Film The World’s Most Unnecessary Sentence
posted by October 23 at 12:17 PM
on“Big was received with almost unanimous critical acclaim, and is
considered by many critics the gold standard of movies in which a
child is trapped in an adult’s body.”
Begging the question: Do you think Short Circuit is the gold standard of movies in which a robot believes he is people?
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Yes.
Alls I has ta say is: 13 Going On 30, bitch!
Tom Hanks was in Big? Huh, all I noticed was Elizabeth Perkins in her bra.
Reminds me of something from Bill Simmons' ESPN column last week --
Q: Shouldn't Elizabeth Perkins have faced statutory rape charges in "Big"?
-- Chuck D., Clifton Park, N.Y.
SG: Absolutely. The rules are explicit here -- if you have consensual sexual relations with anyone not legally old enough to consent to such behavior, it's statutory rape regardless of whether they turned themselves into an adult by making a wish to a Zoltar machine. Perkins' character worked with Josh Baskin (the Tom Hanks character) in New York City when the age of consent was 15 years old. Well, Baskin was only 13 at the time. So there you go.
Hard to believe that Tom Hanks used to be a good looking guy....
Absolutely not! I'd put Trent from Harlan Ellison's "Demon With A Glass Hand" (okay, a teleplay, not a movie) at the top of that list.
So... what are you quoting here? Because now I'm kind of curious.
Nice software!
Tough call . . . Short Circuit or 2001?
Lindy I love you so much but 'Big' sucked ass.
Vice Versa anyone?
Shakes the Clown is the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies.
@9:
HAL never BELIEVED he was human - he was quite aware of the fact he wasn't - but rather, he was programmed to ACT like one.
"I am standing here beside myself!"
Short Circuit rocked. It still does.
> “you hire people to shove people in like
> they do in Japan.”
oh boy, let me tell you, public transportation like they have in Japan is NOT what we want to end up with... right?
i mean, you can go pretty much anywhere on public transportation, it's pretty affordable, and it's damn near ALWAYS on time.. not here in Seattle, damn it, NO WAY!
do you see that? do you see that, people? that is what happens when you get too many tabs open in Firefox and you send your comments through on the WRONG one...
now, on the subject of Big, i'll agree that it is certainly no "gold standard".
Don't discount "W" as a new gold standard for this category
@12: And "Over the Top" is the best arm-wrestling movie ever made. There is simply no denying it.
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