February 26, 2012

Academy Awards Thread
— Dave in Texas

Because none of us gives a rats ass about them, and in fact it will irritate you all that I even put up a post about it.

All that hate's gonna burn you up kid.

What's your favorite movie and why? Like I care. It's your favorite movie, not my favorite movie. Besides you have to classify them in genres and stuff, like "dramas" or "cartoons". If you just have one favorite movie you're a window-licker and nobody needs to hear you talk about it.

I'd tell you mine but I don't even like movies. Cept for Patton, or Dr. Strangelove. I liked those. I kinda liked Star Wars when Han shot first.

That's about it I guess. Oh, the chicks will want to talk about what the women are wearing. Go for it. Be catty.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 03:55 PM | Comments (521)
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1 First? That's not even a movie.

Posted by: VRWC Agent at February 26, 2012 03:39 PM (JXaAZ)

2
Fuck Hollywood and all the perverts, ass nibblers, and liberals.  Sorry for the duplication.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 26, 2012 03:39 PM (TkGkA)

3 "Act of Valor" #1 at the box office. Suck on that Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Robert Redford, Brian DePalma and Matt Damon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2012 03:39 PM (Af3Wg)

4 Godfather should get Best Picture again just cuz it kicks the shit out of anything those lib Hollywood twits can come up with these days.

Posted by: Jack Bauer's Dad at February 26, 2012 03:40 PM (VuZKK)

5 Debbie Does Dallas.....nuf said...

Posted by: Elvis/Nixon 2012 at February 26, 2012 03:40 PM (6K81O)

6 Anal Adventures #24

Posted by: My Sharia Moor at February 26, 2012 03:40 PM (PET8M)

7 I love hot pussy.

I know that is a "liberal" thing.  Fuck it. 

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 03:40 PM (z0HdK)

8 Posted by: Elvis/Nixon 2012 at February 26, 2012 07:40 PM (6K81O) "Beverly Thrillbillies" "Do the White Thing" "A Queer and Pleasant Stranger"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2012 03:41 PM (Af3Wg)

9 Thanks, Dave.

I was going to put up an Academy Awards thread myself but went with something actually relevant three minutes ahead of you.

*Give Dave the stinkeye*

Posted by: Andy at February 26, 2012 03:42 PM (XG+Mn)

10 Oh yeah, almost forgot, "Porn on the 4th of July" and "Flash Pants"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2012 03:42 PM (Af3Wg)

11 Some of my all time favorites:

LotR: Return of the King
300
The Dark Knight

and one most people should see, but probably haven't (its not an action flick)

A Distant Thunder
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472072/

Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2012 03:43 PM (3aXbg)

12 Yeah, Hollywood. The last time I paid for a movie was in 1995 I think.

Posted by: Cast Iron at February 26, 2012 03:44 PM (EL+OC)

13
Let me say this for the lurking liberals and pantywaists who despise the military.

My favorite movie was one I stared in where we compatriots fired WP into a Vietnamese village and burned it to the ground.  Oh yeah, we also sent a big round of whoop-ass to the idiots who fired on us.   No apologies, just a steady diet of death from the sky. 

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 26, 2012 03:44 PM (TkGkA)

14 There used to be a porn theatre on 42nd Street (how odd does that sound, "used to be") that showed the same 3 films: Wet Nurses, Hot Sluts and Horny Teenagers Every month they just swapped out the adjectives: Hot Nurses, Horny Sluts and Wet Teenagers. This went on for about 20 years.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2012 03:44 PM (Af3Wg)

15

I like the new Borgia series on netflix by the guys from the wire. Liked it better than the Jeremy Irons version. Oh.. movies you see at the thee-ater. No, don't bother now that the kids have grown. I don't remember when I last went to one. TV shows are still pretty awesome, movies - meh.

I like Patton, too. Let's just give it another award for still being awesome.

Posted by: mister brickhouse at February 26, 2012 03:45 PM (GOmR6)

16

Movies would be good if they weren't all made in Hollywood by pedophile lefties who fill them with propoganda and want to end you and your way of life and turn your kids into their sex slaves.

So... fuck them all.

Posted by: Truman North at February 26, 2012 03:45 PM (I2LwF)

17 First?  Woot?

Posted by: Ohiogal at February 26, 2012 03:45 PM (SAYgH)

18 I know that is a "liberal" thing. Fuck it.


Not when I do it.

Okay favorite movies.  Number one is Some Like It Hot.  Marilyn in those dresses is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.  This is followed by Pulp Fiction, The Thin Man, Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled, Leon, The Incredibles, Die Hard, The Princess Bride and Dark City.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at February 26, 2012 03:48 PM (Gk3SS)

19 Mr. Sefton..please.. your choices are, to put it politely, the "Roger Corman" versions of porn. Taking "mainstream Films" and then turning them into Porn versions are like Puns...The lowest form of Wit. "Debbie Does Dallas" was an original themed movie that had a plot, casting, sets and yes, use of actual film with first class cinematography. Next thing you will be telling me is that "free" Youporn is superior to Ace's favorite site. "Brazzers". I fart in your general direction....

Posted by: Elvis/Nixon 2012 at February 26, 2012 03:48 PM (6K81O)

20 What Academy is this again?

Posted by: toby928© Perrykrishna at February 26, 2012 03:57 PM (GTbGH)

21 Twitter gave you away, DiT. I know you're waiting for someone's boobeh to pop out of her dress! ;-)

Posted by: Y-not at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (5H6zj)

22 Groundhog Day
The Shawshank Redemption
Godfather I
Godfather II
Braveheart
Animal House
The Gladiator

Posted by: Cicero at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (yQwq5)

23

It won't burn us up if we let it out.  Like a Relief Valve.  So fuck the Oscars and those Hollywood fuck ups.  I'm sure we'll get a post tonight or tomorrow about the pretentious self indulgent speech Clooney gives.  See I feel better already.

Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (GULKT)

24 "All that hate's gonna burn you up kid."

Keeps me warm, Dave...keeps me warm...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (1Z2kw)

25 Posted by: Elvis/Nixon 2012 at February 26, 2012 07:48 PM (6K81O) "Debbie Does Dallas" was filmed at my alma mater, Brooklyn College whilst I was in my 2nd year of my 16 year Bachelor's degree. And I wave my privates at your auntie.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (Af3Wg)

26

>> Twitter gave you away, DiT. I know you're waiting for someone's boobeh to pop out of her dress! ;-)

 

Yeah, that would be awful.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at February 26, 2012 03:58 PM (PjVdx)

27 Fuck the OscarsÑnothing more than a circle-jerk for a bunch of narcissistic, Che-loving, child-rapist defending hypocrites who get paid (too much) to lie for a living. YMMVÑbut then you're probably gay. ;-)

Posted by: goozer at February 26, 2012 03:59 PM (vQcKN)

28 I was going to post, but then decided not too since I'm so irritated that we have a thread on this to begin with.. lol

Seriously though, am I the only one that sees the Academy Awards as nothing more than a self-aggrandizing yank fest?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 03:59 PM (R5yLq)

29 Ya know, with all the porn references for movies, it's kind of .....medieval.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at February 26, 2012 04:01 PM (RFeQD)

30 My list of favorite movies includes Kelly's Heroes, Sense and Sensibility, Apollo 13, My Cousin Vinny, and Zorro the Gay Blade. Kind of a weird list, I admit.

Posted by: Y-not at February 26, 2012 04:01 PM (5H6zj)

31

Kill Bill.

Posted by: just another dave at February 26, 2012 04:02 PM (DZFOc)

32 I love that one where the guy eats 50 Eggs.

Posted by: eThib at February 26, 2012 04:02 PM (NzeCY)

33 Favourite movie? A few movies get replayed a lot in the basement of the Bayt al-Hobo: Serenity, The Watchmen, Animal House, Alien and Aliens as one movie, Batman: Dark Knight, Aladdin, Shrek, Grandma's Boy, Super Troopers, Fellowship Of The Ring alongside The Two Towers as one movie.

From that list it's looking like the first 2/3 of LotR is going to take home the prize.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:02 PM (QTHTd)

34 Slapshot.
A Fish Called Wanda.
Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels.
The Italian Job.
Princess Bride.
Patton.
See line above.
See line above line above.

Posted by: Al at February 26, 2012 04:02 PM (MzQOZ)

35 @33 That's "Cool Hand Luke", and you can add it to my list.

Posted by: Al at February 26, 2012 04:03 PM (MzQOZ)

36
The Academy Awards ballroom is filled with pedophiles, socialists, narcissists, Marxists, fags, lipstick lesbians, and sociopaths.  Why didn't Barky attend?  He would feel right at home with his people.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 26, 2012 04:03 PM (TkGkA)

37
I haven't seen any of these flicks.  My wife made me fill out a ballot anyway.  I just guessed which ones sounded most liberal and checked that box.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 04:05 PM (r+9M6)

38 "The Freshman" starring Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, and a monitor lizard (playing a Komodo dragon).

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 26, 2012 04:05 PM (0xqzf)

39
What, no one has the balls to suggest Nerds, Revenge of the Nerds, or Porky's?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 26, 2012 04:05 PM (TkGkA)

40

Favorite movies?

"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"

"Fort Apache"

"The Searchers"

"They Were Expendable"

 

Yeah, they all got John Wayne in them as a star.  Not like that phony nihilist pushy bastard Eastwood - that guy thinks Detroit is coming back.  And some of these were made before your PARENTS were born.

 

So yeah, get the fuck off my lawn. 

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at February 26, 2012 04:06 PM (RFeQD)

41 "Fuck Hollywood and all the perverts, ass nibblers, and liberals. " Which is exactly why I am watching "Cupcake Wars" on Foodnetwork. The theme for the cupcakes:Screamfest These cupcake bakers have more balls than all those Hollywood pussies. And in the past they've used BACON.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2012 04:06 PM (M2+A9)

42 Just wow. DiT, Insults in four of five paragraphs. Is that the way they talk to the morons over there at Teh Hostages? Did you get rained out at Daytona today too?

Posted by: how can I explain personal pain at February 26, 2012 04:06 PM (0TdUk)

43 I've seen all of the nominated films.

The only film that has any merit is the Artist.


Posted by: McLovin at February 26, 2012 04:06 PM (l14aH)

44 Support Your Local Sheriff It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World I'm partial to the Lord of the Rings movies as well.

Posted by: JohnTant at February 26, 2012 04:07 PM (ApEvc)

45 HollyWood is doomed.It won't be long before your home PC can generate any kind of movie you want. You: Come up with a movie for me. PC: What sort? You: Scifi with spaceships and a story about galactic empires and war. PC: The usual tits and ass? You: Yeah, but make the characters interesting, and add some complexity. PC: What kind of ending? You: Um, happy, I guess, but leave room for a sequel and don't make it totally happy. PC: Ok, it's ready. Do you want to watch it now? You: After dinner, in my room. I'll tell you when to start it. PC: Got it.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 04:08 PM (dFcKO)

46 Asked @ Daytona if he follows NASCAR Romney said: "Not as closely as some..but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners" via Jeff Emanuel's twitter feed *facepalm*

Posted by: Y-not at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (5H6zj)

47
Some posters are probably prone to violence.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (TkGkA)

48 Shaving Ryan's Privates.

Posted by: Mr Fever Head at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (SzAZ7)

49

 

300.

Posted by: just another dave at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (DZFOc)

50

Cupcake bakers?

 

That's what these sissies in Hollywood are now.  Cupcake bakers.

 

Quentin Tarantino? Alleged "tough guy"?  He's a cupcake baker.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (RFeQD)

51 Favorite Movies.. hmm..

African Queen (No, it's not about a gay black guy, you pervs..)
True Grit - the original, not the remake
The Bells of St. Mary - Bing Crosby at his finest, bar none..
The Outlaw Josie Wales

As to anything more modern, well, not so much to choose from there, but probably:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy - my youngest still refers to this as the "talking tree movie" - she loved that part as a child.

Firefly - really enjoyed the TV show as well - nothing better than a good action flick that can make fun of itself.



Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (R5yLq)

52 Mulholland Drive.

Followed by Godfather 1 & 2, Fargo, Dr. Strangelove, LOTR series, Raising Arizona, Groundhog Day, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window, Psycho... lots more I can't think of right now.

But Mulholland rules them all.



Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (kbh0n)

53 I love hot women!   Like real women who are liberal and think and feel  ---  not SoCon Stepford bitches...

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 04:09 PM (z0HdK)

54 .It won't be long before your home PC can generate any kind of movie you want.

I'm reasonably certain that's what they tried to do with Skyline. 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at February 26, 2012 04:10 PM (Gk3SS)

55 I just finished watching a french film "Empire Of The Wolves" Jean Reno is in it and anything he is in I watch. Even though it's sub titled it was excellent. Watched it on Hulu plus. Worth the time, you can't figure out where its going. As for the as bag awards not watching. All Crystal is gonna do is pound on the GOp, no thanks I'll pass.

Posted by: mpfs at February 26, 2012 04:10 PM (An37c)

56 48 Shaving Ryan's Privates. Posted by: Mr Fever Head at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (SzAZ7) Jeri Ryan's?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:10 PM (niZvt)

57

To Hell with HOLLY-wood

 

That stinking cess pit we call HOLLYwood

 

I wouldn't watch it if you paid me big

 

Wore a wig

 

Or offered me a spit-ted pigggggggggg

 

etc.

 

 

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 04:10 PM (Usk3+)

58 Braveheart Gladiator Miracle Star Wars(the prequels don't exist)

Posted by: Big T Party at February 26, 2012 04:11 PM (hC5jI)

59 I forgot to include the first "Matrix" as belonging to the list (and, on the theme of coupling it with a sequel: "Animatrix". THE OTHER SEQUELS WERE JUST BAD DREAMS).

Last year! Oh, last year. What a shit year for movies. "Tucker and Dale vs Evil" was, I kid you not, the best of them. Since it's not in the Oscar running, forget it.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:11 PM (QTHTd)

60 I love hot women! Like real women who are liberal and think and feel

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (z0HdK)

 

So, you're a virgin.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 04:11 PM (Usk3+)

61 I didn't even know this was on tonight.

Posted by: basket case nation at February 26, 2012 04:12 PM (kqbIK)

62

"Pork Chop Hill".   There's a man's movie.

 

There aren't any cupcake bakers in that movie.  Even Gregory Peck, who was something of a lefty isn't as big a cupcake baker as Matt Damon.

