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Post by wayved on Jan 30, 2007 22:55:08 GMT -5
My top 5 movies of all time:
5. Soylent Green
4. Creepshow
3. Corpse Grinders
2. Night of the Living Dead
1. The Birds (hitchcock)
Thats not counting the easy ones--Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf, Its a Wonderful Life (yeah suckas that shit makes my eyes produce), Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Repulsion etc...
(as you can tell I dont watch alot of movies)
I rented SNAKES ON A PLANE cos I thought it would make me laugh. it did NOT! it was f*&king HORRIBLE! I figured Samuel L was in it so it would be alright....It didnt even have any campy humor in it. The worst thing was i accidentally dropped the rental movie in the POST OFFICE MAILBOX instead of in the rental return box...I just grabbed my mail and the MOVIE by mistake! So now im going to have to pay for it! Stupid once, stupid twice, F*&K!
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Post by luke on Jan 30, 2007 22:56:17 GMT -5
Awesome list! Creepshow rocks so hard I won't even bother defending SoaP.
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Post by wayved on Jan 31, 2007 0:35:12 GMT -5
Cmon LUKE! You saw some positives! Enlighten us!
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Post by Ayinger on Jan 31, 2007 18:23:43 GMT -5
Also up there very high on my Favorite movie list, plus The Apartment is such a Lemmon tour de force along with Mister Roberts & Glengarry Glen Ross . Glenn: what's your take on The Omega Man? If you like Soylent Green I taking that might be right up your alley too. |
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Post by wayved on Jan 31, 2007 21:44:48 GMT -5
Ayinger: I JUST WATCHED THAT last week! No kidding! I thought it was good-but I thought he was the OMEGA MAN. He was not. The zany cult thing....The other people left alive....It did not help that I watched it at 2 am and dozed through at least 20 minutes of it.....I thought it would have more of an apocolyptic feel to it and it didn't....Have you seen BRAINSTORM with Natalie Wood? I havent seen that for decades (on HBO in 1983)...thats one I would like to see again.....
Snakes on a Plane was no good for me! It was that middleground--big budget movie, Samuel L.-i figured it would kick ass or make me laugh. It did neither.....Maybe if I watched it again......No --it was just bad.
But im no movie critic......
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Post by RocDoc on Feb 1, 2007 19:50:34 GMT -5
I'm hoping the Tex Avery boxset is still available somewhere. That defined a cartoon for me- not overstaying its welcome and characters that genuinely lived. Mel Blanc is still sorely missed- give me him thousandfold over all those actors doing voice-overs now.
Tex Avery, while great, was still no Bob Clampett.
Clampett did the MOST hallucinogenic Warners' cartoons out of all of them...and some of MGM's as well.
He did stuff where Daffy Duck was running off of the film reel like a friggin' rocket. Among many other unreal effects.
Also one of THE most clever kids' cartoon series of the '60s, Beany And Cecil...
'Cars' just looked stupid to me from the get-go conceptually...Monsters Inc I totally loved...and Ice Age AND Finding Nemo.
Shrek's kinda 'feh' though....
But CGI definitely is not all bad...
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2007 20:10:27 GMT -5
RocDoc, if you could sit through the predictable (though funny) Ice Age, then you NEED to watch Cars. I can't believe you guys just dismiss this wonderful film without giving it a fair viewing. Man, I had tears in my eyes several times in that film -- legitimately moving in all the best ways. Cars may have been the best time I had at the movies last year (granted, I never did make it to the Bond flick). Soulless automatons, all of you.  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2007 20:12:08 GMT -5
Snakes on a Plane was a blast, BTW ... I don't know if it would be quite the same watching it on TV, but I really enjoyed it at the theater.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2007 20:13:16 GMT -5
The Omega Man was one of my favorites as a kid ... hmmm, maybe I should stop blaming pop music for how fucked up I am and start blaming movies and television.
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 1, 2007 21:15:24 GMT -5
The Omega Man was just one of those great movies to see at the drive-in during the summer -- LOTs of good ol' 70's vibe going on in it! Almost up there with the original Planet Of The Apes series....along with Soylent Green it was like we just felt we were gonna fuckup the future for sure somehow in an apocalyptic disaster and become a doomed human race. Silent Running was another less-known personal sci-fi favorite of that time period. (could go on with THX-1138, Logan's Run too I suppose)
Wayved: not sure if I ever saw Brainstorm although I think we carried it at the video store I managed. Seem to recall the coverart of the box.....gawd how I had 10,000+ unit inventory about memorized. But Natalie Wood? Wasn't she about dead in the drink by 1983???
