movies that ROCK [Archive]

Mr. Whole Wheat

12-19-2000, 03:59 PM

I've seen goonies so many times that the name makes me nauseous.

My favorite movies: Amadeus, Crouching Tiger, Dead poets society, Europa Europa (an amazing true story), ... probably more just can't think of them right now

The Big Lebowski, The Children of Heaven, Ghost Dog, Reservoir Dogs, Ninja Scroll, The Hurricane, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Rushmore also great.

Most romanitcally frustrating and overall distrubing movie: Chasing Amy

Most unusual: Being John Malkavich (sp?)

Depressing but excellent: To Live. and Dancer in the Dark!

[Edited by Mr. Whole Wheat on 01-19-2001 at 02:43 AM]

fancyk

12-20-2000, 07:36 AM

Blue Velvet. Possibly the most perfect movie ever made.

-k

falcor

12-20-2000, 12:21 PM

neverending story (the first one)
the matrix
american beauty
ghost in the shell
scent of the green papaya (i highly recommend this one)
gladiator
once upon a time in china, part 1
the doom generation
mall rats
the rats of nimh
super ninjas - that guy that gets all his limbs ripped off? hahaha!
metropolis
...i've thought too long and hard about this. but i know there are more.
ryan - we have transformers the movie - on BETAMAX!

Jinxy

12-20-2000, 12:26 PM

Harold and Maude
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Ciao Manhattan
Valley of the Dolls
Dumb and Dumber
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
La Double Vie de Veronique
The Dreamlife of Angels
Run Lola Run
A Christmas Story

Ryan

12-20-2000, 12:58 PM

just got back from the mall, they DO have Transformers on DVD! woohoo!
falcor: daaaaaang betamax?!? i thought that ish was non existant by the time i was born hehehe

mallrats! that is one damn good movie representin jersey!!

12-20-2000, 01:39 PM

Crouching Tiger!
Henry Fool
Empire of the Sun
Flirting
The Year My Voice Broke
Fallen Angels

worrrd!

Ryan

12-20-2000, 04:17 PM

yeah i came upon Fallen Angels a few months ago at Blockbuster, first Wong Kar Wai movie I've ever seen, makes me wanna watch more, I thought it was pretty cool at the end that they played an acapella version of that Yaz song "only you" which coincidentally is found at the end of another really cool movie, Can't Hardly Wait...oh shut up, it came out the year i graduated highschool...=P

shampoo

12-21-2000, 01:34 AM

usual suspects
heat
ronin
drunken master II
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
american beauty
pulp fiction
cyrano de bergerac
cinema paradiso
yellow submarine
neverending story (just the first one of course)
indiana jones and the last crusade (? the one with sean connery)

not a definitive list ill probably think of more

dirtyknees

01-09-2001, 10:38 AM

american beauty sucks. ok, maybe it doesn't suck, but it was a horrible oscar best film winner. the best films of the year (boys don't cry, three kings, bringing out the dead) didn't even get nominated.

i thought the american beauty thing was much better done in a previous ang lee film, the ice storm. ice storm was muuuuuch better.

sorry, american beauty is one of my big peeves. so is tiger woods by the way. i hate em both.

Mikio4

01-09-2001, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by Ryan
I thought it was pretty cool at the end that they played an acapella version of that Yaz song "only you" which coincidentally is found at the end of another really cool movie, Can't Hardly Wait...oh shut up, it came out the year i graduated highschool...=P

Interesting you should mention that because when I first saw the American release that was the most notable difference from the Chinese (subtitled) version I saw. In the Chinese version they used the pop reggae song that was used repeatedly in Chungking Express. The one associated with Brigitte Lin's character, i.e., "It's not everyday we're gonna be the same way…." I dunno who it's by. I rather preferred that song in context of linking the two movies as two sides of the same coin. As for Can't Hardly Wait, there's no point in apologizing for yer tastes. If ya like it, like it. And fuck what anyone else has got to say about it. Of course 10 years from now you'll watch it again and think to yourself "what could I have possibly liked about this." So it goes.

Mikio4

01-09-2001, 11:26 AM

Originally posted by dirtyknees
american beauty sucks. ok, maybe it doesn't suck, but it was a horrible oscar best film winner. the best films of the year (boys don't cry, three kings, bringing out the dead) didn't even get nominated.

Well, although I agree that The Ice Storm is the superior movie, I feel that America beauty was a good movie in it's own way. It addresses subjects that rarely get addresses in the monoculture. Although these ideas may seem obvious to many of us, I think that it's great that perhaps this movie made people who normally might not consider such ideas think about them. Also it addresses the idea of alienation from a spiritual angle whereas the Ice Storm looked at it from more of a family perspective. Neither is right or wrong, they are just different. In the end Ang Lee wins because he's a better filmmaker.

