I can't ever Pass certain movies without pausing And watching for a few
minutes. Rudy,of course, My cousin Vinnie, and Roadhouse,the names
Dalton.
The Fugitive
Double Indemnity
Airplane!
The Wizard of Oz
Ben-Hur
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Psycho
It has Grace Kelly.
I have to add, Godfather and Godfather II along with Patton and The Longest Day. ....oh and Tombstone.
He is the piano composer/player.
He is also known as David Seville, the person who invented Alvin and the Chipmunks.
He’s a “Fresno Indian,” a name given to Armenian-Americans from Fresno, California.
if one NDN'er gives it a shot after seeing this, we've done our part.
so torqued for the streaming series..
Terminator, Godfather I and II.
Aka The Swayze Revenge Pentaverate.
Last one for Allu
Clear and Present Danger, Outlaw Josey Wales, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Thunderheart, Drive Angry.
It isn't on very often, but there are so many great scenes and lines that I just get sucked in.
Eurotrip features one of the best celebrity cameos of all time.
He also has a great cameo in Ragnarok playing Loki which if you are a fan of Dogma, was also his name in that movie.
I'd give jd a Hall Pass for Matt Damon.
Matt Damon added to the Laminated List!
Road House
Point Break
Commandments (Oh, Nerfirtiri), Side Out, Full Metal Jacket, Singin in the Rain, Django Unchained, Dazed and Confused, Sound of Music.
Any time one of these is on I find myself watching for at least 30 mins or until I see a favorite part.
No Animal House?
"You can just kiss my ass from now on."
What's rapey about Animal House?
The scene with the angel and devil on his shoulder. He does the right thing in the end but it's a bit creepy. Also turns out she's only 14.
Thats why it's comical.
Rapey? Thats a little over the top. "The Accused" is rapey...
and a whole bunch of other uncharitable things.
It could never get made today.
But I was 18 when I first saw it.
And aside from the parts of the movie that would generally be regarded as socially reprehensible today, the movie put into the (18-22 year old male) discourse numerous lines that still resonate to this day ...
"You fucked up, you trusted us."
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily."
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."
And numerous others.
Not to mention, that just last night, I asked a classmate how many "Roman Toga Parties" he went to in his remaining three years (after the movie's release) on campus ... he replied, "Too many to count."
I can't pretend now that I didn't see it.
And perhaps I should claim now that I didn't think it was hilarious ... but that would be a lie.
Knew a girl then that ended up in the topless sorority pillow fight scene. They used some Oregon students as extras. And between the third and fourth quarters of every Duck home game they play the attached from the movie and the fans and team really get into it. Lots of fun.
I think it is a real sign of the gender balance of this site that Mean Girls hadn’t already appeared. Literally every woman under age 40 I know would have it on their list. KK, I am disappointed in you 😂
Few other movies make me love, hate, and miss the 90s like that one.
And twice more since then. Best Austen adaptation ever, suck it Emma Thompson and GOOP.
Just kidding.
Yeah, it's really held up well. A very talented cast, if not completely apparent at the time (akin to Mean Girls, though perhaps not as top-heavy) and everyone just did their part well. The jokes still hit and there are few if any now-cringeworthy blunders. It just kicks ass.
Dialed in on how teens talked, acted, dressed and cared about. Between Clueless and Fast Times, she directly two of the best teen movies of all time. I always wonder what the heck happened that her career fell apart so badly.
Eddie at the top of his powers has so many good ones.
Trading Places made an already bad movie hateable.
"Oh thanks, Fred. Hi Dong!"
much everything with Kirk Douglass or Burt Lancaster
Miracle, Tombstone, Midnight Run.
like them apples?”.
I don’t know how you heathens still watch non-sports cable television with commercials.
However, if I were to find myself scrolling through a cable menu and In Bruges was playing, I’d stop and watch for a bit every time.
I prefer Tremors 2: Aftershocks though
Full disclosure - it's not as great a movie as Silence of the Lambs, but I still watch it every time I see it.
Hannibal is a little more of a caricature in this one, but in a lot of ways, that makes it more fun.
If you are a SOTL fan.
It is genius, beautiful, horrifying, and Mads plays a Hannibal that gives Sir Tony a run for his money. It is now, finally, streaming in case you missed it run on NBC (which most people did, it was always about to be cancelled due to ratings.)
of Robin Hood, Sea Hawk and Captain Blood, but most of his movies are fun.
The John Wayne/John Ford Calvary trilogy. Also The Quiet Man
1776. The scene over slavery in the Declaration, should be required viewing in high schools.
Casablanca.
Wrath of Kahn
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
The Magnificent 7 (original)
and a bunch of other stars.
Casablanca
The Godfather(s)
Top Gun
Wall-E
Glengary Glen Ross
There are many others for me
Gladiator, Braveheart, No Country for Old Men, The Third Man, Trainspotting and many, many others
Since we agree on everything else, I suspect I would like it.
spies. Joseph Cotton and Orson Wells a few years after Citizen Kane. It is an excellent book and movie.
But I may check out the movie to see how it was directed and performed.
A time period that can't really be reproduced in a studio. If it's possible, Vienna is a very underrated City. This and "Before Sunrise" helped to make it one of my favorites.
The zither music alone is worth it.
A blend of my own genuine enjoyment and the fact that it drives my wife nuts. Others:
Sandlot
Terminator II
Independence Day
Dumb and Dumber
Movie-making peaked in the mid-90s.
Ricky Bobby.
Super Troopers.
Idiocracy.
Texas (Iranian movie, starring Pejman Jamshidi, who's great).
Sorry to Bother You.
Shaun of the Dead.
I get it though, dude. For you the decades just fly by.
I've been watching the wrong films.
...I blame Michigan...or Davie...
I am not sure I’ve ever laughed harder at a movie.
Park, Braveheart.
De gustibus. But to me it's just OK. It drags, the characters are caricatures, including the magical Black man, and Tim Robbins is as insufferable as always. The ending is good, but it's a boring slog to get there.
Back when channel surfing was a thing, I'd look for something to put on TV while doing other chores around the house. Movies that I've seen a bunch but don't require a lot of attention at certain points fit that note perfectly.
I think it moves slowly at times, but keep in mind, the time Andy spent in prison was supposed to cover 19 years, so that is part of what makes the story work. To speed it up by shortening it, what would you cut? For a relatively long movie, I can't think of any "fat" on it.
Re: liking it or not liking it, I can't think of another movie like it. It is at the same time:
-a prison movie
-a tale of revenge
-a story of redemption
-a "buddy" movie
but as you pointed out, liking it or not liking it is up to the individual
Check, check, check, check.
So like I was saying, everybody knows that "Prison/revenge/redemption/buddy movie" is a wildly successful formula...
I also don’t bet the love for The Big Lebowski.
Admit it: You watch Vinnie because of Marisa Tomei.
Was in law school around 2010, they showed it in a class
A Night to Remember (1958 classic about Titanic sinking), Casino, Longest Day, Stalingrad and Das Boot (both in German original with English sub titles) Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World
but the “Groundhog Day” scenes were Terrific.
and of course, Roadhouse.
Luckily it seems to be on CMT at least 20 times per week.
Maybe it's because I get so much "I hate Notre Dame but Rudy sure was a great movie" here in the south. It's just too sappy for my taste.
I'll dodge the empties and take my beating now.