As teenagers, me and my brother used to say "Die, milk face!" to our dad at random times after he had us watch this movie with him. Then dad would say "Die, gas pumper!" to us in response and we'd all crack up laughing. It's been seven years since dad's death, and movie clips like this let me remember all the good times we had.
Watching it again today, there is no logical reason a car would have the rims mounted without tires. But it sure was funny. 'He hates cans!" Steve is a treasure.
Yep. I’m just shy of 45 myself. I grew up watching The Jerk and Blazing Saddles with my dad. As jacked up as the 1970’s were in America, that decade damn sure gave birth to some great movies!
I love how the movie sends up the fact it needs a plot device to move him to the next sub-act by having him randomly picked out of a phonebook by the shooter.
Am I the only one who thinks that 2:20 is side splitting hilarious? Just the idea that a clinically insane shooter would stop and read the “Carnival Personal ONLY” sign so casually and even consider obeying it (when he exclaims “Damn!”)... I had a hard time writing this comment because I was laughing too hard.
Ooooh, I just got the teehees reading that. And then watching the scene over, you're right that's what makes it hilarious! It gave me the teehees all over again....
it was meant to be a joke about gun control, shooters don't obey signs for gun free zones but everyone else does... but this guy obeys carnival signs! Oh the irony!
When I was a teenager working at a grocery store, a guy was throwing cans upset. I yelled "he hates these cans" manager was impressed a 16 year old kid knew that reference
I had a moment, a single solitary moment, where I actually believed that I might be able to look at the comments and that this would not be at the top. That dream is dead.
36 years..... when this was first playing in the theaters WOW, has it been that long? It IS still as funny today as it was then, a testament to a great script, acting and directing.
That's the logic that a liberal would use when talking to a criminal holding a gun. Interiesting that the perspective was reversed in this movie, quite cleverly, I might add.
I was walking by a play poster that Steve Martin was starring in on Broadway in NYC, and I pointed at his picture and said his name out loud, and then the ACTUAL Steve Martin walked past me and then went into the theater.
Fun Fact: This is one of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite films. He loved it so much, that he final film “Eyes Wide Shut” was intentionally made as a vehicle for Martin’s career into dramatic acting.
Im 43 and my parents would have me watching this with them alllllll the time. Love this movie, probably my favorite Steve Martin movies and Top 5 movies of all time. Also everyone....notice the music score in this movie....especially this scene, I've always loved that dark music when he gets in the car...they dont make music score like this anymore and believe it or not...I gave my little sister who's 34 now the middle name Marie from this very movie... I was 9 and suggested it. My dad had that video camera and Im saying it and......Ron Paul delivered my sister too..he was an OBGYN before politics. Very true story
HA! So funny and alarmingly relevant to current delusion. The armed psychopath is unable to enter once he sees a sign barring him from entry. How ironic.
Sort of like the "No Guns Allowed" sign at the Walmart in El Paso. Brilliant idea! Make the victims helpless and hope the criminal is harmless! "No guns allowed, we'll call 911 if we need one"
This was filmed at an abandoned gas station that was torn down right afterwards. Love seeing the retro signs too. 0:27 I guess in the late 70s they didn't have car lifts to work on the bottoms so they had to actually roll underneath it!
Wallace Morrison I've only seen Full Metal Jacket around 50 times by now, great movie through the boot camp acts, but after that it loses it's luster and excitement. Other than the battle against the sniper anyway
Wallace Morrison I swore an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States, and that includes free speech. They can think what they want if it makes them feel better.
If I'm ever on a college campus or in a movie theater or mall or somewhere, and someone starts shooting, I hope they accidentally hit some cans or a soda machine or something so I can make the best joke ever.
