Brick
While I have never in my life met highschoolers who talk like this, the movie was pretty cool and the dialogue was slick. It's a mystery and you really can't miss a trick, it was a lot of fun to watch.
ROzbeans
18 years ago
I dvr'd this. The previews look awesome.
Verileah
18 years ago
Dig that noir vibe :D. This remains a favorite of mine.
ROzbeans
15 years ago
Wow I dvr'd this back in 2007? Well it's on netflix now and I'm halfway thru (it's late and I needs mah booty seeps) and I absolutely LOVE it so far.
ROzbeans
15 years ago
Gave it 5 out of 5 - very Maltese Falcon, but way better acting (god help me for saying that about Humphrey Bogart). Joseph Gordon-Levitt was outstanding.
Verileah
15 years ago
Yep, still one of my favorite movies.
And it's streaming!
And it's streaming!
ROzbeans
15 years ago
Some of the best lines:
"Still picking your teeth with freshman, Kara?"
"Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you."
"Maybe I'll just sit here and bleed at you."
Hey! What are you doing here?
Just listening. (long pause) All right, you got me. I'm a scout for the Gophers. Been watching your game for a month, but that story right there just clenched it. You got heart kid. How soon can you be in Minneapolis?
Yeah?
Cold winters, but they got a great transit system.
Yeah?
Yeah.
There's a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under "Y". Go ahead, I'll wait.
This is classic film noir Boggart lines:
No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we're doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit.
I don't even quite get what this means:
Uh-huh. And he wants cash on the nail. He's a pot-skulled reef worm with more hop in his head than blood. Why pay for dirt you can't believe?
It was an easy movie to follow. I was just fucking giggly over the speakeasy speak dialogue.
"Still picking your teeth with freshman, Kara?"
"Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you."
"Maybe I'll just sit here and bleed at you."
Hey! What are you doing here?
Just listening. (long pause) All right, you got me. I'm a scout for the Gophers. Been watching your game for a month, but that story right there just clenched it. You got heart kid. How soon can you be in Minneapolis?
Yeah?
Cold winters, but they got a great transit system.
Yeah?
Yeah.
There's a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under "Y". Go ahead, I'll wait.
This is classic film noir Boggart lines:
No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we're doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit.
I don't even quite get what this means:
Uh-huh. And he wants cash on the nail. He's a pot-skulled reef worm with more hop in his head than blood. Why pay for dirt you can't believe?
It was an easy movie to follow. I was just fucking giggly over the speakeasy speak dialogue.
Verileah
15 years ago
I thought the scene in the van was wtf hilarious. The lamp? lol.
Edit - also the scene with the mom.
Edit - also the scene with the mom.
ROzbeans
15 years ago
Yeah the lamp in the van was hilarious. Lukas Haas was great in the movie, although I kept picturing him as that sad, cute little kid in 'Lady in White' and 'Witness'. Funny how Gordon-Levitt and him did Inception together, too. Granted Haas' character gets ganked after the first 20 mins.
The mom was great - blissfully unaware her baby faced son was a drug Kingpin.
The mom was great - blissfully unaware her baby faced son was a drug Kingpin.
Verileah
15 years ago
That bizarre Lord of the Rings conversation on the beach was classic.