Go (1999)

Melissa McCarthy's first movie

Melissa Joan Hart was considered for the Sarah Polley role, which would have made for a very different film.

My favorite No Doubt song featured in this film.

I thought Jay Mohr was going to be a big star. He had a nice career around this era; too bad his critically acclaimed show "Action" flopped.

It put "Steal My Sunshine" by Len into heavy rotation

It’s great, a fun roller coaster.

There have been a lot of movies since then which have copied the editing and style.

Scott Wolf played gay, his only believable performance.

The type of pre-Y2K ensemble fun "200 cigarettes" was going for but (mostly) failed to achieve.

I remember an interview with Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf, and they decided that Scott would have been the bottom in the relationship.

I remember it getting great reviews, and a lot of promotion for a somewhat independent movie.

Sarah Polley blew it. She was going to be a big star but then she quit "Almost Famous" and her career never recovered. (plus she gave us Kate Hudson.)

R6 it itself copied Pulp Fiction pretty blatantly-- non linear plot, multi-character storylines told in different perspectives, its lurid subject matter. Only difference is that Go was targeted to the MTV Generation (instead of coke/heroin, it was ecstacy; instead of 60s surf rock, it was techno rave).

I was in middle school when it came out and I distinctly remember that this was the movie I realized I was gay. The William Fitchner as the cop/Amway pusher flirting with Scott Wolf and showing his bare ass to Jay Mohr... that made me feel nice inside.

I think I need to watch this movie again.

I loved this movie. I saw it during its theatrical release and bought the DVD later.

Timothy Olyphant was sexy as hell. James Duval looked like a guy I was hooking up with at the time. And Nathan Bexton's dancing scene in the market is comedy gold.

Did the Fichtner character really flirt with them? I thought the point was that they thought he was flirting with them but he was actually just trying to get them to buy Amway.

It's Confederated Products. It's a different company; it's a different quality of product.

"Not Amway... Confederated Products!"

R14 You're right; I stand corrected.

The filmmakers did a great job at creating suspense and making you feel like you're right there.

I hated this film.

I was in high school when this movie came out, saw it in theater, and this song was hot for about a hot minute. Really, my favorite No Doubt song before they turned all faux-reggae.

I love the person who says Oscar nominated writer and director Sarah Polley missed out on a career. I think she's right where she wants to be.

Great soundtrack, fun movie.

Strange, though, that Doug Liman became such a bland filmmaker.

Sarah Polley was born to play Uma Thurman's sister in a movie.

Timothy had a rocking body. My god he was so hot.

I liked it at the time of it's release but not enough to ever watch it again.

I saw it and really liked it. I've always liked Polley, ever since her Avonlea days. She's a compelling actor and I think she could be good in a lot of roles, but she's found her niche in directing and writing. I'm all for more smart women writing and making films.

Funny and creepy and sexy and dumb. I will watch it again soon. Thanks, OP!

Back then I thought the movie was really cool, but watching it now there is something that makes me want to cringe, like "omg, is that really how it was back then?" when I see the whole techno glow stick idiocy.

R6, it was Pulp Fiction-lite to begin with.

It’s a very watchable film.

Sarah Polley has always gone her own way. She didn’t blow anything.

Saw this when it first came out. Was a young teen. Lame to say it, but it inspired me and my mate to find our party legs. Never looked back.

Sarah Polley is a shit actress. Never understood the appeal. Timothy Olyphant was hot. He fucked his looks up by getting false teeth. Plus he ruined Deadwood with his effeminite attempt at playing a tough guy

Seeing that amazing closeup of Scott Wolf's bulge while they were putting the wire on him sent me over the edge at a very tender age.

I get this movie confused with 200 Cigarettes. Or maybe I do. I had both soundtracks. I loved the No Doubt "New" song. And yeah Timothy Olyphant was sexy, surprised he never did much.

William Fichtner had a surprisingly impressive ass in this.

Same here R22. One of my first ever hardcore crushes. Funny - when I look at old pics of him now, I think he was BUTT UGLY!

Woops I mean R32

He's kind of attractive, in an alien sort of way, and he has a good body.

Love the soundtrack on this film

Saw it in the theater, fresh out of college. LOVED it at the time but not sure how much it holds up. Definitely felt fresh In 1999. Taye and Timothy were so hot. Also, Breckin Meyer was hilarious (words I’ve never typed before and don’t anticipate typing again).

