July 23, 2011
— Open Blogger We've all got them. Guilty pleasures, or hidden gems that nobody else seems to have heard of.
Two of mine: The Quiet Earth, an experimental-scientist induced post-apocalyptic bender from the Kiwis. It had one of the most surreal, gut-punch endings I'd seen up to that point, and still strikes a chord today within the context of the movie. If you ever feel like you are all alone, imagine being this guy instead.
And before Peter Jackson hit the sweet spot with LOTR, he tried his hand at muppets. Dirty, dirty muppets. Meet the Feebles (Definitely NSFW):
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Funny Face is one of my alltime faves. Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Plus lots of silliness, great satire of the beatnik era, and fashion! What's not to like?
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 11:38 AM (lSyyU)
OT. Seems I'm screwed again. I bought an extended warranty for my pickup 5 years ago and was told that I would get my money back if I didn't use the warranty. I normally don't buy extended warranties, but this was a no brainer I thought. Well the time has come to collect my money so I do some Internet searching and find the company, Signet Financial Group, has gone belly up. I'm out $1700. FML.
I put this on a dead thread, so reposting here to give a heads up to anyone with a Signet policy.
Posted by: Ronster at July 23, 2011 11:39 AM (lEphK)
Posted by: USA at July 23, 2011 11:39 AM (6Cjut)
Amy Winehouse has joined the choir immortal.
In related news, Camden police report that drug consumption now down 70% in the city.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at July 23, 2011 11:39 AM (FUEui)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 11:40 AM (lSyyU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:41 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 11:43 AM (hbw/z)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 11:44 AM (hbw/z)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:44 AM (UlUS4)
District 9, eh. I would have liked it more without the underlying apartheid, "corporations are evil" message being beaten into my skull, as well as the inane supposition that an alien race with advanced spaceships and weaponry would be completely benign and inert without a "leader".
But the second-half of the film showcasing the bio-suit was pretty cool.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 11:44 AM (c0A3e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:45 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 11:46 AM (GTbGH)
Another one I loved was A Small Circle of Friends, released in 1980. Cast included an unknown actress named Shelly Long, Karen Allen, and Brad Davis. Karen Allen was excellent. It's sort of the anti-Animal House, about a group of kids at Harvard in the 1960s.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (lSyyU)
That's ancient.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Mikeyboss at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (IgpkI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:47 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:48 AM (UlUS4)
The original "Carnival of Souls." "Ms. .45" "Old Boys." "Liquid Sky"
Tiny URL makes a maniac outta me.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 11:49 AM (C7KNt)
But the second-half of the film showcasing the bio-suit was pretty cool.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 03:44 PM (c0A3e)
I saw it more as a commentary on bureaucracy and the welfare state. They had to create this giant bureaucracy to manage these aliens who were dumb welfare bums, and they did a shitty job of it as all bureaucracies do. YMMV.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 11:49 AM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 11:49 AM (c0A3e)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 11:49 AM (hbw/z)
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 11:50 AM (+tzv7)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 11:50 AM (Rwy5G)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 11:51 AM (hbw/z)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 11:51 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:52 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 03:43 PM (hbw/z)
Which prompts an automatic Strange Brew shout-out!
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 11:52 AM (MewYw)
Here is one of the good scenes
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 11:53 AM (M9Ie6)
I saw it more as a commentary on bureaucracy and the welfare state. They had to create this giant bureaucracy to manage these aliens who were dumb welfare bums, and they did a shitty job of it as all bureaucracies do. YMMV.
That view works too, although since the main antagonists of the movie were from a gi-normous multi-national corporation, I can't strictly see District 9 as a treatise on bureaucracy and the welfare state. Blame it on my lack of ability to see past things sometimes.
I knew the movie was going to disagree with me before I saw it, but do you know why I saw it anyway? The GoW3 demo was bundled with District 9 and I, like a bloody idiot, thought I had to see the movie first before I could play the demo.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 11:54 AM (c0A3e)
"The Quiet Earth". Man, I had forgotten about that one.
Another film, from around the same time period. "The Last Wave."
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 11:54 AM (6oDXl)
That sinking feeling.
Another one is Brother From Another Planet.
Posted by: sTevo at July 23, 2011 11:55 AM (VMcEw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 11:55 AM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 11:55 AM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 11:56 AM (MpHql)
Posted by: Huey at July 23, 2011 11:56 AM (Ih9cZ)
Think about it: Who hasn't made a Weekend at Bernie's reference even if they've never seen the movie?
Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 11:56 AM (73tyQ)
Man, that blows.
IIRC, there are companies whose entire business model consists of existing for a brief period of time, sucking in a bunch of customers, then going belly up. I remember hearing the folks at the B-school I used to work at talk about it. I can't remember the examples, but I think it kind of got started by those "available only through this tv offer" places.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 11:57 AM (5H6zj)
I'm about to lose my Moronette card.
My favorite unknown film is a chick flick called Heartland starring Conchata Ferrell and Rip Torn long before he started living the AoS lifestyle. It's set in the early 1900s and it's a true story of a widow and her daughter who move out to Montana to keep house for this dour Scottish rancher. Ferrell and Torn get married in a decidedly unromantic way. Unabashedly Christian, and it shows just how hard life was on the frontier even at the beginning of the 20th century. I saw it with my mom when I was a little girl--probably the first movie she ever took me to.
War for the soft-heartedning: actual killing of a pig for food occurs in the film.
*****
and I am Jack's complete lack of surprise over Amy Winehouse. A pretty good talent who pissed it all away.
Posted by: Palandine at July 23, 2011 11:57 AM (g7D8V)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 11:58 AM (hbw/z)
Don't miss it.
Such a great cast for that one.
Posted by: '80sBaby at July 23, 2011 11:58 AM (o2lIv)
The funniest movie evar.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 11:59 AM (Rwy5G)
Posted by: JEA at July 23, 2011 11:59 AM (9YjWm)
My college roommate was really into Queen in an excessive way. Flash Gordon was the worst. I am scarred for life by that pos.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (5H6zj)
Can't come up with any movies I've never heard of. Sorry.
But speacking of movies, if you liked the honey badger, you like this short clip.
The animal Moron lifestyle. (If it's already been on the ACE site then...move along nothing to see here.)
Search youtube for The intoxicating marula trees of south africa by Randall
Posted by: PugBoo at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (20jXV)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (hbw/z)
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Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 03:58 PM (hbw/z)
I actually saw WaB in the theater but not since. Since I was 16 it obviously was marketed just for me.
But I hang around a lot of people who weren't born in the US and have to explain a lot of cultural references to them. This is a typical one. I don't even try to explain "Who's on First?"
Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:00 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: SlaveDog at July 23, 2011 12:01 PM (PidTa)
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 03:56 PM (MpHql)
Which reminds me of another good movie - The Beast. It's about a Russian tank crew fighting in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:01 PM (s+gVi)
I love that Benecio Del Toro gets shot in the face.
Snatch gets better every time I see it too. So much to love.
The movie is good also.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:01 PM (ECjvn)
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
Also - a truly weird "Liquid Sky" from the early '80's. It has one of the most memerable lines - "I kill with my c**t".
Metropolis - the silent film from the '20's, re-worked with a '80's soundtrack (I don't think it ever got released on DVD). Remeber seeing it at a art house theater when it came out.
I'll go back to lurking now . ..
Posted by: Alan G at July 23, 2011 12:01 PM (YyiCQ)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 03:50 PM (Rwy5G)
Actually, there is one worse. And I mean in depressing worse. It's called "The War Game", a BBC production made in '64. A docudrama about Nuclear War.
The BBC refused to air it.
An hour long, but it is very, very grim.
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 12:01 PM (6oDXl)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (wf7zD)
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 04:00 PM (5H6zj)
Y-not! I love you! But we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!
Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (73tyQ)
Great movie. Probably in my top 20. It kinda flopped, but people forget that Blade Runner kinda flopped when it hit theaters too. Both movies were just ahead of their time.
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: booger at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (9RFH1)
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (kPT11)
I always got a kick out of Killdozer ...a Caterpillar D9 gets possessed and goes after a bunch of oil workers
Outpost is a pretty cool movie about a bunch of mercenaries hired to recover some secret nazi experiments in eastern europe and encounter some undead nazis.
The White Buffalo is a good movie about an indian legend of the white buffalo...has Charles Bronson in it...has some cool ambience.
Posted by: CanaDave at July 23, 2011 12:02 PM (E3RQj)
He's always King Arthur to me.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 12:03 PM (GTbGH)
Speaking of cat women.... The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. A spoof of campy old B movies.
Posted by: Gem at July 23, 2011 12:03 PM (zw+pb)
hmmmm...
Second Hand Lions for an unknown...
Guilty pleasure? The Last Dragon? Streets of Fire? Army of Darkness? so many to choose from...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2011 12:04 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:04 PM (C7KNt)
C-flick martial arts movie featuring as it's headliner, Bolo Yeung. It also had the kid from the second Indiana Jones movie.
Only because I know one of the leads, Eddie Saavedra. Served with him in the Navy. Someone found the movie and played it for the crew. He had to leave the room. After that, no one would stop bothering him about it. Also, no one would pick a fight with him and he became a popular liberty buddy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101509/
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 23, 2011 12:04 PM (xNnAQ)
Roger Moore was so surprisingly good in that movie that this is what I remember rather than the Bond stuff he did.
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:05 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:05 PM (hbw/z)
Others:
Romper Stomper - it's often described as the Aussie Clockwork Orange, starring a young Russell Crowe as the leader of an uber-violent neo-nazi gang that reaps what it sows.
Brazil - A Terry Gilliam nightmare of bureaucracy run amok in the near future.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 23, 2011 12:05 PM (bbJJG)
Frailty: Bill Paxton as a father who claims God has told him to start killing demons and who tries to bring up his sons in the family business. Very well done, Matthew McConnaughy is playing something other than smarmy and it really takes the concept seriously.
The Minus Man: Hmm, I'm noticing these are all very serial killery. Owen Wilson as a serial killer. Low key and a character study of a man who may not have any personality at all.
Does Moron fave Sunshine count? Fantastic up until the last half hour or so when it all goes to hell.
I like Knowing far more than ace does. If nothing else, I appreciate that there's no magical save at the end of the movie. Also, I like that Rose Byrne's character reacts like an actual normal person to much of what's going on.
Them: French horror movie I watched via netflix streaming recently and it freaked me out completely. A very good example of what you don't see being far far worse than what you do. The bit with the girl in the car looking in the rearview mirror and suddenly realizing that there's three eyes reflected is just. Yeah.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 23, 2011 12:05 PM (KoBYE)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (UlUS4)
This movie scared the ever-lovin' snot out of me as a kid. Thanks for the reminder!
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (q2/Jl)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (ECjvn)
Negotiating with God.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (piMMO)
I always preferred the porn re-mix called "I Wanna Handle Your Hole".
