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anyone see the new woody allen film yet???

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

My first full-time job was at the Brass Ear record store in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Our store sponsored TRHPS midnight showings once a month at the local theater. I would wear my costume & emcee the costume contest. Glad we didn't have the responsibility of cleaning up afterwards!

I still have my picture that appeared in the local paper at the time - 28 years ago. Back when I could get away with fishnets & stiletto heels......

HA when i worked at staliion springs resort many moons ago we hosted a rocky horror picture show at the bowling ally theater. it was soooo fun but the clean up afterwards was not so fun :P

hmm ill have to look up spamalot sounds like fun :)

Yes, Madkow, you reeeeeealy need to see "Casablanca"!!!  Everyone in that movie is great, Bogart, Reins, and of course Ingrid Bergman, she's sooooo beautiful!  One of the best films ever.

Spam code: OPEFL, For anyone that saw "Dr. Strangelove", you'll remember "OPE" as being part of the recall code for the bombers!  "... precious bodily fluids"!!!

perdurabo, good pick in The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai. John Lithgow was hysterical! I was so looking forward to the sequel...

Yaso, if you're a Grail fan, you must go see Spamalot in Las Vegas. Great fun! The guys sitting next to us knew all the lines from the show. I felt like it was The Rocky Horror Picture Show all over again. Guess what the refreshment area is called in the theater? Snackalot....

edited to add for Yaso: "Like Kurasawa I make mad films, okay I don't make films, but if I did they'd have a samurai"

;-)

MAdkow hhehe i love Holy Grail, and yes Kevin smith is also a favorite of mine.

Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!

hahaha i might have to watch that again.

I really need to see Casablanca someday...  And I've never seen Vertigo all the way through, just in pieces, but I remember the color was amazing.  Same with Caddyshack, never saw it all.  I need to got to Blockbuster sometime!

I couldn't get through Talladega Nights.  I even tried to drink my way through, but it was futile.

GLORIOUS!!!!!

yes i believe film can capture and etch in your mind the daily muses of your life.

More on my list:

Pulp Fiction (Of course, how could I forget this one?)

The Iron Giant (The Last Great 2D Animation Movie)

The Incredibles (The Best Pixar movie of them all.)

Dazed and Confused (Captures the spirit of what it was like to hang out in a small town like Tehachapi when you were a kid.)

Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl (Great surprise, the sequels were a bloated mess)

Rear Window (This along with Vertigo and Psycho are priceless)

Casablanca (A movie I never saw until the last couple of years...earned all the credit it deserves.)

The Big Sleep (Bogart as Phillip Marlow is Awesome!)

The Long Goodbye (Altman's take on Phillip Marlow is equally awesome!)

Caddyshack (Quite possibly the funniest movie ever.)

Borat (Gives Caddyshack a run for it's money.)

Talladega Nights (I can quote this movie for days on in.)

Rushmore (Brilliant. Enough said.)

Ragmop, your choices surprised me, niiice! Harold & Maude? Vader, Goodfellas, Sierra Madre, any day, any time!!

Movies I would watch again (and again)

Moonstruck  

Frankie & Johnny

Pulp Fiction

Fargo

Tombstone

i did a paper on Akira Kurosawa where george lucus based his film Empire on one of his films, Hidden fortress. who BTW is a great director for his time and influenced many of todays film makers

Seven samuri

Rashomon

Ran

among some others, check em out and you'll see many other films are based on these concepts

Life is just too short to watch crappy movies!

Vader, I agree, "Empire..." was the best Star Wars.  I could be wrong, but I think it was shot in 70mm too, maybe that's why it looks so dang good!

Top 5.... There's a lot of movies in a lot of different genres to consider for just 5. 

1. The Empire Strikes Back (The Best of the Star Wars Movies)

2. The Dark Knight (One of the Best Crime Dramas ever, let alone best comic book movie ever.)

3. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Movie is actually better then the book.)

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Hands down the best adventure movie ever.)

