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Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

The Godfather Part Two
Glengarry Glen Ross
Heist
(David Mamet pwnZ -- "My [guy's] so cool that when sheep go to sleep they count *him*"
"Hey, I'm as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. / I don't want you as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. I want you as quiet as an ant not even thinking about pissing on cotton.")

Sin City
Heat
The Seven Year Itch
The Odd Couple
From Dusk Till Dawn

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

Les Davis wrote:

Richard Casto wrote:

Matt Nicholson wrote:

Quote:

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

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.

Wow, I can't believe I haven't seen that movie before, for some reason I love Post-apocalyptic zombie movies and its even got a pretty decent imdb rating. I just added it to the top of my Netflix queue. :-)

I have fairly recently watch Soylent Green and Westworld but missed this one.

I saw it at the theatre when it first came out. It was pretty popular. As a matter of fact it has been on Showtime or Cinemax recently. I watched it for the first time in many, many years last week.

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

Stacy King wrote:

A couple more 'any movies with...' Ed Norton

Primal Fear (I'm sorry, Richard who?)

That is the best work I have seen Ed Norton do. I think that was his defining moment that launched him. The movie was well written. I did not see it coming the first time I watched it. He stole the show from Richard Gere and Laura Linney. They just became supporting actor/actress...

George Bright · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:37 pm

I have The Omega man on VHS.

ChuckNelson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:03 pm

Stacy King wrote:

MikeWhitney wrote:

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

Snootchie Pootchies!!!
Oh I'm sorry... I thought all Kevin Smith flicks kind-of 'went without saying' for this thread LOL

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Clerks II

Has anyone actually seen Jersey Girl? LOL

You should also rent "The Kevin Smith Interview" Just Kevin answering questions from college students, very funny.

Any Akira Kurosawa movie. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/
Often staring Toshiro Mifune, who is fantastic as a Samurai, able to invoke emotion thru the language barrier.
Many of his movies have been remade: Magnificent Seven, Last Man Standing(He based his version of this on Red Harvest, great Dashiel Hammet, but that is for another thread), Fist Full of Dollars, etc. And his use of dust and bleak scenery was used by many others. Even the telling of StarWars is based on the telling of Hidden Fortress, a story told thru the eyes of secondary characters.
Some of my faves:
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Hidden Fortress

AdamBreakey · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:06 pm

ChuckNelson wrote:

You should also rent "The Kevin Smith Interview" Just Kevin answering questions from college students, very funny.

I got this from Netflix (actually, I have it sitting here right now) It is interesting --- but MAN, some of those questions are STUPID!

adamb

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

An Evening With Kevin Smith adds over an hour with the Easter Eggs too.

http://www.dvdeastereggs.com/showEgg.php?id=76

Kevin Hoff · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:58 pm

ChuckNelson wrote:

Any Akira Kurosawa movie. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/
Often staring Toshiro Mifune, who is fantastic as a Samurai, able to invoke emotion thru the language barrier.
Many of his movies have been remade: Magnificent Seven, Last Man Standing(He based his version of this on Red Harvest, great Dashiel Hammet, but that is for another thread), Fist Full of Dollars, etc. And his use of dust and bleak scenery was used by many others. Even the telling of StarWars is based on the telling of Hidden Fortress, a story told thru the eyes of secondary characters.
Some of my faves:
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Hidden Fortress

I watched Seven Samurai all the way for the first time a few months back (had seen about half of it years ago) and it just didn't do it for me. I got the cinematography, got the historical accuracy, got the good acting, but the movie overall just didn't do it for me. I guess the things he did that were fresh and new in '55 (or whenever) are now well known.

My top few lately:
Usual Suspects (Only movie I have ever watched then immediately watched again the same night)
Crash
Being John Malkovich
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (concentrate hard when watching or else you'll get completely lost and the movie won't make sense at all.)

All Time favorites:
Godfather
2001
Star Wars IV
The Great Escape

Strange movies I've really liked:
12 Monkeys
Pi
City of Lost Children
Trees Lounge

This is a great thread. We need one for music.

--Kevin H.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:30 pm

I haven't posted my picks yet. Here they are now.

The Empire Strikes Back with Star Wars a close second (I like the whole Star Wars series by default)
Airplane! There is no better comedy in my mind
Raders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade (Temple of Doom sucked hard)
I really liked the cinematography in Step Into Liquid, but then I also liked Endless Summer
Grand Prix
LeMans
Forbidden Planet One of the best SciFi movies ever
Tora! Tora! Tora! Great movie and I love the fact that there were two directors, one in the US and one in Japan
Psycho The orginal, not the crap that Vince Vaughn made
Over the Hedge One of the funniest animated movies I have seen. Seriously!!
The Omen My favorite horror. Again the original

That's about it for now. I'm sure there are others.

ChuckNelson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:47 pm

Kevin, you should try Yojimbo. I like the pacing much better than Seven Samurai.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

True dat. Yojimbo is the most accessible Kurosawa film, and the sequel Sanjuro is even lighter and as good. (see also For A Few Dollars More for the Leone/Eastwood take on it) I haven't seen Ran or Throne of Blood in a while; if you like Shakespeare, you'll enjoy those too. Rashomon is *very* well done.

I'd have to disagree with Todd's statement on Van Sant's Psycho remake. Maybe it's because I saw it just after a film class where I did a 10-12 pager on the original, but I thought that the shot-by-shot homage where the director could include things that Hitch could only allude to (the peep scene) was very well done. However, critics and the audience's wallets disagree with me.

I just came across a youtube video for the chase scene in District 13 here, and now I need to search that movie out. That's insane.

AdamBreakey · **Posted:** Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:11 am

Wes Eargle wrote:

blah blah blah....

I'd have to disagree with Todd's statement on Van Sant's Psycho remake. Maybe it's because I saw it just after a film class where I did a 10-12 pager on the original, but I thought that the shot-by-shot homage where the director could include things that Hitch could only allude to (the peep scene) was very well done. However, critics and the audience's wallets disagree with me.

... blah blah blah

After reading that paragraph, everything else you say is meaningless. That movie was one of the worst cinema experiences ever. Van Sant should have been sent to a remote island never to be seen again after making that. BAD BAD BAD. --- The peep scene was well done?!?!? Oh my?!?!?!?

adamb <-confused that anyone would ever say anything positive about that movie!

I guess you know how I feel

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

While we're talking about movies, does anyone else have an electronic movie collection that they would want to trade with me for mine? You know, so we can preview each others' movies to decide which ones to buy? I have about 30 titles, and a bunch of music and HD TV series as well. Let me know.

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

30? I'm somewhere around 400.

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

Wes Eargle wrote:

30? I'm somewhere around 400.

Your skin seems a little pale, no? Shouldn't you get out more?

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