Any love for this movie? I don’t think it did well in theatres, it was out of print for a really long time, and yet it’s one of the best comedies I have ever seen.
Not only was it a great vehicle for Murray, Davis, Robards, and Quaid, but there are little known performances by Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci. What’s not to love?
Quick Change is an awesome movie. The bank guard’s take on how the robbery went down is hillarious. Plus there’s Kurtwood Smith calling Bill Murray a straphanger. Good stuff.
I saw this movie on video when I was overseas and then on the airplane back to the US. For the version on the airplane, they replaced all the F words with “viking.” It’s pretty funny to see a tough mobster telling the other gangster to “Open the viking door.”
What I don’t get is why this movie was out of print for so long. I first encountered it when I worked at a video store in the early 90s. We had one copy on VHS, it was damaged, and we couldn’t get another copy. Many years later I complained of this to a GF, and she managed to find a used copy on eBay or something like that. I still have it.
Oh Lord, this one’s in our top five. We’re constantly quoting it at each other.
They ALL cold-cocked me!
<Korean cashier on phone> There’s a DEAD MAN!!! <to customer> $38.82.
<anytime we see Kurtwood Smith in something> It’s the KING!
<when we get in the car> Wthethere to?
<when we drive past> The goddamn AIR-PORT!!
Flores para los muertos. Los muertos! Los MUERTOS!!!
Oh sir, you forgot your map! And our million dollars!
I’d better stop, I’m supposed to be meeting someone.
By the, if any of you fans ever want to track down the book this was based on, don’t bother. We did, and it was awful. Mad props to the screenwriter for turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse.
Great movie that no one has seen. Whenever I have reason to think of Randy Quaid’s recent troubles, I think of this movie.
I like the way you’re really glad when
their plane finally takes off, and Jason Robards has a lightbulb moment, but it’s too late! The fact that they are the “bad guys,” but that you’re happy for them when they succeed.
I think I am one of very few who can honestly say they saw it in the theater when it was orginally released. I can’t remember exactly why but I think Ebert or someone like him gave it a good review. Loved it then and still love it today.
BTW - the Bus Driver was the wonderful actor Phillip Bosco. And don’t forget Phil Hartman’s memorable cameo.
Where’d you get this, off a matchbook? It’s perfect if you want to pick up Paul Bunyan!
Behind the white line!!
If only we could find a LANDMARK . . .
It has a moon on it . . .
Average height, average build, red nose, blue hair . . .
I should also mention that we named a litter of male kittens Grimmy, Loomis, and Phil. (Hey, we didn’t have a female, and this was right after Phil Hartman was killed. We had to wait till our next springer puppy came along, and we named her Miss Phyllis Potter.)
I really loved this film when I first saw it, and have seen it a couple of times since, probably on cable TV. One question, not exactly on topic: this and other films, that I’d kind of like my kids to see, are rated R. I am often surprised to learn this about some films (I think The Breakfast Club was another) that I don’t recall being R rated. Is this because of the change in the ratings from G, PG, R to G, PG, PG-13, R (never remember which is “worse”)? What was in this that gave it an R rating? Is the language, etc, any worse than an episode of anything on Fox?
You only get one “fuck” in PG-13, so based on the post upthread goofing on all the "fucking"s being replaced with "viking"s, it got rated R for language.