A "post your top ten movies" thread.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:05 pm

So no one wants to side with me on Total Recall being the best movie of all time?

Freddie · Post by **Freddie** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:08 pm

Worm.

How would you define the "magic" of Total Recall?

Ben Formerly Pinback Parr · Wed May 28, 2003 12:59 pm

Worm wrote:So no one wants to side with me on Total Recall being the best movie of all time?

No, nobody wants to do that.

You might be able to make an argument that it's the best Paul Verhoeven movie of all time, though. Perhaps you'd like to try that next?

Ben Formerly Pinback Parr · Wed May 28, 2003 1:06 pm

Freddie wrote:How would you define the "magic" of Blade Runner?

Well, Freddie (and I don't like you, by the way), rather than "define" it for you, I will simply relay a story which illustrates it.

The year: 1996. Or maybe 1994, I forget. Anyway, a famous DC movie house was having a weekend-long Warner Brothers Film Festival. Now, this primarily consisted of Kubrick movies, but the centerpiece, 9 PM on Saturday night, was our friend Blade Runner. Me and a few others came in and sat down as the crowd nestled into their seats. They were fired up. They had just seen Full Metal Jacket, and were still buzzing from that, but now it was BLADE RUNNER time, the moment most of them had lived their entire lives for. The "Sir Run Run Ladd" logo came up on the screen, and the crowd went nuts, hooting and hollering. The first credit rolled, and for that credit and every one after, no matter who it was for (dolly grips 'n' all), they cheered and cheered.

Meanwhile, me and my friends are looking at each other in dismay, like, oh god, it's going to be like this the whole movie. WE came to watch the film, but apparently everyone else was there to party.

Then an amazing thing happened. "LOS ANGELES, 2019" came up on the screen.

And from that moment until Deckard shuts his apartment door in the last frame, nobody made a fucking sound the entire time. I didn't even hear a cough, a crunch of popcorn, a whispered nothing. Nothing.

The magic of Blade Runner is that it has the power to subdue a rowdy bunch of fans into a respectful, even religious, silence.

Also, it's way cool.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:17 pm

Ben Formerly Pinback Parr wrote:No, nobody wants to do that.

You might be able to make an argument that it's the best Paul Verhoeven movie of all time, though. Perhaps you'd like to try that next?

Good advice Ben. Though I didn't know it was a Paul Verhoeven movie. Opps! Never was much of a movie guy I prefer books.

bot · Post by **bot** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:37 pm

Ben Formerly Pinback Parr wrote:
Worm wrote:So no one wants to side with me on Total Recall being the best movie of all time?
No, nobody wants to do that.

You might be able to make an argument that it's the best Paul Verhoeven movie of all time, though.

Actually that would be Robocop. Sorry, Worm.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:43 pm

Gee whiz. I wish I knew who made these damn videos. I mean Robocop was neat and all that. Though better than Total Recall? I cannot surrender to that. But, you know personal preference and all that shit stupid rot.

I Sure Wish He'd Fix The · Wed May 28, 2003 8:05 pm

Robocop is better than Total Recall only because it had a greater effect on me when I saw it. Robocop was just a completely NEW experience at the movie theater. It was brasher, more raw, more depressing and more cool than anything that had come before it.

Total Recall was an enjoyable treatment of a fairly standard Sci-Fi story.

But Robocop was just... different. Meaner. Badder. AWESOMER!

Protagonist X · Post by **Protagonist X** » Thu May 29, 2003 9:46 am

Where Robocop earns the most points for me is all the background gags. The 6000 SUX, the SDI malfunction jokes -- hell, the newscasts in general -- the stupid "I'd buy that for a dollar" guy whose catchphrase is seemingly the only line of dialogue on his show...

There were a lot of those, and they made the movie for me. As a black comedy or a prophetic vision of the near future that we all wound up in, it's an uncommonly sharp film.

Violet · Post by **Violet** » Thu May 29, 2003 10:49 am

I liked Total Recall. (Finally a movie i've seen that you're talking about) That movie has so much to offer. It has sections involving action, comedy, romance ect. The scene when Quaid pulls that globe out of his nose is totally grotesque. The other scene that makes me convulse inwardly is when they loose air and their eyes start to bug out. I mean I felt for these people. I was holding my breath through that entire scene. What about the woman with the three boobs? Classic. If anyone does that in a movie ever again, it will be a rip off of Total Recall.