PS - I also hate Tiger Woods. He's one smug fuck. And what's worse is that his celebrity assures us of yet more coverage of what has to be the lamest "sport" of all.

Mikio4

01-09-2001, 11:35 AM

I guess as long as I'm here I'll drop a few names as that's what the thread is supposed to be.

Mean Streets
Simple Men
Chungking Express
Underground (Kusturica)
Kids Return
Maborosi
A Taste of Cherry
The Moderns
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ran
The Celebration
North by Northwest

And a coupla b-movie classics:
Conan the Barbarian
Fast Times

And countless others I can't recall at the moment.

falcor

01-09-2001, 01:04 PM

but i thougth american beauty was a beautiful movie. shot-wise, it was great. the composition, color, etc. dirty knees, i'm sorry that you can't appreciate that about the movie. remember, it's not just the story and actors that matter, but the cinematography as well.

ironmonkey

01-09-2001, 01:51 PM

gonnies
neverending story II(haha naw jus fucking, the first)
one flew over the cuckoos nest
seventh samurai
shawshank redemption
the wedding singer
any adam sandler movie
thomas crown affair
clockwork orange
full metal jacket
pulp fiction
resevoir dogs
ironmonkey(crouching tiger will prolly dethrone this for greatest kung foo flick ever, for me at least)
house party 3

it sounds crazy, but crouching tiger just might be my favorite movie of all time. great drama story AND top notch action scenes? cmon.

oh shit and princess mononoke(best anime of all time, yeah i said it)

dorsal one

01-09-2001, 03:57 PM

Repo Man
Chunking Express
Time Bandits
Full Contact
Storm Riders
Barton Fink
Taxi Driver
Akira
Yojimbo- the original Fist Full of Dollars(another good one)
Tron
Tokyo Decadence- this one's sorta out there on some sexual terrorism, but if you can stand it, watch it.

Does anybody know who did the reggae song in CK Express? I would really like to get my hands on that.

blink

01-09-2001, 11:24 PM

pulp fiction
anything by hayao miyazaki(he did princess mononoke and loads of other great stuff)
shawshank redemption
2001 : Space Oddessy
akira
made in hong kong
Operation Scorpio (a great kung fu flick!)
fight back to school I
a better tomorrow
transformers the movie(if only because almost all the bigboys kick the bucket)

more to come...

digininja

01-10-2001, 12:19 AM

in no particular order (and what i can think of offhand):

crouching tiger
fight club
princess mononoke
drunken master II
rurouni kenshin OVAs
yojimbo (yea dorsal!)
vertigo
face/off

haha, i just rented iron monkey 2 looking for more yuen woo ping wire work after crouching tiger, it wasn't until the end of the movie i realized i was looking for iron monkey 1. haha. it was entertaining though. back to the video shop.

digininja

01-10-2001, 12:21 AM

argh! RUSHMORE is a great movie too! just remembered.

dirtyknees

01-10-2001, 11:38 AM

Originally posted by Mikio4
[quote]
Well, although I agree that The Ice Storm is the superior movie, I feel that America beauty was a good movie in it's own way. It addresses subjects that rarely get addresses in the monoculture. Although these ideas may seem obvious to many of us, I think that it's great that perhaps this movie made people who normally might not consider such ideas think about them. Also it addresses the idea of alienation from a spiritual angle whereas the Ice Storm looked at it from more of a family perspective. Neither is right or wrong, they are just different. In the end Ang Lee wins because he's a better filmmaker.

PS - I also hate Tiger Woods. He's one smug fuck. And what's worse is that his celebrity assures us of yet more coverage of what has to be the lamest "sport" of all.

thats very similiar to the way that i felt about the film. i guess i kinda felt like, "this is what it takes for millions of americans to appreciate what beauty really is?". like you, i felt that many of the ideas were quite obvious and yet it was banging me over the head with them anyway. it wasn't a smart film but it tries really hard to look like it is. i resented its preachy yet deceptive style. and then i resented the fact that it won best picture. i've grown really disguested with the academy's nominations and winners. crap like titanic and forrest gump have made me lose faith. and i'm never gonna forgive them for nominating "the karate kid" back in the day.

so to be honest, its not that i think "american beauty" was such a terrible film. it just did a good job of building resent in me towards it. it was overhyped. its frustrating to see other great works of art dismissed b/c of an overhyped film. and to add one more item to my list of reasons why i resented "american beauty", i had issues with its title especially in the context of other films and television programs like "american pie" and "american high". the ways these works define american are problematic for me. they are quite narrow and yet they seem to present themselves as comprehensive and sophisticated works (ok, maybe not american pie).