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (MpHql)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (yQWNf)
Doug: Chip here does the killin'. I don't like to kill. I'm the brains, eh? Like, we got over five billion dollars in our hideout, only some of the money's marked, eh, so we're not spendin' it. We's just waitin'.
Bald Con: Youse guys like a smoke?
Doug: No, eh? We want our lungs to be pink when they fry us. Hey, we told 'em we didn't want a lawyer. Chip here probably just kill him anyway.
[scoffs] Lawyers are for sucks.
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 12:06 PM (MewYw)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (UlUS4)
You carry your own water. You carry your own water.
and
You pushed that little girl out of a plane!!!!!
Must buy that one.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: Frank G at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (1rPxL)
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 03:57 PM (/gOMq)
LOL.. funny part???? There are SCA Fencing Team Tourneys based on that movie... LOTS of fun...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (NtXW4)
Bolo Yeung movies are all awesome.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 12:07 PM (/gOMq)
#75 re: Brazil -- a friend of mine once gave me a long explication of how Terry Gilliam made a trilogy of Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I've seen all of them and I don't get the connection, but she told me there is some huge metaphysical point to the trilogy.
BTW, Time Bandits is still a genius movie.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 12:08 PM (lSyyU)
I liked it, despite Banderas.
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Yeah, and I confess I liked it because of Banderas. He is smoking hot in that movie.
It's kind of the perfect movie for the hubby and I to watch because we like it for very different reasons.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:08 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:08 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:08 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (G3efN)
Not only for Sting's naked butt (OK, that's one reason), but Denholm Elliot gives a gripping performance of a man struggling with guilt. Great music, too.
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (958TG)
No way, eh! R-r-radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!
Alpha Base, I've discovered a fleshy-headed mutant in Sector 16-B!
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (UlUS4)
I wouldn't call it "unknown" but they didn't push it like they should have. That is one of my favorite Disney movies of modern times.
I'll bet I have watched it 50 times.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 12:09 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: Frank G at July 23, 2011 12:10 PM (1rPxL)
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 12:10 PM (+tzv7)
More depressing than "Threads"? That's hard to imagine. "Threads" makes you want to jump out the nearest window by the time the movie's done, if you can make it that far.
I'll have to look this up.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 12:10 PM (Rwy5G)
Btw, wasn't there a bit of controversy over Threads because it showed British solders shooting resource-hoarders*, as that was seen as a hit on PM Thatcher?
*That isn't necessary a bad thing, as seen in the book One Second After.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 12:10 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:11 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:11 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 04:07 PM
But do they have Bolo Yeung in drag? This one does. And painting walls by breakdancing.
It is awfulicious.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (xNnAQ)
The Incredible Journey -- the original version. It's never on, but I still remember loving that movie as a kid. Any movie with both a Bully and a Meezer in it has to be good.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (wf7zD)
Agree with that completely. Two magnificent actors in their prime.
Posted by: pep at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (6TB1Z)
No way, eh! R-r-radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!
But Vita-Rays (wtf they are) plus super-serum = buffed up and hawt super-soldier.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (c0A3e)
All you can ask for when a kid needs to cope with his new stepbrother and intensely wishes to suck on his momÂ’s breast again.
Posted by: cherry π at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (OhYCU)
I'm assuming everyone has seen the Infernal Affairs movies, far far far far far better than The Departed.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (KoBYE)
Mentioning Bill Murray made me think of his remake of The Razor's Edge. Which I liked but everyone I know hated.
He was a slob. Did you ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food that ended up in his beard and on his clothes. Dogs would gather to watch him eat. I've never understood gluttony, but I hate it. I hated that about you. He enjoyed disgusting people, being disgusting, the thrill of offending people and making them uncomfortable. It was despicable. You will not be missed.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 12:12 PM (GTbGH)
No, the other [DC] Hoover.
You messed up. I caught you in my town. [as Hoover beats down the FBI Agents].
Posted by: Rodney Graves at July 23, 2011 12:13 PM (mKMj1)
Yeah. Based on a Japanese manga. The Koreans kicked it up a notch, though.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 12:13 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:13 PM (hbw/z)
Back off man, they are scientists.
In three years, Vita-Rays will be sold late at night after the Slap-Chop.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:13 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:13 PM (C7KNt)
Lair of the White Worm, from the UK. B-grade horror, but takes itself seriously enough to make it really enjoyable. Well that, and a hot, nude, green chick.
Black Sheep, a New Zealand horror flick that most definitely does not take itself seriously, resulting in some real laugh out loud moments.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 23, 2011 12:14 PM (bbJJG)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:14 PM (s+gVi)
Just trust me on this one. It will become one of your favorites.
Posted by: beedubya at July 23, 2011 12:14 PM (3fyy9)
Hmmmm... new Movie thread Idea???
Post a Movie line? and let others guess the movie it came from????
I'll start...
"Shut up, or I'll put you back in the trunk"
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2011 12:15 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 12:15 PM (r7k7z)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:15 PM (ECjvn)
Pontypool just barely misses but I like it for trying an original take on how the ZA starts.
I actually liked Quarantine better than Rec.
Posted by: alexthechick at July 23, 2011 12:16 PM (KoBYE)
Posted by: kiltedscotsman5 at July 23, 2011 12:17 PM (25KFP)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:17 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (9Lm5R)
"Five young boys in the nude, a police line-up so that you can identify his tallywhacker. Please, please can we call it a "tallywhacker"? Penis is so ppp... penis is so personal."
Mr. ______
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at July 23, 2011 04:17 PM (Lt/Za)
Sorry, not funny....
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (NtXW4)
"Miracle Mile" is a real wrist-slitter...
Got that right. They filmed that in my neck of the woods.
Kind of made it personal.
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (6oDXl)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (r7k7z)
Here is another good Disney movie that didn't get pushed and is relatively unknown - Tall Tale
The Moronettes will like it because it has Patrick Swayze in it. The only drawback is they are only releasing it on DVD in full screen. I have it on video disk in the original wide screen format.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: cherry π at July 23, 2011 04:15 PM (OhYCU)
Hold down the Ctrl key and press + to increase the font size.
Posted by: Tami at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (X6akg)
He's always King Arthur to me.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 04:03 PM (GTbGH)
Ahem:
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again,
oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (hbw/z)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:18 PM (Fr8N6)
http://tinyurl.com/pntob8
There is apparently a show on cable TV now that stole the title but has nothing to do with the original movie.
Also, the producer of "The Quiet Earth" has a nice little winery outside of Sedona, AZ. I had no idea who he was until I saw a framed movie poster and put two and two together. I thought until today I was the only person in North America who had ever seen that movie.
Posted by: mongo78 at July 23, 2011 12:19 PM (bOyN2)
That's "Eraserhead", #151. (I never did get around to seeing it myself.)
Well, you can tell how into it I was. Anyway, if you haven't seen it, don't waste your time.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:19 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: booger at July 23, 2011 12:19 PM (9RFH1)
Ultra low-budget time travel flick. Very realistic look at what would happen if a couple guys at a Silicon Valley start-up invented a time travel machine. Zero special effects. Very confusing. Fun brain puzzle movie trying to unravel the timelines and paradoxes.
Type of movie pretty much only geeky guys like.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 04:17 PM (QcFbt)
Huh? EXCELENT!
Posted by: Theodore Ted Logan, and Bill S. Preston, Esquire at July 23, 2011 12:20 PM (NtXW4)
LOL, My SIL brought that down one Christmas and we watched it. Nice and schmaltzy for Christmas it was.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:20 PM (M9Ie6)
It's the first Amercian movie with Salma Hayek in it. Robert Rodriguez directed it between El Mariachi and Desperado, so it was during his "restrained, good" phase. Plus, it has David Arquette playing a convincing greaser.
It's so obscure, you can't get even get it on NetFlix!
Posted by: wooga at July 23, 2011 12:20 PM (2p0e3)
Also, The Survivors with Walter Mathau and Robin Williams.
Robin had so much potential.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:20 PM (ECjvn)
Whitebread suburban boy (Donovan Leitch, son of Donovan) falls for the working-class queen bee (Jenifer Runyon) of a teen dance party TV show circa 1964. He learns to dance, crashes the show, gets a first date and romantic complications and hijinks ensue.
Great northern soul music, making a futile last stand against the British Invasion. A great turn by Joe Pantoliano as the tv host, a great hommage to legendary Philly DJ Jerry Blavat (who's still spinning platters for his 60ish former teens). Nonstop dancing, and it's all sexy and explosive. The secondary characters are vivid.
Basically, the same movie as Hairspray, if John Waters was straight and didn't hate his characters and his audience.
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (a5ljo)
Posted by: Actual at July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (4TrOJ)
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 23, 2011 04:18 PM (wkjQi)
It is available now on Bluray. Even more claustrophobic
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 12:22 PM (G3efN)
And Saint Jerry Reed. Rest his awesome soul.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:22 PM (ECjvn)
I remember that one. Actually Earl Holliman was the nasty DI, McGavin was the CO
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 12:22 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:22 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Sly Stallone, in Death Race 2000 at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: cherry π at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (OhYCU)
Gallipoli with a then unknown Mel Gibson
Eye of the Needle with Donald Sutherland
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (so1xa)
Oh yeah, this one's great. One of the most radical changes in tone of any movie I've ever seen. Starts out as a sort of light-hearted romantic comedy; morphs into a weird mini-satire of L.A. during the scenes in the diner; ends as.... well.
Great movie.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (FOY9n)
Oh, yes, Dario Argento, although half the time I don't know what the hell's going on.
Had nightmares about "Oldboy."
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (UlUS4)
Great movie that wasn't afraid to buck the "noble savage" bullshit trend in movies.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (ECjvn)
Also, Highly recommend other Korean series of movies that predate the copy, The Departed... " INFernal Affairs " , and yes it is spelled that way... movie one, and then a prequel, and a sequel... that I was shocked really how well the writing was that the three movies blended so well with out any WTF moments.
Posted by: Yip in Texas at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (SyLEU)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 12:23 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:24 PM (caSTB)
Guilty Pleasure - Love Actually - Yeah, I know. It calls my man card into question.
Lesser Known Movie - Big Jake - Best John Wayne movie in my opinion.
Posted by: Kansas Gman at July 23, 2011 12:24 PM (u4a/I)
I saw her in Date With An Angel. Shitty movie, but who the hell cares? Holy crap, what a knockout. She was in Mission Impossible, too, if I recall.
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:24 PM (FC+dS)
#198 Gallipoli, oh my God what a fantastic movie.
Another one in that vein that I love is Breaker Morant.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 23, 2011 04:18 PM (wkjQi)
Below. If you like submarine stories.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (r7k7z)
Posted by: steve at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (S8vZH)
That's one of my faves.
