Movies that changed my life : Adventures In Babysitting (908 hits)
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Submitted by The Ultimate Male (View user info) at 2004-04-29 11:27:29 EDT
Today is the fourth in a series of movies that changed my life forever, todays installment: Adventures In Babysitting.
Adventures In Babysitting stars Elisabeth Shue as the babysitter who is entrusted to take care of some stupid kids for one night. A little girl who thinks she is Thor, her brother who is a douche bag loser and his friend who has a giant mouth that he uses to suck on glass doors. This all seems easy enough except for the facts that the kids are all stupid and her best friend decides to run away from home by going to the train station and getting stranded. Of course, the dumbass friend calls Shue and she is then faced with the biggest problem since whether or not to free Tibet, should she go pick up her friend in the bus station and take the kids, risking it all? Or should see just leave her friend and stay true to her babysitter duty? Of course, if she had decided to leave her, the movie would have been about twenty minutes long. So Shue throws the kids in the station wagon and makes for the city.
Of course along the way alot of interesting yet utterly pointless stuff happens. Somewhere along the way, the two boys Shue is babysitting happen upon a playboy magazine that is apparently of value to some mobsters. Apparently the boys are working under the impression that the babysitter is in playboy. Eventually the mobsters figure out that the kids have their playboy and want it back, so a chase ensues. The chase leads around the city for a little while but ultimately leads to the best scene of the movie and possibly the best moment recorded on film in the history of movies. The group walks onto a stage where a blues band is performing. The band leader informs the babysitter that "Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues". Hilarity ensues. Shue proceeds to develop a singing voice all of a sudden as the group performs the hit single "Babysitting Blues". When this epic performance is over, they leave the stage and the criminals try to pursue them until they are informed once more that "Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues".
Somewhere along the line, the car has a problem and they need to get it fixed so they take it to Gomer Pyle's garage. In case you didn't know, the guy who runs the garage in this movie was Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. So some stupid crap happens when they don't have enough money to pay him until the little girl offers her helmet to him because her dumbass assumes he's Thor. For some reason this softens Gomer Pyle to the point where he decides to accept the payment and let them go before he changes his mind. So they all go, pick up the friend during some part of this, elude the mobsters once more, give the mobsters the magazine and go home. They arrive home before the parents who assume nothing at all happened.
Things I learned from this movie:
Elisabeth Shue was hot in the movie 'The Saint'.
Mobsters only want their magazines back and nothing more.
Everyone is willing to cut you some slack if you're Elisabeth Shue.
Stealing magazines can lead to nights full of hilarity and near death experiences.
Running away equates to going to the bus station and deciding you've made a mistake.
Nobody leaves that place without singing the blues.
Gomer Pyle should have stayed dead from his performance in Full Metal Jacket.
Tomorrow in the series of movies that changed my life : The Goonies
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Submitted by Kristen (user info) at 2004-04-29 23:50:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Darrell is the best.
Ya think?
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2004-04-29 14:18:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Thunderlips (user info) at 2004-04-29 13:01:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by jinx (user info) at 2004-04-29 12:55:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Phinch you stole my quote..errr Shue's quote that I was going to quote..oh forget it.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2004-04-29 12:39:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by KoolMang (user info) at 2004-04-29 12:22:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hmm...I'll risk not seeing it.
But there was a movie in which Elizabeth Shue was a victim in a rape scene, which movie was it???
Also, I saw Rocky 3 for the first time last night, I saw the Thunderlips part LOL
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-04-29 11:52:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i had the scholastic book of this movie.
what about the gangsters? nobody fucks with the babysitter.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2004-04-29 11:43:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Not as good as the previous ones. Vincent D'Onofrio (aka Gomer Pile) kicks ass by the way, especially with no nose in The Salton Sea and in The Cell. Poor bastard's on Law and Order now.
Submitted by jboogz (user info) at 2004-04-29 11:36:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Adventures in Babysitting is an alright movie when you are sick in bed or ditching school, otherwise you might be ghey. but ill +2 you in advance for the Goonies, perhaps the greatest movie of all time
Submitted by CunningVision (user info) at 2004-04-29 11:35:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The lessons weren't great, but I loved your description of the movie. Those kids WERE dumbasses. I still don't know what that whole scene with the college guy hitting on Shue had to do with anything, but whatever.