Archive for August 2nd, 2007
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Kahn!
2007
08.02
08.02
I just want to publicly confess that I am a horrible spotter at the gym.
When Barry feels particularly locquacious in the middle of doing something that requires spotting (like bench press), and I think he’s stalling, I will channel Kahn from “King of the Hill“, and yell at him:
Why you talking! Stop being lazy and lift the weights! You waste so much time that now I am getting hungry thinking about my dinner!
I would create a “Kahn for President” website, but it appears other people are already building sites devoted to him…
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The Double Feature, Part Deux
2007
08.02
08.02
Here are some romantic “pairings” I thought of today:
“Love & Sex” and “Love, Actually“
a.k.a., the Love Roller Coaster Collection.
“Say it! Say, ‘I love you, horseface!’” (Love & Sex)
It’s a nice twist on the classic romantic dramedy, and from the moment Jon Favreau steals Famke Jannsen away from the momma’s boy, I knew this movie was a winner. Far too many male leads are “nice guys” and it was cool to see a guy who actually had balls playing a romantic lead. How many times can we watch Tom Hanks emasculate himself just to score with Meg Ryan? Once? Twice? Stick to war movies, Tom! Your days of dressing up as a girl are over!
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The dialogue I wish they’d used for this scene:
“This is for the skanky chick in your office, I presume?”
Rowan Atkinson’s steals the one scene he’s in, but the all-star ensemble in “Love, Actually” and the multi-threaded story line was supremely sappy, but fulfilling and sort of cool. It also has a wonderful scene that implies British accents make American women horny, to the tune of a foursome. Or so we are led to believe.
Oh, and I’ve been a fan of Rowan Atkinson ever since I got hooked on “The Black Adder.”
“Remains of the Day” and “The English Patient“
a.k.a., a cure for insomnia!
Seriously dude, just frickin’ ask her out before you get too old to something about it. This movie is like watching Red in “Shawshank Redemption” wrestle with life on the outside — you want to just grab Anthony Hopkins and tell him “Get busy! No, really, just get busy with the girl or get busy dying!”
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Movie synopsis: I was a Nazi sympathizer and stole my best friend’s girl (even though she was in Prince’s “Under the Cherry Moon“), but did I really deserve to be burnt to a crisp?”
That said, the secondary story with the minesweeper and the nurse is pretty delicious.
More to come as I think of them…