Posted by: Gabby Giffords at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (FOY9n)
Right on, Monty. HDS is one of my fave character actors.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 23, 2011 12:25 PM (bbJJG)
Posted by: Zorro, the Gay Blade at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (Fr8N6)
Caltiki the Immortal Monster and Quartermass and the Pit. Also for good measure, X the Unknown with Dean Jagger.
greyseal
Posted by: greyseal at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (G1RdA)
Yep. That was a bad-ass movie.
Richard Boone was good at playing an evil somebitch like no other.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:26 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Joejm65 at July 23, 2011 12:27 PM (xlcTE)
Rock Hudson has written a well-regarded book on fishing. The secret is Hudson has never been fishing in his life. Along comes Paula Prentiss who corners Hudson into participating in a fishing tournament at her outdoors resort.
Posted by: cherry π at July 23, 2011 12:27 PM (OhYCU)
Right you are! I don't know of any other American film she was in.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 12:27 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:27 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 12:27 PM (r7k7z)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (9Lm5R)
Definitely a guilty pleasure. We watch that frequently. I'm still amazed when it appears on television.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Frankroy at July 23, 2011 04:21 PM (EpcX4)
In my top 10.
Posted by: sTevo at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Frankroy at July 23, 2011 04:21 PM (EpcX4)
Absolutely!! Excellent movie.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:28 PM (Fr8N6)
Here's another relative unknown with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith
Mountain MenMy wife and I love it and I would love to have it on Blu-Ray just for the scenery but that will never happen. It stunk at the box office.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:29 PM (M9Ie6)
Michael Keaton
Christopher Lloyd
Peter Boyle
Awesome acting and very touching in parts.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (hbw/z)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 04:23 PM (so1xa)
Speaking of Donald Sutherland, Kelly's Heroes.
Oddball: Hi, man.
Big Joe: What are you doing?
Oddball: I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
Big Joe: What's happening?
Oddball: Well, the tank's broke and they're trying to fix it.
Big Joe: Well, then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them?
Oddball: [chuckles] I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Big Joe: Christ!
Oddball: Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (MewYw)
Posted by: Joejm65 at July 23, 2011 12:30 PM (xlcTE)
I love the names of all the dons.
Captain Esteban: Caballeros! I believe you all know each other?Don Diego: Don Diego from San Fernando.Don Francisco: Don Francisco from San Jose.Don Fernando: Don Fernando from San Diego.Don Jose: Don Jose from San Bernardino.Luis Obispo: Luis Obispo from Bakersfield.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (5H6zj)
The Intruder - 1962
Incubus - 1966
White Comanche - 1968
Impulse - 1974
The Devils Rain - 1975
The Kingdom of the Spiders - 1977
The Land of No Return - 1978
These are the theatrical releases, his schlocky tv movies of that period are too numerous to list
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (so1xa)
Also 1979-ish. What sounds like a silly premise is an excelelnt suspense movie. The devil visits a small southwestern town in the form of a car that runs down pedestrians. Once the Police come to grips with whats happening, and by whom, they have to do something about it.
I actually just watched that a few weeks ago.
Posted by: booger at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (9RFH1)
Here's an other one. Excalibur. My favorite of the King Arthur movies. Featuring a young and unknown Helen Mirren.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (lSyyU)
"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 04:28 PM (9Lm5R)
So weird to see LA downtown totally empty.
Well, it's still just as empty now, but there are a few more buildings.
Posted by: CAC at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (p2OM6)
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:31 PM (FC+dS)
Yeah, I remember that movie it was pretty good.
Another one Paula Prentiss did that my wife and loved was The Black Marble. That one I have been looking for but it is not available on DVD. (at normal prices)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:32 PM (M9Ie6)
It shocked the hell out of me when I found out that the buff mechanic that the little girl thought was "Thor" near the end of Adventures in Babysitting was Vincent D'Onofrio. I mean that Vincent is much different, size-wise, than the Vincent you see and are familiar with in Full Metal Jacket and L&O: Criminal Intent.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 12:32 PM (c0A3e)
Zorro the Gay Blade has a nice, classic soundtrack. It really makes a difference in elevating the movie from just 100% cheese to a classic.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:32 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:32 PM (hbw/z)
Listening to Frap and Tyler argue was hilarious.
Brian Keith: You can go in dogshit, dingleballs, I've heard about enough out of you!
Iron Belly
Medicine Wolf
Great all-around Western.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:32 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: KellyFromMesquite at July 23, 2011 12:33 PM (26VAZ)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:33 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:33 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 12:33 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 12:34 PM (lSyyU)
Night of the Comet with Catherine Mary Stewart.
I so had the hots for her. Oh God.........
Ditto, she was in that other one that i can't remember the name of , Starsomething
Posted by: booger at July 23, 2011 12:34 PM (9RFH1)
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 04:30 PM (MewYw)
Yup... got one of my all time favorite movie lines...
"You can't kill no Tiger tanks with no Negative Waves, Moriarity!"
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2011 12:34 PM (NtXW4)
So it should be no surprise that Mr. Blow, desperate for gut-punching analogy in defense of Barack Obama's national debt "not a plan", descends to the lowest circle of Clown Hell ( an abode hitherto the sole domain of Tom Friedman), using the Bruce Willis vehicle for his lefteous argument.
"The Great Evil" LINK
Posted by: mrp at July 23, 2011 12:34 PM (HjPtV)
Posted by: motionview at July 23, 2011 12:34 PM (zRbkQ)
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 12:35 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: motionview at July 23, 2011 12:35 PM (zRbkQ)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at July 23, 2011 12:35 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2011 12:35 PM (gTGz3)
So if we are talking about non-mainstream films, I would suggest "Local Hero", and as far as a war film, "Go Tell the Spartans"
Both under the radar, but each very good..
And I agree with "The Beast".
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 12:35 PM (6oDXl)
Not so much a favorite but one from WAAAYYYY out of left field is Lair of the White Wurm with a young Hugh Grant.
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 12:36 PM (MewYw)
Adaptation (R) - Nick Cage plays two brothers, one of which is based on the screenwriter of the movie, Charles Kaufman. Kaufman, the writer of Being John Malkovich, is caught up in an odd set of events revolving around orchids. People either like the film or really hate it. It's one of my top ten.
The Lives of Others (R) - German film about East Germany and the Stasi in the 1980's. The best anti-commie movie. Ever. Deserved winner of the Best Foreign Film 2007. Yes, it's subtitled and if that bothers you, well, you should be fingerpainting or eating dirt and not reading this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 23, 2011 12:37 PM (/9Ezq)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:37 PM (C7KNt)
Night of the Comet was just a way cool zombie flick. Comet dust turns people into zombies.
Surprised no one has mentioned Buckaroo Banzai with Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, and others.
Matango is a creepy horror movie from Japan. Gilligan's Island except not as nice nor are the people. And the only food on the island is a strange type of mushroom.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:37 PM (caSTB)
Yeah I have wondered why it didn't do better. Brian Keith and Heston worked well together in that movie. It was and how Brian Keith wound up. He was one of my favorite actors.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:38 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:38 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: Repo Quoter at July 23, 2011 12:38 PM (QcFbt)
Mario Bava does sci-fi horror. Terrific color and incredible imagery. You can see scenes that 'Alien' ripped off.
Posted by: nickless at July 23, 2011 12:38 PM (MMC8r)
When we was in that Bocaz Coutnry we was assaulted be those tigers! You know what I mean by assaulted?! WE WAS ASSAULTED!!!--Moriarty
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:38 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 12:39 PM (G3efN)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2011 12:39 PM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:39 PM (QcFbt)
I am stunned and amazed nobody has mentioned a particular movie which featured mankind's pinnacle achievement- the horsehead bookend.
Posted by: Mr Dumpkin at July 23, 2011 12:39 PM (p2OM6)
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 12:39 PM (MpHql)
Equilibrium (2002) Dark City (199
solid middle budget sci fi
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 23, 2011 12:40 PM (LBRmV)
Definitely a guilty pleasure. We watch that frequently. I'm still amazed when it appears on television.
From my teen years but haven't seen it since: The Erotic Adventures of Zorro. Really good acting as I recall.
Posted by: pep at July 23, 2011 12:40 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:40 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (Jyt+i)
He also straightens his ass up for the big bridge battle when Carol O'Connor is listening on the radio.
GoTeam! Go!
GET ME MY UNIFOOOOOORRRMMMM!!!!!
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (ECjvn)
Sabrina (the remake) the original is so outdated in it's attitude that I can't enjoy it.
Cool Runnings
Don Juan DeMarco
Meg Ryan rom-coms
Drew Barrymore rom-coms
Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Jane Austen...
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: nickless at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (MMC8r)
It get's better from there. Posted by: motionview at July 23, 2011 04:34 PM
Best Vietnam movie EVER!
"Don't mean nothin' "
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (LBRmV)
I remember Battle Beneath the Earth as one of my favorite childhood Sunday-afternoon features.
My personal obscure guilty pleasure is The Final Countdown, about the USS Nimitz getting sucked into a time warp to December 6th, 1941. Don't know why I dig it so much. Just a pleasant little light-sci-fi flick with no pretensions.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 23, 2011 12:41 PM (M+lbD)
Unsurprisingly, ironically anti-capitalist James Cameron lifted most of it for his version, but without the guffaws.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 23, 2011 12:42 PM (0vDuM)
From IMDB: Just one year after this film came out, as its prints were being destroyed, William Shatner was cast in Star Trek, cinematographer Conrad L. Hall got his first Academy Award nomination, actor Milos Milos murdered the estranged wife of Mickey Rooney and then killed himself, and actress Ann Atmar committed suicide.
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 23, 2011 12:42 PM (a5ljo)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 04:41 PM (ECjvn)
With all these positive waves, how can we loose? I'm in Baby...
Posted by: Oddball at July 23, 2011 12:42 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Joejm65 at July 23, 2011 12:43 PM (xlcTE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:43 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: steve at July 23, 2011 12:43 PM (S8vZH)
Posted by: John F Not Kerry at July 23, 2011 12:43 PM (HF2US)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:43 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:44 PM (QcFbt)
Twin Falls Idaho
I really like movies with unique stories verging on the Off-The-Wall, but these are particular favourites. Somewhat creepy, but on the other hand you know Gushka was a weirdo anyway...
Posted by: Gushka has collywobbles in her stomach at July 23, 2011 12:44 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2011 12:44 PM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:44 PM (C7KNt)
Man, I love the original. Hepburn, Holden, and Bogey. I mean, it's a little awkward how old Bogey is, but still. I haven't seen the remake but I'm irritated every time it's on (and it's not the original).
I hate that -- when the remakes get shown on tv without identification (and usually more frequently than the originals).
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:45 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Placid at July 23, 2011 12:46 PM (CFhHo)
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 03:46 PM (GTbGH)
I loved dark City. Hold your head up high and try the movies i just mentioned. especially The Dark Backward. It has the same gritty graphic novel feel.