 

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.  A couple of cupcake bakers.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at February 26, 2012 04:12 PM (RFeQD)

63 Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line? How does that work out over the long haul? Ever had problems with it? We're thinking of "cutting the cord," but I'm worried about things like calling a bank and having to work my thru a dial tone menu, etc.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:12 PM (niZvt)

64
Just as Dum Dum, Clarence initiates sexual response by performed fellatio on his girlfriend?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 26, 2012 04:12 PM (TkGkA)

65 Isn't Brian Dennehy up for a life-time achievement award this year?

Posted by: toby928© Perrykrishna at February 26, 2012 04:12 PM (GTbGH)

66 I can see why Cons/GOP hate America after this bunga-bunga bullshit.

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 04:13 PM (z0HdK)

67 Can we haz trollhammer 4 clarenz nao? At this point he's morphed into raykon. He'll be sockpuppeting morons next.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:13 PM (QTHTd)

68 I prefer the Razzies to the Oscars. besides the Oscars are an Obama commercial.

Posted by: Avi at February 26, 2012 04:13 PM (iSFyV)

69 I love hot women! Like real women who are liberal and think and feel
Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (z0HdK)

So, you're a virgin.
Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 08:11 PM (Usk3+)

Hmm.. either than or a Lesbian, one or the other.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:13 PM (R5yLq)

70 @65: I thought David Caruso was finally going to get his long overdue Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in Rambo?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:13 PM (niZvt)

71 George Cloony can't act and plays the same role each movie

Posted by: Avi at February 26, 2012 04:14 PM (iSFyV)

72 Wait....DiT tweets!?  That just doesn't seem right somehow.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 04:14 PM (X6akg)

73 Oprah is getting the Humanitarian Award. Gak.

Posted by: mpfs at February 26, 2012 04:14 PM (An37c)

74 Jeri Ryan's? Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:10 PM (niZvt) You bet!

Posted by: Mr Fever Head at February 26, 2012 04:14 PM (SzAZ7)

75 The only way I'm watching the Oscars is if they start voting people out of the Academy.  One every fifteen minutes, and it has to be someone who is actually there so they can send them out of the auditorium.

Posted by: Percival at February 26, 2012 04:15 PM (N8zbH)

76 Favorite movie? Tough call. I pick 'The Dirty Dozen" partly for the movie itself and partly for memories of seeing it at the drive-in with my Dad. Thousands of years ago, it seems.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 04:15 PM (dFcKO)

77

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:12 PM (niZvt)

 

Got rid of it about 4 years ago. Two cell phones, one for me, one for the War Department.

 

No problems.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 04:15 PM (Usk3+)

78
I would still bone Sandra Bullock.  Just sayin

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 04:15 PM (r+9M6)

79 I know people who got rid of their landline 10 years ago. I'm thinking of doing so myself since I don't need a fax machine anymore and I hate phone calls.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 04:16 PM (AsqOS)

80 "I can see why Cons/GOP hate America after this bunga-bunga bullshit."
Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:13 PM (z0HdK)

I hate America?  Huh.. news to me.  Guess it was probably pretty silly of me to volunteer for Military service and risk my ass on foreign soil defending your right to express your opinion, regardless of how ignorant or outright retarded it might be.

Hmm.. Clarence, seriously buddy, doesn't it ever get tiresome being so "tolerant" of others?  rotfl...

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:16 PM (R5yLq)

81 Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line? How does that work out over the long haul? Ever had problems with it? We're thinking of "cutting the cord," but I'm worried about things like calling a bank and having to work my thru a dial tone menu, etc. Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:12 PM (niZvt) Haven't had a land line in years. Have not noticed a problem.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 04:17 PM (dFcKO)

82 @63 CoolCzech,

We've been home-phone-less for a decade. No complaints. Well, one: The little ones eventually aren't-so-little and have a valid reason for saying "Hey, I'd like a phone, too."

Posted by: Al at February 26, 2012 04:17 PM (MzQOZ)

83 You Can't Take it With You, Frank Capra, 1938.



Libertarians inadvertently blow things up and piss off the IRS.  Makes me smile.  And it's got Jimmy Stewart.

Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 04:17 PM (P6QsQ)

84

I love hot women! Like real women who are liberal and think and feel
Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (z0HdK)

 

Liberal hot women? They usually have so much plastic in them they think they can feel something

Posted by: Ma Bell at February 26, 2012 04:17 PM (uVuwp)

85 I haven't been to a movie theatre in 3 years or so. Am I missing anything?

Posted by: some dolt at February 26, 2012 04:18 PM (+kznc)

86 Clarence, How can you type and suck Obama's cock at the same time? Those are some mad skills ya got there.

Posted by: mpfs at February 26, 2012 04:18 PM (An37c)

87 I love hot women! Like real women who are liberal and think and feel

Rachel Maddow?
Janine Garofalo?
Rosie O'Donnell?
Whoopie Goldberg?
Elena Kagan?
Janet Napolitano?
Helen Thomas?

Real women, with hair in the armpits and everything.  Take your pick, douchebag.

Posted by: Cicero at February 26, 2012 04:18 PM (yQwq5)

88 I enjoyed Hamburger Hill, Godfather I & II, Master and Commander, Gladiator, and oddly enough Castaway.

Posted by: Mr Fever Head at February 26, 2012 04:18 PM (SzAZ7)

89 Here's the largest gathering of the "1%-ers" if there ever was one. Where is OccupyHollywood or OccupyAcademyAwards? Oh right - as long as you spout liberal platitudes and make your mega-millions producing anti-American values drivel, you're immune from criticism by the OWSers.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 26, 2012 04:18 PM (UR5vq)

90 Jonah Hill's date is his mom.

Posted by: I am the walrus, goo goo ga joo at February 26, 2012 04:19 PM (4sQwu)

91 Like real women who are liberal and think and feel

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (z0HdK)



One of these things is not like the other....one of these things just doesn't belong.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 04:19 PM (X6akg)

92 "I haven't been to a movie theatre in 3 years or so. Am I missing anything?
Posted by: some dolt at February 26, 2012 08:18 PM (+kznc)"

Just the part where your feet stick to the floor, and paying $60+ for a couple of buckets of popcorn and a soda.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:19 PM (R5yLq)

93 the best part of the oscars already happened.  sasha baron cohen dressed as the dictator dumped an urn full of fake kim jong il ashes on ryan seacrest.  he was pissed, cracked me up.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 04:20 PM (r+9M6)

94

I can see why Cons/GOP hate America after this bunga-bunga bullshit.


 

Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:13 PM (z0HdK)

Weak AND Lame. If you are spoofing Clarence, please stop or practice up. If you are Clarence, try to get funnier. Otherwise I'm not even going to bother to mock you.

 

Dave in Texas is prescient. From the top: "All that hate is going to burn you up, kid."

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 04:20 PM (Usk3+)

95 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the best move of all time.  Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, the underrated and very handsome Tim Holt, written and directed by the great John Huston.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 04:20 PM (fIuC0)

96 I'd rather watch "Resident Evil" (which is on SyFy right now) than the Academy Awards.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 26, 2012 04:21 PM (UR5vq)

97 Best western: "Unforgiven". Even if it was the first step Eastwood took on his journey into becoming the self-hating bitter old man he is today, it's still excellent.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:21 PM (QTHTd)

98 huerfano: Sierra Madre still has in it about the most tense scene I've witnessed. "Badges? We ain't got no *badges*..."

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:22 PM (QTHTd)

99 And now it seems I've forgotten to mention "Blazing Saddles" and "Spaceballs". And "UHF".

WE DON' NEED NO STINKIN BADGERS

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:23 PM (QTHTd)

100 95The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the best move of all time. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, the underrated and very handsome Tim Holt, written and directed by the great John Huston.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 08:20 PM (fIuC0)

 

Great reminder, I'm going to watch that again soon.

 

Thanks

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 04:24 PM (Usk3+)

101 Best scene?  Fred C. Dobbs accusing Curtin of stealing his gold and thinking about sticking his hand under the rock where Curtin saw a Gila monster. 

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 04:24 PM (fIuC0)

102

All time fav movies?

 

Philadelphia Story and Airplane.

 

No, no I do not want to know what that says about me.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 04:25 PM (XdlcF)

103

No mention of Boondock Saints yet?

For comedies: Big Trouble.

 

Posted by: barbed-wire fence fixer at February 26, 2012 04:25 PM (hs2m1)

104 WE DON' NEED NO STINKIN BADGERS the Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Posted by: Avi at February 26, 2012 04:25 PM (iSFyV)

105 Star Trek (new one) The King's Speech The Princess Bride All of the Toy Story movies Both new Sherlock Holmes movies (Robert Downey Jr.) 2001 Superman Batman Begins Firefox The Undefeated (Palin) Without A Clue The Blind Side

Posted by: MathMom at February 26, 2012 04:26 PM (JGVrO)

106 Loved Bridesmaids. But comedies don't do well. And I will probably never see any of the others.

Posted by: Marybel at February 26, 2012 04:27 PM (QGwv0)

107 "All that hate's gonna burn you up kid." It keep me warm.

Posted by: wte9 at February 26, 2012 04:27 PM (OYaaT)

108 "All that hate's gonna burn you up kid."




Without it, I'd have nothing.....

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 04:28 PM (X6akg)

109

war movie: Hamburger Hill

sci-fi:  Empire Strikes Back

comedy:  Blazing Saddles or Anchorman

drama:  Shawshank Redemption

documentary:  Restrepo

horror: 28 Days Later

animated:  Jungle Book

 

 

 

Posted by: retCavSGT at February 26, 2012 04:28 PM (4yQ5E)

110 barbed-wire fence fixer (henceforth bwff for short) I love the Saints, both movies.

Posted by: kinlaw at February 26, 2012 04:28 PM (eVj2o)

111


I'll never get over Sierra Madre.

 

Or was that Macho Grande?

 

Whatever.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at February 26, 2012 04:28 PM (RFeQD)

112 "The Committments". about a bunch of Black Irish kids set out to start an R&B band. Fookin' Mustang Sally! Oh, and John Wayne's "The Quiet Man" on a Sunday afternoon makes for a happy family round here; the boys love the cross country fight scene.

Posted by: middleagedhousewife at February 26, 2012 04:29 PM (2FR7y)

113 "The Devil Wears Prada" is my vote for "movie I liked best which I'm most ashamed to admit".

Man card revoked.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:29 PM (QTHTd)

114 "This Ain't Human Centipede: A XXX Parody"

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at February 26, 2012 04:30 PM (n/g2M)

115

Beaches.

 

 

HAH I'm kidding.. The Princess Bride was pretty good.  I liked Goodfellas too.

See how deep I am with this whole movie thing?

Posted by: Dave in Texas at February 26, 2012 04:30 PM (PjVdx)

116 82 @63 CoolCzech, We've been home-phone-less for a decade. No complaints. Well, one: The little ones eventually aren't-so-little and have a valid reason for saying "Hey, I'd like a phone, too." Posted by: Al at February 26, 2012 08:17 PM (MzQOZ) Yeah... Our not so little one basically necessitated our getting Net connected smartphones and the monthly cell phone bill just went up $70: we're wondering if continuing to pay $35 per month for a landline really makes sense.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:30 PM (niZvt)

117 Deer Hunter

F**king A

Posted by: Frank at February 26, 2012 04:30 PM (M1Pi1)

118 The Commitments is one of my faves.  The music was (eventually) terrific.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 04:32 PM (fIuC0)

119 Jeebus, our Afghan "allies" have to date killed 4 of our soldiers in Afghanistan. Can we just lop off all their nuts and evacuate that muzzie craphole?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:32 PM (niZvt)

120 The Safe House with D. Washington was terrible. They could've cut half the movie and still reached the ending.

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at February 26, 2012 04:32 PM (/pIUa)

121 Casablanca 48 Hours Terminator Trading Places Wild Things Road Warrior Gladiator Enter the Dragon The Great Escape

Posted by: nikkolai at February 26, 2012 04:33 PM (pSsN0)

122 Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory...the original...none finer,  Gran Torino...goes to show there are America Loving Imports among us, and old vets still have some fight in 'em, Secretariat...Diane Lane is smoking hot, and the narrative is cool...Big Red American Juggernaut defeats all comers, The Kings Speech...the dude couldn't recite Jack N Jill, but he inspired the dimwitted Brits to stand up to the Krauts, and finally...The Hangover...every Man's wet dream, and the inevitable consequences...cheers!

Posted by: CO Defender at February 26, 2012 04:33 PM (hPhCB)

123 Oh, a list! Gladly: Team America, Seabiscuit, Blazing Saddles, Horrible Bosses, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Bridesmaids. That's just the immediate ones.

Posted by: Marybel at February 26, 2012 04:33 PM (QGwv0)

124

>>"The Committments". about a bunch of Black Irish kids set out to start an R&B band. Fookin' Mustang Sally! Oh, and John Wayne's "The Quiet Man" on a Sunday afternoon makes for a happy family round here; the boys love the cross country fight scene.

 

Yeh, that was a great one. And TQM is my husband's all time favorite.

 

And now I need to go ask him the name of that movie, the one with that guy and those other people...

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 04:34 PM (XdlcF)

125 Yeah... Our not so little one basically necessitated our getting Net connected smartphones and the monthly cell phone bill just went up $70: we're wondering if continuing to pay $35 per month for a landline really makes sense.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:30 PM (niZvt)



The only drawback I can see is 911 calls.   Made from your land line, the address is automatically shown....no so from a cellphone.  


For me, half my family is overseas right now....no way I'm paying for those calls from my cellphone.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 04:34 PM (X6akg)

126 Oh yeah...one more that will never be repeated...BLAZING SADDLES!

Posted by: CO Defender at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (hPhCB)

127 Oh and any of the Trinity Trilogy. "They Call Me Trinity". great spaghetti western, great cast and the whole family loves it. Specially the one with the farting baby, Windy Feel free to jump in and say you've seen these and add how great they are. Anybody ?? I'm feelin lonely...

Posted by: middleagedhousewife at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (2FR7y)

128 Is that the dress you're going to wear, Cool Czech?

Posted by: andycanuck at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (6RnvM)

129

I like to tell people my favorite movie is Octopussy.

It's not, but that's what I tell them.

Posted by: F. Lee at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (xBxqE)

130

Liberals always say we have to be "tolerant", when what they really  WANT is  unquestioning acceptance and accommodation.

 

Here's what I have to say to them:

 

"Tolerance" means we agree to disagree, and as long as you don't shove your agenda in my face/down my throat, we'll get along just fine.

 

You start telling me that I HAVE to accept your lifestyle choices and/or make accommodations for your peccadilloes means that we are going to be in conflict.

 

Tolerance is a two-way street.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (0xqzf)

131 Trllogy of comedy classics: Animal House, Blazing Saddles and Caddy Shack.

Posted by: nikkolai at February 26, 2012 04:35 PM (pSsN0)

132 Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Seven Samurai, and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Posted by: Sgt. York at February 26, 2012 04:36 PM (NsuAS)

133 Unforgiven wouldn't even make my top 10 list of westerns.  I would sum the movie up as follows:

Wah wah were poor and we need money.  I used to be a bad guy but I'm reformed.  Now I raise pigs and talk about what a bad guy I used to be.

