Rusty: But you know everything about this thing.
Roman: Everything, except where it's being deployed. The inventor's an old schoolmate of mine. His name is Greco Montgomery. Pompous arse named it after himself.
Rusty: Greco? Roman?
Roman: You've obviously never served time in a British boarding school.

The set up to 13 is so great. Banks screw job on Reuben is so brutal, so petty, so much more than necessary, that of course you get a guy like Pacino to absolutely chew the living shit out of it and then ask for seconds. I freaking feel Reuben's pain every time I watch it, it is a great scene.

That is still to me the best running bit in the films, and it's played dead straight (the only way it would work, of course). If they had one of the other characters say, "how do you know Chinese?" it would've blown the gag.

Love me some good cockney rhyming slang. It's the Adam!

Aw, LEAVE IT OUT!

It wasn't French bashing, it was Reuben, an old Jew who clearly lived through WW2, comparing casino security to Hitler's army, and then backtracking.

I owe you from that thing with the guy at the place.

(At the time) I remembered Richards from Fridays and the film Young Doctors in Love, Dreyfuss of couse I knew from SNL, underutilized as she was, and Alexander I only recalled from a McDonald's commercial: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
The McDLT. Ah, the 80's.

Married sort of started out OK, but even my love of Judy Greer couldn't keep me interested all that far into it.

While I was laughing at the scene I was thinking, "are people actually hearing the borderline creepy shit they are saying?" before the woman popped in. Amazing timing.

He should do "Cooking with Weed." Two birds and all that.

Lindsay just sort-of randomly being there naked in the opening scene was so damned funny. I'm sort of surprised that hasn't happened more often.

"Get me a bottle of milk and some tranquilizers. I see it all now, it's a plot. A plot."

This is overthinking things a touch, don't you think? I think The Beatles were smart enough to know they were playing cheeky versions of themselves and that it wasn't a documentary.

I'm sorry, did I assassinate your penguin?

Anchorman was quite the hit or miss affair for me, but that scene above (which is not from the theatrical cut, but from the unrated DVD version, which some pay movie channels have shown), and it should have been just gross and childish, but Ferrell's commitment to eating the shit ("I'll eat the shit, I don't care.…

A "Battle of Yavin" truther?

NOT COOL! TOTALLY LAME!

Your point is well made. There are many pitfalls in adapting a musical from stage to screen. Flat staging is the most obvious one, of course, but there are the others, you mention, most notably,miscasting. Also some directors can try too hard (i.e. Richard Lester, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.) Birdie…

I hadn't heard.