the movie go directed by doug liman starring sarah polley katie homes william fichtner timothy olyphant

this movie is relevant to my interests

Soundtrack

"New" – No Doubt
"Steal My Sunshine" – Len (band)
"Magic Carpet Ride (Steir's Mix)" – Philip Steir
"Troubled by the Way We Came Together" – Natalie Imbruglia
"Gangster Tripping" – Fatboy Slim
"Cha Cha Cha ('Go' Remix)" – Jimmy Luxury & The Tommy Rome Orchestra
"Song for Holly" – Esthero
"Scatter and Swing" – Lionrock
"To All the Lovely Ladies (Radio Mix)" – Goldo
"Good to Be Alive" – DJ Rap
"Believer" – BT
"Shooting Up in Vain (T-Ray Remix)" – Eagle-Eye Cherry
"Talisman" – Air
"Swords" – Leftfield

also starring: jay mohr, scott wolf, taye diggs, jenna moroney

this was the golden period of doug liman

yeah you can't really fuck with this movie + golden age of katie omz

challop: katie holmes looks better now than she did in this movie

challop: sarah polley looks better in this movie than katie holmes does

sweet ride imna dl it now

its on hulu homie i watched it last night

* Christina Ricci was the first choice to play the role of "Ronna Martin" but she had to turn the part down due to scheduling conflicts. Reese Witherspoon also turned down the role of "Ronna", while Sarah Michelle Gellar was considered to play the role of "Claire".

i watched this movie on hulu 2 weeks ago it totally holds up. i believe taye diggs wears a mustard-colored blazer at some point. <3

tim olyphant + katie holmes are adorable together

wow this thread is now the 6th google result 4 searching "go" "movie" "doug liman"

i think the best thing hulu has done for me is remind me of the existence of gnarly movies like this

i dont really fuck w/hulu im like the morbs of the internet whats this streaming streaming give me downloading any day of the week kids

also re-watching this movie made me sad about the course katie holmes's life has taken.

I blame this movie for making me suspicious of the eating of shrimp. This is a bad thing imo.

the message of this movie is only not to eat the shrimp at cheap vegas buffets!

I saw this film on video back in ... 1999? It was quite fun I think. The girls were surely beautiful, what else would they be.

this movie is way better than beautiful girls

that is true. i hate beautiful girls, the movie, btw.

lessons i learned from go:

• best way to have a threesome is to fake an accent w/ some bridesmaids in vegas
• when having said threesome make sure nothing is on fire
• dont touch the chicks in the champagne room

I liked this movie well enough to watch it twice. I waited 'til it came out on video, but made sure to see it, because it stars Sarah Polley, who I've been a fan of since her "Road to Avonlea" days. This is not a serious movie. It's fun, upbeat, quick, and for those with short attention spans. I liked it. I didn't think it was as incredible as some say, but enjoyable enough to watch it twice. So many people have compared it to Pulp Fiction. Frankly, the only similarity I see between the two, is the "jumping around timelines". Which I like. Good movie to watch, just don't bother trying to analyze it - you won't come up with much.

• there is some amount of ecstasy over which over which u should not sell

over which over which over which over which

i saw this on tv last year... def holds up. i remember seeing it when it came out, i was 13 and i was pretty much like 'welp this is what my teen years are gonna be like' (spoiler: they werent)

william fichtner ownes

i was 13 and i was pretty much like 'welp this is what my teen years are gonna be like' (spoiler: they werent)

lol, me too, see also: "rules of attraction" and "college"

i was watching dick last week and thinking that the whole like 96-2001 period of post-pulp fiction popular cinema is really rad not discounting the fact that i was 15 so many movies had this optimistic looseness to them i really vibe.

sorry dudes, not feeling this one

well why dont you "go" away

ha ok

"stop" it !!

saw this one at the moviehouse.

"Talisman" – Air

it's Air (French Band)

i remember seeing it when it came out, i was 13

Was going to say fuck you, but then realized I was only 16 or 17 when it came out.

fuck you

i was 19 :(

me too

ha we just watched last week on hulu after reminiscing about what a great movie it was. i was 19 when i first saw it at the movies and it was right about the time i was living in a huge party house and 'discovering' drugs. also, i was living with some real hardcore hippy trippers who would come home from foraging in the botanical gardens for magic mushrooms and tell me they were convinced our roommate was an undercover cop. i managed to convince them otherwise by reminding them of the shoes this guy always wore.

saw this one at the moviehouse

so did i. i snuck in to see this after watching 10 things i hate about you

i owned this film on VHS! :D

Good film. Haven't seen it since around 2000, but I remember particularly admiring the way Sarah Polley conveyed the mind-numbing boredom of long shifts in a supermarket through facial expression alone.

http://i42.tinypic.com/iqagy1.gif

^awsome i was srsly going to post that dialogue

lol jenna is in this

i haven't seen this since it came out. at the time i was really sick of that post-tarantino indie-crime-movie fractured-narrative thing, it all seemed so played and "ironic" and all. disappointing because the movie's got energy and the cast is good. i like the opening scene in the supermarket, has a well-observed grungy-service-sector vibe to it. i wanted more of that, less drug-and-crime hijinx and amway jokes. i especially like timothy olyphant in this. i think this is the only thing i saw him in before deadwood, so it was funny when he turned up as bullock.

