But John Cusack's One Crazy Summer never gets mentioned. Like ever. Am I the only one who's seen that movie? C'mon? The Cute & Fuzzy Bunnies !
But John Cusack's One Crazy Summer never gets mentioned. Like ever. Am I the only one who's seen that movie? C'mon? The Cute & Fuzzy Bunnies !
chandler said:z31maniac said:psteav (Forum Supporter) said:Steve_Jones said:So on page 3 we can all agree that Better Off Dead is not to be spoken of in a despairing tone right?
Oh, man. I really loved that movie when I was 18. I tried to show it to my wife a couple of years ago (probably 15 years after I first watched it)...and it doesn't quite hold up as well as I'd hoped. Still funny, but it's pretty clear the director had crazy ADHD and complete control.
The Korean guy imitating Howard Cosell still slays me, though.
"The once great warrior, now, just a shell of himself."
I LOVE that movie, but haven't seen it in forever. I'll have to see if I can find it this evening.
Don't do it! It didn't hold up for me at all. "I want my two dollars"
I'm sure it still will for me. Big Trouble in Little China is cheesy as hell, but I still love it.
"Jack Burton" has so many great quotes.
"Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we’re not back by dawn… call the president."
"Like I told my last wife, I says, “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it’s all in the reflexes.”"
"I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things"
"Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
Speaking of John Cusack, Grosse Point Blanc is one of his best.
Best line goes to his sister, "I'm just closing up the office, sir." as she pours gasoline over everything...
Streetwiseguy said:Speaking of John Cusack, Grosse Point Blanc is one of his best.
Best line goes to his sister, "I'm just closing up the office, sir." as she pours gasoline over everything...
Agreed, every time it's on I have to watch it.
Movie confession: I will never understand the Matrix popularity and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
The new Top Gun BETTER be good!!!
BTW - Tom Cruise seems to make any aviation related movie MUCH better, because he is a damn pilot and know how things should be portrayed.
Oh, and I heard recently that they started shooting Masters of the Air (by the same people who brought you Band of Brothers). I have high hopes for this one! I want to see a Saving Private Ryan level of portrayal! I think maybe they should get Tom Cruise involved!
I have no ideas what storyline they will use though. The book is mostly just a historical record (e.g. not a lot of interpersonal stuff). It is very good that it will be a miniseries though LOTS of potential content. The only thing I can guess is that they will follow Tibbets ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets ), which is hinted in the first chapter, but never really followed through with. I do kind of hope they might do some portrayal of the Big Week (pre cursor to D Day that essentially set the bombers up a bait to draw out and destroy German fighters), but Tibbets was out of Europe by then I believe.
Will there be an awkward beach volleyball scene?
Streetwiseguy said:Speaking of John Cusack, Grosse Point Blanc is one of his best.
Best line goes to his sister, "I'm just closing up the office, sir." as she pours gasoline over everything...
I probably watch that one once a year or so, when I can't decide on anything new to watch.
Beer Baron said:chandler said:1/ funniest movies are Blazing Saddles, Airplane and Life of Brian.
Yes.
'Search for the Holy Grail' gets all the nerd cred, but Life of Brian is absolutely their best work and the best satire.
Whenever I see someone complain - particularly on the internet - about how evil the society or system or whatever is, I always think of this scene.
Just thinking about that scene "what have they ever given us?" and the "you just gonna throw it in a box and let it gestate?" scene make me lose it.
Fighting the oppressors for Stan's right to have babies.
Who would have thought they could see so clearly into the future.
My confession is that I have basically zero desire to watch movies. When I do watch a movie, it's out of coincidence: someone else is watching it, in the place I'm at, and I'm bored and have nothing better to do. I have no urge to watch new movies, and only occasionally do I get the urge to re-watch an old favorite. I just bought a 4-disc collection of the Herbie the Love Bug movies on DVD. I have no idea when I'll actually bother putting them on. But I had them on loop as a kid and have nostalgia for them.
Another confession: often times, when there's a movie on TV that I don't want to sit and watch, I will go look up the ending just to satisfy my curiousity. I have no patience.
hunter47 said:In reply to thatsnowinnebago :
Tokyo Drift was the best one after TF&TF, don't get me started.
2F2F was forgettable, at best, but had some good oneliners and the tuner scramble scene was a hoot.
I used to bump the title track to 2F2F in my riced-out '93 Altima with a single 10" in my trunk and a fart can. It's forver burned into my brain.
Haven't read the whole thread because I'm tired.
