30 days of december babble, dec 14

[tsuki_no_bara]

today's yesterday's december babble is my favorite movie scene from a bad movie, for no_detective, with whatever definition of "bad movie" works for me. for this exercise, "bad movie" seems to be "nicolas cage was in it", because that's two of my favorite movies - the rock and gone in sixty seconds - which may or may not count as "good". (i mean, just

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[no_detective]

Oh, these are all great - thank for sharing! I totally remember that scene from Gone in Sixty Seconds. It always struck me as an oddly real moment amidst all the insane action, as well as hilarious both because of implied disbelief (he had to SAY what happened) and because when someone goes through a wall they're generally NOT okay. Also, wow, Timothy Olyphant was a baby back then.

...um, now I'm tempted to check out The Architect. Damn you, SebStan. Daaaaaammmn yoooouuuuuu.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i've seen gone in sixty seconds like a million times - i even own it - and when justified started, i didn't recognize timothy AT ALL. i was so used to his babyface! his delivery of that line is so good, and yeah, i think it's his disbelief that the truck went THROUGH THE WALL without significant damage to the driver. the driver seems just as stunned. there are a lot of scenes i really like (donnie and, uh, ferb? one of the younger crew - being carjacked in the middle of stealing a car. "boy! you need a role model!" and "i rob from the rich and give to the needy." "you mean the poor." "no, like i said, the needy, because brother, we need this car." and when you first see sphinx in the morgue eating a sandwich, and he just drops it on top of a dead body so he can answer the phone, and memphis pretending to be rich to scope out cars - "too many self-indulgent weiners with too much bloody money", not to mention all the car chases because i love me a good car chase) but that one is my favorite