dirtyknees

01-10-2001, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by falcor
but i thougth american beauty was a beautiful movie. shot-wise, it was great. the composition, color, etc. dirty knees, i'm sorry that you can't appreciate that about the movie. remember, it's not just the story and actors that matter, but the cinematography as well.

i can appreciate where you are coming from. i just needed to vent and rant a little about that film. like i said, its a peeve and i don't expect everyone to agree with me.

but regarding your assertions of the film's value in terms of cinematography, acting, directing, etc, this is the way that i look at it: lets say that zhang zi yi is the most beautiful woman in the world. now, lets say she no longer has a human nose. lets give her a pig snout instead. now, we can still appreciate her beautiful eyes, her perfect skin, her attractive figure, etc. but if she's got a pigs snout, its all over. none of that other shit, no matter how great, really matters.

01-10-2001, 02:32 PM

These lists are long.Sorry folks. I urge anyone who hasn't seen these films to go see them. These films have changed my outlook on life and hopefully do the same for you.

Movies I love for their cinematography:
Traffic
Man Bites Dog
The Insider
Architecture of Reassurance(Mike Mills)
Hate(french hip-hop represent!)
Citizen Kane
Schizopolis
M
Anything by Harmony Korine
Easy Rider (just the acid trip scene)
Pi(the blurred shot of people practicing Tai Chi. So dope!)
Anything shot on Super 8 film
Ran
Rushmore
Bjork(the "All is Full of Love" video by Chris Cunningham)
Any french new wave
2001:A Space Oddessy
*Electronic Labrynith* (Anyone seen this? One of George Lucas' first films he ever did while at USC. Still my favorite film of all time. I will $$$ for a copy of this!!)

Animation:
Akira
Transformers the Movie(I almost cried too)
Princess Mononoke
Laputa(Castle in the Sky)
Nausicca
Anything by Kevin Willis(Tool video guy. PS I don't like Tool)
Alice(Stop motion animation)

[Edited by arson on 01-10-2001 at 03:43 PM]

iambullet

01-10-2001, 02:40 PM

altime faves:

hard-boiled
gattaca
pi
run lola run
kagashure or something (can't remember the name-kurasawa, means shadow warrior?)
princess mononoke
ran
blues brothers

definitely more. can't remember.

Mikio4

01-10-2001, 09:47 PM

Originally posted by iambullet
kagashure or something (can't remember the name-kurasawa, means shadow warrior?)

Kagemusha

Mikio4

01-10-2001, 09:52 PM

[i]Hate(french hip-hop represent!)[/B]
Not to nitpick but I hfata mention that although I really liked Hate, it owes a very obvious debt visually to Spike Lee and Do the Right Thing in particular. As for French hiphop, MC Solaar who's on that soundtrack has some good shit out there. I'm particularly fond of Prose Combat.

Mikio4

01-10-2001, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by dirtyknees thats very similiar to the way that i felt about the film. i guess i kinda felt like, "this is what it takes for millions of americans to appreciate what beauty really is?". like you, i felt that many of the ideas were quite obvious and yet it was banging me over the head with them anyway. it wasn't a smart film but it tries really hard to look like it is. i resented its preachy yet deceptive style. and then i resented the fact that it won best picture. i've grown really disguested with the academy's nominations and winners. crap like titanic and forrest gump have made me lose faith. and i'm never gonna forgive them for nominating "the karate kid" back in the day.

so to be honest, its not that i think "american beauty" was such a terrible film. it just did a good job of building resent in me towards it. it was overhyped. its frustrating to see other great works of art dismissed b/c of an overhyped film. and to add one more item to my list of reasons why i resented "american beauty", i had issues with its title especially in the context of other films and television programs like "american pie" and "american high". the ways these works define american are problematic for me. they are quite narrow and yet they seem to present themselves as comprehensive and sophisticated works (ok, maybe not american pie).
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I guess I figger that I don't really care too much for the Oscars so I never really consider them as any indication of quality or worthiness of a particular picture. I can't recall the last time a Best Picture winner could truly make a strong case for actually being the best picture released that year. Taxi Driver mebbe (1976?)? Cinema is no different than any other mass media in that a majority of what is consumed is mediocre (particularly in comparison to that which is truly exceptional). You don't expect Fugazi to crack the Billboardwin Grammys for the same reason you don't expect Abbas Kiarostami or Wong Kar-Wai to get Oscars. And I think it's a specious argument to suggest that if American Beauty wasn't getting attention some other more worthy picture would be. It seems much more likely that something less worthwhile and more status quo-affirming would in fact be hyped instead. I guess it's just that there were so many worse, less challenging (both aesthetically and intellectually) films out, that all things considered it's surprising when the equivalent of Forrest Gump doesn't win every year.

