Mostly, though, “Skyscraper” is about the movie’s other, far more towering figure: Mr. Campbell, who seems ready to transition to a new career phase playing hard-hitting maternal types with Mona Lisa smiles. There are intermittent pleasures, including Ms. A chick in black with an anguished haircut mows down a roomful of anonymous computer guys. Will is wounded in a brutal fight and must perform self-surgery. Heavily armed thugs set fire to one floor. Soon after he interviews for a high-end job in the world’s tallest building - an ugly metallic behemoth that looks like a twisty trunk of an African elephant grasping a baseball - violence happens. Johnson’s character, Will, a security analyst, visiting Hong Kong on business with his surgeon wife, Sarah (Neve Campbell), and their twins. There is of course a story, or at least a whisker-thin excuse for one, that finds Mr. Box-office domination was guaranteed as soon as the seven-figure deal was signed. Thurber had his elevator pitch: “The Towering Inferno” meets “Die Hard” but in China.
Johnson - they worked together on “ Central Intelligence,” as mocking a title as Hollywood has produced - and Mr. And why not? All he had to do was pad it with some recycling, bank on his relationship with Mr. If that doesn’t make you want to visit Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe, maybe it’s just not your kind of place.At one point in the insistently, nay, proudly ridiculous thriller “Skyscraper” the hero played by Dwayne Johnson assures the audience what it’s known from the start: “This is stupid.” It’s hard not to wonder if the writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber built the entire movie around this redundant truism. Yes, folks, that is a hot dog wearing a snow hat and parka, shoveling snow during the Blizzard of 2010. Click on the photo at the top of this article, and look closely at my cup in that photo… Oh! I have to tell you about my Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe commemorative cup! Or better yet, let me show you. I could easily eaten more than my two hot dogs! The best part is that I bought lunch for myself & a friend and the total bill was about $12.00. The chili-cheese dog was excellent! OK, so it wasn’t as good as a Dairy Queen chili-cheese dog (Thank you, West Virginia upbringing, for making me such an astute and worldly food critic), but it was definitely the second best chili-cheese dog I’ve ever had. The hot dog with mustard was basic and fine. My hot dogs were topped with a perfect amount of toppings they were loaded, but not soggy. The hot dogs aren’t very big, but I was happy that they use bun-sized wieners. On to the dogs! The buns were fresh, soft, and warm. I was surprised to find that the potatoes had a starchy, freshly cut taste. The melted cheese on the fries was not what I expected it wasn’t the typical congealed nacho cheese I was used to this cheese was runnier (more runny? That sounds GROSS) and less sticky. This is either going to be awesome, or send me in to some kind of systematic organ failure. And to wash it all down? A glowing, frosty Mountain Dew. I ordered a chili-cheese dog, a plain dog with mustard, and some fries with cheese. It’s all very convenient, I think, to an embarrassing degree. “Family of four” gets eight dogs and many French fries & pops, while “family of five” gets TEN hot dogs and many French fries and pops. Above the napkin/ketchup counter hangs a sign that says “Live, Laugh, Love.” There’s not a whole lot on the menu at Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe, but I appreciate that they’ve got package deals for families. Walking in, I noticed the décor of BHDS resembled a cross between a Dairy Queen & your mom’s living room. I was cautiously optimistic, and more importantly, very hungry. On Saturday afternoon, I visited the Greentree location. Even though being “so lazy you can’t make a hot dog” should be a bad thing, hot dog shops chalk it up to being American and cover it with chili-cheese.īrighton Hot Dog Shoppe has twelve restaurants scattered all over our Western Pennsylvania region and even one in Ohio. Who doesn’t love a footlong at the ball park? Yes, I’d say hot dogs are an important part of our national identity. I suppose that speaks to what the hot dog means to us as a country: fast to cook, easy to eat, and lots and lots of choices when it comes to condiments. You could cook your dog with a Zippo, if you really had to. I find it odd that a restaurant would stake it’s whole business model on a food that is probably the easiest food in the world to cook. Like the O in Oakland and D’s SixPax & Dogz in Regent Square, Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe specializes in wieners. I have been hearing about Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe for years. But I gotta say, hot dogs have a special place in my (cholesterol-saturated) heart. I love a thick, buttery filet mignon as much as the next carnivore.
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