Confessions of a Self-Proclaimed Movie-Buff

[Sean Malone]

I never saw Taxi Driver until the other night on some HD network. :(

Bare with me as I pontificate, bloviate and otherwise vociferate…

Taxis Driver – A Review by Sean Malone

Wow.

The End.


My thought on this thread is two-fold; a discussion about the movie Taxi Driver and/or critically acclaimed movies that you haven’t seen.

[nrc]

My thought on this thread is two-fold; a discussion about the movie Taxi Driver and/or critically acclaimed movies that you haven’t seen.

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the **** do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.

Comment on Taxi Driver. It's funny how many things you see in movies from the 70s that either wouldn't be done or would cause great contraversy today.

Ok, movies from the IMDB top rated movies that not everyone has seen but should:

Léon (The Professional)
12 Monkeys
The Usual Suspects
Memento
Full Metal Jacket
Dog Day Afternoon
Duck Soup
The Thing (John Carpenter's)

Currently not in the list of top movies and proof that IMDB has really slipped:
Brazil
Chasing Amy

[Methanolandbrats]

These are all outstanding, but not many people know them.

Blue Velvet
Repo Man
Dead Calm
Slingblade
Dolores Claiborn

[emjaya]

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the **** do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.

Comment on Taxi Driver. It's funny how many things you see in movies from the 70s that either wouldn't be done or would cause great contraversy today.

Ok, movies from the IMDB top rated movies that not everyone has seen but should:

Léon (The Professional)
12 Monkeys
The Usual Suspects
Memento
Full Metal Jacket
Dog Day Afternoon
Duck Soup
The Thing (John Carpenter's)

Currently not in the list of top movies and proof that IMDB has really slipped:
Brazil
Chasing Amy

Full Metal Jacket is garbage, imho. :yuck:


The rest of your list I agree with, though. :gomer:

[trish]

I haven't seen The Passion. That's the only critically acclaimed movie I can think of right now.

Oh, wait! I haven't seen any of the God Father movies.

[greenie]

Repo Man

:thumbup: :thumbup:

[Methanolandbrats]

I've gotta add "Fried Green Tomatos" and "Mean Girls" to the list. Ya, I know the genre is a little different and I might get banned, but they are great movies :D

[Wabbit]

Too many "Critically Acclaimed" movies are too artsy-fartsy or chick flicks. You'll never see good movies like Die Hard or Demolition Man. I want explosions!!

[stroker]

:thumbup: :thumbup:

"Git back in that car, white boy--you ain't through!"

[Sean Malone]

Don't fret over 'Fried Green Tomatoes".

One that I watch at least once a year ever since I saw it with my parents as a very young kid...Dr. Zhivago. It's on my top five list. Maybe even # 1 or #2 depending on my mood.

[greenie]

"Git back in that car, white boy--you ain't through!"

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are. :laugh:

[Robstar]

Surely The Godfather's gotta be up there?

[chop456]

Harold and Maude. A great commentary on life, independence, individuality and what's important. Funny, too.

On topic: I've never seen all of The Wizard of Oz. :tony:

[Elmo T]

One that I watch at least once a year ever since I saw it with my parents as a very young kid...Dr. Zhivago.

Back in the early 1980's, my high school started a new class called "Comparative Political and Economic Systems between the USSR and the USA" or something like that. We watched Dr. Zhivago as a part of the class. It is a guilty pleasure of mine.

OT - The Godfather. Never saw it. No interest. And Titanic. The ship sinks. BFD. ;)

[Classic Apex]

Entropy.

[Andrew Longman]

Too many "Critically Acclaimed" movies are too artsy-fartsy or chick flicks. You'll never see good movies like Die Hard or Demolition Man. I want explosions!!

Heat
Bandits
Pulp Fiction
The Wild Bunch
Gallipoli
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
The Enemy Below
Sink the Bismark

In other veins...

