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??"
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Ailleann - Jul 03, 2007 4:29:18 pm PDT #9840 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
erikaj - Jul 03, 2007 5:35:50 pm PDT #9841 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
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?
Laga - Jul 03, 2007 6:19:51 pm PDT #9842 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2007 6:24:41 pm PDT #9843 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Are all of Bryan Singer's movies gay? I don't think so.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 6:29:54 pm PDT #9844 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.)
Scrappy - Jul 03, 2007 6:32:10 pm PDT #9845 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I know that film--it's excellent.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 03, 2007 7:01:13 pm PDT #9846 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
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.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 7:04:24 pm PDT #9847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd argue that his X movies used mutancy as a metaphor for the gay experience
Any more than for race?
DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 7:08:15 pm PDT #9848 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Any more than for race?
Mutants tend to be in the closet.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 7:42:52 pm PDT #9849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mutants tend to be in the closet.
Have you seen the Morlocks? Angel? Beast?
It would be odd to set up a narrative Malcolm X and MLK Jr. scenario and have it not be at all about race.