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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com | Saturday Evening Movie Thread 09-23-2017 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]Out of Order Back when The Simpsons was good and something to look forward to, they produced that little segment in the third "Treehouse of Horror" episode. I love this bit. Homer telling a scary story completely out of order to the point of inefficacy. Revealing key information about main characters after their respective payoffs. It's such a perfect example of terrible story telling. I bring it up because it's one of the things I think of first when I hear of a story being told non-linearly. And yet, I know it can be done wonderfully well. Last week we talked about the three-act structure, but because it's the most common narrative structure for film doesn't mean that it's the only one or even the best. I don't care about which is "best", but I do care about stories well told in different ways. So, let's talk about one of my favorite examples of non-linear story-telling.Kill Bill Volume 1 Due to theaters not really wanting to release a 4-hour kung fu movie, Tarantino agreed to break his opus into two halves. There's relatively little different from his original idea except for an added bit of dialogue at the end of Volume 1 and some pull backs on the violence to achieve an R rating (the reason for the black and white segment during The Showdown at House of Blue Leaves). Still, we're here to talk about structure. Despite the story being told out of order overall, Volume 2 is largely in order and the main sets of action are told in an emotionally cogent order. Conclusion So, I never really intended to summarize the movie in such detail, and I hope that I provided more context on structure than just that, but let me continue like I totally did what I meant to do. Could this exact same story have been told linearly and had the same level of emotional impact? I'd bet a hearty yes on that. It could have been, but what would have been lost? Just taking what's already in the movie and rearranging it, I think the introduction would have been too long before ever getting to any sort of character or plot development. The middle would have been the Showdown followed by a small fight in a housewife's home, which would have been a curious order. The final third would have been the bulk of action in Volume 2 without Pai Mei, him not having been seen since the very beginning of the movie about 3 hours before. Essentially, it would have had to have been completely rewritten and re-envisioned, not just re-organized. I love it as it is, though. The disorder of the story pieces works. The long sequences that could have been shorter, are all entertaining in their own right. The story comes to a satisfying conclusion without tying up every lose end unnecessarily. (Is Elle alive? Will little Nicki come after the Bride at some later date?) And, most importantly, the Bride's emotional journey is clear, fulfilling, and complete. The structure of the film seems to follow no formal rules, but it ends up working despite the seeming chaos. Movies of Today Opening in Theaters: Kingsman: The Golden Circle The LEGO Ninjago Movie Stronger Friend Request Next in my Netflix Queue: The Flight of the Phoenix Movies I Saw This Week: OSS 117: Lost in Rio (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) Poster blurb: "Funny, but not quite as hilarious as the first." [Netflix DVD] Seven Psychopaths (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) "When movies are about movies instead of people, there's a distance created that this one doesn't quite bridge." [Amazon Prime] The New World (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) [Rewatch] "Beautiful and heartfelt exploration of the sad and inevitably fruitless search for Eden on Earth." [Personal Collection] The Tree of Life (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) [Rewatch] "An achingly beautiful portrait of loss framed similarly to Job's story." [Personal Collection] Contact Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com. I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Frist!
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 07:38 PM (XlF/h) 2
2nd
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:42 PM (ghofu) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 07:43 PM (GsAUU) 4
5th 2nd of the day, never had that before .
Been watching Prometheus 2012 Sci-fi. Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:43 PM (ghofu) 5
Willowed:
Well, They are finally releasing me from the hopital after two weeks. Except, they forgot my prescriptions, so I am still waiting. I came in complaining of neck pain. The fially checked my neck sfter 3 strokes which they said I was faking. So I have a 70% blockage in my right carotid artery for which I will have surgery in a couple weeks because I have a 75% chance of having anotherstroke within the next year. But it wasn't all bad. The woman down the hall does a pretty good Janis Joplin. https://m.youtube.com/results?q=cry+baby+janis+joplin+&sm=1 Posted by: bergerbilder at September 23, 2017 07:33 PM (z56EA) Posted by: bergerbilder at September 23, 2017 07:43 PM (z56EA) 6
Pulp Fiction was a well done non-linear too.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 07:44 PM (nzQyq) 7
I never bothered to get this in depth with Kill Bill. In fact until you mentioned things I had forgotten almost all about it.
Still when the Bride paddles the would-be Yakuza is still a funny moment. Along with Charlie Brown and his wife. Plus Go-Go Yabarai. Production I.G.'s O-ren anime is still a weak part and very much reminds me of Aeon Flux. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 07:44 PM (tt7o8) 8
"The Band" a probably unknown Israeli film.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (0NwUA) 9
And what of The Fountain, three separate related tales going at once?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (nzQyq) Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (T/7Cm) 11
I assume all OT topics should remain below?
(would not hurt to direct OT comments to the thread below, as used to be a common admonition in these kinds of situations at the HQ) Posted by: rhomboid at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (0BFUD) 12
All downhill after Reservoir Dogs.
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (XlF/h) 13
Sonobi-tch if f'-in up the heading, hard to read it
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (ghofu) 14
Next in my Netflix Queue:
The Flight of the Phoenix ++++ Hmmm. Your text says 1965, but the link says 2004. Go with the original. The remake, while not horrible, just doesn't measure up. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (pvjTE) 15
Why make yourself suffer watching Prometheus??
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2012/06/prometheus-spoilers-ahead.html Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 07:46 PM (tt7o8) 16
bergerbuilder- concern and prayers for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2017 07:48 PM (0NwUA) 17
Big acid attack by a gang at a London subway station.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 07:48 PM (mJ8mX) 18
Seven Psychopaths (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2.5/4) "When movies are about movies instead of people, there's a distance created that this one doesn't quite bridge."
++++ I liked it better than you, but more so after my second viewing. It had to grow on me. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 07:49 PM (pvjTE) 19
A long time ago, say around 1990, Matt Groening forgot to tell people that "The Simpsons" were a cartoon, not a guide on how to live your life.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 23, 2017 07:49 PM (5VlCp) 20
Kill Bill 1 and 2 are the greatest 4.5 hours of cinema ever made, IMHO.
The Hateful 8 was a piece of dogshit that should have been burned. Posted by: Sharkman at September 23, 2017 07:50 PM (O033+) 21
I've seen Pulp Fiction at least twice. I admire the production, the direction, the performances.
And yet I do not like that movie. It is, in the end, too bleak, too dystopic. Too jarring. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 07:50 PM (T/7Cm) Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 07:50 PM (NWiLs) 23
Zed's dead, Baby, Zed's dead.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 07:51 PM (nzQyq) 24
How could you not mention that Vernita Green pulls a pistol out of a box of Kaboom cereal?
That to me was the best detail in Kill Bill AND of course should make it part of Horde canon. Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2017 07:51 PM (jHrzU) Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 07:52 PM (T/7Cm) 26
I am still doing sci-fi movies per comment numbers at another website and used Prometheus for ghe 2094th comment but only ever saw a little of it.
Finding movies for years 2100 on is getting harder, though many are not year specific. Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:52 PM (ghofu) 27
Evening! Hateful Eight better than Pulp Fiction??? Lordy..
That was a piece of crap, and I understand how a "Genuine Movie Buff" would think it great with all the little references to several genres.. but to me it was simply an indulgent piece of crap. And.. Pulp Fiction was a much better example of out of sequence story telling.. told perfectly.. and laying the groundwork for this kind of storytelling.. Once again.. Lordy.. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 23, 2017 07:52 PM (i2KAN) 28
Reservoir Dogs was my second favorite.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 07:53 PM (T/7Cm) 29
14 Next in my Netflix Queue:
The Flight of the Phoenix ++++ Hmmm. Your text says 1965, but the link says 2004. Go with the original. The remake, while not horrible, just doesn't measure up. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 07:45 PM (pvjTE) ====== I watched it earlier today after sending the post to OM. I'd call the remake bad. Pure formula. Thin characters. Unnecessary added "tension". I liked Giovanni Ribbisi though. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 07:53 PM (Jj43a) 30
I have never seen an episode of the simpsons, but I have seen Kill Bill II. I think... That was the one with the Japanese Girl Band singing 'WooHoo, WhoohooHoo...' and so forth. Won't it?
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 07:54 PM (zLDYs) 31
21 I've seen Pulp Fiction at least twice. I admire the production, the direction, the performances.
And yet I do not like that movie. It is, in the end, too bleak, too dystopic. Too jarring. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 07:50 PM (T/7Cm) I dunno. I liked Jules' monologue at the end. "The truth is, you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd." Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 07:54 PM (NWiLs) 32
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_future
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:55 PM (ghofu) 33
Also, Jules walked away from the life. Vincent stayed in and it got him killed.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 07:55 PM (NWiLs) 34
32 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_the_future
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:55 PM (ghofu) --That list changes by the year. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 07:55 PM (GsAUU) 35
First 20 years barely missed a Simpson episode, maybe 5 ago stopped cold turkey.
Never watched any of Kill Biil but I liked Pulp Fiction Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:57 PM (ghofu) 36
Hey everybody, and hey OregonMuse!
Glad you saw The Tree Of Life. I overall enjoyed it and appreciated its pro-life, pro-Christian message... but I thought it worked more like, frankly, an extended slide show, than a movie. Would you agree? Disagree? I think ToL would have benefitted from more (maybe a lot more) scenes that were fully fleshed out, rather than just brief bits. It was kind of jarring in that respect, IMHO. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 07:57 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 07:57 PM (mJ8mX) 38
Sept 26th on CrunchyRoll will premier Watanabe Shinichiro's anime short Blade Runner Black Out 2022.
https://youtu.be/OD0RCfcaols Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 07:58 PM (tt7o8) 39
30 I have never seen an episode of the simpsons, but I have seen Kill Bill II. I think... That was the one with the Japanese Girl Band singing 'WooHoo, WhoohooHoo...' and so forth. Won't it?
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 07:54 PM (zLDYs) Nope, that's Kill Bill 1. In the House of Blue Leaves before The Bride duels and kills O-Ren. Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 07:58 PM (NWiLs) 40
Also everyone: got copies finally of Mulholland Drive and The Conversation, based on all your raves.
Still having trouble pulling the trigger on The Ninth Configuration though. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 07:58 PM (eMKNe) 41
Movies set in the future that I watched as a kid are now set in the past.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 07:58 PM (Nwg0u) 42
I just try to find a movie taking place the year of comment number. I have found a couple of wiki sites listing movies. Earlier decades are more specific and you can find something for every year.
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 07:59 PM (ghofu) 43
Oops, was this posted by TJM or OregonMuse?
Anyway... whomever saw The Tree Of Life, hope we can discuss it. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 07:59 PM (eMKNe) 44
36 Hey everybody, and hey OregonMuse!
Glad you saw The Tree Of Life. I overall enjoyed it and appreciated its pro-life, pro-Christian message... but I thought it worked more like, frankly, an extended slide show, than a movie. Would you agree? Disagree? I think ToL would have benefitted from more (maybe a lot more) scenes that were fully fleshed out, rather than just brief bits. It was kind of jarring in that respect, IMHO. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 07:57 PM (eMKNe) ====== I don't know about OM, but for me, you need to know how to watch a Malick movie. He speaks another language of film than we're used to. There's no plot, and he's trying to drive you through the story on pure emotion. Plus, the creation of the cosmos is one of the most beautiful sequences of film I've ever seen. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:00 PM (Jj43a) 45
prayers bergerbilder
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at September 23, 2017 08:00 PM (hMwEB) 46
The Flight of the Phoenix
---- Until now, I did not even know that there had been a remake. I would say "WTF?", but Hollywood... Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (5IJky) 47
'Getting stoned' and 'dropping acid' is alot different in Islam for some reason.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (mJ8mX) 48
Hi, Horde.
