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08-12-2005, 11:20 AM #1
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I really don't like (movie edition):
LB's post got me thinking of movies. I never really liked Apocalypse Now. The only joy I ever got from this movie was watching FFC fall apart during its creation in Hearts of Darkness.
I also hated Citizen Kane.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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08-12-2005, 11:41 AM #2
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I'll agree on Citizen Kane, but totally disagree on Apocalypse now. As my brother once said, if you rent three movies and one of them isn't Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs or Scarface, you fucked up.
Not a big fan of anything featuring Hannibal Lecter.
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08-12-2005, 11:45 AM #3
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^^^^^^^^^^ I'm two thirds of the way to fucked up.
Originally Posted by iceman
Also, I'd like to add A Clockwork Orange.
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08-12-2005, 11:47 AM #4
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Citizen Kane didn't do it for me either. Much prefer The Third Man or The Maltese Falcon as far as grestest films of that era are concerned.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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08-12-2005, 11:48 AM #5
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Hating Citizen Kane? Orson Welles was the man (before he went nuts, alot like FFC)
Don't like American Graffiti, Sideways.Elvis has left the building
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08-12-2005, 11:53 AM #6
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Splash
655321"It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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08-12-2005, 12:24 PM #7
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Splash had butt and boobies, and was released at a time in my life when butts and boobies were all it took to make a movie great. Hence, it's a winner by default. Originally Posted by lemon boy
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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08-12-2005, 12:41 PM #8
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Apocalypse Now - goes seriously of the rails after a good first half
Blade Runner - ditto
Clockwork Orange - when I finally got to see it was just "meh" Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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08-12-2005, 12:50 PM #9
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I couldn't figure out this one either Originally Posted by PNWbrit
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
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08-12-2005, 01:00 PM #10
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I love Apocalypse Now until the final scenes with Marlon Brando. IMO it goes off the rails at that point and turns cheesy. I love the Doors' song "The End" in the opening scenes.
Sideways is climbing the charts as one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Boring...
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08-12-2005, 01:02 PM #11
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dazed and confused.
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08-12-2005, 01:19 PM #12
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Well looks like woodsy is a pussy but I agree: PNWBrit- Dude, you have awful taste in movies. Any of those three could be individually forgiven but not all three. Damn dude.
"It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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08-12-2005, 01:39 PM #13
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Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Roy: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the sholder of Orion. I watched sea beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die. Originally Posted by runethechamp
Deckard: I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.Daniel Ortega eats here.
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08-12-2005, 01:55 PM #14
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Really? Originally Posted by lemon boy
My top 10 Movies in no particular order:
Pulp Fiction
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Dr Strangelove
Wages of Fear
Black Hawk Down
Blues Brothers
Paths of Glory
Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
Lord of the Rings (counts as one choice?)
I just thought both Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner started off great but got badly lost along the way.
Clockwork Orange - Huge disappointment when I finally saw it after all the years it was banned in Britain and the cult status it acheived there. I'm a huge fan of some of Kubricks stuff (Dr Strangelove, Paths of Glory etc.) but he was erratic - exhibit 1 being Eyes Wide Shut and exhibit 2 I'd suggest Clockwork Orange. Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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08-12-2005, 01:56 PM #15
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The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. Originally Posted by Viva
And you have burned so very, very brightly."Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
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08-12-2005, 02:04 PM #16
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Watch the "director's cut" of Blade Runner, which is the version without the corny '40s-style detective voice-over. It's a much different, much darker, much better movie.
Blade Runner is on my list of all-time favorites.
For one of the crappiest movies ever, try Battlefield Earth, John Travolta's scientology flick.
-Karl Originally Posted by powder11
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08-12-2005, 02:10 PM #17
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Karl- or anyone really, have you heard or subscribe to the theory that deckard himself is a replicant? Heard it before my most recent viewing, if watched with an eye to this I would say at this point I lean to the "yes he is" category.
agreed on the director's cut."It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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08-12-2005, 02:29 PM #18
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On Director's Cuts. How many people on the don't like Apocalypse Now list have seen Apocalypse Redux? More coherent, better IMHO.
Elvis has left the building
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08-12-2005, 02:34 PM #19
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Agreed. Except for the scene w/ the French, that could have stayed on the editing room floor. Originally Posted by cj001f
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08-12-2005, 02:42 PM #20
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I thought Deckard was a replicant because of the unicorn scene. When Gaff (Deckard's superior on the blade runner police team) leaves the origami unicorn on Deckard's doorstep, how else could he have known what Deckard was dreaming? Originally Posted by lemon boy
Ridley Scott (the director) came out and stated in 2002 that Deckard was a replicant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/825641.stm Originally Posted by powder11
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08-12-2005, 02:44 PM #21
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That was weird, although Martin Sheen did get to dork the French gal. Originally Posted by bagtagley
Viva hearts dorking French chicks.Daniel Ortega eats here.
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08-12-2005, 03:53 PM #22
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It's a Wonderful Life... makes me want to puke.
Once thought showing Apocalypse Now redux to HS students would be a cool excercise in literary form/function- I was quite wrong. Seminal flick though.
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08-12-2005, 04:18 PM #23
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Blair Witch Project is the biggest piece of shit horror movie I've ever seen. Not even remotely scary. I was more scared watching my neighbor's home movies with the mom in a bikini.
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08-12-2005, 06:34 PM #24
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The fact that I almost made my roommate shit himself by stacking a little pyramid of stones in front of our bedroom door and standing in the corner when he walked in right after he saw the movie proves you dead wrong. Originally Posted by Grange
And you being afraid of a MILF proves you gay.
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08-12-2005, 07:23 PM #25
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I thought Scarface was a pice of shit. And how come nobody has mentioned 2001 yet? My dad's opinion of 2001: "I've seen it straight, high, tripping, and it still doesn't make any sense."
"There is a hell of a huge difference between skiing as a sport- or even as a lifestyle- and skiing as an industry"
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