Slog - Comments on "I Luhv Him SOOOO MUUUUUCCCHH!!!!"

Comment by StrangerDanger

StrangerDanger — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:24:54 -0800

For 1 Gabillion reasons David I am one of your biggest fans...Public Enemy....Showgirls. But now, you have reached new heights. This is truly one of my favorite films.

Comment by bronkitis

bronkitis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:26:11 -0800

What an awesome movie to have only just seen. It changes your fucking life. I was once fortunate enough to have someone ask me if I knew what a recidivist was, and got to yell "REPEAT OAF-FENDER!" at her.

Comment by Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:27:32 -0800

I know you do, honey. I know you do...

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:28:13 -0800

There are so many funny parts to id. The fight between cage and goodman in the double wide is one of those tears of laughter moments for me.

Comment by Huh

Huh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:30:40 -0800

Mighty good breakfast flakes, ma'am.

Comment by Ziggity

Ziggity — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:32:26 -0800

Son, you got a panty on your head!

Comment by RonK, Seattle

RonK, Seattle — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:02 -0800

Are you sure you're not just telling us what we want to hear?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:10 -0800

Remember when people thought Nicolas Cage might be a good actor? This movie, and "Moonstruck", are why. Sadly, that turned out not to be the case.

But "Fargo"? Best American movie? You're forty-odd years too late. Please don't tell me you've never seen "All That Heaven Allows".

Comment by Hosono

Hosono — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:00 -0800

When there was no meat we ate fowl
when there was no fowl we ate fish
When there was no fish we at crawdads
When there was no crawdads we ate sand

Comment by Matt from Denver

Matt from Denver — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:48 -0800

And it features 3 future Best Actor/Actress winners too... not to mention eventual Best Director and two-time Best Screenplay winners in the Coens.

Back when this came out, the weird thing was that it was their sophomore effort following their low-budget but very good noirish Blood Simple. Two very different movies.

Comment by Stacy in Austin

Stacy in Austin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:41:21 -0800

Do these blow up into funny shapes?
No, unless round is funny.

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:41:34 -0800

Fnarf: My Fargo proclamation is emotional, not factual, but yes, I have seen All That Heaven Allows and it didn't do so much for me. (I saw it to help me contextualize my beloved Far from Heaven, but maybe I should try again, on its own terms...)

Plus, I would have totally pegged you as a Singin' in the Rain defender, over any Sirk...

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:42:51 -0800

Stacy at 11: !!!

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:02 -0800

Leonard Smalls is simply the greatest character ever created. Books, movies, stage; E V E R!!!!!!

"I'll kick their butts, no extra charge."

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:45:04 -0800

@ 9: You ate sand?

Comment by LDP

LDP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:47:23 -0800

Nawww, not that mother-scratcher . . .

Comment by Bub

Bub — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:48:11 -0800

"Her womb is a field where my seeds can find no purchase." Does anyone know why Nicolas Cage never worked with the Coen Brothers again?

Comment by Balt-O-Matt

Balt-O-Matt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:48:40 -0800

@8 and 12--Oooh, All That Heaven Allows knocked me out of the park. I rented it recently after having re-watched Far From Heaven. I was expecting a clutch-your-pearls tear jerker, but I was surprised by how affected I was by it.

I haven't seen Raising Arizona all the way through, either. But I remember my dad just laughing and laughing at it. Perhaps now's the time to do it.

Comment by abe

abe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:50:05 -0800

Featuring a line I still use often in day-to-day life:

"Gimme back my baby you warthog from HELL!"

The panty-on-the-head line is a good one, too.

What a terrific movie.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:51:59 -0800

Singin' In The Rain's all right, though I have a limited tolerance for Debby Reynolds. Donald O'Connor makes up for her, though, which makes it a good movie but not the best. For best musical, I'm partial to "An American In Paris" and "Funny Face". (or "Young Girls of Rochefort", if I can leave the country).

"All That Heaven Allows" is ten thousand times better than "Far From Heaven", which is decent but a little stiff. Visually, I don't see how anything could possibly top ATHA; the scenes where you can see the woods through the window are mind-blowing, better than anything by Kubrick. Douglas Sirk is God. None of the Seventies auteurs can touch him. And of course none of them had Rock Hudson to work with.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:07:17 -0800

Holly Hunter in this movie should have won an Oscar for this. I think it's my favorite American female performance of the past thirty or forty years. Her character actually changed the way I see the world; and I'm not alone, judging by the number of quotations that are popping out here. The perfect woman (well, after Mrs. Fnarf, of course)!

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:09:36 -0800

21: To quote your beloved, "That was beautiful."

Comment by pretentious

pretentious — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:09:49 -0800

mind you don't hurt yourself, mordechai...

Comment by Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:19:48 -0800

You shoulda seen the other guy.