Just found "The Good Place" on Netflix. It's funny, very non-serious, lots of fun. Kristen Bell and Ted Danson. No leftist messaging, just cute and fun. You're welcome. Posted by: Johnny at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (7T51K) 49
*gasp* a wonderful review.
Posted by: David Carridine at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (/qEW2) 50
I always say that Tarantino wants us to suffer for his art. He always puts something gratuitous in to make you feel guilty for enjoying his films.
However the best Tarantino movie is From Dusk Til Dawn because Tarantino gets killed. Twice. Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (jHrzU) 51
TJM, hmm. I have heard that about Malick, and that his most conventional movie is Badlands.
OTOH I greatly respect that Malick is a great filmmaker, and even recognized as such by Hollywood, while at the same time having such a Christian (or at least, pro-Christian) background. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (eMKNe) 52
Looking forward to seeing the Kingsman sequel. The first one was fun and a different take on the "secret agent" genre.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (EZebt) 53
A good linear non-linear movie(or is it non-linear linear?) is Memento.
Posted by: davidt at September 23, 2017 08:02 PM (BFYeS) 54
The harder part is finding a still from said movie, that can take searching 5 sites or more. You need a jpg photo to post.
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:02 PM (ghofu) 55
I watched it earlier today after sending the post to OM. I'd call the remake bad. Pure formula. Thin characters. Unnecessary added "tension". I liked Giovanni Ribbisi though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 07:53 PM (Jj43a) ++++ Did you see the original? The stories were essentially the same, no? It's been awhile since I've seen either, but I recall them as being pretty close to one another as far as the story. But, the performances were not as good in the remake. And I don't recall why, but the model designer just didn't seem as natural in the remake. Perhaps because I already knew where the story was going, but it just seemed more written in the remake rather than like something that could have happened that way. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 08:02 PM (pvjTE) 56
47 'Getting stoned' and 'dropping acid' is alot different in Islam for some reason.
Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (mJ8mX) --Everybody must get stoned. Posted by: Imam Abdul at September 23, 2017 08:03 PM (GsAUU) 57
Yeah the structure in Kill Bill is fine. Best bits are the teahouse battle and the whole Budd part with him getting the upper hand. Did you notice the call back (if it actually is one) to Natural Born Killers with some of the animated scenes? Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:03 PM (qGuLD) 58
>>>However the best Tarantino movie is From Dusk Til Dawn because Tarantino gets killed. Twice.
Salma Hayek dance scene. Posted by: wooga at September 23, 2017 08:04 PM (n5VsB) 59
Huh...you convinced me to see The Tree of Life which I had totally written off. But a quick perusal of IMDB reviews (which are mostly one star) have a few reviews that sell the film pretty well.
Posted by: Max Power at September 23, 2017 08:04 PM (q177U) 60
Posted by: bergerbilder at September 23, 2017 07:43 PM (z56EA)
Prayers for your complete and speedy healing. Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2017 08:05 PM (EZebt) 61
Badlands was inspired by the Charles Starkweather murders-- a major national news story back in the day.
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:05 PM (XlF/h) 62
51 TJM, hmm. I have heard that about Malick, and that his most conventional movie is Badlands.
OTOH I greatly respect that Malick is a great filmmaker, and even recognized as such by Hollywood, while at the same time having such a Christian (or at least, pro-Christian) background. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (eMKNe) ====== From what I understand, he's hardcore Roman Catholic. So it's less that he's making pro Christian movies, but that he's just making movies from that general perspective. The idea and motif of Eden comes up in pretty much every one of his movies. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:05 PM (Jj43a) 63
Memento is linear, just running backwards.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 08:05 PM (d5Jdx) 64
Max Power, as I said, it's something nice to see: a positive-minded, life-affirming film (although there are sad scenes, of course).
But be warned, Malick was obviously seriously trying to remind viewers of 2001: A Space Odyssey, again IMHO, in the way the movie is structured and some of the scenes are staged. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:06 PM (eMKNe) 65
@58 in my memory Salma was buck nekkid in that dance scene or at least fully topless. On rewatch she was covered by snake.
But yes that was a great scene. Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2017 08:06 PM (jHrzU) 66
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Yeah the structure in Kill Bill is fine. Best bits are the teahouse battle and the whole Budd part with him getting the upper hand. Did you notice the call back (if it actually is one) to Natural Born Killers with some of the animated scenes? Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:03 PM (qGuLD) ===== I saw NBK once about twenty years ago. I'm just not a big Oliver Stone fan, so I've never felt the desire to revisit it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (Jj43a) 67
I watched it earlier today after sending the post to OM. I'd call the remake bad. Pure formula. Thin characters. Unnecessary added "tension". I liked Giovanni Ribbisi though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 07:53 PM Ribisi is excellent in the remake. He carried the movie. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (qGuLD) 68
mnw, yup.
Also, Malick supposedly discovered Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek by choosing them for Badlands. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (eMKNe) 69
I saw this Twilight Zone last week and it had WW3 happening in the 70s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734565/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (mJ8mX) 70
If you wanna get into religion, Alfred Hitchcock was Catholic and there are some interesting themes in his films.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (GsAUU) 71
Not a Tarantino fan, his movies are not my cup of tea.
I do like stories told out of sequence when done well. Of course, I can;t think of any off-hand ;( Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (W+vEI) 72
In Cold Blood (film) owes something to Badlands.
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (XlF/h) 73
Kill Bill 1 and 2 are the greatest 4.5 hours of cinema ever made, IMHO.
The Hateful 8 was a piece of dogshit that should have been burned. I'm a huge Tarantino fanboi and I have to agree with you here. I think Kill Bill benefits from being split in two, because the two movies are stylistically different. For simplicity, I think of KB1 as a Hong Kong choppy choppy movie and KB2 as a Japanese movie. As to Hateful Eight, I so wanted to love it. The opening with the horses running in the snow, the closeup of steam pouring from their nostrils, this was going to be Tarantino serving up cinematic orgasms. Then the stupid plot with the characters and their double crosses. By the time it went to the flashback to tell us who the characters were I didn't care anymore. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 08:08 PM (gIRsn) 74
Some things should just not be remade.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2017 08:08 PM (0NwUA) 75
logprof, as I understand it, Hitchcock liked to take sly little digs at Catholicism (and religion in general) in his films. But he was smart and/or respectful enough not to go too far with it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:08 PM (eMKNe) 76
64 Max Power, as I said, it's something nice to see: a positive-minded, life-affirming film (although there are sad scenes, of course).
But be warned, Malick was obviously seriously trying to remind viewers of 2001: A Space Odyssey, again IMHO, in the way the movie is structured and some of the scenes are staged. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:06 PM (eMKNe) ====== 2 things: The 2001 connection is actually pretty close because Malick used Douglas Trumball to do the special effects (there very little CGI in that sequence). And The cosmos sequence had more to do with the Book of Job than 2001. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:08 PM (Jj43a) 77
>>>53 A good linear non-linear movie(or is it non-linear linear?) is Memento
I actually enjoyed watching it a second time in a row to see all the little things I missed the first time. Posted by: wooga at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (n5VsB) 78
Sneding prayesr, bergerbilder! Hope the surgery and recovery go smoothly.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (W+vEI) 79
*hic* I love that ... kill bill ... but I needed that son of a bitch.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (/qEW2) 80
mnw, uh really? ;-)
In Cold Blood was released in 1967. Badlands was released in 1973. So maybe you meant to say, Badlands has some inspirations from ICB. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (eMKNe) 81
Logans Run takes place in 2116
The Treasure of Sierra Madre is on TMC A kid was in the movie a couple of minutes ago and was sure it was Robert Blake, couldn't have been 10yrs old. Looked it up and it was. Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (ghofu) 82
Ugh, I can't type...."Sending prayers"
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (W+vEI) 83
Yeah, don't think Memento would have worked as a chronological linear story.
Another pretty good movie I had to watch (small, independent film) a few times to grasp what was going on owing to its non-linearity was a 2004 movie called "Primer." Posted by: ShainS at September 23, 2017 08:10 PM (BiLU+) 84
Badlands was inspired by the Charles Starkweather-- a major national news story back in the day.
- He killed 11 people over two months and it shocked the nation. That's a Saturday night in Chicago. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:10 PM (Nwg0u) 85
Ribisi is excellent in the remake. He carried the movie.
Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM (qGuLD) --If you have not done so, you should watch Sneaky Pete. Very addictive. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:10 PM (GsAUU) 86
watching The Ring
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at September 23, 2017 08:11 PM (hMwEB) 87
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Memento is linear, just running backwards. Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 08:05 PM (d5Jdx) Actually, the in-color parts run backward while the black and white parts run forward, and the two lines meet in the end. Posted by: davidt at September 23, 2017 08:11 PM (BFYeS) 88
In Cold Blood (film) owes something to Badlands.
Posted by: mnw -------- *?* Didn't In Cold Blood precede Badlands by a good margin? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 23, 2017 08:12 PM (5IJky) 89
Mike, yup. 1967 vs 1973.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:12 PM (eMKNe) 90
Robert Blake, couldn't have been 10yrs old. Looked it up and it was.
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:09 PM (ghofu) Robert Blake was one of those guys who always looked like his grownup self, like Jerry Mathers and Clint Howard. Me? People look at pics of me as a young man and say, "dude, what happened?" Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:12 PM (T/7Cm) 91
Holy shit, berger, prayers up of course!
Kill Bill (both) remains the only entry/entries on my favorite movies list by Tarantino. It's one of the few movies I'll stop to watch on the odd chance I'm watching TV. (The other main one being Patton.) Posted by: Brother Cavil, Can't Touch This! at September 23, 2017 08:13 PM (66CWr) 92
Lotta great films came out in 1967.
Wouldn't mind watching Bonnie & Clyde again. Been a long time. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:13 PM (eMKNe) 93
I almost feel like writing a wall of text in response. But I doubt anyone will still be around to read it when I get done
So smaller wall: Tarantino excels at creating scenes. He's simply the best living, right up there with Howard Hawks, Hitchcock and Leone. But he isn't great at story. He loves his own work too much to really cut it the way it needs to be cut. Kill Bill is a bloated film. It did not, in any non-greed-based world, need to be two films. The plot is a grindhouse basic one: the blood-spattered Bride goes after Bill, the man who "killed" her and took her baby. All the rest of it is bloat. Fun bloat at times, but bloat. The movie is called 'Kill Bill', not 'Kill Bill and the Deadly Vipers' There should have been at MOST three scenes with Bill's minions prior to meeting Bill himself. O-Ren is important because the revelation about her child comes from there. Budd is important because he's Bill's brother and he gets the drop on the 'unstoppable killing machine'. And Elle is important as both rival and final guardian of Bill. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:13 PM (xJa6I) 94
Well, They are finally releasing me from the hopital after two weeks. Good news. Were you in a coma? Did you dream? Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:13 PM (IW5NJ) 95
I've also seen Starkweather credited with inspiring Kalifornia & Natural Born Killers.
