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[thebitterguy]

So, a few weeks ago Cynra & I got into a discussion about accents and movies and lying to people, and I brought up Jean Reno's Elvis impersonation in Godzilla. She admitted, in one of those relationship breaker moments, that she'd never seen a movie with Jean Reno in it.

After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I tried to jog her memory by naming a few films. It did turn out that she could not recall seeing any films with him in it. Man, that hurt. [edit: It turns out we had both seen The Davinci Code last summer, which Reno was in. It's just that that was such a forgetable film that, well, we forgot.]

So last week I set the PVR to record The Professional. She watched it last week, and enjoyed it, thankfully enough. I don't know if I could continue to love a woman who didn't appreciate his rough edged Gallic charm. Maybe La Femme Nikita next.

In other news, a co-worker has requested I purchase for her a sub when I go to Subway. On this sub she has requested Buffalo chicken meant, hot sauce & southwest sauce on white bread. No veggies at all. I am filled with revulsion.

Comments

[racing-girl.livejournal.com]

at least it makes the order an easy one to remember :P

[thebitterguy]

Well, yeah; I go into the shop and start raving about it.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Not seeing Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerlich's "Godzilla" is like not having your head sawed off slowly in starts and stops with a blunt chainsaw.

However, not having sean Jean Reno in "The Professional" is a sad thing. Heck, most people saw the first Mission: Impossible. He was in that.

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

LOL! Instant love to you gamera_spinning. XD

[thebitterguy]

God, get a room, you two.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

You don't take the opportunity to introduce me to your friend? I'm crushed. :-)

[thebitterguy]

Mission Impossible, yeah. We also forgot about that one. But it was ten years ago, and not all that good.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

GINO! GINO!

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

1) First off, don't confuse Cynra. Jean Reno was NEVER in a Godzilla movie. :P :P :P (No matter what Devlin and Emmerich tell you).

2) Get her to watch Wasabi. Very good. :)

[thebitterguy]

Denial ain't just a river on Monster Island.

And wassa Wasabi? Does he open a sushi shop or something?

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

Nah it's a cop type drama set in japan. Very good. ^_^

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I IMDB'd it. Looks interesting.

Although the idea of Jean Reno running a sushi shop in Paris does fill me with glee.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

That's shocking.

I have La Femme Nikita and Rollerball the remake (maybe not a good choice).

I thought you guys had seen The DaVinci Code. I have no intention to, but he's listed in the credits.

[thebitterguy]

You're right. He played the cop in The DaVinci Code. That just goes to show how memorable the film was.

[thebitterguy]

LFN would be good, btw; so would the Rollerball remake, if only so I can utter my inimitable line "What, the Kazhaks get upset about Borat, but they're fine with this?"

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Regarding my ownership of Rollerball - Naveen Andrews pretty.

I can lend you both of them, but they're on VHS.

[thebitterguy]

VHS? Don't you have any wax cylinders you can loan us?

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

I think I saw him first in the only good (although very French ... slow ... ) Christopher Lambert movie, Subway.

On the other side of the acting spectrum, on the flight to Australia I saw Flushed Away ... he's the voice of Le Frog.

Doug.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Subway is awesome, although Reno's part in it is quite small. However, the really good part of Subway is Galabru (the French Walther Matthau) who is mind-boggling funny. The rest of the film doesn't hold up all that well.

As for Lambert, Parole et Musique is OK (but I might have been pre-disposed to love it because Deneuve was in it), but in generaly you're on the money.

[thebitterguy]

Say nothing good of Lambert. He is my kryptonite.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Reno is also in Frankenheimer's Ronin with De Niro, Stellan Skarsgaard, and Jonathan Pryce. Wow, talk about all-star cast.

And if you like creepy thrillers with a touch of violence, a touch of mystery, and a touch of creepy conspiracy, then I can also recommend "The Crimson Rivers" with Reno and that most whacked out of French actors, Vincent Cassel. (There was also a sequel, but I haven't seen that yet.)

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

"Reno is also in Frankenheimer's Ronin with De Niro, Stellan Skarsgaard, and Jonathan Pryce. Wow, talk about all-star cast."

Don't forget Sean Bean. Ronin is a great film.

[thebitterguy]

I always felt sorry for Sean Bean's character. He was so over his head. Of course, he could have gotten everyone killed, but still Deniro was hard on him.

[shara.livejournal.com]

Make her watch Big Blue - I love Reno in that.

[(Anonymous)]

If you can excise all the scenes with Rosanne Arquette, The Big Blue is pretty good. It's the first film I ever saw with Reno and he's fantastic and memorable in it.