-escapade scene on the train was just an outtake of Martin sitting in the car, going over his lines in his head between takes.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
I haven't been home in years,,,,, in years,,,,,IN YEARS,,,,,....
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
As originally written, Candy follows Martin home to Chicago in a cab, and then asks him to pay the fare, which is $84,688
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic review of the 30th anniversary blu:
I don't know how much the subjective storytelling in Planes, Trains & Automobiles reflects Hughes's identification with Neal, but his auteur idiosyncrasies are all over the film, from this distrust of slumber to the short-spanning narrative (Tuesday-Thursday); from the eclectic yet cohesive soundtrack (Ira Newborn's score alone incorporates blues harp, Vangelis-style synth riffs, and an insanely catchy computerized rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In") to the closing freeze-frame; from the devastation of an automobile to the Leone-style close-ups during Martin's opening showdown with Bacon. (When Hughes samples from pop-culture, it's a tonal cue (i.e., the use of the "Dragnet" and "Twilight Zone" themes in Sixteen Candles), not a riff on what's being referenced.) And of course there are the surreal beats, which, owing to the picture's focus on Neal, feel more anchored in the realm of expressionism than usual, and pull us deeper into the emotional reality of the character. (See: Del briefly turning into the Devil when Neal realizes they're driving against the flow of traffic on the highway.) My favourite of these is when Neal recognizes Del's face at the airport: Instead of flashing back to Del's surprised reaction in the back of the cab, Hughes recreates the moment inside the airport, complete with the door to the taxi! It's difficult to imagine any of the filmmakers currently working in Hughes's shadow going this extra mile, let alone being so inspired or audacious in the first place.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 November 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link