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2007 21:20:05 GMT -5
Planet of the Apes (all of 'em), The Omega Man and Logan's Run (didn't that have a very young (and impossibly hot) Farah Fawcett in it?) were some of my faves of the pre-Star Wars seventies Sci-Fi scene. There were a bunch of others that heavily influenced my (decidedly downbeat) view of the future.
Hell, Blade Runner looked positively cheery compared to something like The Omega Man!
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 1, 2007 21:21:05 GMT -5
RocDoc, if you could sit through the predictable (though funny) Ice Age, then you NEED to watch Cars. I can't believe you guys just dismiss this wonderful film without giving it a fair viewing. Man, I had tears in my eyes several times in that film -- legitimately moving in all the best ways. Cars may have been the best time I had at the movies last year (granted, I never did make it to the Bond flick). Soulless automatons, all of you. ;) Saw Ice Age on a flight out to Sacramento a few years back....entertaining enough to make the time go by. WISH I had a kid in my life to be able to have the excuse to go see some of the films aimed at that audience....ha, sometimes have to live life thru a child's eyes eh?! Dated a girl a few years back and LOVED watching "Bear In Big Blue House" on TV....used to also make videotapes of kid's films to take over to the house to watch. "Goodnight, Gorilla" is especially cool........ |
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2007 21:22:29 GMT -5
The Birds is one of my absolute favorite films, too. I intellectually know that Hitch made better films, but The Birds just hits all my buttons.
I hate birds. And I know the feeling is mutual.
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 1, 2007 22:24:43 GMT -5
Planet of the Apes (all of 'em), The Omega Man and Logan's Run (didn't that have a very young (and impossibly hot) Farah Fawcett in it?) were some of my faves of the pre-Star Wars seventies Sci-Fi scene. There were a bunch of others that heavily influenced my (decidedly downbeat) view of the future. Hell, Blade Runner looked positively cheery compared to something like The Omega Man! did have Farrah in it but she wasn't the lead hottie (can't remember who was but the TV series had the very nice Heather Menzies in it). I do recall her in another sci-fi role called Saturn 3 where she actually flashed a nipple (which was about the high point). The Planet Of The Apes films were about the shit when they came out. I remember being jealous of my sister being old enough to go see one at the theater when it came out and wishing that I could go but I guess my parents thought it was too "adult" or something for me. Damn, as a little kid I was SO into the whole horror/sci-fi thing....I knew people like Roddy McDowall, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Karloff, Lugosi, etc. better than I did the presidents! |
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Post by wayved on Feb 1, 2007 23:30:03 GMT -5
Ken-I blame the fact that there was a televison on my dining room table for my problems! (im just kidding!)
Ayinger--I need to check out Goodnight Gorilla!
I forgot to mention John Carpenters THE THING. circa mid 80s. I threw up when I was 9 years old after seeing that--scared the ever living shit out of me. Its still a good movie (made up for the FOG!)
A friend of mine (he is much older than I--about 20 years my senior) had a discussion about movies. I am not a movie person really. Sitting on my ass for that long watching some alternate reality pisses me off for some reason.....The only time I throw a movie right before I sleep or when I dont have a book to read about some silly ass shit (Im not knocking movies here or the people who watch them--im learning how to) --But he longs for the time that the visual was not so focused on advertising, and not so desensitizing. I agree with that. Then he chided me for not seeing Forbidden Planet and the Day the Earth Stood Still. Totally agreed with him.
Even television today is not focused on any message or anything--its just alot of chopped off body parts (CSI) or some other bullshit. I tend to agree with my elder friend --things are more frightening when implied instead of there in your face--cheap ass money gore shots. Old School Twilight Zone and Outer Limits scare the shit out of me more than CSI or any of those other shows can. Sure, dated and cheesy but the ideas behind some of the episodes....
I shut up now.
Ayinger--I wanted to write a book once--"How the Bear and the Big Blue House Made me Drink Copiuos Amounts of Hard Alcohol"--but it never happened.
TOP 5 KIDS SHOWS OF ALL TIME:
5. Bozo (grand prize game?)
4. great Space Coaster gary Gnu?
3. Vegetable Soup (that shit was a trip! Only adults can dig this really--its better than Aqua Teen) I finally found a link that had the theme to that--its like some kind of crazed cracked out lost soul single on the UNI label...Amazing!
2. PAC MAN cartoon show
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