Fuck, I forgot all about Breckin Meyer (so did he for a while there). Whatever happened to him? He was big for a bit. Had that whole stoner sidekick thing down pat

It seemed rather dated at the time.

It's that embarrassing Hollywood take on 'dance' culture.

I love GO. I saw it three times in the movie theatre, which I don’t think I’ve done before or since. It’s not great cinema by any measure, but it’s fun and has so many enjoyable elements. I considered it “Pulp Fiction light for teens.” The soundtrack was propulsive, the movie was scored by BT/Brian Transeau, whose work I loved in that era; Sarah Polley was a revelation to me in the role, Katie Holmes was cute, Timothy Olyphant in that Santa hat...mmmm! And I am a bit of a pollyanna but I love that the stakes were so high for everyone—crimes, drugs, shootings, even a hit and run—and everyone came out just fine in the end. Love it.

“We shouldn’t do this Ronna...”

This whole movie reminds of that terrible fashion era of puka shell necklaces and ankle elastic drawstrings.

Sssshhh R44 don't say that shit out loud. You'll bring it back into fashion

didn't see it, never heard of it

I think that was a busy year for me

This movie also has the supernatural quality of recharging my appreciation for Katie Holmes when I watch it. Normally I think of Tom Cruise when I think of Katie, which is not good. I see her in Go and think, “aww, such an adorable little innocent. I should not hate this girl for her future poor starfucking choices!”

And I left out gelled-up frosted tips, R45.

I love all that, R48. I hope the neon candyflippin PLUR style comes back around at some point.

Gelled up frosted tips! Dear god i'm getting flashbacks like I was in Nam

WHET happened to gelled up hair anyway? Did it die alongside Freddie Prinze Jr's career?

That stuff was so thick and fake, it probably made us all sterile. Remember how much we used to lather on. You couldn't go to school til your hair was as stiff as a twink's dick at MardiGras

I love how someone walking away from Hollywood filmmaking is described as "blowing it." It was pretty clearly a choice.

Of course, Polley already had enough money that she could say "Screw you" to Hollywood.

[quote]everyone came out just fine in the end.

I thought Polley’s character died?

Sarah Polley had too much dignity to put up with the shit a lot of actresses do, that's what happened to her acting career.

I'm assuming "blowing it" is used ironically...

I didn't watch this fucking movie.

I was too busy listening to KoЯn

Indeed R56. "Blowing it" in Hollywood is because you REFUSE to blow it

I bet you're still a freak on a leash, R57.

Sarah Polley was a one-note actress and a one and a half note director. Next.

I don't even remember this forgettable Sarah Polley bitch as being some major part of this film.

R54 No, Polley’s character was run over by a car, and she crawled out of the ditch and showed up at work to man the cash register the next morning!

John August wrote a great script for this film.

I really enjoyed the movie. I bought the soundtrack on C.D. I played it quite a bit.

“Life begins at 3 a.m.” That’s exactly how I felt when the movie came out. (It’s the movie’s tagline.)

“Life Begins at 3 am” oh my god - I was in high school when this movie came out and thought that tagline and the movie itself were so cool. Now I can’t stay up past 10 pm. Ugh, youth!!

Great movie. I was completely crushing on Nathan Bexton at the time. I need to watch this again.

I've probably seen this movie 10 times, and used to own the DVD. I still have no memory of Breckin Meyer being in this.

LEN was a really great little band. When I play them in my store people always want to know what's on.

With all of the up-and-coming actors in this movie, who would have guessed that Melissa McCarthy would become the highest paid, biggest box office draw.

I also saw it in the theater in Dallas in 1999. My biggest memories of it are how hot Scott Wolf and Timothy Olyphant were.

Also, the music is a true slice of 1999. The soundtrack is a great glimpse into that era.

"Fire Up The Shoesaw" by Lionrock is on the July 1999 GapKids In-Store Playlist.

[Quote] Did it die alongside Freddie Prinze Jr's career?

He seemed to fall off the face of the earth after Scooby Doo.

Breckin Meyer will be playing the title role in the upcoming "The Aaron Schock Story".

I saw it when it first premiered at Sundance.

I liked it -- I thought it was creative and funny.

