Maroon 5 Hates America

[quote]Karado wrote:
Wonderful…yeah over here we’ve declared ‘‘war’’ on everything…war on this, war on that, war on drugs, etc…dammit
we can’t even get tobacco ‘‘snuff’’ here, which is one of the oldest and safest ways of getting nicotine…you can find
it if you look hard enough maybe, it’s not illegal, but good luck finding it in any tobacco shop in the states.
They are afraid that being that it does come in some ‘‘flavors’’ like chocolate and bubble gum, ‘‘The Children’’ might be
exposed to it and may get ‘hooked’, and god forbid if you get seen caught sniffing a tiny amount in your
nostrils …''What is that? What are you sniffing, cocaine???"
But No, we must protect the Children from this, it’s about the Children, what about the Children!!
I’ve tried snuff but don’t partake anymore…enjoyable… 'just throwing out an example of the overprotectiveness that is
rampant here.
And yes, the Latina women here are nowhere nearly as ‘refined’ and educated in comparison to their Euro
counterparts…We have more of the heavier America Ferrara types here and very few of the Penelope Cruz types.
I’ll stop right there as I was just tempted to mimic that Maroon 5, but only for a second…You see guys, this thread HASN’T
gone off the rails, it went back on the rails and almost became full circle.
[/quote]

Ha, sometimes I wish people wouldn’t get quite so uppity about letting kids loosen up a bit earlier. Hell, I drank liquor consistently from the ages of twelve to eighteen (funny how I quit once it became legal) and I’ve turned out semi-alright. But who knows, I could have been some Einstein/Feynman savant if I’d abstained. It almost amazes me how dumb young people can be, and for such elongated periods of time, half the people I know are still ignorant as shit about almost any reasonably important or globally relevant topic, I guess that brings me back to reality and realising why laws hold off for so long. Thinking about it, there are even a lot of thirty/fourty year olds that haven’t got their shit intact, almost like they’ve just drifted since high school.

Never got around to chewing tobacco, farthest I got was rolling my own cigarettes, and I didn’t stay around that for long. Always preferred weed, never tobacco, always weed. I likely still would partake if it weren’t detrimental to my career path (or current career path).

I do not envy you, most of the Spanish girls my age still have that dumb global duckface kind of personality, the greasy gnarled hair and hoop earring/eyeshadow combo one. Seems like a shallow way to describe it through looks, but you know what I’m getting at. Might start evening out at 25-30, though I don’t know too many Spanish females that branch out to English males even at that age, at least not in this part of the country. You don’t even have the occasional Eva Mendes?

It’s barely related to the original thread topic, but we have a female talent judge and overhyped shit band member that recently got arrested on suspicion of Class A drug charges, so that’s fun. She also has a sex tape that you could find real easy, but it’s not good at all. It’s just a very slow, very dull almost blowjob, the only good thing about it is knowing she’s a celebrity and she has this submissive “deer in headlights” look towards the camera.

If you’re gonna find the Eva Mendes Latina types in the states, the odds are best in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale areas… The Chicago, NY, and L.A. Latinas?.. Ehh, slim pickings, but Oooo la la, that talent judge is pretty hot…scandals know no boundaries.
I’ve always preferred weed as well, no liquor…It must be a DNA thing because my Dad hardly drank…I loved the weed though.

And yes I have seen the amazing Pan’s Labyrinth and City Of God…the others not yet.

Cool that your buddy knows Sergi…I live in the Chicago area and we have two theaters in the ‘burbs that have
regular celebrity guests…and even though I’m not exactly a ‘starstruck’ kind of a dude, I have met in person
Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine at the “Poseidon Adventure” showing, Tippi Hedren at a ‘Birds’ showing, Peter Fonda,
Malcolm Mcdowell, The 3 main stars of “West Side Story”, Rita, Russ, and George… and more…I’m kinda kickin’ myself 'cause I
was gonna meet William Shatner hosting the the new Star Trek last week with a separate showing of ‘Wrath Of Khan’, but missed that
one…oh well, next celebrity on schedule is Robert Englund ''Freddy Krueger this Halloween…ehh, I may or may not
go to that one…we’ll see.

Yeah she’s kind of hot, but her incredible lack of brainpower is so heavy that it kind of overpowers it. I loved them both, but I quit both when I started going to the gym, now I’m 1000x more boring and I get scarred a lot less easily come Friday night.

That’s a great list of people, I’d love to meet Curtis, Hedren and Malcolm McDowell especially. I’d go see Englund, Nightmare On Elm St. is a horror masterpiece (of course the series dropped off heavily sometime after that). I hear Englund is a nice guy, would probably be worth talking with him about it, Wes Craven too, all that shenanigans. I bet Peter Fonda would be pretty cool too.