I've never made up my mind about Carol Ann Fugate's role in the spree killings. What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime? Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM (XlF/h) 96
I also wanted to tell you all:
Election, with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, is coming out on Criterion blu-ray and DVD in November. They've been choosing some great flicks to reissue recently. Guess what image is on the cover? ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM (eMKNe) 97
74 Some things should just not be remade.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2017 08:08 PM (0NwUA) ---------- No shit! Posted by: Charlton Heston at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:15 PM (IW5NJ) 99
What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime? Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM In Cold Blood? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2017 08:15 PM (IqV8l) 100
93 There should have been at MOST three scenes with Bill's minions prior to meeting Bill himself. O-Ren is important because the revelation about her child comes from there. Budd is important because he's Bill's brother and he gets the drop on the 'unstoppable killing machine'. And Elle is important as both rival and final guardian of Bill.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:13 PM (xJa6I) ====== The only other one is Vernita, and she's effectively in one scene that sets stuff up right at the beginning. You call it close, but as long as I'm entertained I call it storytelling. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:15 PM (Jj43a) 101
SAL 9000 "Will I dream?"
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:15 PM (tt7o8) 102
Bloat* not close
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (Jj43a) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (IW5NJ) 104
No step on snek!
Posted by: Selma Hayek at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (gC2IV) 105
Best based-on-true-crime flick ever?
Maybe Psycho. Didn't hurt that at the time it was made, Ed Gein was only recently in the news, so his shocking crimes were still fresh in the memories of its original audience. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (eMKNe) 106
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Memento is linear, just running backwards. No Spoilers! Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (IW5NJ) ====== The butler did it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:16 PM (Jj43a) 107
I saw NBK once about twenty years ago. I'm just not a big Oliver Stone fan, so I've never felt the desire to revisit it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:07 PM Not a Stone fan either. But, "U-Turn" is incredibly under rated and a great black comedy. "Natural Born Killers" written by Tarantino, is worth another visit IMHO. Forget about Stone and try the flick on it's own merit (ditto U-Turn). It's completely bonkers, employing the whole gamut of film techniques, stock and editing. It's tone is jarring, it's like being injected with LSD, cocaine and whiskey... with a shotgun. But, it works in that classic old Tarantino style. It's kind of like his take on "Badlands", I guess. Give it another shot. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:17 PM (qGuLD) 108
Memento works for me because the conceit lets you see the world the way the protagonist does, without memory.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2017 08:17 PM (d5Jdx) 109
Pug your right, he was around 15 or slightly less giving birthdate to movie finished
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:17 PM (ghofu) 110
The butler did it.
With a lead pipe in the drawing room. Now imagine if Tarantino made a Clue movie. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:18 PM (tt7o8) 111
He killed 11 people over two months and it shocked the nation. That's a Saturday night in Chicago.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger ---------- Pfft. The Will Harris murders, five people, one night. It's quite a tale. I'm surprised that no one ever made a movie. http://tinyurl.com/y9jhnp7r Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 23, 2017 08:18 PM (58eZn) 112
The last movie I liked, which was just okay, was The Hollow Point. Not a bad movie if you've got nothing else. Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:18 PM (IW5NJ) 113
107 Not a Stone fan either. But, "U-Turn" is incredibly under rated and a great black comedy. "Natural Born Killers" written by Tarantino, is worth another visit IMHO. Forget about Stone and try the flick on it's own merit (ditto U-Turn). It's completely bonkers, employing the whole gamut of film techniques, stock and editing. It's tone is jarring, it's like being injected with LSD, cocaine and whiskey... with a shotgun. But, it works in that classic old Tarantino style. It's kind of like his take on "Badlands", I guess. Give it another shot.
Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:17 PM (qGuLD) ====== I probably will at some point. I don't hold anything against Stone. It's not like I see his name, sigh deeply, and prepare myself for hate. I genuinely love Wall Street, but almost everything else has left me cold. I try and I try. I've even given Alexander more than one go (that was a mistake). Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (Jj43a) 114
Bonnie And Clyde was the beginning of horryweird making bad people the good guys to be looked up to and admired. IMO.
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (zLDYs) 115
Loved Kill Bill, especially when Bill takes his last steps. Tarantino definitely seems to respect mothers as a Force of Nature.
Posted by: Jmel at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (85EAE) 116
Election, with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, is coming out on Criterion blu-ray and DVD in November. They've been choosing some great flicks to reissue recently.
Guess what image is on the cover? ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM A fantastic flick. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (qGuLD) 117
John Wayne Gacy also inspired a lot of flicks.
Including "It," I would guess. (Gacy sometimes performed as a clown at kids' birthday parties.) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (eMKNe) 118
I forgot Psycho, but... I did say however loosely.
Gein was just too crazy to be very interesting. He would've starved to death, if the Govt hadn't started sending him disability checks-- which he never asked for. Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (XlF/h) 119
110 The butler did it.
With a lead pipe in the drawing room. Now imagine if Tarantino made a Clue movie. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:18 PM (tt7o ====== Bring it all together.... Tarantino is making that Charles Manson movie. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:20 PM (Jj43a) 120
In Memento, everybody exploits Lenny's condition at some point(including Lenny).
Posted by: davidt at September 23, 2017 08:20 PM (BFYeS) 121
otho, yup!
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:20 PM (eMKNe) 122
What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM People have mentioned "In Cold Blood," but I really liked "Capote." Phillip Seymour Hoffman was so deep into the role that my son had no idea it was the same guy who portrayed Lester Bangs in "Almost Famous." Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:20 PM (T/7Cm) 123
And now part 2, what NEEDED to be in Kill Bill:
I said we only need 3 minion kills before we get to Bill, but we do need more than just those three scenes. We need the backstory of Bill and the Bride, seeing them together and happy prior to Pei Mei is important. So that can stay...but Pei Mei is frankly bloat. So is O-Ren's animated backstory. Hanzo needs to stay but it needs to come early. After the hospital escape, say. That's it, I think. I'd order it: Introduction (crime scene) Hospital Hanzo Crazy 88's/O-Ren Pei Mei (?, still feels indulgent) Budd Elle Bill and finale That's all you need. Two hours, two and a half tops. Save the rest for a 'deleted scene' reel or 'extended edition' for DVD Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:21 PM (xJa6I) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:21 PM (IW5NJ) 125
Just off the top of my head, and going from memory as I don't have time to pull out the DVDs and watch them, the anime sequence in "Kill Bill" reminded me in some ways of the animated sequences in "The Mystery of Rampo" if my memory is not failing me.
Now off to pick out and watch one of the Jeremy Brett, Sherlock Holmes episodes. Posted by: geoffb at September 23, 2017 08:21 PM (zOpu5) 126
bergerbilder - Yikers! Stay strong...and relaxed. Prayers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 23, 2017 08:21 PM (58eZn) 127
Taranrino schmarinino, fug the lil Trump H8er.
Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at September 23, 2017 08:22 PM (MIz97) 128
Bonnie And Clyde was the beginning of horryweird making bad people the good guys to be looked up to and admired. IMO.
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (zLDYs) Years ago (forget who) but someone wrote a story about just that. Bonnie and Clyde started that trend and how Rocky reversed that trend. Which was then followed by Star Wars and Superman bringing back (at least for a while) good guys being the heroes in the movies again Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:23 PM (auHtY) 129
Star Wars ep 4 starts off with an action sequence.
So do many war movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers, etc. First Bourne movie does. Vanishing Point starts at the end of the car chase, and then flips back to the beginning. Many Steven Seagal movies do. I'm sure I can think of lots of others. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (w+Jhj) 130
What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM (XlF/h) ++++ Off the top of my head, Alpha Dog. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (pvjTE) 131
That's all you need. Two hours, two and a half tops. Save the rest for a 'deleted scene' reel or 'extended edition' for DVD
You are no fun at all. I'll concede some bloat in the Pei Mei skit, the rest was necessary and so delicious to roll around in. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (gIRsn) 132
People have mentioned "In Cold Blood," but I really liked "Capote." Phillip Seymour Hoffman was so deep into the role that my son had no idea it was the same guy who portrayed Lester Bangs in "Almost Famous." Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:20 PM (T/7Cm) ----------------- Definitely concur. Hoffman was an acting national treasure. Posted by: Javems at September 23, 2017 08:25 PM (yOqwj) 133
True crime film:
I love Owning Mahowney, but it's more of a biopic than a crime film. Very funny. Gary Busey can ACT, btw. Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:25 PM (XlF/h) 134
I'm sure I can think of lots of others.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (w+Jhj) the Bond movies starting the Goldfinger start off with Bond finishing off some mission and some wiz bang action which leads to the titles and theme song. Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:26 PM (auHtY) 135
The Bonny and Klyde with Fay and Warren is pretty good, watched it not long ago
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:26 PM (ghofu) 136
131 That's all you need. Two hours, two and a half tops. Save the rest for a 'deleted scene' reel or 'extended edition' for DVD
You are no fun at all. I'll concede some bloat in the Pei Mei skit, the rest was necessary and so delicious to roll around in. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (gIRsn) It IS delicious. That's the problem. You (and he) fall so in love with the tasty stuff that you end up with a meandering movie instead of a grindhouse nasty. Look, if it was a novel, I'd say leave it all in. But a movie needs to be tighter. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:26 PM (xJa6I) 137
MST update: Just saw Mike and the 'bots sing "Merry Christmas...if that's Okay."
Prescient. and depressing. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:27 PM (T/7Cm) 138
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You are no fun at all. I'll concede some bloat in the Pei Mei skit, the rest was necessary and so delicious to roll around in. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 08:24 PM (gIRsn) ====== Ruthlessness is structure and plotting can be good, but I just don't understand how one can see the Esteban Vihaio scene and think that it should have been cut. It doesn't add much, but Michael Park's performance is so wonderful that you can't cut it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:27 PM (Jj43a) 139
122 What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM Gotta give some love for a Korean film "Memories of Murder". Really well made, if you don't mind reading a movie, highly recommended. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:28 PM (xJa6I) 140
I only recently read, during the making of "Chinatown," Faye Dunaway actually splashed Roman Polanski with her own urine at one point.
Why? Because Polanski wouldn't let her take bathroom breaks during the shooting. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:28 PM (eMKNe) 141
What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?
- I liked Wonderland, about a mass murder porn star John Holmes got mixed up in. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:28 PM (Nwg0u) 142
United 93 was a pretty good movie based on a crime.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:29 PM (GsAUU) 143
Ruthlessness is structure and plotting can be good, but I just don't understand how one can see the Esteban Vihaio scene and think that it should have been cut. It doesn't add much, but Michael Park's performance is so wonderful that you can't cut it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:27 PM (Jj43a) Because it means nothing and reveals that Bill is bad. But we already know that. The performance is great but it drops right out of the movie without a ripple. If you can cut something and the plot doesn't fall apart, it didn't need to be there. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:29 PM (xJa6I) 144
142 United 93 was a pretty good movie based on a crime.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:29 PM (GsAUU) Ooof. Yeah, good point. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (xJa6I) 145
Wonder if Tarantino is still working on his Manson project.
I remember we had a fantastic discussion here about it some weeks ago, that it could work IF Tarantino can play it straight... and as we all know, he most likely cannot. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (eMKNe) 147
"What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?"
The Untouchables was pretty good. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (w+Jhj) 148
142 United 93 was a pretty good movie based on a crime.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:29 PM (GsAUU) Thread. Winner. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (T/7Cm) 149
Memento, by having the color sections run backwards -- or rather, forwards, but each section is the one preceding the previous one -- puts you in the main character's position of not remembering what just happened. This best illustrated by the scene that starts with him running and a car alarm going off, and he thinks, "Hmm, what am I doing? Oh, I'm chasing this guy..."