But at the time, I did recognize it as a PULP FICTION KNOCK-OFF and WANNABE.

PULP FICTION inspired a trend of movies in the late 1990s that experimented with script structure and format, telling stories non-chronologically and having dark, gangster humor from glib, pseudo-cool characters.

It all started with Tarantino, so I saw this movie as a copycat to a degree. Not plagiarism, but not original, either.

How the fuck can it be both creative and a knockoff, dipshit at R74?

Back when jay mohr was hot

I don't remember Melissa McCarthy in this film. Was she fat then?

Big but not far fat. She played the roommate of the guy Jay and Scott were both fucking. She was good in a small role

The first time I ever saw Melissa McCarthy (god is that the blandest name ever) was in a tiny role in Curb Your Enthusiasm as a super dumb shop assistant. I remember finding her hilarious and literally thinking: I'm going to see more of her someday. Some people you can just tell are going to 'make it'.

Still-hot Timothy drops a Go reference in today's episode of this.

Funny that Jay Mohr was in Go and the lame knock-off 200 Cigarettes

The only bit I enjoyed from 200 Cigarettes was Christina Ricci and Gaby Hoffmnan (WHET to her!) as a couple of Jersey bitches getting lost in the city..

Jay Mohr is not and has NEVER been hot.

I had no idea Jay was married to that bimbo chick from that terrible WB show "Unhappily Ever After."

Jay Mohr looks like a cartoon character come to life.

He'd be easy to draw, like Dagwood Bumstead.

R82 Gaby Hoffman and her giant bush are on Transparent.

I remember thinking it was super hot the way Jay Mohr kissed that guy in the club. I saw so little of that when I was younger that any hint of gay affection got me excited.

One of my favorite movies. I watch it once a year, at least. It's just so much fun and filled with great music and actors I love.

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, MONTY HALL?

I also like the movie Rave which is inferior to Go but still a good movie in the same there.

I love this movie and i jacked off to all the guys in it.

Katie had at least one other good film - “Pieces of April”. She actually had a promising film career but made the mistake of thinking she’d be the next Nicole Kidman.

Okay Claire, that bracelet of mine you're wearing, that's an accessory.

the girl on the movie poster looks nothing like Sarah Polley. Photoshop much?

Well, she was halfway there R91

Tom Cruise would not have allowed Kate to make this movie is she was offered it while they were married.

Don't remember much about the movie but I loved the soundtrack.

R91, Holmes also had “Wonder Boys” and “The Ice Storm,” two excellent movies where she was good, albeit overshadowed by others, and also had “The Gift,” which was better than decent. She was doing far better than anyone expected from a WB actress during that era, since the rest were all stuck in B-movie territory, while Holmes had movies that competed at Cannes.

She was never a great talent, but before Cruise she made some very good choices and worked with the right people. She was building toward the career Michelle Williams has now when the events of 2005 reversed their fates.

Timothy Olyphant was so fucking hot in this.

And now on SANTA CLARITA DIET, he's manorexic, with bad hair and weird nipple hair.

Michelle has four nominations, Katie none. Michelle wins.

Olyphant looked hot on The Grindr.

*Grinder

I loved this film!! Definitely brings back 90s /y2k nostalgic memories. I miss 90s movies and music!

Tim Olyphant is on Grindr? Where?!

The No Doubt song and video is probably the best song and video they ever released (and probably one of the best music videos of '99). This was a good film and it seemed well received at the time, but the soundtrack seemed to eclipse it and now both are kind of relics of a different time. 1999 was a VERY good year for movies, so there were a lot of gems that were released that year that get a bit overshadowed and I think this was one of them.

I still can't believe Jay Mohr is straight.

I still can't believe Jay Mohr had a career in Hollywood.

I saw it and I don't really remember it.

I liked it but I don't remember anything about it except the 2 gay guys, a naked ass, the Amway selling couple, and Katie Holmes saying "gay guys are so tragically hot." I'm also misremembering Joshua Jackson playing a femme, gay blond as being a part of this movie.

One of my favourite films ever. It has its flaws and it is definitely dated, but I watch it again every once in a while. One annoying thing about it is that they gave those strippers too many lines to say and they are way horrible saying them (especially that one screaming, "HANDS!"). I love it when Brekin Meyer is at the salad bar, slaps his thigh and says to the woman in front of him, "Yo! You done yet, girl?!".