As for the title I think it refers to the roses that not only does Annette Benning tend but is an integral part of Kevin Spacey's fantasy life. I took it to be a sardonic take on what American beauty really is.

ironmonkey

01-11-2001, 03:09 PM

daymn! i almost forgot about "beat street"!!! haha i remember back in the day when me and my friends use to break this movie down and study the part when rocksteady crew and the new york city breakers had that battle at the roxy, and at the end when crazy legs did that combo into that pose when his adidas ended us on his feet! damn, this movie was the bible for breakers. i never really felt electric bugaloo or breakin(the first one). all failed in comparison with "beat street", if any of yall know where i can get my hands on the soundtrack i will be very greatful.

01-12-2001, 02:14 PM

happy together
vertigo
dr phibes
pi
the innocents
bye bye brasil
maborosi
hana bi
funny games

its a long list...

soundslikequiet

01-13-2001, 12:00 AM

archonemis, have you seen the sequel to jean de florette, manon de la source (manon of the spring)? it explains a lot, or i guess reveals a lot between cesar and manon, jean's daughter.

ironmonkey

01-13-2001, 09:07 AM

its time to add "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" to my list. and yes, this is the greatest kung foo flick of ALL TIME.

nice call GR...

soundslikequiet

01-13-2001, 09:25 AM

kundun
secrets & lies
quiz show
sneakers
gattaca
the color purple
ghostbusters
princess mononoke
run lola run
after life
billy elliot
crouching tiger

greg

01-14-2001, 09:55 PM

1. The all-timers:

Seven Samurai
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
Sweet Smell of Success
Yojimbo
Wagon Master
A Night at the Opera

2. The last couple of years:

Princess Mononoke
Yi Yi
Rabbit in the Moon
Hands on a Hardbody

3. Outstanding trash:

Blood of Heroes, with Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen. I love this movie. If stumble across it at midnight when channel surfing, I inevitably end up staying up 'til two watching it.

Mr. Whole Wheat

01-14-2001, 11:30 PM

Is Yi Yi showing anywhere in california? I really want to see this film.

01-23-2001, 12:40 PM

Ummmm....

Big trouble in little China
Buckaroo Banzai
Fallen Angels
Fifth Element
The Forbidden Zone
City of Lost children
Once Upon a Time in China
Once upon a time in the West
The Wild bunch
The Dirty Dozen
Dr. Strangelove
Black Lizard
War of the Gargantuans
Three Kings
O Brother where art thou?
High Fidelity
The man who would be King
Ghost in the Shell

...etc etc etc...

Ryan

01-23-2001, 02:08 PM

forgot to add...

Leon aka the professional

as good as if not better than the killer

01-25-2001, 11:56 AM

One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest
Empire Strikes Back
Ikiru
Scarface
Almost Heroes
Blade Runner
Iron Giant
Night on Earth
Flirting with Dissaster
Ninja Scroll
City of Lost Children

Captain Cactus

01-25-2001, 05:22 PM

Over the Top
Leonard Part 6
Meatballs 3
My Demon Lover

01-29-2001, 09:44 PM

You have to see Wong kar-Wais' "In the Mood for Love" when it opens in the U.S. this Feb. It is great! Best movie I have seen in a while. It is one of my top 10 films of all time as of this week.

Tuan

01-29-2001, 10:19 PM

Originally posted by archonemis
Who here has seen Six String Samurai? That was a cool movie. It was about this Buddy Holly lookin' guy that was on a quest to reach Lost Vegas in a post WW3 waste land. It was really cool and the music was by the Red Elvis's.

Hahah I met that guy at the Comic Convention a few years back. He gave me this signed poster and i remember thinking "who the F#@$ are you!!??" I saw some of the trailors with him holding his busted guitar and kicking some mad ass in the sand. I'll probably check it out if i see it on the racks at the video store.

ksd83

01-29-2001, 11:53 PM

Six String Samurai was one bad ass movie man straight up it totally kicked ass
fight club though not as good as the book still was awesome and of course enter the dragon man that is my fuckin fave
and debbie does dallas with lexus grrrr

02-09-2001, 10:34 AM

Paris, Texas
Irma Vep
Equinox
Before The Rain
Blue, White, Red
King of Comedy
Mystery of Rampo
Raise the Red Lantern
Rushmore
etc etc

kh6kine

02-28-2001, 03:16 AM

Originally posted by Ryan
Without thinking about it for too long right off the top of your head, what are some of the coolest movies that youhave ever seen. For me there are two that are way above the rest...

Transformers the movie
The death of optimus prime. maybe the closest ive ever been to crying when watching a movie.

and what has to be as close to being a perfect cinematic masterpiece as possible:
The Goonies

How bout you guys?