The Molly Maguires
This Sporting Life
The Hill
Flight of the Phoenix (the original)
Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival)
Oceans 11 (the original)
Cape Fear (the original)
A Boy and His Dog
The Great Escape
Heart Like a Wheel
Hard Driver
Atlantic City
Inherit the Wind
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Sneakers
Mr Smith goes to Washington
The Hustler
The Conversation (w/ Hackman)
The Hot Rock

[Sean Malone]

Todays List of All Time Favs (could change tomorrow)

Amadeus
Dr Zhivago
Magnolia
Thin Red Line
Lolly Maddona XXX
Two Lane Blacktop
GoodFellas
Bronx Tale
21 Grams
Pulp Fiction
West World
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kill Bill Vol 1
Saving Private Ryan
Apacolypse Now
The Birds
The Omen
Fight Club
The Pianist
The Shining
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws

Famous Movies I’ve Never Seen

ET (I’ve seen bits and pieces)
Raging Bull
The Graduate (I’ve seen bits and pieces)
Citizen Kane ( I know, I know, you can’t be a “move buff” and not have seen this. It’s been on my to do list for decades.)
8 ½
Anything by Ingmar Bergman (to do list)

[Indy]

Dude. The Graduate is top five, all time. Get it and watch it.

My list:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Graduate
American Beauty
2001: A Space Odyssey
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The highly rated ones I can't stand to watch are the gangster movies. The Godfather, while technically a great movie, is the worst. Glorifying authoritarian thugs, bleh. I think these movies appeal to the same people who, deep down, really would prefer a feudal society. Sound like any gomers we know?

[Elmo T]

Another good one that is frequently missed is Breaker Morant.

[Andrew Longman]

Another good one that is frequently missed is Breaker Morant.

:thumbup:

Reminded me for some odd reason of

The First Great Train Robbery
The Man Who Would Be King
The Brinks Job

And Strangelove reminded me of Failsafe. Both great

And The Graduate is worth it if for no other reason than an Alfa Spyder is a co-star :)

[Napoleon]

Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival)



I use to watch that film occasionally when I was a kid, but have not seen it for 15 years or more. I guess it bombed more or less in its original release. It's critism of the media has gotten more and more relevent as the years have passed.

A couple of months ago I read that it has now been released on DVD.

[Sean Malone]

:thumbup:

Reminded me for some odd reason of

The First Great Train Robbery
The Man Who Would Be King
The Brinks Job

And Strangelove reminded me of Failsafe. Both great

And The Graduate is worth it if for no other reason than an Alfa Spyder is a co-star :)

I thought it was just little MG. Learn suptin everyday. Need to watch it.

[Napoleon]

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the **** do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.



I remember seeing somewhere that that scene was a total adlib.

Edit - I think they were testing the camera or something and they just told De Niro to talk and that is what they got and liked it so much it made it into the movie.

[Sean Malone]

I remember seeing somewhere that that scene was a total adlib.

Edit - I think they were testing the camera or something and they just told De Niro to talk and that is what they got and liked it so much it made it into the movie.

I read on imdb that Martin Scorsese was inspired to do this scene from a Brando western where Brando is mouthing words to himself while looking at a mirror. the actual lines where inspired by one of Bobby D's favorite westerns.

[anait]

A critically acclaimed classic I finally watched last month - Vertigo. I hated it. I usually like Hitchcock's movies; I'm looking forward to watching Rear Window this weekend. But Vertigo did nothing for me. The slow pace didn't serve to build tension, it just bored me. And the plot 'twists' seemed completely obvious.

Maybe I'd had one too many Barons. Or Guinness. I dunno.

[ferrarigod]

I've gotta add "Fried Green Tomatos" and "Mean Girls" to the list. Ya, I know the genre is a little different and I might get banned, but they are great movies :D

i prefer how to lose a guy in 10 days.

:p

[FTG]

On a first date, never ask "Have you seen Taxi Driver?"

Dr. Strangelove and Casablanca are great. Full Metal Jacket: Best. War movie. Ever.

[Ankf00]

I'd put in Casino over Goodfellas, but both are great.

[Andrew Longman]

A critically acclaimed classic I finally watched last month - Vertigo. I hated it. I usually like Hitchcock's movies; I'm looking forward to watching Rear Window this weekend. But Vertigo did nothing for me. The slow pace didn't serve to build tension, it just bored me. And the plot 'twists' seemed completely obvious.

Maybe I'd had one too many Barons. Or Guinness. I dunno.

OMG, how could I not think of a single Hitchcock film? Despite Jimmy Stewart being in it, Vertigo is not one of my favorites either. Rear Window is good, but North by Northwest is by far my favorite. The 20th Century Limited, the cropduster, Mt Rushmore, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint,...

[indyfan31]

... Citizen Kane ( I know, I know, you can’t be a “move buff” and not have seen this. It’s been on my to do list for decades.).....
I just saw this a few weeks ago on the big screen and again I just sat there and smiled. This time I paid less attention to the story and more to the direction and camera-work itself. The cinematography is sometimes just jaw-dropping.

