http://images.wikia.com/avp/images/9/95/Powerloader.jpg
― ( -- ( .) - ( .) / (am0n), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
or when he goes ITS NOT A TUMAH
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing T2 for the first time I really felt like I'd crossed over, like "whooaaaa movies are like THIS now?? cool!"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
can i just share this thing re: starship troopers
The cast agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.[2]
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
ha i remember reading that
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha!
prefer alien to aliens for many reasons but mainly bc slow-burning sci-fi horror is just the best kind of movie.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
respect
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Hahahaha "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
apparently sigourney weaver only agreed to do the last scene of aliens if james cameron directed it in a power loader, which he did
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
"OK Cronenberg if you want me to actually fuck somebody in the ass it has to be YOUR ass"
"Very well"
lol
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
irl lols
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
i still want a power loader
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
citation needed xxxp
― ( -- ( .) - ( .) / (am0n), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjFuTbl_SA
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Wandered away from thread for about an hour. Omar, I kiss you.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
xp John Connor's foster mom is of course - Vasquez!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Alien is a better movie overall, I mean. As an action movie, Aliens is better!
My beef with Cameron is that he makes very by-the-numbers films and that's where he's best. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but...
Aliens works well because you have a group of stock characters, the environment is actually tightened up from the original -- no ambiguity about what different environments are, no lingering mysteries (lol space jockey) and it's a war movie! Even the poster tagline is "THIS TIME IT'S WAR!"
..the beef comes in where throughout the years -- mostly notably with Avatar, ugh -- he seems to think that by having stock characters going through motions you get a good movie
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
i love the story about cameron in a meeting to try and sell aliens and he just walks up to a whiteboard, writes ALIEN on it, and then adds a $ to the end of it
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'd believe that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Cameron is a lot of things but i don't feel like 'by the numbers' is really the one to pin on him
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i still haven't seen avatar. i'm the 1%.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
sounds about right!
btw I'm mostly overthinking this because a couple months ago I remembered that I got the Alien Anthology for Christmas over a year ago and I've since watched them all multiple times
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
*cameron walks up to whiteboard, writes
AVATAR
turns around, studio execs nod, cameron then adds
AVATAR$
room breaks into applause*
― max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i dont even know what 'by the numbers' means in this context
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
TRUE LIES$
true lies sucks.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
true lies $ucks
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
tbh angry mom in a forklift defeats the VPA with an assist from half a robot is pretty by the numbers
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/DH_Cowboystyle.jpg
#1
DIE HARD
John McTiernan1988United States(1011 points, 29 votes, 4 first place)
the original film is one of those rare moments where a genre is invented, defined, and completed in a single movie. There's not one frame out of place in that thing, nor one non-quotable line of dialogue. I love stuff like the cowboy German going "I got fifty bucks riding on them assholes!", and basically everything Reginald VelJohnson says to try and keep Bruce Willis motivated. Even the way he says "Roy" is just perfect. Great fucking movie.
― Doctor Casino
(A) best action film EVER by a generous margin; (B) my favorite Xmas movie
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox)
"Oh, the weather outside is frightfulDum-dee-dum-dee-dum-delightful"
The only way to sing this song.
― trishyb
great moments in cinema:
when al leong is waiting to ambush the SWAT team in the lobby and looks around cautiously and then steals a candy bar from the display case.
― omar little
the movie is undeniably radical, one of the greatest american action movies
― max
max otm
die hard completely changed the paradigm for action flix and broek hearts of a whole bunch of actors who'd been lifting and tanning way too much in the hopes of becoming the next sly/arnie
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.)
You want perfect and efficient character introduction? Check out all the beats in the first ten minutes of "Die Hard" alone that establish who John McClane is, culminating in him riding the limo with Argyle ... in the passenger seat.
Also, x-posting the above, yeah, Willis and Rickman are 90% of this movie, but "Die Hard" might have even worked as a minimally set stage play with these two in the leads.
The elements of "Die Hard" that have aged poorly are the same '80s elements that have aged poorly in virtually every single film of the same vintage (from "Crocodile Dundee" to "Rain Man" to "Big" to "Working Girl." The hair, random drug jokes, the (first?) token black hacker genius, the yuppies ... they're the visual equivalent of gated snares and chorus effects on guitars. The difference is that "Die Hard" set (or reset) the action film template, so its cliches transcend. And damn is it efficient. Watching it with an eye on the clock is an education. Characters are all introduced, action in motion precisely 20 minutes in.
― Josh in Chicago
die hard is, at times, my favoriteest ever movie
― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx)
Yippie Ki Yay! It's the Die Hard poll
― omar little, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
okay i can live with that
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's a good #1 imo.
So I guess I should add T2 to the list of movies I should now watch because of this thread.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
STUDIO EXEC: what should we do about the aliens franchise, jim?
[cameron silently picks up dry-erase marker]
EXEC: theres no white board here jim
[cameron forces exec to ground]
EXEC: what are you doing jim oh god
[cameron writes ALIENS$ on exec's face]
― max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
everyone should own a copy of T2.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Die Hard is the bestest
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
for inspiration. like the bible.
yippee ki yay, motherfucker
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
no ambiguity about what different environments are
Really don't know about this - there's a big difference between the dead corridors of the base, the gigeresque contours of the processing plant underside w/infestation, the breached secure space of the landing craft, and the disintegrating lair of the queen.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
what i love so much about die hard besides everything else is the fact that its SUCH a christmas movie, in the way that every character is unconsciously singing christmas songs to themselves the whole time, the way everyone in real life does all holiday season long. such a great touch
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
fists with your toes
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol max
WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
^ say this out loud to myself all the time
Alien has an all-white stasis room with people in white pajamas!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
idk, I'd rather talk about DIE HARD now.
i watched die hard for the first time on xmas eve last year!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, what is Diehards?
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i also love that the secret character arc of die hard is RVJ learning how to shoot people again
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link