Highway

[Vanessa]

Hah, no more could I wait to post something about one of my favorite Jake movies, Highway! I know it is definitely not the type of movie that would appeal to the masses, but I thoroughly loved it. Pilot Kelson is my hero! I absolutely loved the way they made his character so clever, philosophical, very flawed, completely loveable, & perpetually stoned. & Jake played it to a tee.

So, here you go, one of my favorite screencaps of it -

"Fuck you up 2 times!!!"[/size]

[coffeecat]

Unlike Prophecy Girl, this is not the least favorite of the Jake movies, it is one of my favorites. The only thing that could have made it better was to kick out Cassie (Selma Blair) and have the two boys get together.

Is that two risque for this thread? Is this a family thread? PG, should the rating be PG?

[sasha]

I just second coffeecat about the thingy who get together ... YUMMY

[Vanessa]

At the risk of getting in trouble with PG, I am saying this thread should not have to be PG, right??? However, what you said, coffeecat, shouldn't be too risque in my opinion anyway! & yeah, SB was a little lame in the movie, although I did enjoy her performance in Hellboy, but here she was just blah. So, as far as I'm concerned, they could have put Jack & Pilot together, & it would have been fine by me!

I know it was definitely not PG's favorite movie at all, but it is one of mine, I do believe I have watched it 50 times now & I barely saw it for the 1st time in June. I have been watching Jake's career since October Sky came out, but missed Highway, Moonlight Mile, & Lovely & Amazing until June, then I saw all 3 & added them to my Jake DVD collection. So, now, I can watch him be Pilot anytime I want to! & I do love Pilot. I have to say if I was 19 to 21, & I met Pilot on the street, he would be mine in a heartbeat!

Here's a little blingee for you of Pilot that I did for PG's blingee project:

Pilot Kelson - 10 years later!

[sophie]

wow!! i totally love highway too... I ADORE PILOT KELSON!! btw how do you do thos blingees they are amazing

[Vanessa]

Hey Sophie, you just go to their website & make a profile for yourself, then you can create away any kind of blingees you want. Here is their actual website blingee.com/ & here is my profile where you can see the rest of my Jake blingees I did for PG's blingee project. blingee.com/profile/vanessa791 It was fun, but it is a just a little time consuming to learn how to do it all at first. Once you get it down, then you can go crazy with it all! I do believe if you put in Jake Gyllenhaal on their search engine, you will find a TON of different blingees people the world over have made on that dude.

& here is another one I did of Pilot Kelson. Remember when he found Amy Carnes & she called him Pirate instead of Pilot? Well that was my inspiration for this one:

[Vanessa]

& here's another screencap of Pilot. BTW, I am testing a clickable link from Photobucket. So, click on the thumbnail picture here & see if it doesn't open up to a much bigger photo:

[sophie]

thanks vanessa lol the name is pilot!! i love all your blingees

[sophie]

i did my blingee but now how do i put it on my signature??

[Vanessa]

Hey Sophie, go to the Help thread here imstalkingjake.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=help&action=display&thread=36&page=1 & read my instructions there. If you still can't get it to work for you, then PM me & I will see what I can do to help!

[Prophecy Girl]

HAHA! This movie was so not even remotely my favorite that I didn't even check this thread. I AM A TERRIBLE JAKE FAN.

Honestly, I don't know what I'd think if I saw this movie now. I saw it at a very influential time in my life as a fan and, er, I don't remember much about it this many years later.

All of that said, I still don't own it, so I doubt I'll be watching it again any time soon (despite what I said in the book, I am poor enough that I could actually be enticed by money ). But I have no problems with this getting risque. I totally voted for the man-on-man hookup in that blog post I did a while back about all of Jake's kissing scenes in movies.

Of all the things I wrote in the book, I think I was most concerned about saying that about Highway. I know it is a movie well-loved...

[Kokomo (aka NSA)]

I just found this which I wrote a couple months ago, thought I'd share it. Keep in mind that I do enjoy this movie. Hell any film that brings Jake & Jared together to stare at for 90 minutes is a win in my book.

Things I Learned Watching Highway:
#1) Even spacey drug dealers are smart enough to tape all their conversations
#2) The God of F___ only wears flip flops. Cause when you tend to shag mob boss's wives, you've gotta be able to run out in a hurry. No time for laces or velcro or anything like that.
#3) Even old ladies will humiliate their kids for money.
#4) Just cause you're a hardcore druggie doesn't mean you can't be a human calculator.
#5) Even the God of F___ can be judgmental to a female with much the same sexual history. you know, that's okay....

Feel free to add your own.