(... and shame on you for not getting around to it. ;) )

[Al Czervik]

Zero Hour!

If you are a fan of the movie Airplane! you must see this movie.

[indyfan31]

A critically acclaimed classic I finally watched last month - Vertigo. I hated it. I usually like Hitchcock's movies; I'm looking forward to watching Rear Window this weekend. But Vertigo did nothing for me. The slow pace didn't serve to build tension, it just bored me. And the plot 'twists' seemed completely obvious.

Maybe I'd had one too many Barons. Or Guinness. I dunno.

I'd have to agree. Don't hate it, but it does take forever to get where it's going.
Rear Window, btw, is my all-time favorite Hitchcock flick. That first time we see Grace Kelly in soft-focus didn't hurt either, OMG that woman was stunning.

[anait]

Rear Window is good, but North by Northwest is by far my favorite. The 20th Century Limited, the cropduster, Mt Rushmore, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint,...

Ah, I'm caught on that one - still haven't seen North By Northwest. :)

[oddlycalm]

Zhivago is probably the most important film I've not seen, though I've seen many scenes lifted from it over the years. Too much of a big studio production for my tastes at the time it was released (1965) and I just never got back to it.

A few more...
LA Confidential - Film noir in the bright California sunshine
True Romance - The scene with Walken and Hopper alone is worth the price of admission.
Lawrence of Arabia - Don't bother if it's not in wide screen
Chinatown - Film noir again with a great Robert Towne script.
The Manchurian Candidate (original) - Sinatra kept it off video for years, but it's the best acting he ever did.
Day of the Jackal (original)

Looks like we are real short on comedies, which is hard to believe with this crowd...:gomer:

oc

[Ankf00]

some Wes Anderson is sorely lacking.

Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore.

some Mike Judge and Office Space, too.

[extramundane]

some Wes Anderson is sorely lacking.

Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore.

Keep up the intensity, Kumar. :thumbup:

[TKGAngel]

Go ahead and mock...

The Princess Bride
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind

[anait]

Oh, I won't mock Princess Bride! Excellent stuff. Book's good, too. :thumbup:

"Mehwwage....twuuuue wuuhv...."

[dando]

Oh, I won't mock Princess Bride! Excellent stuff. Book's good, too. :thumbup:

"Mehwwage....twuuuue wuuhv...."

Have fun storming the castle!

:) :thumbup: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[Andrew Longman]

Go ahead and mock...

The Princess Bride
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind

No mock

But GWTW is one "classic" I haven't been able to sit through/

[Sean Malone]

Crap, I forgot two of my recent favs, both from the same director (still more Scorsese) about Irish gangs in New York, just 150 years apart.

Gangs of New York and The Departed.

DiCaprio is excellent in both also. He's getting better with each project.

[chop456]

some Wes Anderson is sorely lacking.

Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore.

The Life Aquatic, too. Great flick. :thumbup:

[anait]

The Life Aquatic, too. Great flick. :thumbup:

Yes, I did enjoy that. That reminds me, I am way behind on my Bill Murray movies...

[Ankf00]

honestly I thought Life Aquatic was a bit of a let down compared to his past works, better flick than 99% of what's out there, but not Wes Anderson. I haven't seen Darjeeling Limited yet but have heard mixed opinions. I think not having Owen Wilson as co-writer is hurting him...

[G.]

True Romance - The scene with Walken and Hopper alone is worth the price of admission.


oc
Chock full of quoty goodness.

One of my all-time fav movies.

I had no idea that Tarantino wrote it until much later, but it's so obvious now.

[Gnam]

a discussion about the movie Taxi Driver and/or critically acclaimed movies that you haven’t seen.
I went throught the Academy Award winners for Best Picture over the past thirty years. I haven't seen most of them, but the ones I remember people talking about were:

1976 - ROCKY
1978 - THE DEER HUNTER
1979 - KRAMER vs. KRAMER
1981 - CHARIOTS OF FIRE (the one with the song, right?) :D
1983 - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
1987 - THE LAST EMPEROR
1991 - THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
1993 - SCHINDLER'S LIST
1996 - THE ENGLISH PATIENT
1997 - TITANIC <-- I'm the most proud of that one.
1998 - SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE


On the related topic of movie recommendations, does anyone else know a polar opposite reviewer. For example, someone who when they tell you to see a certain movie cause it was so good, you immeadately know you'll hate it.