Posted by: Gushka has collywobbles in her stomach at July 23, 2011 12:46 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:46 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Repo Quoter at July 23, 2011 12:47 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:47 PM (Fr8N6)
People weren't ready for it when it came out.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:47 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 23, 2011 12:47 PM (0vDuM)
I really enjoyed the first Charlie's Angels movie.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 12:47 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Joejm65 at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (xlcTE)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (LBRmV)
Posted by: Rachel at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (tp9rm)
Posted by: Y-not also knows Kelly's Heroes by heart at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: BK at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (nffrt)
"Streets of Fire"
- great soundtrack with R&B, rockabilly and catchy tunes throughout (including one Meatloaf classic)
- a young Diane Lane, smoldering hot!
- Willem Dafoe as a great villian
- Amy Madigan, Bill Paxton, and Rick Moranis is great supporting roles
- Directed by Walter Hill with great style and edit work.
- and Michael Pare, removing any doubt about his acting ability: NONE
Still, really fun movie with great music.
If you haven't seen it, chek it out.
Posted by: Proudvastrightwingconspirator at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (hyRD4)
We'd be very, very disappointed if youse went an' did dat.
Posted by: United Brotherhood of Six-Foot-Tall Emo Rabbits Local 303 at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 04:39 PM (QcFbt)
that movie is just plain awesome in so many ways its not funny. I still say "Laugh while you can, Monkeyboy!"
Posted by: Gushka has collywobbles in her stomach at July 23, 2011 12:48 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (G3efN)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (hbw/z)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (C7KNt)
Yes! Even Mr. Y-not will watch it. Great dancing.
Also, Calamity Jane. Doris Day is smoking hot in that movie and it has Howard Keel. It's Doris' best movie.
Posted by: Y-not also knows Kelly's Heroes by heart at July 23, 2011 12:49 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 12:50 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 23, 2011 12:50 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at July 23, 2011 12:50 PM (eOXTH)
I'm not sure if this is the least bit obscure or not, but another guilty pleasure is "Long Kiss Goodnight" with Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. And a cast of...everyone. Charlie: "Oh, no, baby, no. You're not going to die. They are. Cover your ears. Hey, should we get a dog?"
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 12:50 PM (MpHql)
Rum went to see the filming of How I Met Your Mother with my wife and got to meet Dr. Emilio Lazardo hisdamnself.
So jealous.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:50 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at July 23, 2011 12:51 PM (LBRmV)
Only unknown to "young" Morons. It was a huge hit in its day and yes Kim Novak is one of the immortal hotties.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:51 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:51 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: Miss South Carolina at July 23, 2011 12:51 PM (mQMnK)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2011 04:35 PM (gTGz3)
That was the worst movie, but I'll never forget the cockroaches.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (UlUS4)
Spaceship (1983) AKA 'the creature wasn't nice' starring patrick mcnee, gerrit graham, cindy williams and leslie neilson. seen it on vhs in the early 80's and remember it being funny.
Trapped (1989) kathleen quilan played a woman trapped alone inside a high-rise office building stalked by a maniac.
Posted by: Q at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (BT1d1)
She is actually quite a good actress but, for some reason, she's one of those people that others love to hate.
Man, I love the original. Hepburn, Holden, and Bogey. I mean, it's a little awkward how old Bogey is, but still. I haven't seen the remake but I'm irritated every time it's on (and it's not the original).
The scene on the tennis court bothers me greatly. When Bogey gets forward with the "all in the family" remark. In the remake, he gets slapped. Funny, it's almost impossible to imagine, but Julia Ormond manages to appear more delicate than Audrey Hepburn. And, at the same time, very tough. A really, really feminine character.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (a5ljo)
Hot Dog The Movie Kratos would give this one a thumbs up if his hands weren't already busy since Ms Shannon Tweed is in it. I prefered Sunny in it though.
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Made when the Damon and Keenan Ivory Wayans were just about to hit big time with In Living Color.
Kingpin Bill Murray as Big Ernie McCracken, it doesn't get any better.
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 12:52 PM (eKuOw)
1 - The Car, a late-70s horror film starring James Brolin. It is basically about a demon-possessed car that goes around killing people. As movies go it's really quite a piece of crap, but that car - a chopped and highly customized early 70s Lincoln - creeps me out to the bone to this very day.
2 - The Gumball Rally, a mid-70s comedy about an illegal coast-to-coast car race. Total awesomeness from beginning to end.
-C
Posted by: cnation at July 23, 2011 12:53 PM (1VeV7)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:53 PM (QcFbt)
Awesome ELO song during the Big Game!
Favorite line:
You just go throw up lunch or whatever it is you do to keep that little ass of yours in business.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:54 PM (ECjvn)
Drew Barrymore: better as a blonde or ginger? To me, she's better as a ginger, but I'm a gingery chick so perhaps I'm biased.
Then watch Creator with Peter O'Toole.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 12:54 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: Connielu at July 23, 2011 12:54 PM (i0aCV)
Oh, one more. Dark Star, John Carpenters first film, about a group of guys who have been in space way, way too long blowing up planets. (Actually, there is a reason they do so).
Their ship is falling apart, they really don't get along with each other, and they have a bomb on board that wants to blow itself up.
Interesting enough, one of the actors is Dan O'Bannion. He went on to write "Alien".
Funny, quirky film if you can find it.
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 12:54 PM (6oDXl)
Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes.
Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes.
Betty Lou-Ah-Ooh-Ah-Ooh-Ah-Ooh
Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 04:53 PM (QcFbt)
Eddie Lives!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 23, 2011 12:55 PM (NtXW4)
Yes Great Movie, also with Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:55 PM (M9Ie6)
I am the Raisuli. You will not laugh at me again.
Posted by: Raisuli at July 23, 2011 12:55 PM (6TB1Z)
Brotherhood of the Wolf. http://tinyurl.com/3o3tq9r. The trailer explains it far better than I can.
Posted by: Shannow at July 23, 2011 12:56 PM (Mldqf)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2011 04:35 PM (gTGz3)
Yes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2011 12:56 PM (4q5tP)
The Wind and the Lion reference made me remember another:
The Ghost in the Darkness is based upon a true story.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 12:56 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 12:56 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Joejm65 at July 23, 2011 12:56 PM (xlcTE)
Rum went to see the filming of How I Met Your Mother with my wife and got to meet Dr. Emilio Lazardo hisdamnself.
So jealous.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 04:50 PM (ECjvn)
I am in an anguish of jealousy. We refer to that movie all the time like some people do to Princess Bride (which i admit i also love)
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 12:57 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 12:57 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: McDirty at July 23, 2011 12:57 PM (O5Bpj)
The movie blew dead goats, but the book it's based on is pretty good. Roger Zelazny wrote it, as I recall; I think they reissued it not long ago.
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 12:57 PM (FC+dS)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 12:57 PM (ECjvn)
Too bad the movie irredeemably sucks without him.
Furthermore, LKG is probably DHS's wet-dream as the terrorists are all white dudes who were going to use a dead Arab to frame "the Arabs" for blowing up Niagara Falls.
Also, they had a bit of the 1st World Trade Center bombing "trutherism" in there as one of the baddies said that one of the bombing co-conspirators swore under oath that he was paid off by the CIA (apologies if I'm wrong, but I think I remember that correctly).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 12:58 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 12:58 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: Richard Henry Lee at July 23, 2011 12:58 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 12:58 PM (caSTB)
"Look Bart, barring a preference we're going to put you on a wrestling picture, Wallace Beery. I say this because they tell me you know the poetry of the streets, so that would rule out westerns, pirate pictures, screwball, Bible, Roman... look, I'm not one of those guys who thinks poetic has got to be fruity. We're together on that aren't we? I mean I'm from New York myself, well, Minsk if you want to go all the way back. Which we won't, if you don't mind and I ain't asking. Now people are going to say to you, Wallace Beery, wrestling, it's a B picture. You tell them: BULLSHIT! We do NOT make B pictures here at Capitol. Let's put a stop to that rumor RIGHT now! "
"I run this dump, and I don't know the technical mumbo-jumbo. Why do I run it? Cause I got horse sense goddamit, SHOWMANSHIP! And also I hope Lou told you this, I am bigger and meaner and louder than any other kike in this town. Did you tell him that Lou? And I don't mean my dick is bigger than yours, it's not a sexual thing. You're a writer, you know more about that. Coffee? "
Posted by: coen bros rule at July 23, 2011 12:58 PM (4nxhP)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 12:59 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Perry 2012 at July 23, 2011 12:59 PM (C42qb)
Posted by: Robin at July 23, 2011 12:59 PM (tOrYh)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 12:59 PM (QcFbt)
Mariel Hemingway in short-shorts and a halfshirt with no bra. I became a man to that movie. Many times.
Posted by: Monty at July 23, 2011 01:00 PM (FC+dS)
Boondocks Saints fan, try this one on:
Lone Hero, with Sean Patrick Flannery plays a "bad guy" at a Wild West cowboy re-enactment, who then turns reluctant hero contra Lou Diamond Phillips' role as an amoral homicidal maniac and his biker-gang cohorts.
Better dialogue than you would ever guess. Solid acting. Zero liberal moralizing. 100% refreshing.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 23, 2011 01:00 PM (bbJJG)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Made when the Damon and Keenan Ivory Wayans were just about to hit big time with In Living Color.
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 04:52 PM (eKuOw)
CLASSIC!
Flyguy: The name of this piece is called, My bitch better have my money, she beetr have my money. Through rain, sleet, or snow,
man's a Shakespeare!
my ho better have my money.
man's a genuis I tell ya! tell it!
Not half, not some, but all my cash. Because if she don't, I'll put my foot dead in her ass.
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 01:00 PM (MewYw)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:00 PM (PlLNQ)
No. And now I must!
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (piMMO)
"Sullivan's Travels" with Veronica Lake. Apparently a Bitch on Wheels in RL, but she's so deliciously vaguely lovely.
Re-Animator! How could I have forgotten that one!
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (C7KNt)
Play Misty For Me - 1971
Same theme as Fatal Attraction, but MUCH better
Honky Tonk Man - 1982
About a country singer with tuberculosis trying to make it during the Depression, heartbreaking ending
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (so1xa)
I read where somebody said the vampires in 30 Days of Darkness were as scary as Count Chocula, but I thought they were pretty damned scary. Enough to wake me up at night.
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (Jyt+i)
"Doctor, you're nothing but a circus sideshow" is now a crushing retort among my friends.
Posted by: Proudvastrightwingconspirator at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (hyRD4)
Great story from colonial African history......crappy movie.