Comment by nightlifejitters

nightlifejitters — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:20:47 -0800

when Rasing AZ came out, my friends and I quoted it to death, to the point where people would chase us from the room with pool cues - there's never been a movie that came remotely close to having as many quotable lines - and it wasn't just the lines, it was the way they were delivered:

Policeman: Do you have any disgruntled employees?
Nathan Arizona: Hell, they're all disgruntled! I ain't runnin' no damn daisy farm!

R.I.P. Trey Wilson

Comment by Hosono

Hosono — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:24:30 -0800

I just love biblical names, If I had another baby I would name him Jason Caliber Tab.

Sorry fellow Sloggers. I grew up with no cable out in the country. The only videos I had were Raising Arizona, The Neverending Story and some terrible PBS thing with Robin Williams called The Frog Prince. I have seen Raising Arizon at least two-hundred times. It is unquestionably my favorite movie.

Comment by Misty Brown

Misty Brown — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:33:08 -0800

Get that diaper off your head and put it back on your little sister!

Comment by stresskitten

stresskitten — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:35:03 -0800

I know people who don't like Raising Arizona. I feel sorry for them.

The Coens have never quite re-captured the sense of mad giddiness they got with this film. (And no love here yet for Randall "Tex" Cobb as the harbinger of the Apocalypse? That's a prime example of the demented brilliance of the thing.) I saw the trailer for Burn After Reading last weekend, and am holding my breath that it might be the one that finally gets them back to this level. If nothing else, Brad Pitt looks absolutely overjoyed to be in it.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:35:45 -0800

there's never been a movie that came remotely close to having as many quotable lines

Uh, have you seen The Big Lebowski or Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? Two Cohen Brothers movies that have endless quote material.

"FORGET ABOUT THE FUCKING TOE!!!!!!!!"

Comment by Mr. X

Mr. X — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:42:58 -0800

@17,

As I recall, it was actually "...a rocky place, where my seed could find no purchase."

Comment by RonK, Seattle

RonK, Seattle — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:44:33 -0800

I tried to give up robbing convenience stores, but they're just so darned convenient.

Comment by Lola

Lola — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:44:45 -0800

Turn to the right!

Comment by The Dude

The Dude — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:48:43 -0800

"Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women!"

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:52:34 -0800

"I'll be takin' these Huggies and whatever cash ya' got".

Comment by Matt from Denver

Matt from Denver — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:54:02 -0800

@ 28, a lot of Raising Arizona's feel is due to Barry Sonnenfeld's great cinematography. He decided to become a director in the 90s and only worked with the Coens once more (Miller's Crossing)>

Comment by dre

dre — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:03:21 -0800

"Get me that baby, Hi!!!"

Comment by wisepunk

wisepunk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:22:02 -0800

Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps, real hard.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:25:47 -0800

Donnie was a good man, and a good bowler.

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:26:06 -0800

Probably another for the "pizza is delicious" file, but still I envy you seeing it for the first time. I myself saw it fifteen years late and was flabbergasted that it really was as funny as all my endlessly-quoting-it friends contended (I had a similar experience with the Princess Bride, which I was fully prepared to hate.) Probably my favorite "funny" Coen brothers movie. I think I'd pick "Miller's Crossing" overall, but that's subject to change at will.

Comment by Travis

Travis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:28:36 -0800

I'm talkin' about me'n Dotty's swingers. As in, to swing? I'm talkin' about wife swappin', boy. What are you talkin' about?

Comment by Back Atcha

Back Atcha — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:29 -0800

@15 -- We ate sand.

Comment by MyNameIsNobody

MyNameIsNobody — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:21:27 -0800

"I don't know what his damn jammies looked like... they had Yodas and shit on them!"

Comment by Mr_Friendly

Mr_Friendly — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:04:17 -0800

I said, "Healthy white baby? Five years? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a negro born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:29:02 -0800

If you like the tone of "Raising Arizona" check out the trailer for the Coens next movie:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/burnafterreading/

Comment by Huh

Huh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:36:49 -0800

@42 - that made me laugh until I cried. I had forgotten that line.

The sun don't rise and set on the corner grocery!

Comment by Hosono

Hosono — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:03 -0800

#23 nailed it I think. That's my personal favorite line in the film. Context of one of Dot and Glenn's is carving "FART" into the wall, I think he has a patch on his eye as well.

Comment by brueso

brueso — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:20:56 -0800

one of my favorite parts:
when one of Hi's jailbird buddies (not John Goodman- the other one) is robbing a convenience store and asks the old man clerk "Do you have any of those balloons that blow up into funny shapes?"

The man replies: "Is round funny?"

Comment by brueso

brueso — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:22:36 -0800

dang Stacy at 11 beat me to the punch (and a more accurate quote, too)