Thursday, August 4, 2011

Movie #274 Swingers *1996*

I love this movie!  Swingers, Pulp Fiction, Tombstone and Menace II Society were about all I watched from about 1993 to 1998.  There are so many things that I could right about this movie that my review could be longer than the script.  I will try to summarize.

VEGAS BABY, VEGAS!!!
Vince Vaughn looks like he is 16 years old in this movie.
I love the homages to all the other movies in the film while commenting on those movies.
The soundtrack! Still on a semi rotation in the ipod.
This party is dead anyway.
The woman who asks Mikey what type of a car he drives and he responds "It's a Hundai, a red Hundai" and she turns away from him and starts talking to her friend is the biggest dick move in cinema history.
You're like a bear and you got these fu*king claws...

But the one scene that still makes my gut wrench is the phone call scene when he gets home from the bar.  He call the girl and gets her voicemail.  The voicemail then cuts off his message so he calls back.  Then he calls again.  And again, and again.  It is among the most painful things I have ever experienced.  It is worse than torture porn.  You wan to be there for him.  You want to tell him to put the phone down.  You want to throw the phone out the window! 

Great film, and I think a timeless classic.  I give Swingers ★★★★★.
By the way, be careful doing a google image search for this film.

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