Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Every now and again in the music folder I'll post bands I like to see what other people think and to see if others have even heard of them. I thought I'd do the same with some movies here in this folder. It appears that there is a pocket of people here who are real film buffs that have similar tastes to mine and another pocket who appear wholly unaware or who have not seen a good many films from certain genres or time periods. What follows are not necessarily my favorite films or what I believe are the best films ever made, but movies that I think would be of interest for all to see as being real film buffs, that also accuaint you with certain stars and directors. Feel free to comment on anything listed or ask questions if you have not see a film and would like to know about it. The Godfather The Godfather II Apocalypse Now The Deer Hunter Blade Runner LA Confidential The Shawshank Redemption Ed Wood It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blazing Saddles The Producers Young Frankenstein This is Spinal Tap Caddyshack Raising Arizona All of Me Silver Streak Some Like it Hot Operation Petticoat The Searchers She Wore a Yellow Ribbon El Dorado Rio Bravo The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Unforgiven Dirty Harry Sudden Impact Tightrope Pale Rider The Untouchables North by Northwest Rear Window Vertigo Wonder Boys An American in Paris Singing in the Rain The Music Man My Fair Lady Breakfast at Tiffany's Wait Until Dark Dr. No Goldfinger Shaft (original) Superfly Blacula Dracula (original) Frakenstein Bride of Frankenstein Rocky First Blood Ben-Hur Spartacus Serpico The Americanization of Emily Murphy's Romance Support Your Local Sheriff Sunset The Longest Yard Lethal Weapon Die Hard Grand Illusion The Great Dictator Greed Ride the High Country Citizen Kane The Third Man Touch of Evil MacBeth (Orson Welles) Othello (Orson Welles) Cool Hand Luke The Sting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Nobody's Fool Color of Money The Manchurian Candidate Airplane The Exorcist Enter the Dragon Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn Pulp Fiction Reservior Dogs Boogie Nights Duck Soup It's a Wonderful Life It Happened One Night Bringing up Baby Stagecoach Double Indemnity The Maltese Falcon The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Key Largo The Philidelphia Story Adam's Rib Bridge on the River Kwai High Noon Night of the Hunter The African Queen Mister Roberts The Quiet Man A Face in the Crowd
PsychoDriver Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Good list, I agree with all of them except maybe "Blacula"
Guest godthedog Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 oooh...you put 'greed' on there. good man. but where can somebody FIND it?
Guest Youth N Asia Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Cool Hand Luke Night of the Hunter Good calls...seems like I'm the only one here dishing out love for Cool Hand Luke. But I'd put The Hustler as his #2 movie. Or Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Guest El Psycho Diablo Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence I don't know why, but I get that song stuck in my head every time I hear it.
Guest godthedog Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 and for the sake of fairness, here's about 40 more movies you should see that aren't on deacon's list: chimes at midnight the war zone dark days bob le flambeur umberto d. raise the red lantern qiu ju aguirre, the wrath of god nothing but a man la jetee breathless le petit soldat contempt my life to live band of outsiders pierrot le fou weekend tout va bien in praise of love i live in fear high and low ran the bicycle thief the 400 blows shoot the piano player jules and jim the lady from shanghai the exterminating angel belle du jour viridiana un chien andalou los olvidados swept away by an unusual destiny on the still blue seas of august (the one from the seventies, NOT the one madonna just made) repulsion scenes from a marriage cries and whispers persona bonnie and clyde throne of blood yojimbo the magnificent ambersons paris is burning the passion of joan of arc
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 I've seen Taxi Driver and it's defintely an important film, but from that era I prefer Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now and I just didn't think of Taxi Driver offhand. Lot of foreign films on godthedog's list there that I have to say I am familiar with, but haven't seen. If there's anything in film I need to improve on, it's watching more foreign films. I dislike the Magnificent Ambersons for the horribly butchered end and feel you do Welles better by watching Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil or even Lady from Shanghai, which you mention. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Stranger too, which would have been a more intriguing film if Welles had his way and Agnes Moorehead played the Nazi hunter instead of Edward G. Robinson. I love Cool Hand Luke, just a marvelous performance from Newman and about the only good performance I've ever seen out of George Kennedy. Great script too. Honestly, I can take or leave the Hustler, but I adore Color of Money and am really fascinated by the character line you can trace in Eddie from one film to the next. Newman should have about four Oscars on his mantel and not just the lone gimmee from Color of Money.
Guest ArkhamGlobe Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Grand Illusion Excellent choice. godthedog's list is probably closer to my own personal taste, but good list overall, though I can't say that I've seen all of those films.
Guest El Satanico Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Great list and I like all of the movies I've seen off that list. Nice to see you giving the blaxploitation genre some respect. Ron O'Neal approves
Guest bps "The Truth" 21 Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Searching For Bobby Fischer *goes back to Buffy threads*
Guest cabbageboy Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Ah, some love for Ride the High Country. Gotta be one of the best westerns ever.
Guest Youth N Asia Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 I would have had Full Metal Jacket on the list too.
Guest DawnBTVS Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 I'd toss in American Beauty and Usual Suspects
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Usual Suspects and Searching for Bobby Fischer I think gets more dap than they deserve and neither has really aged that well even in the short term. I never see either film on t.v. anywhere anymore. And I could never fathom the Fischer love that appears to be present on this board. Usual Suspects is still awesome in my book though. Full Metal Jacket and Platoon would be two more really good ones, I just didn't think of them at the time. Casualties of War should get more credit too. I'm amazed that someone else here has actually seen Ride the High Country. Kudos to you, cabbageboy. Great performances and a great story. You people should really check out more older westerns. I feel blaxsploitation is a highly important genre at a key point in Hollywood that never gets the respect it deserves. It's a main reason I have Blacula on the list as that movie is ten times better than most would think and is a prime example of African-Americans trying to find a voice in traditionally white genres. Ask me about American Beauty in five more years and we'll see what I think. I think it's going to be like Forrest Gump where the more I watch it the more stupid I think it is and the more gaping holes in logic and story I find. I was totally blown away on first viewing of both movies, but I don't believe you should think too hard about them or they lose something.
