5 More Movies That Could Have Ended With Pineapple Express-ish Booth Diner Commentary
1. Casablanca. To be fair, Rick Blaine and Capt. Renault are less likely to end up at a diner than a ten cent saloon but nevertheless.....
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It wouldn't have worked in the film, of course, which needed to end when it did, but still...who couldn't go for the actual Thanksgiving dinner sequence and Neal quickly reverting to his initial feelings for Del? "You used my gravy boat for a spittoon?!"
3. Libeled Lady. Screw one scene. I want two scenes. I want five scenes. I want twenty-five scenes! I want a FIFTY-TWO PART SERIES of William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and, of course, her eminence, the incomparable, majestical Jean Harlow sitting around in a diner exchanging wisecracks.
4. Die Hard. I'd never considered it before, and "Die Hard" is still a quintessential part of the action movie canon, but I suspect we were stone cold robbed out of a sequence in which John McClane, Sgt. Al Powell and Holly Gennaro got together for coffee and conversation. (And maybe Argyle could drop by midway through.)
5. The Impostors. A diner couldn't contain this ensemble. Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt and Lili Taylor and Campbell Scott and Alfred Molina and Steve Buscemi and Hope Davis.....(whew...catching my breath)......and Richard Jenkins and Allison Janney and Isabella Rossellini and Billy Connolly and Tony Shalhoub. We'd just rent out Flanagan's Cocktails & Dreams and have it be a whole soiree.
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