I was sooooo disappointed in that one. Val Kilmer can be a great actor, but sometimes he just phones it in, and this was one of those times.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:01 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:02 PM (M9Ie6)
(1) "Race With The Devil" (1975), starring Warren Oates, Peter Fonda, and Loretta Swit. It's about a satanic cult in Texas that hunts two couples vacationing in an RV after they witness one of their ceremonies involving a human sacrifice. Cheesy but filled with great action sequences and a surprise ending.
Trailer: http://tinyurl.com/56tqg5
The whole movie is posted on YouTube. Here's Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/3zrbrr8
(2) "Damnation Alley" (1977), starring George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Paul Winfield. It's a post-apocalyptic flick that takes place after a nuclear WWIII and Earth is tilted off its axis. The characters played by Peppard, Vincent, et al., travel from California across the country in two Air Force "Landmasters" to find an area safe from the radiation and devastation. During their trip, they face huge tidal waves, flesh-eating cockroaches, mutants, etc.
Trailer: http://tinyurl.com/44q4muv
The whole movie is posted on YouTube. Here's Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/3zkm6yj
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:02 PM (pjbT9)
Play Misty For Me - 1971
Same theme as Fatal Attraction, but MUCH better
Honky Tonk Man - 1982
About a country singer with tuberculosis trying to make it during the Depression, heartbreaking ending
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 05:01 PM (so1xa)
Bronco Billy was in the same vein.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:02 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Get back to where you once belonged at July 23, 2011 01:02 PM (gB/kP)
Captain Blood 1935
This movie made an idol of Errol Flynn, only 26 at the time. Co-stars 19-year-old Olivia de Havilland and Flynn's film nemesis, Basil Rathbone.
Posted by: cherry π at July 23, 2011 01:02 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (G3efN)
I bet you're so surprised. But try it. This movie is a great story and a wonderful morality play
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (QNeKQ)
"Primer"
Blow your little mind, time travel indy film. Try to keep up with this one. I dare you. Everything you need to know is right in front of your eyes. ...but you won't ever know any more than the main character does.
"Avalon" (2001)
If you haven't seen it, you wouldn't understand.
"Predator/Prey"
Low budget, indy sci-fi film. Who's the real bad guy, here? If you want big-budget explosions and special CGI effects, watch "Avatar." If you want to think, watch "Predator/Prey" Starts slow, solid finish.
Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (E7Z1r)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (9Lm5R)
YUP. SLJ was acting in a different movie than they were.
Favorite line:
See those titties coming round the corna! Have time to comb your hair!
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (ECjvn)
I never want to be so "sophisticated" that I appreciate their humor.
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 01:03 PM (+tzv7)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 01:04 PM (q5u/b)
I've watched my copy of the 1995 P and P so many times I don't need to use the disc anymore.
I also recently happened on a Jane Eyre with Toby Stephens which was tres erotic.
Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2011 01:04 PM (FwFBB)
Yes! And as funny as the concept is, it's actually a rather sad and touching movie. Deals very effectively with growing old in a society that only values youth. Campbell's very best non-Ash performance.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:04 PM (FOY9n)
George C Scott, Timothy Hutton
Hutton was the big coming young star at the time on the heels of Ordinary People, but he'd be way eclipsed by two then unknowns at the time in the film, Sean Penn and Tom Cruise
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 01:04 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 23, 2011 04:35 PM (gTGz3)
Missed this on my first pass through the thread. At least I'm not alone. Cheesy flick but definitely a guilty pleasure.
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:04 PM (pjbT9)
Wow. I didn't realize they lifted so much of the cast for The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:05 PM (/gOMq)
George C Scott, Timothy Hutton
Good Movie, they recently had it on one of the movie channels, RETRO I think.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:05 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2011 01:05 PM (FwFBB)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:06 PM (9Lm5R)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:06 PM (UlUS4)
Red Rock West 1992--a Western film noir. Dennis Hopper as "Lyle from Dallas", a hitman for hire. Nicholas Cage as Michael--mistaken for Lyle from Dallas who was being hired to off a straying wife played by Lara Flynn Boyle.
Back in 1992 Lara Flynn Boyle was quite a looker--you could see why she was Jack Nicholson's main squeeze for quite a while. Lots of twists and turns in the plot--good scenery. The score had a lot of good country music in it.
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 23, 2011 01:06 PM (3ESDJ)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:06 PM (ECjvn)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. (194
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy & Melvyn Douglas.
A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
"If you ain't eatin' Wham!, you ain't eatin' ham!"
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2011 01:06 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2011 01:07 PM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:07 PM (M9Ie6)
16 year old dagny dragged her friends to see Taps 3-4 times because 17 year old virgin dagny got seriously hot for the tom cruise character. Didn't know he was like 5'4"
Posted by: dagny at July 23, 2011 01:08 PM (FwFBB)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:08 PM (UlUS4)
I love the Jack Lemmon-Ernie Kovacs scenes in Bell, Book and Candle. Good pairing. Also Kim Novak, another good pairing.
Any love here for They All Laughed with Ben Gazzara and Audrey Hepburn? Colleen Camp turns out to be a fantastic singer!
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 23, 2011 01:08 PM (a5ljo)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (9Lm5R)
Jim Belushi and AHNULD
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2011 05:06 PM (so1xa)
You think parakeet is feminine?
Posted by: Ivan Danko at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (/gOMq)
I never want to be so "sophisticated" that I appreciate their humor.
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 05:03 PM (+tzv7)
I agree completely about Woody Allen but "The Pianist" by Polanski was a great flick.
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (pjbT9)
Posted by: steve at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (S8vZH)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:09 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:10 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 23, 2011 01:10 PM (wkjQi)
And by that LOTR fella, Kate Winslet's first film, Heavenly Creatures, real crime story about 2 teens who....well, rent it.
Posted by: PJ at July 23, 2011 01:10 PM (FlVA8)
Streets of Fire features a climactic showdown duel with pickaxes. Plus Deborah van Valkenburg! And Dave Alvin and the Blasters.
AND Fear singer Lee Ving!
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:10 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (G3efN)
The Jericho Mile. Seventies ABC TV movie with Peter Strauss.
I second (or eighth) Kelly's Heroes. The scene where they prep for the attack on the Tigers is a filmmaking class all by itself.
Posted by: mrobvious at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (G7Jng)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (UlUS4)
introduced me as a tyke to the concept of "my most honoured adversary." Loved that movie ever since.
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 01:11 PM (QcFbt)
All of them except for Take the Money and Run.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:12 PM (FOY9n)
I have it on a VHS tape but I can't stand watching that shitty picture quality anymore.
And yeah, I know its not unknown but I don't understand why Disney hasn't done a release on this in a while or on Blu-Ray. Hell, they reeleased that anti-gun POS Bambi on Blu-Ray.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:12 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:12 PM (9Lm5R)
Picnic at Hanging Rock. 1975 Australian film about three young girls and their teacher who go missing during a school picnic. Not so much about the mystery of "What happened to them?", as about the effect on those left behind. Loaded with subplots and subtext.
Cinema Paradiso. 1988 Italian film about a fatherless young boy in a small village who attaches himself to the crusty projectionist at the local movie theater. The two bond and have unexpected impacts on each other's lives.
The Barbarian Invasions. 2003 French-Canadian drama about a group of friends who rally around one of their own as he is dying of cancer. Includes many potshots at the Canadian socialized health-care system.
Posted by: Book Geek at July 23, 2011 01:12 PM (1+OO5)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 23, 2011 01:12 PM (CWsZV)
Posted by: Lana at July 23, 2011 01:13 PM (MpHql)
Why are you unpopular with the Chicago Police Department?
We still say that when we are trying to annoy each other.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:13 PM (ECjvn)
That is funny.
No, but if it is Woody Allen that is probably why I haven't seen it.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:14 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:14 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: pawn at July 23, 2011 01:14 PM (1Ol6/)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:14 PM (FOY9n)
The last time Val Kilmer was watchable in anything is "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". The plot is a mess, but who cares? It's got some of Shane Black's best one-liners ever.
Not to mention Michelle Monaghan's fine, fine boobies.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 05:09 PM (9Lm5R)
Well, okay, but he's been in quite a few watchable films over his career. Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday in Tombstone is one of my all-time favorite performances.
Unfortunately, he's reached the age (and size - good God!) where having a reputation as a person who's difficult to work with limits his opportunities.
Posted by: Ivan Danko at July 23, 2011 01:15 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2011 01:15 PM (4q5tP)
Flynn's "Robin Hood" is one of the best movies ever.
"Chinatown" is excellent, but even I could have directed a great movie with that cast and that script.
What was that Kim Darby television movie with the creepy little people who were trying to get her?
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 01:15 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:15 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 05:13 PM (ECjvn)
Jack Walsh: "I'll tell you what, if you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from fistophobia."
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:15 PM (pjbT9)
Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2011 01:16 PM (hbw/z)
Six Pack Kenny Rogers NASCARish movie. But it has a very bunkable Erin Grey and a young Diane Lane in it.
Stroker Ace Burt and Loni in NASCAR.
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 01:16 PM (eKuOw)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 01:16 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (kUaEF)
Heh. Have you looked in the sidebar today?
Posted by: Ivan Danko at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (/gOMq)
Based on a Joseph Conrad story, IIRC, and a very good movie, although Carradine was a bit wan for my taste.
@471
Agreed. She looked great in Oceans 13.
@473
Then you must have really liked Walkabout. A young Jenny Agutter going au naturale.
Posted by: pep at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (6TB1Z)
So much going on on that screen and yet it's such a quiet movie.
Wayne is outstanding in The Shootist. Hell, everyone is outstanding in it.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 01:17 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (QNeKQ)
Jack: Yeah. There were one or two I might have given a shot.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (ECjvn)
Ugh. Scarred for life by that one. 'Saw it with some "sophisticated" high school friends. Horrifying.
Marlon Brando has got to be one of the most over-rated actors ever spawned.
Posted by: Y-not also knows Kelly's Heroes by heart at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (c0A3e)
Graham Greene stole the whole movie and I loved it.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 05:11 PM (ECjvn)
For some reason I liked that movie too even though it promulgated the myth that indians are more tuned spiritually to nature than the evil blue-eyed devils.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (s+gVi)
Like Water For Chocolate - odd mexican fantasticaly realism movie (kind of like 100 years of solitude) about a forlorn love that cannot be.
I enjoyed that book and movie...but my husband just sat there going "what the..."
Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2011 01:18 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (G3efN)
I agree. What's funny is Flynn himself was pretty public about his disdain for it later in life.
Posted by: Ivan Danko at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (/gOMq)
Tin Men and Hot Fuzz. Bandits was damn good too.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (xW+Fh)
Posted by: Travis at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (9WkMB)
Howard the Duck is a great film...if you're into duck tits and bestiality.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (c0A3e)
491 CoolCzech. Awesome.
"All you Earth people are stupid!" Then Barry hopped into his flying saucer...