Ryan
http://jump.to/ryan

OK, I am reviving this one. . . . Right off, in no particular order:

The Best of Brat - Jamie Sommers

TOP GUN - Excellent flying scenes. Weak sex scene though. And a totally useless volleyball game thrown in.

Black Rain - "I was 10 when the atomic bomb came. . . you made the rain black. I pay you back."

Good Fellas - Joe Peschi is a scream

THe Schaw Shenk Redemption - Another great "pay-back" movie

Bullett - Great car chases - that Mustang, and Steve McQueen

Pulp Fiction - Great spoofs on familiar movies

Day of the Jackal - I think this was the title. Saw it on HBO a long time ago - about a bunch of dudes who rip off a bank, and no one knew each other, except by like a number. In this movie - the bad guys get away. Excellent flick.

12 Monkeys - An ending that makes you go "Hmmmmm"

Seven - A wicked and disturbing ending

THe Deer Hunter - "Fuckin' A"

THe Last Detail - won an academy award years ago. I remeber seeing the clip on the award show, and EVERYTHING was bleeped out. I was too young to see it at the time, and so had to see it on video much later. But that stuck in my mind for years.

I am sure there are many more. Like maybe the classics like Never Give a Sucker an Even Break - WC Fields

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin

The Producers - "Springtime For Hitler" . . . . . .

[Edited by kh6kine on 02-28-2001 at 04:34 AM]

vandalistic

03-02-2001, 09:50 AM

the goonies
gleaming the cube
the three amigos
starship troopers
romeo & juliet (claire danes is a honey)
rodney mullen vs. daewon song II
_rodney mullen's opening sequence is AMAZING!
grease
slc punk

sevenronin

03-05-2001, 05:29 AM

The Hitcher - Rutger Haur plays one hell of a psycho hitch-hiker. i aint pickin up anyone on the side of the road after that movie.

kh6kine

03-05-2001, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by sevenronin
The Hitcher - Rutger Haur plays one hell of a psycho hitch-hiker. i aint pickin up anyone on the side of the road after that movie.

YEAH ! I love that scene wiff the girlfriend tied to the 2 semi's and makin' a wish bone outta her. Tension to the max.

Jinxy

03-05-2001, 09:54 AM

I saw a fucked UP! movie when I was a kid called "This House Posessed" starring Parker Stevenson (aka one of the Hardy Boys)and I swear to god, the scenes in that movie haunted me for 10 years. One scene, this chick is in the shower and the water turns to blood, and the door won't open and she drowns. In another scene, the temperature in the indoor poil gets hellatiously hot and the guy in it is boiled like an egg. There is an evil garden hose and a homicidal security gate...fuck. Nobody has ever seen this movie but me, it seems, and I've only seen it once. The other night I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, and I turned on the tv and TBS was just about to show "This House Posessed"--part of me wanted to watch, but I am so close to forgetting all those scary scenes, and I don't really want to go through another decade of being intimidated by swimming pools and gardening equipment, so I turned off the tv. I was so scared I slept on the living room couch that night. Has anyone seen this movie?!?

Tuan

03-05-2001, 01:30 PM

Originally posted by Jinxy
I saw a fucked UP! movie when I was a kid called "This House Posessed" starring Parker Stevenson (aka one of the Hardy Boys)and I swear to god, the scenes in that movie haunted me for 10 years. One scene, this chick is in the shower and the water turns to blood, and the door won't open and she drowns. In another scene, the temperature in the indoor poil gets hellatiously hot and the guy in it is boiled like an egg. There is an evil garden hose and a homicidal security gate...fuck. Nobody has ever seen this movie but me, it seems, and I've only seen it once. The other night I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, and I turned on the tv and TBS was just about to show "This House Posessed"--part of me wanted to watch, but I am so close to forgetting all those scary scenes, and I don't really want to go through another decade of being intimidated by swimming pools and gardening equipment, so I turned off the tv. I was so scared I slept on the living room couch that night. Has anyone seen this movie?!?

Heheh Jinxy...i feel you on the traumatizing horror films. My cousin told me about the House Possessed and my mom probably fed it to me from her extensive horror film collection because the scenes you mention are waaaay too familiar.
There are a few films off the top of my head that traumatized me for years!!! The Exorcist, Amytiville, and The Changling!!
Fuck, I couldn't go near a dark staircase for years!!!

But the best thing to do is re-discover, re-visit those films and all those fears will go away cuz when I saw those films again I kinda filtered out the ridiculous "b-movie" aspects that use to fool me when I was younger.

heheh so if you get the oppurtunity...watch the House Possesed again. Right now, immah head off to the nearest video store to go check it out! It sounds interesting! =D

kh6kine

03-05-2001, 02:16 PM

I saw something like that, but the house was like, all 1970's electronic-gadget-ified.

