'Potential'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
On the other hand, I rewatched This Is Spinal Tap over the weekend because it was a Komedy Klassic. It still doesn't make me laugh. Perhaps it's because I don't watch the genre (rock documentary) it parodies.
I don't watch a lot of rock documentaries either, and as such, maybe I didn't appreciate it as much, but it's still damn funny. "You can't dust...vomit."
I haven't seen The Maltese Falcon. Also, this is the time where I bring up the fact that I still haven't seen the Godfather movies, huh?
P-C, I've only seen the first. On basic cable, so it was probably edited.
It's not a film for everyone, but I love absolutely everything about it
Martin Scorcese's favorite Kubrick movie, and he's a professed Kubrick fan.
I just saw Dr. Strangelove recently and spent the entire time laughing like crazy. It's definitely a movie you have to be in the right mood for, though.
I think I saw Days of Heaven. With Robert Duvall, maybe? Set on a farm? I have a vague memory of watching a movie that looked like it was shot almost entirely at sunset, mostly memorable because I spent the whole movie being very frustrated that I couldn't see a damn thing that was happening.
Days of heaven has very young Richard Gere and Sam Shepard
I didn't like any of the Godfather movies.
I've never seen Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, or Casablanca.
I tried to watch the first Godfather on cable, and couldn't get into it. Keep meaning to rent it, but i'm sure it won't live up to the hype.
I like both Days of Heaven and Barry Lyndon, but I can see where they're not for everyone.
Dr. Strangelove isn't one I've ever found laugh-out-loud funny 'cause it seems a bit bloodless to me (in fact, I don't think Kubrick's dour sensibilities are right for comedy, even black comedy), but it's so full of iconic, amazing scenes and images that I love it, anyway.
I was sure Godfather wouldn't live up to the hype, but I adored it and wished I'd seen it earlier. The final shot is burned into my memory.
Yeah, rent The Godfather instead of watching it on cable. And then, when you're ready, rent the superior Godfather II.