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 01:19 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:20 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:20 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: Marybel at July 23, 2011 01:20 PM (Hic+o)
I remember seeing a flick called The Quest when I was a kid that was pretty cool. It was Australian and had to do with kids who think they've found some sort of lake monster.
Kind of a Goonies type thing on a smaller scale.
Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 01:20 PM (MewYw)
The Man from Snowy River - best horse movie ever made, and I don't even ride.
Return to Snowy River, the sucky sequel, with, you'll never guess, Brian Dennehy!
A Man Called Horse - Richard Harris in a supposedly true story, had a scene in it called the Sun Vow ritual, that was outlawed. Not for the squeamish.
Silent Running - Huey, Dewey and Louie. Early schlock sci-fi, but not too bad.
A Boy and His Dog - starring an almost unrecognizable young Don Johnson.
Probably George Lucas' only really good flick, THX1138. Saw that one when I was 17 and had to sit through it twice just to figure out what the hell was going on.
The Seventh Sign - real apocalypso movie, with a real live Messiah, Jurgen Prochnow. Michael Biene and Demi Moore in her best role.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 01:20 PM (d0Tfm)
The Jericho Mile. Seventies ABC TV movie with Peter Strauss.
Probably my oldest VHS tape. And I would guess with commercials.
Gonna have to dupe that to DVD...
Posted by: HH at July 23, 2011 01:21 PM (6oDXl)
Posted by: nickless at July 23, 2011 01:21 PM (MMC8r)
Two of the best pieces of advice/knowledge on this Earth are in The Shootist.
1. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. Most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They'll blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't.
2. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these thing to other people and I require the same from them.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:21 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:21 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 23, 2011 01:22 PM (/kd4o)
I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: John F Not Kerry at July 23, 2011 05:03 PM (HF2US)
Better than anything that Showtime and Skinemax have on late night today. There is an actual plot, the wimmens look real, and the wimmens is hot. Netflix has it on streaming now, and I may just have to watch it one night after MrsCaniac goes to bed.
Slapshot
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 05:08 PM (PlLNQ)
Not really a movie that people facepalm when you say you like it.
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 01:23 PM (eKuOw)
Purple Rose of Cairo was the last Woody Allen movie I saw and that was under duress (a friend wanted to see it). What a piece of crap.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 01:23 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at July 23, 2011 01:23 PM (/62i9)
Baraka - also not stereotypical Moron material, but breathtaking. This is hands down my favorite thing to watch (okay, besides Beavis and Butthead and The Big Lebowski.)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka - parody of blaxploitation flicks, hilarious, especially the movie reviews bit (we give Dirty Larry THE FINGER)
Get On the Bus - about a buncha dudes taking a bus to the Million Man March. Yeah, a bunch are on the Farrakhan/left plantation, but that's really beside the point. The movie is hilarious. Ossie Davis is great, Andre Braugher is as well. "Smoove." LOL
Shit, I see now someone already mentioned "Sucka." I kinda thought it might not be that obscure. Oh well.
Posted by: Beth at July 23, 2011 01:23 PM (5NfIh)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 01:23 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: mike at July 23, 2011 01:24 PM (BT0/s)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 01:24 PM (QcFbt)
Like Water For Chocolate - odd mexican fantasticaly realism movie (kind of like 100 years of solitude) about a forlorn love that cannot be.
I enjoyed that book and movie...but my husband just sat there going "what the..."
Posted by: Mama AJ at July 23, 2011 05:18 PM (XdlcF)
I really liked it. I think the friend who brought it over stopped about halfway through and turned to my husband and gloated "You know what? Im making you sit through a CHICK FLICK."
ex squirmed. I laughed. It was a really long movie, too.
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:24 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 01:24 PM (5H6zj)
"The Jericho Mile" w/Peter Strauss. Ok, TV Movie of the Week but a great one.
Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at July 23, 2011 05:23 PM (ybA9f)
I remember watching that when it first aired on TV. That's a good one. Co-starring Roger E. Mosley, who played T.C. on "Magnum PI".
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:25 PM (pjbT9)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (9Lm5R)
It's not really obscure, but it is under-rated and quiet.
Makes me feel good.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Democrats at July 23, 2011 05:25 PM (HjPtV)
Hahahahaha. Holy crap, that's a movie that doesn't hold up well outside its era.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 05:24 PM (QcFbt)
My mom will actually still say that to my dad when she wants money for something and he wont give it to her.
there was so much win in that "Better off Dead" Movie. One crazy summer too. Wow. why did he have to grow up to be such a douche?
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 05:11 PM (ECjvn)
"I don't need no radar. I can tell. I just listen to the wind. It said, 'Fifty-nine. Nail him!"
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 23, 2011 01:26 PM (FZZ94)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (QcFbt)
Yeah, I agree with you about Jungle Book.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (5H6zj)
Good one, Travis. I caught it on cable and ended up buying copies for the whole family. Everyone loves it.
Posted by: krakatoa at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (bbJJG)
Posted by: nickless at July 23, 2011 05:21 PM (MMC8r)
Love Lon Chaney. He made some of the weirdest, best movies of the silent era ("The Unknown", "He Who Gets Slapped", "The Unholy Three", many more).
It's a shame Chaney didn't live longer, I'd love to have seen what he might have done in sound pictures beyond the "Unholy Three" remake. On the other hand, the Production Code restrictions imposed a few years later would have made the kind of movies he did impossible anyway.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (ECjvn)
"Across 110th Street", "Superfly", "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"
Three movies which showed all that was great- and god awful- about the 1970's.
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 01:28 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 23, 2011 01:28 PM (FZZ94)
I just watched Hot Fuzz for the first time last weekend. I like it. I had completely forgotten about Tin Men but remember that I did enjoy it.
Why did Cusak have to turn into such a douche in real life?
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:29 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 01:29 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:30 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 23, 2011 01:30 PM (FZZ94)
Sole Survivor, 1970
A WWII bomber ( B-17 ) crashes and every time the crew sets out to find help they end up back at the crashed plane.eventually you find out that they are all ghost and one by one they disappear as their bodies are recovered by a team sent out decades latter to recover the remains led by the only member of the crew who was able to parachute to saftey
Posted by: kj at July 23, 2011 01:30 PM (Hucrc)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at July 23, 2011 01:30 PM (/62i9)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (s+gVi)
I haven't seen it. Duval?
The mention of it reminds me of The Mission. One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. Right alongside Out of Africa for stunning cinematography.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (piMMO)
Cinema Paradiso. 1988 Italian film about a fatherless young boy in a small village who attaches himself to the crusty projectionist at the local movie theater. The two bond and have unexpected impacts on each other's lives.
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THIS ^^^
Posted by: Beth at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (5NfIh)
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (eKuOw)
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (piMMO)
Fuck Alan Parson Project with a rusty halberd for ruining that movie.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (FOY9n)
Other great movies that I could only bear to watch once: The Madness of King George and The Killing Fields. Too intense for me.
Posted by: Y-not at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2011 01:33 PM (9Lm5R)
Yep. Perfect Duval.
Totally in the moment and in the character. As real as it gets.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:33 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 01:34 PM (+tzv7)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 01:34 PM (d0Tfm)
Lane: Sorry, what?
Monique : Uh, how you say... octopus... testicles.
Lane: No, tentacles. N-T. There's a big difference.
Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 01:34 PM (eKuOw)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2011 01:35 PM (I49Jm)
Posted by: Ellen at July 23, 2011 01:36 PM (B1FXc)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (G3efN)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (ECjvn)
Is tha t the same as 8 Million Ways to Die? If so, it is indeed one of my guilty pleasures.
I love Andy Garcia.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (Fr8N6)
Speaking of tissues, Imitation of Life was the first movie that made me shed a tear as a young'un.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 05:29 PM (d0Tfm)
did you know that because of that movie and all the little girls that saw that horse and just had to have it, that now even a bad Fresian (thats the breed) is worth between 15 - 20 grand even if its crooked legged or otherwise horrible? That gorgeous stallion created a market, all on his own, for DECADES.
those little girls grew up, some of them got money, made money, or married money, and they are willing to pay really amazing prices for those horses. Poor husbands.
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:39 PM (QNeKQ)
Hahahahaha. Holy crap, that's a movie that doesn't hold up well outside its era.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 05:26 PM (/gOMq)
The pacing of that movie is enraging. There are a couple of good scenes (basically when Billy Jack beats up the bad guys) but these short action sequences are surrounded by what felt like six hours of hippies singing and performing skits at a local school.
Posted by: Slappy at July 23, 2011 01:40 PM (pjbT9)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:40 PM (Jyt+i)
A shame, 'cause I loved "Better Off Dead".
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:41 PM (FOY9n)
"Theater of Blood" is SO good, yes, and "Abominable Dr. Phibes."
For silents, "Broken Blossoms" is a real, genuine tear-jerker.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 23, 2011 01:41 PM (C7KNt)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at July 23, 2011 01:41 PM (SyLEU)
Not Old Yeller?!
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:42 PM (piMMO)
Bad Taste - Another Jackson gem from his early days. Aliens harvest humans for an intergalactic fast food chain. Or something like that.
Sunshine - Visually amazing science fiction film by Danny Boyle, same guy who made Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire. For reasons that will never be clear to me it flopped.
Posted by: J Foster at July 23, 2011 01:43 PM (7Pld1)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. 1939 drama about Queen Elizabeth I and her court. Inaccurate history, but everything a Hollywood golden age movie should be. High drama, lavish costumes and sets, huge stars (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, etc.), and a devastating, unforgettable ending.
Babette's Feast. 1987 Danish drama about two elderly sisters who have let life pass them by. They take in a mysterious Frenchwoman who has an unforseen impact on the whole village.
Ninotchka. Greta Garbo as a Russian agent in pre-WW2 Paris who falls under the spell of the "decadent" capitalist lifestyle.
Testament. 1983 nuclear drama about a family and small town in northern California suffering from fallout of bombs that hit San Francisco. Includes a young Kevin Costner and Rebecca de Mornay as a young married couple. No politics, just the slow but steady unraveling of a once close-knit community.
Posted by: Book Geek at July 23, 2011 01:43 PM (1+OO5)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:43 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at July 23, 2011 01:43 PM (SyLEU)
Left it in a trunk at my hippie ex-s place the weekend we broke up and miraculously it was gone when I went back to get my stuff.
$1,200 worth of stuff just walked out.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:43 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (QNeKQ)
I wouldn't recommend for anyone with kids to watch that one.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (FOY9n)
Hope and Glory, fantastic movie about being a kid while the bombs are falling all over England in WWII.
Little Big Man, great 70s take on the Indian Wars, with Dustin Hoffman as a scout for Custer.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (lSyyU)
The Way We Were?
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 05:41 PM (piMMO)
We're talking about movies that are obscure, not movies that should have been obscure.
