Reaper Girl Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Originally posted by RayJones ps. i forgot .. Alien TRILOGY .. best.. the second movie! (ressurection was not really an alien movie.. ) Alein Triology...*happy thoughts!* and finally! someone agrees w/t me on the ressurection thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Originally posted by Natty In some ways, I kind of hope that the original Star Wars isn't released on DVD till after episode3, make it a 6disk box set or something with maybe a 7th disk for extras or something, I dunno. They needed a whole other disk for the attack of the clones DVD extras (not sure about phantom menace), I think they'd need a few more than one single disk to cover the extras of all 6 movies. good idea though, kinda like what they're doing with Indie, putting all the extras on another disk instead of spreading them around the other three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercatfat Posted July 21, 2003 Author Share Posted July 21, 2003 Selling them all in a 6 DVD box set only sure would be a clever way to get rid of all those Episode 1/2 DVDs that are destined for a landfill in a matter of years. Problem is I'd just want Empire and nothing else out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natty Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 Well if it is a box set that's released. I'd be so tempted to just buy 2 sets and keep one of them wrapped in the plastic. It could be worth something in a few years time. Mint condition Star Wars box set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 yeah reaper girl .. who t.f. got the idea for an 'alien' with EYES and all this stupid human touch?? Someone must be at the point GENETICs is the BLOCKBUSTING topic ever.. tsk.. just lame.. *laughing* .. hey you wont believe it i just saw "crazy about mary" .. i normally dont like such movies.. but this one has a funny story.. GOOD entertaining.. And does anyone remember HOT SHOTS?? .. 'i got the eyes of my father .. here i always have them with me .. ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Best movie to watch when you and your girl/guy want a dose of that classic 80's rock you grew up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Originally posted by RayJones yeah reaper girl .. who t.f. got the idea for an 'alien' with EYES and all this stupid human touch?? Someone must be at the point GENETICs is the BLOCKBUSTING topic ever.. tsk.. just lame.. :mad:Bah. I sorta liked the baby alein guy-thing. The only part of the movie me liked was when he got sucked out the window. the rest was &%$##fgds.... heehee....did you know A4 was made by a french guy? (would explain much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 oh oh oh! other best movies...all by tim burton, though... Beetle Juice The Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow I'd put Edward Scissor Hands, but it was too...too....(looking for adjective)...i dunno, sort of too good natured, too weepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 I felt soo sorry for Edward, so sorry infact that i didn't enjoy the movie, sorry, not one of his best. Sleepy Hollow was okay, but by far the best Tim Burton was Beetle Juice (although they could have gotten a better actor for the role) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi but by far the best Tim Burton was Beetle Juice (although they could have gotten a better actor for the role) (is a fierce Keaton fan) like who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Umm... oh I don't know, Jim Carrey?! Christopher Lloyd?! A good actor?! Sorry, but his Batman was absolute trash and Jack Frost? What the hell was that all about?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 hmm....Jim Carey? Perhaps... Jack Frost? Never saw it. But it looked like trash from afar. There was actually a slasher type flim in the 80s called Jack Frost. Nothing special, but i find this funny for some demented reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Dog Day Afternoon Anyone else LOVE this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Next Friday. T2. Ace Ventura. (yeah) The Mask. Dog Day Afternoon? i dont know it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Girl Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 T2!TTTT2222! Who saw T3? Didn't it just absolutely suck @$$? