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RAISING ARIZONA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I love:

1. How the opening credits don't start until about 10 minutes into the movie, after the entire plot has been developed.
2. The entire sequence where Hi goes to get diapers, robs the store, gets chased by the cops and a pack of dogs, hijacks a car, runs through some houses, and gets picked up by Holly Hunter. WITH THAT FUCKING AWESOME YODELLING MUSIC - probably my favorite piece of film music EVER.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"i started drivin' by convenient stores......that weren't on the way home." classic!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

n.a do you own

http://www.wayno.com/words/hollerin.jpg

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

classic. Coen brothers should hang it up though, from what i've heard about lady killers

― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

3. The jailbreak sequence where John Goodman and other dude pop out of the mud screaming.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Coen Bros. should've hung it up after O Brother, and arguably right before O Brother.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"HI, you're you and you have your health. What do you want with a job?"

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Am., no. Qu'est que ce?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Do your balloons come in funny shapes?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

4. The insanely obnoxious friends (Frances MacDormand and Neil's dad from Freaks & Geeks) who want to swap spouses and their brat kids.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Her womb was a rocky place where my seed would find no purchase."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems like some of their best film moments are almost always when they give in to their love of hillbilly music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

This and Moonstruck are tied for Nick Cage's finest moment.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Review by Eugene Chadbourne

With so many music publications publishing lists of records various people would want to have with them in lieu of contact with the rest of civilization or in case of some other extreme emergency, the time has to come to figure what type of album might make all such collections obsolete. Better yet, what about an album that might actually lead to someone being rescued from their desert-island doom? Hollerin' is this record. Played on a large enough stereo system, this is a record that will summon the Coast Guard, several dozen private rescue operations, and rows of native paddling dugouts with fruit baskets in them. In the vast Rounder discography there is no other record that so justly deserves the over-used adjective "awesome." Everything about this record in indeed awe-inspiring, beginning with one of the great covers of all time, the album title Hollerin' coming out of the mouths of one of the hollerers. The listener will meet the latter breed here — folks such as Leonard Emanuel, hollering champion in 1971. The annual hollering contest held in Spivey's Corner, NC, has been reported enough as an oddity on evening news programs that it is safe to assume most Americans are familiar with the idea, while for people growing up in many rural parts of the country the idea of strange loud voices carrying messages of some sort in the distance isn't so unusual. These are a type of virtuoso vocal performance, and one could be tempted to say this represents technical skill and is fraught with an intensity of performance that exists apart from the concert stage and the world of art music, but that would be ignoring the competitive nature of the hollering contest and the zest with which its participants throw themselves into bettering each other. All of which, of course, is similar to the energy one might find in a performance of a violin sonata or a jazz drum solo. Neither of which are as fun to listen to as the H.H. Oliver demonstration entitled "Rafting Logs Down Neuse River" or any of the brilliant performances by Paul Parker; take your pick — "Calling Cows, Mules, Hogs" is better than anything Elton John ever recorded, but so is either "Calling Dogs" or just plain "Calling Cows." If all that gets an animal lover's attention, stay tuned. Leonard Emanuel also performs his own versions of calling some of the above creatures, as well as the marvelous "Mocking a Fox" and the truly chilling portrait entitled "A Cornered 'Coon." "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is the subject of another holler, so rowdy that it might discourage the old fellow from coming down this particular chimney, not that hillbilly O.B. Jackson has a chimney. Animals even perform on this record as well. Has there been a better track ever recorded than the simple "Holler," credited to Dan McLamb & His Three Legged Dog Percy? Probably not. Floyd Lee yowls his away across the county and through the history of technology, performing an "Old Time Holler" and then later "Hollering in an Automobile," but he really is miraculous when "Stopping a Rabbit With a Holler." Some of the most frequent users of this type of record — which makes it sound like some kind of illegal drug, which maybe Hollerin' ought to be — are underground radio or performing DJs looking for something totally off the wall, guaranteed to stop every conversation in the place cold. A terrific booklet enclosed inside will provide as much information as anyone will ever need about hollering, a text that once absorbed will lead to a new understanding and deeper respect of this timeless form of music-making. Now, let's go call some chickens.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I am literally ordering that CD right the fuck NOW. Thanks dude!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's a crazy world."
"Somebody should sell tickets."
"I'd buy one."

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized I should've written "Qu'est que c'est?" My French is REALLY rusty.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to John Goodman? He was so damn good in this, and now he's doing a shitty sitcom and "Father of the Pride." AND he was in Blues Brothers 2000. AND Coyote Ugly. Roseanne must have really fucked him up.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

SOMETIMES I GET THE MENSTRUL CRAMPS REAL HARD

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

KING RALPH

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to John Goodman?

