"Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle"
IVAN SAID...
I had a conversation with my counterpart at work today ... also a gay man (he lives in San Francisco, I live in Miami). He has seen all of the Oscar nominated films and he is convinced "Brokeback Mountain" should have won for Best Picture. But I'm standing firm with "Crash". You just can't overlook the fact that gay men were never forced into indentured servitude (even so, Hank Azaria was adorable in "The Birdcage").
But today, another movie caught my attention -- simply because it brought back a special time for me and many shared experiences with my long time friend, Sylvia. "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle", if produced 35 years ago could rightly have been titled "Sylvia and Ivan Go to White Castle".
Amazingly, both take place in NJ and both involve two friends embarking on a road trip to find White Castle. Although, "Sylvia and Ivan Go to White Castle"
would've been filmed in a 1969 Chevy station wagon, the very silly adventures of two young people, and their very colorful friends, were captured perfectly. The New Jersey geography is a little off, but anyone who's ever gone on a "road trip" to satisfy their munchies will find something to like in this film (for us, the closest White Castle was 17 miles away, indeed a "road trip" for New Jersey).
SYLVIA SAID...
Being a big "Jerseyana' fan (i.e. the Kevin Smith films "Clerks," "Mallrats," Chasing Amy," and my fav.:"Dogma") I did enjoy "Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle." I think it was a veritable "hoot." And Yes-It does bring back memories of our late night excursions to White Castle for those little culinary treats all those years ago-Ivan. And yes...Hank Azaria was A_DOR_A_BLE in "The Birdcage." Nathan Lane did not take a back seat either-he was amazing.
***SYLVIA***
I had a conversation with my counterpart at work today ... also a gay man (he lives in San Francisco, I live in Miami). He has seen all of the Oscar nominated films and he is convinced "Brokeback Mountain" should have won for Best Picture. But I'm standing firm with "Crash". You just can't overlook the fact that gay men were never forced into indentured servitude (even so, Hank Azaria was adorable in "The Birdcage").
But today, another movie caught my attention -- simply because it brought back a special time for me and many shared experiences with my long time friend, Sylvia. "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle", if produced 35 years ago could rightly have been titled "Sylvia and Ivan Go to White Castle".
Amazingly, both take place in NJ and both involve two friends embarking on a road trip to find White Castle. Although, "Sylvia and Ivan Go to White Castle"
would've been filmed in a 1969 Chevy station wagon, the very silly adventures of two young people, and their very colorful friends, were captured perfectly. The New Jersey geography is a little off, but anyone who's ever gone on a "road trip" to satisfy their munchies will find something to like in this film (for us, the closest White Castle was 17 miles away, indeed a "road trip" for New Jersey).
SYLVIA SAID...
Being a big "Jerseyana' fan (i.e. the Kevin Smith films "Clerks," "Mallrats," Chasing Amy," and my fav.:"Dogma") I did enjoy "Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle." I think it was a veritable "hoot." And Yes-It does bring back memories of our late night excursions to White Castle for those little culinary treats all those years ago-Ivan. And yes...Hank Azaria was A_DOR_A_BLE in "The Birdcage." Nathan Lane did not take a back seat either-he was amazing.
***SYLVIA***
posted by Sylvia at 12:29 PM
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Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is very funny.In the movie they are looking for a White Castle in Cherry Hill,NJ.For one thing there is no White Castle in Cherry Hill and when they finally find the White Castle it is out in the wilderness and that look nothing like cherry Hill at all.I live one town away in marlton
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