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Citing Beverly Hills Cop, while technically correct...well, I don't think Motor City has the bigger claim on that one.
Of the ones on that list I'd add to a top 10...well, I haven't actually seen that many of them. Out of Sight, certainly. Evil Dead is not my thing, but it should probably be on there. No matter how many spots are left on the list, though, Bird On A Wire can't go on it.
Evil Dead is not my thing, but it should probably be on there.
Not at all a "Detroit" movie, but certianly a Michigan movie (though I think it was shot in Tenessee or something, but it was meant to be a Michigan movie).
I agree with you on Beverly Hills Cop, but at least the Detroit sequences were actually shot in Detroit.
And yes, Bird on a Wire belongs nowhere near that list. Action Jackson can have its place.
A San Francisco Top 10 could have The Rock !
In honor of my new home, I'm working through a number of SF films via Netflix (alternating with Italian films in a desperate attempt to improve my Italian before my next book project).
And yes, Bird on a Wire belongs nowhere near that list.
I have a soft spot in my heart for that movie, and I'm (mostly) not ashamed to admit it. It's a lazy Sunday double feature with "Overboard."
"Guess who's back and shot in the butt??"
Gives Bon five for her totally predictable yet rational Zonie RA pique. And, yeah, it was a total *deal* when Bill & Ted were in town. Two words, John: John Waters...hello? Of course, I wouldn't have gotten that when I saw my first one either, but I was like fourteen and not in a Queer Culture place, basically trying to pretend I'd wake up and be normal one day and stuff. What's your excuse?
I dunno. I think I'm contributing to stereotyping if I label any film a "blank" movie because the writer/director is "blank". Is The 25th Hour a black movie? Why or why not?
edit: it's a bad example- 25th Hour's writer wasn't black but you see my point.
Are all of Bryan Singer's movies gay? I don't think so.
A San Francisco Top 10 could have The Rock !
I think we start with Vertigo.
Megan, Amoeba has a section of just SF movies on their front rack of the DVD section (over by the registers). Includes everything from Dark Passage to So, I Married an Axe Murderer.
Other SF movies: Foul Play, DOA, High Anxiety, 48 Hours, Inside Moves (more an East Bay movie, but great if you ever catch it on cable. It's got David Morse and Jon Savage and Diana Scarwid. Scrappy, it's your kind of movie. Even though it came out in 1980, it's really a seventies movie at heart.)
I know that film--it's excellent.
Are all of Bryan Singer's movies gay? I don't think so.
Well, The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns weren't. I'd argue that his X movies used mutancy as a metaphor for the gay experience, and Apt Pupil was pretty damn slashy even before it was made into a movie.