Your favourite film in which someone unfamiliar with big-city ways arrives in New York, is a fish out of water, and hilarious escapades ensue

Midnight Cowboy because I am a emo also because Jon Voight look intersting.

Coming To America. Eddie Murphy was funny once. also SEXUAL CHOCOLATE.

i can't believe you forgot splash.

i mean, darryl hannah actually is a fish out of water in that one.

Hercules in New York

Desperately Seeking Susan

Stranger than Paradise

"Crocodile Dundee".

ratso rizzo rules (midnight cowboy)

I love Coming To America. (And Splash!!)

I've never really seen Midnight Cowboy as containing 'hilarious escapades' - but I guess it's another reading of it.

wow there are so many of these. two more i've seen are The Cowboy Way (Woody Harrelson) and another with some young kid who gets with some social worker girl but can't remember the title. both shit tho.

jurassic park 2

Daytrippers

Coogan's Bluff (a personal fave: Clint Eastwood among the New York hippies with a great classic 60s party scene at the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel)

oooh i love The Daytrippers

gta4

"After Hours"

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/191174~The-Cowboy-Way-Posters.jpg

Ideally, the New Yorkers will learn something too from this cultural exchange.

"Is he having a laugh?"

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/egt7.jpg

The Out-of-Towners w/ Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis

hahaha -- sandy dennis is such an irritating presence in the movie, I was rooting for the muggers

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Another vote for Daytrippers.

Ha, I was wondering what Greg Mottola was up to these days. I didn't realize that he was the director of Superbad.

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i gotta see The Cowboy Way

The remake of Working Girl with Jessica Simpson is simply so awful that it has blotted out all other fish out of water stories from my memory. I watched it for free on the internet, but that's still not really a valid excuse for watching it.

cloverfield

ELF people ELF

I had no idea that existed and now I feel scarred.

(Part of me opened this thread thinking "I wonder if Cloverfield will be a choice.")
XPOST DAMMIT

Max just snuck in before me.

http://videodetective.com/photos/427/017968_25.jpg

Remy wins.

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http://www.rochestergoesout.com/mov/j/jungle2.jpg

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/staypuft1.jpg

http://mt.hockeybird.com/freejack.jpg

jackie_chan_hovercraft.jpg

^^^^^^
otm!!!

http://dotsunderconsonants.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/hanks-big.jpg

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We still live worlds apart, assface.

lol

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cloverfield

cloverfield

-- max, Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

the movie cloverfield

cloverfield

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-- max, Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

cloverfield: the movie

The Freshman

The time I saw two lesbians kissing in an East Side bar.

Wait, that wasn't a film.

It should be.

*needle scratching across a record sound*

"I Feel Good" plays over the soundtrack

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Midnight Cowboy is embarrassingly great. In my top 20 of all time.

FWIW, I later passed out in a NYC dorm room. (xpost)

I vote for the fictional film described in Martin Amis' Money, with the time-traveling caveman.

Prehistoric?

http://www.cartonionline.com/gif/film/fievel/Fievel_conquista_il_west_03.jpg

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/americanstudies/kingkong.jpg

Poor guy, only wanted to get laid and the USAF shoots him dead.

http://patentdocs.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/28/pota_110404_2.gif

No "New York Minute", no credibility.

In that case,
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/images2/peterboyle.jpg
(xpost to King Kong)

bahahahaha Drew that is goldeen

Yes! Prehistoric. Starring Spunk Davis, as The Caveman.

that seinfeld episode where george is lying of arriving to NY for the first time from a small time where he has a 3 legs dog or whatever..

Gershy wins.

home alone 2

- Of these, Coming to America, which is seriously best watched with actual Africans who have actually just come to America (seriously)

- Daytrippers was awesome, and I like seeing people say that, because it seems like one of those things where someone makes an awesome movie in part by keeping it simple, but then you kinda worry that its small-scale simpleness will make everyone forget it or deem it unimportant

- After Hours only counts if you consider downtown to be the big city and uptown to be the water that fish live in, which, to be fair, this film attempts to make a case for (or was this just some kind of subtle Gabbneb zing? I can't even tell anymore)

lol at Alba finding Babe: Pig in the City darker than Midnight Cowboy

what about moscow on the fuckin hudson

That one's not too good. Except for the Bloomingdale's staff:

"We've got to get you some H20!"

"I defect."
"I told you fellow, you can't do that here"

"My jurisdiction extends from Calvin Klein down to Style Boutique, and when you're in my jurisdiction..."

Favorite bit in Daytrippers was when Liev Schrieber went to get some cheese and got stuck on the podium during the reading, standing there with that stupid red scarf on, IIRC.

The Brother from Another Planet

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71YS5J3V5CL._AA280_.gif

Tre, see here.

It's hard to keep up.

But I do get points for posting a picture of Sandy Dennis.

True.

Hudsucker Proxy ftw

I can't really remember, but isn't Nothing Sacred and its various remakes an example of this?

This comes close

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the excorcist

ah no dam i mean rosemarys baby i think

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE

"If a man wants to call himself Milchammed Ali..."

The time I saw two lesbians kissing in an East Side bar.

Wait, that wasn't a film.

It should be.

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it's called kissing jessica stein

Reply to: pers-545412✧✧✧@craigsl✧✧✧.o✧✧
Date: 2008-01-20, 12:00PM EST

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So we have school and work awaiting us but the apartment we had fell through. We were going to take over one of my girlfriends older relatives rent stabilized two bedroom in the West Village but that fell through because (sigh) this woman was supposed to go to a nursing home but got better and will stay in her building. That is kinda weird because she NEVER goes out or DOES anything and the apartment is wasted on her.

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We will have some extra income as I did in college, through a cousin I am associated with many scientific testing companies for which I can lure and trap ferral cats for laboratory testing. I get $20 per. I create a network of other trappers ( I learned the trade hunting with other relatives in Minn.) and split the feww with them.

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(Refraining from suzy-like anecdotes about I knew somebody who knew somebody who knew the guy who directed The Daytrippers)

(xpost with The Bob Dylan's Granddaughter variation of the King of Nigeria/Spanish Prisoner bunco, or whatever that is)

is that real, vic?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388818/

Coogan's Bluff (again)

I wouldn't know

wot, no Tarzan?

I'm sad that Enchanted got no votes, even if I voted Elf.

What's your favourite New York cultural faux pas in these films? I think mine is Will Ferrell going around congratulating all the staff on creating the "World's Best Cup Of Coffee" after seeing the neon sign in Elf.

Smiling is my favorite.

I had forgotten how much Hudsucker Proxy comes off like an old Warner Bros cartoon

at its worst