Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
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Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Director: George Armitage
Screenwriter: Tom Jankiewicz, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack
Starring: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd
Running Time: 107 minutes
Budget: $15 million
Box Office: $30 million
Streaming availability: Checking
On-demand/PPV: $2.99/$3.99 on cable and satellite services
Other availability: Probably the usual rental places like Amazon, Roku, etc.
Start Time: 9:00 p.m. (movie starts at 9:10 p.m.)
Random notes:
The score for the movie was composed by the one and only Joe Strummer.
Gonna flesh out the rest of the schedule for the rest of the spring here this week.
Director: George Armitage
Screenwriter: Tom Jankiewicz, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack
Starring: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd
Running Time: 107 minutes
Budget: $15 million
Box Office: $30 million
Streaming availability: Checking
On-demand/PPV: $2.99/$3.99 on cable and satellite services
Other availability: Probably the usual rental places like Amazon, Roku, etc.
Start Time: 9:00 p.m. (movie starts at 9:10 p.m.)
Random notes:
The score for the movie was composed by the one and only Joe Strummer.
Gonna flesh out the rest of the schedule for the rest of the spring here this week.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
One of my all-time favorites. The Sargent Pepper line gets me every single time.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
I know you usually pick films that are easy to mock, but I legitimately like this one.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
We've had other truly outstanding flicks - Jackie Brown and Bottle Rocket to name a couple.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
I'll post a pause point here in a little bit and will flesh out a schedule later today with the suggestions that have been made (and maybe a surprise or two!). Also we'll take the night of the first round of the NFL Draft off two weeks from tonight as we did last year.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Popcorn!
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Start from the beginning, prior to the Hollywood Pictures* logo (only two logos before things start rolling)?
For a pause point, may I suggest the end of John Cusack and Minnie Driver's first meeting for drinks (around the 52-minute mark - I have it on DVR, so I can't do any better)? She drives off in her car, he stands on the sidewalk, cracks his neck, then walks off screen. Pause on the cut to his office at night.
* There used to be a saying in the movie industry about Hollywood Pictures' output based on their logo - "If it's from the sphinx, it stinks!"
For a pause point, may I suggest the end of John Cusack and Minnie Driver's first meeting for drinks (around the 52-minute mark - I have it on DVR, so I can't do any better)? She drives off in her car, he stands on the sidewalk, cracks his neck, then walks off screen. Pause on the cut to his office at night.
* There used to be a saying in the movie industry about Hollywood Pictures' output based on their logo - "If it's from the sphinx, it stinks!"
“All I'm sayin' is, he comes near me, I'll put him in the wall.”
Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Certainly works for me.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:18 pm Start from the beginning, prior to the Hollywood Pictures* logo (only two logos before things start rolling)?
For a pause point, may I suggest the end of John Cusack and Minnie Driver's first meeting for drinks (around the 52-minute mark - I have it on DVR, so I can't do any better)? She drives off in her car, he stands on the sidewalk, cracks his neck, then walks off screen. Pause on the cut to his office at night.
* There used to be a saying in the movie industry about Hollywood Pictures' output based on their logo - "If it's from the sphinx, it stinks!"
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
This is just two years removed from Minnie Driver playing as the supposedly less attractive and (again supposedly, it is a plot point) overweight member of, uh, A Circle of Friends.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
I liked her in Return to Me. That's an underrated flick.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
OK, a little less than 15 minute warning. Sadly, this movie was not filmed in Grosse Pointe.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Been too long since I've watched this. About ten seconds away...
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
I'll drop my fanfic book on you all later about Martin Blank's life if he would have accepted his Centralis Scholarship from CMU instead.
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"Is that a niner?"
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Who’s better than Alan Arkin?
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Just in general, I miss opening credits sequences that took a while before showing the actual movie footage.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Odd that Grocer's exit route goes through the hotel.
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This is seriously probably one of Ackroyd's top three performances.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
It's right before his performances started setting records for his top weight.
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The breakup of the Eastern bloc really probably did result in a serious drop in prices for murder for hire.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Aykroyd's kind of underrated as an actor in stuff he wasn't involved in making.
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These hitmen only renting Lincoln Continentals somehow also seems right to me.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
This scene where Cusack and Aykroyd meet is not far from where that camp was in "They Live".
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Also great casting. If it had been someone who always plays psychopathic villians, I don't think it's as good.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
The fact that he seems to have a set-up device for doing specifically this is neat.
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And yes, that Sgt. Pepper line always kills me too.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Random thought, did Joan Cusack ever play Lucille Ball in the thousand TV movies made about her? If not, it's criminal.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Valid point.Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:21 pm Random thought, did Joan Cusack ever play Lucille Ball in the thousand TV movies made about her? If not, it's criminal.
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Alan Arkin? Also perfect casting.
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I really enjoy the psychology behind how Cusack rationalizes his job (it's not me, you did something to deserve it, etc.).
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These helicopter shots were the only ones actually filmed in the Detroit area :-(
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So Hank Azaria and this other guy are obviously CIA, but I'm still not certain why they're after a hitman, albeit even an American one that operates overseas. Also, it's illegal for the CIA to operate on American soil, though I imagine that's still not honored.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
"Monrovia Beauty Supply". Makes me sad.
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"Rudy Can't Fail" is probably the most underrated Clash song.
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His "fake" jobs are all hilarious, as if the fact that everyone either believes him or realizes he's being sarcastic and never presses him on it.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Every movie high school looks like a mini Ivy League university. Waiting for one that depicts the brutalist prison-esque nightmare I went to.
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I love the cut into the party store (Detroit term!) when "Live and Let Die" transitions to the Musak in the store.
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One musical beat in this movie that has totally stuck with me even though most of the rest of the movie slipped away. Excited to see if I remember it correctly.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Thursday, April 16, 9 PM ET
Stroh's in the cooler. Grab a sixer.
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Zima and ice beers.
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