[dando]

On the related topic of movie recommendations, does anyone else know a polar opposite reviewer. For example, someone who when they tell you to see a certain movie cause it was so good, you immeadately know you'll hate it.

Yes. My wife. :gomer:

-Kevin

[Gangrel]

Hmmmm...Marathon Man's not on anyone's list? If you've seen it, it probably left a lasting impression... :D

[emjaya]

Hmmmm...Marathon Man's not on anyone's list? If you've seen it, it probably left a lasting impression... :D

Is it safe? :eek: :laugh:


The Great Dictator. I only saw this a couple of years ago, I thought it was a great movie.

[nrc]

1978 - THE DEER HUNTER

We rented this based on it's critical acclaim and awards. It us to never again rent a movie based on the judgement of The Academy.

[trish]

I saw Brokeback Mountain for the first time this year. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. One of the best love stories I've seen in a while. Oddly, it reminded me of the NBC reality show Fear Factor.

[stroker]

You guys may be aware of the slew of AFI "best" lists of the last few years. For some reason, they weren't able to find a place for "The Sting" on any of them.

Bastards.

[Ankf00]

hey farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy **** on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

[TravelGal]

Oh, I won't mock Princess Bride! Excellent stuff. Book's good, too. :thumbup:

"Mehwwage....twuuuue wuuhv...."

You killed my father, PREPARE TO DIE!!!!!!!!!

Great movie.

[Andrew Longman]

Trevor bought me Slapshot for my birthday and we watched it tonight and while I saw it years ago I have to add it to the list. Paul Newman, let's start with that. Hockey. What's left to say?

From Tman's perspective, being the consumate train geek, he immediately recognized the town as Johnstown, PA (we were there in June), including the train station standing in for the bus station.

Anyway, here's to old time hockey, coach

[Dirk Diggler]

Boogie Nights?













:tony:

[oddlycalm]

Boogie Nights? Why are we not surprised...:D

Boogie Nights does belong on this thread. It was critically acclaimed yet not a lot of people have seen it. Not for everybody, and hard to watch at times, but Anderson is really good and what he does and the cast is world class.

While Magnolia will make it onto many peoples "Top whatever" lists that Boogie Nights won't, due to the subject matter, both are major achievements. I know several people that, while certainly not prudes, didn't enjoy the extended close look at that particular sad and seedy world. Anderson's view of the Valley captures the feel as accurately as Tarantino does Detroit.

oc

[FTG]

Full Metal Jacket is garbage, imho. :yuck:


Who said that? Who the #$%# said that? Who's the slimy little communist #$%#, twinkle-toed E#$%#sucker who just signed his own death warrant?

Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke pieca' @#$# or did you have to work on it?

You little scumbag! I got your name, I got your ass! You had best un#$ yourself or I unscrew your head and **** down your neck!

I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would @#$@ a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

[Andrew Longman]

Anderson's view of the Valley captures the feel as accurately as Tarantino does Detroit.

oc

Or as Saturday Night Fever captured Brooklyn white ethnic working class culture in the 70s and even now.

The soundtrack and hype and the story centered on disco combined to make many, including me, cringe at the time of its release, but it has aged very well and is now among my favorites.

Back to Slapshot... I watched the Hanson Brothers commentary on the DVD and they told a story that made me smile.

The movie is based on the the real Johnstown Jets minor league team and there were three Carlson brothers who played for the team who had a "reputation". After Universal couldn't find actors who could skate and fill the role they cast the brothers to play themselves. Only two wound up playing the parts because one was called up to the Oilers, so another Jet, Dave "Killer" Hanson was picked to replace the missing brother. Jerry Houser was then brought in to play Killer Carlson

Anyway, earlier before they were cast for the part, Paul Newman stopped by one of the brother's apartment with a crew to scout locations. Newman said the crew might take a while and asked if he had a beer and would he minded if he watched the race on TV. :D

I think we've all done something similar at one time or another

They also said they would set up slot car tracks in everyroom of a friend's house and race car and drink beer because on Sundays because the bars were closed.

[emjaya]

Who said that? Who the #$%# said that? Who's the slimy little communist #$%#, twinkle-toed E#$%#sucker who just signed his own death warrant?

Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke pieca' @#$# or did you have to work on it?

You little scumbag! I got your name, I got your ass! You had best un#$ yourself or I unscrew your head and **** down your neck!

