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Frank wrote:Rusty wrote:Frank wrote:Oldies, but goodies, my friends. Always remember the classics. On top of that, I believe all of these movies are older than Rusty … how about that? LOL.
Weird, because I’m about 143 years old.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I’m still thinking. I’ll have to rewatch some movies.
I’m confused … did you hit both numbers at the same time? Which is it: 13 or 14?
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When I hit fourteen, my future self came to me and told me about some crazy future armageddon shizzle. So I decided to follow him, and man, was that stupid. I came back with a third arm, and it was my future self’s arm. So, whenever anyone asks me how old I am, I add his age and my age.
As for the movies, I know that Princess Bride and Serenity are on there, and either Jedi or Empire.
digitaltopia wrote:YouFollowMe? wrote:This is actually something I think about in my head often.1. Dumb and Dumber: I used to watch this when I was a little kid all the time to the point where I could recite most of the movie. I still watch it every few months, and all the jokes still get me.
2. 28 Days Later: A great zombie movie that I saw just about a year ago for the first time. I always like zombie movies, but the music and mood of this film are simply amazing.
3. The Matrix: I just got the 10-disc Ultimate Matrix Collection today and I’m so damn excited.
4. Signs:Sweet alien movie, really good pacing.
5. Billy Madison: Nudie magazine day!
Wow, that’s a random-ass list.
As opposed to thinking about it in your foot.
Well, sometimes I’m walking around, and I get the tingles and jingles in the lower foot area. And that my friends, is when you get a foot idea.
5. Jaws does come across dated in some ways but it’s in ways that I like. I like the time and place in which it’s set and the setting is almost another character in the film. The deliberate pacing shits all over the embarrasingly obvious tricks of modern thrillers and the John Williams score is pure magic.
Brody as the everyman smalltown cop thrown into an extraordinary situation has the perfect amount of naivete balanced with duty and practicality and if he’s not the most charismatic leading man Big Steve ever cast it’s no detraction from the film because Scheider pitches himself perfectly. Then in support the magnificent three of Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus and the true villain of the piece Murray Hamilton.
Maybe it’s partly because I grew up by the sea but from one of the greatest opening scenes ever to the final triumphant but vulnerable shot of Brody and Hooper paddling for home it’s a lesson in the power of cinema, in the marriage of technique to story and of image to sound and as the film that launched not only one of the great modern directors but the very concept of the summer blockbuster I love the shit out of it.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
4. Platoon is not just my favourite Vietnam film but my favourite film about war. Without the tripped out and ultimately distracting philosphy of Apocalypse Now or the arty abstraction of Full Metal Jacket or The Thin Red Line, Platoon is down and dirty, a bruiser and a brawler. Like Saving Private Ryan it’s not one for subtlety in either action or theme but where Spielberg’s film falls into sentimentalism Oliver Stone never lets up, never goes in half cocked.
As much as Charlie Sheen’s Private Taylor is the central character he’s more a fulcrum than a driver of the plot, the eye of a storm much bigger than himself. You can take Elias and Barnes as two sides of the coin in so many ways, of Taylor himself, of US foriegn policy, of man’s inner battle for his own soul … but in the end the film is more powerful if you just think of them as men, leaders under the same flag but under different gods. Berenger and Dafoe are badass beyond all badassness, totally compelling as men at war within a war. Add the solid support cast including Forrest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, John McGinley, Keith David and Johnny Depp and you have more firepower than a squadron of B-52s at killing time.
Of the war films I’ve seen Only Ridley Scott’s underated Black Hawk Down captures the same bleak, blunt hopelessness but against the deep dark despair of Vietnam it’s not in the same league. Platoon has layers of meaning if that’s what you want from it but it works equally as a film I can turn off the brain to and let a simple fable be told to me. Inconsistent Stone may be but when he gets it right, he gets it incredibly right.
3. The most magical film I know of is Amelie. When I try to say why, I can’t really express it the way I feel about it. Something like it’s the film that gets me feeling most closely to the way I did when I was too young to even think about the technique behind the magic of film, the wide eyed wonder of Star Wars, Back To The Future and Indiana Jones, and smaller films like Explorers, Gremlins and The Jungle Book.
The thing about Amelie is its dramatic arc works so beautifully without any cynicism. At its core is an innocence that, although it’s not not sacred, naive or childlike, brings back to me that childhood idea that if you are good then good things will happen to you. Even the negative characters are portrayed with an affectionate wink, but not so much that they lack menace or the power to do harm so it doesn’t negate their place in the story. The only other films I know of that bring a similar feeling are Pixar’s better ones, the Toy Stories, Monster’s Inc and Finding Nemo, except that – as multi-layered as their themes may be – they ultimately have a child’s outlook.
Amelie though, is not for kids. It has the same twinkle in its eye, mischief in its smile and pureness in its heart but it’s not until you understand something about the big wide world that you get the most out of it and into it. I’m a lucky bastard in that way at least and I can watch Amelie every couple of months if I want and love it every time.
2. Dumb & Dumber and The Life Aquatic
These two films (yes, I am a filthy cheating sumbitch) are the ones I can rewatch most endlessly without tiring of a single scene or moment. I didn’t see either of them at the movie theatre when they originally were released but I’ll wear out the dvds many times over before I die.