Look at how enlightened I am now though, my best friend is black and married to a native american.  Gosh, I' so enlightened.

But I have to go kill this guy.  Wah Wah.  Don't want to, but need the money. 

Long moralistic hand wringing

2 minutes of action

More long moralistic hand wringing

2 more minutes of action

Again, long period of moralistic hand wringing - followed by a few more minutes of action in which everyone gets shot...

Everyone but the two guys who deserve it the most, the sissy loudmouth writer W.W. Beauchump - and the sniveling cowardly deputy, the two guys I really wanted to see take a bullet live.

Wah wah, more hand wringing, the end.

Ughh.. pass.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:36 PM (R5yLq)

134 We've been home-phone-less for a decade. No complaints. Well, one: The little ones eventually aren't-so-little and have a valid reason for saying "Hey, I'd like a phone, too."

Couldn't you get one as a "home phone"?  It'd be no different than a cordless, except that you can use it as a cell phone when necessary.

Posted by: Alex at February 26, 2012 04:36 PM (XzxB+)

135 The Prince of Tides, Yentl, and The Mirror Has Two Noses Faces. For the diehard Barbara afficionado with prominent moobs.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:37 PM (niZvt)

136 Oh damn...of course The Hangover and Animal House. And Christmas Vacation.

Posted by: Marybel at February 26, 2012 04:37 PM (QGwv0)

137 "Trllogy of comedy classics: Animal House, Blazing Saddles and Caddy Shack."

I'd agree on the first two, Caddy shack though.. uhh.. not so much.  I used to think it was really funny, watched it again recently and realized, wow, this movie actually kind of sucks.  It really doesn't make much sense at all.  Sure the groundskeeper is still funny.. but the rest.. eh, not so much.

Monty Python's Holy Grail.. now that's still funny.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:37 PM (R5yLq)

138 Casablanca
---
I saw that movie last month, I dont know why it's famous. I thought it sucked hard with a dry plot and characters

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at February 26, 2012 04:38 PM (/pIUa)

139 Never would've guessed you rolled that way, CoolCzech. NTTATWWT.

Posted by: nikkolai at February 26, 2012 04:38 PM (pSsN0)

140 Don't you guys understand that Jeri Ryan is the reason that we have the SCOAMF in the White House!!

Posted by: Jack Ryan at February 26, 2012 04:39 PM (+LqxL)

141 I can't believe I forgot to remember "Ghostbusters". That's one for the ages.

Also the "South Park" movie for "best musical, evar". Every time I walk down a main street in almost any town here, I'm always singing to myself "people stop to say hello - GET OUTTA MY WAY - even though the temperature's low".

"Road Warrior" was also good, even if "Thunderdome" was the quotable one. ("Thunderdome" should have been a TV miniseries with more short stories. As a movie it failed.)

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:39 PM (QTHTd)

142 Hudsucker Proxy.
Dr. Strangelove.
The Great Race.
Wrath of Khan.

Posted by: TH at February 26, 2012 04:39 PM (g9xCo)

143 Glad to see that Groundhog Day has wide appeal within the Moron horde at least.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 26, 2012 04:41 PM (i3+c5)

144 "For me, half my family is overseas right now....no way I'm paying for those calls from my cellphone." Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 08:34 PM (X6akg) Sprint offers an International calling plan for an extra $4 a month... My wife calls Korea all the time. I have family near Prague and Paris, so it matters to me, too.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:41 PM (niZvt)

145 Okay favorite movies. Number one is Some Like It Hot. Marilyn in those dresses is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. This is followed by Pulp Fiction, The Thin Man, Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled, Leon, The Incredibles, Die Hard, The Princess Bride and Dark City.


*****

I love, love, love How to Marry a Millionaire: Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marylin Monroe. Monroe was funny as hell and drop-dead gorgeous.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2012 04:41 PM (piMMO)

146 Fiddler on the Roof The Thin Man Series Random Harvest How To Steal A Million Casablanca The Adventures of Robin Hood Goodbye, Mr. Chips The Philadelphia Story The Great Escape LOTR North and South (BBC) The King's Speech

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 04:41 PM (d6QMz)

147 I only watch Bollywood movies these days. Not as self-centered, self-congratulatory and self-important as Hollywood crap.

Posted by: Anneke at February 26, 2012 04:42 PM (KtjGd)

148 "Caddy shack though.. uhh.. not so much. I used to think it was really funny, watched it again recently and realized, wow, this movie actually kind of sucks."

I agree; that and the "Princess Bride" aren't quite as good as people remember them. "Ghostbusters" and "Aliens" I've been able to watch again; not "Caddyshack" or TPB.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:42 PM (QTHTd)

149 You've gotta be kidding! I just looked up an image to link here and see that they are remaking HTMAM with Nicole Kidman in the lead.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2012 04:43 PM (piMMO)

150 You love me, you really love me!

Posted by: John Edwards-Reille at February 26, 2012 04:43 PM (1ZF7c)

151 Gwyneth Paltrow?

Yup, giant tampon

tiny.cc/u56hs

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 26, 2012 04:43 PM (bK7is)

152

>>We're thinking of "cutting the cord," but I'm worried about things like calling a bank and having to work my thru a dial tone menu, etc.

 

I haven't, for a couple reasons. One is that I like knowing that it will work when the power is out, the cell towers are down, etc. etc. (and yes, I have two old fashioned phones that work without power).

 

I also don't like holding my cell phone for long conversations and don't find the quality as good as the land line, even with a new phone. Instapundit linked a device that holds your cell phone and lets you use one or more handsets around the house. 

 

And I have had the same cell phone number for 10 years, so it's a diff. area code and I'd probably want to make it a local number if it was our "home" number.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 04:43 PM (XdlcF)

153 I killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille.

Posted by: The Waco Kid at February 26, 2012 04:44 PM (PjVdx)

154 The Postman....much better than Waterworld.

Posted by: USS Diversity at February 26, 2012 04:44 PM (0s0CT)

155 The Terminator Old Boy (do not watch with children nearby) Thirst Ichi

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 04:44 PM (dFcKO)

156
Sprint offers an International calling plan for an extra $4 a month... My wife calls Korea all the time. I have family near Prague and Paris, so it matters to me, too.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:41 PM (niZvt)



You can call anywhere you want overseas and talk as long as you want for only an extra $4 a month?!  That's it?



I'll have to check but I don't think Verizon has that.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 04:44 PM (X6akg)

157 "Groundhog Day has wide appeal within the Moron horde at least"

Yeah, it's good. Jonah Goldberg pimped that movie for years at The Corner. Kathryn Lopez's movie was "Deuce Bigalow", as I recall, which had its moments, but I wouldn't rate it as high as "Grandma's Boy".

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:44 PM (QTHTd)

158

In keeping with an idea possibly originated by H. Allen Smith in a little book called Rhubarb, I would like to suggest some changes to the show format. 

 

First, booby-trap the aisle, and turn out the lights when the winner has to walk to the stage.  Put the traps at different levels so that some of them are actually booby traps. 

 

Second, insert small amounts of explosives into random statuettes.

 

Third, electric shocks for the host every time a joke falls flat.

 

Fourth, you know how they use random pretty people to fill seats so that the hall never looks less than full?  Give some of them rabid Rottweilers and then dare anyone to try to cross in front of the seat-filler to pick up an award.

 

Fifth, for anyone who is afraid of the Rotties, toss the award to them.  Whoever catches it gets it, complete with his own name engraved for whatever the real winner did.

 

You get the idea.

Posted by: Tonestaple at February 26, 2012 04:45 PM (i8XsD)

159 Should add Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Henry V (1989).

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 04:45 PM (d6QMz)

160 Hollywood is still making movies? I hadn't noticed.

Posted by: Rusty Bill at February 26, 2012 04:45 PM (B0fvr)

161 "I agree; that and the "Princess Bride" aren't quite as good as people remember them. "Ghostbusters" and "Aliens" I've been able to watch again; not "Caddyshack" or TPB."

Princess Bride is still a guilty pleasure, I must admit - probably because I'm old enough that I remember all of those fairy tale stories that it pokes fun at, and I have to give serious props to Andre the Giant.  I had been a fan for years, I remember meeting him as a kid.  To see him act in a movie in which he really more or less played himself.. well, hard to beat for me.

"You mean you put down your rock and I put down my sword and we try and kill each other like civilized people?"

"It's not my fault that I'm the biggest and the strongest, I don't even exercise"..

Lol..

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:46 PM (R5yLq)

162 MASH My favorite movie is MASH. I love it. Hilarious. Tied for second is Young Frankenstein, The Princess Bride. My favorite non-comedy is Moon. Watch it. Do yourself a favor. It's really good.

Posted by: Dave C. at February 26, 2012 04:46 PM (rgXdB)

163 111 barbed-wire fence fixer (henceforth bwff for short) I love the Saints, both movies.

Posted by: kinlaw at February 26, 2012 08:28 PM (eVj2o)

Believe it or not I haven't seen the second one. Sequels are so often dissapointing, I was almost afraid to go see it. I'll have to watch it now.

Posted by: barbed-wire fence fixer at February 26, 2012 04:46 PM (hs2m1)

164 I know it's not a movie, but Lonesome Dove rocked. Capt. Call, Agustus McCray, Deets, Blue Duck et al. Epic. I cried both times I read the book.

Posted by: nikkolai at February 26, 2012 04:46 PM (pSsN0)

165 So Hugo wins the first 2.  Is that about Hugo Boss?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 04:47 PM (r+9M6)

166 "Groundhog Day has wide appeal within the Moron horde at least"

****

It's one of those magnet films that draws me in every time I see it on the channel listing.

Should I ever scroll through and see The Godfather (I or II), Groundhog Day, Aliens, and Clueless all playing at the same time, my head would surely explode for trying to decide between them.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2012 04:47 PM (piMMO)

167 Miss80s

I had to go watch Sense and Sensibility on netflicks a couple of days ago just because Garrett kept making vagina South Park references and that was the only way to counteract it. Like taking a mental bath.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 04:47 PM (u50z0)

168

Wouldn't pay a dime to see the totally stupid trash they make today.  Last movie I paid to see:  Jurasic Park.  The last movie I wanted to see in the theater was Passion of the Christ but I never made it.

 

One of the best movies ever made:  Gladiator.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 04:47 PM (8DdAv)

169 "The Postman....much better than Waterworld."

Heh. But yes, "The Postman" was underrated. It was overlong, but underrated, still. If someone had EDITED Kevin Costner's story, it would have been better remembered.

I have a soft spot for "Cutthroat Island", on the subject of massive Hollywood fail. Somehow I managed to see it in the two weeks before the studio yanked it. I still think it's better than all those stupid CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW money-rakers.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 04:48 PM (QTHTd)

170 Is it over yet?

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 04:48 PM (AsqOS)

171

Yes, 166, when Hugo Boss was designing those snappy black uniforms for the SS.

 

Posted by: Tonestaple at February 26, 2012 04:48 PM (i8XsD)

172 The voters probably thought it was a movie about Hugo Chavez, signed up!

Posted by: Private Hudson at February 26, 2012 04:49 PM (QTHTd)

173 You can have a liberal woman, or a woman who thinks.
You can't have both.

Someone's probably already said this by now, since my favorite movies (Debbie Does Dallas, Shaving Ryan's Privates, and Anal Adventures #24) have already been listed. Missing are Asswoman in Wonderland, Virtual Pleasure Ranch, and Scottish Loveknot.
That's some quality film-making right there in THAT list, buckaroos.
Actually, there's quite a few euro-dominated Private titles that are entertaining -- so our Porn Industrial mavens in San Bernadino (or where-ever) need to step up their game to keep our American porn the best in the world. We need to eliminate the bimbo-gap between us and Europe!

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 04:50 PM (jqHOY)

174

63 Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line?

How does that work out over the long haul? Ever had problems with it?

We're thinking of "cutting the cord," but I'm worried about things like calling a bank and having to work my thru a dial tone menu, etc.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:12 PM (niZvt)

 

______________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ____________

 

Yes I have gone without a land line and do everything through my cell phone.  Really not an issue with banks or credit card companies or any other billing purposes I've run across.  Just make sure that the companies do update your information. 

Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2012 04:51 PM (GULKT)

175 158 Sprint offers an International calling plan for an extra $4 a month... My wife calls Korea all the time. I have family near Prague and Paris, so it matters to me, too. Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:41 PM (niZvt) You can call anywhere you want overseas and talk as long as you want for only an extra $4 a month?! That's it? I'll have to check but I don't think Verizon has that. Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 08:44 PM (X6akg) Oh God NO! For the extra $4 a month you'll get sane per minute rates, like 10 cents a minute or so, instead of the 60 cents or more on your cell without the plan.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:51 PM (niZvt)

176 Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility
A Room with a View
Howard's End
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Emma
Wuthering Heights
Star Treks

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 04:52 PM (u50z0)

177 I still recommend The Baader Meinhoff Complex and Carlos (the long version). Most of the bad guys get killed.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 04:52 PM (AsqOS)

178 Yeah, it's good. Jonah Goldberg pimped that movie for years at The Corner. Kathryn Lopez's movie was "Deuce Bigalow", as I recall, which had its moments, but I wouldn't rate it as high as "Grandma's Boy".

I thought K-Lo pimped Click, with Adam Sandler.

Posted by: Alex at February 26, 2012 04:52 PM (XzxB+)

179 They show all these peoples' faces on the screen and I find they seem to fall into one of 2 categories. 
One: I don't know who they are or, Two:  I hate them.

Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 04:52 PM (P6QsQ)

180

Unless "Transformers 3" was nominated-and I'm a bit doubtful that it was-I haven't seen a single Best Picture nominee this year. Part of the reason is my wife and I had a little girl, the other part is that most movies are contrived shit these days.

My favorites, though? Easy.

Heat

Casino Royale

Collateral

Alien

The French Connection

 

Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2012 04:52 PM (WYOrt)

181 The Postman was a good book.  It was not a good basis for a movie extravaganza for Kevin Costner a la Dances With Wolves (which sucked).

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 04:53 PM (fIuC0)

182 History of the world. Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by: mpfs at February 26, 2012 04:53 PM (An37c)

183 Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line?

****

About 15 years ago.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 26, 2012 04:53 PM (piMMO)

184   The Beast was good.

  Anything with John Wayne.
 Saving private Ryan.
 We were Soldiers.
  Chronicles of Narnia.
  Heat Of The Night.
  And a shitload I can't think of right now.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2012 04:53 PM (SAMxH)

185 Is "Idiocracy" up for best documentary?

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2012 04:54 PM (1ZF7c)

186

The Searchers

Shane

The Maltese Falcon

The Thing From Another World: Not Carpenter's fucked up shit.

