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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 22:34:54 GMT
The accents were the biggest joke around here. Dennis Quaid was trying to talk like a "YAT" (native New Orleanian) and he just couldn't pull it off. Yes the food scene was a giant crawfish boil. Several people I know were extras on that set and said they had a blast.(Don B. was in it Bixa).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 8:45:32 GMT
There was also a fancy restaurant scene, where it is shown that corrupt cops get seated when there is no room for others.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 11:13:31 GMT
I'm shocked
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2009 11:51:24 GMT
The Thanksgiving dinner scene in HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS is one of the funniest scenes around the theme of food and dysfunctional families. It stars Robert Downey Jr.,Holly Hunter,and Anne Bancroft. Directed by Jodie Foster.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2009 20:31:59 GMT
Should anyone mention the first crime scene in "Se7en"?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2009 23:40:41 GMT
Pray tell..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2009 8:56:14 GMT
"In an unidentified city of constant rain and urban decay, Detective William Somerset (Freeman) is preparing to retire and leave the horrors of the city; before he does, he's partnered with Detective David Mills (Pitt), a cocky, competitive, short-tempered cop who's recently voluntarily transferred to the precinct. The two investigate the murder of an extremely obese man who's been fed spaghetti until his stomach burst."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2009 11:19:51 GMT
Eisch! And I had spaghetti for dinner last night...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2009 21:42:03 GMT
Seeing "Watchmen" today, I definitely know that it was not a French movie, because it was 2h43 long or some such, and there was not a single meal scene in the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2009 14:44:34 GMT
The fava beans at the market brought to mind SILENCE of the LAMBS although I don't think there was an actual dinner scene until the sequel where Ray Liotta's brains are sauteed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2009 12:01:19 GMT
Mr.C. rented La Grande Bouffe last p.m.,will watch tonight,neither of us have seen it since @ 1980ish. Will be interesting to see how we react all these years later.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2009 6:41:13 GMT
This wasn't exactly a dinner scene, but there is a moment in "17 Again" where Zac Efron raids the refrigerator upon returning from high school. While stuffing everything he can get his hands on into his mouth, he also collects all sorts of other items to gobble down, not caring whether they are sweet or salty, should be heated or not...
Although it was exaggerated for comic effect, I found it very close to reality for anyone who has ever been a 17 year old boy or seen one in action when he is hungry.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2009 22:33:44 GMT
i'm surprised no one has mentioned Babette's feast, The Big Night, La Petite Marguary
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2009 22:39:53 GMT
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 19, 2009 1:28:33 GMT
Tampopo, a Japaneese film
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 19, 2009 1:30:41 GMT
OOPS! Sorry didn't read the first page mea culpa!
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Post by imec on Jun 19, 2009 1:35:40 GMT
Was about to say Eraserhead - good thing I looked up the OP. "Do you cut them up like real chickens?, Yep, you cut 'em up just like real chickens". Priceless.
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Post by imec on Jun 19, 2009 2:01:51 GMT
Hee, hee, hee...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 2:14:48 GMT
oh god,that is one of Mr. C's favorite movies! Too funny!
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Post by traveler63 on Jun 25, 2009 2:45:34 GMT
Flash Dance the Lobster Scene! Pulp Fiction Travolta and Uma Therman Animal House, food fight My all time favorite Charlie Chaplin and the boot in The Gold Rush
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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 3:15:18 GMT
I just realized, no-one has mentioned "The Meaning of Life". ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 7:11:51 GMT
Since bjd brought up Soul Kitchen in the Screening Room,I remembered this thread and thought it was worthy of mention.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 28, 2010 23:41:54 GMT
Since bjd brought up Soul Kitchen in the Screening Room,I remembered this thread and thought it was worthy of mention. Movie doesn't load.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2010 4:12:42 GMT
It loads for me both on this page and over in youtube. Fun to look at, even if I can't understand any of it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 22:08:52 GMT
It occurred to me that there hasn't been any mention in this thread of any of the Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather movies,where food features prominently,the "family" gathered around the table in many of the scenes. Also,Martin Scorcese's Casino and Good Fellas have several key scenes set around the dinner table. In fact, Scorcese's mother plays a cameo role in one or both of these movies.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2011 4:56:55 GMT
Yes, but those movies often have bullets for dessert. (Reminds me of Year of the Dragon, too)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2011 10:31:14 GMT
I saw Toast today, which was a made-for-television movie in the UK but which has had a theatrical release in some of the rest of the world. It's based on the childhood of Nigel Slater and his autobiography "Toast, the story of a boy's hunger"
I have to admit that I was appalled by a lot of the food shown at the beginning of the movie and it went far beyond what I imagined to be the worst of British cooking (or should it be called "the worst of British tin heating"?). Once the evil stepmother Helena Bonham Carter arrives, the food gets better but the ambience gets worse.
Since I had never even heard of Nigel Slater, I would be curious to know what people from the UK think of him.
As for the movie itself, I found it quite frustrating, because it ends just as I wanted to know what happens next.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 10, 2011 1:11:13 GMT
I can't see the clips from Soul Kitchen on my at-home clunker either, but it was funny if at times overdone, and there were more "soulful" moments about the life of Greek brothers in Hamburg. In terms of dinners, the really over-the-top junk food the young Greek restauranteur made for his down-and-out German (and immigrant) clientèle was the funniest, like frying chips after frying fish, in the same oil (yecch).
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 10, 2011 15:52:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 15:36:35 GMT
I had completely forgot about the lobster scenes in Annie Hall, where Diane Keaton and Woody Allen are chasing live lobsters around the kitchen floor!!! It's hilarious!!!
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