Grand Old Team at the Movies

[TX Bill]

All of the above are outstanding choices but for me it's gotta be...




.... The Joy Of Anal Sex w Male Goats & Leather Clad Gay Boys.

 

[ChicagoToffee]

So bad it's good/lighthearted stuff

1. Bewitched - Yeah, I am a Nicole Kidman fan. This doesn't have much of a plot, so I can look at her.
2. Dodgeball - "...If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball..."
My 11-year-old son asked me to watch it with him and it was a treat. Pure bonding and a lot of laughs along the way.
3. GalaxyQuest - Spoof on Star Trek...I am not a trekkie at all...

Good stuff you might have missed

1. The Year of Living Dangerously...Excellent movie. Someone mentioned Gallipolli, which is early Mel Gibson, and quite good. I think this is even earlier Mel Gibson and even better.
2. Breaking Away...1979...Bicycling movie. My favorite movie of all time. It is a coming of age movie about guys who were a year out of high school....The audience clapped at the end. Not a kid's movie either.
3. Breaker Morant...Excellent.
4) Little Big Man - Dustin Hoffman in the "anti-western western"...Love it.

Indiana, Our Indiana, Indiana, we're all for you.

Brilliant flick.

 

[Upper Sturry Sherbets]

I'll admit that Shawshank is a fine movie, there are just bits in it that don't hold up, someone explain the poster in the cell after he escapes, because I'm at a loss.

iv'e seen it all the way through, it's about three hours long, and I do have it at home somewhere, but I have more tapes and films than Warner Brothers around the residence, tried looking for that FA cup final recording, hiding it's face somewhere.

Robocop the first is a truly great film, just avoid the 3rd like the plague.

Ace Ventura is another guilty pleasure, this really started Carrey on the road to success, he was only paid peanuts to what he could demand in later features.

Striking Distance with Willis and a young Sarah Jessica Parker is well worth a watch, action from start to finish, even if he does seem bored at times.

I have the 'official history of one Everton FC' on VHS, it's the one released in 1988 and narrated by Motson, one of my most prized possessions. (bugger the spelling at this indecent hour)

 

[McBain]

Shawshank Redemption, is rated the second best movie of all time on Imdb, but there are major flaws in it, one being how the hell does Robbins put the Raquel Welch poster back over the hole in his cell once he has climbed through it, with barely enough room to crawl along it, that sucks, hasn't anybody noticed it, and it's a bit convenient there is a great 'back to the future' type storm the night he breaks out, those thuds on the water pipe as the thunder went was more amusing than anything else.

You climb in backwards mate. The poster was a representation of freedom, nothing more.

The storm is also a metaphor, the man had to literally crawl through a pipe full of [Poor language removed] to get out of the place, and the storm is the culmination of the years of suffering finally being washed away.

You can't flaw one of the greatest screenplays ever written, just pay some attention when you watch a great film next time.

 

[McBain]

Watched 'The Shining' again the other night.

Total Masterpiece.

 

[Upper Sturry Sherbets]

You climb in backwards mate. The poster was a representation of freedom, nothing more.

The storm is also a metaphor, the man had to literally crawl through a pipe full of [Poor language removed] to get out of the place, and the storm is the culmination of the years of suffering finally being washed away.

You can't flaw one of the greatest screenplays ever written, just pay some attention when you watch a great film next time.

I was paying attention, to a lot of fine detail, I accept it's a masterpiece to some, but let's not get carried away.

I have this at home somewhere, will get to the end and put an end to this poster nonsense, IT JUST DOESN'T HOLD UP.

It's impossible to have put the poster back in the position it was, from the inside of the tunnel, whichever way you climb, and if it was backwards there would of been no room to face the other direction.

Even Steve McQueen would of been shaking his head.

Why couldn't he just have scaled the fence or something.

 

[faddy the blue]

Avatar is really good i heard

 

[SuitsBlueX2]

There was a time when the BBC respected its film audience and put on what was essential viewing for cinema fans.

Moviedrome.