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnchiladaMan Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Right on, RemiO about the crop scene in N by NW. I loved that movie. My CURRENT favorites (subject to change) 1. Pirates of the Caribbean "Drink up me hearties, yo ho!" Excellent pirate movie. May pirate movies come back! 2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy Fan of the books many years. Fan of the movies two years and counting. ;-) 3. Galaxy Quest Great fun on the expense of Trekkies everywhere. Yet, still, a compelling story with characters you just love. 4. Rocketman! Great silly movie about innocence. "It wasn't me!" The isolation chamber scene is great, as is the scene with his first steps on Mars. "I'm the first to walk backwards on Mars! You're the first to ignore me on Mars!" "I want to get to know you better for the first time on Mars!" Other Favorites (no particular order) Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights." "Citizen Kane" "Shrek" "Wizard of Oz." "Treasure Island" (Classic Disney at it's finest) "Robin Hood" (the Classic Disney one with real people. NOT the animated one with talking animals.) "Road to Morocco," "Road to Utopia," and the five other "Road to..." films (Bob Hope and Bing Crosby perform the classic "Pattycake" gag) ...and just about any Hitchcock film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 From an artistic standpoint, Citizen Kane is one of my fave movies, but it's not quite in my top 5 overall... And Ray, Dog Day Afternoon is one of Al Pacino's earlier flicks (directed by Sydney Lumet)... Like 1976, I think. It's a true story about a 12-hour hostage taking in a bank. Definatly worth a rent. And while we're talking about rentals: Basic. One of the best new movies I've seen. Then again, I'm also a firm believer that you can't put Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in a movie together and not have it kick ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guybrush122 Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Can't really say my FAVORITES of movies because, well, I love movies. But here are a few on the top of my list. 1) Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1982) Brilliant movie. Ridley Scott took the amazing book, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, and made it his own; "Blade Runner". The symbolism and metaphors in this movie are still speculated. And it crosses my two favorite genres; Film Noir, and dark, gritty Science Fiction. Harrison Ford was great in it, and Sean Young made her only excellent performance of her entire career. I could go on for hours about this movie. 2) Casablanca (1940's) Genius. Humphry Bogart and Ingrid Berman were nothing short of fantastic. A seedy look at Casablanca during WWII, and the life of a heartbroken toughguy who sticks his neck out for no one. Film Noir classic, as well as a wonderful love story, and a fabulous ending. The screenplay was birlliance, the scenes were classic, the acting (even Peter Lorre) was nothing short of utter perfection. A movie I will watch till I die. 3) To Have and Have Not (1940's) Another Bogart picture, and Lauren Bacall's (later to be Bogy's wife) film debut. Hoagy Carmichael makes does a great job with the music (except for one scene...but thats merely a chip of the Taj Mahal) and the style of the camera makes this a classic. Another refugee movie, this one about the Free French. The famous lines, "If you need me, just whistle, Slim. You do know how to whistle, Slim? It's easy. Just pucker up your lips and blow." and "What was that for?" - "I wanted to see if I'd like it." - "Yeah? What's the decision?" - "I don't know yet." Make this movie all worth watching. 4) Notorious (Late 1940's/Early 1950's) One of Hitchcock's greatest work. I can't really give this one a long description because there's not much to say aside from 'it's amazing.' Hitchock was a brilliant director and storyteller. 5) Jacob's Ladder (1990) A film about a Vietnam vet, played by Tim Robbins, who thinks he's going insane. He sees things...demons. They chase him. Try to kill him. But he always manages to escape death...somehow. What's going on? Are the demons real, or is it something the army did to him in the past? This movie scared the pants off me. A great movie. 6) Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark/ Last Crusade (1980's) Can anyone deny these films are great? Not necassarily a five star movie in all aspects, but certainly a five star experience. Unfortunately, the second installment of the series was seriously lacking. Those arent all my favs mind you. And I don't think they're listed in order of whats my favorite. They're just the ones I thought of off the top of my head.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branik Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 1. Most pre-Hollywood movies from Jackie Chan (especially Supercop and The Legend of The Drunken Master) 2. Dodes'ka-den, Derzu Uzala and Yojimbo 3. The Blues Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Um, hello. My name is Gunner. Ok, three great movies.. For scary nothing beats. Event Horizon This baby will freak you out. I was just a little to much for me. Any of the Alien flicks I have the DVD collection and they are all great. Any Schwarzenegger film I love the Oak. He is the man ,bar none. Preadator, Terminator, True Lies. Wah tcan ya say. Zoolander Bonus flick.... This baby is funny as hell.. "It's a walk off" "Magnum" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Wow, I must say you folks here at the Harbor have some good taste in movies. By the looks of my avatar and user name, you probably