Movie Thread

George Bright · **Posted:** Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:41 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

I have 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'Failsafe' on the same tape.

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

Top Gun
The Shinning
Rain Man
A Few Good Men
Porky's
Total Recall
Good Will Hunting
The Fugitive
Dirty Harry
Good Morning, Vietnam
Basic Instinct
Barb Wire
Tootsie
Full Metal Jacket
The Philadelphia Experiment
Blazing Saddles
American Beauty
Psycho
Apocolypse Now
Debbie Does Dallas
The Perfect Storm
Platoon
The Terminator
Braveheart
Robin Hood, Men in Tights
Die Hard
The Devil's Own

Chris Landi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:31 pm **Posts:** 579

Good job Graham, I almost missed what you slipped in there

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:23 pm

Chris Landi wrote:

:D

Good job Graham, I almost missed what you slipped in there

You must be referring to the "men in tights"!

ChuckNelson · **Posted:** Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:41 pm

Mad Max and The Road Warrior.
Two of my favorite all time movies. The Scirocco nearly got the Black on Black paint job of the V-8 Interceptor
I spent years(No internet back then) trying to figure out what the Interceptor was built from. Everyone thought the car was based on something from their favorite marquee. I thought it was a '71 GT Torino, close but wrong. The car is a '73 Falcon XB(Aussie only)
I saw The Road Warrior first, it came out right after I turned sixteen. What a pivotal movie for a kid that just started tinkering on his first car ('74 Mercury Capri) I saw that movie a dozen times in the theater. I still play the music in my head when I autocross.
Then Mad Max started showing on HBO late at night. We had no VCR so I just set the alarm and got up at two am to watch it, over and over.
I even kinda like Beyond Thunderdome.
The best site to geek out, http://www.madmaxmovies.com/ , Peter Barton has put everything on this site. Real cars, fan cars, models, locations, actor info, everything.

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Stacy King wrote:

The Sting
Star Wars (Episode IV of course)
Smokey and the Bandit (unedited, of course)

Pretty-much any Cameron Crowe flick (including Vanilla Sky)

Four Rooms is utterly entertaining

I just watched Layer Cake (Daniel Craig, the new Bond guy) and thoroughly enjoyed that as well

Stacy, you and I have very similar taste in movies! Vanilla Sky is one that I have been wanting to watch again.

Emmie Fisher · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:53 am

What?!? I can't believe that nobody has mentioned *the* best movie of all time...

Raiders of the Lost Ark

ChuckNelson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:01 am

Emmie Fisher wrote:

What?!? I can't believe that nobody has mentioned *the* best movie of all time...

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sadly, I have spent a fair amount of time here as well, http://www.indygear.com/index.shtml That is a great movie(series of movies) Still, The Road Warrior is better.

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:37 am

Matt's top 5 (in no particular order)

16 Candles - that is not a typo. Those of us that are 30-something lived every minute of that movie in the 80s. Seen is 30+ times, LMAO every time.

True Lies - explosion, ass kickings, Jamie Lee Curtis not wearing much. Brilliant!

Addams Family - I really like that type of comedy. Funny stuff right there.

Driven - just kidding....

Bourne Identity/Supremecy - books good, movies fantastic. Very well done. Excellent soundtrack by Moby. "Ultimatum" should be released mid-late '07. Can't wait!

Star Wars IV - cannot be beaten (the original before Lucas got ahold of it again)

Bonus pick: Sneakers. BIG TIME stars in this little-known movie. Robert Redford, River Phoenix (one of his last movies) Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones. Absolutely worth a rent. 2 thumbs up.

Stacy King · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:54 am

Matt Nicholson wrote:

16 Candles - that is not a typo. Those of us that are 30-something lived every minute of that movie in the 80s. Seen is 30+ times, LMAO every time.

Anthony Michael Hall is my hero...

Weird Science yeah!!

Quote:

Bonus pick: Sneakers. BIG TIME stars in this little-known movie. Robert Redford, River Phoenix (one of his last movies) Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones. Absolutely worth a rent. 2 thumbs up.

Agree, sneakers is probably the all-time sleeper movie... but I don't remember Dan Akroyd in it... its been a while since I've seen it though.

I'd also like to add:

Any movie with John Cusak (except maybe Grifters, that was pretty bad)... top three John Cusak movies:

Grosse Point Blank (speaking of Dan Akroyd...)
Serendipity
Better Off Dead

While we're on comedies...

Raising Arizona (Nic Cage's finest work)
Office Space
This is Spinal Tap

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:54 am

Matt Nicholson wrote:

Bonus pick: Sneakers. BIG TIME stars in this little-known movie. Robert Redford, River Phoenix (one of his last movies) Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones. Absolutely worth a rent. 2 thumbs up.

Agreed, that's a very good movie. I'd put Sleepers right there with it though.

For comedy I LOVE the classic...Airplane! "Roger, roger. Over, under. What's your vector, Victor?" Good stuff!

Matt Nicholson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:40 am

"How the clearance, Clarance?"

Better Off Dead: TOTALLY forgot about that (how could I?!?!) That might knock something out of my top 5. Sheer brilliance.

"This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?!?!?

Quote:

"don't remember Dan Akroyd in it"

He was "Mother"

Everytime I watch that movie I am stunned as to how it flew in under the radar. I never saw a trailer for it ever, never heard it reviewed, nothing.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

For those fans of Vanilla Sky, you owe it to yourself to watch the original "Abre Los Ojos" a superior film as long as you can stomach the subtitles. Best part is watching Penélope Cruz speak in her native language. Simply awesome...

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:31 pm

We must all be children of the 80's. :lol:

As mentioned above, I also like...

16 Candles
Weird Science
Better Off Dead
Raising Arizona
The Shining
Blazing Saddles
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Airplane

Not mentioned yet, but along the same lines...

Young Frankenstein
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Cameron Crowe is excellent. Watched part of Vanilla Sky recently and really liked it)
Red Dawn

Classics at this point...

Blade Runner
Tron
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
2001

Foreign Films...

The Seven Samurai
Tampopo
8 1/2

Lets go for odd...

Big Trouble in Little China
Escape from New York
Amazon Women on the Moon
Soylent Green
The Omega Man (Am I the only person who has seen this?)

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:45 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

Weird Science

Talk about a hot chick back then...drool.

Richard Casto wrote:

Not mentioned yet, but along the same lines...
Breakfast Club

I've got to be one the only one of my generation that thought that was the dumbest movie evar. A group of kids in detention talking for a whole movie...boring.

Richard Casto wrote:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Red Dawn

Bothe were awesome! I've seen them both MANY time. Wolverines FTW!!!

Richard Casto wrote:

Lets go for odd...

Big Trouble in Little China

I really liked that one too. Kurt Russel right?

Anyobody a fan of Teri Hatcher? She was hot in Tango and Cash.

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