The Griffith Observatory Thread
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The song covered today in the Stereogum 'The Number One's' column is Paula Abdul's 'Rush Rush'.
The video is a knock-off of 'Rebel Without A Cause' (starring Keanu Reeves!), complete with scenes at Griffith Observatory.
The video is a knock-off of 'Rebel Without A Cause' (starring Keanu Reeves!), complete with scenes at Griffith Observatory.
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I forgot how beautiful Paula Abdul was.
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Yeah! I thought I had that in my initial run of posts there. Formative.
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I misunderstood your post at first and thought that you were saying there was an actual film remake of Rebel Without a Cause that starred Keanu and Paula. Gawd, that would have been a train wreck.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:46 pm The video is a knock-off of 'Rebel Without A Cause' (starring Keanu Reeves!), complete with scenes at Griffith Observatory.
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The Mountain West championship game is in Carson, CA which is apparently close enough to show the observatory in a “hey, we’re near LA!” montage.
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Really should just show LAX and... that probably covers it for that part of town.
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It’s about 20 miles away. But of course, “LA” is really just a hundred different suburbs jammed together, anyway.
Similarly, I get a kick out of tv always showing the Golden Gate Bridge when the 49ers play, even though it’s 47 miles away.
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“The running, the jumping... a celebration of life.”
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I didn't watch much of the pregame, though I was sure they'd show it at some point (if it was during the game I missed it). I did catch a segment with Dale Jr and that other racing dude at Mann's Chinese Theatre which seemed to be part of a tour around LA and wondered if they were going to head to the observatory or not.
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I saw the obligatory Observatory scene when they came back from commercial early in the game.rass wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 3:50 pm I didn't watch much of the pregame, though I was sure they'd show it at some point (if it was during the game I missed it). I did catch a segment with Dale Jr and that other racing dude at Mann's Chinese Theatre which seemed to be part of a tour around LA and wondered if they were going to head to the observatory or not.
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Friends kid (15) said he recognized it and I said it’s shown in a lot of moves. He says no, I think it is grand theft auto.
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Unless I missed it this is just a huge upset
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huge upset. that's amazing.
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Agree - I had "Introducing Tony as Hunk" as the clear winner.
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The way Joe Pesci is aimlessly looking around on the close ups is enough for me.
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Is that the same Julia Sweeney from SNL? Holy shit, lots of time has passed…
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What did you look like in 1993?The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 7:47 pm Is that the same Julia Sweeney from SNL? Holy shit, lots of time has passed…
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Quick shot, S2E3 of The Flight Attendant
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(the movie was ridiculous and I enjoyed it immensely)
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(Also sorta want to watch that on a Swamp movie night so DSG can tell us how good a job they did with the LA geography, both in terms of whether where they went and how they got there made sense and if the sun shining in their faces early in the chase was consistently coming from the correct direction)
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This sounds like the only set of conditions under which I would watch the movie (I would do this). That said, my guess off the top is that the answer "no" would be selected a lot for the LA geography quiz. Old LA-centric blogs used to do this for every movie. I think the oldest movie I ever saw a blog post for that mapped out the LA locations was "Falling Down". (That would also be an interesting Swamp Movie Night choice, especially since I've seen it referred to recently on twitter and our current political climate.)rass wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:42 pm (Also sorta want to watch that on a Swamp movie night so DSG can tell us how good a job they did with the LA geography, both in terms of whether where they went and how they got there made sense and if the sun shining in their faces early in the chase was consistently coming from the correct direction)
Also, great job spotting it in the background.
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Magary mentioned "Falling Down"yesterday and it occurs to me that I don't think I have ever seen the whole movie.
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Wife and youngest went there today but I guess I wasn’t open enough about my obsessions and all I got was a photo of the observatory and not one with them in it. Did get like a dozen picture of them with the HW sign in the background.
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She-Hulk opening scene (framed photo on the wall of her office) and in the trailer for that Jamie Foxx vampire movie on Netflix.
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Imagine renting a mansion to the Beastie Boys in that era? I hope they had an enormous security deposit.
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Other than raiding the wife’s collection of 70s fashion they were on their best behavior. But yeah they had a rep.
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If you like disaster movies, it was pretty solid IMO. Bar is pretty low though.
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Good enough for me
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I also think the trailer to Independence Day is the best movie ever.
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Let freedom ring!
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Silly. But better than like 2012? I didn’t turn it off even though the edible never really kicked in.
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Way in the background of the Rydell High carnival scenes at the end of Grease, most obviously when Rizzo hops off the Ferris wheel to make up/out with Kenickie
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