Smack dab in the middle of the movie’s big scene, it always happens.
Everything gets tense for the big courtroom finale or championship football game, and then all of a sudden the defense attorney or opposing coach turns out to be that guy from some other movie and you just can’t stop thinking about where he’s from.
Wait, was he the prison guard in Shawshank? Or the lawyer from Miracle on 34th Street? Or, no, no, no, I got it. He’s the knife guy in From Dusk Till Dawn.
AWESOME!
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I can never remember where the guy is from no matter how long I guess though. ha
Isn’t that why google was invented? That and stalking old boyfriend / girlfriends?
Danny Trejo, Clancy Brown and JT Walsh. Got it in one w/o imdb! Awesome!
Ha, I do that all the time..it’s so annoying when you never figure out where he’s from.
Clancy Brown…that guy who was in that episode of lost
that why IMDB is always in my bookmarks!
The guy in the left…always acting like a bad guy.
Clancey Brown – The Curgan in Highlander, my favourite movie!
Actually, I think you’ll find that he’s the knife guy from Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and the vampire bar tender from From Dusk Till Dawn, both of which were directed by the same man.
/pendant
ahah YES! truly AWESOME!
You are right. This is awesome.
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Possibly the most awesome thing you have posted so far. Many’s the time I have shaken my girlfriend awake in the dead of night to enthusiastically exclaim:
“He was the bad guy in Cliffhanger!” or “He was the burglar in Ghost who gets killed by that falling sheet of glass”
Awesome squared if there are several of you trying to remember who ‘that guy’ is at the same time, and you authoritatively raise a solitary finger, nod sagely at your companions, and bestow your supreme film knowledge upon those around you.
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Damn…I guess I’ll have to be an unoriginal fool and tell you you’re awesome too!
Love your blog.
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Whoa! Guy on right is in a crazy bunch of stuff
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000317/
So THAT’S where I seen him before.
I recognised him from Carnivale but research has shown that he is Mr. Krabs, Lex Luthor and Dr. Neo Cortex! What a portfolio
The first guy is in the Spy Kids movies, he plays Uncle Machette.
The best, most awesome thing, is when you REMEMBER where they’re from, your roomate/friend/family member disagrees, you look it up on IMDB, and you are RIGHT.
But even when your wrong, just shouting out what they’re from in the moment with such conviction…
That’s AWESOME!
Are you a mexi-can, or a mexi-can’t… I’m a mexi-can.
i’m constantly playing this game with my boyfriend whenever we watch movies together. of course, he’s watched so many more than me, he recognizes so many faces. imdb is our best friend!
I’ve done that a few times and i’ll exclaim it too. Once at the theater my friends and I were watching “21″ and mid movie I exclaimed “Holy Sh*t, it’s Kaiser Soze!”. Yup! Good times :)
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Thats totally AWESOME!!!
This is so totally awesome….when you know something obscure about an acftor in a classic movie..like”Did you know Elizabeth Taylor didn’t the role of “Maggoe the Cat” in “Cat on a hot tin roof” coz she didnt want to tarnish her good-girl image?
Its even worse when you see them in person.
Had this happen twice, now.
Matt Frewer frequents the store I work at. He lives on Denman Island. I remember one of the first times I saw him, I cracked a joke and asked him if anyone ever tells him he sounds like that Max Headroom guy…. as he hands me his debit card with his name on it…
“that’s cause it is me….”… chuckle chuckle chuckle…
Then their was the week I saw Barry Pepper twice.
Turns out he’s a local guy, more so than Matt, cause he was raised here and graduated at the local high school.
Go figure.
But you don’t ever figure it out on the first encounter and get the autograph, tho, do you?
I thought I was the only one who did this.
With me at least, my family jokes “Do you know that person?” because I do this all the time. Plus, I’m right, too.
This usually leads to another? which takes us in a whole other direction, and period in time; so much confusion. We give up…”Does it really matter?” which lasts about a minute, then afraid we may become like the trivial pursuit box in the basement, one of us, (usually me), runs to Jeeves or Google to find the answer(S); only then can we relax; get back to popcorn and the program, until next time!
:)
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Sometimes we get so enveloped in figuring out who the actor is that we tune out to what is happening on screen. Once you find it in the memory box it’s like you’ve found a treasure!
Three cheers to that Neko
Awesome