I was always hoping a Timothy Olyphant drug dealer lookalike in a Santa had would fall in love with me at a warehouse dance club. Alas!

Of course I never did any drugs or even drank and I was never that sexy kinda strung-out-with-raccoon-eyes that was so coveted in the heroin chic era, so that was never gonna happen.

R96 It all went donwhill after Batman Begins. I still don't know what went wrong there.

R107 You're thinking of Cruel Intentions.

Loved this back in the day. Was quite odd seeing the English guy who goes to Vegas and fucks the two bridesmaids, as he'd been a regular in kids show Grange Hill on the BBC.

Sarah Polley was amazing. So effortlessly cunty without being a cunt. Effortless.

R86, good for Gaby and her hairy snatch.

This was one of those rare movies where it was safe for straight guys to go out and see a movie in the theater that had two gay men as main characters. That really isn't very common, even today.

Was it promoted as having gay characters, though? It's been awhile, I forget. I remember being pleasantly surprised there was a gay male couple, because I hadn't been expecting it.

Back when Katie Holmes was a rising star.

Fun movie.

I thought this movie, Velvet Goldmine and Run, Lola, Run were the harbingers of the New Cinema of the 21st Century! I bought an outfit for it and everything.

Saw this in the theater at age 17. Loved t. Owned the soundtrack, too.

I barely remember it now. Will definitely watch it again.

I also loved the movie "Groove" and it's soundtrack though I don't remember it much either.

[quote] I love it when Brekin Meyer is at the salad bar, slaps his thigh and says to the woman in front of him, "Yo! You done yet, girl?!".

I remember that got the biggest laugh in the audience when I saw this in the theater. Frau had it coming.

Sarah has the career she wanted. She never wanted to be a big film star. Her passion lies with film making by writing and directing, as well as her incredible passion for humanity. I'd love to see her act more, but am still happy as long as she's involved in the industry

I really did think that Sarah Polley would have gone on to do bigger budget movies and TV shows. Sort of like Chloe Sevigny.

Sarah thought she wanted a career but then she reconsidered. She realized what she really wanted was a cracker.

I like the way Sarah Polley read the Pied Piper in the Sweet Hereafter. That's the second time today I have had occasion to mention that film on here. Likely it will never happen again.

I love the conversation at the end with Katie Holmes and Timothy Olyphant talking about Family Circus in the comic section.

I thought Olyphant was going to be a major star after "First Wives Club" and "Go." I saw him on Seth Meyers earlier this week and he looked great still. I had no idea he was married with 3 kids.

Wonder how different Katie Holmes career would be now had she continued with the momentum from this movie and never married Tom Cruise.

R126 She'd just have more time to do crappy movies.

I saw “Go” at the theatre and was hooked from the opening credits, when the techno music and rave footage took over from the Columbia logo. Realized right away that it was the the “Pulp Fiction” mold, but still managed to be fresh and fun.

Polley was terrific — her character was so brave and unflappable, and she was really appealing. Between this and “The Sweet Hereafter”, she became of my favorites to watch. Was so disappointed when Martin Scorsese was forced to replace her on “Gangs of New York” with Cameron Diaz. But as has been posted above, she’s shone as a director as well.

R62, thank you, I feel much better about this movie now!

Cool, though here there is DVD commentary over the music.

This movie would probably do well even if it were released today.

I have always loved Sarah Polley's acting but her teeth and mouth are bordering on grotesque. Olyphant was an Olympic swimmer but his horrible veneers ruined his acting.

Sarah Polley looks like Stormy Daniels.

She DOES resemble Stormy! I was wondering why Stormy had a familiar look.

I like Polley’s teeth. I’m over “perfect” Hollywood teeth. They look just as grotesque half the time, ill-fitting Chicklets that keep a mouth from even closing. Look at Trump here. How did we come to see these teeth as more normal looking than actual jagged, craggy teeth of nature?

The last appearance of the old version of Katie Holmes.

Go is one of those movies I watch about every six years, remember how amazing it is, then promptly forget about it.

Probably about time to dig it out again.

Definitely a movie that creates what it feels like to be in LA.

