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Laga - Jul 03, 2007 12:48:10 pm PDT #9827 of 10001

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Top Ten Greatest Chicago Movies

I had to dash off a quick list before I peeked and it ended up so:

1. High Fidelity (the city is a character in the film)

2. The Blues Brothers

3. Ferris Beuller's Day Off

4. The Untouchables

5. Risky Business

6. What Women Want (see High Fidelity)

7. Chicago Cab (AKA Hellcab) (only recommended for hard core Chi-tonw fans)

8. Chicago (kinda has to make the list, huh?)

9. Adventures in Babysitting (great use of architecture ;)

and with my crystal ball I peer in to the future and know that one day:

10. The Time Traveler's Wife.

With the exception of number 10, which of course I haven't yet seen, I think the thing that ties these movies together is not that they are great films but that they are great Chicago films. If that makes any sense.

If anyone's keeping track I think the best Pittsburgh film is Innocent Blood.

DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 12:58:56 pm PDT #9828 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If anyone's keeping track I think the best Pittsburgh film is Innocent Blood.

Uh...Night of the Living Dead?

Laga - Jul 03, 2007 1:06:54 pm PDT #9829 of 10001

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

And of course there's Wonder Boys. I wonder if we could come up with a Pittsburgh 10.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 03, 2007 1:31:49 pm PDT #9830 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

Probably not without including The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. And really, who needs that?

Scrappy - Jul 03, 2007 1:33:37 pm PDT #9831 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Dudes, Flashdance! Totally.

§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 1:34:09 pm PDT #9832 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. A Detroit 10... 8 Mile is totally mandatory for sense of place. I think that Grosse Pointe Blank gets a place, and... The Crow.

And now I'm out of movies.

Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2007 1:36:54 pm PDT #9833 of 10001

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

A San Francisco Top 10 could have The Rock !

And, er, X-Men 3. Or not.

Sean K - Jul 03, 2007 2:02:05 pm PDT #9834 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Hmm. A Detroit 10... 8 Mile is totally mandatory for sense of place. I think that Grosse Pointe Blank gets a place, and... The Crow.

And now I'm out of movies.

Robocop is technically a Detroit movie, though Detroit was played by Dallas.

True Romance is 50% Detroit movie.

bon bon - Jul 03, 2007 2:04:58 pm PDT #9835 of 10001

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Phoenix is Psycho, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure... no, wait, that was supposed to be in SAN DIMAS, uh, Waiting to Exhale, Little Miss Sunshine (if you want to spend 45 minutes on the five mile stretch of I-17 b/t Carefree Highway and the 101)...I run out.

No, Raising Arizona DOES NOT COUNT.

Sean K - Jul 03, 2007 2:21:20 pm PDT #9836 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And Wikipedia has a handy list of movies films about/set in Detroit.

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