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LOL! I bet you're thinking I was going somewhere else with this topic, eh?

Nope, just wondering if anyone else has a certain movie or two that you just can't resist watching when it comes on cable or that you pick up every once in a while at the video store, but that most people would roll their eyes at if they knew you liked it.

Xanadu is one of the obvious ones for me. But yesterday, "The Legend Of Billie Jean" was on while I was at lunch and I gotta admit, I had to watch. It's so 80's! It's odd to watch now during the chase scene when they end up on the feeder road and do a u-turn through the construction. Now that I leave here in TX, the layout all makes sense. Before, I was just used to KY clover-leaf off-ramps.

Fried Green Tomatoes comes to mind for me. Days of Thunder too. I can act in both those movies but watch them anyway. lol.

I like Gone With The Wind....must have something to do with how this Yankee ended up in the South.

Scarlett just does something to me

j wrote:I like Gone With The Wind....must have something to do with how this Yankee ended up in the South.

Scarlett just does something to me

Yep that one too although Scarlet does nothing for me.

Lindaloo wrote:Scarlet does nothing for me.

How can you be sure??

FGT -- I'm not gonna say it...we've been over it before. On second thought, yeah...I'm gonna say it. THEY ARE SO!

GWTW is just too dang long! But she does have that great Suth'n accent, doesn't she?

j wrote:

Lindaloo wrote:Scarlet does nothing for me.

How can you be sure??

Trust me I am QUITE sure.

Days of thunder here too.. lol.. Ive always loved that movie..

"He didn't nudge you, he rubbed you and rubbing son is racing"

j wrote:

Lindaloo wrote:Scarlet does nothing for me.

How can you be sure??

1) It's Linda you're talking about.
2) It's Scarlett you're talking about.
3) It's Linda you're talking about.

To be quite honest, she does nothing for me either (Scarlett, that is), except for the accent.

There's a few older movies that I try to watch whenever I notice them on... Back to the Future, Short Circuit 1&2, Friday and Next Friday, Twister

From FGT: "I hear they've got an assertive training class for southern women. Of course that's a contradiction in terms."

Lindaloo wrote:"He didn't nudge you, he rubbed you and rubbing son is racing"

LOL!!!

Cole Trickle: Yeah, well the sonofab**h just slammed into me.
Harry Hogge: No, no, he didn't slam into you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he RUBBED you. And rubbin, son, is racin'.

Their brains are intact, as much as they were before the accident anyway.

Linda ---> http://funwavs.com/wavfile.php?quote=4238&sound=181

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GalvestonDuck wrote:To be quite honest, she does nothing for me either (Scarlett, that is), except for the accent.

I love the accent too...although I have to admit, she could be perfectly quiet and still do it for me. Oh....and Miss Ashley...another hottie. I think it has something to do with their corsets.

Harry Hogge: Alright. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.
Cole Trickle: Hit the pace car?
Harry Hogge: Hit the pace car.
Cole Trickle: What for?
Harry Hogge: Because you've hit every other damn thing out there, I want you to be perfect

Trivia about Days of Thunder:
Many real-life NASCAR drivers (including Rusty Wallace) appear in the film.
NASCAR driver Greg Sacks did most of Cruise, Tom's stunt driving. Cruise wanted to do his own stunt driving, but wasn't allowed to for insurance reasons. The Chevrolets were prepared by Rick Hendrick's racing team, which later used some of the movie cars in real races. 35 cars were wrecked during filming.
Cruise received a speeding ticket for doing 85 in a 55 mph zone while working on this movie.
The scene where Tim approaches Harry on a tractor was filmed on NASCAR legend Junior Johnson's farm.
The scene where Cole and Rowdy race rental cars on the beach shows birds scattering out of the way. The birds were lured onto the beach by birdseed, and in the first take most of them were run over.
All cars used in the movie for the races had to pass inspection and qualify. Bobby Hamilton qualified one of the movie cars in the top ten; they removed the cameras and he was allowed to enter the race.
It was during the filming of this movie that Cruise, Tom, then married to Rogers, Mimi, fell in love with Kidman, Nicole. They were married later the same year.
Tom Cruise & Robert Duval's characters are (very) loosely based on former driver Tim Richmond and his crew chief Harry Hyde. Richmond was known as an overnight sensation, and Hyde was the veteran crew chief. The scene where Duval's character teaches Cruise about tire management is based on an actual incident between Hyde and Richmond. Tim Richmond died of AIDS complications the year before the film was released
The scene where Cole Trickle leaves the pits after a race to hit Russ Wheeler is also based on an actual event during the 1987 all-star race at Charlotte, NC between Driver Bill Elliot and Dale Earnhardt.
In an effort to give a more realistic movie, existing broadcasters were brought in to provide the broadcast reporters and track announcers. Key among these were members of ESPN's racing crew, including booth announcer Bob Jenkins and pit reporter Dr. Jerry Punch.

Gone With The Wind and The Way We Were are two of my favorites.

j wrote:

GalvestonDuck wrote:To be quite honest, she does nothing for me either (Scarlett, that is), except for the accent.

I love the accent too...although I have to admit, she could be perfectly quiet and still do it for me. Oh....and Miss Ashley...another hottie. I think it has something to do with their corsets.

Melanie, maybe? If you mean Ashley, you're showing a side we didn't know you had.

Definitely NOT Melanie.

Hey ..how 'bout Deliverance, a movie every southerner knows by heart:

Don: Now let's you just drop them pants.
Bobby: Drop?
Don: Just take them right off.

j finally did himself in. I am enjoying this.

j wrote:Definitely NOT Melanie.

Hey ..how 'bout Deliverance, a movie every southerner knows by heart:

Don: Now let's you just drop them pants.
Bobby: Drop?
Don: Just take them right off.

Ashley is the man Scarlet longed for.