R82 Gaby Hoffman (WHETH?) & Christina Ricci are a dream team and work perfectly in the otherwise egregious 200 CIGARETTES. Their yapping about their beloved “Rawn-cawnk-ah-muh” dressed to the nines and flouncing around punk bars in the Big Apple could have been a movie all on its own.

Now I think about, while Katie Holmes was beguiling in GO! I think Ricci could have played her part well.

R84 Nikki Cox isn’t a bimbo, and she was hilarious as Tiffany on UNHAPPILY. She was carrying the show around while the rest idled in the background of Bobcat’s irritating shrill schtick.

And Mohr isn’t married to Cox anymore, they finally got that divorce they’ve been threatening. I believe he’s single now...

R138 I lived Holmes in Go. She was well cast and embodied the character perfectly. Ricci is a great actress and she would have been good in the role, but I’m glad to have seen someone else pull off a strong performance since Ricci was such an it girl back then.

I think Breckin Meyer is now doing a voiceover for a CVS commercial.

As a lesbian I remember thinking that Katie Holmes was attractive in GO!, and having never thought that before or since. “Thanks for buying me breakfast/Ginseng & Dexedrine” was too cute.

Jay Paulson has the best moment and line in this, even though everyone forgets his role (as Fichtner’s junior). It’s when he’s leaving the failed operation for his Christmas break, and he spaces out as he’s walking out the door. Fichtner asks him what’s wrong, and he just stares for a few seconds and says “uh, nothing”. It’s such a throwaway line but it adds a lot of levity and realism to a madcap Third Act.

By contrast, the Macarena dance sequence and half of Simons’s plot (the Second Act) should have been cut and replaced with deleted scenes, like the one where Mohr/Wolf reveal to Fichtner & Paulson that they’re in both in a “settled” relationship of four years (they don’t mention it’s with each other).

Loved it, don't remember a thing. Worth a rewatch?

I want to do dirty things to Timothy Olyphant.

Sarah Polley was repulsed by Hollywood and the American celebrity machine and ran back to Canada as fast as she could.

R146 Was this before or after Dawn Of The Dead?

Rewatch it R144, then come back tomorrow and tell us your thoughts. If you liked it once 20 years ago you’ll probably like it even more now, if for nostalgia or other different reasons. It’s a fun couple hours.

It’s actually the perfect moment in time to see again; it’s the holiday season (the events of GO! take place on Xmas Eve), it’s Katie Holmes 40th birthday in 10 days, and the 20th anniversary of GO! is in 3 weeks.

Loved it. Sarah was the coolest chick on the planet.

I remember feeling cheated that before this movie came out an issue of The Advocate teased a Mohr/Wolf gay lovescene that was never in the final cut or the deleted scenes released later.

I assume there never was one filmed, or if there was one it was wiped. The script doesn’t include one, either.

[quote] Seeing that amazing closeup of Scott Wolf's bulge while they were putting the wire on him sent me over the edge at a very tender age.

R32 there’s a great story Wolf tells about filming that scene on Jay Mohr’s podcast. Apparently the director of GO! Doug Liman asked Scott to swap underwear with the Exec Producer midscene, because Liman felt the briefs Scott wore to shoot weren’t tight or gay enough for his character.

In that same podcast Mohr & Wolf discuss the sexual roles of their characters in that movie, and decide that Wolf’s character bottomed for Mohr as R9 points out.

I could go for a 20 Years Later sequel..

I can’t believe no one’s brought up the whole retraining him how to give head part. To this day whenever someone’s giving bad head I just want to grab him by the ears and undo years of bad technique.

Sarah Polley's career took a dive because of Weinstein. She was a Miramax Ingeue in the late 90's then fell off the face of the earth. I'm pretty sure she wrote an essay last year about her experience with Harvey.

R153 that line is so apt one wonders whether Liman knew a real-life couple well enough to paint their patter in fiction, or otherwise lurked DL in the early years (1995-9); it sounds like a DL reply lifted by forceps and dropped into the script. There’s also the wonderful line about Sean Connery.

While GO! is derivative and certainly has its flaws, in the light of 2018 Zack & Adam still look like progress. Liman, Mohr & Wolf render these two men believably and compassionately even in the frame of a bleak tweaked-out acerbic comedy. In hindsight the finished performance is a suprising achievement for all three men, and as another poster said upthread Wolf has never given a better one (ACTION notwithstanding, I’d say the same for Mohr).