Born in 73. I saw Jaws very young. Mom and Dad put my sister and I to bed in the pickup camper (slide-in for those of you out west) while they went to a drive-in. They didn't know we were peeking through the front window and watching with them.
I'm a movie lover. I love a movie that can make me cry for real reasons, not just tugging at my heartstrings with fabricated BS like "you complete me" in Jerry Maquire. I love Joy Luck Club. House of Sand and Fog. The Mandarin version of Dangerous Liaisons. January Man/Sweet November. Gattaca. Big Fish. I Am Sam. 21 Grams. American Beauty. Brick. Vanilla Sky. Stand and Deliver.
On the lighter side, Dusk Til Dawn, Serenity/Firefly, Donnie Darko (which was written as a comedy, by the way... despite the self-destructive tragedy of the main character), Minority Report. Star Trek.
I can't stand contrived or fabricated awkward comedy: Nearly any Ben Stiller movie, Best in Show, Schitt's Creek, The Office, Portlandia, Parks and Rec (I realize some of those are TV, but you get the idea.) Some movies I can watch once and enjoy but can't watch again: Talladega Nights, The Engagement, Something About Mary, No Strings Attached, Beetlejuice, Me Myself and I,
Then there are the complete BS movies that I will watch forever: Christmas Vacation, Groundhog Day, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Love Actually, Dumb and Dumber.
I've watched Fury only once. In the theater. I've checked it out countless times from the library. But I just can't bring myself to watch it again. There are some hard dark scenes in that movie. I loved it, but I left the theater feeling numb and hollow. Which was the point.
Confession: I think in the almost 40 years we've been together, we've been to the theater to see a movie, maybe, 3 times. I haven't seen most of the movies mentioned, like probably 90%, and I don't expect either of those numbers to change any time soon
Beer Baron said:Hereditary
If you liked Hereditary, have you watched Midsommar? Same director, different story. Pretty good.
Duke said:Beer Baron said:Hereditary
If you liked Hereditary, have you watched Midsommar? Same director, different story. Pretty good.
I have not. I've heard mostly pretty bad things about Midsommar.
I'm not sure if I like Hereditary? It had a lot of promise. The first 1/3 to 1/2 was good. Had one of the most effectively horrifying and disturbing scenes I've ever watched. Then the last 1/3 or 1/4 it lost me, and the end left me angry at the movie.
That's a hell of a lot better than Us, which managed to smash my tension and interest at about the 1/3 or 1/2 way mark.
In reply to Beer Baron :
I liked Midsommar a lot. It's more of a mind-berk than an outright horror movie. If I were you, I'd try it.
I get your point about Hereditary, but I didn't mind it.
On a related note (modern horror), I recommend a movie called The Blackcoat's Daughter (also released under the title February). Written and directed by Oz Perkins, Anthony Perkins's son. It's... slow? But that's kind of the point, and it's effectively atmospheric and scary, too. Don't give in to the feeling that nothing's happening, because it is.
Finally got around to watching "Snowden" on Wednesday. Leaving politics aside, it's a very interesting and moving film, the individual himself was very driven and intelligent, well acted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Definitely worth a watch.
I actually enjoy the Star Wars prequels. Episode I is pretty meh and forgettable, other than the podracing scene, but I really like Episode II and III and I'd go as far as saying Episode III is my favorite of the numbered Star Wars entries.
I like watching videos about movies more than watching the actual movies.
The narrator has a punchable face and the video style is annoying, BUT this one in particular makes a few interesting points. Like, how we are conditioned to receive Alfred's side of the story of the thief in Burma in a positive light, but another way to look at it was that the English were trying to buy influence with the Burmese tribal leaders in order to take control of the area, and the thief's main goal was not to steal the jewels, but to protect his land's independence. We're sympathetic to Alfred's side of the story simply because that is how the movie guides us to think.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:*SNIP*
We're sympathetic to Alfred's side of the story simply because that is how the movie guides us to think.
Subtract the words the movie from the sentence and insert western culture. (BTW, includes me.)
And then lock this down before it becomes a political monster...
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
That is exactly what I hate about indepth movie discussion. I have exactly no interest in the motivation for the characters.
Punch the bad guy, throw him off Nakajima Tower, go home with the girl. That's it.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
Some movies, I just watch and like and...that's it. Other movies get in my brain and I want to learn everything I can about it.
pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) said:
- Never watched a Clint Eastwood Western or a John Wayne western and am sure I couldn't sit through one.
Unforgiven is all you need to watch.
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