Ooh the Wrath of Khan showing would have been good, you’d be able to get his views on Into Darkness too and how they played off Khan. Sounds like you get to meet a reasonable amount of people over there, I meet very very few. It’s insane how few I’ve come to talk to given how indebted I am to film.

Lol, I may stop by and meet ‘‘Freddy Krueger’’, 'thing is I know someone who I trust that sez he
met him at a horror convention once and that he was kind of an asshole to him…One can kinda sense
Englund has that cold, negative energy about him and I try to avoid that…I love good ‘‘energy’’
in general…you know, the good kind you get at a good gym for example, you know what I mean,
I love that shit.
Tony Todd (“Candyman”) was actually a very nice guy at another theater we saw him at
showing both Candyman films years ago…IDK why they screened the sequel because that one sucked IMO,
but yeah Tony was cool, and the original film is one of the few Hollywood horror films that got it right.

Ah maybe he just had a shitty day, I remember hearing that he’s had some really nice in-depth conversations with some people in the past in public.

Ha, be glad they didn’t show the third one, if it was out at the time, I loathe that movie. I liked Candyman, was a good film.

You get a lot of horror showings at that place then? I wonder what Jamie Lee Curtis would be like, in saying that, what kind of guy did Tony Curtis turn out to be? I don’t think I’ve ever talked about him with someone who’s met him before.

Ha, I think my gym is in the middle of the energy arc, the people are nice, but it’s small and strong is the exception. Not sure I’d jive with the death metal power lifter attitudes though, I enjoy my gym, just kind of wish people were stronger.

'Probably right, ‘‘Freddy’’ probably had a shitty day…Tony Todd was actually at another Theater at the time in Chicago,
the one that normally has guests is this one…The ‘‘celebrity connection’’ link at the top of the page shows SOME past celebs
that have been there…Many are ‘has beens’ and teeny bopper celebs, but some interesting ones too.
Mr. Curtis and maybe one or more here have already passed on, But my brief encounter was that he was a very friendly
cordial dude…great ‘‘energy’’ too…I don’t have one autograph or picture from any of them actually, but I just
like to go this place once in a while ‘just because’, I love movies in general anyway, and I don’t take for granted
thE pretty unique opportunity to meet and greet some celebs whose movies I’ve enjoyed is fairly close to here I live,
I’m sure you would love this place sometimes yourself Big ‘K’…what movie lover would pass up a screening of ‘‘A Clockwork Orange’’
hosted by Malcolm McDowell? Perdy Cool.
The Theater in the burbs is a special kind of Multiplex… they show all genres…some on this forum may know it
as well because I’m sure others are from the Chicago area here, they actually have 2 of these multiplexes in the general area,
but I wish they had ONE screen where they reserve for more foreign or ‘‘arthouse’’ pictures, which they really don’t have
here.
I can imagine some of ignorant locals complaining already…“What the fuck is this Belgian movie I’ve never
heard about playing in MY neighborbood?” ''We barely have Belgians living here anyway!"

That sounds fun, I think if I ever take a trip back to the States it will most likely be West Coast/Nevada, I don’t imagine myself tracking over to the Midwest unless something entirely coincidental comes up that involves it, though if I do I will search for a nice screening. Man there are so many great actors you’ve met there, are there directors/producers that show up there too or is it just actors?

I could spend hours talking with McDowell about A Clockwork Orange, god forbid I had ever been given the chance to banter with Kubrick, I adore the whole deceit behind the Ludovico Technique, I’m always amazed by the attention to detail that Kubrick had.

Oh god I hate that, there are some people that I’ve avoided the chance of a friendship with on that sort of ignorance, loathe that shit. There are some people that refuse to see a foreign film, normally the same people that are “colour-blind” to whether a movie is really good or really bad, my mother is one of those people, luckily my father is not.

You ever really get into Korean films? I started to take a much deeper interesting in them from a year or so ago, I love that kind of Asian film-making, very unique sense of honour, humility and social stratification that they have.

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Karado wrote:
Damn dude, you’re probably the only younger guy in America who’s ever even HEARD of Vampyr let alone seen it.
yeah as far as popularity…Scarface and TR share a relatively common theme, Scarface did do decent box office
at the time…back in the day…(Gulp)…30 Years ago, but it wasn’t a blockbuster by any means, it’s been more popular in the last
decade than the previous last 2 decades combined.
Some movies are just ahead of their time I guess, and our
culture is sometimes very slow to catch on to things in the first place…IDK.
And with little Chloe Moretz, yeah those adult roles are just around the corner for her, it’s inevitable and seems to
happen to every young starlet anyway.
[/quote]

British actually, and not even living in The United Kingdom, how ya’ like them apples? Yeah I go far out of my way when it comes to film, I’ve not met a single other person face to face that I know has seen Vampyr, or even Nosferatu. Literally any Nosferatu, Werner Herzog’s version included.

