"Used Cars", anyone? - Videokarma.org TV - Video

dread31 · #1 09-03-2008, 12:38 PM

Kurt Russell, Jack Warden.

1980.

One of my favorite comedies EVER.

"Here, let me show you the capacious interior of this luxury automobile."
(A Pinto.)

"No Toby, I said a PHILIPS screwdriver."

"We would never associate ourselves with the President (Of the United States.), we run a respectable dealership here."

"Oh my GOD! Mister, you killed my dog!"

"Holy F**k, it's a RED CAR! A red chariot come to carry my soul straight to HELL!"

Dave

JJJimmy · #2 09-03-2008, 06:32 PM

I always wanted to take a shotgun to a dealers lot and say "That's just too f***'n high!' and blast away that windshield price sticker.

And a note...my brother's (we have different dads) father and grandfather were in the car business for years, and their old lot was used in the movie, with their slogan "Ugly but Honest".

slow_jazz · #3 09-03-2008, 07:19 PM

Super funny movie... Still remember the fishing pole with money on the end they'd use to lure customers in.....

terra1 · #4 09-03-2008, 07:27 PM

Yes.

Definitely a memorable favorite.

Great cast, wacky energy, and just plain funny.

Ultra-Hog · #5 09-03-2008, 07:36 PM

Good crazy kind of fun! One has to wonder how much of it was based on actual events. In that business, probably more than you might think. It is a great movie. Time to watch it again!

markc2 · #6 09-06-2008, 10:41 PM

Can't remember how many times I watched this on Cinemax :-)

Rudy: C'mon Jeff! You've seen how bad business is. Thanks to Fuchs, our name is mud! Look... we had nuns, protesting out front when I got here this morning.
Jeff: Nuns?
Rudy: Yeah. I had to have Jim turn the firehose on them.
Big Jim: [holds up the still wet firehose] And I knocked them motherfrs right on they asses, too.

CUlater · #7 09-06-2008, 10:50 PM

Damn funny movie - a modern classic!

Indian Head · #8 09-10-2008, 04:30 PM

The DVD has probably the funniest audio commentary track ever. It features Robert Zemeckis and Kurt Russell, both of whom have a great deal of fun with the movie.

As is usual with a Zemeckis movie, there are many layers of detail, which the commentary helps to point out. And Kurt Russell can't stop laughing!

So many classic lines, but the scene I think of most (okay, after Marshall Lucky's commercial) is when Gerrit Graham nearly gets hit by that car.

If you have the DVD, watch it with the commentary. It truly adds a new dimension of hilarity.

AnalogDigit · #9 09-10-2008, 06:21 PM

One of the funnest comedies EVER! I must have watched it a million times and I still laugh myself sick!

Luckyman · #10 09-11-2008, 07:10 AM

Okay, so how much do you want to pay for this car?

speedracer · #11 09-13-2008, 09:44 AM

GREAT movie !! "Mrs. Rodrieguz, do you know the color of the tires matches the color of your hair ?!

avguytx · #12 09-13-2008, 10:08 AM

"Fifty bucks never killed no one....."

Awesome movie....one of my all time favorite comedies.

AnalogDigit · #13 09-13-2008, 10:12 AM

"Hope the camel don't shit all over the lot"
"This is when film school really pays off!"
"Jesus Palmomeno!"
"What are you a f*****g parrot?"
"We get strippers, big t**'s and put them on top of the car"

Teron · #14 10-04-2008, 09:31 PM

Never seen it.

Added to the list of need to see.

ChrisW6ATV · #15 10-05-2008, 01:35 AM

"Don't let the little head do the thinking for the big head"

"Best salad bar in town-Airport Lanes!"

"Polish, eh-what a coincidence. Rudy Polanski"
(and Rudy Garcia, Rudy Washington-Carver, etc.)

"What do you want for two hundred-metal flake?"

"No, ma'am, that's yellow primer."

I saw Used Cars three times in the theater, then taped it onto $30 worth of blank Beta tapes from the OnTV pay-TV service in Chicago (when I made $4 per hour). After that, the first Laser Disc release, then the remastered one, followed by the DVD version. I can't wait for the Blu-ray disc to be released.