| Author | Message | ||
     Mr_grumpy |
Jon, this is the "Favourite Movie" thread. The "Worst Movie" thread is over there. | ||
| Sportyeric |
Without a Paddle, a take-off on Deliverance,is much funnier than the ads led me to expect. Getting chased by hillbillies (and their pitbulls, Lynard and Skynard) through their burning pot field. "Git up, you stoner dogs!" | ||
| Rocketman |
Amongst my favourite movies are three Walter Hill classics. Though non of the three are in anyway similar in their subject matter they all have one thing in common. Their soundtracks. The Long Riders - with it's fantastic Ry Cooder soundtrack. Ry has a fantastic ability to make traditional sounding music just like you'd imagine the 'Old West' to sound. Souther Comfort - magnificently moody in Cajun sounds, featuring I believe the likes of Clifton Chenier and John Delafose, and of course Ry Cooder. Crossroads - with it's fusion of traditional Blues and rock and a blinding Steve Vai solo, also featuring the sounds of Ry Cooder. These are my three favourite Walter Hill movies though there are more Hill / Cooder movie collaborations. Another great moody and magnificent showing, Electra Glide in Blue, has a fascinating soundtrack too. The band and orchestra include members from hit band Chicago, who also have minor roles in the movie. The closing song 'Tell Me' was sung by Chicago's vocalist Terry Kath and is an absolute masterpiece of music. Strangely it never showed up anywhere else other than on the soundtrack album. More strange when one here's the closing lyrics repeated over and over again, 'God bless America. God bless America. God bless America". That said, the last ever episode of Miami Vice included this great song. Rocket | ||
| Blake |
That story really speaks to me. Redford really nailed it. | ||
| Seth |
Unforgiven | ||
| Slaughter |
Rocket - if you're talking soundtracks and tying together traditional English/Irish/Scottish tunes with "primitive" Appalachian folk music try the movie Songcatcher Yes, it's a fanciful, romanticized look at the music but if you like traditional tunes, rent it sometime... also is a great movie to see with a lady (not quite a "chick flick" but you can score some points)  It gets unnecessarily "preachy" a little bit but still a good movie for anyone with a love of traditional music common to both our cultures From a review: Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life--a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted--not only by the rugged purity of the music, but also by the raw courage and endurance of the local people as they carve out meaningful lives against the harshest conditions. | ||
| Tramp |
Wender's "Wings Of Desire" and "So Far Away So Close" | ||
| Bomber |
one of the most beautiful movies ever was "Sounder" every frame could stand by itslef as a gorgeous photograph the soundtrack, for anyone liking primative blues, is aces | ||
| Tramp |
dang.bombs | ||
| Bomber |
i take it you're familiar with the movie ;-} thankfully, there was no time-limit on the thread -- it was one of the first movies I saw after DEROSing | ||
| Rocketman |
Thank you Slaughter. I've noted the movie in my cell phone - so next time I'm at the DVD shop........... Rocket | ||
| Stealthxb |
Reservoir Dogs Menace II Society Boondock Saints | ||
| Stealthxb |
2001: A Space Odyssey 21 Grams Akira American Beauty American Graffiti American History X Animal House Apocalypse Now The Beach Beyond the Valley of the Dolls The Big Lebowski Blow Boogie Nights Boon Dock Saints Bottle Rocket Brazil Bruce Lee - The Master Collection Casino City of God A Clockwork Orange The Color of Money Coming to America Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Dazed and Confused Deep Cover Devil’s Rejects Disney Collection Dolemite Collection Donnie Darko Dr. Strangelove Drugstore Cowboy Easy Rider Empire Records Every Which Way but Loose Fargo Fast Times at Ridgemont High Faster Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fight Club Finding Nemo Full Metal Jacket The Godfather Good Will Hunting Goodfellas Gummo Hard Eight Heat Heathers High School Confidential Hero House of 1000 Corpses Iron Monkey Juice Julian Donkey Boy Kalifornia Ken Park Kids Kill Bill Vol. 1 Kill Bill Vol. 2 King of New York Krush Groove Legends of the Fall Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Love Actually The Mack Menace II Society Momento My Own Private Idaho Natural Born Killers Napoleon Dynamite Night of Living Dead Office Space Old School On Any Sunday The Outsiders Pirates of Caribbean Platoon Pulp Fiction Raging Bull Raising Arizona Reefer Madness Requiem for a Dream Reservoir Dogs A River Runs Through It Rounders Run Lola Run Scarface Se7en Shawshank Redemption Sid and Nancy Sin City Sixteen Sleepy Hollow Slingblade Smokey and the Bandit Snatch Standing in the Shadows of Motown Star Wars Steel Magnolias Style Wars Superfly Taxi Driver Thirteen Tin Cup Tombstone Top Gun Traffic Training Day Trainspotting True Romance Urban Cowboy The Usual Suspects The Warner Gangsters Collection Wedding Crashers What’s Eating Gilbert Grape | ||
| Jon |
Blake!! Yes, Jeremiah Johnson (I have been seeking it for two weeks) and also... Zulu. My wife surprised me with finding that at the library today. Those Brits were amazing. True story. British military discipline and resolute courage under fire. | ||
| Kevyn |
Road to Redemption anyone? ...just another Tom Hanks masterpiece | ||
| Tramp |
the way that you wander is the way that you choose the day that you tarry is the day that you lose | ||
| Voltage_vector |
'You've come far Pilgram.' "Seems like far..." | ||
| Tramp |
I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my rifle to the next thing who finds it, Lord hope he be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killeth the bear that killeth me. Anyway, I am dead. Sincerley, Hatchet Jack | ||
| Blake |
 "Didn't put enough dirt down. Saw it right off." | ||
| Tramp |
(denver pyle, i believe...) | ||
| Slaughter |
Another (purely selfish) category: Engineers-as-Heroes: Apollo 13 October Sky | ||
| Tramp |
for the engineers-as-heroes category, nothing touches HG Well's "Things To Come"... "Wings Over The World" was the sh*t..... "real Genius" comes a close second, Val Kilmer's second big pic, and Sara Jessica Parker's last flic as a boy.... | ||
| Newfie_buell |
I know its a bit of a kid movie but The Princess Bride has got to be a classic as well. My kids absolutely love it. | ||
| Jima4media |
Kevin, I think you mean the Road To Perdition. A different path entirely.  | ||
| Blake |
"Grown particular?" | ||
| Diablobrian |
swimming with sharks was good too. "you ever had a paper cut?" | ||
| Tramp |
Donny Brasco * * Blow * * both exceptional in my opinion | ||
| Spiderman |
Wrong thread tehe (Message edited by spiderman on January 15, 2006) | ||
| Seth |
Serenity anyone? ...give it a try; best movie ever made. | ||
| Odinbueller |
Le Mans with Steve McQueen - Some of the best racing sequences ever filmed. Anything directed by Terry Gilliam. Anything directed by Martin Scorsese Millers Crossing is an underrated classic. Naked Lunch & Dead Ringers are 2 of David Cronenberg's best. The original Russian Solaris is truely inspired filmmaking. Mad Max - Balls out coolness with a blower. The Road Warrior - Balls out coolness with a blower sequel. Jaws 3 - Guilty pleasure from when I saw it in the theater in 3-D. |
