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Thread: favorite movie of all time
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02-28-2018, 04:35 PM #176
Agreed.. very difficult to make a movie version of a great and/or well loved novel.
But as pointed out not impossible.
As it is indeed possible to make great movies out of very mediocre novels.
And while we're on great movie versions of good books and that were perhaps even better than them I'll nominate The Martian.
Japanese Story (a really great little Aussie film - absolutely not funny though)
A couple of people pumped up The Road to me as being so mind-bendingly incredible.. when I read it I began to wonder if they'd been taking the piss or maybe Cormac had.. so much of the rest of his work is far, far better. I really don't think he deserved the Pulitzer that year.
And the movie version was genuinely awful.
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02-28-2018, 04:38 PM #177
There's been a script going around Hollywood for Blood Meridian for years now that I guess is pretty good but no one thinks can be made (properly) and still get a rating under NC-17. It's just so violent. I think it's his second best novel... but don't have any intention of reading it again. The role of the Judge is so good that a lot of big name actors have tried to make it happen, but no dice.
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02-28-2018, 04:49 PM #178
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03-02-2018, 02:32 PM #179
Pootie Tang
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03-05-2018, 12:13 PM #180
Uhhh no no no....I'll see and raise you!
Bruce Leeroy FTW! 😁
https://youtu.be/NiBJ9Vw_GKQ
Stomping it!
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03-05-2018, 01:18 PM #181
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03-05-2018, 01:27 PM #182
I didn't look back at all the posts, but did someone mention Wind River? We watched it this weekend. Okay flik, but I really don't get how anyone could pick it as a favorite movie of all time.
We watched The Salvation last night. It's not on my list, nor even on my list of top 10 westerns (I'm a big fan of westerns), but it's worth a watch, surely moreso than Wind River.
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03-05-2018, 02:31 PM #183Registered User
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Confused by definition of Western - Wind River?? Hell and High Water?? Does this mean Sicario is a Western too?
Call me old fashioned but I've always thought Westerns were part of a specific historical time period ......
Speaking of TRUE westerns, I'd put Hostiles in my top 10 Westerns.
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03-05-2018, 02:33 PM #184
Read it again. I referred to The Salvation as a western, not Wind River
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03-05-2018, 03:07 PM #185Registered User
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Ooops
Agree about your review of Salvation - under-achieved, based on the casting alone.
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03-05-2018, 03:16 PM #186
I referred to hell or Highwater as a modern Western, which it is. Someone just mentioned wind River because it’s by the same guy.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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03-05-2018, 04:36 PM #187
Tampopo is a pretty good western.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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03-05-2018, 04:59 PM #188
So far West, it’s East.
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03-06-2018, 08:25 AM #189
Schindler's List
A bunch of Robert Duvall movies--True Confessions (with DeNiro), Tender Mercies, the Great Santini, Tomorrow
To Kill a Mockingbird and Moby Dick
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03-06-2018, 09:23 AM #190Registered User
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is 12 strong a western?
it had horses and gunfights.
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03-06-2018, 09:47 AM #191Registered User
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03-06-2018, 02:26 PM #193
Empire of the Summer moon had some first-hand accounts of Commanche-on-commanche violince that would go toe-to-toe with anything Mccormack dreamed up.
While we know how the story ends, the commanche, in thier day, fucked some people up. Bad. Def. stuff I wish I could un-read."Can't you see..."
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03-06-2018, 03:12 PM #194
The final shootout in Sam Peckinpah's classic The Wild Bunch is the gold standard for violent movie scenes. Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Francis Ford Coppola and other directors have acknowledged The Wild Bunch's influence on modern action movies. Honorable mention to Bonnie and Clyde, which was released a couple years before The Wild Bunch.
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03-06-2018, 03:31 PM #195Registered User
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Barfly and carnal knowledge deserve a look
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03-06-2018, 07:25 PM #196
First Blood is pretty damn good movie.
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