Yeah, I mean hell mass populace are committed to the shallow, sluggish stories of a CGI filled action movie for this century so far, anything outside of that is a barren wasteland for cinema profits. I have a hard time believing most people would even be able to tell me the reasons that The Dark Knight is better than something like Captain America…(even though I am really enjoying nearly all of this superhero fad).

I hope the CGI gets tiresome once we’ve grown into it more, and we resort back to actually making films made for mass audiences with some sense of emotion and logical purpose. Like practically anything made between the creation of film and the early 50’s (estimating, won’t be a perfect comparison). At least some film-makers are still trying to make that happen, I can deal with Michael Bay if I have a good Coen or Linklater film to fall back on for the sake of my sanity.

Oh she has to be coming up on that, Let Me In was a great introduction for her into that serious, dark type of film. Give it three years, she’ll be involved with something as serious as a pulmonary oedema.

This thread is just reserved for movie talk now isn’t it? I kind of enjoy that, feels very calm and out of the way. I wonder if I should make some kind of review thread, but I don’t know if I could really keep up the pace with watching newer films so consistently when I have so many old ones and genres to fill out, plus of course it’s overwhelmingly narcissistic and pretentious of me.

As a fun aside, I think I finally unearthed what really happens after the events of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, once MacReady and Childs are alone together in the snow. You have no idea how long it took me to put that one together, I had to pick apart almost every other part of the film, and there is some deeply embedded shit to uncover.[/quote]

The writing of modern movies compared to some of those from way back is just absolutely empty. I really don’t think actors have gotten any worse, they are just not given the material to truly make a solid movie. I have watched several older movies lately and find myself in aw of the back and forths between characters when they actually had to have substance because they couldn’t hide the lack of it with camera tricks. “An Affair to Remember” comes to mind although it is a chick flick. “12 Angry Men” is another. Great movie and the entire thing never leaves same the same room.

Korean Films, not really into them, but I have seen ‘‘OldBoy’’ ‘‘Tale Of Two Sisters’’ and ‘‘The Good Bad and The Weird’’,
and I may have seen one or two more in the past I don’t recall at the moment, but I know a lot of good stuff comes out
from there.
Spike Lee’s American Version of Oldboy is coming out and I CAN’T WAIT for that puppy to come out!
I don’t recall any producers/directors at that place yet…but who knows…heh.
Speaking of Asian films an Indian buddy o’ mine has recommended a few ‘‘Bollywood’’ films and I saw one
comedy that was pretty funny whose title I don’t recall, and a cool little movie called ‘‘Robot’’,
there are cultural idiosyncrasies that one must get accustomed to with Indian Films, whose movie
industry rivals Hollywood in scope and overall popularity…like characters breaking in to song at the oddest
moments, lol, but that’s ok because I have a more open worldview than most, it’s getting USED to it is the
challenge sometimes.
Oh man, yes…Kubrick was the master, the master of triple digit takes as well lol, and one of the things I recall Malcolm
saying was that even though Kubrick was well known to be somewhat disenchanted with the Hollywood way of doing things
and moved to England, was that he stayed a New York boy at heart, but he didn’t talk much else about Kubrick himself
or his craft…Malcolm’s Q&A wasn’t long and ‘deep’ as I wanted it to be, it was fairly brief but interesting in bits and pieces,
he looked a lot older than I thought he would closeup lol…But it’s been a very long time since ACO came out anyway

Speaking of Asian films, I had this Koroshiya 1 or Ichi the killer recommended to me recently. Worth seeing?

[quote]bpick86 wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Karado wrote:
Damn dude, you’re probably the only younger guy in America who’s ever even HEARD of Vampyr let alone seen it.
yeah as far as popularity…Scarface and TR share a relatively common theme, Scarface did do decent box office
at the time…back in the day…(Gulp)…30 Years ago, but it wasn’t a blockbuster by any means, it’s been more popular in the last
decade than the previous last 2 decades combined.
Some movies are just ahead of their time I guess, and our
culture is sometimes very slow to catch on to things in the first place…IDK.
And with little Chloe Moretz, yeah those adult roles are just around the corner for her, it’s inevitable and seems to
happen to every young starlet anyway.
[/quote]

British actually, and not even living in The United Kingdom, how ya’ like them apples? Yeah I go far out of my way when it comes to film, I’ve not met a single other person face to face that I know has seen Vampyr, or even Nosferatu. Literally any Nosferatu, Werner Herzog’s version included.