Guest razazteca Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 A few forgein films that I enjoyed: The Tin Drum All Quiet on the Western Front. both of the B&W and the 70s one, was Ernest Borgnein in both? The Lover Wide Sargasso Sea Karma Sultra (1996)
Guest Ravenbomb Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 (edited) The Cheat's 50 movies you should see (in no order) Taxi Driver Halloween Tombstone Godfather Godfather 2 Memento 12 Angry Men (original) The Wild Bunch Seven Samurai Ran Raging Bull The Prophecy AKIRA Pulp Fiction The Salton Sea Boondock Saints Metropolis (original) Un Chien Andalou Magnificent Seven Godspell Princess Mononoke Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Untouchables Donnie Darko Dawn of the Dead One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest Identity And Then There Were None Say Anything... Some Like It Hot Nosferatu (original) Uzumaki Cure Suicide Circle Ringu/The Ring Raiders of the Lost Ark Last House On The Left Night Of The Hunter Psycho Rear Window Black Hawk Down Gangs of New York Dogma Reservoir Dogs Almost Famous GoodFellas Last Temptation of Christ Usual Suspects Pink Floyd: The Wall Dark City Edited May 22, 2003 by Ravenbomb
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 22, 2003 Report Posted May 22, 2003 Aside form a couple movies who just have cult anime status working for them (like Princess Monoke and Akira), I can jive with most of Ravenbomb's list and we have a few movies in common.
Guest Ravenbomb Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 I chose movies that had IMO excellent animation and were at least for the most part non-computerized
Guest godthedog Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 I would have had Full Metal Jacket on the list too. I'd toss in American Beauty and Usual Suspects the thing is, most of us have already seen these movies. deacon with the vast majority of his choices looked to consciously be going to things others haven't seen (and, hence, should see). i know that's what I was going for, only picking like 5 movies in the english language. i remember seeing 'ride the high country' a loooooong time ago on tv. don't remember much about it, but i did like it. on the blaxploitation subject, has anyone seen 'sweet sweetback's baad asssss song'? i saw some clips of it in a class, & it seemed like the most repulsive thing ever, yet really stylish and cool.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 'sweet sweetback's baad asssss song' is like my holy grail, but you can't find the damn thing anywhere. It's considered to be the first blaxsploitation movie ever and really graphic for the time. I basically discounted newer films that I thought most had seen or could easily see flipping through the channels one day. I went for off the beaten track stuff and big time older films that you really do need to see. What gave me the idea to post this was thread was when MaxPower said he hadn't seen the Godfather in another thread and I just said, "wow, everyone should see that."
Guest Ravenbomb Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 Full Metal Jacket would be on the list exce- er... ... sorry, I got distracted by Deacon's sig pic, what was I saying?
Guest godthedog Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 'sweet sweetback's baad asssss song' is like my holy grail, but you can't find the damn thing anywhere. It's considered to be the first blaxsploitation movie ever and really graphic for the time. not even "for it's time," it's just really graphic, period. we saw the opening of it, & this 30-year-old prostitute is having sex with a 10-year-old boy (melvin van peebles's OWN SON too--he put his own 10-year-old son in a sex scene, which is just...so wrong on so many levels). but what attracted me to it was this once scene of a police car getting blown up, i can't even describe how cool that editing was. so, now i need to see it. one of the professors here uses it in her ethnic cinema class, so i'll probably just sneak into it when it's shown in the fall.
Guest razazteca Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 Dolomite is a popular blaxsploitation movie, who can forget the quote "You rat soup eating Mutha Fuckas!"
Guest El Satanico Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 Dolemite rules...so much use of mutha fuckas had never been seen before.
Guest WrestlingDeacon Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 Recently at Best Buy I saw the Rudy Ray Moore box set on DVD. That scared the hell out of me. It included Dolemite, Dolemite II: The Human Tornado, Petey Wheatstraw, aka the Devil's Son-in-Law, Rudy Ray Moore is Rude and like a more recent hip hop bash that Moore hosted. Damn, I knew Sweetback was fucked up, but that's fucked up. Samantha Fox has been my retro-babe for two weeks in a row now, but after finding a pick like that, I couldn't resist.
Guest evenflowDDT Posted May 23, 2003 Report Posted May 23, 2003 on the blaxploitation subject, has anyone seen 'sweet sweetback's baad asssss song'? i saw some clips of it in a class, & it seemed like the most repulsive thing ever, yet really stylish and cool. I was surprised when I was looking up info on Criterion's laserdiscs the other day, and found that this was one of their original titles. It was a good surprise, and along with their Raging Bull that you told me about, really makes me wish that licensing was easier in America (Xenon, just another company that puts out shitty, cheap releases of kung-fu and blaxploitation titles, owns the rights and has a $10, mucky transfer, feature-less edition of the landmark first blaxploitation film). I've never seen it, but I'm quite interested in it.
Guest EsotericMaster Posted May 24, 2003 Report Posted May 24, 2003 Good List. I have seen a good 90 percent of those movies and I would have to agree. Some of them I have never even heard of.
Guest godthedog Posted May 24, 2003 Report Posted May 24, 2003 well, GUESS WHO found a copy of 'sweet sweetback's baad asssss song' at one of the local video stores today. i'll come back in a couple days with an assessment of it. if it's good enough, i'll devote a whole thread to it.
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