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Greatest movie of all time
by annette s (movies profile)
Mar 30, 2005
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Ok I loved this movie with a passion. I admit that I am biased. I live in Arizona, and have been here since 1984. In Raising Arizona I actually got to point and yell "I SHOPPED at that gas station!" about a hundred times. But even if I had never set foot in Tempe Arizona I would have loved this movie. The pace is nonstop and leaves you breathless. It has over shadowings, under shadowings and symbolism galore. You have to watch it about four times to catch everything. I won't even waste your time trying to point it all out to you. You just have to watch it yourself. The catch phrases will be coming back to you for days. "But Honey"! I especially liked John Goodman in his role. I admit the desert literally giving birth to him during the biggest rainstorm ever (and yes we DO have them here in the desert) was disturbing and funny as heck. The last line of the film just about kills me. It mentions Arizona and Utah in the same breath. I grew up in Utah and I guess it almost qualifies as an in Joke. I will be signing my emails "Maybe it was Utah" for the rest of my days. I went online and searched this movie and found a script of it published. It reads as fast paced and funny as the movie itself, which shows you how well it was written. The only, and I do mean only, complaint I have about this movie is the variety of cheesy accents. Holly hunter sounds like she came from a bastardized version of arkansaw and I can't even describe the other accents. Arizona is such a transient state. One in about fifty of us is a native, and we just don't SOUND like hicks from up in them tha'r mountains. So the speech didn't sound realistic to me. But you forget it fast, faster if you live somewhere else. And you enjoy the ride so much you regret it ending.
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