TheRus 0 #51 June 19, 2003 Springtime for Hitler!!! I love it! I wish there was some way for me to get to see a production of "The Producers" Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #52 June 19, 2003 QuoteMore movies you probably haven't seen but are worth a look. Metropolis Things to Come Touch of Evil The First Men In The Moon Murder By Death Somewhere In Time The Public Eye Ed Wood Mars Attacks Free Enterprise Got some SF classics there, but you left off "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still"..."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #53 June 19, 2003 What about Outland? The one with Sean Connery as a cop on a mining station in space. Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Girlfalldown 0 #54 June 19, 2003 3 of my favorites: Repo Man The Princess bride Escape from New York Last year on cable they play Escape From New York over and over and over and over....I find myself watching it every time. -------------- (Do not, I repeat DO NOT, take my posts seriously.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheRus 0 #55 June 19, 2003 I think I just fell in love!!! All 3 of those ROCK!!! Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #56 June 19, 2003 I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Ricky O" its a badly dubbed, but hilarious, martial arts flick. if any of you have ever seen the "exploding head scene" on the daily show, it is from ricky o. MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #57 June 19, 2003 QuoteWhat about Outland? The one with Sean Connery as a cop on a mining station in space. I wouldn't call Outland a classic, but it had some interesting moments. I liked Frances Sternhagen's role, but Hyams lacks the touch that helming an SF film calls for. His scripting and direction of "2010", "Capricorn One" and "Timecop" would make okay television, but in my opinion, he lacks the vision for SF on the big screen. Lots of writers and directors stay away from SF subjects because they're tough to do well. Hyams' picture "Hanover Street" was okay, but of course, it wasn't SF. In the end, the only thing that matters is whether a picture makes money and if so, how much. That the money men in Hollyweird are willing to fund him says he's doing something right..."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 3 #58 June 19, 2003 Klatu Bruada Nictoquade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #59 June 19, 2003 Perhaps my favorite Mel Brooks movie of all time: High Anxiety. rent it, dammit! It's especially great if you've seen a lot of Hitchcock films. He does spoofs of specific things from Hitchcok films, plus he does all those weird camera angles, pans, etc. that Hitchcock always did. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #60 June 23, 2003 QuoteSomewhere in Time Quote Saw this movie after Christopher Reeve's accident, and reading his engrossing book "Still Me". Kind of had me misty eyed throughout the whole movie because of this. (bad acting, though...) ltdiver Retraction to my post I found "Somewhere in Time" in my archives this week and viewed it for the second time. First time was -years- ago. Sometimes a movie needs a second go-though to understand the entire message and the past 4 years have taught me alot. A movie critic here in this NG has opened my eyes to the subtleties of fine acting and the birth of characters. What seemed like halting amateurs trying to find their way is actually a softness of the inner soul searching for a rightness in all the madness of the world. And when that rightness is found an unwillingness to give it up, no matter what. I understand this now....and by the end of this second viewing was actually shaking (physically). For somewhere in my past this all rang true. When you find something as precious, you fight with all your might and mind to not let it go. Another one with awaking characters, and one of my favorite movies that many have not seen (and in my mind is a classic) is Shadowlands. ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
