Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Thanks again Monet - I thought it was a solid movie. When Harvey Weinstein produced this movie, I would imagine he had no idea what was in store for him in the future. How the world has changed. In the movie, "Stinky", the co-owner of the Johnson Inn, said "We've got great apps" or words to that effect - meaning of course that they served great appetizers. Now, of course, this phrase has a totally different meaning. I'm almost positive that one of the model posters in Michael Rappaport's (Paul Kirkwood) room was of Lauren Holly (Darian Smalls) who played the high school ex-girlfriend that Matt Dillon was having an affair with in the movie.
I'm sure many of the towns in upstate New York have a great sense of community even now, just as they did when this movie was made - not a bad way to live one's life IMHO.
First Off, Harvey Weinstein is a Fall Guy.
As if everyone in Hollywood isn't doing the exact same thing or worse.

My favorite scene in that movie is when the four of them are sitting in a booth just shooting the shit.
All of a sudden it gets heated with everyone calling each other Faggot or some other name or bashing them.
And guess what?
Nobody slaps anyone.
Nobody storms out.
No... they just drink another beer and go right back to being normal with one another.
Oh yeah... and it cuts to Free Apps lol.
That's just the culture, especially back East, as I grew up in the Pittsburgh area and spent a couple years in Concord New Hampshire as my mothers side of the family lives up there.

The only problem with the movie is if it is a bunch of people from Massachusetts where are the Fucking Accents?
No use of the word Wicked??
No use of the hard A like in cAAAr?

Lastly, wouldn't you love to own some old run down hotel back east that you turned into a profitable tavern?
That's the Fucking dream right there.
It wouldn't even have to be a big money maker.
Just eeek out a small living and enjoy the atmosphere.
Too true regarding what goes down in Hollyweird - Weinstein just got caught like you wrote. Well that explains why I thought it took place in upstate New York (I only had a close look at Hutton's/Willie's license plate), rather than Massachusetts - New York accents rather than Boston accents (Rappaport,O'Donnell, and Dillon are from New York). Yes, if I had the skill set (and an extrovert personality) it would have been great to re-open a place like the Johnson Inn in my younger years - I admire people who have the wherewithal and skills to do that sort of thing.
Enough solid movies were made in the past to where we don't have to concern ourselves with the fact that many of the movies coming out now are garbage. Look at how the Bond and Star Wars franchises have been completely destroyed for example.