its on hulu homie i watched it last night

i did this a few weeks ago, it holds up pretty well
drug dealer's apt is just a few blocks from where i used to live

i like when the one guy is talking to the cat.

i haven't seen this since it came out. at the time i was really sick of that post-tarantino indie-crime-movie fractured-narrative thing, it all seemed so played and "ironic" and all. disappointing because the movie's got energy and the cast is good.
Ha, I liked it at the time but have been afraid to watch it since because of this.

this thread has taken quite the predictable course imo

just watched it, recommended - corny late 90sness in no way detracts from enjoyment

sarah polley is pretty slammin in this tbh

y totally

lol i totally didnt realize that bulluck from deadwood was the drug dealer dude

this was like my fave movie my senior year of HS - hahahahaha

my best friend came into town a few weeks ago and we were bored at a club and we decided we want to try to write a screenplay for a GO sequel. it's going to updated for the new millenium of course, with a remix of that same LEN song. and maybe a cameo by some minor character.

post it + lets all collabo bro

movie would have been awesome if vegas gunmen ran into "swingers" douches at the end and killed them or something

i think todd gaines is a key character

ha at swingers mashup.

todd gaines returns, except now he's a personal trainer into smoothies and yoga

olyphants style in this (and girl next door) is so much better than the glum chum jam he's always rockin these days

olyphant lamest heavy ever in die hard4

Saw this in the theater when it came out and watched it again recently. Stands up well...

Love the scene with Jane Krakowski as part of the Amway couple.

not amway. confederated products. it's a different company; it's a different quality of product.

holy crap this movie's ten years old!

this movie fukkin rules --- cant believe i missed this thread

so quintessentially 90s

a perfect getaway = slept-on thriller of the year! checkitout olyphans

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lol mtl hivemind.

it was really good.

awesome
mtl hivemind wld like its headache to go away too

montreal hiveache

i especially like timothy olyphant in this. i think this is the only thing i saw him in before deadwood

He is megasexier than any drug dealer IRL. (I also saw him off-Bway in late '90s essentially playing David Sedaris in The Santaland Diaries, doing an hourlong monologue wearing striped elf tights. yowza.)

u should see perfect getaway morbs!

totally good!

i always loved how out of place his huge bright hollywood choppers were in deadwood

saw the UK premieere of this at the glastonbury festival (1999 or 2000?). everyone in the entire field stood up and went mental at the end cheering and clapping.
i was pretty off my head and thought 'that was one of the best films i've ever seen'. it ISNT that good but i'll never forget that first crazed viewing.

From Go screenwriter John August's blog

With that clarification out of the way, let me explain a strange fact of my career: I’ve not written Alice in Wonderland three times. It’s a recurring motif.

1995

The story that became Go was originally envisioned as a retelling of Alice, substituting the underground rave scene for Wonderland. As it developed, I pretty thoroughly scotched those ambitions, but you can still see vestigial elements in the first section of the film:

*Ronna, like Alice, charges boldly into unknown territory, and proves unexpectedly brave in the face of strange events.
*She visits a smoking psychedelicist who talks in riddles but ultimately helps her.
*Poorly labeled drugs are consumed with unanticipated consequences.
*A talking (telepathic) cat offers advice.

Other than the cat, these are all extremely tenuous connections. I would never claim that Go is remotely an adaptation of Alice. Rather, I had Alice bumping around in my head during Go’s genesis, and some Alice DNA worked its way into the genotype. For example, the yellow Miata was for a long time a white Volkwagen Rabbit.

Watching this now for the first time in years. Getting flashbacks to when I would use this as my getting-ready-to-go-clubbing flick. Good times.

TANTRA BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was pretty off my head and thought 'that was one of the best films i've ever seen'. it ISNT that good but i'll never forget that first crazed viewing

otm

its def a modern classic imo

1999 seems like a long, long time ago now. Some of the more Tarantino-esque moments in this, like the comedy gangster stuff, and the "blackness is a state of mind" scene in the car to Vegas, felt very clumsy, to say the least. But this was still surprisingly enjoyable.

Haven't seen this in years, and remember liking it at the time, but it certainly screams "1999" more than any other film from that year that I can recall.

Like, even at the time, the whole "fucking Family Circus" bit felt like an overly self-conscious attempt at mimicking both Tarantino and Kevin Smith.

Just noticed that Lamp's post of 2009 is a cut and paste of an IMDb review of 2000:

Fun Movie
Author: kclark-7 from BC, Canada
29 August 2000
I liked this movie well enough to watch it twice. I waited 'til it came out on video, but made sure to see it, because it stars Sarah Polley, who I've been a fan of since her "Road to Avonlea" days. This is not a serious movie. It's fun, upbeat, quick, and for those with short attention spans. I liked it. I didn't think it was as incredible as some say, but enjoyable enough to watch it twice. So many people have compared it to Pulp Fiction. Frankly, the only similarity I see between the two, is the "jumping around timelines". Which I like. Good movie to watch, just don't bother trying to analyze it - you won't come up with much.

maybe kclark-7 is Lamp?

Could be.. If so, impressed that he stands by his thoughts on the film 9 years on.

(or she of course)

hey if you'd written that review would you change a single word?? you can't improve perfection