Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 3)

You think one year of medical school entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?

Megalopolis (2024)

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Isn’t the whole movie an unintentional comedy?

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This is my adopted daughter, Margot Tenenbaum.

(Legitimately impossible to pick just one.)

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I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!

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Larry Bird doesn’t do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!

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It was intentional, it just didn’t work.

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ā€œAll those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed - casualties of a war they had nothing to do with.ā€

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Ok fine:

H.I., you’re young and you got your health, what you want with a job?

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Gale: All right, ya hayseeds, it’s a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m a-gonna be in motion. You see…
Gale: Shut up!
Feisty Hayseed: Okay then.
Gale: Everybody down on the ground!
Evelle: Y’all can just forget that part about freezin’ now.
Gale: Better still to get down there.
Evelle: Yeah, y’all hear that, don’t ya?
[Everybody lays down. Gale looks at the now-empty teller windows]
Gale: Shit! Where’d all the tellers go?
Teller’s voices: We’re down here, sir.
Evelle: They’re on the floor as you commanded, Gale.

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Wilson: How you doin’ then? All right, are you? Now look, squire, you’re the guv’nor here, I can see that. I’m in your manor now. So there’s no need to get your knickers in a twist. Whatever this bollocks is that’s going down between you and that slag Valentine, it’s got nothing to do with me. I couldn’t care less. Alright, mate? Let me explain. When I was in prison - second time - uh, no, telling a lie, third stretch, yeah, third, third - there was this screw what really had it in for me, and that geezer was top of my list. Two years after I got sprung, I sees him in Holland Park. He’s sittin’ on a bench feedin’ bloody pigeons. There was no-one about, I could’ve gone up behind him and snapped his fuckin’ neck, wallop! But I left it. I could’ve knobbled him, but I didn’t. ā€˜Cause what I thought I wanted wasn’t what I wanted. What I thought I was thinkin’ about was something else. I didn’t give a toss. It didn’t matter, see? This berk on the bench wasn’t worth my time. It meant sod-all in the end, ā€˜cause you gotta make a choice: when to do something, and when to let it go. When it matters, and when it don’t. Bide your time. That’s what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly.
Head DEA Agent: There’s one thing I don’t understand. The thing I don’t understand is every motherfuckin’ word you’re saying.

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Hooper: Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy. Bust this: Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

Banky Edwards: What’s a Nubian?

Hooper: Shut the fuck up! Now… Vader, he’s a spiritual brother, y’know, down with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he’s gonna run the fuckin’ universe; gets a whole clan of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader’s hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?

Banky Edwards: Intergalactic civil war?

Hooper: Gentrification! They gon’ drive out the black element to make the galaxy quote, unquote, safe for white folks. And Jedi’s the most insulting installment! Because Vader’s beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin’ to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!

Banky Edwards: Well, isn’t that true?

[Hooper pulls out his gun, shoots Banky]

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YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!

Oh, he’s drunk. How would he know where we’re going?

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Pick just about anything from Airplane.

Stop calling me Shirley

I like that moment in Airplane when all of the passengers go berserk all at once, and then as part of the pandemonium a random topless woman from the neck down just floats across the middle of the screen.

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I just watched Working Girl. Melanie Griffith vacuuming topless for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

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Never seen it. But have heard lines from it quoted often.

Marathon Man coming Monday on Rewatchables. I’ve never seen it.

Just rewatched Independence Day. I haven’t listened to the pod yet, but I’m going be very disappointed if the most 1996 thing about this movie isn’t Harry Connick Jr. impersonating Jesse Jackson.

I thought he was doing MLK the first time I saw the movie, but my closed caption said it was Jesse Jackson and I was like ā€œOh yeah, that is him.ā€

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaat

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