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:31 PM (ynUnH) Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:31 PM (W+vEI) 151
United flight 93 is a war movie
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (ghofu) 152
I am astonished that someone capable of recognizing the greatness of "Jackie Brown" is blind to the massive flaws of "Kill Bill" and "The Hateful Eight."
"Kill Bill" is a bloated, self-indulgent cartoon and Tarantino's career was probably saved when they forced him to split it in two. People would have been walking out of the theater in droves. But while "Kill Bill" was a genius pleasing himself too much, "The Hateful Eight" just flat out sucks. It is a stunningly inept work that feels like it was only made because the time period gave Tarantino an excuse to use his beloved N-word. Mike Posted by: MBunge at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (pwT6S) 153
Lizzy, To Die For is also a great flick.
A film I wish I could have made. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (eMKNe) 154
144 142 United 93 was a pretty good movie based on a crime.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:29 PM (GsAUU) Ooof. Yeah, good point. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM (xJa6I) --To be sure, it was almost more a documentary than a "movie". Lots of peeps playing themselves. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (GsAUU) 155
I think 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) was non-linear. I'm pretty sure of this because all I can recall is a bunch of disjointed scenes.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (/qEW2) 156
>>United 93 was a pretty good movie based on a crime.
Oh.....that one was so tough to watch. Waited until the 10 year mark to finally watch it and cried through it. Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:33 PM (W+vEI) 157
151 United flight 93 is a war movie
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (ghofu) --Tru dat. I watch it every 9/11. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:33 PM (GsAUU) 158
--To be sure, it was almost more a documentary than a "movie". Lots of peeps playing themselves.
Posted by: logprof Uh... how is that possible? There were no survivors of United 93. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:33 PM (eMKNe) 159
155 I think 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) was non-linear. I'm pretty sure of this because all I can recall is a bunch of disjointed scenes.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (/qEW2) ====== Linear with a bunch of fantasy sequences. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:34 PM (Jj43a) 160
"13 Hours" was great, too, and equally hard to watch (though it was anger, not tears).
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:34 PM (W+vEI) 161
158 --To be sure, it was almost more a documentary than a "movie". Lots of peeps playing themselves.
Posted by: logprof Uh... how is that possible? There were no survivors of United 93. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:33 PM (eMKNe) ===== There's more to the movie than what happens in the plane. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:34 PM (Jj43a) 162
Memento was a very good movie and kept you on your toes. Came out around the same time as Mullholland Drive which was a real WTF kind of movie Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:35 PM (auHtY) 163
Dropping that scene in Kill Bill about Esteban, remember what Charlie Sheen said about what he thought was his big scene in Red Dawn about telling the others about the Soviets killing those people and it not being in the theatrical release. And his father telling him the reason the scene got dropped was because you don't need to tell the audience again.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:35 PM (tt7o8) 164
Crime movies; random thoughts:
1) Robert Blake's performance in Hoffa was just f'n extraordinary! But again, it's a biopic, not a "crime film" per se. 2) The Counterfeiters (Aus. "Der Falschers") is great & based on real events, but again, "crime movie" doesn't fit very well. Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:35 PM (XlF/h) 165
Damn, TCU took Oklahoma State to school.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:35 PM (GsAUU) 166
Lizzy, oh man.
When I first watched "Schindler's List" on TV, it made me furiously angry. I would have very much liked to see Ralph Fiennes' Nazi leader character (who was he playing?) torn from limb to limb at the end of that film. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:35 PM (eMKNe) 167
TJM, oh yeah. THAT is true.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (eMKNe) 168
158 --To be sure, it was almost more a documentary than a "movie". Lots of peeps playing themselves.
Posted by: logprof Uh... how is that possible? There were no survivors of United 93. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:33 PM (eMKNe) --FAA and military. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (GsAUU) 169
Greatest movie of all time? The Day the Earth Stood Still
Posted by: Weasel at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (Sfs6o) 170
you end up with a meandering movie instead of a grindhouse nasty.
Now I shall gratuitously tell my Grindhouse story, full of bloat ;-) I snuck out of work to catch a matinee of Grindhouse. Literally snuck out, just poof no more Bander. I snuck out early enough that there was time for about three gin and tonics at the neighborhood bar beforehand. Now, I was the only one in the theater. The movie opens with all the "grindhouse" effects, the pops in the soundtrack, the scratches on the film, the occasional loss of focus. It really has the feel of a 1970s grindhouse experience. So I thought to myself, if this were a 70s dive theater, I'd be watching it through the hazy curls of cigarette smoke. I lit up. In my defense, I considered this performance art. I was part of recreating the experience. It was Art, dammit. It was also Cambridge, MA. They threw me out so fast it made my head spin. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (gIRsn) 171
139 122 What is the best movie ever based, however loosely, on a real crime?
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:14 PM I'd go with 'Heavenly Creatures'. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (gG2l4) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:37 PM (GsAUU) 173
logprof, oops. Sorry. ;-)
Bandersnatch, LOL. ;-) Another one of the joys of blurays and DVDs, my man! Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:37 PM (eMKNe) 174
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2017 08:38 PM (KCxzN) 175
171 I'd go with 'Heavenly Creatures'.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 08:36 PM (gG2l4) ===== Hot damn, that movie is awesome. Especially it's final seconds and shot. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:38 PM (Jj43a) 176
Apollo 13 Hours Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:38 PM (IW5NJ) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:38 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (IW5NJ) 179
"In The Heat Of The Night Of The Living Dead"
;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (eMKNe) 180
The Untouchables is not only a great movie, it has one of the greatest soundtracks. It's almost too good, the music can distract one from the movie.
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (ynUnH) 181
128 Bonnie And Clyde was the beginning of horryweird making bad people the good guys to be looked up to and admired. IMO.
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 08:19 PM (zLDYs) Years ago (forget who) but someone wrote a story about just that. Bonnie and Clyde started that trend and how Rocky reversed that trend. Rocket J. Squirrel fighting the evil Russians. Posted by: Rocky and Bullwinkle at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (OKuv5) 182
I almost got thrown out of Jaws for smoking, Bander.
Posted by: Eromero at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (zLDYs) 183
I appreciate the work that went into the post, but it doesn't make me want to see "Kill Bill" at all.
Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (sdi6R) 184
>>To Die For was about Pamela Smart, right?
Weird story. Yes. Lived in MA when it happened so I was familiar with the story going in. Which brings us to an upcoming MA true crime movie: "Chappaquiddick." Apparently it is not all that sympathetic to ol' Teddy. Abut dang time Hollywood stops the Kennedy worship. Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (W+vEI) 185
To Die For Your Eyes Only Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (IW5NJ) 186
"The Walking Dead Man Walking"
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (IqV8l) 188
I find Kill Bill unwatchable. It seems like a film made by a man who emotionally and intellectually remains a 14-year-old. I don't get the love for it at all.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (H5knJ) 189
But while "Kill Bill" was a genius pleasing himself too much, "The Hateful Eight" just flat out sucks. It is a stunningly inept work that feels like it was only made because the time period gave Tarantino an excuse to use his beloved N-word.
Mike Posted by: MBunge at September 23, 2017 08:32 PM (pwT6S) When they showed it at a local theater, 2 rows of empty seats got up and walked out. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (gG2l4) 190
160 "13 Hours" was great, too, and equally hard to watch (though it was anger, not tears).
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:34 PM (W+vEI) Michael Bay's best movie. He did a great job not doing that thing he does. I both love and hate that movie. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (T/7Cm) 191
179 "In The Heat Of The Night Of The Living Dead"
;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (eMKNe) They call me MISTER zombie! Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (NWiLs) 192
If you want to look at non-linear storytelling, go to the film that Tarantino stole the idea from: Kubrick's The Killing.
Great heist flick, perfect film noir ending. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (iFZVz) 193
Lizzy, oh man.
Hearing Chappaquddick is really tough on Ted Kennedy. It must not have been produced with traditional Hollywood money. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (eMKNe) 194
A View To A Kill Bill Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (IW5NJ) 195
13Hours
Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (0NwUA) 196
Insomniac, LOL ;-)
"They got a zombie infestation up there. They don't know what to do with it." Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (eMKNe) 197
190 160 "13 Hours" was great, too, and equally hard to watch (though it was anger, not tears).
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:34 PM (W+vEI) Michael Bay's best movie. He did a great job not doing that thing he does. I both love and hate that movie. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 08:41 PM (T/7Cm) It's an excellent movie but absolutely rage inducing. Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:42 PM (NWiLs) 198
We all float down here?
Posted by: Mary Joe Kopechne, It Girl at September 23, 2017 08:42 PM (H5knJ) 199
183 I appreciate the work that went into the post, but it doesn't make me want to see "Kill Bill" at all.
Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (sdi6R) ====== Hours wasted! *Throws self on floor* I've failed! *Sobs quietly* Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 08:42 PM (Jj43a) 200
>.It was also Cambridge, MA. They threw me out so fast it made my head spin.
Heh. Now if it had been a joint...? Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:42 PM (W+vEI) 201
173 logprof, oops. Sorry. ;-)
Bandersnatch, LOL. ;-) Another one of the joys of blurays and DVDs, my man! Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:37 PM (eMKNe) --The biggest bit of artistic license in United 93 was Greengrass portraying the German national on the flight as conciliatory with the terrorists, being in the "9/10" mode of hijackings as negotiations. That passenger's family were pissed about that, but we have no way of knowing. In any event, the hijackings-as-negotiation concept was SOP at the time for airlines, and the government, regardless of what any passenger thought. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:42 PM (GsAUU) 202
logprof, yup. It took guts for Greengrass to include that in the film IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:43 PM (eMKNe) 203
She's kind of a movie star. Madonna has sold a big 3,848 copies of her new album.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (Nwg0u) 204
I cannot watch any of the 9/11 and aftermath movies.
The whole subject makes me too angry. I'd be seething after 2 hours on that subject. Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (H5knJ) 205
Wonder if Tarantino is still working on his Manson project.
I remember we had a fantastic discussion here about it some weeks ago, that it could work IF Tarantino can play it straight... and as we all know, he most likely cannot. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:30 PM He's gonna have to work on the script like he never has before. It's his first outing on a historical series of events. If he gets it right, it could be brilliant. If not, it will be a total trainwreck. He's well equipped to tackle it as a subject, it's not like The Family didn't feature a lot of character driven, acid soaked craziness that was sometimes darkly funny. If he hits just the right balance in delivery, it could be a classic. I just don't know if he can let go of his "genre tribute, grindhouse" thing now. I'd be more confident if Avary was working on it too. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (qGuLD) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (eMKNe) 207
She's kind of a movie star. Madonna has sold a big 3,848 copies of her new album.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (Nwg0u) That many?!?! Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:44 PM (auHtY) 208
A Bridge To Far and Away
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (ghofu) 209
>>Hearing Chappaquddick is really tough on Ted Kennedy. It must not have been produced with traditional Hollywood money.
Yes, surprising. I'm thinking it was pitched as a sequel of sorts to last year's "Jackie." And you know Hollywood can't resist a sequel. Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (W+vEI) 210
13 Hours is great.
Yes, and rage-inducing. Speaking of which, I may watch Black Hawk Down tonight. My BP is too low. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (GsAUU) Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (XlF/h) 212
otho, exactly.
