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OK, Who Gets Sentimental as HELL About This Movie?

posted 16 years ago by gnolti
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And chokes up at the very THOUGHT of a yellow bug traveling Route 1 as "Ready to Take a Chance Again" plays in the background?

Show of hands, please.

There, daddy, do I get a gold star?

[–] jayc-8 14 years ago

I'm pretty old now and saw this when it came out. I cannot forget that scene with the old Japanese couple in the back of the cab waving a flag, I'm pretty sure I wet myself. One of the funniest scenes. In fact this was one of the funniest movies...Ever!!!! Ever!!!!

[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

No reason to get sentimental, but this sequence IS kind of appealing in some cheesy little ways. Very "seventies", yes.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] caroline-189 12 years ago

i am in my thirties now, watched this when I was little with my mum. I always think of her when I see it, and I loved it even now

[–] Beck-40 12 years ago

I do, and can't help it! :-)

I was positively steeped in Barry Manilow music as a child.

Chevy Chase was my first crush (around 9-10 years old, after seeing this on broadcast TV). Guess I was a weird kid! :-)

This was my favorite film for over a decade, until "Dead Again" overtook it. (Yes, a few years later, I figured out I was a Hitchcock fan just waiting to happen!)

[–] Druff 12 years ago

I guess I do. I have pretty clear memories of going to see it in a theater, because my sister knew the guy who played the albino assassin. I was 8 or 9 yrs old, it was a big deal! But I don't really remember much about the movie itself.

Oddly enough, I'm way more sentimental about Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? which came out around the same time. I never even saw it until a couple of weeks ago, but I've always remembered the commercial, where the big fat pompous British guy says "Who is it this time... Aunt Jemima?" and shovels some food into his mouth.

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[–] ziggystar86 12 years ago

I get, remember watching it almost every year as kid, it was my favourite movie. Almost everything was perfect. It was funny, exciting, scary. And I loved Goldie Hawn, she was wonderful in it, I could almost see myself in her. I'm sure a lot of people loved this as kids.

[–] Redart27 11 years ago

Oh I do!! The yellow VW bug on the Pacific Coast Highway with Barry singing "....and...I'm..(wait for it)...READY to take a chance again..."

I was babysitting the first time I saw this film. I missed the very beginning so I never caught the title. The parents came home before it ended and I was so peeved that I couldn't watch until the end. Years passed before I finally figured out the title and got to see the whole movie. Ahhh, the pre-internet olden days...

RIP Dudley Moore. His apartment scene is still ROTFLMAO hysterical!!!

[–] KatrinaW 10 years ago

Oh I do!! The yellow VW bug on the Pacific Coast Highway with Barry singing "....and...I'm..(wait for it)...READY to take a chance again..."

Aah, the original VW Beetle! My first two cars were original Beetles, so I especially love that scene. Those things drove like a go-cart and had such a trademark engine sound! The music and cinematography of that scene was great, with the sweeping views. Makes me want to visit SF again!

Drug references in '70s films were regarded as much more innocent back then

So true! I was watching this morning, and had to laugh when Chevy Chase and Brian Dennehy (Fergie) come to Gloria's apartment after she's attacked there. When she says she 'stabbed him with the needles', Fergie says, "oh, narcotics". She replies, "No, knitting". Just the casual use of the word 'narcotics' is so unusual to me, especially because you normally think of heroin when you think of drug needles.

Oddly enough, I'm way more sentimental about Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? which came out around the same time. I never even saw it until a couple of weeks ago, but I've always remembered the commercial, where the big fat pompous British guy says "Who is it this time... Aunt Jemima?" and shovels some food into his mouth.

Holy crap, I totally forgot about that movie! It was shown time and time again on HBO, back when we first got cable. George Segal and Jacqueline Bisset! Good times!

[–] Ghetto_Defendant 10 years ago

I will always watch this movie. I can remember seeing it in the theater when it came out. I was 13 and saw it with my best friend! Things were simpler those days for free-range kids.