Having a Denny's-type restaurant scene in a movie makes it better.

[LoZoccolo]

I think I've stumbled on a bizzare rule of thumb about movies I tend to like. I used to say movies tended to be good if they had coke in the plot, and now I think there's another similar thing out there. Think about:

Ladykillers
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
My Breakfast With Blassie
Mulholland Drive

So now I want people to tell me a bunch more of these, so that I'll go see them and will probably like them.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Pulp Fiction??

:puke:

NGU.

[LoZoccolo]

2. Your subject says /Pulp Fiction/...

...but the smiley makes me think you're recreating a scene from My Breakfast With Blassie!

[tyedyeto]

3. The Santa Clause? n/t

[Wickerman]

4. Interesting concept

However, I think I can kill that premise with the horrid "Looking for an Echo" - also with a Denny's type eatery scene.

Possibly one of the worst movies I have ever sat thru.

[Spirochete]

5. Well, there's Diner

in which the restaurant scenes figured prominently.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. 5ive Easy Pieces

[Left Is Write]

7. There's a diner scene in Dumb & Dumber.

[ltfranklin]

8. Edwards Scissorhands

In fact, the restaurant they ate in is just down the street from me. It was a Sambo's (remember them...bad name, good food) that had closed. They fixed it back up for the movie. It's a doctor's office now.

[Abelman]

23. Alan Arkin rocks

That is all.

[progmom]

9. I worked at a Denny's for a year

Believe me - there were nights when I thought I was in a David Lynch or Coen brothers movie.

[solinvictus]

12. We used to do the late night/early morning Denny's breakfast here

in Birmingham and yes, you do have a disproportionate number of weirdos at those hours. All the Denny's closed here about five or six years ago and I really miss them.

[LoZoccolo]

13. The one in Ann Arbor?

Once I went there with a friend and they brought out a mug for my coffee and it had lipstick on it! I walked out. The guy said he was sorry, and I said I'd probably be back, but just not right now!

[progmom]

14. yep. on washtenaw.

When did you go there? I worked there 15 years ago.
Damn that makes me feel old.

[LoZoccolo]

16. I went to U of M from 1992-1996, so I just missed you.

I was a Denny's freak since high school though. It's like my favorite restaurant. There was a period the first three years where I didn't have a car, so when someone else would visit with one or something I would be fiending to go! Then once I got one, me and a friend would go like every Thursday night real late at night because I got off of work around midnight and only had like one late Friday class.

[progmom]

17. Did you ever go to Schoolkids records on Liberty?

I worked there during the time you were here. Mebbe I sold you your first Oasis record! :P

[LoZoccolo]

18. Ha yeah, but not very often.

For some reason I'd end up more at Wherehouse and even more at Tower.

[donco6]

10. My Own Private Idaho

Smoke Signals
What's the one with Jack Nicholsen and the toast - Five Easy Pieces?

[RPM]

11. Swingers

:-)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. Titanic

[LoZoccolo]

19. Interesting.

I wouldn't think this.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

21. That's my very point, thank you. As in ...

Titanic would have been a lotso better if it had have had
a couple Denny's scenes. Denny's scenes are so you can
relax from the general tension as in ship meet iceberg etc.
E.G. what if the ship and the iceberg had had a Denny's scene,
perhaps in the dream of a character. Discussing their
relationship over a casual plate of fries.

[The Donkey]

20. Don't forget Natural Born Killers

The opening scene for that was set in a truck stop/diner . . .

[Misunderestimator]

22. Was just going to post that... also Kalifornia... did that have a diner...

scene?

[Beausoir]

24. Sideways. n/t

[GregW]

25. Reservoir Dogs

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. She don't make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a fucking Jew who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don't ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.

[skygazer]

26. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

It's not quite a Denny's but similar. And it's a great movie.