Anyway, voted "Badlands"
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Coal Miner's Daughter over Carrie, but the five minutes I saw of of Prime Cut on late-night TV would have made me a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZObOxHxxG9A
LOL Morbs on In the Bedroom.
I love Missing and it needed her. Always felt that film was hugely underrated.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
And the four films surrounding it are good enough to make me curious about A Home at the End of the World.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
also no welcome to l.a.
not that anybody saw or would vote for it
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't seen Missing since the mid nineties but it stacks the deck against the Lemmon character, to which Lemmon responds by playing him with his usual squirming and um-ming.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome to L.A. is at the top of my impossible-to-track-down films, along with 92 in the Shade and Life Upside Down (impossible, that is, unless you want to pay $30-50 for a VHS).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Forgot her "Man With Two Brains" voiceover
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I once owned welcome to l.a. in the late 80s on BETAMAX
― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 5 August 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome To La plays like once every two weeks on This Tv here in the states.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 August 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched the first chunk of it the other day. Sooo '70s.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 August 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda has to be badlands. i loved in the bedroom but cant remember her in it, really
― ☼ (Lamp), Thursday, 5 August 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
welcome to l.a. next airs on thistv on 9/11 at 3 in the morning
set yr alarm clocks!
― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 5 August 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
In the Bedroom was well done, but the ending was so much against everything I believe in that it made the whole movie suck. I can't believe so many smart people liked a movie that essentially condones (or at the very least, is not critical of) cold-blooded murder as revenge. It was pretty much just an artsier version of A Time to Kill.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 5 August 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
It wasn't even artsier. It was just more boring.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 August 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001GH7GS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 August 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 5 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Think I found the nadir of an early-'70s cliché: Ginger in the Morning (image just above!), which came out in '74 but, I would guess, was made a couple of years earlier and released to cash in on the attention Spacek got for Badlands. IMDB:
An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited independence while she is drawn to his old-fashioned romanticism.
Butterflies are Free, Breezy, Save the Tiger (partly), many others. Ginger's close to unbearable. Spacek acquits herself as well as humanly possible. (Fred Ward's supposed to be in somewhere as a truck driver. I missed him, and missed him again when I speed-searched the film afterwards.)
― clemenza, Monday, 27 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link