DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Yeah, got it on, seen it dozens of times, but can't resist watching again.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
It's worth watching, there's never been a film quite like it.
It has it's great moments, the hamburger scene "whats WRONG with this picture?" and the golf course bit cracked me up because it's true, golfers are cunts like that.
Best line is the final line at the end from weary cop to his boss.
Could have been better but Hollywood does it that way.
It has it's great moments, the hamburger scene "whats WRONG with this picture?" and the golf course bit cracked me up because it's true, golfers are cunts like that.
Best line is the final line at the end from weary cop to his boss.
Could have been better but Hollywood does it that way.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
I like anti heroes 
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
A bit silly. It could have done without the rocket launcher.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
in the bit where he trashes the korean shop- first object to go is the little american flags in the jar. Brief shot of flags amid wreckage- message.
Dottie, you're better than this.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Yeah right, that was awful... but they shoot scenes like that to put on the trailers, like it was a black comedy.
It could have been a great film.
I think it's borderline racist in parts, but through the D-Fens character it makes sense, he's not a nice guy.
Would have been a far better movie with Dennis Hopper playing the lead role, and a different director, Francis Ford perhaps...
Less of the Crash! Bang! Wallop! set-pieces, and more the anger spilling out in mundane but irritating situations, like the McDonald's scene.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Yeah, the McD's scene is an almost universal one for anyone who has arrived at a Maccy Ds 1 minute after 1030 and despite there clearly being some sausage and egg macmuffins available, they 'can't be sold after 1030'.
I arrived at 10:24 once, spent 7 minutes queueing, then managed to guilt trip them into selling me one, blaming their slow customer service. A blow on behalf of the common man. You should have seen the outraged looks of other customers who had accepted their feeble excuses, as they walked away mcmuffin-less.
On an unrelated note, a friend on FB has just posted this as her "all time fave film". I don't hate it, but those are rather strong terms for a forgotten early 90's Douglas vehicle.
One of my favourite bits in the fim, him getting instructions from the kid.
I always thought this was an interesting point but for me the person who mirrors him the most is the black guy protesting outside the bank who is dressed identically. If anything the Nazi dies because he misidentifies himself with D-Fens.
wasn't as good as I remembered, did feel racist too.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
I don't think the male menopause has quite yet had its day, though.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
There will never be an end to being 50-odd and leaving your life behind for a hot, nubile young thing.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
There will never be an end to being 50-odd and leaving your life behind for a hot, nubile young thing.
That prospect is the only thing keeping me going, these days.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
There will never be an end to being 50-odd and leaving your life behind for a hot, nubile young thing.
Is it even possible to have sex with a rocket launcher?
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
"What the hell are you trying to do, kill me with a golf ball?! It's not enough you have all these beautiful acres fenced in for your little game, but you gotta kill me with a golf ball?! You should have children playing here, you should have families having picnics, you should have a goddamn petting zoo! But instead you've got these stupid electric carts for you old men with nothing better to do!"
"you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?"
"you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
loved his daughter, lied to his family about where he was going every day
exactly.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I like the little incidental scenes like punching the guy who's shouting at the old woman in traffic (before he takes out the roadworks with a bazooka )
I also love the scene where he shoots up a phone booth with a machine gun:
"Excuse me... Hey, EXCUSE ME. I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but there are other people waiting to use the phone here."
"There are?"
"Yeah."
"There's other people who want to use the phone?"
"That's right, you selfish asshole."
"Well, that's too bad. Because you know what?"
[firing a machine gun into the phone booth]
"I think it's out of order"
CLASS
)I also love the scene where he shoots up a phone booth with a machine gun:
"Excuse me... Hey, EXCUSE ME. I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but there are other people waiting to use the phone here."
"There are?"
"Yeah."
"There's other people who want to use the phone?"
"That's right, you selfish asshole."
"Well, that's too bad. Because you know what?"
[firing a machine gun into the phone booth]
"I think it's out of order"
CLASS
I remember reading a review which said that in some US cinemas which had large African-American audiences that scene was often met with cheers because of the perception that many Korean store owners are greedy and over-charge.
So I think its just a little to easy to just dismiss it as being 'racist' when it probably reflected some slightly more complex issues of the time.
Pseudopsycho
I ate all your bees
Because African-Americans can't be racist?
No but more as a reflection of the tensions that can exist, especially in parts of Cities that are not that well off. Or would you rather films just reflect the notion that we are all one big happy family who can happily co-exist in mutual respect and admiration ?
Pseudopsycho
I ate all your bees
It was the phrase "perception that many Korean store owners are greedy and over-charge" that smells of prejudice. It's the insidious way that such an idea can seem to be justified on the basis of "it's not racist cos it's true".
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