Forbidden Planet

12 O'clock High

The Great Escape

Harvey

Patton

Slap Shot

Alien

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man : W.C. Fields vs Charlie McCarthy- what more could you want?

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 04:54 PM (EEU5E)

187 I dropped the land line when I moved to Boulder. Never bothered to get it back.

Posted by: Private Hudson at February 26, 2012 04:54 PM (QTHTd)

188 Love "Blazing Saddles", but "History of the World" is even better

Posted by: Ma Bell at February 26, 2012 04:54 PM (uVuwp)

189

I love Adam Sandler movies.  The Wedding Singer is his best.  Steve Buscemi singing at the end was to die for.  Used to watch a lot of Indie films but even those are trashed now.

 

Actually, come to think of it,  I really liked all the Bourne movies and that one with Liam Neeson where he tracks down his daughter.  Also thought that  movie with Denzel Washington where he bodyguards Mark Anthony's kid and dies in the end was superb.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 04:55 PM (8DdAv)

190 Godfathers I & II
Casablanca
Bringing up Baby
My Cousin Vinnie
Thunderheart
Patton
Monty Python & Holy Grail
Moonstruck
Seabiscuit
Big Lebowski
Millers Crossing
Caddyshack
Get Shorty
Pulp Fiction
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
LOTR Trilogy
the best Marx Bros..

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 04:55 PM (w7Lv+)

191 The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Posted by: mpfs at February 26, 2012 04:55 PM (An37c)

192 "The Terminator Old Boy (do not watch with children nearby) Thirst Ichi" Ichi the Killer? The Takashi Miike flick? Damn, that's some twisted shit.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 04:55 PM (1+XRG)

193 I dropped the land line when I moved to Boulder. Never bothered to get it back.

I got my current cell number while I was at CU almost seven years ago and and haven't had a land line since.

Posted by: Alex at February 26, 2012 04:56 PM (XzxB+)

194 Snatch
(that's a movie)

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 04:56 PM (w7Lv+)

195 Oh yeah, all the Narnias. Hope they make the rest. Oh, and the sound of music mostly for the gazebo scene--the most erotic scene evah.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 04:56 PM (u50z0)

196 Young Frankenstein - oh yes, absolutely.  They don't get much funnier. 

Postman - hmm, might have been good, it was an interesting enough premise, till Costner took 4 hours beating it to death.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:56 PM (R5yLq)

197 No mention of Back to the Future?

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at February 26, 2012 04:56 PM (/pIUa)

198 "Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line? " Yeah. Ten years ago or so. Don't really miss it. Though I'm fixin' to get a burglar alarm installed, and it seems you need a land line to connect to the monitoring company. So I may need to get one again.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 04:57 PM (1+XRG)

199 197 Young Frankenstein - oh yes, absolutely. They don't get much funnier. What terrific knockers!

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 04:57 PM (niZvt)

200 Blazing Saddles

Posted by: you'll have the good decency not to tell anybody I was here at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (hdbZF)

201 I think television is a lot better than movies these days. Unfortunately for me, gone are the days where I discover a great television series I haven't seen and I can watch an entire season or two or three on dvd back to back. For example: The Tudors Breaking Bad

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (AsqOS)

202 Terminator, oh yeah.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (w7Lv+)

203 Totally forgot The Great Escape and Spaceballs.

Posted by: Big T Party at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (hC5jI)

204 "No mention of Back to the Future?"

What up, muthafucka?

Posted by: Josephus at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (QTHTd)

205 167 Miss80s I had to go watch Sense and Sensibility on netflicks a couple of days ago just because Garrett kept making vagina South Park references and that was the only way to counteract it. Like taking a mental bath. > It is one of the few movies that is better than the book.

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (d6QMz)

206 Reader C.J. Burch, Hey, on tonight's episode one baker used beef tongue in a cupcake and another used blood sausage. I'd like to see that wimp George Clooney compete with that. Anyway, watching cupcake bakers fight it out to the bitter end to make the best cupcakes beats watching greedy, rich, fatcat actors and their liberal drivel any day of the week. I no longer watch awards shows.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2012 04:58 PM (M2+A9)

207 202 Downton Abbey is excellent. I watched it all in a week and then went nuts waiting for the last installment of season 2 to be aired.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (u50z0)

208 I like to watch Shane followed by Unforgiven.  Compare the final scenes.

Then there are the gangster movies.  Godfather Two and Goodfellas. 

Posted by: I am the walrus, goo goo ga joo at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (4sQwu)

209

SLAP SHOT, YES!! After going 2 1/2 weeks over my due date, I laughed so hard at the theater it finally put me into labor. How could I forget that???

On the land line questions...I have never missed the land line since giving it up in 2003.

Posted by: Marybel at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (QGwv0)

210 "Unfortunately for me, gone are the days where I discover a great television series I haven't seen and I can watch an entire season or two or three on dvd back to back. " If you don't mind reading subtitles you can find some good quality stuff from Korea and Japan.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (1+XRG)

211 Love At First Bite: One of the most unPC movies ever made and funny as hell. 

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (EEU5E)

212 I would love to see the extracted list of all titles mentioned in this thread.  It would give some meaning to my RedBox quests.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (i3+c5)

213 Zombieland on FX right now...not bad.

Posted by: USS Diversity at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (0s0CT)

214 "Oh yeah, all the Narnias. Hope they make the rest."

I'm sure they will.. as long as they don't get tipped off that it's actually an allegory for Christianity.. lol..




Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (R5yLq)

215 The only Clint Eastwood movie I like is "Two Mules for Sister Sarah"

Posted by: Ma Bell at February 26, 2012 04:59 PM (uVuwp)

216 Dropped land line eight years ago when first kid came along, Cable shortly thereafter. Cancelled the WaPo with kid two, six years ago. WSJ shortly thereafter. If I've bought more then one adult movie ticket per annum, for the last decade, I would be shocked. Magazines, none. and the media wonders why they are hurting.

Posted by: Jean at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (ICwOo)

217 Terminator plus the first season of the Summer Glau series: yes, they should be in the running.

What a shame the second season just... didn't go anywhere.

Posted by: Josephus at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (QTHTd)

218 Miller's Crossing is definitely a film that can be watched over and over again.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (AsqOS)

219 I just want to be Bridget Jones

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (u50z0)

220 I love Scorsese movies but I can rarely watch them more than once, for some reason. I find them almost too intense.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (w7Lv+)

221 8 1/2 Weeks and the inevitable sequels (9 1/2 Inches and 33 C Cups) were classics. 3 Inch Clit was a tad too long.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (niZvt)

222 "I'm sure they will.. as long as they don't get tipped off that it's actually an allegory for Christianity.. lol.."

I thought it was an allegory for Muhammad (on him peace)?

Posted by: Liam Neeson, Th.D. at February 26, 2012 05:00 PM (QTHTd)

223 Act of Valor of course, I haven't gone to a theater in 6 years till yesterday! I refuse to contribute to the wealth of a bunch of loud mouth, degenerates, America haters, Apologists, and friends of SCOAMF

Posted by: Concealed Kerry or Sub Mitt at February 26, 2012 05:01 PM (nonzP)

224 Favorites:

Twelve O'Clock High
Ronin
The Wind And The Lion
LOTR: Return Of The King
Ninotchka
and to show my sensitive side: You've Got Mail
(that's because it's the only chick flick I can watch to the end, mainly because it isn't anti-capitalist).

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:01 PM (HjPtV)

225 I would watch the AA, but afraid it would give me a yeast infection.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at February 26, 2012 05:01 PM (WUWb9)

226 120Jeebus, our Afghan "allies" have to date killed 4 of our soldiers in Afghanistan.

Can we just lop off all their nuts and evacuate that muzzie craphole?

 

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:32 PM (niZvt)

.

If I were President I'd have them sent the coordinates for Mecca, on my stationary. Of course, I'd have done that long ago and this situation would have been taken care of one way or another by now. 

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:01 PM (Usk3+)

227 Songs of the South.
You recall the lyrics: "There's a bluebird on my shoulder; it's the truth; it's actual; everything is satisfactual."

Successfully banned for over 50 years. But you give every accolade you can to that child-rapist/sodomizer.  Where's your fucking bluebird of happiness now, Hollywood? 

Posted by: Spear Parts at February 26, 2012 05:02 PM (WtunW)

228 Okay, I'd watch at awards show if we got to find out which of those 1 percenters pay their "fair" share in taxes. Then anyone who didn't pay 36% of their income in federal tax would be booed and have rotten produce and eggs thrown at him/her. I'd watch that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2012 05:02 PM (M2+A9)

229 Second Hand Lions. I love it more each time I see it.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 05:02 PM (w7Lv+)

230 "Then there are the gangster movies. Godfather Two and Goodfellas."

I have a hard time with Ganster movies - I knew some people who had been terrorized by real life gansters.  So I don't glamorize these scumbags myself, nor do I envy there life style.  I don't see them as heroes.

I remember the end scene from Goodfella's where Hill is whining about how he has to just live his life as an average schnook from now on, to which I kept thinking, you know what?  If there were any justice in the world you'd be buried in an unmarked grave next to one of your many victims, you piece of shit.

Ok, again, maybe it's just me.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:03 PM (R5yLq)

231 >>>If you don't mind reading subtitles you can find some good quality stuff from Korea and Japan. Thanks. I've been watching a lot of, forgive me, Scandi, television series. The Killing was very good. The US version, not so much...

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:03 PM (AsqOS)

232 Clone Wars, sorry, its that or Zaboomafu. Although the classic WB, Tom&Jerry, and Johnny Quest get alot of spin time around here.

Posted by: Jean at February 26, 2012 05:03 PM (ICwOo)

233 @230: My wife is addicted to Upstairs Downton. I made the mistake of showing her how to watch all the past episodes on "my" iPad...

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:03 PM (niZvt)

234 "Then anyone who didn't pay 36% of their income in federal tax would be booed and have rotten produce and eggs thrown at him/her. I'd watch that." What are you talking about? Everyone knows movies don't make money. Hell, the Return of the Jedi didn't, officially, make one red cent.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 05:04 PM (1+XRG)

235 Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 08:59 PM (u50z0)

Got hooked on Downton Abbey (first season) via on Netflix streaming.  Obviously had to watch season 2 on PBS.  Great show.

Also watched Doc Martin (also a BBC series) and thought it very good.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 26, 2012 05:04 PM (i3+c5)

236 Downton Abbey is gorgeous to watch, with that castle, the sets and costumes. But I find the characters to be almost too nice to be pre-WWI aristocrats. Mary was suitably snotty in the early episodes till she killed the Turk with sex.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 05:05 PM (w7Lv+)

237

All good, but no Casablanca or Key Largo or the Big Sleep?

AND, of course, the greatest film ever, Gone With the Wind.

Didn't include every great movie by Bogart  but I would include Bogart"s To Have and Have Not. And I forgot Sands of Iwo Jima.

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 05:05 PM (EEU5E)

238 "The Wind And The Lion"

Oh man.. forgot about that one, haven't seen it in years. but yes, great flick.  Second hand lions is another personal favorite - a bit cliche in parts but I love the part where they take Hub home from the hospital.. lol..


Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:05 PM (R5yLq)

239 177 Jane Eyre Sense and Sensibility A Room with a View Howard's End Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Persuasion Emma Wuthering Heights Star Treks > Which Jane Eyre is your favorite? I love the 1983 (Timothy Dalton) and 2006 (Toby Stephens) versions. With Emma, I prefer Romola Garai (2009) to Gwyneth Paltrow (1996) but feel Jeremy Northam is a better Mr. Knightly than Johnny Lee Miller.

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 05:06 PM (d6QMz)

240 Downton Abbey sucks. The writing and editing stinks. However, the actors and scenery make it worth watching. Are they airing the new Upstairs Downstairs series here? Anyway, all those people treated their servants like trash.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:06 PM (AsqOS)

241 The only Clint Eastwood movie I like is "Two Mules for Sister Sarah"


The version of this that I saw was not by Clint Eastwood; but it did in actual point of fact feature two mules for sister Sarah. I think it was filmed in Tijuana. The production values weren't all that high and the plot, such as it was, was rather predictable so frankly I'm surprised anyone would mention it here.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 05:07 PM (jqHOY)

242 " I love hot women! Like real women who are liberal and think and feel Posted by: Clarence at February 26, 2012 08:09 PM (z0HdK) " Oh, hell yeah. Janet Reno, Janet Napolitano, Pelosi, Sotomayor, Kagan, Hillary. Fap away, Clarence.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2012 05:07 PM (M2+A9)

243 Morse Lewis Endeavour

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:07 PM (AsqOS)

244
What is with this shit? A new "Upstairs Downstairs" cult show?PLEASE, get a life. I expect more from a Dukie.


It's really good. The creator Julian Fellows is a conservative (Brit version so sorta soft) but the show is not lefty, the fucking earl is the good guy, the communist looks bad, people have morals and hard work is rewarded. It's great. I love english shows and movies since I spent my senior year of high school actually going to Clare College, Cambridge. I still prefer the way they speak.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:07 PM (u50z0)

245 Last of the Mohicans. Another one I can't turn off when I see it.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 05:08 PM (w7Lv+)

246

By the way, tonight's wine is a no brainer if you like a decent and cheap Merlot. A 2009 Little Penquin from South Eastern Australia.

 

Kicks the crap out of that YellowTail swill.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:08 PM (Usk3+)

247 Not going to have time to see Acts of Valor while we are still counting coup on Hollywood, so I bought some tickets online and didn't go.

Posted by: Jean at February 26, 2012 05:09 PM (ICwOo)

248 Avatar = Dances with Smurfs.
'nuff said.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 05:09 PM (jqHOY)

249 kelly's heroes, midway, sands of iwo jima, a bridge too far, tora tora tora, catch 22, 

Posted by: joe in houston at February 26, 2012 05:10 PM (MnSla)

250
> Which Jane Eyre is your favorite? I love the 1983 (Timothy Dalton) and 2006 (Toby Stephens) versions. With Emma, I prefer Romola Garai (2009) to Gwyneth Paltrow (1996) but feel Jeremy Northam is a better Mr. Knightly than Johnny Lee Miller.


I agree with your Emmas. I didn't like Paltrow. I love Toby Stephens but I also harbor a soft spot for George C. Scott. I do wish they wouldn't always make Jane so ugly. She was supposed to be plain not fugly.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:10 PM (u50z0)

251 254 Avatar = Dances with Smurfs. The upcoming "John Carter" movie looks like it is going to be a "Desert Avatar" movie. /Kill me now.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 26, 2012 05:11 PM (UR5vq)

252 hahahaha Hollywood Aholes give an A Award to Iran and treat us to an anti-anti-Iran war speech time to switchover to Fox Business for Huckabee re-runs.

