If we're talking formative tv movies, I would put Roots up at the top. That's when tv was really an event, like my whole school watched it and talked about it in class the next day.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
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Burrell - Aug 09, 2010 11:53:47 am PDT #10485 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2010 11:55:52 am PDT #10486 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's a mini-series. I can go on with a separate list of those!
Scrappy - Aug 09, 2010 12:37:00 pm PDT #10487 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Brian's Song OF COURSE. And if we want to go foreign, The Race for the Double Helix, a British film about the discovery of DNA.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2010 12:44:31 pm PDT #10488 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Definitely Brian's Song! The ultimate male weepie.
erikaj - Aug 09, 2010 12:49:04 pm PDT #10489 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
"His tears will act as her lubricant, bro." Johnny Drama, on why you never let your gf rent "Brian's Song" for an ex.
JZ - Aug 09, 2010 1:31:59 pm PDT #10490 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
How's the Ethan Hawke Hamlet in comparison?
Bad. Bad. Very, very bad. Lord, it wasn't good. Especially noteworthily bad are Hawke as Hamlet, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, and Bill Murray as Polonius.
Julia Stiles especially stank up the joint; after 10 Things I Hate About You I was totally ready to love her forever, but it took until the Bourne movies for me to forgive her for this (it made it all much worse that her Ophelia hit movie theatres right after Kate Winslet's, but she still would've been glaringly bad even without that comparison).
But, honestly, I feel slightly guilty for singling her out, because the whole thing was one long tedious ooze of unrelenting suck. Kyle MacLachlan as Claudius may possibly have sucked marginally less than the rest of the cast, but that's about as much enthusiasm as I can muster for any of the actual humans involved.
The sets were kind of coldly, glossily pretty, I guess. But that's about it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 09, 2010 1:48:40 pm PDT #10491 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yikes. I will...not add it to my Netflix queueueueue, then.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 1:58:18 pm PDT #10492 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, and the movie that inspired me to walk across America...and become a professional peace activist...The Day After. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as influence.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 2:00:07 pm PDT #10493 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Loved Brian's Song so very much.
I was totally in love with James Caan after that.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2010 2:07:15 pm PDT #10494 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You people that don't hate Julia Stiles are weird. She can't out act a potato.