wait dude it's a really well made and gripping movie.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Babe 2 is a pretty damn good movie and kind of a mess.
I saw it in the theatre with my wife I want to say Christmas Eve the year it came out. There were six people in the theatre, total. Us, two weird loners, and a mom with her kid, who cried the entire time.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it is a mess -- major studio recutting i seem to recall. but the action sequences are fantastic.
it kind of anticipates toy story 3 in a weird way.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Morbs, Reagan used it because it was iconic. Like "I'll be back." I vividly remember the ad campaigns for the movie that used it, all the pop culture references, etc. I only know of Reagan's invocation in retrospect. Plus, Reagan used the line two fucking years after the movie came out!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
AFI had it at #6 of their greatest movie lines list. That's not Reagan's doing, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
it wasn't used until the 4th film was it, not the 3rd?
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's right. Sorry if I confused them. Frankly, it blows my mind that there are five Dirty Harry movies.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
i was amazed as a kid when i saw the first film and that line wasn't in it!
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
still remain unimpressed by dirty harry
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
It is in fact, but fuck all
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
ie, if Reagan hadn't used it pretty much only ppl like you would remember it.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
"ppl like you"
― scott seward, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/59/6735df4ee2da41d397abaa9276816c12/l.jpg
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Lou Gosset Jnr on the left?
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Dirty Harry is a wonderfully crafted, beautiful movie despite its fascist message.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Waht else does this series have; "Do you feel lucky, punk?" HOW ASTOUNDING― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's a great scene.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/michaelwalford/2006/10/06/triumph_of_the_will_stadium_shot.jpg
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Literal Facepalms (Dr Godwin)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't want to wade in because this thread was going so fast at the time, but gotta disagree with all the praise for Die Hard With a Vengeance. It's a VERY dumb movie, obnoxious and silly. Part of what makes the first film the greatest action movie ever is the well-constructed plot and the intelligent characters, so to end up with nonsense like moving hundreds of tons of gold in dumptrucks is pretty pathetic.
Irons shooting Sam Jackson in the leg was rad though.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched Die Hard 3 for the first time since it was in theaters, and it was better than I remembered. Boilerplate, and nowhere near the first, but still solidly entertaining. At the time it seemed very going through the motions, but maybe a couple of decades of going further through the motions have cast it into more favorable relief.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get excited much about it past "Hot Time Summer in the City".
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well, it is all downhill from there, tbf.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
'Southern Comfort' is on Britishers TV tonight. Worth watching?
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
yes!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the Deliverance knockoff with Powers Boothe and one of the Carradines?
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
man this thread has me going through a few of my favorites. especially hk stuff. rewatched the mission this afternoon, the blade yesterday, time & tide in the next few days (still pissed at ilx that this is not gonna place, has some of the most impressive & best action scenes of all time). i know ppl here love johnnie to's election too and it is quite great (that's gonna be for this week), but everytime i think of him i think of that great tracking shot at the beginning of breaking news.
― Jibe, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
xp Dunno who's in it but it's directed by Walter Hill. I will take Alfred's word and watch.
― pandemic, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a fan of Election. I want to say I saw half of it, and by then it all felt like a year of a TV plot jammed into a movie. So many characters ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah johnnie to. i forgot about him. running out of time, the longest nite, the mission, exiled all should have placed here. oh well.
btw can we move the "dirty harry = fascism?" conversation elsewhere?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
a movie is either well-made or badly made, nothing more, etc
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Harry's pretty blatant in its rugged individualism, this is the reason Magnum Force tries to paint Harry as not as bad as yer actual right wing nuts etc
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
tries.
but the first couple look absolutely beautiful, depiction of the city, clothing, jazz scores...beautifully crafted slightly racist paeans to gun law. like Conan, coming up.
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Watched half of it with my kid before bed last night. He fell asleep when they were in the garage after they broke Sarah Connor out of "Pescadero" lol.
― getting good with gulags (beachville), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
lolhttp://www.theonion.com/articles/moviegoers-not-interested-in-hearing-what-is-isnt,27388/
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait for T2 to place. all shotguns should be 1. carried in a rose box and 2. reloaded by spinning them around your finger― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo),
I know this is a little late, but dayo, will you be my valentine.
― omar leeettle (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7FAsUT6FePU/SjSvD7oR06I/AAAAAAAAA1U/crWXr4EwNTo/s400/t2.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
~* tear *~
(of joy)
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
To Live & Die In LA just started on tv...yay! I've never seen it before!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
prepare yrself imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
hope yr sofa has seatbelts
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
The 'etc' is the key bit of the above.
Most films that make it to the cinema are 'well-made' in a boring kid of manner I suppose - but the types of content, for one, are of a variety: so w/Dirty Harry the good content are the action-y bits that are worth youtubing and the bad is the right-wing claptrap that surrounds it.
Not worth moving anywhere, its just some 'light' filler before the end of the poll tomorrow.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Edward III - my collar is fully popped for this
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
take out the etc, then, go full wilde. A movie is either well-made or badly-made, and nothing more.
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Too late! :-)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
one of my greatest cinematic joys is showing folks TLADILA for the first time.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
foiled by an extracetera
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
re: TLADILA, the character arc for Chance in this film (w/r/t viewer perception, what we're allowed to discover) is pretty singular as compared to other films i've seen w/similar morality.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
w/characters of similar morality
Post #15 today!
Just to mess with the workweek-only crowd a little...
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link