Dig this - Near the end, the robot-thing that ran the house RAPES the housewife.

Yeah, she got fucked by a fuggin' robot.

I don't wanna give the whole movie away, but does anyone remember / know that one? I totally caan't remember what the flick was called, or who was in it.

Hey, I just noticed I went from "Plain" to "Senior." What dis mean?

Mikio4

03-15-2001, 08:44 AM

Originally posted by kh6kine
I saw something like that, but the house was like, all 1970's electronic-gadget-ified.

Dig this - Near the end, the robot-thing that ran the house RAPES the housewife.

Yeah, she got fucked by a fuggin' robot.

I don't wanna give the whole movie away, but does anyone remember / know that one? I totally caan't remember what the flick was called, or who was in it.

Hey, I just noticed I went from "Plain" to "Senior." What dis mean?

It's a Donald Cammell movie called Demon Seed. Cammell is best known for being a crazy fucker (who I believe offed himself) and for making a weird ass psychedelic gangster movie called Performance starring Mick Jagger. If ya like Big Audio Dynamite, they sample Performance liberally on their first record.

03-17-2001, 11:17 AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without a doubt
That Thing You Do! Tom Evertt Scott!!
Storm Riders Eking Cheung, Aaron Kwok, Micheal Tse!
Tokyo Raiders Kelly Chen and Eking Cheung!
A Man Called Hero Xie Teng Fung!!!
Gen X Cops Nicholas Tse!!!
Chung King Express Faye Wong!
Fei Xiang (FX) one of my brovers movies (Still in Production)
3,000 Miles to Graceland only the ending though
Fong Sai Yuk Jet Li!
The Crow Brandon Lee: we love you!
Once Upon A Time in China Jet

TypeFiend

03-17-2001, 12:55 PM

These are action-based movies which rule my memory:

Ghost Dog (not Ghost Dad, the Cosby travesty)
Ran (non-CG battles only rivaled by Kubrik's Spartacus)
Empire Strkes Back (I remember I got jitters as a lil' rugrat when I saw this in the theatres)
Apocalypse Now
Leon ("Lil' piggy...)
La Femme Nikita
Heat
Ronin (is that the most insane chase scene or what?)
Bullit (Steve McQueen at his best)
Yojimbo
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Over the Top (Swayze....okay, just kidding)

martin

03-17-2001, 02:08 PM

Way back, someone asked about the reggae song that's always playing on the jukebox in Chungking Express. That would be "Things in Life" by Dennis Brown. You can find it on his Milk and Honey LP on RAS records. That version's kind of lover's rock, with tons of production, but nice. Better yet is is the 7" single on "The Original" Matador Records with a dub version on the back. I believe that's the cut that Brigette selects in the bar...

I bought the record mail-order from Aquarius in SF. My friend Hua scored the 7" for me from someplace in Berkeley. Happy hunting.

03-18-2001, 08:52 AM

Help, whats is so great about Irma Vep? I hear many people talk about it here on this site. It looks like an artsy film to me, maybe im wrong. Please give me details about this one. Thanks!

jwa

03-18-2001, 01:26 PM

One time my friends and I were poking through cinefile video in Santa Monica (next to the nuart) when we stumbled upon an aisle marked with the sign "These movies are so good that we rent them for free out of the belief that EVERYONE should see them". True enough, we found a video entitled "Mr. T's Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool", a sort of motivational tape put out for mopey kids in the 80s. IT SEVERELY ROCKED MY FACE OFF!

The video includes (but is not limited to)
-Mr. T rapping
-Mr. T breaking
-Mr. T shouting at children to excercise, control their temper, dress better, etc...
-New Edition!
-Xena and Zena, twin[?] pre-teenage models who model women-of-the-night-esque clothes while Mr. T gives husky voiced commentary.
-And more!

If you watch this video remember to bring a second pair of pants because you will mess yourself.

03-19-2001, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by Dr. Yang
Help, whats is so great about Irma Vep? I hear many people talk about it here on this site. It looks like an artsy film to me, maybe im wrong. Please give me details about this one. Thanks!

Its an OK movie. Maggie in a black catsuit was nice. Story was boring.

03-20-2001, 03:29 PM

leave out Ghostbusters?

Ryan

03-20-2001, 04:40 PM

Don't cross the streams! I could never figure out why that was bad but they always brought it up in the cartoon

Mikio4

03-20-2001, 10:31 PM

Originally posted by kikaida01
Originally posted by Dr. Yang
Help, whats is so great about Irma Vep? I hear many people talk about it here on this site. It looks like an artsy film to me, maybe im wrong. Please give me details about this one. Thanks!

Its an OK movie. Maggie in a black catsuit was nice. Story was boring.

I rather liked it, but it is an art movie.

