James Garner, Support Your Local Sheriff
That was quick.
Insomnia has some advantages.
“I don’t know who to trust.”
Kurt Russel as MacReady, talking to his tape recorder in John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing
“We’ll use Miracle Whip!”
Huh, I’m not remembering that bit. But the movie is right. I was quoting Wilford Brimley, after they locked him away and MacReady was checking on him.
Paranoia and mistrust was the whole theme of that movie, as it was in John Campbell’s original story, Who Goes There? It’s the biggest thing they changed when they made the 1951 movie – that was practically a WWII “buddy” picture, with the military men acting as one cohesive unit, tossing out ideas, chewing them over, and coming up with a plan of action (comically without any input from their nominal commander). In spirit, it’s the polar opposite of the Campbell story and the Carpenter film.
I didn’t realize it at first, but Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 film The Hateful Eight is practically an homage to Carpenter’s The Thing The action is set in a warm “oasis” in the middle of a cold winter with a handful of people trapped there, nobody trusts anyone, and there’s a deadly secret people will kill for. And they got Kurt Russell in it, who’s one of the most paranoid ones there. What finally clued me in was when they started using part of Ennio Morricone’s score for The Thing near the end of Hateful Eight
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
I think they were talking about making tuna salad but didn’t have any mayonnaise.
A: Do you want a spanking?
B: Do you want a punch in the nose?
I gave up after 10 minutes almost a decade ago because it was too much Tarantino all at once, but this is an intriguing idea.
May have to revisit this film.
Bingo!
“You know how the women are when they get to New York.”
“Have you ever been to Akron?”
They say taupe is very soothing.
The taupe one: Ocean’s Eleven?
“It’s Idi Amin.”
Charade?
How To Marry A Millionare, the jerkish guy to Betty Grable?
“I could wait a few days,
but I can’t wait a few days.
I could, but I can’t.
Could and can’t.”
Yes! It was on just the other night.
I noticed that it had some similarities to Wait until Dark. Audrey unknowingly had something of great value. The bad guys tried every trick in the book to try and recover it, and she never knew whom she could trust.