5. Goodfellas (It Never Gets old.)

6. The Godfather (I like it better then part 2).

7. Swingers (This movie is soooo Money!)

8.  This is Spinal Tap (You can find something new to laugh at with each viewing.)

9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Boggart is priceless in this movie)

10. Jaws (Still holds up after all of these years.)

thou again i worked at a video store for 10 years and the most asked question was "How was this film?" so being a sales person i had to come up with reason why this movie is enjoyable and recommend it.

Disneys Mulan makes me cry all the time when mulan sees her father at the end, having a daughter myself its a tearful moment

Brazil

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Fandango

The Fountain

The Abyss

hahaha, Spice world was just a huge marketing juggernaut at the time and when it was realeased it came at the time where the spice girls had lost thier edge so the bad mouthing and rumors made it bad, its like BEn with micheal jackson great movie very emotionally charge but also on the wave with the popular jackson. im sure if it were released during the time of his downfall, youd see that film in the .99 cent bin at BigLots hahaha

Yes Yaso, my favorite animated is Toy Story.  I actually me the woman who played the voice of Little Bo Peep in it.

"Spice World wasnt that bad or even Gigli", OK Yaso, now I just lost some respect for you!  LOL!  ;)  I'm kidding!

omg i cant believe i havent seen this blog before, i love movies and working on them. hmm asking someone what thier favorite is very tough when i watch for enjoyment and/or technical aspects.

id have to say ones i can watch over an over are

• Action/Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Apocalyptic: Delicatessen
• Children's Film, Non-Animated: Mary Poppins
• Children's Film, Hand-Animated: Beauty and the Beast
• Children's Film, Computer-Animated: Toy Story
• Comedy, Light: Groundhog Day
• Comedy, Medium: A Fish Called Wanda
• Comedy, Dark: Brazil
• Crime, Con: The Sting
• Crime, Guns: L.A. Confidential
• Crime, No Guns: Zero Effect
• Documentary: Hoop Dreams
• Foreign (not U.S.): Raise the Red Lantern
• Gangster: Goodfellas
• Guilty Pleasure: The Fifth Element
• Horror, Funny: Scream
• Horror, Scary: The Blair Witch Project
• Mystery: The Thin Man
• Musical: Singing in the Rain
• Period Piece: Shakespeare in Love
• Plot number One: Jaws
• Science Fiction: Aliens
• Shakespeare, Unorthodox: Ran
• Shakespeare, Orthodox: Henry V
• Tear Jerker: Truly, Madly, Deeply
• War, Pre-WWI: Braveheart
• War, WWI and beyond: Grave of the Fireflies

i just watched An Affair to Remember recently an thought that was really good, the new Dark knight also caught my eye due to collecting comics over the years and my resent tear jerker is Definatly, Maybe

i can go on an on, thier are many cinematographers i love like the from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Roger Deakins) or even Tim Burton from many classics

I love movies and would watch anything, i even watch all the crappy films to find out why they are crappy. cmon Spice World wasnt that bad or even Gigli

Yep Joty, those are good chick flicks (not to be confused with Chick Tracts), but what about Terms of Endearment? I always cry at that one....

I can't believe I forgot to mention two of my favorite chick flicks -

Fried Green Tomatos and Steel Magnolias 

Did you know they changed the ending of that movie, based on early screenings? The original ending had Anne Archer's character die, and Glenn Close ends up marrying Michael Douglas & having the baby with him. Audiences hated it, so they went back & filmed the ending as it is now.

I can't imagine that movie without the ending scene with Glenn Close coming up out of that bathtub!

I've never been brave enough to watch Fatal Attraction!  Too many nightmares!  As a kid I use to get nightmares from The Wizard of OZ but now it is one of my favorite movies.  I like Blast from the Past on evenings that I just want to veg and watch a movie that doesn't require much thinking.  Sometimes my brain is just full.

Thanks Oohchild...I could not think of the name of it to save my soul!!  

Fatal Attraction, eek. Glenn Close & Michael Douglas starred in that one. Poor little bunny!