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:45 PM (s+gVi)
586, well Kara we all have have to have our hobbies. But even ones with bad conformity command that? Geez, PT Barnum was so correct.
On the bright side, dont think there was a marked increase in falconry though. though the fools who did go for it probably got some intesresting scars.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 01:45 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at July 23, 2011 05:31 PM (wkjQi)
That's the one with golf-course navigation, right? Great movie.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:46 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:46 PM (ECjvn)
"Villa RIDES!" starring Yul Brynner as Pancho, featuring Charles Bronson as Villa's aide and Robert Mitchum as an American mercenary biplane pilot. Watch for Bronson's classic "You seem to have forgotten your manners!" BLAM! "Now... go outside and die." Also loved "A Boy and his Dog", "Heavy Metal", And the original "The Mechanic" with Bronson and JM Vincent. Oh, and Vincent Price's "An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe" where he does Poe's tales as a series of one acts.
Posted by: sixgunsam at July 23, 2011 01:46 PM (NexyU)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:46 PM (PlLNQ)
Pure cheese. Eat My Dust (1976) starring Ron Howard.
Guy steals 700 hp super stock car to impress girl with joyride.
Part Dukes of Hazzard, part Smokey and the Bandit. It's one long car chase movie 1 year prior to Smokey and the Bandit. Trailer. tinyurlpreview
brb - gotta go pick up daughter from work.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 23, 2011 01:46 PM (4q5tP)
Hope and Glory, fantastic movie about being a kid while the bombs are falling all over England in WWII.
One of my favorites as well.
Posted by: Book Geek at July 23, 2011 01:47 PM (1+OO5)
Taking the bride to see Captain America tonight.
Have a great evening all.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:47 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Kramer at July 23, 2011 01:47 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 01:48 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Patrick at July 23, 2011 01:48 PM (q5u/b)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:49 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: Ellen at July 23, 2011 01:49 PM (B1FXc)
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 01:49 PM (M9Ie6)
all that and a bag of oranges!
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: BK at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (nffrt)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 05:46 PM (PlLNQ)
The guy Breashear used to live not far from were I used to live in KY
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (G3efN)
Dad said it was mostly the speed at which things went to Hell that would strike him.
He said that if things gradually got worse it was easier. The sudden stuff stuck with him.
I imagine anything sudden would be scary when your job is diffusing mines and booby traps.
Posted by: sifty at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:51 PM (Jyt+i)
Posted by: mmgodfrey at July 23, 2011 01:51 PM (uqCum)
I dunno. I kind of like this one.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 01:52 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:52 PM (FOY9n)
Mary Queen of Scots is a great one, with the regal Vanessa Redgrave as Mary and Glenda Jackson as an acid-tongued Elizabeth, and a fantastically evil Patrick McGoohan as Mary's slimy brother James. I recently read John Guy's blockbuster biography of Mary and then watched the movie again, and it is pretty darn close to the truth. That whole story is so great, I would love to see another movie of it. Not sure who could play Mary though.
My favorite medieval-era movie is Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. Includes one of my alltime favorite movie scores, the only one I actually bought on CD and still play occasionally.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 01:53 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 05:50 PM (eQePY)
How about "Ponce De Leon"?
Posted by: George Costanza at July 23, 2011 01:53 PM (pjbT9)
#620, Patrick. Purple Heart wow. While the war raged they made that movie.
Dana Andrews speech before the kangaroo Japanese court is sheer awesome - No your excellency. It's true we Americans don't know very much about you Japanese. And we never did. And now I realize you know even less about us. You can kill us. All of us, or part of us. But if you think that's going to put the fear of god into the United States of America, and stop them from sending other flyers to bomb you, you're wrong. Dead wrong. They'll come by night, they'll come by day. Thousands of them. They'll blacken your skies and burn your cities to the ground and make you get down on your knees and beg for mercy. This is your war. You wanted it. You asked for it. You started it. And now you're going to get it. And it won't be finished until your dirty little empire is wiped off the face of the earth.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 01:53 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 05:50 PM (eQePY)
"Death Blow"?
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at July 23, 2011 01:54 PM (pjbT9)
it has a kind of car chase in it that i cant manage to watch without laughing no matter how many times i see it. Billy Barty really gets it from her too, IIRC
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:54 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 05:51 PM (Jyt+i)
Long Gone. Petersen passed up a chance to be in Platoon to do this. Didn't regret it at all.
Posted by: Book Geek at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (1+OO5)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 05:52 PM (FOY9n)
It does. Too bad the rest of the movie was forgettable.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 05:50 PM (eQePY)
"Sack Lunch"?
Posted by: Elaine Benes at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (pjbT9)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (G3efN)
Posted by: mmgodfrey at July 23, 2011 01:56 PM (uqCum)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 05:53 PM (caSTB)
we dont fight like that any more. but we shoud. it sure would be cheaper. And faster too, now that i think of it.
Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 23, 2011 01:56 PM (QNeKQ)
Posted by: not the droid you seek at July 23, 2011 01:56 PM (xc/va)
2 of mine are: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum....Zero Mostel at his best.
and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World. all the old classic comedians of the era
Posted by: morigu at July 23, 2011 01:57 PM (QXzRP)
You must be right, because I've forgotten the rest of the movie.
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 23, 2011 01:57 PM (FOY9n)
Posted by: mmgodfrey at July 23, 2011 01:58 PM (uqCum)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at July 23, 2011 01:58 PM (h6mPj)
645, exactly. Going back to Machiavelli - "Better to be feared than liked."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 01:59 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 01:59 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 01:59 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 23, 2011 01:59 PM (FZZ94)
Posted by: USS Diversity at July 23, 2011 01:59 PM (Jyt+i)
and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World. all the old classic comedians of the era
Posted by: morigu at July 23, 2011 05:57 PM (QXzRP)
Ahahahahahaa! The first movie I remember splitting a gut over.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 02:01 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 02:01 PM (PlLNQ)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 02:01 PM (QcFbt)
These are guilty pleasures, right? Both mine are comedies:
The Monster Squad - a band of kids have to battle Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, who are trying to take over the world. Duncan Regehr played the best Dracula ever - he even drives a car!
Drop Dead Gorgeous - Small town beauty pageant where the local rich girl's mom (Christie Alley) wants to ensure that her brat wins over humble but talented girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Becky's number for the "talent" section, dancing to Franki Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" with "her very special fella" - it's indescribably funny. She's the president of the Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club - that'll give you a hint.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 23, 2011 02:02 PM (jgkJo)
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 02:02 PM (piMMO)
Not Old Yeller?!
Oddly enough, I've never seen that movie in its entirety. Gotta put that one on the list, too.
And if you liked Two Lane Blacktop for the '55 Chevy James Taylor drove, check out Vanishing Point for the Dodge Challenger w/Hemi. Guilty pleasures, both., but they're really dated and sucky now.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 23, 2011 02:02 PM (d0Tfm)
Well, hell, at least tell me you've seen The Yearling?!
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 02:04 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 02:04 PM (PlLNQ)
I agree with "Freeway." It's really entertaining to see Keifer Sutherland get his ass handed to him by Reese Witherspoon. Nice reimagining of Little Red Ridinghood.
Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at July 23, 2011 02:04 PM (ybA9f)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 06:01 PM (QcFbt)
Agreed.
Posted by: Papa Editor at July 23, 2011 02:04 PM (FZZ94)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 23, 2011 02:04 PM (jgkJo)
Just remembered an Albert Finney movie - Lookers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 23, 2011 02:05 PM (caSTB)
Posted by: Soona at July 23, 2011 02:05 PM (s+gVi)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 05:59 PM (lSyyU)
Memoirs of a Geisha - loved the book, hated the movie
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 02:06 PM (G3efN)
Ah, that's the movie I keep remembering as a Schwarzenegger film but it wasn't in his filmography. I remember that I saw it in the theater, but the only thing could I remembered was the ending.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 02:07 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 02:07 PM (PlLNQ)
Once you mentioned it, I had to go watch the clip again. Yep. Still hilarious.
While over at You tube, I saw this. How in the hell did I not realize that this was Amy Adams?
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 02:08 PM (piMMO)
G.I. Jane? Demi in her most fitness with a prick of an instructor in Viggo Mortensten. Prick in more ways than one. Love it 'cause it was filmed locally, secretly in very familiar places.
Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at July 23, 2011 02:14 PM (ybA9f)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 05:59 PM (lSyyU)
Memoirs of a Geisha - loved the book, hated the movie
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 06:06 PM (G3efN)
Really? I loved both, have seen the movie at least 5 times and still love it every time. Especially because of Gong Li.
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 02:14 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: rockmom at July 23, 2011 02:16 PM (lSyyU)
Posted by: George Washington at July 23, 2011 02:18 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 02:19 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 02:20 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 23, 2011 02:21 PM (jgkJo)
I just can't believe that it never clicked in my head "Hey! That's Amy Adams!"
I even liked her in Enchanted. It was either luck or sheer genius that they cast her in that role because I am convinced that absolutely nobody else could have pulled it off and be so endearing.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 02:27 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: J2 at July 23, 2011 02:27 PM (Odpn0)
The wife made me watch Like Water for Chocolate. Didn't even get laid for doing so. I think I understood it better than she did, since she can be kinda literal.
The Ladyhawke soundtrack was Andrew Powell, NOT Alan Parsons Project. And yes, it was just wrong.
Posted by: joncelli at July 23, 2011 02:29 PM (Nvw83)
Guilty Pleasure- "Galaxy of Terror". Little known fact- James "Aliens" Cameron was a production designer on the film.
Little known movie- "The Ninth Configuration"- Stacy Keach as a Vietnam vet in a psych hospital.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 23, 2011 02:30 PM (O/onO)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 02:32 PM (G3efN)
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 06:27 PM (piMMO)
LOL, that scene with her cleaning the apartment and calling the rats and pigeons had me rolling in the floor.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 02:32 PM (M9Ie6)
686 Lots of my favorites above, didn't see these:
breakdown
Memories of murder
seance on a wet afternoon
night of the hunter
the last of sheila
the new age
junebug
das experiment
surveillance
cafe society
real life
just tell me what you want
Junebug is another one of my favorites. The scene at the church social is the best. So much going on in that scene, even with very little action or dialogue.
Saw Seance on A Wet Afternoon awhile back. Great title, but the movie really didn't do it for me. Expectations probably too high, I think.
Posted by: Book Geek at July 23, 2011 02:37 PM (1+OO5)
Posted by: Ma Bell at July 23, 2011 06:32 PM (G3efN)
Portman is fine as long as she's uttering lines written by somebody more intelligent.
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 02:38 PM (/gOMq)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 02:40 PM (PlLNQ)
Jules: Christmas has always been a special time for me. That's how I got into trouble: I came home unexpectedly and found my wife giving a friend of mine...a present.
Albert: I'm sorry to hear that, Jules.
