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[Finn McCool]

Three O'Clock High was awesome.

I've gotten a response from Slackmo! An indirect response but dammit, I'll rejoice all the same. I'll break on through to the other side of this website yet.

[Slackmo]

Three O'Clock High was awesome.

I've gotten a response from Slackmo! An indirect response but dammit, I'll rejoice all the same. I'll break on through to the other side of this website yet.

Dances With Wolves, can you not see that I am your friend?

[Tony]

Magnus has created the thread Tony has always wanted to post in, but never could.

I like to imagine Magnus as Tony's puppet attempt to fit in here.


No offense meant for either Magnus or Tony, who are just swell.

I've always fit in here.

[Magnus Malcolm]

Magnus has created the thread Tony has always wanted to post in, but never could.

I like to imagine Magnus as Tony's puppet attempt to fit in here.


No offense meant for either Magnus or Tony, who are just swell.

Not offended, but I don't really follow the puppet bit...it seems this went over my head.

[Magnus Malcolm]

Does camp get much more fun than this? Steve McQueen playing a dude named Steve. Perfection.

Perhaps the most unlikely global warning-warning film ever- let the ice melt, and you'll let the blob out. I'm certain this is what the filmmaker's intended with the ending's question mark.

[brainstorm]

The Proposition flat out scared me at times. Except it starred that sissy looking guy from Memento - the Pitt-a-like...but you're totally right - amazing movie. My old man is a Western fanatic & he grudgingly rented & watched it and then raved about it for days.

Three O'Clock High If only because it introduced, "You're the pussy that always bled" and, "Don't fuck this up, Mitchell!" to my repetoire. Not enough people have seen this grand slam of a fun time. And that's a shame.

Love Three O'Clock High. Directed by Phil Jonau, a disciple of Spielberg's who went on to do Rattle and Hum and at least one of those generically named Richard Gere erotic thrillers that clotted up the '90s.

Attracted to Fatal Love of Beauty? Something like that.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

There are some days where I might call Blow Out my favorite movie of all-time.

[Campaigner]

I love that of three Criterion Collection dvds that I own - The Blob is one of them (Chasing Amy and Days of Heaven being the other two).

While I'm at it... rank the Terrence Malick films from most brilliant to brilliant but not as brilliant as the #1 pick. Go!

1) The Thin Red Line
2) Days of Heaven
3) Badlands
4) The New World (which is criminally underrated)

[Magnus Malcolm]

There are some days where I might call Blow Out my favorite movie of all-time.

And I got all excited for an Antonioni conversation, somehow thinking you'd posted Blowup.

In any case, are you talking about the De Palma film with Travolta or the one with all the sex and eating?

[Magnus Malcolm]

While I'm at it... rank the Terrence Malick films from most brilliant to brilliant but not as brilliant as the #1 pick. Go!

1) The Thin Red Line
2) Days of Heaven
3) Badlands
4) The New World (which is criminally underrated)

Arg, tough one. This would probably change some depending on my mood, but-

1. Days of Heaven
2. The Thin Red Line
3. The New World
4. Badlands

Yours?

[Slackmo]

1. 2. 3. 4.

[Campaigner]

1.
2.
3.
4.

There's always a few

[Pavement Ist Rad]

And I got all excited for an Antonioni conversation, somehow thinking you'd posted Blowup.

In any case, are you talking about the De Palma film with Travolta or the one with all the sex and eating?

De Palma.

Amazing film. John Lithgow murdering innocent women, the sequence where Travolta pieces together the crime scene footage with the sound he recorded at said scene, Dennis Franz looking like shit in an even more shit looking apartment, that one chick, etc. I don't know, this movie just totally does it for me.

I also like these films a lot:

Zero Effect
Shock Corridor
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
River's Edge
Tape
Santa Sangre
The Apartment

Do you guys like movies, too?

[Magnus Malcolm]

Amazing film. John Lithgow murdering innocent women, the sequence where Travolta pieces together the crime scene footage with the sound he recorded at said scene, Dennis Franz looking like shit in an even more shit looking apartment, that one chick, etc. I don't know, this movie just totally does it for me.

Blow Out is a pretty entertaining film. It's a just ok story, IMO, what makes it is De Palma's influence over it. He holds the distinguished reputation with me for crafting either something quite good and entertaining or something absolutely awful, there doesn't seem to be anyone in between.

Zero Effect- Haven't seen it.
Shock Corridor- Its alright.
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia- Yes.
River's Edge- Haven't seen it. at imdb's listed tagline- The most controversial film you will see this year.
Tape- Haven't seen it in a whole, but remember liking it alright.
Santa Sangre- Haven't seen it.
The Apartment- But of course.

Have you seen 8MM? It was panned, and I can see why, but I feel that there's some genius in it.

[brainstorm]

While I'm at it... rank the Terrence Malick films from most brilliant to brilliant but not as brilliant as the #1 pick. Go!

1) The Thin Red Line
2) Days of Heaven
3) Badlands
4) The New World (which is criminally underrated)

Arg, tough one. This would probably change some depending on my mood, but-

1. Days of Heaven
2. The Thin Red Line
3. The New World
4. Badlands

Yours?

1) Days of Heaven
2) The Thin Red Line
3) Badlands
4) The New World.

Makes me wish he had more films out (a fifth is in production) - that seems low for Badlands, an estimable little movie.

[brainstorm]

In the mid-80s, River's Edge was pretty freakin' controversial. It made teenagers look amoral (the horror... the horror...)

[Slackmo]

Zero Effect- Haven't seen it.

bump it to the top of your list--odd slice o' genius

Have you seen 8MM? It was panned, and I can see why, but I feel that there's some genius in it.

And that genius's name is Peter Stormare.

[Magnus Malcolm]

Zero Effect- Haven't seen it.

bump it to the top of your list--odd slice o' genius

Have you seen 8MM? It was panned, and I can see why, but I feel that there's some genius in it.

And that genius's name is Peter Stormare.

I'll get on Zero Effect.

And to be sure, Stormare was awesome in 8MM. I think there's something worthwhile in the film though, I actually think I'll post a big statement on its behalf once I getting around to writing one worth reading.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

In the mid-80s, River's Edge was pretty freakin' controversial. It made teenagers look amoral (the horror... the horror...)

Amazing exchange of dialogue right here:

Feck: I killed a girl, it was no accident. Put a gun to the back of her head, and blew her brains right out the front. I was in love.
Samson: I strangled mine.
Feck: DID YOU LOVE HER???
Samson: She was okay.

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is pretty great, too. And The Bicycle Thief. GO MOVIES.

[Magnus Malcolm]

And The Bicycle Thief. GO MOVIES.

This was actually just discussed in 'Now Playing.' Such a great film. Tears me apart every time, that ending...