I liked Wes Anderson’s other films but none of them really tweaked my nipples the way I’ve heard other people rave about them, they all are smart and funny but in kind of hipster/post-modern/ironically arch way, like they want you to know how smart they are as much as they want to entertain, like Wes had something to prove. The wide critical praise of The Royal Tenenbaums must have freed him up from that need to prove himself because The Life Aquatic is not necessarily a comedy but it is funny in many places and it is pure fun in all places, like he decided only to amuse himself his own sensibility and not to give a shit about the reception he’d get for it.
So he brings back his old mate Bill Murray and lines him up with with his old mate Owen Wilson, adds the pure talent of Willem Dafoe, Angelica Huston, Cate Blanchett and Jeff Goldblum and makes a curiously beautiful little film that has awesome production art, a sweet soundtrack of Bowie songs in portuguese and the coolest boat in movie history.
Dumb & Dumber doesn’t need any introduction or explanation. If I only have 20 minutes to kill while I eat or I just need to crash in front of the TV to recover from something I can put it on at any scene and it’s entertaining to me. As much as I like Jeff Daniels it’s Jim Carrey’s film and the way he plays the idiotic and selfish Lloyd gets me every time. I like a bunch of his other films too but Dumb & Dumber stands out, maybe because of Farrelly at the helm. I’ve liked all his films to varying degrees except Shallow Hal but there’s a freedom and exuberance in Dumb & Dumber that lifts it above the others.
It’s not that it’s a perfect film in any way but it’s always a blast to get amongst it and I hope to hell I never grow out of it.
1. Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi
It’s pointless trying to say how awesome I still think these films are. They were a bigger part of my childhood than most members of my extended family, they blew my tiny little mind continually and invaded my daydreams and games and drawings and stories. Of all the things of metal and wood I built in my old man’s workshop as a kid the Han Solo blaster and the Storm Trooper rifle are the most memorable and were my most cherished. I wore out the tapes pausing and rewinding to find the best angles to copy onto paper the schematics for these guns and I drew more space battles than any other subject until I discovered girls.
Now, even as a bigger, uglier Bucho who sees the cracks in Lucas’ handiwork there are many moments in all of them that continue to blow my tiny little mind. My most ardent wish in the world, far more longed for than world peace, is still to have my own Millenium Falcon. God, how I want one.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
The Godfather – It was hard to choose the original or the sequel. But I have to go with the one that started it all. Leave the gun, take the canolis. I’ll make an offer he can’t refuse.
Revenge of the Sith – Knowing how the story is told, (Episode 1-6) from beginning to the end, Sith is my favorite out of all the Star Wars. Born and raise during the OT era, seeing the OT thousands of times, nothing hits harder and right to the spot like Sith. Perfect balance of awesome graphics, action wrapped into emotion and on top of that, the soundtrack. We can get into the whole debate about the best SW movie, but not here, not now.
Shawshank Redemption – Rob said it perfectly, great pace, casting, and direction. Great story.The Usual Suspects – It’s one of those movies that gets you at the end, great writing.
Dead Poets Society – Just Shawshank, one of those movies, if on TV, it must been all the way thru. Robin Williams should’ve won the Oscar, and proves one thing to me, sometimes the best actors started out being comedians. And when all of this is all done like the movie, we can go to Bryan and say “Captain, my captain.”
Darth Octavious wrote:Revenge of the Sith – Knowing how the story is told, (Episode 1-6) from beginning to the end, Sith is my favorite out of all the Star Wars. Born and raise during the OT era, seeing the OT thousands of times, nothing hits harder and right to the spot like Sith. Perfect balance of awesome graphics, action wrapped into emotion and on top of that, the soundtrack. We can get into the whole debate about the best SW movie, but not here, not now.I like your style Octavious, the more time passes the more I appreciate Revenge Of The Sith.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Bing wrote:I can’t believe Kramer vs Kramer never showed up on this list.Or Men of Honour.
Or some of the films with Jack Nicholson in (I’m sure that in most of his films, he humps anything that has a skirt on and breathes).
If it doesn’t work, jam a screwdriver in there and jiggle it about.
I’m going to have to remove my number three pick, move number two down to number three, and put Stardust in at number two.
Nudity (or highly suggestive scenes) in movies that made a lasting impression on a young, curious Bing…
Alien
the crotch shot at the end made me wanna explore more than space.Swamp Thing
titties in the swamp!! I’m sure that this movie was about something, but all I remember were boobies.A Clockwork Orange
yep, that was wierd but cool…..with lotsa boobies!I’ll add more in if I think of them, but for some reason these came to mind.
I think it was Night Of The Living Dead I saw my first full frontal nude shots, or one of those zombie flicks. But the sexiest thing in the world to me as a kid was Kathleen Turners legs in Romancing The Stone after she slides down the mudslide.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Bucho wrote:I think it was Night Of The Living Dead I saw my first full frontal nude shots, or one of those zombie flicks.Eeew. Full frontal. It wasn’t a zombie then?
That would be gross, green boobies with a tendency to fall off 😯Bucho wrote:But the sexiest thing in the world to me as a kid was Kathleen Turners legs in Romancing The Stone after she slides down the mudslide.I always wished I was Michael Douglas’ stunt double after seeing that scene.
Knowing my shitty luck Kathleen Turners stunt double would be a man
If it doesn’t work, jam a screwdriver in there and jiggle it about.
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