Frank: I was going for a broad spectrum--ruler, actress, diplomat/martyr, and icon (can you guess who's my favorite Muppet?).
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 10:34:38 am PDT #9494 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
erikaj - Jun 21, 2007 11:04:24 am PDT #9495 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Love "In The Heat of The Night"...I have lots of Poitier love. And it's a crime story, too. Although I liked "Gump" in the theater, I'm older now and subsequent attempts at rewatch have convinced me it's an unpleasant little film that does not belong as the best of anything. "Plastics" is funny to me because it is so random and because if you're following Ben's story, he has big questions that need more than a one-word answer. And stuff.(I'm not sure that's where Buck Henry intended the humor to come from, but it does, imo. And, yeah, plastics were The Next Big thing, like "One word, Benjamin, cyber-space. " Or "fiber-optics".) And I think I'd do Dustin Hoffman or Katharine Ross in that movie. *love* them. Liked "King of Comedy" better thaqn Raging Bull, too. Though I liked RB well enough, there are enough bio-pics now that I can't see it like it must have looked in 1980. Does that make sense?
bon bon - Jun 21, 2007 11:08:52 am PDT #9496 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
And, yeah, plastics were The Next Big thing, like "One word, Benjamin, cyber-space. "
I was trying to think of a current analogue, and I like this one.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 11:10:45 am PDT #9497 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Does that make sense?
Yeah, I think that's what people were saying about some of the other movies on the list, too, like Casablanca. I guess I thought Raging Bull didn't have all that much to say, unlike Scorcese's other movies of that period.
erikaj - Jun 21, 2007 11:12:03 am PDT #9498 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, thanks, Bon. I suppose it doesn't hurt that I've seen that particular video over twenty times. I had a hard time when I graduated, too.ETA: Not compared to Taxi Driver, Corwood. "You talkin' to me? You must be talkin' to me cause I don't see nobody else here." Thank God for the internets cause when I quote that in real life it's like I feel like I gotta give my Chick Card back. And I liked Diane Keaton in The Godfather, but it is a chick part...The Girlfriend.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 11:29:50 am PDT #9499 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I guess I thought Raging Bull didn't have all that much to say, unlike Scorcese's other movies of that period.
Tell me about Mean Streets, which I found totally pointless.
Laga - Jun 21, 2007 11:30:13 am PDT #9500 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm confused. Are people saying Manchurian Candidate is not on the list? I'm seeing it (newly added) at #67. (edit: ohhhh I'm reading it backwards. Yep new list = teh dumb)
Also The African Queen is one of my hatiest movies of all time and I will never understand why she didn't get tossed into the river after the booze.
Ditto on My Fair Lady. I'm sorry but these sterotypical masculine/feminine movies Do Not hold up over time.
Unless we're talking about The Quiet Man. For some reason it's OK for John Wayne to drag Maureen OHara around by her hair. I can't explain why but... I'll be in my bunk.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2007 11:33:50 am PDT #9501 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The list makers dropped Doctor Zhivago from the list? May they be cursed to frozen-toed heartbreak in an empty landscape forever!
There are 37 movies On the current list that I haven't seen, but Annie Hall is the only one I'm really moved to rectify, and for that I'm holding out for a projection screen like I did with Casablanca.
Was The Sixth Sense really THAT good? Maybe I need to watch it again.
I've generally loathed Bruce Willis since about two years before the end of Moonlighting, but enjoyed him in that. Thus the ghosts weren't the only thing magical about the movie.
erikaj - Jun 21, 2007 11:34:40 am PDT #9502 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I would, if I had finished it. (I start watching thing too late at night) Why would American Graffiti ever be a Best? It's cute, but...and unleashing George Lucas on the movie world is not much to be celebrated by me, anymore. And my mother completely complains about the chronology of the soundtrack. I come by it honestly.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 11:37:50 am PDT #9503 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Tell me about Mean Streets,
I remember that you didn't like it, but I think it was a little slice-of-life picture that actually had a point about the people involved and the society they lived in. It's not one of my favorites, but I can see why the people who think it's brilliant feel that way about it. I think Raging Bull was shooting for that, but it was just dull brutality to me. I don't get why anyone would like that movie, and I'm usually an advocate for the movies on the more brutal side of the equation.