1988

The Wicker Man (*)
Electra Glide in Blue
Diva
Razorback
Big Wednesday
Fat City
The Last Picture Show
Barbarella
The Hired Hand
Johnny Guitar
The Parallax View
The Long Hair of Death
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Fly (1958)
One From The Heart
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
One-Eyed Jacks


1989

The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
Jabberwocky
D.O.A.
The Thing From Another World
The Incredible Shrinking Man
California Dolls
THX 1138
Stardust Memories
Night of the Comet
The Grissom Gang
The Big Carnival (Ace in the Hole)
Alphaville
Two-Lane Blacktop
Trancers
The Buddy Holly Story
Five Easy Pieces
Sweet Smell of Success
Sunset Boulevard


1990

Assault on Precinct 13
Brazil
Get Carter
Goin’ South
Dead of Night
The Terminator
The Honeymoon Killers
Ulzana's Raid
The Loved One
An American Werewolf in London
Yojimbo
A Wedding
The Phenix City Story
Walk on the Wild Side
Il Grande Silenzio
Quien sabe?


1991

The Beguiled
Vamp
Knightriders
Something Wild
Carnival of Souls
Badlands / The Prowler
Performance
At Close Range
The Duellists / Cape Fear (duels)
The Music Lovers
Manhunter
Hells Angels on Wheels / Rumble Fish (gangs)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Solaris
Mishima


1992

Mad Max II / F for Fake
Dead Ringers / Rabid (Cronenberg)
Inserts
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Les Diaboliques
La Strategia del Ragno
Escape from New York
Alligator / Q - The Winged Serpent
Wise Blood / The Witchfinder General
Lolita
Play Misty For Me
Walker
Tracks
The Day of the Locust / The Big Knife (Hollywood satires)


1993

Darkman
House of Games
Escape from Alcatraz / Un condamné à mort s’est échappé (prison)
The Hill
Cry-Baby / Lenny
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (*) / Romance of a Horsethief
Gothic/ The Navigator
The Terminator
Get Carter / Week-end
Rebel Without A Cause / 200 Motels
Django / Grim Prairie Tales
Run of the Arrow / Verboten! (Fuller)
The Long Riders
The Big Combo
Face to Face
Requiescant
Qué he heche yo para merecer esto?
Carrie


1994 (Alex Cox's final year)

The Andromeda Strain / Fiend Without A Face
Talk Radio
Carnal Knowledge
Coogan’s Bluff / The Narrow Margin
The Harder They Come
Salvador
The People Under the Stairs
Halloween (*) / The Baby
Carny
Girl on a Motorcycle / Psychomania (motorcycles)
Race with the Devil / Detour (keep death on the road)
Rope / 84 Charlie Mopic (experimental filming)
To Sleep with Anger / Le Mépris
Excalibur / Nothing Lasts Forever
Naked Tango / Apartment Zero (Buenos Aires)
Major Dundee / Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Kiss Me Deadly


1997-1998

Scarface
Westworld / Demon Seed (futuristic)
The Fly / Society
Exotica
Blue Collar / American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
Dazed and Confused / La Vie Sexuelle des Belges (growing up)
The Girl Can’t Help it / Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (music)
The Warriors / La Haine (gangs)
Spanking the Monkey
Logan’s Run / Fahrenheit 451 (future)
The Fog / Darkness in Tallinn
Storyville / Ruthless
Vanishing Point / The Devil Thumbs a Ride (road movies)
Targets
Liebestraum
Bad Timing
The Conversation
All That Heaven Allows / The Reckless Moment


1998

Trespass
Shaft / Force of Evil
Funny Bones
Cat People
The Killers (1946)
Caged Heat
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Carrie
Léon / Le Samourai
El Patrullero

1999

Clockers
Ed Wood / The Body Snatcher (B-film)
Prêt-à-porter
Videodrome / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Carlito’s Way
The Osterman Weekend
Mommie Dearest
Johnny Guitar
Branded to Kill
The List of Adrian Messenger
One-Eyed Jacks


2000

Blood and Wine / Plein Soleil (nouvelle vague directors)
Rumble in the Bronx / Clubbed to Death ("guilty pleasures")
The Killers (1964) / On Dangerous Ground
The Underneath / The Hitch-Hiker (film noir)
Walkabout / Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
White of the Eye
The Last American Hero

Simply fantastic, how long before they resurrect it? and how long before they release the box set of introductions?

 

[Brownie]

The Rush Hour series.

 

[prescotian]

Films naming Everton

Apart from "The Virgin Soldiers" when Geoffrey Hughes [Twiggy in Royle Family] comes out with the line, " Hull City are a good side this year but not as good as Everton!", does anyone recall the Blues being part of a film script?????