already know that The Star Wars Films are my favorite, but I WILL discuss 3 movies that are not Star Wars related: Forbidden Planet 1956, MGM DVD Score: 95% Like Star Wars, another movie that came close to remaining timeless is Forbidden Planet. The movie is about a rescue/salvage mission to Altaire IV, in search of survivors of a survey team that dissapeared. What the crew of C-57D discover is the enigmatic Dr. Morbius, cleverly played by Walter Pidgeon, his scantily clad daughter forgettably portrayed by Anne Francis, and thier assistant the ever famous; Robbie The Robot. The crew soon discover the wonders of Dr. Morbius's findings as well as a dark secret that sheds light on the dissapearance of the missing survey team. Forbidden Planet was one of the first sci-fi films to despense the token attack of the rubber suited aliens, and dig deep into to the human psyhce, to tap our deepest nightmares. The set designs are breathtaking. The special effects and matt work was light years ahead of it's time, and it was the first film to utilize a completely electronic soundtrack, the results of which have these horrific loud chirps, whirrs and buzzes that help build the tention to an already chilling creation. The only things that date this movie is that some of the dialogue is a little bit "gee golly swellish". Technical controls reveal the central viewer on the ship's bridge as being that of basically a big Gyroscope. Also, no matter how much candy coated it seems, the United Planets Crusiser: C-57D is still a giant "flying saucer". Although there was great effort involved to make this the thinkers' sci-fi movie, very little effort was put into the character of Altaire, Morbious's daughter. Although the movie bosts that she is vastly educated and self sufficient, she tries waaaaay to hard to get the attention of ship's captain; Leslie Neilsen, and comes off as being the generic screaming damsel in distress that pretty much all sci-fi films had at the time. Critics over the years have called this a "Star Trek like film", due to the use of the transporter like devices, ray guns, and Naval ranks, which seems amusing that this movie was released a decade prior to the first Star Trek Episode. Coincidence? Recomended: Widescreen, DVD Format BRAZIL 1985, Universal Studios Score: 98% Breaking the molds of every barrier in movie makeing and was never repeated. This movie often misunderstood and misinterpreted still has a resounding cult following and elements of its making have been repeated to this day in movie making. The film simply opens "somewhere in the 20th Century, 8:49pm" we know little about the world where the movie is placed, only that it is overcrowded, technologically advanced and that there is alot of people with British Accents. It is sort of Charles Dickens meats H.G. Wells in the 1920's inpired by Citizen Kane, and 1984. Sam Lowry (Jonathan Price) is your typical bachlelor who is content with his boring life working in the records department for the Government. Sam has these vivid dreams often depicting himself as a silver winged warrior rescuing a damsel in distress(Kim Griest). Matters are worse when an innocent man Archibald Buttle is mistaken for a revolutionary terrorist, Archibold Tuttle (Robert DeNiro). Sam is called upon by his spineless boss (Ian Holm) to refund the family for the mistake of a lost husband. During the gruling process he is stumbles upon his vision. It turns out that his Damsel in distress is actually Jill Layton, Buttle's concerned neighbor. Sam reluctenlt decides to use his mother (Katherine Helmond) and her wealth to get a postion in "infromation retrieval" which will enable him to persue his dream of finding Jill. As it turns out, Jill is attached to the same terrorist/revolutionary movement as Tuttle, and it is not long before Sam gets caught up in the whirlwind of Chaos and deception. Brazil is both humorous and action packed. It is also surreal in it's conception, a Dali painting come to life. From his mothers rediculous pursuit of the fountain of youth through plastic surgery to commercials about updating your "old fashoined ducts" this movie is a joy from star to finish. There is a fine line between fantasy, comedy and sci-fi here that has not been seen since the likes of A clockwork Orange. Yet Terry Guilliam (director of 12 Monkeys) keeps this film fresh and his use of perception and animation keep you breathless and desperately klinging for more. He uses perception of depth and size and space from an artistic stand point. There are several versions of this film which are all included on the Criterion Collector's edition DVD. A DVD which holds the record for the most I as a person have ever spent for a DVD. The movie is loaded with suspense, Action, Romance, Comedy, and Tradgedy. This movie is timeless and brilliant. Brazil should not be missed by anyone who enjoys a good film. It is that rare kind of film that makes you want to revisit as often as possible. Apocalypse Now Redux 1979, Paramount Pictures Score: 99% Francis