Yeah, I mean hell mass populace are committed to the shallow, sluggish stories of a CGI filled action movie for this century so far, anything outside of that is a barren wasteland for cinema profits. I have a hard time believing most people would even be able to tell me the reasons that The Dark Knight is better than something like Captain America…(even though I am really enjoying nearly all of this superhero fad).

I hope the CGI gets tiresome once we’ve grown into it more, and we resort back to actually making films made for mass audiences with some sense of emotion and logical purpose. Like practically anything made between the creation of film and the early 50’s (estimating, won’t be a perfect comparison). At least some film-makers are still trying to make that happen, I can deal with Michael Bay if I have a good Coen or Linklater film to fall back on for the sake of my sanity.

Oh she has to be coming up on that, Let Me In was a great introduction for her into that serious, dark type of film. Give it three years, she’ll be involved with something as serious as a pulmonary oedema.

This thread is just reserved for movie talk now isn’t it? I kind of enjoy that, feels very calm and out of the way. I wonder if I should make some kind of review thread, but I don’t know if I could really keep up the pace with watching newer films so consistently when I have so many old ones and genres to fill out, plus of course it’s overwhelmingly narcissistic and pretentious of me.

As a fun aside, I think I finally unearthed what really happens after the events of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, once MacReady and Childs are alone together in the snow. You have no idea how long it took me to put that one together, I had to pick apart almost every other part of the film, and there is some deeply embedded shit to uncover.[/quote]

The writing of modern movies compared to some of those from way back is just absolutely empty. I really don’t think actors have gotten any worse, they are just not given the material to truly make a solid movie. I have watched several older movies lately and find myself in awe of the back and forths between characters when they actually had to have substance because they couldn’t hide the lack of it with camera tricks. “An Affair to Remember” comes to mind although it is a chick flick. “12 Angry Men” is another. Great movie and the entire thing never leaves same the same room.[/quote]

Man I love the shit out of 12 Angry Men, the way it starts from such a straightforward premise that slowly segues into a personal reflection of each man’s logic, morality and self-assessment. I loved the Jack Lemmon remake too, but there is no beating the original, I like that when it was a new thing people were trying to make things that would hold up and be really worthy of viewing out of respect for the technology bump. 12 Angry Men might be one of my top ten favourite films of all time, it’s a perfect representation of humanity. The character dynamic in classical film is astounding, there are some character relations in 40’s-50’s films that absolutely floor me.

I’m glad we do still have some film-making geniuses that are trudging along to bring something of worth and importance to us, there’s far too much dreck being produced in our blockbuster lists now. There have been very few really brilliant films this year in particular, I realise that most of the grander ones are scheduled mid-summer/late year, but shit…

Recent movie that I really thought was well done, Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close I though was good. Maybe that one just plucked a heart string though but I really liked that movie.

[quote]bpick86 wrote:
Speaking of Asian films, I had this Koroshiya 1 or Ichi the killer recommended to me recently. Worth seeing?[/quote]

It’s a nice film to see if you’re super into gore-porn. It’s no “Braindead” or “Story Of Ricky”, but it can be pretty satisfying at times to see the violence and murder. I’d watch it just because it’s fun and probably worth it, but don’t expect some kind of Asian masterpiece outside of the great gore aspect. I’d probably watch it again.

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]bpick86 wrote:
Speaking of Asian films, I had this Koroshiya 1 or Ichi the killer recommended to me recently. Worth seeing?[/quote]

It’s a nice film to see if you’re super into gore-porn. It’s no “Braindead” or “Story Of Ricky”, but it can be pretty satisfying at times to see the violence and murder. I’d watch it just because it’s fun and probably worth it, but don’t expect some kind of Asian masterpiece outside of the great gore aspect. I’d probably watch it again.[/quote]

I never have been big into the gore porn genre. I have watched several but they just never sat right with me and don’t leave me with the kind of feeling I like to have after watching a movie. I see you have one of my favorite all time as your avi. What is your favorite all time movie Kahuna, or most willing to watch repeatedly if that makes it easier?

