Hey nostromo, nice little comment on a really fun movie:
As someone who loves the 80s was time to give this a go.
The car scene where they're chased by Guido the killer pimp was like something out of
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
I agree and that clip you provided is probably my favorite part of the whole movie. The final "zingers" between Cruise and Curtis "Booger" Armstrong is aces!
Ready to Rumble (2000) Re-watch
Hadn't seen this since viewing it at the cinema the year of its release, but remembered liking it quite a bit so I thought a re-watch was in order when it came on cable the other night. I ended up enjoying it probably a bit more. All about two young slacker sewer workers (Scott Caan and David Arquette) who are massive professional wrestling fans and go one night to see their hero, Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) live. They just so happen to pick the night where the head of the wrestling corporation (Joe Pantoliano) has decided that King's "reign" is over and he has a crowd of wrestlers, led by Diamond Dallas Page, sabotage King and put him out of commission, ostensibly ending his wrestling career. But this will not stand with his two biggest fans, Gordie (Arquette) and Sean (Caan), who set about pulling King out of his drunken funk and getting an unlikely wrestling expert to help: an elderly ass-kicker played by a gleeful Martin Landau. Throw in a sexy ring girl played by Rose McGowan and you've got a fun-loving action-comedy that never lets up and is gamely played by its entire cast. Some of the funniest bits are when one of the buddies gets hit in the face or thrown by one of the wrestlers, and the other friend rushes up and says, "Now do me!" Wonderful slob comedy.
Taking Care of Business (1990)
First time seeing this switched-identity comedy and it works for the most part. Jim Belushi plays a convict who is serving the last two days of a prison sentence and wins some tickets to the World Series over the radio. So, with 48 hours of jail left, he decides to break out so he can go to the game! His jail buddies fake a riot where Belushi is "taken hostage" while he is really sneaking out during all the chaos. While he's sneaking a ride with the prison bus, Charles Grodin, a big city businessman gets mugged, losing his Filofax with all of his info, credits cards...practically his whole life in that thing. Of course Belushi finds it and starts living it up posing as Grodin's character. He experiences the high life, driving Grodin's fancy car, romancing the daughter of the boss, going to meetings and crudely telling it straight to other businessmen, basically not caring what they think. Meanwhile, Grodin is walking the streets looking like a bum, till he gets some much-needed help from an old friend, wonderfully played by Anne De Salvo. Grodin basically plays his usual slow-burn character, and Belushi is light-hearted and easy-going. Grodin has lots of people he's never met face-to-face with on business deals who naturally don't believe this sloppy-looking guy when they've already met with Belushi wearing Grodin's suits and throwing around money. But, as the films goes on, you know the two are going to meet up and Grodin will vent his spleen on Belushi. A good supporting cast helps out tremendously, including the aforementioned De Salvo ("Arthur"), Stephen Elliott (also in "Arthur"), the beautiful Loryn Locklin, the also beautiful Veronica Hamel and Gates McFadden, Hector Elizondo, Mako, John de Lancie, and the great Ken Foree (the original "Dawn of the Dead"). Not a perfect gut-buster but well-worth the watch.
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