I am going to go rent Blade Runner tonight at the library and see what all the hype is about. If it causes this much contorversy it must be at least moderately ok. I mean it's not going to go on someone's worst movie list of all time.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu May 29, 2003 11:10 am

If you get a version of Blade Runner where Harry Ford is doing voice-overs for the different scenes, please take it out of your VCR, jump up and down on it, and then find a friend to piss on the ashes.

OK, you probably need to set it on fire to get it into the state of "ashes," but still.

If they don't have the director's cut handy, let me know. I will quickly and happily make you a copy (confidential to Roody Y., WI: I haven't forgotten about your shipment of media, I just haven't been to the post) and send it to you on a CD.

Also, if any parts of the movie suck, we have been blaming those things on Tony Scott, who is Ridley Scott's brother. Sometimes this blame extends to entire films, like G.I. Jane.

Excelsior!

Louey Louey OPENSores · Thu May 29, 2003 1:13 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Excelsior!

Thursday ICJ posts are the best ICJ posts.

Violet · Post by **Violet** » Thu May 29, 2003 2:47 pm

Thanks for the advice. I put a DVD of it on hold at the library. It is a new release. I cannot destroy public property though so I hope it is not the aforementioned Harry Ford voice over version.

Thieves and Scoundrels · Thu May 29, 2003 3:49 pm

Violet wrote: I cannot destroy public property though so I hope it is not the aforementioned Harry Ford voice over version.

but baby.... we can.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu May 29, 2003 6:01 pm

Violet wrote:I liked Total Recall. (Finally a movie i've seen that you're talking about) That movie has so much to offer. It has sections involving action, comedy, romance ect. The scene when Quaid pulls that globe out of his nose is totally grotesque. The other scene that makes me convulse inwardly is when they loose air and their eyes start to bug out.

Yea, those scenes bothered me too the first time I saw it.

I think I am going to do some hard core movie watching this summer. I mean I obviously am lacking in the knowledge of films department. Last summer I consumed every Star Trek movie and I might do something to the same effect this summer.

Violet · Post by **Violet** » Thu May 29, 2003 7:28 pm

I did a similar thing last summer, I watched every Kevin Spacey movie known to man. Well not all of them. I still have a couple left but it did give me a new respect for him. A couple of them I can't seem to find though, some of his really old ones.

I was trying to borrow Blade Runner at the library and it appears that they all are out. I looked for RoboCop and there were only two copies of it, one was lost and one was on shelf. I wonder if there is a correlation between best movies of all time and what movies are taken out and bought at the library. It probably would be some Teletubbies adventure or Rugrats in Paris. But if it's between Blade Runner and Robo Cop then, at least in Rochester, Blade Runner gets the blue ribbon. I obviously have too much time on my hands.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu May 29, 2003 8:57 pm

Robocop is not "one of the greatest movies of all time", let's just be clear on that. It's an excellent movie, no doubt. But let's just rein it in a little on this "greatest movies of all time" thing.

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Fri May 30, 2003 2:15 am

Better late than never.... though this will be a tough one.

10. Moulin Rouge
9. Trainspotting
8. American Beauty
7. Natural Born Killers
6. Braveheart
5. Star Wars
4. Monty Python's The Quest for The Holy Grail
3. Sneakers
2. The Lord of The Rings
1.Dead Poet's Society

*bonus Christmas movie- The Ref
** not including total cheese factor cult films such as Kung Pow, Starship Troopers, or Evolution
***Also not including cutesy cult classics such as Labyrinth or Legend or animated classics such as The Last unicorn, or The Hobbit

We should do a top ten best movie lines...

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Fri May 30, 2003 2:21 am

DAMN IT I should have looked at other posts first.. so many good movies that should have made the list... Ghost Dog, The Big Labowski. Oh well. Matrix as well... too many to chose... And as for Jesus Christ Superstar, What's the buzz tell me whatsa happening!

Not a one of you chose War Games??? Or Sneakers? WTF?

Sneakers has THE BEST movie line of all time
the set up: "All I want is peace on earth and good will towards men"
"WE ARE The United States Government... WE don't DO that sort of thing!" (James Earl Jone's character)

-LG

bot · Post by **bot** » Fri May 30, 2003 7:42 am

Egads. Someone whip up a "top ten movies to see on a first date" thread for loafergirl, quick.