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[thoughtforfood]

Originally Posted by nns1400

I actually forgot to put my favorite movie of all time, The Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, plus:

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Cool Hand Luke
Hang'em High

and to prove I'm a girl, Wuthering Heights, the new one with Ralph Fiennes
The English Patient
Sense & Sensibility
Emma

Also, if someone can admit they liked Hooper, then I will put my guilty pleasure down as Dude, Where's My Car? and Joe Dirt.

Most quoted in my household: Caddyshack and The Water Boy

It is quite obvious that I am the dark brooding one here. I just love the "feel bad" movies. I remember seeing To Live and Die in LA, and being so happy that the hero got blown away with a shotgun in the end. I do have guilty pleasures like Caddyshack and Joe Dirt, but usually only see them once or twice. I have seen Apocalypse Now well over 40 times. I am definately hard to please when it comes to movies. Here are some others that are not so dark:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
White
Blue
Red
Night on Earth
Reflecting Skin (OK, actually, that is probably THE darkest, but still a great movie)
Anchorman
Napoleon Dynamite
Heat (especially the 15 or so minutes after they walk out of the bank)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
A Bridge too Far
The Bridge of the River Kwai
My Favorite Year
Three Kings
Evil Dead 2

Wow, I could literally go on for hours

[nns1400]

Originally Posted by thoughtforfood

It is quite obvious that I am the dark brooding one here. I just love the "feel bad" movies. I remember seeing To Live and Die in LA, and being so happy that the hero got blown away with a shotgun in the end. I do have guilty pleasures like Caddyshack and Joe Dirt, but usually only see them once or twice. I have seen Apocalypse Now well over 40 times. I am definately hard to please when it comes to movies. Here are some others that are not so dark:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
White
Blue
Red
Night on Earth
Reflecting Skin (OK, actually, that is probably THE darkest, but still a great movie)
Anchorman
Napoleon Dynamite
Heat (especially the 15 or so minutes after they walk out of the bank)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
A Bridge too Far
The Bridge of the River Kwai
My Favorite Year
Three Kings
Evil Dead 2

Wow, I could literally go on for hours

No Reservoir Dogs? That's pretty uplifting.

Seriously, I think I have early onset of Alzheimer's, because I forgot the best movie -- Office Space. About A Boy is great too.

OK...WORST MOVIES???? Quest For Fire (sorry Bro), Cabin Boy, Water World...who's got worse ones? See you guys in a couple of days.........

[Bro Deal]

Originally Posted by thoughtforfood

It is quite obvious that I am the dark brooding one here. I just love the "feel bad" movies. I remember seeing To Live and Die in LA, and being so happy that the hero got blown away with a shotgun in the end.

Ooh, I forgot about To Live and Die in LA. One of the best car chases ever. I am really not too pleased with the CGI car stuff in movies like The Fast and the Furious. And the overly edited chase scenes in movies like The Transporter remind me of the difference between fights with extended spans of no editing in HK movies and one second snippets of film that are edited together to form Hollywood fight scenes.

[Frigo's Luggage]

Originally Posted by Bro Deal

I never got what all the hub bub was about American Beauty.

I was never a big fan of Once Upon a Time in America. I remember it as being ponderous and slow, much like I remember Once Upon a Time in the West.

It has been a long time since I saw Salvadore. This was from a time before Oliver Stone lost it and could write and direct a decent flick.

Pulp Fiction rocks. What else can be said other than it is too bad that Tarantino seems to be trying too hard on everything he did after this. I haven't seen Death Proof yet but hear good things about it.

I have never seen Before Sunrise. Generally I like Ethan Hawke's movies so I will have to check this out.

I don't think Jaws holds up very well. Perhaps because it has been copied so much. I like the animatronic shark a lot more than the bad CGI stuff they often use today; it looks a lot more real.

The Killing Fields depressed me. I don't think I would want to watch it again.

Casablanca is an Fing great with an incredible script. I love the Bogart films of that era. Treasure of Sierra Madre, Sahara, The Maltese Falcon, The Caine Mutiny, etc.

The Bad News Bears I barely recall. I think I saw it on TV once. There were two or three sequels if I remember right.

Hooper does indeed suck. I caught it on cable a few months ago. It is better than the Smokey and the Bandit movies... It is Burt Reynolds being Burt Reynolds. Boy, did he go downhill after Deliverance.

I always liked the The Deep. Richard Harris is always great.

I threw in Hooper to see if people were paying attention. Probably one of the worst films ever.

I should have thought about the list more. Chinatown should be on it.

[Bro Deal]

Originally Posted by nns1400

OK...WORST MOVIES???? Quest For Fire (sorry Bro), Cabin Boy, Water World...who's got worse ones? See you guys in a couple of days.........

Hey, Quest for Fire is an interesting movie. No dialogue. Sabretooth tigers. Cannibals. A naked Rae Dawn Chong. Anyway, it's different, which is what will generally make me happy with a movie.