Ford Copella, put himself and his cast through hell, and the resulting picture, depicted the image he set to create. As the music cues up we hear The Doors' "The End" as napalm scorches the vast Vietnam tree lines, we are transported to Willard's (Martin Sheen) personal Hell. Having suffered from divorce and battle fatigue, Willard is summoned from his Saigon hotel drinking binge early for a very special mission. A top secret operation, a tape recording of an audio transmission is played of the now missing Col. Kurtz, a once decorated green baret, who has dissapeared in the outskirts of Vietnam to Cambodia where he opperates out of a villiage of violent natives who worship him like a god. His mission is to terminate his command (and Kurtz) without anyone knowing about it. The irony of killing a decorated soldier does not seem to bother Willard at first, but during his long hard journy up the Do Lang river, as he reads his dossier and sees a country collapsing around him, and all the soldiers fighting a loosing battle, he himself begins to privately question the value of his real mission. The movie is fast paced, dark and full of imagrey and hidden messages. There is plenty of action for war movie buffs, but plenty of other elements that teeter on the brink of humanity and sanity at the same time. The movie is full of surprises, and maybe a bit grousome for the average viewer. This film is an epic as we watch LT Williard and his escorts, the crew of the PBR "Streetgang" fall appart mentally and physically as they plunge through the heart of the Vietnam war into the mysteries of the deep jungle. Definitely worth at least one look at, bye anyone who likes films that are full cinimatic harmony, and big budget sequences. No special effects needed for this film, to the cast and crew that grew ill in the hot jungle, is a story in itslef. To them, it pretty much IS Vietnam. This film is about as real as they come. Recomended: Apocalypse Now Redux featuring nearly all cut scenes put back in, and excellent 5.1 digital surround sound and picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elTee Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Ok - I also consider myself a movie buff so here goes... 1. The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) Luc Bessons first American movie really needs to be seen in its uncut 165 minute European release, with the Eric Serra score. I say this because I fear that any americans who have seen it will wonder why I place this film so highly. I dunno, it seems that people either love this film or hate it. For me, everything about it is perfect - from its doomed love story, emphatic characters and the rivalry between Enzo and Jacques to the variety of stunning locations visited in the film. When it comes down to it, it's incredibly hard to describe the actual plot, but essentially it's about a freediver named Jacques, who is torn between his love for an american woman, Johanna, and the sea. Brilliant. 2. A Clockwork Orange Some will say that the violence in this movie is gratuitous, but it's completely essential to the story. And what a story! In its simplest form, this is about how far governments will go to control the population. The main character, Alex, is arrested for a brutal crime. He escapes imprisonment by volunteering for a new "cure" for crime. He is its first patient, and all seems to have worked - Alex finds himself unable to act aggresively. But upon his return to the outside world, this soon becomes a disability to him... 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro bring Hunter S. Thompsons tale of a drug fuelled trip to vegas to life in this brilliant and hilarious movie. The two characters, Raoul Duke and his Samoan lawyer Dr. Gonzo make the most of a journalism assignment in the gambling capital of the world. Its one of the funniest films I've ever seen, and you really feel how amazingly stoned and high these guys are. 4. Dr. Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb) Perhaps the single funniest movie of all time, Peter Sellers creates three different and hilarious characters to life in this story of a US colonel who cracks, and orders all of Americas nukes to launch on Russia. What he doesn't know is that the Russians have installed a safety device - the doomsday machine. If one bomb goes off, it will set off enough nukes to destroy the world. Much hilarity is to be had from watching the panicking US government try to call back the planes delivering the bombs. 5.Goodfellas The best gangster film ever made. What more is there to say? Its an epic tale, portraying the life and crimes of Henry Hill and his mob friends. Over the course of 30 years, we see his rise and fall from grace. Easy Scorceses best. Others that I love, in no particular order: Die Hard, The Maltese Falcon, Leon, The Big Lebowski, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Beauty & the Beast and Rocky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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