Compare this exchange to the limpwristed stereotypical backbiting written in the gay seduction scene of CRUEL INTENTIONS released the same year. CI paints cowardly closeted men as weak, sneering, effete & cartoony where GO! portrays similarly cowardly gay men as relatable, somewhat resourceful & even empathetic in spite of their duplicity. We still feel a little for Zack & Adam when they find out the other is cheating, and smile when they “do the right thing” for poor Ronna at the end of the film.

Yes she did r154. Here's the link.

R130 funny, I can’t hear any commentary? That track is fucking fantastic PLUR though.

I’d live a cast commentary on a re-release. Maybe next year would be opportune?

R157 GO was scored by BT (Brian Transeau—real name), whom I think was the best and most apt trance music producer of the era.

I thought Desmond Askew was adorable. What happened to him?

R159 I ask you, didn’t you think his performance was a little askew?

R159 Askew today.

Olyphant at a recent triathlon. Still looks good.

Wasn't Taye Diggs in this?

He was my dream.

Olyphant is much skinnier now.

Watch him on The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix.

He looked best on Justified & in the movie THE CRAZIES. He was gorgeous in that.

Too bad he likes pussy.

Mohr’s character Zack is very fuckable & nicely built in GO too, but in a different softer way to lean hunkish twink Olyphant.

I appreciate the scene when Zack misinterprets the critical looks Burke (Fichtner) gives him as gay interest, and to deter quietly praises his “girlfriend” of “four years” (meaning Scott Wolf’s Adam, ofc) as “hot” with pretty blue eyes despite infidelity. It’s nice that this movie had for main characters a longterm gay couple going through a relationship stumble but still very much obviously in love (see the moment Zack vows to Adam that “he’d never testify against him”, or their final scene where Adam hearteyes Zack for his clever resolution to their plight).

Pity these characters didn’t have a single lingering hug or kiss or lovescene, but that would have been too much in mainstream popcorn cinema of 1999 I suppose.

I get the attraction to Scott Wolf and Timothy Olyphant, but Jay Mohr looks like Dagwood Bumstead

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Not to be a party pooper but the movie bombed when it came out. Budget was 20 million (and that doesn't include P&A), world wide gross was 28 million. Not good.

It was an "alternative," independent movie with no big names. It didn't go through typical blockbuster promotion and nationwide major theater chains.

Saw it when I was 12 or 13. a lot of stuff went over my head and a lot was pretty blatant and obvious. cool movie

R169 a bomb is when a movie loses money

It’s so bizarre that the guy who wrote this later made his millions and bought a beach house writing for BLOSSOM.

In my opionation, that isn't quite accurate R173.

Reply to 172 it did lose money you have to also account for half of it's 27 million dollar going back to the theater. So it returned to the studio a pitiful 13 million on a 20 million dollar negative cost. Reply 170 it went out on 1563 screens opening weekend and grossed 4.7 million opening weekend. They promoted the hell out of it. This was no indie release. Total US gross was 16.8 million. So yes it bombed.

I saw it three times in the movie theatre. A friend and I both loved the movie and the soundtrack soooo much.

Since when does ‘bombing’ at the box office equate to being a bad film?

It was and still is a smash hit with the DL, which is all that really matters in the end.

I do wonder what career Katie Holmes would have had without Cruise getting in the way. She always seemed to make really interesting choices. Sometimes, I have to wonder if the actors actually get to pick the projects themselves or if their agents/managers just attach them to whatever they think will be best.

^I always like to imagine an alternate Universe where Holmes went left instead of right after GO and became the toast of the cult/indie film world with increasingly stellar script choices, then on top of her game she came out as a lesbian and ended up as a power scriptbroker championing great female roles. In that AU she also notoriously beat a horse addiction with her bare hands via Tae Kwan Do (no God, or Dr. Phil) and initiated some of her antecedents into the ways of Sapphism. She also has three Oscar noms and two Spirit wins.

R180 wow, you have a rich, rich fantasy life about KH going on there. In you scenario does Parker Posey die young so Katie can get those good parts?

Could Katie have pulled off dueling Gail Weathers alongside Courtenay Cox in Scream 3?

