Most Jalop film moment ever

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove) 09/15/2017 at 14:02 • Filed to: positraction

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Make your cases, please.

BeaterGT > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:06

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I can only second your nomination.

Jcarr > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:06

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I win.

lone_liberal > Jcarr 09/15/2017 at 14:10

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I beg to differ

Chariotoflove > Jcarr 09/15/2017 at 14:11

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I dunno. That’s pretty close, being a great project, but no Jalop would ever pay that much for that. I think it’s gonna have to go to the judges.

Roadster Man > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:12

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:17

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It’s only gotten more Jalop/car-spergish with time. Back then - rarified/highly specialized knowledge. Nowadays?

Chariotoflove > Roadster Man 09/15/2017 at 14:17

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Hahaha! Forgot about that one. Solid entry.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/15/2017 at 14:20

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I think Oppo is still one of the few communities to which a well-coiffed gal with encyclopedic car knowledge would not be a surprise. Stereotypes die hard.

My wife’s favorite part is when the jury all nods their heads.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:25

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This movie made young me fall very much in love with Marisa Tomei

Chariotoflove > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 09/15/2017 at 14:29

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In spite of the hair, too. She deserved that Oscar.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:30

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I’d say that hair adds to it for me.

Chariotoflove > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 09/15/2017 at 14:31

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You’re an interesting gentleman.

And, I’ll just leave it at that.

CobraJoe > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:32

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Even the song playing in the background is Jalop.

Or the mall chase scene. “The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.”

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:32

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It’s an aesthetic thing.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:34

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I luuuurv your proposal, but I think this would be a very close second:

AuthiCooper1300 > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 14:36

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Dang. I must have been looking for the clip at the same time you were posting.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 14:39

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‘66 Continental customized to fight tyranny.

CobraJoe > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 14:41

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Hey, great minds. (Though I didn’t remember it until I saw Dan Aykroyd in the Ghostbusters scene).

AuthiCooper1300 > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 14:48

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Certainly!

I have always liked how he mentions it is not just police-spec, but a car from the pre-cat era. That says it all, of course.

I did not remember the bit about the Olds though!

ttyymmnn > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 14:56

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“Fix the cigarette lighter.”

So much win in that movie.

CobraJoe > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 15:05

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I never noticed the little “Holy crap, we just did that” smiles they give each other at the end of that clip. Plus the showoff in response to criticism about the car? Definitely a jalop in that scene. I really need to watch it again, I wonder what else I missed?

CobraJoe > ttyymmnn 09/15/2017 at 15:13

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I always found it funny that he wanted the cigarette lighter fixed after he threw it out the window.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 15:16

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There is a little, very moving film with Stockard Channing, Sweet Revenge, about a young car thief (Channing) whose aim in life is to own a 246 Dino some day.

It is not exactly an uplifting film, but as a tale of youthful obsession about car ownership I’d consider it to be a worthy candidate.

Chariotoflove > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 15:40

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Cop engine, cop tires, cop suspension...yup, checks out.

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 15:41

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A most worthy contestant, even if that can could never make that jump IRL.

CobraJoe > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 15:42

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Only thing that could have made it better would be if he said “They had to remove the cop supercharger, it’s illegal for them to sell it installed.”

Chariotoflove > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever 09/15/2017 at 15:44

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Yes!, one of the all time greats. I never did think they really got up to what I would call “ramming speed”.

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 15:49

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Although, Stockard Channing has never really sparked my plugs, the car makes it a solid entry.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 15:52

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Of course but the jump is not really the relevant part... it’s the explanation by Elwood (Aykroyd).

Chariotoflove > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 15:53

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Belushi never let details like that, or like not being a good singer, get in the way of a performance.

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 15:55

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Oh, of course. Those guys were simultaneously deadpan and over the top at the same time. True genius.

CobraJoe > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 16:03

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You don’t need to be a good singer to sing the blues.

Chariotoflove > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 16:05

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Well that’s true, the same way that I don’t have to be female to wear women’s clothing.

CobraJoe > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 16:08

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Twisted Sister, Freddy Mercury, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show would all agree with that sentiment.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 16:09

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I also remember a wonderful moment in Castle Keep, a peculiar 1969 film set in WW2, where a GI tries to “kill” a VW Beetle staff car by driving it into a small lake (actually a big pond).

Of course the damn thing floats, which finally convinces the would-be car murderer that that car is indeed something magic and evil.

Die-Trying > Chariotoflove 09/15/2017 at 16:14

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Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300 09/15/2017 at 16:34

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Can’t say I remember that one.

ttyymmnn > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 16:34

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Where does that happen in the clip? You can hear him open up his Zippo to light the cigarette.

Chariotoflove > Die-Trying 09/15/2017 at 16:39

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Poor car. :(

CobraJoe > ttyymmnn 09/15/2017 at 17:10

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Happens just before the clip when he’s complaining about being picked up from jail in a cop car, or questioning where the caddy went.

ttyymmnn > CobraJoe 09/15/2017 at 17:13

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Right. Now I remember. Well, if it was broken, why keep it?

RacinBob > Chariotoflove 09/17/2017 at 10:20

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SAAB 99 EMS per Rain Man