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Favorite "Offbeat" Movie

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Re: Favorite "Offbeat" Movie

"Raising Arizon" in part because I used to drive around Tempe, Arizona to figure out where the car chase scene were filmed.

Also, "Fandango" which may have been Kevin Costners' first film that also starred Judd Nelson. Classic Texas tale of a road trip search for a bottle of Dom.
 
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Anyone remember "How I Won the War" ? Any movie by the late Ed Wood, especially "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is worthy of note.
-Mike
 
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Couple more that came to mind.

“Support Your Local Sheriff” and “Support Your Local Gunfighter”.

Comedy Westerns with parallel plots. Granted the Jim Garner’s roles in both where basically reprises of his Bret Maverick gambler character from the TV show that made him even more famous during a career slump. But I still loved those movies.

Always been a huge fan of James Garner and Jack Elam.

Little bit of Duff family trivia: I was named after James Garner’s “Maverick” character. It was a compromise between my mom & dad who wanted to name me the 3rd! That compromise saved me from being Asa Wylie Duff, III. Talk about an arse whooping waiting to happen when I entered the public school system. To this day I still thank my mom for fighting the good fight on that one.
 
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Speaking of LBC wrecks, They really did wreck the Jag hearse in Harold and Maude" They only had one and there was a problem with one of the cameras, That's why there is a freeze frame right after it goes over the cliff.
 
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Blues Brothers
World's Fastest Indian
To Please A Lady (Clark Gable as a midget driver who goes to race at Indy)
 
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Time Rider with Fred Ward and Six String Samurai.

Regards John
 
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had to watch Blues Brothers again last night.... It's been too long since I'd seen it.
hahahahahahaha!!!!
Scene; the bar at "Bob's Country Bunker"
Elwood: "What kind of music do you have here?"
Lady bartender: "Oh we have both kinds, country AND western."

or
Cab Calloway: "Boys. You gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way."
or
Jake: "Fix the cigarette lighter."
 
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Elwood: S#@%!
Jake: What?
Elwood: Rollers... (police lights come on behind them)
Jake: S#@%!

or

Ellwood: What's going on up there officer?
Officer: Oh the da** Nazis won their court case and they are marching today....
Jake: I HATE Illinois Nazis

or

Jake: Lotta room in this mall.
Ellwood: Look! The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year
Jake: Disco Pants and Haircuts!

Or

Aretha Franklin: There are two jive honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants wanting some food.
Matt "guitar" Murphy: Oh yeah?
Aretha: The fat one wants four whole fried chickens and a coke
Matt: Jake....
Aretha: and the skinny one wants dry white toast.
Matt: Ellwood... The Blues Brothers !!!!
Aretha: The blues brothers ??!!!??? They still owe you MONEY fool!!!!

or

Latina Landlord: Are you the police?
Ellwood: No ma'am, we're musicians
...
Latina Landlord: Mr Man! Mr Man! they left this card....


God I love that movie.... my wife refuses to watch it with me any more due to my bad habit of reciting pretty much every single line.

You got my cheez-whiz boy?????
 
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Banjo said:
Cab Calloway: "Boys. You gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way."
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LOL - OK one more...

Cab Calloway: You boys know "Minnie the Moocher" ????
Murph: I once knew a hooker named Minnie Mazola....

and now back to our normally scheduled programming- I will cease and desist from the thread-jacking.



as if.... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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Funny ya mention all that, Jim. Last Saturday we attended an annual outdoor Rotary event: Denizens of the Deep". All the fish, shrimp, sausage, fritters, BEER you could consume. Entertainment was by an "Otis Day and the Kinghts" group. The guy who was the lead singer is rumored to be the one in the flick. I think it's a scam, meself. He was good, but he was drivin' an old Nissan. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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jsneddon said:
Jake: Lotta room in this mall.
Ellwood: Look! The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year
Jake: Disco Pants and Haircuts!
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I wrote a short story in a college fiction writing class called "Disco Pants and Haircuts". Can't find it now but I seem to recall I got a decent grade.

-Wm.
 
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William said:
jsneddon said:
Jake: Lotta room in this mall.
Ellwood: Look! The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year
Jake: Disco Pants and Haircuts!
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I wrote a short story in a college fiction writing class called "Disco Pants and Haircuts". Can't find it now but I seem to recall I got a decent grade.

-Wm.
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Elwood; "Pier 1 Imports"
Jake; "This mall's got everything."
Officer; "He broke my watch!"
Ok Ok I promise to stop now...... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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LOL...

and again.... later on in the movie....

John Candy on radio: Hi, this is car... what car is this?
officer: 54
John Candy: Hi, this is car 54... we're in a truck!
officer: "He broke my watch!"

god... I really love that movie.

and Doc... I think you're thinking of Animal House:

Otter: "OTIS!!!!!!"
Large Black Man: "Can we dance wit your dates?"

yet another go-to movie.... love that whole genre.... Animal House, Stripes, Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Where the Buffalo Roam.... pretty much all of those "first-generation" SNL movies... except for "Continental Divide"....blech.
 
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"I got fifty bucks says the Smayle kid picks his nose."
"A hundred says he eats it!"
 
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And some trully off-beat documentries by Australian director Mark Lewis to add to the list:

"The Natural History of the Chicken"
"Cane Toads - an Unnatural History" (includes a great segment of a guy who erradicates cane toads with his VW bus!)
"The Wonderful World of Dogs".

Rob.
 
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Patton said:
Many, many of my favs listed above, but i can't belive Fletch hasn't been listed yet.
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May I borrow your towel? I need it to dry off my car-I just hit a water buffalo.
 
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