Same as how I feel about the upcoming Blade Runner 2049. I predice it'll either be a stone cold masterpiece or a complete utter blood-soaked trainwreck. Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (eMKNe) 213
Black Hawk Down And Out In Beverly Hills Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (IW5NJ) 214
49 *gasp* a wonderful review.
Posted by: David Carridine at September 23, 2017 08:01 PM (/qEW2) =========== Heh. I was going to make an auto-erotic suicide comment, but didn't want to be crude. ;-) Kung Fu was my favorite TV show growing up. I didn't know until I saw the movie "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" that that TV series was Bruce Lee's idea and he pitched it so he could star in it after his cult-like fame from "The Green Hornet" -- but Hollywood wouldn't cast an actual Asian to play the leading man back then. Posted by: ShainS at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (BiLU+) 215
Apparently it is not all that sympathetic to ol' Teddy. Abut dang time Hollywood stops the Kennedy worship.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:39 PM (W+vEI) --Yeah, what good would it have done to make such a movie in 1975? Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (GsAUU) 216
"It's an excellent movie but absolutely rage inducing.
Posted by: Insomniac" Kinda like Blackhawk Down then. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (w+Jhj) 217
208 A Bridge To Far and Away
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (ghofu) Up close, too. Posted by: The Bridge at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (OKuv5) 218
Lizzy, LOL.
If it had been produced by the Jackie people, Chappaquiddick would have been made and marketed as a romantic comedy most likely. :-P Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:46 PM (eMKNe) 219
"Speaking of which, I may watch Black Hawk Down tonight.
My BP is too low. Posted by: logprof" You posted this as I was typing #216 Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:47 PM (w+Jhj) 220
When they showed it at a local theater, 2 rows of empty seats got up and walked out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (gG2l4) ++++ It emptied out the empty seats? Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 08:47 PM (pvjTE) 221
Yes, and rage-inducing.
Speaking of which, I may watch Black Hawk Down tonight. My BP is too low. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:45 PM (GsAUU) Now there's a movie where after seeing it, I just want to start carpet bombing Somalia Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:47 PM (auHtY) 222
Chappaquiddick - "Nothing says I love you like letting someone drown. A truly romantic film about Ted and Mary Jo." New York Times
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:48 PM (tt7o8) 223
Now there's a movie where after seeing it, I just want to start carpet bombing Somalia Posted by: TheQuietMan We need to import more of them, not. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2017 08:48 PM (IqV8l) 224
Run Lola Run Fatboy Run
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:48 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: Ricky Retardo at September 23, 2017 08:48 PM (qul7b) 226
Sooth, also sounds great ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:48 PM (eMKNe) 227
"Now there's a movie where after seeing it, I just want to start carpet bombing Somalia
Posted by: TheQuietMan" I was thinking more along the lines of a dozen AC-130's all unloading on the town at once, but your idea is OK to. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:49 PM (w+Jhj) 228
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
No, wait, already done. This schtick should be ended. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:49 PM (GsAUU) 229
Anna, EXACTLY!!!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:49 PM (eMKNe) 230
Flight of the Phoenix, the original: The best part about casting Jimmy Stewart in the lead was that he was, in fact, a decorated bomber pilot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (V2Yro) 231
ok, tarantino thought of them like novels, vol. I & II. i wouldn't have the slightest interest in reading two novels about ninja's. and that's the thing, i find his subject matter, drenched in blood, uninteresting.
so, what about chase scenes? wasn't the first movie a chase scene or something. (everyone likes bullit but my favorite is the french connection.). Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (AxFdW) 232
Romancing the Stone Cold
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (NWiLs) 233
"Now children what do you say to the nice man?"
"Are you my Daddy?" Talk about a scene that could never get made in today's Soviet Justice Wanking vapor-rama. Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (tt7o8) 234
What film emptied the empty seats? I lost the thread on the thread
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (XlF/h) 235
Doctor No Way Out.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 08:51 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:51 PM (IW5NJ) 237
Kunduntouchables.
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:51 PM (ynUnH) 238
Gone With the Wind In the Willows. The effect of the civil war on the innocent forest creatures.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:51 PM (Nwg0u) 239
Black hawk down is one that will suck me in as soon as I see its on. I hhavd been working on top 3 war movies and it might be on that list.
Penn state just got s safety, lead 5 -0 over Iowa Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 08:52 PM (ghofu) 240
219 "Speaking of which, I may watch Black Hawk Down tonight.
My BP is too low. Posted by: logprof" You posted this as I was typing #216 Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:47 PM (w+Jhj) --I know, right? Do I need to tell this crowd that Bill Clinton is a shitstain? Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:52 PM (GsAUU) 241
The Unbearable Lightness of Being There
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (W+vEI) 242
234 What film emptied the empty seats? I lost the thread on the thread
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:50 PM (XlF/h) ++++ The Hateful Eight Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (FUu/Z) 243
LOLOLOL. You guys are on fire.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (eMKNe) 244
I think by saying two rows of empty seats walked out, he was saying no one walked out, the audience really liked the movie.
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (ynUnH) Posted by: Ricky Retardo at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (qul7b) 246
Took the wife to see the new Kingsmen movie. It's over the top like the first, we both enjoyed it, but the wife felt it had too much profanity.
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 23, 2017 08:53 PM (6n332) 247
Private Benjamin Button
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (W+vEI) 248
The Postman Always Rings Twice in Chinatown
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (tt7o8) 249
The Longest Hard Day's Night.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (Nwg0u) 250
When they showed it at a local theater, 2 rows of empty seats got up and walked out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 08:40 PM (gG2l4) That reminds me of a Jack Benny joke about his movies being so bad. That one movie was only being shown in funeral homes and it was so bad the corpses got out of their coffins and walked out on it Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (auHtY) 251
I thought Kalifornia was an excellent film. I have yet to meet a woman who had any use for it, and not that many men, either.
The connection to Starkweather/Fugate is very hard for me to sign off on. Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (XlF/h) 252
Twelve Angry Men In Black Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:54 PM (IW5NJ) 253
Clash of the Titanic.
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:55 PM (ynUnH) 254
"Do I need to tell this crowd that Bill Clinton is a shitstain?
Posted by: logprof" Preacher, choir, etc. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 08:55 PM (w+Jhj) 255
Drop Dead Fred Claus Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:56 PM (auHtY) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:56 PM (IW5NJ) 257
Or maybe that the audience hated it so much that even the empty seats walked out. I don't know.
Posted by: Jim S. at September 23, 2017 08:56 PM (ynUnH) 258
qdpsteve: Amon Goeth, Schindler's "partner" and supervisor.
As for cutting down Kill Bill, I agree that plot wise it makes sense. In terms of the meta plot, it does not. The Mexican pimp has some charm, but he is also remorselessly evil, butchering a woman's face. Pai Mei is a bigoted psychopath: Hanzo clearly feels responsible for enabling Bill's villainy, and probably should. The Bride does not "deserve" her victory any more than the others would, being the leader of her fellow lady assassins. Even the excuse of her motherhood does not wash: she ruthlessly executes Vernita in front of her child. Kill Bill is a study of villains: their flaws, their merits. I think its message is badly confused and missed by many viewers, but I think being against the idea of murder in general, and revenge more specifically, makes it a good movie. Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 08:56 PM (4Vhe3) 259
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Alone Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (IW5NJ) 260
The Longest Day of The Jackal.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (gC2IV) 261
The Longest Day of the Triffids
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (NWiLs) 262
trev006, thanks. :-)
Great ones people! For some reason I can't think of any other than: "The Longest Day Of The Jackal" Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (eMKNe) 263
And Duke beat me to it. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (eMKNe) 264
Though I must admit: showing Budd as a broken down bouncer should have been cut down to one scene, mainly this former pro hitman cleaning a filthy washroom. Or something.
Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM (4Vhe3) 265
The Longest Day of the Jackal! Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (IW5NJ) Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (XlF/h) Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (auHtY) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (GsAUU) 269
has anyone done Longest Day of the Jackal yet? Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (IW5NJ) 270
Friday the 13th Warrior
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 08:59 PM (NWiLs) 271
Superman of La Mancha Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 08:59 PM (auHtY) 272
The Lawnmower Man On Fire Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:59 PM (IW5NJ) 273
Wall Street Car Named Desire
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 08:59 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 23, 2017 08:59 PM (IqV8l) 275
Caddy Shack in the Woods of Deliverance
Rodney, "Man when they said this golf course was off the beaten path, they weren't kidding. Hey is that banjo music I hear?" Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:00 PM (tt7o8) 276
has anyone done Longest Day of the Jackal yet?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 08:58 PM (IW5NJ) Amy Schumer is about to Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:00 PM (auHtY) 277
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:00 PM (NWiLs) 278
Empire of the Sun Strikes Back
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (tt7o8) 279
The Spy Who Loved Me, Myself, & Irene Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (IW5NJ) 280
Boyz N The Burbs
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (GsAUU) 281
Though I must admit: showing Budd as a broken down bouncer should have been cut down to one scene, mainly this former pro hitman cleaning a filthy washroom. Or something.
Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 08:57 PM Couldn't get enough of it. Madsen stole that movie IMO. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (qGuLD) 282
Guardians of the Galaxy Quest
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (NWiLs) 283
Blades of Fury Road
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (gC2IV) 284
The Money Pit And The Pendulum
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (eMKNe) 285
Gone in Sixty Seconds over Tokyo
Posted by: Tonypete at September 23, 2017 09:01 PM (tr2D7) 286
The Godfather of the Bride Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:02 PM (IW5NJ) 287
Repo Man Of Steel
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:02 PM (eMKNe) 288
Funny Girl, Interrupted
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:03 PM (NWiLs) 289
The Main Event Horizon
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:03 PM (GsAUU) 290
The Princess Bride of Frankenstein
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:03 PM (NWiLs) 291
Live and Let Die in LA Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:03 PM (auHtY) 292
Life of Brian's Song
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2017 09:03 PM (KCxzN) 293
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World War Z Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:04 PM (IW5NJ) 294
All of Me, Myself, I
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:04 PM (W+vEI) 295
Legends of the Fall of the House of Usher
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:04 PM (GsAUU) 296
once upon a time in the west side story
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:05 PM (AxFdW) 297
Boondock Saint Vincent.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:05 PM (xJa6I) 298
the simpsons of katie elder
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:05 PM (AxFdW) 299
Capricorn One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:05 PM (JyFLk) 300
Maximum Overdrive-ing Miss Daisy
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (auHtY) 302
Music Man of La Mancha
Posted by: Tonypete at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (tr2D7) 303
Dude, Where's My Car Wash Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (IW5NJ) 304
Apocalypse Now You See Me
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (GsAUU) 305
The Bridges of Toko-Ri County
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (5VlCp) 306
Raging Bull Durham
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (JyFLk) 307
301
Dirty Harry and Tonto Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (auHtY) I'd watch that. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:06 PM (xJa6I) 308
My fave non limear is the movie MASH. No one except the director even knew what the vision was. The actors complained about Altman, the suits were worried, and the screen writer was pissed that they disregarded his words and practically ad libbed the entire movie. He was irate and disgusted....and then won the Oscar for best screenplay.