Mikio4

03-20-2001, 10:37 PM

Originally posted by TypeFiend
Over the Top (Swayze....okay, just kidding)

I feel compelled to correct this. Over the Top starred Sylvester Stallone not Swayze. It also features master thespian Stallone uttering the line "When I turn my hat around I feel like a truck."

TypeFiend

03-21-2001, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by Mikio4
Originally posted by TypeFiend
Over the Top (Swayze....okay, just kidding)

I feel compelled to correct this. Over the Top starred Sylvester Stallone not Swayze. It also features master thespian Stallone uttering the line "When I turn my hat around I feel like a truck."

You're quite correct. I think I was thinking of Roadhouse, also starring Patrick's brother Don. Its easy to get these Academy award winning films mixed up...

5.92

03-25-2001, 04:03 PM

-Killer
-SLC punk
-Colors
-revenge of the nerds I
Does anyone remember that movie they played on kung fu theater in L.A back in the day that had the flying guillotine? I feel like a poser asking but I've seen it once like 15 years ago.

lovelikefrogs

03-26-2001, 11:35 AM

RAD the BMX movie. I liked the feel good soundtrack. I used to race BMX and I listened to a tape of that soundtrack before races to get me pumped up. And then I would usually crash and cause others to do the same. Gleaming the Cubes is good too. And speaking of Jim Jarmusch flicks, his first full length Permenant Vacation was good if you like Stanger than Paradise

03-27-2001, 03:05 PM

-oh dana hi its you
-oh hi louis
-i thought it was the health food store.
-oh, are you sick?
-no no i am fine i just ordered some more vitamins, i like to keep the house all stocked up you know how i am.
-yeah i know how you are.
-yeah i feel great. i taped twenty minute workout and played it back at high speed so it only took ten minutes and i got a great work out...
-oh
-listen that reminds me you shouldn't leave your tv on so loud when you leave the jerk down the hall phoned the manager.
-thats funny i didnt realize i left it on.
-yeah so you know what i did, i climbed out on the ledge and tried to get in but your window was locked so you know what i did? i turned up my tv really loud too, so people would think there was somehting wrong with both our tvs,
-bye, louis.
-ok i'll see you later then huh? gimme a call. i'm gonna have a shower.

03-27-2001, 03:07 PM

How many of you all have seen the movie "Shock 'Em Dead?"

Sick.

Salami Swami

04-25-2001, 02:45 AM

Casino
Goodfellas
Scarface
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
Carlito's Way
King Of New York
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Escape From New York
Animal House

That's some good shit. Now I just need them all on DVD.

Captain Cactus

04-29-2001, 08:09 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jwa
[B]One time my friends and I were poking through cinefile video in Santa Monica (next to the nuart) when we stumbled upon an aisle marked with the sign "These movies are so good that we rent them for free out of the belief that EVERYONE should see them". True enough, we found a video entitled "Mr. T's Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool", a sort of motivational tape put out for mopey kids in the 80s. IT SEVERELY ROCKED MY FACE OFF!

Hell fuckin' yeah! I got an original copy off that tape with the box and everything. I nabbed it from a videostore I used to work at years ago. I used to put it on while we were open to annoy all the customers.
Now I put it on to annoy or enchant all those that step into my home. There are actually a lot of people out there that simply know me as "the guy with the Mr. T video".
Anyways - it's a total classic!

Decadent1

05-03-2001, 10:03 PM

<FONT face=arial color=yellow>I like the episode where there is some woman chased around by a little alien. She ends up killing the alien and at the end they show the alien's spaceship and its got U.S.A. on it.</font>

05-06-2001, 12:26 AM

Carlitos way
aliens
yojimbo
seven samarai
searching for bobby fischer
sling blade
Hidden fortress
redbeard
unforgiven
amadeus

05-07-2001, 10:40 PM

Amadeus is a great film. Check it out on dvd, the sound will blow you awy.

Simon Paradise

05-08-2001, 02:37 AM

"Action Jackson"
two many wierd things to mention, but foremost on my mind is the evil villain is played by Craig T. Nelson (Coach), who is a millionare/kung fu master. His kung fu mastery is proven in a scene where he needlessly beats up the asian guy who training him...by cheating..im not sure but i think this movie started that wierd trend of "villain displays his martial arts skills by beating up an asian guy."

shagwerks

05-08-2001, 05:20 AM

Some great flicks on the list. A lot of commonality between us. Scary.

+ Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my all time faves. The old black and white one with .... well, shit - i forgot the guy's name all the sudden, and then the newer French one with Gerard Depardieu. Sweet sweet sweet. And of course, Roxanne with Steve Martin is the best adaptation of the story! Funny as hell.

