I just think the writers thought they were genuises or something, when really they are just trying to be like Snatch and Lock Stock. It makes me very angry.
Hey you know whats funny. I always thought that dogs..um..laid eggs. And I learned something today.
I'd say it's the other way around ^^; Considering this movie is based on a book that was released before either of those movies, and it's actually pretty close to the book .
shareExcept Lock, Stock came out in 1998 and Dave Barry's book was released in 1999.
I've never read or seen Big Trouble, so I won't comment either way.
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Thats still before 2001's "Snatch"
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Hey you know whats funny. I always thought that dogs..um..laid eggs. And I learned something today.
You're not...well, maybe not. It's okay for people to like movies or not like them and say so, even at the risk of some jackass calling you a jackass.
I thought this movie was fun, although I thought the screenwriter should've kept a great line from the book. When Snake and Eddie finish holding up the Jolly Jackal in black pantyhose, one Russian mumbles to the other one something about 'Gator Fans.' In the book it was a line in Russian that roughly translated as "How the HELL did these people win the Cold War?"
The book is a lot funnier, and a lot darker, too, because Snake was a very nasty fellow.
*beep* this movie it makes fun of *beep* that i personally would kill someone if they did it to my face i wish i could find the creator and have him come over so i could twist his neck like a twizzler and piss on him
sharethe book has nothing to do with the movie making style, and it did seem a little like snatch. regardless, Big Trouble a great movie :)
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The "people who don't go to college" comment is insulting, shallow, and, well, sounds like it comes from someone who went to college but didn't get it, or doesn't get it about the movie.
The movie is not intended to be a deep commentary on anything, yet however does make some insightful social commentary at the genre level for which it is intended. Where I think the movie shines is in its writing. Several recurring themes (shooting the TVs, references to cable channels, Gator fans [really meaning ANY sports fans], the squirt gun being mistaken for a real gun, GEOs being geeky cars, etc.) are very clever.
What is even better, IMO, is the weaving together the many various disparate stories that all "coincidentally" come together, in multiple otherwise unrelated circumstances, to create one central story. This is so characteristic of Seinfeld-style plots and writing. I don't believe it is an accident, to take my point further, that many Seinfeld episode/recurring actors appear in this movie. The Seinfeld characters appearing include RFK (as the a-hole beer advertising client with the Hummer), Elaine's boyfriend Puddy and Jerry's temporary fiancee (as the two police officers), and Elaine's roommate (as the airline ticket agent).
Masterpiece theatre? No. enjoyable (even to those who went to college, like myself) and well done (even to those who did not go to college? Absolutely.
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you know devilsreject, it's a shame your username came from one of my favorite all-time horror films, when your insults in this thread are highlighted. To say those who don't go to college are the only fans of Larry the Cable Guy or Home Improvement, etc., is not only asinine, but downright ridiculous. I am going to college and am a senior with History & Spanish majors and a Political Science minor, already having procurred my Associate in Arts and Associate in General Studies in 2004. Guess what devilsreject, I go to college, and I like both Home Improvement and especially Larry the Cable Guy. Perhaps before you spout such foolish generalizations, you should get up off your high horse and actually look around you before speaking. You probably look, as well as sound on the internet, alot brighter if you would just put the keyboard down and think about what you're typing before you do it.
sharei agree, it's sad that people denigrate certain movies to specific classes of people.
i like larry the cable guy for his blatant mocking of the people who fill his shows.
big trouble was hilarious.
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I have to say I hate Larry the Cable Guy and most of Tim Allen's movies, but yet i found this really enjoyable.
sharewatching it tonight, i felt it was definitely a second-rate get shorty. there were some good jokes, and dennis farina was great. but it tried too hard to replicate get shorty in almost every way.
"I'm drownin' here and you're describing the water!"
i think it wasnt a really great movie but i had a few laughs and thats all i was really looking for. i cant complain
shareHow would it need to "try" to replicate Get Shorty? The director of Get Shorty was the same guy...
Yes, it was like Get Shorty, but not because anyone was trying to repicate it, I seriously doubt Dave Barry was thinking of Get Shorty when he wrote the book... No, it was like Get Shorty because most directors have their specific style of directing.
Please, if you're going to dislike a movie, think of somethin with more support, don't waste everyone's time
Hmmm... you hate the movie because you <<think>> the writers thought they were geniuses. What a well-informed reason to hate a movie.
Hope your life picks up a bit.
I'd like to know how you found out that the writers thought that.
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Devilsreject1981 is just an egomaniac. Seriously, read his profile. Why would people on a movie web site give a *beep* that he's had 3 majors, 5 colleges, and a Partridge in a pair tree? Ok, "you're so great," happy now?
shareI would admit that the plot of the movie is pretty thin, but I still liked it because the actual dialogue was funny and most of the actors did a great job.
Dennis Farina and Patrick Warburton are hilarious, and the few scenes that Andy Richter had were cracking me up.
"Hey, we're not supposed to carry guns."
"Yeah, well we're not supposed to drink either."
Good stuff.
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