Jules: Oh, it was my own fault entirely. I should have written and told her I was coming.
Posted by: Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC at July 23, 2011 02:43 PM (Bte6c)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 23, 2011 02:44 PM (I49Jm)
LOL, I would have thought everyone knows I like most of the Disney movies that aren't too far into the PC crap. Especially the ones from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and early 60s.
Posted by: Vic at July 23, 2011 02:45 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 02:48 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: RJ at July 23, 2011 02:53 PM (QjrRF)
Oh, and for guilty pleasure? Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Who knew that Jeanine Garafalo could be funny? Yeah, I know, she is a good actress, but like others it is hard to separate their work from their real life idiocy.
Posted by: John F Not Kerry at July 23, 2011 02:57 PM (HF2US)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 05:50 PM (eQePY)
How about "Ponce De Leon"? Posted by: George Costanza at July 23, 2011 05:53 PM
Prognosis Negative!
Posted by: Elaine Benes at July 23, 2011 03:12 PM (so1xa)
Great Catherine, starring Peter O'Toole and Jeanne Moreau. The revisioning of the battle of Bunker Hill, performed in a swimming-pool-sized bath tub with working cannon, is a personal favorite scene of all time.
Clay Pigeons
Cold Comfort Farm
Black Dynamite
Posted by: megeileen at July 23, 2011 03:12 PM (bbJJG)
Have you ever seen her in Bye Bye Love with Randy Quaid? I'm not sure who rubbed the crazy off on who, but it was funny.
Posted by: As If... at July 23, 2011 03:12 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 23, 2011 05:50 PM (eQePY)
How about "Ponce De Leon"? Posted by: George Costanza at July 23, 2011 05:53 PM
Prognosis Negative!
Posted by: Elaine Benes at July 23, 2011 07:12 PM
Chunnel!
Posted by: George Costanza at July 23, 2011 03:13 PM (so1xa)
Mountain High, with Kevin Bacon ... Meryl Streep ...
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at July 23, 2011 03:14 PM (so1xa)
I Am The Cheese.
IMDB link: http://tinyurl.com/3s4dkto
Also The Grey Fox.
IMDB link: http://tinyurl.com/2ec5n7
Posted by: RickZ at July 23, 2011 03:27 PM (A3+cX)
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 03:49 PM (+tzv7)
You can find a pan-and-scan DVD if you look hard, or prowl eBay.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2011 04:06 PM (/zYUh)
Oh, and a young Nicholas Cage in Vampire's Kiss. That's some good stuff right there.
http://tinyurl.com/qpl867
Posted by: DngrMse at July 23, 2011 04:30 PM (lNn/j)
Also check out:
The Best Man (Cliff Robertson & Henry Fonda)
The Professionals (Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster), one of the best westerns ever!
Seven Days in May (better than the book)
The Arrow (with Dan Ackroyd)
The Bedford Incident
A Christmas Without Snow
Baghdad Cafe
Innocent Blood (Robert Loggia steals this one!)
Posted by: Chris from MI at July 23, 2011 04:32 PM (NxFRZ)
-c
Posted by: cnation at July 23, 2011 04:35 PM (1VeV7)
Posted by: Iowa Jim at July 23, 2011 04:37 PM (Rg0jX)
Return from the Ashes (fantastic thriller with Ingrid Thulin, Max Schell, Samantha Eggar and Herbert Lom)
What's Up Tiger Lily (sort of like MST3K before it existed)
Posted by: Chris from MI at July 23, 2011 04:42 PM (NxFRZ)
My guilty pleasure is a somewhat less sophisticated Who's Harry Crumb? RIP John Candy.
Posted by: rcpjr at July 23, 2011 04:45 PM (1YgC/)
Posted by: Dianne at July 23, 2011 04:53 PM (+tzv7)
Lifeforce - 1985; spaceship hidden in nucleus of Halley's Comet contains 2 male and 1 female vampire.
Oh and any movei with the legendary Bobbie Phillips in it
Posted by: Carlson at July 23, 2011 05:07 PM (7U2lm)
Posted by: Valentine Smith at July 23, 2011 05:22 PM (KYpgE)
Posted by: Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Dominion Audiobook at July 23, 2011 05:25 PM (3y6Pp)
Posted by: NateV at July 23, 2011 05:28 PM (8dkGd)
Posted by: Melon at July 23, 2011 05:28 PM (DZxkz)
Posted by: Nighthawk at July 23, 2011 05:41 PM (PlLNQ)
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Posted by: ManeiNeko at July 23, 2011 08:30 PM (TiE76)
Price of Survival - a 1980 Franco-German production that defies description. It's ostensibly the story of a workplace shooting at a small Midwestern office (made at a time when going postal was still a rarity) and the wider corporate conspiracy that emerges once it's investigated by a crusading French journalist, but that tells you nothing about the phantasmagorical acid trip that is this film. It was filmed on location in Missouri and made extensive use of locals for casting, with no apparent regard for the language barrier between them and the film crew. Plus, no one on the production side appeared to have even the slightest idea about American culture, or to have troubled to do even the most basic research, with the result that everything that shows up on screen has the nightmare quality of being instantly recognizable and completely, utterly, insanely unfamiliar at one and the same time - like their version of a demolition derby (which the producers believe is a regular event across the States with the built-in popularity of the NFL and the NCAA combined), which is a combination of NASCAR and rodeo, with elements of Death Race 2000 thrown in. Oh, and they allowed everyone to improvise at will. It's a deadly-serious Euro effort with pretensions towards art that I recall wowed the Brits I was watching it with back in 1990, but left any American viewer wondering if Ed Wood was still in the business.
Posted by: A. Pendragon at July 23, 2011 08:32 PM (XDdB5)
Posted by: ManeiNeko at July 23, 2011 08:48 PM (TiE76)
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
Posted by: jules at July 23, 2011 08:48 PM (W97xc)
Motorama: A kind of surreal movie about a little kid who steals or a buy's a car(can't remember which) and goes around the country collecting tickets for an outdated lottery game. I just remember seeing this in the early 90's and thinking it was pretty cool.
Posted by: torchestorome at July 23, 2011 09:20 PM (eb0gS)
Some oldies but goodies which are truly obscure, but excellent nonetheless:
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade --bizarre staging of this odd French revolutionary tale, uses paints of different colors poured into buckets to separate scenes.
Medium Cool--Haskell Wexler does Chicago 1968---the uncut version was best.
Charge of the Light Brigade(1968 version) --Trevor Howard and John Gielgud mock the British officer class; complete with animated politcal cartoons
If--Malcolm McDowell in a boys' school revolt.
A Thousand Clowns--Jason Robards and Martin Balsam in a terrific serio-comedy about a man raising his nephew, despite the best efforts of social workers.
Posted by: earl t at July 23, 2011 09:20 PM (L8Kly)
Based on the poster art and the cast (the not-very-fond of America Gyllenhaals), I didn't think it was going to be my cup of tea. As you may or may not recall, the theatrical release was right around 9/11, so it kinda got lost in the geo-political shuffle..
At the time I was working at 99X, a heritage alternative radio station in Atlanta, producing the morning show. I was pulling a weekend air shift, and we were giving away copies of the DVD. I think I said something to the effect of it looks like a slasher film about a killer rabbit or whatever.
More than a few young people called me on the request line and made compelling arguments that it was worth a viewing. Examinations of time travel, God in schools, and Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko) as an allegory for Christ.
You can call that pretentious or whatever, but I found it well-executed and interesting.
Shit, Patrick Swayze as self-help guru later discovered to be into kiddie porn? Balls.
Posted by: Mister Christopher at July 23, 2011 09:24 PM (cjGZv)
Primer.
Monsters.
Dog Soldiers.
Fresh, a film that made Siskel & Ebert's top ten lists, but most people have never heard of it.
Posted by: Lawrence Person at July 23, 2011 10:00 PM (eRpHv)
http://tinyurl.com/LPDarko
Posted by: Lawrence Person at July 23, 2011 10:07 PM (eRpHv)
Synopsis: Space alien rapes hot chick on distant outpost. She gets super strong and able to breathe toxic atmosphere. Goes whacko and kills most of the rest of the crew in awful ways. Bears twin thingys that do the rest of the crew.
Best cheap British horror evah. As good as Alien, and I do think Sir Ripley ripped it off. Saw it in a hotel room with a pint of Jim Beam, scared me too hard to sleep.
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Posted by: Former Lurker at July 24, 2011 05:47 AM (fIZvG)
http://tinyurl.com/coafrl
The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan, they being a repressive regime especially for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work. This situation is especially difficult for one family consisting solely of three women representing three successive generations. All the males in their family have died in various Afghani wars. The mother had been working as a nurse in a hospital, but regardless of she not being allowed to work, the Taliban has cut off funding to the hospital. The mother and grandmother make what they feel is the only decision they can to survive: they will have the preteen daughter masquerade as a boy so that she can get a job to support the family.
Don't watch alone. Bring tissues. Seriously. Then imagine what our troops are up against over in AFG...
Wolf
Posted by: Mr Wolf, non-Esquire at July 24, 2011 07:22 AM (KYnGQ)
The Duellists This early Ridley Scott movie is a real looker, and follows a running series of duels between two wildly divergent officers of Napoleanic France (Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine). A story of obsession and the constant intersessions of fate.
Dead Man Displaced gunman becomes legendary gunfighter in Jim Jarmusch's brilliant black and white Zen-western. Vignette pacing and Neil Young's soundtrack contibute mightily. Stars a young Johnny Depp, but features cameos by Gabriel Byrne, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, more more more. Robert Mitchum's last movie. Lance Henrikkson's "Cole Ford" one of the greatest villians ever.
Posted by: -Shawn- at July 24, 2011 08:52 AM (AsK9e)
Posted by: Rich Rostrom at July 24, 2011 02:16 PM (436mJ)
Cohen and Tate. 1989, starring Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin. I only saw it once, but I still remember much of it vividly. Not sure if it's been released on DVD yet......
Posted by: djm1992 at July 24, 2011 04:12 PM (1o4B5)
A bunch of teenagers a little too old to be playing "army" are playing anyway and stumble into the backyard of a gangster (Anthony Quinn) ... who thinks he's being kidnapped for ransom. The kids go along with it as a game at first and then decide to play it seriously for the cash.
However Quinn's wife and business partners ALL refuse to pay the ransom, telling the kidnappers they can keep him or kill him. The kids then confess it was just a game and tell him he can go.
Quinn however is pissed. He forces his wife and partners to pay up.... and then - when he and kids have collected all the cash:
Well, you have to watch it to find out.
Not to be confused in any way with that POS of the same title from 2008
There was a Diana Ross song from the movie. "One day you're up - and then you're down.....
Here's a link to watch it in 6 parts on Youtube.
Stay with it through the first one... it gets better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKF5YrjqzQ
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