Posted by: some dolt at February 26, 2012 05:11 PM (+kznc)

253 http://tinyurl.com/778en52

What's in the swag bags:  Total Value: $62,023.26

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 26, 2012 05:11 PM (1ZF7c)

254 The Bicycle Thieves*
The Man Who Never Was
Winchester 73
7 Samurai
Rear Window
Bladerunner
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Lives of Others


Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at February 26, 2012 05:11 PM (9Hw3U)

255 "The Lion in Winter" is excellent, though it badly distorts the quality of life of the medieval nobility: in fact, they had heated, luxurious palaces, etc. Other than that - excellent acting.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:12 PM (niZvt)

256 Anyway, all those people treated their servants like trash.


They don't in this series but they did in actuality. I could give a shit how servants were treated 100 years ago in another country because..........?

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:12 PM (u50z0)

257 Oh God NO!

For the extra $4 a month you'll get sane per minute rates, like 10 cents a minute or so, instead of the 60 cents or more on your cell without the plan.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 08:51 PM (niZvt)



Oooooh, ok.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2012 05:12 PM (X6akg)

258 "The Burbs"

Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (O3R/2)

259 "Anyone here actually gone completely cell phone, and got rid of their land line? How does that work out over the long haul? Ever had problems with it? " I did this, but then got a minimal landline just for dsl, then found out that I probably didn't need to do that. I don't use the landline at all. All you need to do to go full cell is make sure you keep your cell phone charged, and don't leave it anywhere. But depending on it completely works very well. Also, I transferred my landline phone number of over 20 years to my cell phone so I didn't have to notify anyone of a change in phone number. It has been great.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (M2+A9)

260 Speaking of conservative tv shows, check out the sitcom Last Man Standing, with Tim Allen and Hector Elizondo. Hilarious, conservative sensibility and they even talk approvingly of gun ownership.

Posted by: real joe at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (w7Lv+)

261 Favorite movie?  Army of Darkness, of course.

Posted by: Phil Smith at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (msSp+)

262 Red Dawn reference for the win!

Posted by: gride at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (wPKc6)

263 Patton! I always picture myself as the Female Version Of Patton. Always rushing around swearing and shouting orders all the while pissing off everybody around me. Gotta work on that.

Posted by: Scope at February 26, 2012 05:13 PM (XaMdR)

264

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 09:07 PM (jqHOY)

 

I remember those guys from 40 years ago in Tijuana. "Hey, you wont to see a mule fock a gurl?????"

 

We were always too scared to say yes. 

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:14 PM (Usk3+)

265 But we kind of wanted to say yes.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:14 PM (Usk3+)

266
I have been watching the Chan-wook Park stuff.

I get past the subtitle quickly.

The revenge series is top notch.


Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:15 PM (VMcEw)

267   Patton.
  The Longest Day.
  Sound Of Music.
  Oklahoma..
  The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
  A Fistful Of Dollars.
  For A Few Dollars More.
  Hud.
  Hombre.
 

 

Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2012 05:15 PM (SAMxH)

268 I have crossed "John Carter" off of my movies-to-see list. Thanks for the tip you grumpy spartan.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 05:15 PM (jqHOY)

269
do you ever wonder if some of the oscar winners wonder if they won because of politics?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 05:16 PM (r+9M6)

270 Octavia Spencer of The Help won an Academy Award. Maybe this will help the country heal from the hate of the Republican primaries.

Posted by: Brad at February 26, 2012 05:16 PM (2Y56z)

271 257 254 Avatar = Dances with Smurfs. The upcoming "John Carter" movie looks like it is going to be a "Desert Avatar" movie. /Kill me now. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 26, 2012 09:11 PM (UR5vq) Well... Carter IS an Angry White Male, after all! BTW, some talking head on MSNBC called the GOP debates a "palefest." Irony. Liberals really have no sense of it, do they? Lets see how technicolor the 2016 Democratic contest is after the Magic Negro gets his ass whooped this November.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:16 PM (niZvt)

272

I think my favorite movie is "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."  I think I first saw this at the drive-in in the very early 1970s (I was 6 or seven at the time).  The whole movie has a great rhythm to it.  Plus love all the old stars in it.  You know its going to be great movie when Jimmy Durrante's character as he dies kicks a rusty bucket down the hill.

It is shame nothing even similar is coming out of hollywood today. 

Posted by: MC at February 26, 2012 05:17 PM (VlZvE)

273 Ah, forgot A Christmas Carol with George Scott
Still the best.
 

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at February 26, 2012 05:17 PM (9Hw3U)

274 In addition to Downton Abbey, another excellent current British TV show is the BBC's Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch is as good as Jeremy Brett and Martin Freeman is my favorite Dr. Watson.

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 05:18 PM (d6QMz)

275

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

.

Another one I should watch, been many years. Great stuff. Jonathan Winters, yeah baby!

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:18 PM (Usk3+)

276 Blazing Saddles.

Posted by: Barry S at February 26, 2012 05:18 PM (fk126)

277 209 202 Downton Abbey is excellent. I watched it all in a week and then went nuts waiting for the last installment of season 2 to be aired.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 08:59 PM (u50z0)

My girl bought me both season on Blu-Ray for my birthday. The ORIGINAL BBC broadcast episodes!!!

As for movies..

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Best Years Of Our Lives

and just about everything Pixar's ever done.

Too many more to mention

Posted by: My Sharia Moor at February 26, 2012 05:19 PM (PET8M)

278 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a GREAT movie! Loved it. Classic.

Posted by: oh wow at February 26, 2012 05:19 PM (2qDRX)

279 What, nobody's watching the Walking Dead? Its like the academy awards but with a funnier emcee.

Posted by: Buddy Bizarre at February 26, 2012 05:20 PM (y+LPw)

280 Meremortal:
Generally, even if you can imagine how rotten life would have to be where doing that kind of thing in public was your last viable option, and then consider how attractive (or not so) such a life would leave you, you would still be shocked at how unappealing the whole thing is. It's like 2 girls 1 cup, but with added animal cruelty and even less sexual appeal.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 05:20 PM (jqHOY)

281

Favorite movie: Local Hero.

 Second: Breaker Morant.

 

I haven't seen a movie in a couple of years. 

 

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:20 PM (qFSyj)

282 282 Ah, forgot A Christmas Carol with George Scott Still the best. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2012 09:17 PM (9Hw3U) Absolutely.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:20 PM (niZvt)

283 @293: Local Hero is magnificent. It's low key, calm... Tranquil. And just magical.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:21 PM (niZvt)

284 Twelve Angry Men was a good one.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:21 PM (Usk3+)

285

"Here's looking at you, kid."

"This was NOT a boating accident!"

"To my brother George, the biggest man in town!"

"I love you." "I know."

"We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!"

Posted by: proudvastrightwingconspirator at February 26, 2012 05:21 PM (RFl8c)

286 I am in the Pulp Fiction camp. And, I have a soft spot for Brazil. Can't deny the old war on the citizen ploy.

Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:23 PM (VMcEw)

287 I dropped the land-line in 2002.  First in the family to do it.


Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:23 PM (O3R/2)

288 Piers Morgan getting his smug liberal ass handed him by Ron Paul on CNN. Best way to fight a lunatic is with another lunatic!

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:23 PM (niZvt)

289 Well that "Wizard of Oz" screening skit was pretty revealing as to how they think of the rest of America.

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at February 26, 2012 05:23 PM (tB2tX)

290 Ichi the Killer? The Takashi Miike flick? Damn, that's some twisted shit. Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 08:55 PM (1+XRG) No, not that one. Just "Ichi"

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 05:24 PM (dFcKO)

291 I liked Hoosiers.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:24 PM (HjPtV)

292 >>>I think my favorite movie is "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World." Ha! That's where I learned what "kick the bucket" meant.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:24 PM (AsqOS)

293 "Jack" with Robin Williams is number 1 in my book.

Posted by: Brad at February 26, 2012 05:24 PM (2Y56z)

294

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 26, 2012 09:20 PM (jqHOY)

. 

At that young age, we had curiosity and we were quite naive. (12 years of Catholic School). Considering what we did see in Tijuana and Juarez, I think you are not only correct but have stated it very well also. 

 

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (Usk3+)

295 Could you imagine trying to make Blazing Saddles today ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (npr0X)

296 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (7W3wI)

297 They All Laughed
Streets of Fire
Fahrenheit 451
Major Barbara
Yankee Doodle Dandy
A Thousand Clowns
Pride and Prejudice
A Mighty Wind
L.A. Story

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (a5ljo)

298 "Badges?  We don't need no stinkin' badges."

Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (O3R/2)

299 277
do you ever wonder if some of the oscar winners wonder if they won because of politics?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 26, 2012 09:16 PM (r+9M6)

 

I'm betting some of them KNOW they win because of politics.  And if you remember the speech George Clooney gave at the Oscars that South Park mocked for being so Smug in its opinion of Hollywood most of them are proud when they win due to their pushing the "correct" politics.

Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2012 05:25 PM (GULKT)

300 I haven't seen The Help but was that standing ovation deserved?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 26, 2012 05:27 PM (bK7is)

301 Which "Pride And Prejudice"?

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:27 PM (HjPtV)

302

The Naked City : One of the best film noir police movies

The Flim-flam Man : George C. Scott at his best

Them! :  Best 50s monster movie. 

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 05:28 PM (EEU5E)

303

>>The Best Years Of Our Lives

 

Oh, yeh. It's been too long since I watched that.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 05:28 PM (XdlcF)

304
When the kids were young we must have worn out two vcrs playing Care Bears in Wonderland. I guess that takes care of the musical/show tunes category for me. Oh, and AristoCats was big too.

Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (VMcEw)

305 296 Twelve Angry Men was a good one. Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 09:21 PM (Usk3+) Maybe I'm getting just to intolerant of all the PC Forced Tolerance, but lately I find it's central premise - that most white people are natural, borderline violent, bigots that must be "taught" to be more tolerant by their Moral Betters (i.e., Henry Fonda) offensive.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (niZvt)

306 I haven't seen The Help but was that standing ovation deserved?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 26, 2012 09:27 PM



Didn't it seem just a tad patronizing to you?  I thought maybe it was just me, because, racissssst.

Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (P6QsQ)

307 I'm watching a 5 episode BBC series called The Vikings. You can't beat shit like this: history, scenery, archaeology, treasures, war, weapons, killing all the men and fucking all the women. Hell, the Normans did the same. Generically, the English had the Anglo fucked out of them.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (AsqOS)

308 Don't forget Casino

Posted by: Tmitsss at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (U5Xx5)

309

OK, a few are coming back to me now:

 

 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Algernon (Not the title, a reference, can you name the movie?)

Midnight Cowboy

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:29 PM (Usk3+)

310 I hate the kiera knightly P&P. Even though Sutherland was a decent Mr Bennet...

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:30 PM (u50z0)

311 303 I liked Hooters. Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 09:24 PM (HjPtV) Me too.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:30 PM (niZvt)

312

Brazil was good, but now I  have the stupid theme song stuck in my head.

A Fish Called Wanda is another favorite. "Mostacciolli!"

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:30 PM (qFSyj)

313 " Speaking of conservative tv shows, check out the sitcom Last Man Standing, with Tim Allen and Hector Elizondo. Hilarious, conservative sensibility and they even talk approvingly of gun ownership."

And the FCC hasn't stepped in and shut them down yet?  Huh.. go figure..

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:31 PM (R5yLq)

314 so has anyone yet mentioned "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"? lol - loved that movie!

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 26, 2012 05:31 PM (UR5vq)

315 Jagarna, The Hunters, one of the best films ever made.

Posted by: Mike Hunt at February 26, 2012 05:31 PM (G6kli)

316

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 09:29 PM (niZvt)

 

OK, CC, but aren't you applying today's standard a little far back on this one?

I just liked the sparse set and the acting. And I liked Fonda the least.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (Usk3+)

317 Didn't it seem just a tad patronizing to you?

^^^

Yes, very contrived.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (bK7is)

318 I spent most of 1995 rewinding one line in Lion King: "They call me MR. Pig". He's 20 now and still laughs at that. However, I think he's closer now.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (u50z0)

319 256 I agree with your Emmas. I didn't like Paltrow. I love Toby Stephens but I also harbor a soft spot for George C. Scott. I do wish they wouldn't always make Jane so ugly. She was supposed to be plain not fugly. > I need to re-watch the George C. Scott version. Definitely agree with your point RE Jane and they often portray Mr. Rochester as being too handsome.

Posted by: Miss80s at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (d6QMz)

320 "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" and "A Boy and His Dog." Both long setups for very bad jokes.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (qFSyj)

321 Generically, the English had the Anglo fucked out of them. Genetically...

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:32 PM (AsqOS)

322 Whoops, War Department has announced that dinner is served. Carry on, very good stuff, kudos to all...

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 05:33 PM (Usk3+)

323 I watched the Jeninifer Ehle/Colin Firth production on PBS.  Jennifer Ehle was superb.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:33 PM (HjPtV)

324 "Jennifer" Ehle, of course.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:33 PM (HjPtV)

325 I always liked movies that stepped outside the ordinary. Watching action movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon in a theater was electric. I never laughed so hard at a movie then watching Raising Arizona. Maybe not the "greatest" movies in the long run but they were completely original and entertaining.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 26, 2012 05:33 PM (GZitp)

326 "In addition to Downton Abbey, another excellent current British TV show is the BBC's Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch is as good as Jeremy Brett and Martin Freeman is my favorite Dr. Watson."
-----

I was prepared to hate the new Sherlock but surrendered half way through the first episode and bought the DVD as soon as Amazon had it.

I'm waiting impatiently for PBS to get around to showing Season Two.

Posted by: Retread at February 26, 2012 05:33 PM (joSBv)

327 Duel
Emperor of the North
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles

Posted by: grease monkey at February 26, 2012 05:34 PM (VSWPU)

328 338 Own it. On viewing #26

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:34 PM (u50z0)

329

"Last of the Mohicans. Another one I can't turn off when I see it."

I can't decide which part I like better; when that guy kills Wes Studi there at the end or the score of the movie. Every time I hear that soundtrack I want to go fight the savages.

Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2012 05:34 PM (WYOrt)

330 322: Flowers for Algernon = Charly

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:34 PM (qFSyj)

331 "do you ever wonder if some of the oscar winners wonder if they won because of politics?" It's less a question of wondering and more of knowing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 05:34 PM (1+XRG)

332 "Algernon (Not the title, a reference, can you name the movie?)"

I'm guessing you meant Flowers for Algernon - excellent short story, not sure if I ever saw the movie though.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (R5yLq)

333 @330: It was a good movie, yes. But you can see the beginnings of the PC stranglehold over us in its message.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (niZvt)

334 Kicks the crap out of that YellowTail swill. Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 09:08 PM (Usk3+) Yellow Tail is kaka.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (dFcKO)

335 LOL

I think I've managed to figure out everyone's age here by their movie lists.

Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (P6QsQ)

336 The Naked Prey has a lot of rip offs. I like the wide screen minus shaky cam. Too much shaky cam or close cropping with half the screen blocked and I'm out of there.

Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (VMcEw)

337 Still like Connery as Bond.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (u50z0)

338 Add:

"Heat"
"Tombstone"

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:35 PM (HjPtV)

339 Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat for ACME in 2012 You be an alpha sumpin , I'm guessing .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at February 26, 2012 05:36 PM (npr0X)

340

>>so has anyone yet mentioned "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"?

 

I was about to!

 

 

Uh, I mean, nooo, that sounds Very Silly and I'm sure I wouldn't like it.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 05:36 PM (XdlcF)

341 Meremortal, the movie version was titled "Charly." Cliff Robertson was devastating.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at February 26, 2012 05:36 PM (a5ljo)

342 The absolutely worst version of "Jane Eyre" was the 1936 version with Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive.  They screwed the story and the actors were WA, WAY to handsome.


Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:36 PM (O3R/2)

343 342 My 16 yr old is into that. I'll go back and watch it. I'm always relieved to watch anything where they speak actual english.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:37 PM (u50z0)

344
  Grumpy Old Men.
  Peter Pan.
  The Ballad Of Cat Ballou.
  The White Buffalo.
  Psycho.
  Rear Window.
  In Cold Blood.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2012 05:37 PM (SAMxH)

345 "Tombstone" That movie had some deep flaws, but Val Kilmer rescued it. Some great performances, some flashes of brilliance. But all in all not a great movie.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 26, 2012 05:37 PM (1+XRG)

346 Ok, here's a blast from the past:

Amazon Women on the Moon...


Lol

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:38 PM (R5yLq)

347 Kitty Foyle.  Ginger Rogers didn't want to do it originally, because in the book, the main character has an abortion.  Her mom told her that scene would never make it through the production code, so she took it and went on to win an Oscar for best actress.  Also, just about anything with William Powell and Myrna Loy together.

Posted by: Ruby at February 26, 2012 05:38 PM (KmlDN)

348 Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 09:35 PM (u50z0)

Well of course!

There is no other Bond.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:38 PM (nEUpB)

349

362 When will this stupid show be over so I won't have to listen to it? 10? 11?

Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:36 PM (hXJOG)

 

Suggestion to make it more entertaining.  Search online to see if the nominees have had a Porn Parody made of them already.  Then tell your wife its title.

Posted by: buzzion at February 26, 2012 05:39 PM (GULKT)

350 #344

25+ times??? 

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:39 PM (HjPtV)

351 All this Academy Award talk and I have yet to see mention of Rambo, First Blood Part 1.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 26, 2012 05:39 PM (jucos)

352 >>so has anyone yet mentioned "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"?

Every debate with Ron Paul brings forward vivid images of this flick.

Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:39 PM (VMcEw)

353 Barbarian Queen II

Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:39 PM (O3R/2)

354

El Cid

The Naked Jungle

Across the Wide Missouri

LOTR :  The extended cuts not the edited ones.

 

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 05:40 PM (EEU5E)

355
LOL, a Jane Fonda movie we can still love!

>>Why? Does she die a grotesque painful death?

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:40 PM (u50z0)

356 No particular order...

Dr Strangelove
Patton
The Year Of living Dangerously
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Godfather (I & II)
Oklahoma
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
The Wizard of OZ
A Christmas Carol (G.C. Scott)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Twelve Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
2001-A Space Odyssey
The Man Who Would Be King
Bladerunner
Lord of the Rings (all)
A Bridge Too Far
Young Frankenstein
Blazing  Saddles
Alien

Posted by: Grabonya Haardkok at February 26, 2012 05:41 PM (mkCVW)

357 I've been watching TCM frequently this month since they do their 31 days of Oscar bit and so show a lot of good stuff. The other night I caught the interesting info that for one night only (March 21st?) Casablanca will be shown in theaters as part of its 70th anniversary celebration. Tix are on sale online now but I didn't catch the web addy. Google or Bing will turn it up for anyone interested.

Posted by: Retread at February 26, 2012 05:41 PM (joSBv)

358 Bladerunner, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Forbidden Planet are excellent sci fi flicks, especially the last two. 2001, actually, is in an intellectual class all its own - with never to be matched effects, to boot.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:41 PM (niZvt)

359 Barbarella?

Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2012 05:42 PM (O3R/2)

360 No Tombstone??  What's wrong with you people? 

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 05:42 PM (Z71Vg)

361 Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 09:40 PM (EEU5E)

If they could only edit out that insufferable Elijah Wood and his two dimensional acting, that would be one of the greatest movies of all time.

When he gazes into Sam's eyes (for the four-hundredth time) I always yell out, "Kiss me Sam!"


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:42 PM (nEUpB)

362 Posted by: chemjeff at February 26, 2012 09:42 PM (7FadD)

Dude.

Run, don't walk...run to the nearest video store and buy "Pitch Black."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (nEUpB)

363 I would hit Jane Fonda in Barbarella like Ricky Ricardo banging out Babaloo with a lit crackpipe stuck up his ass.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (niZvt)

364 Most excellent, still no Casablanca or Gone with the Wind?

Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:42 PM (hXJOG)

Why is Casablanca considered good?

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (/pIUa)

365 What's the matter with you people it's obviously “Ferris Bueller's Day off”

Posted by: SCUBA Steve at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (vC4ux)

366 Most excellent, still no Casablanca or Gone with the Wind?

Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:42 PM (hXJOG)


Somebody mentioned Casablanca earlier, to mixed reaction.  As to Gone with the Wind, frankly Ms. Scarlett, I don't think anyone gives a damn at this point.. lol..



Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (R5yLq)

367

Spartacus, Glory, and Amazon Women on the Moon, sez the husband.

 

>>The Ballad Of Cat Ballou.

 

One of my favorite quotes EVAH: "He did it! He missed the barn."

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 05:44 PM (XdlcF)

368 My Dad thought that scene in "Cat Ballou" with Lee Marvin and his horse leaning against the building was one of the funniest moments in film.

Powers Boothe was pretty good in "Tombstone" as well.   I enjoyed it for the characters and the story, not its fidelity to history.

I also think that "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" were the Duke's greatest films.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:45 PM (HjPtV)

369 Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 09:44 PM (niZvt)

Million dollar body and a ten cent brain.

[not you...Jane Fonda]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (nEUpB)

370 " I would hit Jane Fonda in Barbarella like Ricky Ricardo banging out Babaloo with a lit crackpipe stuck up his ass."

Lol.. ok, mental image #348 that will haunt me till the day I die.  I really need to stop hanging out here.. lol..


Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (R5yLq)

371 Booberella.

Posted by: mike at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (AsqOS)

372 Fantastic Voyage. Raquel Welch in  a  skin tight suit. Need I say more?  

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (qFSyj)

373
I could put Mars Attacks, Dark Star, Idiocracy and Office Space on a endless loop.

Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (VMcEw)

374

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 09:42 PM (nEUpB)

 

I hate the teary eyed scenes with Wood but in the extended cuts you get to see the ghost army wipe out the pirates, among other things.

Posted by: Larsen E Whipsnade at February 26, 2012 05:46 PM (EEU5E)

375 Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 09:41 PM (niZvt)

2001?

Pompous, plodding, over-thought, underacted, boringly filmed.

But aside from that? great flick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:47 PM (nEUpB)

376 Yes, Dark City is good. A flick from the 80s called Resurrection is pretty good. It's about a lady who gets healing powers from a near death experience.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 05:47 PM (dFcKO)

377 Body Heat. Oneof the sexiest movies I've ever seen. The Kathleen Turner quote: "You're not too smart. I like that in a man."

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:48 PM (qFSyj)

378 Best guy movie ever: Zulu

Posted by: Mose at February 26, 2012 05:48 PM (1ytIH)

379 Posted by: chemjeff at February 26, 2012 09:45 PM (7FadD)

Nice tight little film.

Chronicles of Riddick was a bit overblown, but I liked it a lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:49 PM (nEUpB)

380 Kathleen Turner was hot ... but not hotter than Lauren Bacall in "Key Largo".

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 05:49 PM (HjPtV)

381 "I also think that "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" were the Duke's greatest films."

Was always kind of partial to El Dorado myself, you know the one where Robert Mitchum plays the drunken sheriff and John Wayne and James Caan help him arrest the brother of the local cattle baron that owns the town.

So much better than Rio Lobo, in which Dean Martin plays the drunken sheriff and John Wayne and Ricky Nelson help him arrest the brother of the local cattle baron that owns the town.. lol

Best part about a John Wayne movie, you watch it just to watch John Wayne being John Wayne.  Though honestly to of my favorite Duke movies - Big Jake, and Hellfighters.


Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 26, 2012 05:50 PM (R5yLq)

382 So do you like space gladiator movies, chemjeff?

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 05:50 PM (XdlcF)

383 OT /

Weasel Zippers has a YouTube posted that shows Pakistanis dumping hundreds of Korans into a canal of sewage last year.


Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 05:51 PM (P6QsQ)

384 No mention of High Noon?

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 26, 2012 05:51 PM (qFSyj)

385 Casablanca. Hmm. It is good but it's not the kind of good that you usually associate with a movie. I had never seen it and was quite skeptical--it was old, the actors were unattractive and I never thought much of Bergman. My then boyfriend and now husband insisted I see it when they played it on campus. Somehow, the great love interrupted by the war touched me and the terrible price that they had to pay because of the war, their separation and loss, was so tragic that I cried for the rest of the evening. The movie makes you feel the loss and the sacrifice.


I can see why the sacrifice that they made for the war effort, for her marriage, wouldn't make sense to many people today. The character it took to make those decisions was something to be admired.


I've never liked Bogart. My husband loves Bergman--I don't see it--but I do see why the movie touched millions.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2012 05:51 PM (u50z0)

386

Empire of the Sun

Lilies of the Field

Posted by: Ammo Dump at February 26, 2012 05:52 PM (WUWb9)

387 410 Kathleen Turner was hot ... but not hotter than Lauren Bacall in "Key Largo". Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 09:49 PM (HjPtV) Meh. Racquel Welch in "Kneeling Before Zod".

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:52 PM (niZvt)

388 Anyone see The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino (1994)?

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 05:53 PM (XdlcF)

389 Red Dawn
Dirty Harry
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Alamo (old one, with John Wayne)
Blade Runner


Posted by: Spincut at February 26, 2012 05:53 PM (wzHQm)

390 Office Space rules.

Posted by: USS Diversity at February 26, 2012 05:53 PM (0s0CT)

391 Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:51 PM (hXJOG)

She was 26 when she filmed Casablanca. Was she really banging Bogart? Good for him!

By the way, her daughter, Pia Lindstrom, was smokin' hot too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:54 PM (nEUpB)

392 Anyone see The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino (1994)? Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 09:53 PM (XdlcF) Yep.

Posted by: eman at February 26, 2012 05:54 PM (dFcKO)

393

Some of my favorites in no particular order

Grease

Gone With the Wind

Tombstone (oh I already mentioned that)

Dirty Dancing

E.T.


Rob Roy

Casino

 

 

 

 

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 05:55 PM (Z71Vg)

394 Posted by: Mama AJ at February 26, 2012 09:53 PM (XdlcF)

She personified SEX in that movie.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 05:55 PM (nEUpB)

395 "Somewhere in Time".....It's the first movie Mr. TiFW and I saw after we got married.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 26, 2012 05:56 PM (0xqzf)

396 Whatever happened to Pia Zadora, anyway?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 05:57 PM (niZvt)

397 What are these space gladiator movies you speak of?

Posted by: Grabonya Haardkok at February 26, 2012 05:57 PM (mkCVW)

398 Oh, and Bogart was really fucking Bergman, who was only 19 when she made the movie.
Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:51 PM

Wrong movie and wrong woman.  It was Lauren Bacall who was 19 in To Have and Have Not.  You know how to whistle, don'tcha Steve?  Just put your lips together and blow.

Posted by: huerfano at February 26, 2012 05:58 PM (fIuC0)

399 Ass Pirates of the Caribbean

Posted by: Barak Insane Obamao at February 26, 2012 05:59 PM (WUWb9)

400 Other favorites:
Singin In the Rain
Going My Way
Holiday Inn
Sixteen Candles (I did grow up in the 80's, after all.)
The Blues Brothers

Posted by: Ruby at February 26, 2012 05:59 PM (KmlDN)

401 Ummm...The contenders on my list for favorite,

Blazing Saddles,

2001,

Princes Bride,

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the Alec Guinness version),

Mr. Roberts,

Amadeus,

The Horse's Mouth (another Alec Guinness movie)

Dr. Strangelove.

The envelope, please...

tic, tic, tic

And the winner is...........Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy! Best writing, best acting (by all cast members), best cinematography, best adaption, and best of all perhaps, because it was a BBC production, it was not made in Hollywood.

1st runner up goes to Amadeus.

2nd runner up goes to 2001.

3rd runner up goes to Dr. Strangelove. No. Blazing Saddles. No. Princes Bride. No. Mr. Roberts. Let's cut to the commercial.











Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 05:59 PM (Onw8c)

402

"Somewhere in Time".....It's the first movie Mr. TiFW and I saw after we got married.

 

Was that the one with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve?  I love that movie.. beautiful score too.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:00 PM (Z71Vg)

403

10pm and no ONT.  I pray we don't have to use the Academy, who gives a shit, award thread for one because it is a thin soup.

In other news, my laptop refuses to link to my wireless router.  This thing is becoming a pain in the neck.

In better news, my camaro's alternator isn't bad.  It just had a dirty corroded connector.  Cost for repair?  Nada!

How's everyone hanging?

Posted by: Ohio Dan at February 26, 2012 06:00 PM (JKNDp)

404 Wrong movie and wrong woman. It was Lauren Bacall who was 19 in To Have and Have Not. You know how to whistle, don'tcha Steve? Just put your lips together and blow.
-----------

"It's even better when you help."

Posted by: Retread at February 26, 2012 06:00 PM (joSBv)

405 American Psycho Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat for ACME in 2012 at February 26, 2012 09:53 PM (4BNY+) Ah, yes... that was the one that taught me to ride a gal doggy style, holding on to her with one hand and waving my cowboy hat high above my head with the other. The bit and bridal part is my own idea

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:01 PM (niZvt)

406 Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 09:56 PM (hXJOG)

That sounds right. Bacall was cute and young when they first made movies. I think she aged into a beautiful woman.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 06:02 PM (nEUpB)

407 Is this today's ONT? Speaking of which... I just remembered today is Sunday and tomorrow I have to go back to the salt pits to pay off all the new smart phones. Night M&M's.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:02 PM (niZvt)

408 The Elephant Man.  I bawled like a baby at the end.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:03 PM (Z71Vg)

409 Best western since John Wayne classics: Tombstone! (So run you cur, run, you tell them I'm coming, and Hell is coming with me!) Best scary movie in its day...Alien! Best movie about having and living for something greater: Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Just fun movie: Serenity.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:04 PM (JQ1k+)

410 450 @435 I liked her in Big Sleep too. If I remember, Bogart fucked Becall for years. Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 10:03 PM (hXJOG) Weren't they married? That would have taken all the fun out of it.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:04 PM (niZvt)

411 No Awards show for me tonight. It's *Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?* for me.  D'oh.

Would I be posting here if it were so?