But as an example of non linear it was brilliant. Posted by: Russkilitlover at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (99Nt9) 309
Jaws: The Revenge Of The Nerds. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (qGuLD) 310
Penn state just got intercepted
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (ghofu) 311
The Nightmare Before Christmas On Elm Street
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (GsAUU) 312
TD Iowa
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (ghofu) 313
Penn state just got intercepted
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (ghofu) I can't place those movies Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (auHtY) 314
Silent Running Scared
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (KCxzN) 315
Strike up the Band of Brothers.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (11H2y) 316
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Sweet Alice
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (NWiLs) 317
Twelve O'clock High Plains Drifter
Posted by: Tonypete at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (tr2D7) 318
Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (eMKNe) 319
North by North West side Story Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (auHtY) Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (gG2l4) 321
Red Dawn of the Dead
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (xJa6I) 322
Dirty Harry and Tonto.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (11H2y) 323
310 Penn state just got intercepted
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:07 PM (ghofu) --and scored on. Whoa, better check phrasing with PSU. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (GsAUU) 324
Rock and Roll High School for Scandal
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (xJa6I) 325
308: very good.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (AxFdW) Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (ghofu) 327
The Hunt for Red October Sky.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (I11+c) 328
2001 Ways to Die in the West
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (w+Jhj) 329
Debbie Does North Dallas Forty
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:09 PM (xJa6I) 330
whoops, sorry, didn't see that. My bad.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (11H2y) 331
Fast and Furious Times at Ridgemont High
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (tt7o8) 332
318 Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice...
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (eMKNe) Ah yes, ye olden days, when wife-swapping was the kinkiest sex we had heard of... Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (gG2l4) 333
My Blue Heaven is for Real
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (W+vEI) 334
To Trap a Spy Who Came in From the Cold Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (auHtY) 335
Everybody's All American Pie
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (JyFLk) 336
332 318 Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice...
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:08 PM (eMKNe) Ah yes, ye olden days, when wife-swapping was the kinkiest sex we had heard of... Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (gG2l4) And it didn't turn out well. Almost realistic there. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:10 PM (xJa6I) 337
Scarface/off Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (IW5NJ) 338
A Bridge To Fargo
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (Nwg0u) 339
Legend of Hell House on Haunted Hill
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (xJa6I) 340
And the Band Played On Golden Pond
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (W+vEI) 341
326 - I'm a little more partial to Caged Heat
Posted by: The Gutter at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (H5knJ) 342
The Great Escape From New York
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (KCxzN) 343
Young Frankenstein meets the Wolfman
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (w+Jhj) 344
Live and Let Die Hard
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (I11+c) 345
Otho:
Huh. I would say Madsen stole Reservoir Dogs, with his overly shined up sadism, but do you think he actually stole Vol 2? I would have reserved that honor for Carradine. Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (4Vhe3) 346
Dead Bang the Tim Drum Slowly
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (xJa6I) 347
The Brain That Wouldn't Die Another Day
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (eMKNe) 348
Shakespeare in Love Actually
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (11H2y) 349
Godzilla, King of the Monsters Inc.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (o0Pn2) 350
Life is Beautiful Girls
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (xJa6I) 351
Blue Steel Magnolias
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (gG2l4) 352
347 The Brain That Wouldn't Die Another Day
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (eMKNe) I'd also watch that Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:12 PM (xJa6I) 353
Thunderballs of Fury
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (JyFLk) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (Nwg0u) 355
The Magnificent Se7en
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (NWiLs) 356
Tropic Blue Thunder
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (tt7o8) 357
345 Otho:
Huh. I would say Madsen stole Reservoir Dogs, with his overly shined up sadism, but do you think he actually stole Vol 2? I would have reserved that honor for Carradine. Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM (4Vhe3) ===== They're both really good, but I agree with Otho. Madsen demonstrates a wounded sadness that really exemplifies his scenes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (Jj43a) 358
Mother, Jugs and Speed 2: Collision Course
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (xJa6I) 359
Pee Wee's Big Poseidon Adventure
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (H5knJ) 360
3 favorite Prison movies
Caged Heat Black Mama, White Mama Angels in Chains episode of Charlies Angels, (featuring a Farah Fawcett nip slip on network TV!). OK, kidding. Your movies are classics. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (gIRsn) 361
In the Heat of The Night Hawks
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (gC2IV) 362
The Thin Man On Fire
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (o0Pn2) 363
Run silent run deep throat
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (11H2y) 364
Saturday Night Fever Lake
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (xJa6I) 365
Cutthroat Island of the Damned.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (gG2l4) 366
Rain Man On Fire
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (eMKNe) 367
28 Days of Thunder Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (IW5NJ) 368
I suspect Kill Bill (or something like it) was on Tarantino's mind for quite a while. the Vipers were described as the TV show "Fox Force Five" in the restaurant scene in Pulp Fiction.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (17QyB) 369
Generation Kill Bill
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (o0Pn2) 370
If MSU doesn't get their act together, we won't get to see Bryan Kelly's special purple face.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:14 PM (JyFLk) 371
The Jungle Book of Eli
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (W+vEI) 372
Lake Placid - come for the hockey, stay for the giant alligators and Betty White.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (tt7o8) 373
Vanilla Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (NWiLs) 374
The Island of Dr. Zhivago.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (I11+c) 375
I love Owning Mahowney, but it's more of a biopic than a crime film. Very funny. Gary Busey can ACT, btw.
Not disputing that, but in "The Buddy Holly Story" I always expect his teeth to fly out of his mouth and start attacking people. Posted by: JT at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (4TkUe) 376
The Man From Uncle Buck
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (eMKNe) 377
that thing you do the right thing.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (11H2y) 378
354 Debbie Does North Dallas Forty
- Deep in the endzone? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM (Nwg0u) You know it Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (xJa6I) 379
The Color Purple Rain
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (KCxzN) 380
All of Me, Myself and Irene
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (xJa6I) 381
The Man Who Knew Too Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (gG2l4) 382
That Hong Kong Fuey guy from Kill Bill died in some kinda sex auto thing. Weird.
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (bc2Lc) 383
373 Vanilla Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:15 PM (NWiLs) Oh Nice Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (xJa6I) 384
Rogue One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (o0Pn2) 385
Freddy VS Jason Bourne
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (ghofu) 387
368 - That's exactly what Kill Bill seems like to me - Fox Force Five, The Movie, which is a terrible fucking idea.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (H5knJ) Posted by: Ricky Retardo at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (qul7b) 389
The Notebook of Eli? Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:16 PM (IW5NJ) 390
Gone Baby Gone Girl
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (GsAUU) 392
Otho:
Huh. I would say Madsen stole Reservoir Dogs, with his overly shined up sadism, but do you think he actually stole Vol 2? I would have reserved that honor for Carradine. Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM I guess I'm counting both vols, but maybe more vol 1? Not sure... but, probably, yeah. He certainly carried much of Reservoir Dogs, but had fierce competition from Buscemi in that one. I like Madsen, anyway, but the whole Budd story in KB was the best part of that flick, for me. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (qGuLD) 393
Red Dawn of the Dead Calm
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (o0Pn2) 394
Krampus Conquers the Martians
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (tt7o8) Posted by: Ricky Retardo at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (qul7b) 396
Alexander the Great Escape from New York
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:18 PM (gG2l4) 397
I suspect Kill Bill (or something like it) was on Tarantino's mind for quite a while.
Tarantino's mind is an interconnected non-linear universe. Madsen in ResDogs is Vic Vega, Travolta in PulpFic is Vince Vega. Keitel's ex-robbery partner in ResDogs is a girl named Alabama, like Christian Slater's wife in True Romance. There's more. It's like it's all a stew and he only forces bits of it to make sense one movie at a time. Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 09:18 PM (gIRsn) 398
392 Otho:
Huh. I would say Madsen stole Reservoir Dogs, with his overly shined up sadism, but do you think he actually stole Vol 2? I would have reserved that honor for Carradine. Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2017 09:11 PM I guess I'm counting both vols, but maybe more vol 1? Not sure... but, probably, yeah. He certainly carried much of Reservoir Dogs, but had fierce competition from Buscemi in that one. I like Madsen, anyway, but the whole Budd story in KB was the best part of that flick, for me. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:17 PM (qGuLD) Tarantino also knows how to get great performances out of actors. Robert Forester, David Carradine, Madsen, Travolta...all shine with Tarantino and often fall flat without him after. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:18 PM (xJa6I) 399
388 - oooh, nice. very witty.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:19 PM (11H2y) 400
While You Were Sleeping With Other People
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:19 PM (W+vEI) Posted by: AshevilleRobert at September 23, 2017 09:19 PM (w+Jhj) 402
Beauty and the Beast Master and Commander
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:19 PM (o0Pn2) 403
Return of the King of New York
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:19 PM (xJa6I) 404
And when you realize in The Shining that "noodluM" is "Muldoon" backwards knocked me on my ass!
Posted by: andycanuck at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (mJ8mX) 405
Dirty Harry and Tonto.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (gG2l4) 406
Bandersnatch, that's not a stew. More like the Chicken ala King MRE.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (tt7o8) 407
Demolition Man on Fire
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (W+vEI) 408
Black Hawk Down with Love?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (xJa6I) 409
Dead Man Walking Tall
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (11H2y) 410
Total Recall of the Wild
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 23, 2017 09:20 PM (JyFLk) 411
Dirty Harry & the Hendersons.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (I11+c) 412
I haven't seen Muldoon in a while. How's he doing?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) 413
Room With A View To A Kill
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (gG2l4) 414
Robert Forester, David Carradine, Madsen, Travolta...all shine with Tarantino and often fall flat without him after.
Carradine didn't fall flat. The belt held his body up. (too soon?) Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (gIRsn) 415
The Pope of Greenwich Village of the Damned Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (IW5NJ) 416
The Invisible Man on Firestarter
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (o0Pn2) 417
The Green 8 Mile
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) 418
The Mothman of La Mancha Prophecies
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (H5knJ) 419
On The Town.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (11H2y) 420
They're both really good, but I agree with Otho.
Madsen demonstrates a wounded sadness that really exemplifies his scenes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:13 PM Bingo. Spot on. It's a fantastic performance and the substory was worthy of a movie in it's own right. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (qGuLD) 421
empire of the sunset boulevard
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (AxFdW) 422
Can't Stop the Music Man
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) 423
So the belt was a prop?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (tt7o8) 424
The Hateful Eight Is Enough
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (eMKNe) 425
412 I haven't seen Muldoon in a while. How's he doing?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) He showed up in the Morning Rant thread yesterday. Seemed OK to me. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (gG2l4) 426
415
The Pope of Greenwich Village of the Damned Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (IW5NJ) Nice Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (xJa6I) 427
Around the World in 80 Gays.
Posted by: Barry at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (bc2Lc) Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (AxFdW) 429
[praying for a nood]
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU) 430
War of the Roses are Red
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (I0I+D) 431
Working Girl With All the Gifts
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (W+vEI) 432
Strange Days of Raging Bull
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (o0Pn2) 433
If one were to check on YouTube "What if Tarantino made Spaghetti and Meatballs" you will find something stylish, well, in Kill Bill style.
However, I will post a Lego GTA link because it is far more fun https://youtu.be/z3Y0HrdUvS8 Posted by: Kindltot at September 23, 2017 09:23 PM (Gv+zt) 434
The Fearless Vampire Killers Once Bitten
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:24 PM (tt7o8) 435
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombieland
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:24 PM (xJa6I) 436
A Little Night Music Man
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:24 PM (11H2y) 437
The Hateful...8 1/2?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 23, 2017 09:24 PM (H5rtT) 438
425 412 I haven't seen Muldoon in a while. How's he doing?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) He showed up in the Morning Rant thread yesterday. Seemed OK to me. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (gG2l4) Ah good, thanks OM Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:24 PM (xJa6I) 439
Breaking Away 2: Bloomington Boogaloo.
