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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 6:11 am
by Georgi
Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I was J/K anyway, i have a certain penchant for depressing movies, look at my choice - Vertigo. That hardly has you singing along and tapping your feet like Fred Astare</STRONG>
LOL :D

Though, speaking of which... Singin' In The Rain :D Yay! ;)

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 6:20 am
by Mr Sleep
What a glorious feeling! :D

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 6:26 am
by Georgi
Though the star of the film is obviously the guy who walks up walls :D

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 7:43 am
by Nightmare
My favourite movies, in no order:
Gladiator
Star Wars V and VI
Star Trek: First Contact (so I'm a trekkie ;) )
The Rock
The Fugitive
Liar Liar
Rat Race (saw it yesterday)
Maverick

I wanted to see Final Fantasy, but I didn't have time. Shame it wasn't in theaters that long. :(

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 7:49 am
by rapier
Alien, Predator, Starship Troopers...Eheheheh....

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 8:52 am
by Georgi
Originally posted by Gaxx_Firkraag:
<STRONG>I wanted to see Final Fantasy, but I didn't have time. Shame it wasn't in theaters that long. :( </STRONG>
Y'know, there's usually a reason for that... :rolleyes: ;)

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 9:29 am
by THE JAKER
Fred Astaire isn't in Singing in the Rain, Gene Kelly is no Fred Astaire. (but Singing in the Rain is a great movie-love that technicolor) Fred Astaire pretty much goes into the "great physical performers" category with Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton, Peter Sellers. Some highlights:

Dancing and hitting golf balls at the same time

Tap dancing in roller skates

playing a drum solo and tap dancing at same time etc.

I saw Rat Race and thought it was good too. Loved the busload of Lucy impersonators!

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 9:34 am
by Georgi
Originally posted by THE JAKER:
<STRONG>Fred Astaire isn't in Singing in the Rain, Gene Kelly is no Fred Astaire.</STRONG>
:rolleyes: I mean talking of singing along and tapping your feet ;) :p Yay glorious technicolour! :D

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 9:39 am
by ThorinOakensfield
Originally posted by Gaxx_Firkraag:
<STRONG>My favourite movies, in no order:
Gladiator
Star Wars V and VI
Star Trek: First Contact (so I'm a trekkie ;) )
The Rock
The Fugitive
Liar Liar
Rat Race (saw it yesterday)
Maverick

I wanted to see Final Fantasy, but I didn't have time. Shame it wasn't in theaters that long. :( </STRONG>

I love gladiator also and Billy Madison.
I was going to see rat race with my friends but we went and saw "The Others". It was okay, kind of like the 6th sense in a way.

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 9:48 am
by THE JAKER
Originally posted by Georgi:
<STRONG>Yay glorious technicolour! :D </STRONG>
It's like, the color now just isn't the same. Actually Sound of Music is almost worth watching just for the color. One good technicolor movie is "One-Eyed Jacks", the only Western starring Marlon Brando (and he was thin)

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 9:50 am
by ThorinOakensfield
Originally posted by THE JAKER:
<STRONG>It's like, the color now just isn't the same. Actually Sound of Music is almost worth watching just for the color. One good technicolor movie is "One-Eyed Jacks", the only Western starring Marlon Brando (and he was thin)</STRONG>

Thin?????
Your talking about ancient times.

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 10:31 am
by THE JAKER
Yeah, pretty much...well Brando was never really "thin" but he was a "hunk", then he turned into a "chunk". Even in "The Godfather" he is not really THAT fat, it is in "Apocalypse Now" that he really shows up looking big. If anyone has seen the documentary about Apocalypse called "Hearts of Darkness", the part about Brando is really funny! (and its funny to hear Coppola talking about anyone being fat)

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:05 am
by Aegis
Apacolypse Now was a bizare War movie.... Those guys were going insane half way through the movie! But, seeing it on a big screen is just amazing!

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:11 am
by Mr Sleep
Didn't they put back all the bits they took out making it 3hrs+ long?

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:16 am
by Darkpoet
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Gettysburgh
BladeRunner
Platoon

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:35 am
by Rob-hin
Almost forgot (if it's not been sad before, çouldn't find it so here it go's: )

Dune

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:40 am
by THE JAKER
DUNE ?!?!?!

not to keep on about Apocalypse Now, but they have released a new cut - "Redux", it adds in a few sequences that were filmed, then cut from the final release. I personally haven't seen it, but i knew about the sequences from the documentary. I think a much better waste of time is watching The Godfather I and II back to back.

I still say Full Metal Jacket is the best Vietnam movie. Interesting that Spielberg has never made a Vietnam movie. Born in 1946, age 25 in 1971, he does not seem interested in Vietnam, the war of his generation, instead he makes movie after movie about WWII and times before he was born.

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 12:03 pm
by Gwalchmai
Fun thing to do: compare and contrast original movies with later remakes.

1940s Cat People with 1980s Cat People
1920s Romeo & Juliette (Basil Rathbone and Lionel Barrymore) with Zeferelli's R&J (sp)
A Guy Named Joe with Always
French Three Men and a Crib with American Three Men and a Baby

There's a million of these you can do! (Which begs the question: are there no original plot lines left?)

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 1:18 pm
by Darkpoet
I see dead people. No, I really do.

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2001 1:22 pm
by Yshania
DP - what are you on tonight? :D