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 06:04 PM (Onw8c)

412 Alien.  I nearly threw up when that thing came ripping out of his stomach.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:05 PM (Z71Vg)

413 Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married.

Posted by: mama winger at February 26, 2012 06:05 PM (P6QsQ)

414 452 The bit and bridal part is my own idea Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 10:01 PM (niZvt) I find the ladies prefer a Snaffle bit. For comfort. Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat for ACME in 2012 at February 26, 2012 10:03 PM (4BNY+) Just don't get carried away with the stirrups.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:05 PM (niZvt)

415 456 Alien. I nearly threw up when that thing came ripping out of his stomach. Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 10:05 PM (Z71Vg) Same thing happened to Liddy after Bob Dole popped one too many of the Blue Pills.

Posted by: Bob Dole Sporting Natural Railroad Spike at February 26, 2012 06:06 PM (niZvt)

416
Best friendly interrogation scene occurs in True Romance.


Posted by: sTevo at February 26, 2012 06:06 PM (VMcEw)

417 Bogart and Bacall were married until he died of cancer. 

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:07 PM (Z71Vg)

418 Comedies:

Spaceballs
Caddyshack
The Fifth Element

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 06:07 PM (HjPtV)

419 Posted by: Ohio Dan at February 26, 2012 10:00 PM (JKNDp)

Just bought and installed an inexpensive wireless access point to upgrade to "N."

It was less than $40, and it installed easily and is very fast!

TRENDnet 300 Mbps Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader (TEW-637AP)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 06:07 PM (nEUpB)

420 Good older westerns Shane, Hombre

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:09 PM (JQ1k+)

421 466 That is funny, got to love the wimens.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:10 PM (JQ1k+)

422 Citizen Kane was too "preachy." That is why liberals jack off to that movie.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:11 PM (JQ1k+)

423

Airplane!, funniest movie i ever saw in a theater

Aliens 2, the most draining movie i ever saw in the theater

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 26, 2012 06:11 PM (3Zo6I)

424 Foreign film: Monsoon Wedding The Road Home How could I forget MIB (first one only) Star Trek Search for Spock

Posted by: MathMom at February 26, 2012 06:12 PM (JGVrO)

425 The Great Escape was pretty good. And for comedy I have never laughed so hard as at the "Great Race." So many funny scenes. One of the best is Cuba Gooding Jr, finally loosing it with the bus of Lucy impersonators (Shut up all you Lucy Bitches!)

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:12 PM (JQ1k+)

426 468 No one here obviously liked Citizen Kane, which is ranked by many as THE greatest film ever made. I thought it was too damn long. http://tinyurl.com/yrvsnq Posted by: Billy Bob, the 1% at February 26, 2012 10:09 PM (hXJOG) It IS a great movie... so much so, it's become popular to denigrate simply for being so highly rated. I haven't seen it in years; was it really so long? By the way, "Rosebud" was Kane's nickname for Susan Alexander's squeakhole. That was Orsen Welles's little joke all those years.

Posted by: Bob Dole Sporting Natural Railroad Spike at February 26, 2012 06:13 PM (niZvt)

427 Off, dole sock

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:14 PM (niZvt)

428 Crap. I forgot Leon, The Professional.

Move everything after Tinker Tailor...down a notch.

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 06:14 PM (Onw8c)

429 Sunset Boulevard For Whom The Bell Tolls Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

Posted by: Scope at February 26, 2012 06:14 PM (YmI7r)

430

No Country for Old Men

Fargo

Hoosiers

The Quiet Man

Batman Begins

Finding Neverland

Wonder Boys

Cinema Paradiso

 

and many more...

Posted by: Book Geek at February 26, 2012 06:15 PM (ny/5i)

431 Hobo With a Shotgun.  Now THERE is cinema magic, right there.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:15 PM (Z71Vg)

432 479 463 Bogart and Bacall were married until he died of cancer. Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 10:07 PM (Z71Vg) They are still married in God's eyes. Posted by: Ricky Santorium at February 26, 2012 10:14 PM (hXJOG) Well no wonder he's a little stiff.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:16 PM (niZvt)

433 Of course The Artist got best score. It's a silent film, it's mostly music. That's a gimme.

Second look at Best Supporting Actor for Uggie the dog.

Posted by: Karusky at February 26, 2012 06:16 PM (kwOeR)

434

The Thing.. the re-make with Kurt Russell.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:16 PM (Z71Vg)

435

No "The Usual Suspects"? No "Deliverance"?

 

My list, off the top of my head:

No Country For Old Men

The Departed

Tombstone

Unforgiven

Heat

Anchorman

High Plains Drifter

Alien

Pitch Black

Glengarry Glen Ross

 

I could go on, but I won't.  I mostly watch TV now, it's honestly better than most movies...

Posted by: Ninja Please at February 26, 2012 06:17 PM (8AV+0)

436 The first Star Wars movie, remember it is over 35 years old. I saw it one day as my car was being worked on. I was down in the Hollywood area and went into a huge theater in Westwood (Hollywood area). Only about 20 of us in this huge theater, as Star Wars was not yet a huge deal and had only been out for a day or two. I was simply overwhelmed, first truly modern Sci Fi movie with production values beyond Plan 9 from Outer Space. All the rest of the Star War movies are worthless.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:18 PM (JQ1k+)

437 @486: I don't know if even Clint Eastwood could get away with the rape scenes in High Plains Drifter - and the idea that the women actually enjoyed it - today.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:18 PM (niZvt)

438 @486.. oohh, forgot Deliverance. Great movie.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 06:19 PM (Z71Vg)

439

Ah shit, I forgot "Hoosiers" and "Fargo" and probably a dozen others.  Dammit I hate this topic.

 

I'm actually looking forward to The Hunger Games....

 

Can't we have some of teh bewbies from red carpet? 

Posted by: Ninja Please at February 26, 2012 06:19 PM (8AV+0)

440 Crap, I have NO will power whatsoever... goodnight, I'm calling it quits for real.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 26, 2012 06:19 PM (niZvt)

441 That Ke$ha sure did look good in "The Departed", yeah?

Posted by: Giselle from Brasil at February 26, 2012 06:20 PM (+6ZZN)

442 Random Harvest. I got to deliver a console that we custom made for Greer Garson when I was a kid. It was in Dallas in the mid seventies. She was living in a swanky hi rise. Looked the same and very gracious. Clever movie

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 06:20 PM (cw+Yn)

443 Kurt Russell was pretty good in "Used Cars" and "Big Trouble In Little China"

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 06:21 PM (HjPtV)

444

@488- that, and the midget they made the mayor (who is basically EB Farnum from "Deadwood" before his time), are the reasons it stands out to me.

Posted by: Ninja Please at February 26, 2012 06:22 PM (8AV+0)

445 There was an old movie with Audrey Hepburn (Wait Until Dark) where she was a young blind woman and had to fight off an intruder into her apartment. She destroyed all the lights and sets up booby-traps (no the other kind of boobies!) I think she eventually kills or maims him.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:25 PM (JQ1k+)

446 I also think that "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" were the Duke's greatest films.

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2012 09:45 PM (HjPtV)

 

The Searchers.  Will watch it every time it's on.  Wayne, Ford, the cinematograhphy - legendary.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:26 PM (8DdAv)

447 this year -- "Tower Heist".  Classic.

Posted by: furious_a at February 26, 2012 06:26 PM (muUro)

448 Posted by: Bob Dole Sporting Natural Railroad Spike at February 26, 2012 10:13 PM (niZvt)

I doubt it's true, but it sure is funny!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 26, 2012 06:26 PM (nEUpB)

449 There was an old movie with Audrey Hepburn (Wait Until Dark) where she was a young blind woman and had to fight off an intruder into her apartment. She destroyed all the lights and sets up booby-traps (no the other kind of boobies!) I think she eventually kills or maims him.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 10:25 PM (JQ1k+)

 

Alan Arkin.  Just watched that the other night.  Saw it at the theater in Hollywood when it came out with a bunch of my girlfriends.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:29 PM (8DdAv)

450 The first Death Wish movie. And along that genre is "The Brave One," with Jodie Foster. Who aside from politics is the best female actress in the last twenty years.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:29 PM (JQ1k+)

451 I checked out the dresses at HuffPo. Viola Davis and Glenn Close were rocking the green dresses. That's the best Close has looked in ages imho. Octavia Spencer looked very good, no small feat for a larger gal. That was a nice dress on her.

Posted by: Y-not at February 26, 2012 06:29 PM (5H6zj)

452 The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Posted by: grease monkey at February 26, 2012 06:30 PM (VSWPU)

453

I did enjoy Citizen Kane, a lot.  The editing is chronological, but takes about five passes over the same story, getting deeper every time.  Even Andrew Brietbart will never get under the skin of media people the way Orson Welles gauled Hearst.  "Rosebud" was what he called his girlfriend's cl**.

Casino Royale:  If you make other Bond movies look thoughtless and silly in comparison, you've done it right.

Australia:  Should have been warned off by the ADD addled movies by the same director.  Pleasantly surprised, he made a movie with a very solid story structure.

Kill Bill 1 and 2:  Tarintino respects how hard it is to be an action director.

 

Posted by: Cincinnatus at February 26, 2012 06:31 PM (XlYR3)

454 Meremortal, the movie version was titled "Charly." Cliff Robertson was devastating.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at February 26, 2012 09:36 PM (a5ljo)

 

YES! Excellent. (Did you go to Catholic school?)

 

I like a lot of movies that weren't huge hits, just had quirky or unexpectedly good acting by what they called "character actors" or B film actors. 

 

Now that's odd. We've always heard about charactor actors, but character actresses? Maybe actor is meant unisex here, never noticed before... 

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 06:31 PM (Usk3+)

455 Little Miss Sunshine.
Young Frankenstein

Posted by: grease monkey at February 26, 2012 06:32 PM (VSWPU)

456 I also vote the "Searchers," was perhaps the best John Ford/John Wayne movie, cinematography was incredible, John Wayne at his best. Also the first glimpse of Natalie Wood, I think it was before West Side Story.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:32 PM (JQ1k+)

457

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 10:26 PM (8DdAv)

 

First time I saw  The Searchers was in 1971 in a dorm room at SMU. WE all were ripped on orange sunshine and couldn't stop watching it.  Isn't one line from the movie Wayne " they call you scar ! I can see where you got your name"

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 06:33 PM (cw+Yn)

458 The Oxbow Incident.  Fantastic movie.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:33 PM (8DdAv)

459 Young Frankenstein is my favorite Mel Brooks comedy, I thought it was better than Blazing Saddles. The scene with the Blind Man (Gene Hackman) is perhaps one of the funniest scenes of any movie.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:34 PM (JQ1k+)

460

OK, a crazy one. The original not the remake: Blow Up.

 

And, the one that makes Blow Up look sane: Scenes From A Marriage.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 26, 2012 06:35 PM (Usk3+)

461 Isn't one line from the movie Wayne " they call you scar ! I can see where you got your name" Yes saying it to the Indian Chief who had a big scar on his face.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 06:36 PM (JQ1k+)

462 I like documentaries like Red Dawn.

Posted by: Sad Dad at February 26, 2012 06:38 PM (Rwrs+)

463 The Thing.. the re-make with Kurt Russell.

Posted by: jewells45 at February 26, 2012 10:16 PM (Z71Vg)

 

Hah!  Went to see that at the midnight movie in Redondo Beach.  Sneaked some hard liquor in to spike the cokes!

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:39 PM (8DdAv)

464 The Exocrist. When all the gang went to see it at  a movie house everybody came over to stay at my house . frightening

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 06:41 PM (cw+Yn)

465 503The first Death Wish movie. And along that genre is "The Brave One," with Jodie Foster. Who aside from politics is the best female actress in the last twenty years.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 10:29 PM (JQ1k+)

 

 

 

The first Death Wish was a great movie, but the third one was ART!!!!

Posted by: Sad Dad at February 26, 2012 06:42 PM (Rwrs+)

466  I also vote the "Searchers," was perhaps the best John Ford/John Wayne movie, cinematography was incredible, John Wayne at his best. Also the first glimpse of Natalie Wood, I think it was before West Side Story.

Posted by: Jehu at February 26, 2012 10:32 PM (JQ1k+)

 

That shot at the end of the movie, with John Wayne standing in the doorway, just plain masterful.  Holy crap, such a great, great movie.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:48 PM (8DdAv)

467

My Favorite Film ever is cool Hand Luke.

Best Coen brothers movie for me was Blood Simple.

Liked how the key clue in Citizen Kane about what rosebud meant was when Kane as a child kept screaming dubesor, dubesor when he was out playing in the snow.

Posted by: Oscars suck at February 26, 2012 06:48 PM (3nndF)

468

I enjoyed Munich...Mrs Meanie and I engage in the kind of nightmarish trauma sex on Saturdays depicted in the...um, climax of the film.  Wonder if it will produce a child. 

The King's Speech...the king's speech itself was wonderful filmmaking.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 26, 2012 06:55 PM (Aj1Ag)

469 The oscars are suck. Why people would want an award from group that never honored people like hitchcock ,cary grant, irene dunne, deb kerr,etc

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 06:57 PM (cw+Yn)

470 Favorite Hitchcock movie is Rear Window.  I think Thelma Ritter was probably in a gazillion movies in the 40's and 50's.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 06:58 PM (8DdAv)

471 Just came back from Act of Valor. That's my pick! Great movie. I was on the edge of my seat quite a bit.

Posted by: Bosk at February 26, 2012 06:58 PM (V07Nc)

472

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou" Which is crazy because I  usually detest  musicals with the burning  fury of a thousand SMOD's..

 

Posted by: Release. The. Hounds.. at February 26, 2012 07:00 PM (kILUO)

473

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 10:58 PM (8DdAv)

 

you should try to see some of hitch's early silent films. They are great

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 07:02 PM (cw+Yn)

474 Another faovrite John Wayne/John Ford movie:  The Quiet Man with Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald, and Mildred Natwick.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:05 PM (8DdAv)

475 you should try to see some of hitch's early silent films. They are great

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 11:02 PM (cw+Yn)

 

Didn't know he made silent films.  Any in particular?

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:06 PM (8DdAv)

476

@441 - Yes, Jewell45 - Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour starred in "Somewhere in Time"; Christopher Plummer was in it as well.