Posted by: Lance Armstrong at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (bc2Lc) 440
429 [praying for a nood]
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:22 PM (GsAUU) There will be no nood. (at least not from me) Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (gG2l4) 441
The notebook of Eli
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (xJa6I) Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (I0I+D) 444
412 I haven't seen Muldoon in a while. How's he doing?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:21 PM (xJa6I) Hard to say. is being an unapologetic punster and limerick-creator a good thing or a bad thing? But, yeah, he's still with us. For which we are blessed. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (T/7Cm) Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:26 PM (IW5NJ) Posted by: Shemp Smith, Greased Up Bastard at September 23, 2017 09:26 PM (qul7b) 447
Never Give A Sucker An Even Breaker Morant
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:26 PM (gG2l4) 448
437 -stringer davis, that's brilliant. I'm pouring a beer in my USB port for you. Cheers!
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:26 PM (11H2y) 449
Three Men and a Little Lady & The Tramp
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (gC2IV) 450
Run Silent, Run Deep Impact
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (NWiLs) 451
Three Men and Rosemary's Baby
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (H5knJ) 452
442 Since it looks like we're winding down, thanks again, TJM.
Good post. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (xJa6I) ===== But... We disagree about something. Are you sure you know how the internet works? Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (Jj43a) 453
Local Hero At Large
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (eMKNe) 454
The High Road to China Syndrome
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:28 PM (gC2IV) 455
441 The notebook of Eli
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (gC2IV) Aw, crap. Looks like I missed a great movie-mashup thing. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:28 PM (T/7Cm) 456
I'm trying to think of the last movie I saw in a theater. I think it was "13 Hours", or maybe Part 2 of "Atlas Shrugged". I never did see Part 3.
Maybe it was "Gravity". I don't remember in what order they were released. Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 09:28 PM (sdi6R) 457
Rosemary's Baby Driver
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:28 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: Shemp Smith, Greased Up Bastard at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (qul7b) 459
Huh.
Oddly, thanks for all the kill bill spoilers ... never seen it / them, likely never will, so interesting to me. Actually, maybe I would watch , after reading all that ... Is the Simpsons still on ? Gotta be a decade since I watched an episode ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (Z8R9P) 460
Cloud Atlas Shrugged
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (NWiLs) 461
The Guns of August Rush
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (I11+c) 462
451 Three Men and Rosemary's Baby
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (H5knJ) Ha! Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (T/7Cm) 463
Picnic at Hanging Rock. Dog Day Afternoon of a Faun. And Justice for All the the King's Men. My Blue Heaven Can Wait. Ok, I've got it all out of my system.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (11H2y) 464
Knight and Day For Night
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (gG2l4) 465
"However, I will post a Lego GTA link because it is far more fun"
Some of the Lego WW2 vids are very well done. The Berlin 45 ones are quite graphic though. *splut* Posted by: the guy across the street at September 23, 2017 09:30 PM (sf2BM) 466
The Hateful 8mm
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:30 PM (H5knJ) 467
Anne of a Thousand Days of Wine and Roses
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:30 PM (gG2l4) 468
Thank's TJM. This is awesome. It's funny that for two people with thoroughly divergent tastes in film - you seem to hate movies i like and vice versa - we actually totally agree on Kill Bill. I wonder why.
Posted by: Mega at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (rv0Fo) 469
452 442 Since it looks like we're winding down, thanks again, TJM.
Good post. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:25 PM (xJa6I) ===== But... We disagree about something. Are you sure you know how the internet works? Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:27 PM (Jj43a) LOL I'm not even sure we disagree. We just see different things in the same film. People who can articulate their point of view, as you've done so well, are the only people worth disagreeing with anyway. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (xJa6I) 470
456 I'm trying to think of the last movie I saw in a theater. I think it was "13 Hours", or maybe Part 2 of "Atlas Shrugged". I never did see Part 3.
Maybe it was "Gravity". I don't remember in what order they were released. Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 09:28 PM (sdi6R) --Last one I saw in theater was American Sniper. It was in the second-run cheapie theater at that. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (GsAUU) 471
Buckaroo Banzai Across the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (T/7Cm) 472
Reservoir Dogs of War
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:32 PM (H5knJ) 473
A Knight's Tale of Despereaux
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:32 PM (NWiLs) 474
The Wild Brady Bunch
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:32 PM (eMKNe) 475
Never could get into Kill Bill, either one. So that was a quick scroll-by
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 23, 2017 09:32 PM (z2W2E) 476
459 Huh.
Oddly, thanks for all the kill bill spoilers ... never seen it / them, likely never will, so interesting to me. Actually, maybe I would watch , after reading all that ... Is the Simpsons still on ? Gotta be a decade since I watched an episode ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at September 23, 2017 09:29 PM (Z8R9P) Yep. Though very little since season 8 or so has been worth watching. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:32 PM (xJa6I) Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:33 PM (W+vEI) 478
The Outlaw Josie and the Pussycats
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:33 PM (I11+c) 479
471 Buckaroo Banzai Across the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (T/7Cm) I would also watch that. Just got my GOTG 2 blue ray Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:33 PM (xJa6I) 480
Super 8 Men Out
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:33 PM (NWiLs) 481
Guardians of the Game of Thrones
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (tt7o8) 482
She's Gotta Have It Follows
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (GsAUU) 484
Kill Bill: On His Own
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (H5knJ) 485
468 Thank's TJM. This is awesome. It's funny that for two people with thoroughly divergent tastes in film - you seem to hate movies i like and vice versa - we actually totally agree on Kill Bill. I wonder why.
Posted by: Mega at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (rv0Fo) ====== I love that about these. I know when I write pays that highlight certain movies, I know that people will disagree so I have to hope that I just explain myself well. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (Jj43a) 486
There's Something About Mary Reilly
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM (eMKNe) 487
The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Coach is an Asshole
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (gC2IV) 488
The Call of the Wild Bunch
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (Nwg0u) 489
I couldn't get through Kill Bill or The Hateful Eight because of all the violence. I just don't get it. I may give Kill Bill another shot after reading this post though.
Posted by: sinalco at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (yODqO) 490
469
People who can articulate their point of view, as you've done so well, are the only people worth disagreeing with anyway. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:31 PM (xJa6I) ===== You're really kind. Thank you very much. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (Jj43a) 491
A Night to Remember the Titans
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (I0I+D) 492
Tropic Blue Thunder
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 23, 2017 09:36 PM (z2W2E) 493
Varsity Blues Brothers
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:36 PM (eMKNe) 494
The Great Escape from Witch Mountain
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:36 PM (NWiLs) 495
Titales????
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:36 PM (11H2y) 496
Is Guardians of the Galaxy on Netflix?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:37 PM (gC2IV) 497
Can The Bride put Sonobi on her Kill List?
Posted by: sinalco at September 23, 2017 09:37 PM (yODqO) 498
The Lion King Kong
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:38 PM (Nwg0u) 499
487 The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Coach is an Asshole
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (gC2IV) When did that "Notre Dame's Coach is an Asshole" movie happen? Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:38 PM (I0I+D) Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:38 PM (AxFdW) 501
If you think about it, this whole thing has been a Dream Sequence, and I won.
Posted by: Hillary Rodham Tarantino at September 23, 2017 09:39 PM (Ndje9) 502
I've seen none of these movies and don't ever plan too. It is fascinating though reading everyone's critiques of them.
Reading your thread TJM did motivate me to watch Terminator Genisys and Salvation. Both of which I liked. Going against the grain there, I know. Posted by: the guy across the street at September 23, 2017 09:39 PM (sf2BM) 503
They Died With Their Boots On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:39 PM (gC2IV) 504
Requiem for a Midsummer Night's Dream
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (H5knJ) 505
487 The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Coach is an Asshole
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (gC2IV) Hmmm... Don't think I'm familiar with that second movie. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (gG2l4) 506
Watching Black Hawk Down for the umpteenth time . . . amazing what our boys did there in ridiculously constrained circumstances.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (GsAUU) 507
Stagecoach Carter
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (I11+c) 508
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Eyre
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (I0I+D) 509
The Grapes of Wrath of Kahn
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (Nwg0u) 510
I love that about these.
I know when I write pays that highlight certain movies, I know that people will disagree so I have to hope that I just explain myself well. Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at September 23, 2017 09:34 PM Well, I'm much more inclined to revisit Kill Bill after this analysis and play closer attention to structure. It's a movie that I have mixed feelings about. I wanted to love it, as it has some fantastic bits, but felt it didn't really turn my crank, as a whole movie/s. I rated it good, but kind of disappointing compared to his work up to Jackie Brown. Will go back and see if it was the timing that influenced my feelings about it. Posted by: otho at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (qGuLD) 511
489 I couldn't get through Kill Bill or The Hateful Eight because of all the violence. I just don't get it. I may give Kill Bill another shot after reading this post though.
Posted by: sinalco at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (yODqO) I've seen "Pulp Fiction" and maybe "Reservoir Dogs". I agree with James Lileks that Tarantino is violence porn. I remember a scene in one of those movies where everybody in the room was pointing a gun at someone else's head. That was mildly amusing. Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (sdi6R) 512
What About Bob's Burgers
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (I11+c) 513
I don't need Tarantino's "Manson," if I want to watch a film about Manson I'll pull out my copy of "Manson." http://tinyurl.com/yahzswwm It's weird and twisted enough.
Posted by: geoffb at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (zOpu5) 514
Just got my GOTG 2 blue ray
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 23, 2017 09:33 PM (xJa6I) A rare case where the sequel surpasses the original. I absolutely love this movie. It's fun, original, often poignant, and wonderfully free of an "powerful message." The Lego Batman movie is another thoroughly enjoyable movie. Numerous belly-laughs. But chock-full of characters growing in an organic way. My desire to temporarily separate from the real world is why I love these super happy fun movies, and why I am so deeply committed to watching every episode of MST 3k chronologically. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (T/7Cm) 515
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfen
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (eMKNe) 516
No Country for Old Men in Tights.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (11H2y) 517
Blackhawk Down was bill clinton's Benghazi. Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (IW5NJ) 518
501 If you think about it, this whole thing has been a Dream Sequence, and I won.
Posted by: Hillary Rodham Tarantino at September 23, 2017 09:39 PM (Ndje9) No, there's been a glitch in the Matrix. Posted by: The Prevert Wachowski Bros. at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (gG2l4) 519
505 487 The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Coach is an Asshole
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:35 PM (gC2IV) Hmmm... Don't think I'm familiar with that second movie. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:40 PM (gG2l4) I know! lol I think someone tried to cheat a little. Is that a Red Flag? A Challenge like in Scrabble? A Notre Dame pissed off fan? Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (I0I+D) 520
516 No Country for Old Men in Tights.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (11H2y) Good one. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (gG2l4) 521
South Pacific Rim
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (ghofu) Posted by: Darth Randall at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (6n332) 523
The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Kill For
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (I11+c) 524
Little Big Man On the Moon
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (Nwg0u) 525
521 South Pacific Rim
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (ghofu) There ain't nothing like a jaeger! Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (NWiLs) 526
Cape Fear And Desire
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (Ktewm) 528
520 516 No Country for Old Men in Tights.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (11H2y) Good one. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (gG2l4) --Agreed Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (GsAUU) 529
A very good thriller that has an extended flashback segment is "Return from the Ashes" with Ingrid Thulin, Maximillian Schell, Herbert Lom and Samantha Eggar. It has one of the most chilling opening sequences evah! Great soundtrack too. A failed movie with an impossible to follow flashback sequence is Bogie's "Passage to Marseille". The Casablanca cast can't save it.