DUDE! "YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT, DONNY!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hollerin' is a FINE album. My sister got it for my dad for Xmas one year.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

John Goodman had such good roles early in his career. He was totally the best thing about True Stories by a long shot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "I maintain a consistent panda bear shape."

If you've never seen "Father of the Pride," it's probably better than you're imagining.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

t i g E R!

I know the pinefox doesn't like this movie, but I'm not sure if he ever said why. There is something kind of "putting the idiots through their paces" about it. Maybe that's it?

The stuff at the beginning isn't just developing the plot, it IS an entire movie plot: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again and they literally ride off into the sunset.. just as the credits come up.

I think I'm actually sick of this movie now, it came on TV so much over the last couple of years. Awww no how could I?! Holly Hunter is just GREBT in it, I can't think of a role I've liked her better in.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"and when they was no crawfish, we ate sand."
"you ate WHAT?!"
"we ate sand."

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

5. The scene where Hi is trying to pick which baby to steal and they are crawling all over the place.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think tonight I will make my parents watch Real Genius and Raising Arizona with me. Yee ha!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have never seen this movie

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

6. "Son, you've got a panty on yore head."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How could you have not seen this movie?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

it wasn't as funny years later.

― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know how you feel about the Coen Bros., but it's arguably their best movie (while I think I prefer Barton Fink and Fargo as "films," Raising Arizona is their most purely entertaining and has some awesome sequences).

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

is that a trick question?
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

People tell me I look like Hi all the time.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a trick question, it seems like a pretty ubiquitous movie to me, it's on TV all the time, and you watch a lot of movies.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i pick big lebowski over raising arizona anyday.
is hudsucker proxy out on dvd yet?

― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Hudsucker Proxy is awesome too. I just watched it again two weeks ago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the best Coen brothers movie is Miller's Crossing, but Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski are hella funny tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hudsucker proxy--i saw that at college and it gave me a headache

― old manateurist, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tex Cobb is grebt.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This was my favorite movie when I was 7. That worries me a bit.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw The Hudsucker Proxy at a small theater in upstate New York and Natali3 M3rchant was there, smooching some dude during the credits.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

OK here we go:
1. Barton Fink
2. Fargo
3. Raising Arizona
4. Hudsucker Proxy
5. Big Lebowski
6. Miller's Crossing
7. Blood Simple
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9. Man Who Wasn't There
10. Intolerable Cruelty
11. Ladykillers

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i always forget the genius that is Miller's Crossing

xpost i saw hudsucker proxy twice in a row, sleeping in the balcony inbetween. eventually i found a girlfriend

― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The great thing about Miller's Crossing is that no matter how many times I see it, I never remember the plot.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The hula hoop rolling down the street to the fat kid, who stops a mass of freed-from-school kids with his hula-ing skillz, is another favorite Coen Bros. sequence of mine.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

/tweemo

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― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the coen bros ok, but life is kinda too short to make catching up on their filmography a priority.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah's dad is kind of conservative about movie violence and sex and language (13 Going on 30 is his favorite movie of the year). The first time I visited his house, we all went to check out a movie, and I, for some unknown reason, suggested Miller's Crossing (I hadn't seen it before). He was very polite about hating it, and watched the whole thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, amateurist, how many times did you go see Playtime? Life is too short? Come on.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand, Am, but you really must see Raising Arizona. No, really.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather watch playtime 100 times than see man who wasn't there again

i'm being a snob. i'm sure i'll get around to seeing raising arizona one of these days

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i'd KILL to see playtime in 70mm a few more times

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the Man Who Wasn't There bored me to tears. But really, if you've ever liked any of their movies, you'll like Raising Arizona. I'm not just a-woofin'.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Man Who Wasn't There was very strangely paced, not like any of their other movies at all in that regard. Very slow, very little zaniness (I mean, even the fucking MEGAHEAVY Fargo had some zany), very patient. I didn't like it nearly as much the first time as I did the second time. I think the problem with it is that they were SPECIFICALLY going for 'excruciating', which is what almost everyone dislikes about it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the prob with MWWT was that it was totally flaky and pointless, just a string of moderately amusing riffs on archetypal noir scenes

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Raising Arizona a hundred times and still just reading "You ate sand?!" sends me into a fit of laughter.
Nicolas Cage's hair has never been better than in this movie.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't know, they were jammies! They had Yodas and shit on 'em!"

― Chris Marx, Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

found the VHS of Raising Arizona for $1 at a Salvation Army and have been waiting for the right moment to bust it out. this may just be that moment.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the bad guy tossing the grenade at the rabbit!

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The hula hoop rolling down the street to the fat kid

That kid wasn't fat!

And The Man Who Wasn't There rules. You're all on crazy pills.

― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Amateurist. Fuck the "coen brothers". They are crap.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Saturday, 18 September 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

as a result of this thread i am literally going out *right now* to buy this on dvd. i so need 2 replace mt vhs copy.

my vote for the funniest film of all time.
bob monkhouse thought so too, and he should know.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to confuse this movie with Wild at Heart

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this movie may have my favorite comedic dialogue of all time.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"and if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump it's ass a-hoppin'."

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"leonard smalls, big guy, dresses like a rock star"

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

John Goodman will be good whenever he wants to be. Before we idealize his early career too much I recommend you see his performance as the bad guy in The Wrong Guys (which stars Richard Belzer, Louie Anderson and Richard Lewis as boy scouts reuniting for a camping trip).

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Kill Bill Vol. 2's Uma/Darryl fight had some serious Raising Arizona homage in it. There's another action film I saw recently that used a lot of the same imagery (scraping hands on ceiling and whatnot). It's possible the Coens took it from somewhere else, but that fight between Goodman and Cage is masterfully staged.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoyed TMWWT, thought the pacing was just right, and didn't at all think it was pointless. The main point was that Ed was never an active participant. He was a "silent partner" in the dry cleaning startup, and he attempted to nurture Birdy's musical abilities, rather than improve himself. (***SPOILER ALERT***) When he finally *did* do something (that is, kill his wife's boss), he didn't even get the credit for doing so. Even the aliens in the UFO passed him over, not thinking he was a substantial person.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

THERE HE IS, WITH A SANDWICH IN ONE HAND, AND A FUCKING HEAD IN THE OTHER

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

haha this thread makes the film sound awesome. my favourite coens is 'blood simple', almost for the title alone.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wow, I knew I'd seen the Uma/Daryl fight somewhere else! Totally Raising Arizona, what with even the bathroom scene too! Definitely two of my favourite (fight) scenes in movie history.
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― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i love when nicholas cage goes to punch john goodman and scratches his knuckles on the ceiling of the trailer

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the last scene is one of the most poignant ends to a movie i've ever seen..! (same goes for the opening)

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Alright you hayseeds it's a stickup! Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground."
"Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say, if'n I freeze I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion. Y'see..."
"Shut up!"
"Ok then"

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Amateurist. Fuck the "coen brothers". They are crap.

-- Reed Moore (electrifyingmoj...) (webmail), September 18th, 2004 3:12 AM. (diamond) (later) (link)

i don't actually feel this way at all.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

could have fooled me!

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry. i love "big lebowski" and i liked "fargo" and "miller's crossing" a lot.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

then PLEASE see raising arizona. you'll love it.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"big lebowski", "raising arizona", "fargo" and "blood simple" are the must-sees of the coen bros. oeuvre.

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw this again on Friday. Am., if you want, I can lend it to you. We can do a Twin Peaks season 2/Raising Arizona trade.
Holly Hunter is actually kinda hot in this movie. I don't usually find her attractive, but she is very cute in R.A.
And the fight scene. Yes. The fight scene.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I'm talkin' about sex, boy, what the hell you talkin' about?! I'm talkin' about l'amour! I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers, as in "to swing!"

― kingfish, Monday, 17 December 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

Nicolas Cage's ~~hair~~ acting has never been better than in this movie.

-- rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:02 (3 years ago)

fixed

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 17 December 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

i hate my old posts

― n/a, Monday, 17 December 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Parole Board chairman: They've got a name for people like you H.I. That name is called "recidivism."

Parole Board member: Repeat offender!

Parole Board chairman: Not a pretty name, is it H.I.?

H.I.: No, sir. That's one bonehead name, but that ain't me any more.
Parole Board chairman: You're not just telling us what we want to hear?

H.I.: No, sir, no way.

Parole Board member: 'Cause we just want to hear the truth.

H.I.: Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear.

Parole Board chairman: Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?
H.I.: Yes, sir.

Parole Board chairman: Okay, then.

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago)

I will say "okay, then!" like that to this day

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago)

"Mind you don't cut yourself, Mordecai..."

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago)

when they was no crawdad to be found

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago)

"Seven hunnerd an' ninety-one... Aw, bullshit!"

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 November 2013 03:14 (eleven years ago)

Where can I find more music that sounds like that awesome yodeling-and-banjo hillbilly tune that plays when H.I. robs the store and gets chased by the cops? I tried the Hollerin' LP mentioned above, and it didn't have enough banjo.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 11 November 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago)

All the music is by Carter Burwell, right?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 11 November 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

Photo of Nicolas Cage & Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona on the cover of a middle school Serbian biology textbook https://t.co/FxoaVzVbkc pic.twitter.com/4nwZsuB4Cr
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) July 5, 2017

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:24 (eight years ago)

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