Bleh. Also, movies.
Oct. 16th, 2007 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleIt's Tuesday. I feel like arse and a half - fever, sore throat, sneezies, aches, and so on. And I'm at the office anyway, because I'm supposed to hire three people this afternoon. Ha. So that sucks, except that I can now ascribe yesterday's craptastic mood to oncoming illness, which is all right. I had no other good explanation, anyway.
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triadruid, the movie I was trying to tell you about last night was U-Turn, with Sean Penn, directed by Oliver Stone (1997), not Lost Highway, with Bill Pullman, directed by David Lynch (1997). I can't tell Sean Penn from Bill Pullman, apparently, but I can tell Oliver Stone from anybody.
Also, note: Kurt Russell was not in either of these films; Kurt Russell was in Breakdown (you know, that other movie that came out in 1997 about a guy trying to sort himself out of mad bad shit after he breaks down on the side of the road somewhere weird). The point is, Billy Bob Thornton was the mechanic in U-Turn, and he was hugely fat, but you can still tell he's Billy Bob Thornton, because he sounds the same.
(For those playing along at home, we watched Bandits last night. This prompted a discussion withtriadruid about Other Movies Billy Bob Thornton Is In. This sort of discussion is always exciting for us, because I'm face-blind, and he is not really good at differentiating people by voice (i.e. he can't tell the difference between Styx and Rush. I'm just sayin').)
In other news, for
triadruid, the movie I was trying to tell you about last night was U-Turn, with Sean Penn, directed by Oliver Stone (1997), not Lost Highway, with Bill Pullman, directed by David Lynch (1997). I can't tell Sean Penn from Bill Pullman, apparently, but I can tell Oliver Stone from anybody. Also, note: Kurt Russell was not in either of these films; Kurt Russell was in Breakdown (you know, that other movie that came out in 1997 about a guy trying to sort himself out of mad bad shit after he breaks down on the side of the road somewhere weird). The point is, Billy Bob Thornton was the mechanic in U-Turn, and he was hugely fat, but you can still tell he's Billy Bob Thornton, because he sounds the same.
(For those playing along at home, we watched Bandits last night. This prompted a discussion with
triadruid about Other Movies Billy Bob Thornton Is In. This sort of discussion is always exciting for us, because I'm face-blind, and he is not really good at differentiating people by voice (i.e. he can't tell the difference between Styx and Rush. I'm just sayin').)
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Date: 2007-10-16 03:48 pm (UTC)Anyway, the other things I've seen BBT in are apparently Bad Santa (which you've seen), Armageddon (which there's no reason to see, really), and Sling Blade (which I'm adding to your to-watch list ASAP). Oh, and Dead Man, of course. I think Sling Blade is the only one in which he really shows his range as an actor... even you probably won't recognize him.
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:19 pm (UTC)Say Anything is the one where he doesn't want to buy, sell or process anything, yes?
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:24 pm (UTC)OMG! There's a movie that I've seen that you haven't?
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:31 pm (UTC)A fun film with a great soundtrack
Date: 2007-10-16 04:36 pm (UTC)Marty: I don't know - I mean I hope so.
Mr. Newberry: I visualised you in a haze as one of those slackster, flannel-wearing, coffee-house misanthropes I've been seeing in Newsweek.
Marty: No no no, I went the other road. Six figures, doing business with leadpipe cruelty, mercenery sensibility. You know... sports sex, no real relationships. How about you - how have the years been treating you?
Mr. Newberry: Well you know me Martin - still the same old sell-out, exploiting the oppressed...
Marty: Sure.
Mr. Newberry: Ah what a piece of work is man, how noble... oh fuck it, let's have a drink and forget the whole damn thing."
-Grosse Pointe Blank
Re: A fun film with a great soundtrack
Date: 2007-10-16 04:45 pm (UTC)Marty: Ah...contract killer.
Mr. Newberry: Well, good for you - it's a growth industry.
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Date: 2007-10-16 04:37 pm (UTC)That's the one. If you're going to see one Cusack film, though, see *Grosse Pointe Blank*. It's full of 80s music, and has Dan Ackroyd as a psychotic hitman. Plus Minnie Driver. What's not to love?
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Date: 2007-10-16 08:17 pm (UTC)His most recent movie was You Kill Me, which starred Ben Kingsley as an alcoholic hit-man for the Polish snow-plow racket in Buffalo. It's a comedy, very much in the Coen Bros. vein.
Obscure movies FTW.
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