A little off topic: I just rewatched Don's Party on Youtube and was surprised at how well it stood up. It would be cool to see an updated version based on a party watching election returns on Nov 8, 2016. Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (y9C7q) 530
The King and I, Robot
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:45 PM (NWiLs) 531
I really shouldn't see the front of the ONT because I will most likely be up by 0430hrs. You get up like that for years its hard not to automatically
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:45 PM (ghofu) Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:45 PM (T/7Cm) 533
thanks, OregonMuse!
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (11H2y) 534
Blackhawk Down was bill clinton's Benghazi.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (IW5NJ) --and the ember for 9/11 Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (GsAUU) 535
Vivi, good one!
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (eMKNe) 536
Legend of the Guardians of the Galaxy Quest
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (o0Pn2) 537
Chariots of Fire in the Sky
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (NWiLs) 538
528 520 516 No Country for Old Men in Tights.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:42 PM (11H2y) Good one. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:43 PM (gG2l4) --Agreed Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:44 PM (GsAUU) Thirded Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:46 PM (T/7Cm) 539
Could try for 6 #2's
Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:47 PM (ghofu) 540
I remember a scene in one of those movies where everybody in the room was pointing a gun at someone else's head. That was mildly amusing.
Posted by: rickl at September 23, 2017 09:41 PM (sdi6R) Reservoir Dogs. Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 23, 2017 09:47 PM (17QyB) 541
The Lion King And I, Claudius
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:47 PM (I11+c) 542
Two other movies that were non-sequencial since they were based on nonsequential books: Slaughterhouse 5 and Catch 22
Posted by: Minuteman at September 23, 2017 09:47 PM (3nBGR) 543
Edge of Tomorrow Never Dies
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:48 PM (NWiLs) 544
1984 Your Eyes Only In America
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:48 PM (eMKNe) 545
Oh, a really effective out of sequence movie is "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." French film and I don't want to spoil...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:48 PM (W+vEI) 546
I wanted to be a Prison Matrix when I grew up.
Posted by: Hillary Rodham Tarantino at September 23, 2017 09:49 PM (Ndje9) 547
A movie I want to see is the 1964 version of "The Killers," directed by Don Siegel.
You won't believe who plays the bad guy. :-) Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:49 PM (eMKNe) 548
Grumpy Old Men in Black
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:49 PM (I0I+D) 549
541 The Lion King And I, Claudius
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:47 PM (I11+c) Nice 3-fer! Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:50 PM (gG2l4) 550
Attack of the Killer Fried Green Tomatoes.
Posted by: the guy across the street at September 23, 2017 09:50 PM (sf2BM) 551
Close Encounters of the Seventh Sign
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:50 PM (T/7Cm) 552
Left Behind the Green Door.
Posted by: davidt at September 23, 2017 09:51 PM (BFYeS) 553
Well then
Men in Black Hawk Down Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2017 09:51 PM (ghofu) 554
Black Hawk Down the movie does not even touch on the absurdity the way BHD the book does.
Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:51 PM (GsAUU) 555
You won't believe who plays the bad guy. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:49 PM (eMKNe Dutch? Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:51 PM (gG2l4) 556
Can't Buy Me Crazy, Stupid Love
Posted by: Lizzy at September 23, 2017 09:52 PM (W+vEI) 557
Planet of the Gorillas in the Mist.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:52 PM (T/7Cm) 558
Vanilla Sky Fall
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:52 PM (gC2IV) 559
Midnight Cowboy in the Garden of Good and Evil
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:52 PM (H5knJ) 560
The Quiet Man on Fire
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 23, 2017 09:52 PM (6n332) 561
Mother, Jugs, and Speed Racer
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:53 PM (gG2l4) 562
OregonMuse, sounds like you saw it :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:53 PM (eMKNe) 563
The Good The Bad And The Ugly Betty
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (eMKNe) 564
Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill Bill
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (NWiLs) 565
Really!? I checked in to get movies and took me five comments to realize youz guyz wer fucking around.
I asked Heidi if we ever watched No Country For Old Men in Tight. LMAO! DUH!!!! Posted by: Coach Cannibal Bobs Long Pork Diet at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (dCikz) 566
First Blood and Chocolate
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (I0I+D) 567
Return of the King of Marvin Gardens
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (gG2l4) 568
Ice Pirates of the Carribean
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 23, 2017 09:55 PM (6n332) 569
Jeebus! Laughing so hard. I could do this all night. I'm the guy who wants to do this bit long after everyone else moves on.
Paint your Wagon Train! Derp! Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 09:55 PM (T/7Cm) 570
562 OregonMuse, sounds like you saw it :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:53 PM (eMKNe) Had an imdb tab open, so I cheated. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:55 PM (gG2l4) 571
Mutiny on The Bounty Hunter
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:55 PM (gC2IV) 572
Beauty and the Beast of War
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:55 PM (I11+c) 573
Grumpy Old Men in Black ...Hawk Down.... And Out In Beverly Hills... Have Eyes... Wide Shut... -ter... Island... of Dr. Moreau! Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:56 PM (IW5NJ) 574
The African Queen Of The Damned
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:56 PM (eMKNe) Posted by: Coach Cannibal Bobs Long Pork Diet at September 23, 2017 09:56 PM (dCikz) 576
564 Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill Bill
Posted by: Insomniac at September 23, 2017 09:54 PM (NWiLs) Another good one. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 09:56 PM (gG2l4) Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:57 PM (GsAUU) 578
Mississippi Burning Bed
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 23, 2017 09:57 PM (eMKNe) 579
I will have a hard time explaining to people on Monday exactly what I did on Saturday night.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (11H2y) 580
Anatomy of a Murder on the Orient Express
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (I0I+D) 581
The Eyes of Laura Mars Attacks Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (IW5NJ) 582
nanook of the north dallas forty
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (AxFdW) 583
579 I will have a hard time explaining to people on Monday exactly what I did on Saturday night.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (11H2y) Posted by: Coach Cannibal Bobs Long Pork Diet at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (dCikz) 584
The Thin Red Line Between Love and Hate
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (H5knJ) 585
NYPD Blue Ruin
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 23, 2017 09:59 PM (I11+c) 586
10,000 Leagues Under The Sea of Love
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 23, 2017 09:59 PM (gC2IV) Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 09:59 PM (I0I+D) 588
ONT
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (TdMsT) 589
584 The Thin Red Line Between Love and Hate
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (H5knJ) As a 3-fer:The Thin Red Line Between Love and Hateful 8. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (gG2l4) 590
One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest from Here To Eternity
Posted by: Coach Cannibal Bobs Long Pork Diet at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (dCikz) 591
577 Fuckin' skinnies.
Hey, let's import them! Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 09:57 PM (GsAUU) YYYYAAAARRGGGH! That is all. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (T/7Cm) 592
The Last Rocky Horror Picture Show
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (11H2y) 593
588 ONT
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at September 23, 2017 10:00 PM (TdMsT) --God is good. All the time. Posted by: logprof at September 23, 2017 10:01 PM (GsAUU) 594
583 579 I will have a hard time explaining to people on Monday exactly what I did on Saturday night.
Posted by: vivi at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (11H2y) Posted by: Coach Cannibal Bobs Long Pork Diet at September 23, 2017 09:58 PM (dCikz) I always just say, oh, you know, worked on my hunny-do list. Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 23, 2017 10:02 PM (T/7Cm) 595
I know it's a poor reflection on me, but I would love to see well done trailers for a lot of these films.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at September 23, 2017 10:03 PM (H5knJ) 596
the thin red line between love and hateful 8 is enough
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 23, 2017 10:03 PM (AxFdW) 597
Vampire's Kiss Me Kate
Posted by: Pandora's Box aka gumdrop gorilla at September 23, 2017 10:04 PM (I0I+D) 598
40 Also everyone: got copies finally of Mulholland Drive and The Conversation, based on all your raves.
Posted by: qdpsteve I thought that movie was horrible. A disjointed mess. With a crappy ending on top. I want my 90+ minutes back, dammit. But I've watched the Kill Bills 3 or 4 times. Good stuff there. Posted by: GnuBreed at September 23, 2017 10:05 PM (0ogQG) 599
How times has Red Dawn of the Dead been posted?
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 23, 2017 10:10 PM (LuKE7) 600
As always, I used to love movies but when the Movie Thread is posted, I am rendered silent.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 23, 2017 10:50 PM (l9m7l) 601
See, from a storytelling point of view, Kill Bill was pretty bad in a lot of ways. Primarily because you never really are invested in any of the characters, especially The Bride. Aside from being a killing machine, she's not really very interesting or sympathetic. Part of that is because Uma is a terrible actress, part of it is because the dialog and behavior of the other characters doesn't match her (they keep treating a rather plain woman as the 'most beautiful woman on earth'). But mostly its because Tarantino is doing a Samurai/Man With No Name style story but with a woman.
What works to make a man interesting and likable doesn't work with a woman. So just swapping out the genders fails in its basic task of making you give a crap how things play out for the character. She was a cardboard cutout, a stand in doing the stunts but irrelevant to the story at large. Even delivering Tarantino's lines she doesn't really resonate at all. And ultimately, Bill is played up as the worst man on earth, but honestly he doesn't come across that way. He comes across as no worse than the people he works with or hires. He's bad, but not so bad that a man comes out of retirement to make the ultimate sword for. And honestly, that entire sequence was pretty much padding. The sword was irrelevant, as much as it was played up. It was just a sword, in the end. No better or worse than any other. Kill Bill was not bad, but it wasn't particularly good either. It was significantly longer than it needed to be - a problem Tarantino has suffered with more every film he makes - and was very full of its self. As Ace would say, it insists upon its self. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2017 10:51 PM (39g3+) 602
Wow. What a wasted movie thread.
Posted by: mnw at September 23, 2017 10:54 PM (XlF/h) 603
The Hateful Eight was his worst movie. They set it up that it would be all strangers and it would be a mystery. Turns out, everyone one each other and everyone at Cabin when they got there were the bad guys.
Posted by: rexbatt at September 23, 2017 11:13 PM (PrdV6) 604
Quentin Tarantino needs an editor very badly, but for a lot of Hollywood directors, the more successful and established they get, the more they think they know best and editors get in the way. A good editor is even more important than a good director, they are the ones that truly build the story. Ignoring them can really hurt your work.
There are only a few directors who can edit their own stuff effectively such as Hitchcock and Scorcese, and they not coincidentally are some of the best directors in existence. Tarantino is entertaining but he is NOT Hitch or Scorcese. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2017 11:33 PM (39g3+) 605
It's a chopper, baby.
Posted by: Fritz at September 23, 2017 11:34 PM (z74gh) 606
Fuck it......
The Searchers..... Greatest Western Ever. Hands down. The other contenders fall short in comparison, (although some come close)...... Magnificent Films transcend......regardless of their pedigree. All the Best Y'all, Y'all deserve it. HBK Posted by: Hillbillyking at September 24, 2017 02:11 AM (toZO/) Processing 0.07, elapsed 0.0779 seconds. |
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