 

Apparently the hotel has a SiT weekend every year, and tons of people come from all over.

 

The music was amazing, too.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 26, 2012 07:07 PM (0xqzf)

477 Nobody has ever looked like M o'hara in the hunchback of ND. The gene pool has been infected

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 07:08 PM (cw+Yn)

478

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 11:06 PM (8DdAv)

 

Ithink he made about 20 or 30 that he actually finished. The Manxman is a good one

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 07:13 PM (cw+Yn)

479 " BTW, some talking head on MSNBC called the GOP debates a "palefest." Irony. Liberals really have no sense of it, do they? " Yeah well the liberals said that the woman was psycho and the black guy seemed kind of rapey and the southerner was too damned dumb. And we fucking listened. So here we are.

Posted by: cackfinger at February 26, 2012 07:15 PM (a9mQu)

480 Give it to Sid Vicious!  Gary Oldman!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 26, 2012 07:17 PM (Aj1Ag)

481 Another great movie is Three days of the condor even though it got the creep in it . And another is Babette's Feast.

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 07:20 PM (cw+Yn)

482

Started watching movies on TV when I was about 8 years old.  My sister and I got home from school (Catholic) earlier than our friends (public) so we watched the daily movie.  Must have seen every movie made in the 30's, 40's, and 50's.  Can you imagine?  Every day we were mesmerized by these great films.  I remember we were the only ones in our crowd who knew who Jack Benny was.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:25 PM (8DdAv)

483 Ass Pirates of Indonesia

Posted by: Barak Insane Obamao at February 26, 2012 07:26 PM (WUWb9)

484 Give it to Sid Vicious! Gary Oldman!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 26, 2012 11:17 PM (Aj1Ag)

 

Fantastic movie!  Gary Oldman and Chole Webb were unbelievable.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:28 PM (8DdAv)

485 After scrolling through Moron comments to #477, I have to amend my #440 to include as contendahs:

Blues Brothers.

Twelve O'Clock High.

Slap Shot.

Treasure of Sierra Madre.

MIB.

and...

The Third Man. (Orson Wells, Joseph Cotten). Harry Lime is one of the best bad guys ever. And that damn music track sticks in my head to this day.

So... The Third Man is my new 1st runner up. Move everything else down a notch. Add The Blues Brothers to the catch-all runner up winners, which is now called Honorable Mentions.

(not that anyone here gives a damn what an apprentice Moron thinks).

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 07:31 PM (Onw8c)

486 Third Man Theme link

http://tinyurl.com/7u9q3x5

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 07:36 PM (Onw8c)

487 "Buffalo '66"

Posted by: navybrat at February 26, 2012 07:39 PM (Gxbth)

488 Another great movie is Three days of the condor even though it got the creep in it . And another is Babette's Feast.

Posted by: underbid at February 26, 2012 11:20 PM (cw+Yn)

 

The creep!  Just watched that the other night and man did I laugh at the end when Cliff Robertson revealed/confirmed the "conspiracy" to be the U.S. wanting to steal the oil from arab countries because we were running out of oil!!  Hah!  What a laugh riot.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:41 PM (8DdAv)

489 If my favorite movies are the one's that I have watched the most, at least twenty times each, they would be Casablanca Soilder Overboard The Professional Taxi Driver Groundhog Day Major Payne Roadhouse Cool Hand Luke Mr. Roberts Deer Hunter Training Day Can't avoid watching these movies when they're on. Does that make them my favorite. I think it's more like crack to a crack addict.

Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at February 26, 2012 07:45 PM (xJTAH)

490 Final scene The Third Man here:

http://tinyurl.com/7u9q3x5

Posted as a reminder for those who have seen the movie. Those who haven't seen it and want to can click the link just for more zither variations on the musical theme. No spoiler if you don't watch.

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 07:47 PM (Onw8c)

491 Oops. Wrong link.

Correct link:

http://tinyurl.com/7t33567

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 07:50 PM (Onw8c)

492 @polynikes re: Roadhouse - I can't believe both Dalton and Brad Wesley are both dead. Just weird.

Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 26, 2012 07:52 PM (ZiYQG)

493

Gene Hackman in The Conversation.  Great director (Coppola) and great cast: John Cazale, Frederick Forrest, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford (!)

 

John Cazale reminds me of The Deer Hunter.  Epic.

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:53 PM (8DdAv)

494
RE: home phone vs. cell.  I use a cell phone to communicate, but have a home phone in the form of MagicJack -- sort of an IP phone USB device -- so I can deflect all the telemarketing, etc., to my "home phone."

Nice thing about MJ is voicemail is emailed to you as .wav attachment. You never have to answer the thing if you don't want, and its around $30 a year.


Posted by: Sphynx at February 26, 2012 07:54 PM (M0c4a)

495

Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at February 26, 2012 11:45 PM (xJTAH)

 

Isn't Overboard on, like, every five minutes?  Overboard and Dirty Dancing, cable filler.  Love Overboard, tho.  Tufutti, Tuffuti!

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 07:56 PM (8DdAv)

496 Not necessarily the greatest, but fun/good off top of head:

kill bills, goodfellas, silverado, tombstone, boondock saints, punisher, brazil, oh, f*ck it.

Posted by: eureka! at February 26, 2012 07:58 PM (2IGbS)

497 Oh definitely The Third Man. And lots of other classic Film Noir films: Double Indemnity &The Big Heat, and etc. etc.

And Hitchcock - Rear Window, Vertigo, etc.

And a beautiful British David Lean love story, Brief Encounter, that I adore.

Posted by: jeannebodine, SMOD-Bot at February 26, 2012 08:11 PM (byR8d)

498 Cafe Mozart Waltz from The Third Man:

http://tinyurl.com/7dcxejy

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 08:17 PM (Onw8c)

499 Ha, the Oscars.  I was just talking about them with someone on the phone.  No one cares.  I think they should just rename them to the "Circle Jerk Awards."

Although everyone seems to think "The Artist" is great and everything.  I'll  probably see it when it hits DVD.

Even the Harry Potter folks thought "The Artist" was OK:

http://tinyurl.com/6o726vm

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2012 08:20 PM (i0App)

500 Hah! Went to see that at the midnight movie in Redondo Beach. Sneaked some hard liquor in to spike the cokes!

Posted by: JoAnne at February 26, 2012 10:39 PM (8DdAv)


Sit in the back row, balcony, did you?


Was it called the Strand/ Or was that the name of the theater in Manhattan Beach, I forget.

Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 08:23 PM (Onw8c)

501 Great thread. Am surprised however at how many folks are listing Dr. Strangelove among their best-of lists, given it's also a hard-core lefty fave.

Having said that, IMHO Stanley Kubrick was the last, least PC, most "real man" of a director Hollywood's ever had (that wasn't also a raging alcoholic, a la Sam Peckinpah).

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 26, 2012 08:53 PM (JOM6t)

502 Heat
Se7en
Fight Club
Leon
Dog Day Afternoon
Inglorious Basterds
Taxi Driver
True Romance
American History X
No Country for Old Men
A Bronx Tale
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Posted by: gride at February 26, 2012 09:16 PM (wPKc6)

503 "Yeah well the liberals said that the woman was psycho and the black guy seemed kind of rapey and the southerner was too damned dumb."

The woman was corrupt, not psycho; she was in the tank for Romney. The black guy had a number of problems, but rape was NOT one of them, and so the attacks on him were just tragic. But the Texan was, indeed, dumb.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at February 26, 2012 09:29 PM (QTHTd)

504 Robert, consider this payback:

http://tinyurl.com/7u9q3x5


Posted by: Hammersmith Police at February 26, 2012 09:31 PM (Onw8c)

505

My favorite movie is "Santa Sangre" a mexican independent film. Mutants, mongoloids, excessive drinking and clowns. The film's producer was almost killed escaping the Alcupulco film festival after that was shown.

I also love Japanese splatter films, like Ichi The Killer, Machine Girl.

The best kung fu movie of all time is The One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Gillotine.

Posted by: Dumpsterjuice at February 26, 2012 09:42 PM (B6U0F)

506

Forget "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" and "Clockwork Orange"

Posted by: Dumpsterjuice at February 26, 2012 09:45 PM (B6U0F)

507 523 Best Coen brothers movie for me was Blood Simple. I only saw that once, on TV a long time ago. All I remember about it was one scene where a guy killed somebody and tried to clean up the crime scene. He just kept making it worse and worse as panic set in. It was both hilarious and cringe-inducing. Nobody portrays criminals better than the Coen brothers. They really understand how criminals tend to act on impulse, with no regard for the consequences.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at February 26, 2012 10:20 PM (sdi6R)

508 "My Sassy Girl" and "Windstruck", because I am a romantic and love sappy, subtitled foreign movies.

Oh, and "Lesbians for Bush" because without my support porn would not be a billion dollar industry.

Posted by: befuddled at February 27, 2012 12:49 AM (xJU23)

509

Some favorites that I have not seen mentioned...

Lawrence of Arabia

My Man Godfrey

All About Eve

A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim-- I don't know why but I prefer this over the George C Scott version--hands down)

The Apartment

The Day of The Jackal

Midnight Run

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Defending Your Life

Arsenic and Old Lace


 

Posted by: Some guy you don't know in Wisconsin at February 27, 2012 01:20 AM (QK1XT)

510

Oh, and...

Dog Day Afternoon

Raging Bull

Out of Africa

Raising Arizona

Millers Crossing

Strangers on a Train

My Fair Lady

The King and I

Roman Holiday

Cousins

 

Posted by: Some guy you don't know in Wisconsin at February 27, 2012 01:34 AM (QK1XT)

511 Congwesshunanal Congwess. Pawt Twu

Posted by: Bwaney Fwank at February 27, 2012 01:43 AM (r0HMQ)

512

Oh, and...

Immortal Beloved

Out of Sight

Red River

The Man Who Would be King

Zulu

Mona Lisa

A Shock to the System ( A lot of Michael Caine movies in a row eh?  Is it wrong to have a man crush on Michael Caine in these movies? 

The Beast

Breaking Away

Fargo

Posted by: Some guy you don't know in Wisconsin at February 27, 2012 01:48 AM (QK1XT)

513

Butterfield 8.

Liz was HOT.

Nasty hot.

Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at February 27, 2012 02:48 AM (Mv/2X)

514 @559 Boulder Toilet Hobo - The Texan was not dumb. The Texan had just undergone back surgery, and IMHO the anesthetic was still farking with his brain, and the pain was why he was running out of gas by the end of the debates. I've had surgery 5 times, and that sudden memory hole happens for several months after anesthetic. And the pain wears you out. You get better after about 6 weeks. Tincture of time - nothing else works. HE unfortunately went on the campaign trail too soon after surgery. If you still hold that belief, please explain how he can be dumb and still make an economic environment in which more jobs are created than in all the other 49 states combined?

Posted by: MathMom at February 27, 2012 04:03 AM (JGVrO)

515 Very few things in life cannot be described or summed up by a quote from "Die Hard" or "Ghostbusters."  Put another way, "Yippie-ki-yay, moth*r-f*ker" is useful in many areas of life.

Aside from those two, "Wait Until Dark" w/ Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin is one of the great great thrillers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 27, 2012 06:13 AM (WuRdj)

516 395 My Dad thought that scene in "Cat Ballou" with Lee Marvin and his horse leaning against the building was one of the funniest moments in film.
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For my dad, it was this moment in Cary Grant's "Father Goose":

Walter ([Cary Grant] trying to teach Leslie Caron to fish with her hands):  Hey, here she comes.

Catherine [Leslie]:  How do you know it's a "she"?

Walter:  Her mouth is open.  Now be quiet.

(My father practically fell off the couch at that exchange, he was laughing so hard)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 27, 2012 06:27 AM (WuRdj)

517 What, no props for Stripes? I laughed my ass off at that film.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 27, 2012 06:51 AM (Itxwp)

518 First glimpse of Natalie Wood?  Not The Searchers. She had been in the movies a long time by then.  The first I remember is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.  I still remember the shock I felt when little Anna comes back, all grown up and it wasn't Natalie Wood.  Best Natalie Wood movie ever?  The Cracker Factory.  Best Natalie Wood movie also containing Peter Falk (pbuh) Penelope.

Posted by: mangas colorados at February 27, 2012 07:42 AM (6pmec)

519 574  . . . Best Natalie Wood movie ever? The Cracker Factory. . . .
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Mangas, I remember that -- a TV-movie adaptation of a very funny novel by, I think, Joyce Rebeta-Burditt.  I recall a line in the novel when a doctor is asking the narrator/lead, Cassie (Natalie's role), about any physical problems with her sexual activity:

Doctor:  "Do you ever get irritated?"

Cassie: "Only when he . . .  Never mind."


Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 27, 2012 08:21 AM (WuRdj)

520

What in the world is wrong with you dumb f*ckin' morons?  575 posts, and just one mention of Fast Times at Ridgemont High?  Only 2 mentions of Dog Day Afternoon?  2 for Raging Bull?  2 or 3 for the Deer Hunter?  3 or 4 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

No mentions of:

The French Connection

Serpico

Scarface

The Warriors

Up In Smoke

Next Movie

This Is Spinal Tap

Cannonball Run

Get a hold of yourselves you miserable, low-life, pathetic, shut-in, sons-a-b!tches!  I can relate to how obsessive compulsive hobo hunting is, but f*ckin' A!  Try something else every once in a while.  Scavenge your damn sofa cushions for loose change, go buy yourself a case of half gallon bottles of Value-Rite vodka, and spend the next couple of weekends renting and watching the movies in this post.  All of them are arguably at the top of their genres. 

Take hold of the immortal wisdom from The Hollywood Shuffle and, "Please, please, please, just get your sh!t together."

 

Posted by: Sir Eloquence at February 27, 2012 01:51 PM (qC2vD)

521 Most of my favorites have been covered already, but there's one comedy no one has mentioned. I'm not surprised. I think I've met exactly one person who had seen it, and he loved it too.

It's called "Fear of a Black Hat," and it's a rap satire, and it's incredibly funny. It vanished without a trace originally because it was released opposite another rap satire that had Chris Rock in it, and this one had no famous actors (although it did have a guy who was in Revenge of the Nerds, in a very different character).

It's crude and profane, yes, but it's also subtle in many spots, with a lot of clever writing. The whole thing purports to be a documentary by an earnest female grad student. In one scene, the group's lead, Ice Cold, explains to the earnest grad student about the group's name, N!ggas with Hats.

"You see, we've got a whole hat philosophy. Back when there was slaves and stuff, brothers worked out in the hot sun all day, HATLESS. So at the end of the day, they was too tired to rebel against they masters. What we're saying with N!ggas with Hats, is, hey, we got some HATS now, motherfuckers!"

The guy who wrote it also stars. Check it out.

Posted by: Splunge at February 27, 2012 04:40 PM (2IW5Q)

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