My favorite Five are:

1.) Titanic ( Have to have a Love story in the mix)

2.) Nightmare on Elm street

3.) Chronicles of Narnia

4.) Flushed Away ( got to have a kid's movie in there)

5.) The green mile

There are so many it is hard to narrow it down to 5. There is a movie I have been thinking of and I cannot remember the name of it. It is about a woman that is obsessed with this guy she stalks him and does things to him. I think the main star is Michael Douglas or Richard Geere. It is just not comeing to me......

I can't list my favorite movies...there are too many ot them.  Lori yep Shawshank Redemption was an excellent movie.

Here are a few movies I have seen recently that I enjoyed:

The Kite Runner

Sweeney Todd

Becoming Jane

Saving Face

Wilde

Naw, I don't think it was intentional, and the band members have repeatedly said so.  But it sure is cool!

Co-inky dink, I always love that term!

So Greg, do you think they scored DSOTM on purpose, or it's just a freaky co-inky-dink?

Me, I lean towards the latter.....

Oohchild, yes I have, it ROCKS!  I sync'ed up a DVD of the movie and the 'Dark Side...' CD and made my own DVD, so I can watch it whenever, it's really cool!

I absolutely adored Wizards, RP! Thanks for reminding me about that one. "Here's something mom showed me when you weren't around..."

Has anyone watched The Wizard of Oz in sync with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Trippy, man......

OK, I am late to this list but here are some of my favorites - new and old:

Wizard of Oz

3:10 to Yuma (new)

Wizards (old animated flick - Ralph Bakshi - I own it if anyone is interested in seeing it)

Star Wars (the whole series)

The Indiana Jones Series

Annie Hall

Look there go's gube.........the lost weekend

Thanks GregL, it sure looked like Tehachapi,oh well.   Whos Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

OK, I have to add a few more, sorry!

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Cyril Cusack and Oskar Werner, which reminds me of Fahrenheit 451!  Both great movies!

Ok, I've totally got to get in on this:

Raiders of the Lost Ark  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/

Lost in Translation  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/

Pride and Prejudice (ok this isn't quite a movie, more like a mini series, but still...) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/

Unforgiven http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

Dazed and Confused http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/

After checking the filming locations for Hancock on imdb, Lompoc showed up and they have a prision.  Tehachapi isn't listed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/locations

I can't believe I forgot my of my favorite movies, Dr. Strangelove!!!

It's funny because we were eating @ Petra, & this guy kept walking by, & I said " Look there goes gube." They were like..."what?"  So when you asked me that, I had to laugh. Yeah, it was pretty good, better than i thought it would be, Hell Boy 2, next week!

ha ha don't be alarmed............I'm asking because I went to see Hancock today at 2:45.............I really liked it.....very funny and entertaining........as far as if that was CCI........I do not know.

gube you make me curious w/ such a direct question my friend, tonight.

storylori when did you see hancock.............

Did you read the piece Kevin Smith wrote about George Carlin for Newsweek?  I love this part:

In 2001, George did me a solid when he accepted the part of the orally fixated hitchhiker who knew exactly how to get a ride in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." When he wrapped his scene in that flick, I thanked him for making the time, and he said, "Just do me a favor: Write me my dream role one day." When I inquired what that'd be, he offered, "I wanna play a priest who strangles children."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/142975

Was that a shot of our prison in Hancock? We thought it was, but no one in our full theater even oohed or aaahed, are we mistaken?

Madkow mentioned Clerks on her list, and I loooove Kevin Smith too. There's a scene in Clerks II between fans of the original trilogy (Star Wars) and the *upstart* trilogy fans (Tolkein's LOTR). Too funny! Beware of the donkey scene though......

LOL Ooochild! Of course Han Solo shot first! Greedo was a dirty bounty hunter and he was going to shoot Solo anyway. George Lucas must have gone soft in his golden years...The best movie heros are always the initially reluctant ones, IMO.     

Sushi - Star Wars, the original; when Han shot first!

Ditto, Olivia!  

That's ok....anything and all you mentioned have been wonderful entertainment.....Ok....I would marry Tom Hanks right now.  I love that man. I can't believe he wasn't the first person/film I mentioned.  I would marry HIM.