Waterworld was a bad movie, but it was nearly a cinematic masterpiece compared to some of the crap I have sat through in the last few years. I am talking about steaming piles like Stealth, Ultraviolet, Matrix Revolutions, Rollerball, Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, Date Movie, Gigli, Bloodrayne, Catwoman, Van Helsing, the Star Wars prequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, I Spy, and Charie's Angels: Full Throttle.

[Frigo's Luggage]

Originally Posted by Bro Deal

Hey, Quest for Fire is an interesting movie. No dialogue. Sabretooth tigers. Cannibals. A naked Rae Dawn Chong. Anyway, it's different, which is what will generally make me happy with a movie.

Waterworld was a bad movie, but it was nearly a cinematic masterpiece compared to some of the crap I have sat through in the last few years. I am talking about steaming piles like Stealth, Ultraviolet, Matrix Revolutions, Rollerball, Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, Date Movie, Gigli, Bloodrayne, Catwoman, Van Helsing, the Star Wars prequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, I Spy, and Charie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Girl on a Swing has to get votes for worst movie.

[thoughtforfood]

Originally Posted by Frigo's Luggage

Girl on a Swing has to get votes for worst movie.

City Slickers II: Legend of Curley's Gold
Anything with Jean-Claude Van Damme EXCEPT Blood Sport (not well acted, but come one, that is a guy film)
Penitentiary II

[Bro Deal]

Originally Posted by thoughtforfood

Anything with Jean-Claude Van Damme EXCEPT Blood Sport (not well acted, but come one, that is a guy film)

I thought Time Cop and Maximum Risk were okay. At least Van Damme kept in shape. I think Seagal gained ten pounds per movie through the first part of his career. You watch Above the Law these days and it's like, "Whoa, I forgot that Seagal used to be thin."

[thoughtforfood]

Originally Posted by Bro Deal

I thought Time Cop and Maximum Risk were okay. At least Van Damme kept in shape. I think Seagal gained ten pounds per movie through the first part of his career. You watch Above the Law these days and it's like, "Whoa, I forgot that Seagal used to be thin."

Yea, Seagal was almost as bad an actor as Chuck Norris.

[Bro Deal]

Originally Posted by thoughtforfood

Yea, Seagal was almost as bad an actor as Chuck Norris.

How dare you attack Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris does not tea bag people, he potato sacks them.

[thoughtforfood]

Originally Posted by Bro Deal

How dare you attack Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris does not tea bag people, he potato sacks them.

I'll beat his 70 year old ass so badly, he will long for the days of movie punches.....I hope he doesn't read that.

[weedvspeed]

Originally Posted by thoughtforfood

It is quite obvious that I am the dark brooding one here. I just love the "feel bad" movies. I remember seeing To Live and Die in LA, and being so happy that the hero got blown away with a shotgun in the end.

1) Das Boot.

Controversial as its the Axis point of view but for me the best 'anti-war' war film ever. Even better in the unedited serial BBC2 version. Think that ran to about 5 hours. The films still good but not as good.
AAAALLLLLLAAAAARRRRRRMMMMMMM.
P.S. watch the flick in german with subtitles as the dubbed version is ****e.

Other top films for me.No particular order.

Weird science. (still 15 at heart)
Shawshank
Mad Max (first one only)
Easy Rider
Serpico
Violent Cop (Kitano classic)
Kung Pow 'enter the fist'
Aliens
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Its A Wonderful Life.

Couple of books

Shogun
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

[thoughtforfood]

Originally Posted by weedvspeed

1) Das Boot.

Controversial as its the Axis point of view but for me the best 'anti-war' war film ever. Even better in the unedited serial BBC2 version. Think that ran to about 5 hours. The films still good but not as good.
AAAALLLLLLAAAAARRRRRRMMMMMMM.
P.S. watch the flick in german with subtitles as the dubbed version is ****e.

Other top films for me.No particular order.

Weird science. (still 15 at heart)
Shawshank
Mad Max (first one only)
Easy Rider
Serpico
Violent Cop (Kitano classic)
Kung Pow 'enter the fist'
Aliens
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Its A Wonderful Life.

Couple of books

Shogun
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

I love Das Boot.

Have you ever seen The Beast, also out under the name The Tank. It is about a Russian tank in Afghanistan. Very good along side Das Boot.

[weedvspeed]

Yep. That was good too.
Russian conscripts drinking brake fluid whilst 'Tankboy' goes nuts.
Funny how opinion about the Mujahideen has radically altered now its the west not the east sticking it to them.

[Bro Deal]

Originally Posted by weedvspeed

Yep. That was good too.
Russian conscripts drinking brake fluid whilst 'Tankboy' goes nuts.
Funny how opinion about the Mujahideen has radically altered now its the west not the east sticking it to them.

They are not mujhadeen; they are militants. If they attack occupiers from a country we don't like, they are freedom fighters. If they attack occupiers from our country, they are terrorists. Get it straight.

There are a whole bunch of war films like Das Boot that made me think that hiding out in Canada would be a perfectly honorable way to spend time during a war. I thought Kubrick's Paths of Glory was, in many ways, an even more damning indictment of war.