Movie Thread

[usedtobefast]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell
not a movie, but a movie actor.

 

[BroDeal]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell
not a movie, but a movie actor.

"Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that? "

 

[Anonymous]

Imho

There is no such thing as "best film / movie / flick", any more than there is a best poem, painting, symphony etc,. There is a "best " category to which many can be (and have been here) named.

.... I did just watch Kurasawa's The Seven Samurai a few days ago and it is right up there. Screen play, cinematography, costume, acting. Deliciously foreign.

 

[cookist]

We Were Soldiers would be the best war movie I've seen.

 

[elapid]

We Were Soldiers would be the best war movie I've seen.

Great movie, even better book.

Like most movie categories, it is hard to rank war movies as there have been some very good ones in the past, not including the current bevy of movies based on the Iraqi war. But war movies that I would rate very highly include Apocalypse Now and Black Hawk Down, and maybe Platoon and Saving Private Ryan just to name a few. Although not a movie, Band of Brothers was also excellent.

 

[nomido]

saving private ryan is my favorite

 

[fatandfast]

Riding Giants,footage makes even an non ocean person excited. Dust and Glory when the guy rides his motorcycle 100mph on the beach is liberating.

 

[Anonymous]

45 years later

We Were Soldiers would be the best war movie I've seen.

"The Battle of Algiers", 1965, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo. Sometimers you would think you were reading yesterday's newspaper. About the Algerian war of indepedance against the French who managed somehow to hand off their Indo-china colonial mess to the US. Filmed in a cinema verite style we have the full range of military autrocities and torture, racist mob violence, urban guerillas, suicide bombers and "regular folks" who become radicalized while in prison. As depressing as real war.

 

[alexclifton]

A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, 300, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, and The Matrix original came to my mind....

I'm sure there are a lot more if I really give it a thought but I guess that wouldn't be much of a great movie for me since I can't recall it right away.

 

[usedtobefast]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Cyclist
i saw this today. with subtitles.

 

[ChrisE]

"The Battle of Algiers", 1965, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo. Sometimers you would think you were reading yesterday's newspaper. About the Algerian war of indepedance against the French who managed somehow to hand off their Indo-china colonial mess to the US. Filmed in a cinema verite style we have the full range of military autrocities and torture, racist mob violence, urban guerillas, suicide bombers and "regular folks" who become radicalized while in prison. As depressing as real war.

I've been to Algiers many times. One day my driver pointed out this parking lot on the left at the airport as you go thru the first checkpoint, and he said over 1000 people were killed (executed) there in one setting. Not sure of which the multitude of reasons you list above was the culprit.

 

[L'arriviste]

About the Algerian war of indepedance against the French who managed somehow to hand off their Indo-china colonial mess to the US.

Hmm, not sure the French would quite see it that way. Wasn't it more about the US refusing to sign the Geneva Accords?

 

[Hmmmmm]

Although I don't usually like to comment on topics like this because there are so many good films out there, one of my favorites is......

Breaker Morant

 

[the_kman]

Tombstone. The perfect redemptive, schlocky vehicle for over-motivated cyclists. Val Kilmer is the perfect leadout guy.

bahahahaha!

my top 10

1. Empire of the sun
2. on the waterfront
3. American History X
4. Dances with wolves
5. platoon
6. Fight club
7. the Deer Hunter
8. Black hawk down
9. Godfather
10. star wars (IV, V & VI)

 

[ChrisE]

bahahahaha!

my top 10

1. Empire of the sun
2. on the waterfront
3. American History X
4. Dances with wolves
5. platoon
6. Fight club
7. the Deer Hunter
8. Black hawk down
9. Godfather
10. star wars (IV, V & VI)

I don't get Fight Club. I didn't make it all the way thru the movie I was so bored....it's sitting on my DVD rack right now covered in dust.

 

[Oncearunner8]

I don't get Fight Club. I didn't make it all the way thru the movie I was so bored....it's sitting on my DVD rack right now covered in dust.

First rule of Fight club *****! LMAO

 

[willmcg4132]

In Brugge, amazing movie.

 

[menlo_guy]

Since this is cyclingnews.com, I recommend "Breaking Away", a bicycle themed movie. It's an old movie (1979), but it's a fun coming of age movie.

 

[Notso Swift]

In Brugge, amazing movie.

There is no movie that makes me "Laugh Out Loud" as much as this one.

It is is not my "Best" but it is the one I will watch again, and again, and again, and again...

THe biggest problem is now I can't keep a straight face if I see a midget

 

[Steel4Ever]

Anything with "Debbie" in it.

 

[Steel4Ever]

THe biggest problem is now I can't keep a straight face if I see a midget

Then you should absolutely L O V E 'Time Bandits'!

 

[Notso Swift]

Yep pretty much like all Terry Gilliam stuff

 

[imaranalam100]

avatar is the best film ever made

 

[nvpacchi]

DUnno if Network or Sling Blade have been mentioned yet, but two fabulous films. And Chinatown was one of the most snubbed movies ever at the Oscars.

Art Carney over Nicholson for best actor.....come on

 

[usedtobefast]

DUnno if Network or Sling Blade have been mentioned yet, but two fabulous films. And Chinatown was one of the most snubbed movies ever at the Oscars.

Art Carney over Nicholson for best actor.....come on

it was a lifetime award. we all know Jack is one of the all time greats. has he ever be been bad? i have seen a lot of his movies and some are better than others,but he is usually, at least, ok. Chinatown is a classic.