I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would @#$@ a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

How tall are you, private? :gomer:

Full Metal Jacket = cliched. Officer and a Gentleman meets the D.I. :\

[Gnam]

Full Metal Jacket = cliched. Officer and a Gentleman meets the D.I. :\
Don't you love your country?

Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

[emjaya]

Don't you love your country?

Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Nah, it sucks. R.Lee Emery is great, but the movie. :yuck:

[G.]

Nah, it sucks. R.Lee Emery is great, but the movie. :yuck:
It's a movie in two acts. First half rules, second half drools.

[RHR_Fan]

Another good one that is frequently missed is Breaker Morant.

We watched that movie in sophomore English for no reason. We then had a test on it for no reason. Okay movie. I might not mind seeing it again though.

I'll watch just about anything by Jimmy Stewart. Rear Window is on right now until House starts.

By the way, I LOVE Titanic and have no shame in admitting it.

[Methanolandbrats]

By the way, I LOVE Titanic and have no shame in admitting it.

I was rooting for DiCaprio to go to the bottom :thumbup:

[extramundane]

I was rooting for DiCaprio to go to the bottom :thumbup:

Haven't seen it, but I suspect I'd be right there with you. He's tolerable now, but that vintage of Leo was cringe-inducing.

[RHR_Fan]

I was rooting for DiCaprio to go to the bottom :thumbup:

You horrible person! :eek: ;)

[stroker]

Say what you want about Leo, he was great in The Aviator.

[trish]

The wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future.

[Sean Malone]

I was anti-leo until Catch Me if You Can. Warmed up to him a bit there and then actually think he's on his way to really becoming top echelon having seen him in Gangs of New York and The Departed. It helps to have Scorsese direct you.

It's all about the director in my opinion.

I couldn't get through Aviator.

[jcollins28]

Kentucky Fried Movie..enough said

[Methanolandbrats]

You horrible person! :eek: ;):laugh:

[extramundane]

Kentucky Fried Movie..enough said

The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. More at eleven. :thumbup:

[Dirk Diggler]

Kentucky Fried Movie..enough said


The "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble" segment damn near finished off the rewind/pause features on our VCR...:p :laugh:

[Methanolandbrats]

"The Heart of the Game" outstanding film about high school girls basketball, life lessons and coaching.

[stroker]

Kentucky Fried Movie..enough said

You HAD to say that! I just watched The Wizard of Oz from start to finish for the first time ever, and at the end I was waiting for Dr. Klan to pop up in the window saying, "It must have been a dream of extra-OR-dinary magnitude..." and wave the flamerthrower! The fact he didn't ruined the movie!

:D

[Insomniac]

Say what you want about Leo, he was great in The Aviator.

I knew he'd be a star after Growing Pains. ;)

[FTG]

Full Metal Jacket = cliched.


cliche: "repeated regularly without thought or originality" Tell me where you've heard any of these lines repeated in other movies:



I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would @#$@ a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!

Hell I like you, you can come over to my house and **** my sister!

My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch

I think what she's trying to say is that you black boys pack too much meat.

How can you shoot women and children?
Easy... you don't lead 'em so much.

[Ankf00]

cliche: "repeated regularly without thought or originality" Tell me where you've heard any of these lines repeated in other movies: don't be so hard on the guy, he is a roo-humper after all ;) :D




Dazed and Confused is hereby added to the list. Melba Toast, baby.

[emjaya]

cliche: "repeated regularly without thought or originality" Tell me where you've heard any of these lines repeated in other movies:



I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would @#$@ a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!

Hell I like you, you can come over to my house and **** my sister!

My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch

I think what she's trying to say is that you black boys pack too much meat.

How can you shoot women and children?
Easy... you don't lead 'em so much.

Like I said before; An Officer and a Gentleman meets the DI. Throw in some Stripes, and some Battle Cry as well, and you have your Full Metal Jacket.:p

R.Lee Emery does have some great lines, though.:D

[Gangrel]

cliche: "repeated regularly without thought or originality" Tell me where you've heard any of these lines repeated in other movies:



I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would @#$@ a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!

Hell I like you, you can come over to my house and **** my sister!

My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch

I think what she's trying to say is that you black boys pack too much meat.

How can you shoot women and children?
Easy... you don't lead 'em so much.

"A rifle is only a tool. It's a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead Marines. And then you will be in a world of sh**. Because Marines are not allowed to die without permission!"

