There are movies you tend to remember just for the quotes they offer and little else. Luckily Plane, Trains, and Automobiles is remembered for more than that, but it can’t help but be said that John Candy and Steve Martin managed to give one of the best performances of their lives in order to bring this movie to the screen. The chemistry between the two men had to be something special since the kind of stuff that went on in the movie is the type of thing that you might just end up socking a person for or at the very least make sure that you’re miles and miles away from them so as to never see them again.
The chances are good that in life we’ve all known a Del Griffith or a Neil Page, one being the annoying blabbermouth that means well and has a big heart, but just never shuts up and has a lot of disgusting habits. The other is so uptight it’d probably sound like air escaping a pinhole if they passed wind. But somehow these two keep bumping into each other throughout the movie in the strangest and sometimes worst of circumstances. Del of course is as friendly as he can be and tries to be accommodating but Neil, whose just as miserable as he can be with the current situation and wants to get home to his family for Thanksgiving, can’t help but be disgusted and continually annoyed by Del. They’re simply two very different people that have little in common save that they can’t seem to get where they’re going quickly enough, and can’t seem to help but gravitate towards one another along the way. It’s so easy to side with Neil at first when Del starts being himself, but near the middle of the movie the audience tended to side more with Del since at least he was being who he really was.
Tell me who would think this is okay. With a lot of people Del might have been eating this sock in the next minute.
Anyone who flies has likely been in this kind of position, but hopefully not.
Room service does deliver towels, but in a hotel this cheap you might be taking your chance on whether or not you’d get charged for them.
The best part about this scene? They begin to act ‘manly’ and tough the moment they get done shaking it off. “Catch the Bears game last week?” “Yeah, yeah go Bears, Bears got a good team this year.” Classic.
This was probably about the time that a lot of people started to side with Del. Neil was right to be annoyed but he took it way too far.
Now that’s taking things a little too far. At least the undies were, hopefully, clean when he started rubbing them on his face.
“Train don’t run out of Wichita, less’n yer a hog, or a cattle.” Yeah, that’s your ride, have fun guys.
How many people actually got an uncomfortable image in their heads when John Candy said this?
When you’re driving down the highway in what looks like a half-melted Matchbox car, the last thing a cop would be asking you about is your speed.
Can you say crusty?
Considering they see the twin headlights and Del doesn’t I’d say the people on the other side of the road have the inside track on just where they’re going.
Ever notice it’s the people that say these kind of things that are the ones that get mad when someone pokes them?
Is this even physically possible without serious bodily harm?
It’s kind of funny how things work out isn’t it?
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