Fans of Diner, weigh in here

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maybe diner>american graffiti, i dunno

"maybe you're wrong"

I was reading a FANTASTIC article the other day on Diner, because i googled my quote to see if i got it right (i didn't .)

Anyway, it made a great argument how that movie completely changed cinema, and paved the way for entertainment like Seinfeld. But for the life of me, I can't find it.

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FOUND IT!!!!!


http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...3/diner-201203



here's the intro:


Much Ado About Nothing

For a little movie without special effects, dramatic reveals, or cutting-edge sex scenes—a movie about nothing at all, really—Barry Levinson’s 1982 comedy,Diner, caused a tectonic shift in popular culture. It paved the way for Seinfeld, Pulp Fiction, The Office, and Judd Apatow’s career, and made stars of Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, and Paul Reiser. Three decades later, S. L. Price reports how a novice director and his raw cast broke all the rules—and stumbled into genius.

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"maybe you're wrong"

I was reading a FANTASTIC article the other day on Diner, because i googled my quote to see if i got it right (i didn't .)

Anyway, it made a great argument how that movie completely changed cinema, and paved the way for entertainment like Seinfeld. But for the life of me, I can't find it.

it really was a movie about nothing, but in that nothing great dialogue ensued & kept you captivated. writers rule.
its hard to believe that mickey rourke was ever this cool with a natural face...

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he was very handsome

here's a great paragraph from that article for all the naysayers in this thread:




Yet no movie from the 1980s has proved more influential. Diner has had far more impact on pop culture than the stylistic masterpiece Bladerunner, the indie darling Sex, Lies, and Videotape,or the academic favorites Raging Bull and Blue Velvet. Leave aside the fact that Diner served as the launching pad for the astonishingly durable careers of Barkin, Paul Reiser, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, and Timothy Daly, plus Rourke and Bacon—not to mention Levinson, whose résumé includes Rain Man, Bugsy, and Al Pacino’s recent career reviver, You Don’t Know Jack. Diner’s groundbreaking evocation of male friendship changed the way men interact, not just in comedies and buddy movies, but in fictional Mob settings, in fictional police and fire stations, in commercials, on the radio. In 2009, The New Yorker’s TV critic Nancy Franklin, speaking about the TNT series Men of a Certain Age, observed that “Levinson should get royalties any time two or more men sit together in a coffee shop.” She got it only half right. They have to talk too.

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Havent seen that movie since it came out

I want to see it now

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Havent seen that movie since it came out

I want to see it now

that was the summer we first had cable in our summer house, and nothing to do. The Movie Channel had only a few movies to show. I probably watched it a minimum of 10 times that summer. more like 20.

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FOUND IT!!!!!


http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...3/diner-201203



here's the intro:


Much Ado About Nothing


For a little movie without special effects, dramatic reveals, or cutting-edge sex scenes—a movie about nothing at all, really—Barry Levinson’s 1982 comedy,Diner, caused a tectonic shift in popular culture. It paved the way for Seinfeld, Pulp Fiction, The Office, and Judd Apatow’s career, and made stars of Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, and Paul Reiser. Three decades later, S. L. Price reports how a novice director and his raw cast broke all the rules—and stumbled into genius.

zackley, nailed it...

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for some reason, this was the defining scene of this great fucking movie, some young careers peaked during this movie

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that was the summer we first had cable in our summer house, and nothing to do. The Movie Channel had only a few movies to show. I probably watched it a minimum of 10 times that summer. more like 20.

take me back to a simpler time, i love those days & feel like apologizing to my daughter

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what are you blaming me? he took your sandwich.

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he was very handsome

here's a great paragraph from that article for all the naysayers in this thread:




Yet no movie from the 1980s has proved more influential. Diner has had far more impact on pop culture than the stylistic masterpiece Bladerunner, the indie darling Sex, Lies, and Videotape,or the academic favorites Raging Bull and Blue Velvet. Leave aside the fact that Diner served as the launching pad for the astonishingly durable careers of Barkin, Paul Reiser, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, and Timothy Daly, plus Rourke and Bacon—not to mention Levinson, whose résumé includes Rain Man, Bugsy, and Al Pacino’s recent career reviver, You Don’t Know Jack. Diner’s groundbreaking evocation of male friendship changed the way men interact, not just in comedies and buddy movies, but in fictional Mob settings, in fictional police and fire stations, in commercials, on the radio. In 2009, The New Yorker’s TV critic Nancy Franklin, speaking about the TNT series Men of a Certain Age, observed that “Levinson should get royalties any time two or more men sit together in a coffee shop.” She got it only half right. They have to talk too.

no kidding

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for some reason, this was the defining scene of this great fucking movie, some young careers peaked during this movie

two kids who got married because they had nothing better to do.

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two kids who got married because they had nothing better to do.

been there

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i've had a huge crush on ellen barkin ever since, her first movie btw

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i've had a huge crush on ellen barkin ever since, her first movie btw

unusual looks aside, i always thought she was beautiful. She was great in that.

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in a current interview, she says she arrived in ny & gave her luggage to the hotel bellhop who opened her taxi door. on set the next day she asked a fellow actor why that same bellhop was on set & she was told that was jerry weintraub the producer of the movie....

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in a current interview, she says she arrived in ny & gave her luggage to the hotel bellhop who opened her taxi door. on set the next day she asked a fellow actor why that same bellhop was on set & she was told that was jerry weintraub the producer of the movie....