+ Fast Times at Ridgemont High - All time classic and near as true to life feel of high school when i was in high school. Started a lot of careers, including Nicholas Coppola (aka Cage). Dig that craziness! And Spicoli blowing his reward money on Van Halen is what its all about!

+ Better Off Dead - John Cusak (my all time favorite actor) goes for the girl better left behind. Features some of the all time greatest lines in cult classic movie history. "That's a damn shame - folks be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that."

+ Maltese Falcon - A grim film noir with style for miles. Bogart plays the crooked good guy like nobody else.

+ Rebel Without a Cause - Another hallowed and holy film in my collection. James Dean made it cool to be sensitive before anyone. And that lopsided smile is the best. Notable scenes - the knife fight at the observatory and the subsequent chicky run.

+ Easy Rider - This is the road trip movie that makes you think. The acid scene in the cemetary is too real. Freaky. Great soundtrack to boot.

+ Heavy Metal - Soundtrack kicks ass. Animation kicks ass. Stories kick ass. My favorite story? Either the one with John Candy's voice where he's a nerdy kid that becomes this big blue buff dude in a fantasy world or the taxi driver guy.

+ Pi - Who saw this? If you haven't go immediately to your video store and demand it. Very cool indie film about math, kabbala, and conspiracies. Sorta.

+ Clerks - A lot of people like the newer ones better, but i say Clerks is king of the Kevin Smith saga. Reminds me of my freinds when i was growing up on the east coast. Tri-state days (nj/ny/ct). "My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks." Customer replies, "In a row?" Or the part that always gets the hardest laugh from me: "You're not allowed to rent here anymore!" Then Jay shouts, "Yeaaaaah!" Laugh my ass off every time.

+ Dead Poets Society - Call me, Nuwanda. This movie is what got me interested in discovering poetry.

+ Valley Girl - Nicholas Cage is the dude from Hollywood and he meets up with a Valley chic in a sort of adapatation of Romeo and Juliet. A lot of cool moments and features the song that was everyone's "our song", Melt With You.

Shit - there's too many to mention.. but those are a few of my favorites.

05-08-2001, 06:07 AM

Shagwerks? Are you speaking of the puerto rican actor "Jose Ferrer" in cerano de bergerac? I think thats him. Somebody please tell me how to highlight certain parts of a quote? Im not sure how this works, im new here. Thank you.

05-08-2001, 09:51 AM

Originally posted by shagwerks
Some great flicks on the list. A lot of commonality between us. Scary.

Easy Rider - This is the road trip movie that makes you think. The acid scene in the cemetary is too real. Freaky. Great soundtrack to boot.

I gotta agree about the acid scene... it is way too real, but its also a amazing collage of film. That really blew me away when I first saw that and its still one of my favorites.

Salami Swami

05-08-2001, 02:02 PM

NAKED LUNCH
Tripped-out freaky shit!!

USUAL SUSPECTS
Sickest ending.

OFFICE SPACE
Uhhhhhh, yeaaaahhhh, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday, also.....

Willie D

05-12-2001, 07:16 AM

Originally posted by jwa
One time my friends and I were poking through cinefile video in Santa Monica (next to the nuart) when we stumbled upon an aisle marked with the sign "These movies are so good that we rent them for free out of the belief that EVERYONE should see them". True enough, we found a video entitled "Mr. T's Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool", a sort of motivational tape put out for mopey kids in the 80s. IT SEVERELY ROCKED MY FACE OFF!

The video includes (but is not limited to)
-Mr. T rapping
-Mr. T breaking
-Mr. T shouting at children to excercise, control their temper, dress better, etc...
-New Edition!
-Xena and Zena, twin[?] pre-teenage models who model women-of-the-night-esque clothes while Mr. T gives husky voiced commentary.
-And more!

Snippets of that were in the 2nd Big Brother skate video.

If you watch this video remember to bring a second pair of pants because you will mess yourself.

Umbilicus

05-12-2001, 10:42 PM

I may have posted this before, but "Rushmore" and "Bottle Rocket"!

05-03-2002, 01:23 PM

and this one...

Ryan

12-31-2002, 05:27 AM

bring it back cuz it AINT NO THANG...

i just watched Chasing Amy again and i like it even more so now.

archonemis

07-05-2003, 01:08 PM

I looked at my old list and viewed a couple after years of neglect. I'm renegging on The Dark Crystal. It was much better as a memory. My newer list:

The Deer Hunter
Amelie
City Of Lost Children
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
Fight Club
The Game
American Psycho
Brazil
The Fisher King
Baron Van Munchausen (sp)
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Videodrome
The Thing (1986)
Alien
PeeWee Herman's Big Adventure
The Blue's Brothers
Vertigo
Donnie Darko
O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Barton Fink
The Man Who Wasn't There
Run Lola Run
The Believer