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Red Dawn
Big Trouble in Little China

Young Frankenstein
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Red Dawn

Tron

Big Trouble in Little China

The Omega Man (Am I the only person who has seen this?)

Matt Damon

IMHO he makes just about any movie better

Good Will Hunting
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Bourne Identity (again)
Rounders (again)
The Departed (what started this whole thread right?)

Hell... he even made The Brother's Grimm watchable (almost)

Don't forget Dogma. Man that is a fun movie

Mallrats

I'm guessing so since I've never heard of it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/

Ok, it's a 1970’s "B movie" that is enjoyable due to the dated look (it’s a product of the period) and unintended campy acting. So it's not Citizen Kane or anything. Basically it has Charlton Heston living in a post apocalyptic US. There was a bio weapon or something that got loose and converted everyone to night dwelling zombies of some sort, but he is immune. What is great about the movie is how "hip" and “fun” his character makes post apocalyptic life seem. The bad guys don't come out during the day, so he cruises around town in his safari outfit in his convertible with a sub-machine casually laying in the passenger seat. He just has to race back to his fortress of a penthouse before it gets dark, listen to music, play chess with himself and enjoy being a modern renaissance man. Oh, and kill a few zombies every so often.

What about some good old ones like:

The Longest Yard
The Dirty Dozen
The Son's of Katie Elder (any movie with the Duke is good!)

Read up on American History X. The director's intent and the final film are very far apart, and the Director's Guild didn't allow him to pull an Alan Smithee either.

Monday, November 06, 2006
Director's Cut Of American History X Coming... But Not So Soon
There might be two years to wait until the tenth anniversary of American History X but already Tony Kaye is working on a director's cut special edition of the film.

How is such a project even possible after such an acrimonious split between director and studio? Well, it looks like that Kaye has not only eaten a little humble pie, he is also back in the good books of New Line. I didn't think this possible after his bitter rows with Edward Norton those eight long years ago - rows that saw Norton and the studio winning final cut on the film (well, final cut for eight years, anyway).

No details on how this new version will differ from the one we all know, but I believe the crux of the disagreement hung upon the film's ending. I'm assuming Kaye's involvement will negate the possibility of any new Norton interviews or commentary? Or are they all friends again now?

Reportedly, Kaye is also about to start work on Madness, a thriller from a screenplay by the story structure guru, Robert McKee. For all of McKee's wisdom and professional clear-thinking about the writing of scripts, this would be his first one produced and I'm curious to see if he has practiced all he preaches.

We'll possibly all go grey waiting for those two but Lake of Fire will be released around the world in the coming months. This is Tony Kaye's heavily feted new documentary about the pro-choice/pro-life war - two and a half hours long, reputedly very balanced but undeniably very graphic and shocking.

All that's missing from this Tony Kaye revival is a Director's Label disc of his promos and music videos, but something tells me that must be imminent too.