Was Katie ever considered for that role in Scream 3? I can't really see that. Plus, Parker Posey is one of the few good things about that mess of a movie.

R183:

That was food for thought regarding the question posed at the end of R181

I totally agree about Parker stealing the show in scream 3...

Scott Wolf/“BAI-LEEEEEE!” was too cute in this movie. He grew into his face.

Are we certain he’s not gay?

Wolf has a wife & kids, R185. So, no, we’re not.

Scott Wolf's wife was a cast member on Real World: New Orleans

20 of $20 at a rave full of college kids and gay gays sounds like a fucking great way to spend Xmas.

Too bad I’m stuck with only straight family and shitty wine to get me through the holidays this year.

[Quote] I totally agree about Parker stealing the show in scream 3...

Lol she was great as Jennifer Jolie.

Katie Holmes: peaked in Pieces of April > case closed.

24 Hour Party People and Rules of Attraction are cousins to GO. All of them fun/quirky cinema

^^I’m obsessed with Parker. She’s too cool and always has been, and maybe that’s the reason she couldn’t have played opposite roles the equally-cool Sarah Polley.

By contrast Katie has always had a slightly drippy, dopey, worrywart second-banana quality about her which makes her an ideal foil to bone-dry blasé Polley in GO.

R191 wasn’t RULES OF ATTRACTION the one where James van der Beek reluctantly kissed a man then bitched about having to forevermore? Hard pass.

Sarah Polley directs movies & documentaries now. She did a great job with ‘Away From Her’.

I would like to have seen Katie Holmes return to play Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight. She was good in Batman Begins, but the script did not require much of her.

In Dark Knight, we would've seen what she was capable of. Cruise kept her out of it, and now it's too late. Her crazy ten year journey I believe has rendered her unable to act.

As the movie stands, I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is so remarkably ugly in it that it's completely distracting. I couldn't get past it. No way a girl who looks like she looked in that movie would be with Bruce Wayne.

[Quote] By contrast Katie has always had a slightly drippy, dopey, worrywart second-banana quality about her which makes her an ideal foil to bone-dry blasé Polley in GO.

That's also what made her the perfect choice for Joey Potter. God, i hate that character!

This movie seemed like disposable trash and a mildly amusing, distracting, tragically-hip pastiche at the time. Now it seems like a fresh, sharp, witty glimpse into a fantastic Lost World. Mainstream cinema and pop/youth culture really has gone to the dogs and GO is the perfect litmus test to show it.

The thing I remember best about the movie is that lucky girl getting to make out with shirtless Timothy Olyphant.

^^the thing I remember most was how Scott Wolf was giving Jay Mohr his best “fuck me” eyes in every. single. Shot.

I couldn’t watch Party Of Five in the same way ever again after that.

There's a lot they could do with a sequel to this movie.

Right R200? I want to see Zack & Adam turning 50 and married, still squabbling and trying to cope with all the usual DL problems as well as the acting thing.

I also really want to know how Ronna made out and what she’s doing now, and if Burke’s assistant got promoted to Detective. I don’t care much about Simon and the other characters, though.

^plus it just hit me that in 2019, the teenage Ronna character would be in her mid-late 30s - and therefore older than Zack & Adam were in the original. Insane.

In the theater, you could hear people talking about how much Sarah Polley looks like Uma Thurman when she first came on screen.

R201 maybe Zack is worried about Adam leaving him and so hires a cute personal trainer in his 30s to keep him in tip-top Daddy-shape, but unfortunately said trainer catches Adam’s eye and tensions mount. Turns out said trainer is a hotter grown-up Mannie (the Latino HS Kid who worked as a bagger with Ronna & Claire in the original movie) who managed to fall into drugs & camming post-graduation and before he got into PT.

I remember reading press for this movie and finding out that Scott Wolf deliberately went trolling for a gay role “to surprise his fans” held over from Party Of Five, and found this part. Mohr read with Wolf first, and took such a shine to him that he talked Liman into blowing off the other hopefuls and hiring Scott.

According to Wolf, he did so well in the role and found it so enjoyable because he “heard himself in Adam” (I’m paraphrasing). I’ve always thought Wolf seemed gay so that’s an interesting way of putting it...

Rave/acid/Happy Hardcore had a surprisingly long life, huh? Almost a decade of prevalence, ‘90-99.