"We need a name for you... how about Professor... Flask?"Originally Posted by Lou
"Professor DEATH!"
"or.... Professor..."
"Professor RAPE!"
"We need a name for you... how about Professor... Flask?"
"Professor DEATH!"
"or.... Professor..."
"Professor RAPE!"
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Marathon Man
Godfather II
Kick Ass
Shawshank Redemption
Bourne Identity
The Shape of Water
Lion
Amadeus
One Flew Over A Cuckos Nest
Sid and Nancy
Fargo
Moulin Rouge
Untouchables
Up In Smoke
20 or 30 more
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And let's not forget Cabin Boy!
"That's Cabin Boy Smith, sir."
"Smith has tits."
"....'ees been a bit ill, sir."
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The beekeeper would like you to sign this
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
Ahahahahaha! That's it, I'm pulling the DVD from the shelf to remind me to watch it this week! I was never so thrilled as when this one finally came out on DVD. Although I'd like a word with whoever it was at MGM who thought Cheech & Chong's faces should take up 3/4 of the cover. This movie is not about them! It's about guys like Feldman, Chapman, Cook, Milligan...
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A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
Next you'll be watching The Last Remake of Beau Geste!
Another great one with a stacked cast!
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In more of the guilty pleasures end of things.
Fifth Element
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Citizen Kane
Caddyshack
A Portrait of Jenny
Almost Famous
Batteries Not Included
When I got one of the first iPods, I debated about what movie to put on there as a long-term go-to time killer. It was between Cannonball Run and Gremlins 2. I went with Cannonball.
I gotta comment about my Gremlins connection. Hoyt Axton, who played Zach Galligan's father who buys him the Mogwai at the beginning of the movie, and who also was a great singer-songwriter ("Greenback Dollar", "Joy To The World", "Never Been To Spain") was an acquaintance of mine during the summer of 1964 in CA. While it would be exaggerating to call him a friend, we were at parties together and shared a smoke a few times.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Great sci fi movie, nothing to feel guilty about. One of the few very well done sci-fi movies which is also (intentionally) funny.
At the top of a list of go tos would be many of the big epics that many people would cite (Lawrence of Arabia
North by Northwest,Dr Strangelove, Shane,Taxidriver,Godfather,Schindler's List,2001 Space Odyssey,The Graduate, Goodfellas, Apollo 13, Shawshank etc), plus almost anything by the great directors like Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Lynch but here's some favs some of which are overlooked that I never tire of:
Videodrome/Crash--Cronenberg
Videodrome fascinating take on power of visual media on the brain; Crash bizarre, unsettling and oddly erotic
Modern Romance/Lost in America--Albert Brooks
High Fidelity--must see for any music lover or Chicago resident
Quick Change--Murray most underrated
Election--great swipe at electoral politics in US via a HS student council election, brilliantly and ironically portends the 2000 hanging chad stolen election
WarGames--best movie about the folly of nuke war this side of Strangelove
Hard Eight--from director of Boogie Nights, one of the best movies you've maybe never seen
Autofocus--true story of Bob Crane
Box of Moonlight--underrated slice of life comedy/drama w also underrated Turturro and Sam Rockwell
The Player--Altman best film, best movie about movies
Fargo, Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men--Coen Bros (my Minn boys)
No Country is relentless filmmaking
Mulholland Dr/Lost Highway-Lynch
Eyes Wide Shut--Kubrick (brilliant last statement)
Grindhouse/Inglorious Bastards-Tarantino
The Revenant--best most recent adventure pic in awhile, stunning cinematography
The Game--fantastic, almost Hitchcock like. First time you see it, the end blows you away.
Angel Heart--bizarre and unsettling, like a very intense Twilight Zone
At Close Range--based on true story, underrated w Walken, a rural Godfather
Glengarry Glen Ross--great dialogue flick
KPax--under the radar gem
Arlington Road--creepy realistic tale of right wing nutjobs who may be your next door neighbors (see Okla City)
Somwhat Older flicks//
Diner/Tin Men --Barry Levinson, great dialogue flicks
Body Heat
The Fugitive
Hunt for Red October
Bladerunner and Bladerunner 2049--most fascinating sci fi ever, groundbreaking
The Bounty--looks fantastic on BR
The Last Emperor-the last great epic movie ever made? great history, gorgeous Criterion BR
Man From Laramie--great Jimmy Stewart western gorgeous on BR
Hud--overlooked Paul Newman tale of the dying west
Bad Day at Black Rock--great western tale of prejudice/racism and what happens when a tyrant rules a small town, amazing cast, a lot of modern parallels in politics
Ship of Fools--another great story of prejudice and racism in pre WWII era
Anatomy of a Murder--one of the best courtroom dramas ever, Jimmy Stewart vs George C Scott is brilliant
In Cold Blood--chilling
Seven Men From Now--Boetticher
Ride Lonesome--Boetticher, some of the best westerns you've probably never seen
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Love Shawshank Redemption
For me has to be the James Bond series... Seen these all well over 10 times now.
He’s also featured on the “JBL Sessions” album that I digitized a few years ago. He had a GORGEOUS singing voice, though I didn’t much care for most of his choices of material.
Brother from another mother!
Those are two of my all-time favorites. I would round it off with Time Bandits, which I usually list as my favorite movie when asked.
BTW - I have seen Zu. The editing is terrible, but it is a fun movie and worth seeing: off-beat humor, lots of weirdness, and just about everyone flies around on wires at one point or another.
In a completely different vein:
Has anyone else here seen Hardcore Logo? It is pretty obscure, but a really great band-on-tour film.
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Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Hombre
Defending Your Life
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Two music related movies that I don't think have been mentioned and are in my top 10 all time: "The Commitments", directed by Alan Parker who did "Midnight Express" and "Pink Floyd: The Wall"; and "That Thing You Do" directed by and starring Tom Hanks. That cast of unknown Irish actors in "The Commitments" is just magical together. And Liv Tyler lights up every scene she's in in TTYD. I love the fact that the bass player isn't named throughout the film and is shown in the credits as "The Bass Player". Can any one-time aspiring musician watch the scene when The Oneders first hear their song on the radio without getting goosebumps?
"Keep screwing! Keep screwing!"
The movie I've seen the most isn't a great movie, but it's a movie that HBO, back in the day, showed endlessly, and my brothers and I watched it so many times:
Meatballs
How about the movie "Overboard?" That movie is ALWAYS on on one channel or another. I think it's an FCC rule. (They're making or made a remake of it with the main gender roles reversed. They should do this with every comedy, it'll keep the studios busy for decades. Like with Ghostbusters, I guess - I still haven't seen that remake.)
The new Ghostbusters was pretty forgettable. Not horrible but not good either. I do like the cast who have done lots of good comedy.
The studios already do way too many remakes and sequels.
At least -- so far anyway -- they haven't made all of us rebuy their movies by re-releasing them with improved color and focus, with improved graphics, in several different formats (including obsolete ones like VHS and Beta), and with the raw footage having been re-edited by some hot editor who claims he can improve the old chestnuts with his razor blade.
A few obscure faves:
Mid-August Lunch (2009)
Delightful Italian dramedy by Gianni Dio Gregorio
53 Pickup (1986)
Sleazy Elmore Leonard tale starring Roy Scheider , Ann Margret and John Glover as one of cinemas most imaginative psychopaths.
Spring Forward (1999)
Liev Schreiber and Ned Beatty as town workers in Ridgefield Ct.Beautiful story.
Smile (1975)
Michael Ritchies satire on a teenage beauty pageant in CA. Starring Bruce Dern and a teenage Melanie Griffith.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
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