of doppelgangers and throttle linkage

So I thought that Mark Strong (bad guy boss from kick ass) was also in Kiss of Death and It could happen to you. Turns out Stanley Tucci and Mark Strong are fucking twins! And Mark knows it! And he's sooo flattered:

(from this blog)
Do you ever hear that people think you look like Stanley Tucci?
Yeah! I’ve had not only Stanley Tucci, but Andy Garcia. It’s funny, isn’t it? I actually take that as an enormous compliment because I think it’s a mark of people starting to notice you. I’ve known other actors who suddenly do something that gets them noticed and the first thing that happens on this long journey of becoming a regular in the movies, people try to work out who you’re like. There’s also a football player in London for Manchester United called Dimitar Berbatov who’s Bulgarian. So what they’re identifying, I think, is that kind of Mediterranean, Eastern European thing. I take it as a huge compliment. Stanley Tucci and Andy Garcia are a couple of terrific actors."

Apparently, he also looks like this soccer player too.

I don't care what Prince says, the internet is totes useful.

Anyway, this:

Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

was pretty entertaining, I thought. Fast cars! Pretty typical story...Nic (Memphis Raines) has given up his life of crime but then he is lured back into it for One Last Heist, to save his asshole brother, Kip, from getting crushed in a car compactor by the bad guys. Well, they're all criminals, so I guess he's saving him from the badDER guys. But whatever, really, his bro is barely worth saving at all, in my opinion. He just whines and gripes and screws everything up all the time, and is hardly grateful to Memphis at all. Lame. But, of course, Memphis still really lusts after the car thieving so it's not so terrible after all...plus he gets to hook up with his old flame, Sway, (Angelina Jolie w/ gross dreadlocks) and engage in some weird car-talky foreplay:

Sway: What do you think is more exciting... having sex or stealing cars?
Memphis: Having sex or boosting cars... Um, oo! Well, uh... How about having sex WHILE boosting cars?
Sway: Oh, that's a good line. Doesn't work on a lot of girls, though.
Memphis: I just blurted it out, I'm sorry... But, you haven't answered the question.
Sway: Well, you see, the problem is... how do you get over the shifter?
Memphis: Oh, oh right... because the uh...
Sway: 'Cos it gets in the way.
Memphis: Because you wouldn't want to disrupt the syncro-mesh... the throttle linkage... the clutch master cylinder... the overhead camshaft.
Sway: I can't do this.
Memphis: Straight inline 6, triple Weber carburetors, bolted to each other's body structures...
Sway: Well, it's time to work...
Memphis: Good brakes... good brakes, too!

ha.