'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I've also got Marathon Man here. It's rated only slightly higher on the imdb and all I know about it is rogue dentistry and "try acting".
It's a fantastic, taut thriller and has one of the two greatest (that is, most emotionally satisfying) revenge scenes ever. Both of them written by the same screenwriter.
::waits for Frank or Scrappy to back me up on this::
What's the other one?
What's the other one?
Oh c'mon! IMDB's right there.
I'll give you a hint: Wm. Goldman.
Oh, William Goldman, right, got it. Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.
Although, the steamroller scene A Fish Called Wanda ranks right up there.
the steamroller scene
Yeah, that's a good one. Steamrollers are underutilized in cinema. Also put to good use in Roger Rabbit.
I just saw Up. What a sad and lovely movie.
It's a fantastic, taut thriller and has one of the two greatest (that is, most emotionally satisfying) revenge scenes ever. Both of them written by the same screenwriter.
Not to mention one of the most horrifying torture scenes ever. The utter confusion of Hoffman's character at what's going on is amazing.
It also makes me wonder what the hell ever happened to Marthe Keller.
Anyone know anything about this movie? I really want to see it!
Sex Galaxy, which its makers call the world’s first “green” film, is also a blue movie. A feature-length mashup of copyright-free stock footage, the campy sci-fi comedy splices together strippers, Martians, rocket ships and robots into a semi-coherent romp.
[Deliverance] isn't remotely funny, but referencing it can be in the right (or VERY wrong) context.
This.
Last Tango in Paris is an interesting historical piece. It's a good example of how daring a movie could get within the mainstream -- or at least close enough to land a mainstream star lead like Marlon Brando -- during the early '70s.
I saw Marathon Man when it came to my college campus, a few years after its original release. I walked out about halfway through -- just about the only time I've ever done that to a movie.
Stepping in to back Hec up.