Classic! :D

[Andrew Longman]

Throw in some Stripes

Cripes. How did we miss that?

Three great lines from that movie:

"Maybe I drank a little too much cough syrup this morning, Mam"

"Lighten up Francis"

"That's the fact, Jack!!!"

Given the Full Metal Jacket comments I thought these comments on the IMDB site interestings :


Warren Oates is masterful, giving the second-best '80s performance of a sergeant (after Lee Ermey in Kubrick's later Vietnam film "Full Metal Jacket," which perhaps coincidentally is structurally very similar to this film).

As an aside, I saw Stripes on the theater in what I later realized was my first and only Man Date. The little brother of a great friend ask me "out" to go see it. I thought nothing of it. He drove.

After the movie, at 12 am we get to his car in an empty mall parking lot and he realizes he's locked his keys in the cars.

Just then a gang of Puerto Ricans make their way across the parking lot to us and ask if we need help. I figure we're f'd. Brad (yes that was his name) then says he locked his keys in. I now know we're doubly f'd.

One of the dudes walks over to the car and puts his hands on the driver side window and with a flick it just goes down. He reaches in and graps the keys and hands them to Brad and the gang walks away laughing.

A few years later Brad came out, moved to Illinois and married some guy. No I wasn't invited to the wedding.

Good thing I don't kiss on the first date, but at least I'm liberated. :)

[G.]

As an aside, I saw Stripes on the theater in what I later realized was my first and only Man Date. The little brother of a great friend ask me "out" to go see it. I thought nothing of it. He drove.

After the movie, at 12 am we get to his car in an empty mall parking lot and he realizes he's locked his keys in the cars.

Just then a gang of Puerto Ricans make their way across the parking lot to us and ask if we need help. I figure we're f'd. Brad (yes that was his name) then says he locked his keys in. I now know we're doubly f'd.

One of the dudes walks over to the car and puts his hands on the driver side window and with a flick it just goes down. He reaches in and graps the keys and hands them to Brad and the gang walks away laughing.

A few years later Brad came out, moved to Illinois and married some guy. No I wasn't invited to the wedding.

Good thing I don't kiss on the first date, but at least I'm liberated. :)

You're lucky he didn't pull the ol' Run Out Of Gas trick on you.:eek:

[emjaya]

Cripes. How did we miss that?

Three great lines from that movie:

"Maybe I drank a little too much cough syrup this morning, Mam"

"Lighten up Francis"

"That's the fact, Jack!!!"

Given the Full Metal Jacket comments I thought these comments on the IMDB site interestings :



As an aside, I saw Stripes on the theater in what I later realized was my first and only Man Date. The little brother of a great friend ask me "out" to go see it. I thought nothing of it. He drove.

After the movie, at 12 am we get to his car in an empty mall parking lot and he realizes he's locked his keys in the cars.

Just then a gang of Puerto Ricans make their way across the parking lot to us and ask if we need help. I figure we're f'd. Brad (yes that was his name) then says he locked his keys in. I now know we're doubly f'd.

One of the dudes walks over to the car and puts his hands on the driver side window and with a flick it just goes down. He reaches in and graps the keys and hands them to Brad and the gang walks away laughing.

A few years later Brad came out, moved to Illinois and married some guy. No I wasn't invited to the wedding.

Good thing I don't kiss on the first date, but at least I'm liberated. :)

:rofl:

[dando]

As an aside, I saw Stripes on the theater in what I later realized was my first and only Man Date. The little brother of a great friend ask me "out" to go see it. I thought nothing of it. He drove.

After the movie, at 12 am we get to his car in an empty mall parking lot and he realizes he's locked his keys in the cars.

Just then a gang of Puerto Ricans make their way across the parking lot to us and ask if we need help. I figure we're f'd. Brad (yes that was his name) then says he locked his keys in. I now know we're doubly f'd.

One of the dudes walks over to the car and puts his hands on the driver side window and with a flick it just goes down. He reaches in and graps the keys and hands them to Brad and the gang walks away laughing.

A few years later Brad came out, moved to Illinois and married some guy. No I wasn't invited to the wedding.

Good thing I don't kiss on the first date, but at least I'm liberated. :)


Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)

Oh, and since you brought up the aside, here's a beauty you overlooked:


Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals?
John Winger: You mean like flaming? Or part time?
Recruiter: Well, it's a question we have to ask of all our new recruits.
Russell Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*.
John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
Recruiter: I'll just put that as a 'no'.

