Comments on: Used Cars (1980)

By: Hedwig

Hedwig — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:27:04 +0000

Ah, but Craig, that’s the advantage of living in the Netherlands (yes, there are some). Movies are interrupted by commercials every half our, sure, but the cursing is not tampered with

By: cjKennedy

cjKennedy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:13:25 +0000

You have to see this one unedited Hedwig.

Though I have to say, I saw a TV version of it once in college and the things they did to cover up the foul language were pretty funny in their own right.

By: Hedwig

Hedwig — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:30:00 +0000

Ah! It’s too bad I didn’t read this earlier: used cars was on television yesterday or the day before that and I didn’t watch it because I had no idea what it was. Seems I missed something.

By: cjKennedy

cjKennedy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:17:39 +0000

Escape, Thing and China were precisely what I was thinking of when I mentioned Great Kurt Russell performances. I’m still shocked I overlooked Cars.

I think it’s time for a little Kurt Russell mini-retrospective during this January/February movie malaise.

Seeing Kurt in Death Proof was a pleasure in 2007. He’s always best when his toungue is planted in cheek.

By: Joe Valdez

Joe Valdez — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:49:20 +0000

Craig: Kurt Russell has made a career out of starring in movies that were either ignored or dismissed in theaters - Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble In Little China - that hold up incredibly well going on 25 years later. In fact, it’s safe to say that they’re all classics. As is the case with the rest of those movies, the DVD of Used Cars features Russell on the audio commentary, laughing at himself and the other performers. It really adds to the overall enjoyment of the movie and I recommend checking it out. Chuck: I think your story idea might work better if it were about out-of-work actresses. I think Russell will always be in demand. As for Zemeckis, listening to him make comments on the DVD, he seemed a little bewildered by Used Cars and Romancing the Stone, as if he'd forgotten people make movies without the assistance of computer effects.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:52:56 +0000

Kurt Russell is a treasure. I still have this fantasy/hope that Alexander Payne is/will one day make an urban malaise comedy that’s actually a wry comment on the inability of actors a certain age to get work that becomes them. Kurt Russell and Dennis Quaid would have to be two of those actors.

I caught Used Cars for the first time a few months ago, and I wholeheartedly support everything you’ve said here. Any film that can make me laugh as hard as I did at the sight of a dog pissing in a sleeping man’s face certainly has something going for it.

Please come back to the realm of the human, Mr. Zemeckis.

By: cjKennedy

cjKennedy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:24:52 +0000

Wow, I was just talking with someone the other day about great Kurt Russell performances and I only thought of Used Cars several days later. I actually did see this in a theater, the drive-in of all things. I was way too young for it I’m sure, but my dad never seemed to mind.

Good memories, but I haven’t seen it for a long time. I need to correct that, it sounds like it holds up pretty good all these years later.