kinda worth it to get netflix on demand just for the bizarro 60's and 70's stuff. i too could watch westerns all day.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe for my birthday I'll get drunk and watch Shane, and Rio Bravo, and Stagecoach. Pretend to be a dad and watch mah westerns. lol
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost gr080 I'm so excited for u!
full reports plz
I'm trying to think of movies that do the "unreliable narrator" thing better than the Usual Suspects... Kubrick's "Lolita" springs to mind
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
Action movies are so much more my jam than I ever realized. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY didn't I vote.(repeat ad nauseum forever.)
Same here! A lot of these are among my favourite movies everMy absolute favourites so far out of those already listed areCon Airthe Die HardsDistrict 9King Fu HustleT1 and T2Dark KnightTotal RecallThere's a fair few I haven't seen (but actually less than I would've thought) which is why I didn't vote but wish I had.Except... don't hate me... I watched Mad Max for the first time not long ago and did not like it.
― kinder, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
kind of want to start a pollthread to decide which genre marketing term we should poll next
i think it would be cool to decide ahead of time so a romcom thread can truly be romcom and a comedy thread can truly be comedy but idk
thoughts?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
sci-fi poll's been done iirc
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
and yeah horror's well-trod
Because the movie (or any Chan?) won't make it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGLk-DzomM
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
romcom seems like the most fun to me because it will also probably be the most combative/obnoxious/trolly
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
WESTERNSWAR MOVIES
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
romcom def
― Number None, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
The Thing for best romcom starts here.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
I watched Mad Max for the first time not long ago and did not like it.
Mad Max is pretty lame. Road Warrior is a huge improvement/completely different kind of movie.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
For that matter (back to action):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQVT8wUK6Q
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 6:21 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A Clockwork OrangeFight ClubCabinet of Dr. Caligari
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Fight Club is only marginally better than the Usual Suspects... but I still sort of hate it
good call on the others tho
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
I guess at least one version of Bladerunner lol
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
Memento?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
ooh! yes! duh
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
How are you using "unreliable narrator" here and would "The Sixth Sense" qualify under that usage?
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
you guys ever seen fade in? that's what i'm talking about when i talk about oddball:
This unusual romance takes place during the real-life location shooting of Blue, a 1960s Western, when sophisticated film editor Jean (Barbara Loden) falls for Rob (Burt Reynolds), a charming local cowboy who's been hired as a driver. As the excitement of movie-making engulfs them, kindred spirits Jean and Rob worry if people from such different worlds can share a lasting future. The stars of Blue, Terence Stamp and Joanna Pettet, are featured.
― scott seward, Friday, February 17, 2012 6:17 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whoa, this is a real kaufman-avant-la-lettre thing
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 6:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he's dead in that one
gotta say: no jackie chan, no credibility.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
is there any actual narration in "Sixth Sense"? I've never seen it.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:29 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
headdesk.gif
lame? LAME? awesome bikers terrorising a town and steve bisley dying a horrible death and a tiny little baby being smeared all over the highway?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
im betting there was a ton of vote splitting with jackie
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
imo we should decide to do
1) ROMCOMS2) COMEDIES
so ppl know to nominate for one or the other
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
romcoms and comcoms then
/sorry
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
i like that they had to re-dub mad max for an american audience b/c the australian accents (except for mel) were so gnarly.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
i know
it took me a long time to move past that..
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
all that nasalness, gone
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Feel like comedies (maybe even romcoms) would have to be broken down by decade. There are so many!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Mad Max is more of a Death Wish/hardass 70s cop film, a genre I don't have much interest in/sympathy for
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
the whole "I am the last bastion of law and order in an evil wasteland of amorality" theme is just ugh whatever do not care
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
i. just. don't. CARE. DAD!!!!
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
zu: warriors of the magic mountain?
amateurist you realize this movie, like some of the others you mentioned, was basically unseeable until a few years ago. i'm not real surprised it didn't make this list. but it is just big and dumb enough to be an ILX cult favorite. it should be. it's so overwhelmingly crazy that after about 45 minutes you almost enter a kind of hypnagogic state, the most fabulous, impossible things happening before your eyes and you barely register them.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol s1ocki
but yeah it's a reactionary/moralizing film that nonetheless revels in rape and gore, not really my favorite combination.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
its a pretty bad combination when u put it like that
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
amateurist you realize this movie, like some of the others you mentioned, was basically unseeable until a few years ago.
What happened? Zu: Warriors was a staple of early 90s HK film retrospectives out here for a long time.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost it is a fine combination. it's just not a film for babies :D (runs away)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
literally and figuratively, lol
*cries*
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
*watches romcom*
there's a girl called Bridget Jones I think you'll really like, Shakey
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
in seriousness though, I personally am the opposite with the revenge/Death Wish/bad ppl are mean and IMMA GET EM, I love that kinda stuff. And just seeing a dystopian Australia that looks *sorta* like where I grew up but not quite, but with all this crazy violence,I always found that exciting. Plus just with all the Aussieness it's become a very good homesickness tonic for me.
don't cry shakey <3
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
*eats tub of ice cream*
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
*cleans gun*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link