:)

-Kevin

[TKGAngel]

Three great lines from that movie:

"Maybe I drank a little too much cough syrup this morning, Mam"

"Lighten up Francis"

"That's the fact, Jack!!!"



Stripes is a great movie!

I can't believe no one's mentioned Animal House yet, if only for John Belushi's speech mentioning the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. Such a great, quotable movie.

[Walter Zoomie]

Full Metal Jacket = cliched.

You probably wouldn't say that if you had ever experienced USMC boot camp.

The first half of the flick was pretty accurate.

I can't speak of the second half too much, because I was 8 years old in 1970, but I have certainly met some of those characters before! ;)

[JLMannin]

On the related topic of movie recommendations, does anyone else know a polar opposite reviewer. For example, someone who when they tell you to see a certain movie cause it was so good, you immeadately know you'll hate it.

Gene Siskel

[trish]

Have any of you ever seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? I saw it whend it first came out in the theater (subtitled) and just got through watching it again on cable (dubbed). The movie is very good but all the flying is strange.

[Spicoli]

Barfly

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Bug

Apocolypse Now

Silence of The Lambs

Edward PenisHands (no typo. One of the funniest movies you will ever see, if you like pr00on. :D ) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101799/ O'Gorman you should axe your mom before you see this.

[stroker]

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead


That'll be a Buckwheat for you, young man....

:saywhat:

[Sean Malone]

Have any of you ever seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? I saw it whend it first came out in the theater (subtitled) and just got through watching it again on cable (dubbed). The movie is very good but all the flying is strange.

Good movie. It is actually a recent interpretation of a long line of 'fantasy martial arts' films dating back to the mid 20's. The style is a mixture of wuxia, wudan (or wudang) and the french parkour.

In the Terentino's Kill Bill 2 you can see a quick example of how the wuxia style of film inspired him when the old master stands atop of Uma sword seemingly weightless. Also when he effortlessly punches a hole through a 2" thick peice of oak from inches away. the twisting leaps and flips that the Matrix made so popular is also from the wuxia legacy.

I really like the parkour stuff as it is supposedly based on things a person can actually 'do'. An upcoming movie call "The Prince of Persia" based on the popular video game of the same name utilizes this style as its main control scheme.

[rabbit]

A movie you don't hear much about that I love:

A Life Less Ordinary (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119535/)

Movies that seem to be universally loved that I didn't care for and/or get:

Caddyshack
Goodfellas

[Sean Malone]

...

Movies that seem to be universally loved that I didn't care for and/or get:

Caddyshack
Goodfellas

I've never seen a Mel Brooks movie I thought was funny in the least (not that Caddyshack is Brooks. I think it's a Lampoon flick actually).
I thought Casino was boring.

[TrueBrit]

I've never seen a Mel Brooks movie I thought was funny in the least


WHAT???:eek:

History of the world part 1 is a classic comedy...

Blazing Saddles....

You don't get Mel Brooks....??? Wow....

[Sean Malone]

WHAT???:eek:

History of the world part 1 is a classic comedy...

Blazing Saddles....

You don't get Mel Brooks....??? Wow....

I get it, I just don't think it's funny.

have you seen either of these movies in the last decade? I caught about 15 minutes of Blazing Saddles the other day on TV. It wasn't funny. Most 70's comedy doesn't' hold up today. Classic? Sure. I'll give them props for being groundbreaking comedies FOR THEIR TIME. Doesn't mean they are funny or that I don't 'get it'.

[TrueBrit]

The "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble" segment damn near finished off the rewind/pause features on our VCR...:p :laugh:

Yours too eh?

:D

[TrueBrit]

I get it, I just don't think it's funny.

have you seen either of these movies in the last decade? I caught about 15 minutes of Blazing Saddles the other day on TV. It wasn't funny. Most 70's comedy doesn't' hold up today. Classic? Sure. I'll give them props for being groundbreaking comedies FOR THEIR TIME. Doesn't mean they are funny or that I don't 'get it'.

As a matter of fact I watched History of the world last week....cracked me up..."I have here this fifteen commandments...these fif---crash---ten, TEN commandments..."

[Sean Malone]

As a matter of fact I watched History of the world last week....cracked me up..."I have here this fifteen commandments...these fif---crash---ten, TEN commandments..."

Nope. Nothin'. Not even a chuckle. :)

[High Sided]

the jerk

has to be steve martins best