[quote]Karado wrote:
Korean Films, not really into them, but I have seen ‘‘OldBoy’’ ‘‘Tale Of Two Sisters’’ and ‘‘The Good Bad and The Weird’’,
and I may have seen one or two more in the past I don’t recall at the moment, but I know a lot of good stuff comes out
from there.
Spike Lee’s American Version of Oldboy is coming out and I CAN’T WAIT for that puppy to come out!
I don’t recall any producers/directors at that place yet…but who knows…heh.
Speaking of Asian films an Indian buddy o’ mine has recommended a few ‘‘Bollywood’’ films and I saw one
comedy that was pretty funny whose title I don’t recall, and a cool little movie called ‘‘Robot’’,
there are cultural idiosyncrasies that one must get accustomed to with Indian Films, whose movie
industry rivals Hollywood in scope and overall popularity…like characters breaking in to song at the oddest
moments, lol, but that’s ok because I have a more open worldview than most, it’s getting USED to it is the
challenge sometimes.
Oh man, yes…Kubrick was the master, the master of triple digit takes as well lol, and one of the things I recall Malcolm
saying was that even though Kubrick was well known to be somewhat disenchanted with the Hollywood way of doing things
and moved to England, was that he stayed a New York boy at heart, but he didn’t talk much else about Kubrick himself
or his craft…Malcolm’s Q&A wasn’t long and ‘deep’ as I wanted it to be, it was fairly brief but interesting in bits and pieces,
he looked a lot older than I thought he would closeup lol…But it’s been a very long time since ACO came out anyway[/quote]

They get really great sometimes man, there’s a Korean monster movie that I fucking adore called “Gwoemul (The Host)”. I seriously love that one, it’s also worth watching Bong Joon-Ho’s other film “Memoirs Of Murder”, he’s a great director.

There’s another called “I Saw The Devil” that I reviewed in the “Even More Movies…” thread not too long ago, I enjoyed it a lot, long one though.

I’m very skeptical about Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy, it might just be a personal thing, but I fucking hate Spike Lee. I can appreciate some of his films, but there are some that I really just can’t jive with, I also think his personality and self-entitlement is total dogshit.

That’s another cultural semi-genre I’ll have to consider beyond the Westerns, Silent films, Noirs, Korean Films etc. I’ve seen no Indian films beyond the over-the-top gangster chase action things, the hilarious low budget ones. No bollywood musicals as of yet beyond those that turned into internet memes. Seen a couple Indonesian and Thai films and enjoyed those though, so that’s nice. I’ll get around to Indian eventually, I always feel like I have to catch up on classics from the past that I still haven’t seen first though.

Man I would have offered my balls to Odin to have a chance to intern under Kubrick. If there’s anything I appreciate most in cinema it’s the Hitchcock/Kubrick/Tarantino attention to detail. There’s so much trivia from things like A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and 2001 that continue to blow my mind when I re-watch the films. It’s crazy how far that stuff was planned in advance.

I think a lot more of the younger people (around my age, I’ve even grown to despise my age because of this, how about that.) would recognise McDowell more in his old age than a photo of him in his youth, and that fucking infuriates me sometimes. I don’t even think I can deal with people that list a shit movie as their favourite, I don’t think I have one friend I still talk to that drops below Big Lebowski quality on their favourites list.

[quote]bpick86 wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]bpick86 wrote:
Speaking of Asian films, I had this Koroshiya 1 or Ichi the killer recommended to me recently. Worth seeing?[/quote]

It’s a nice film to see if you’re super into gore-porn. It’s no “Braindead” or “Story Of Ricky”, but it can be pretty satisfying at times to see the violence and murder. I’d watch it just because it’s fun and probably worth it, but don’t expect some kind of Asian masterpiece outside of the great gore aspect. I’d probably watch it again.[/quote]

I never have been big into the gore porn genre. I have watched several but they just never sat right with me and don’t leave me with the kind of feeling I like to have after watching a movie. I see you have one of my favorite all time as your avi. What is your favorite all time movie Kahuna, or most willing to watch repeatedly if that makes it easier? [/quote]

Oh if you don’t like gore then don’t watch it, it won’t resonate with you at all, it’s really just a vicious display of prolonged violence, doesn’t have much rhyme or reason.

Yeah I love An American Werewolf, that transformation scene with Blue Moon in the background chills me every time, I only watched it again this morning.

My personal favourite is Pulp Fiction. I should clarify that my favourites differ from what I believe to be the absolute closest to perfect films, but I think Pulp Fiction to some extent qualifies extremely well for that too. It’s my favourite more for just life relevance, growing up and moulding my personality. I also enjoy every little thing about that film, I think it naturally became my favourite just for how much I adore it’s trivia, characters, dialogue (I fucking adore the dialogue to no end) and style.

I threw up a quick explanation of why it’s my favourite in this thread below (also my first film thread on the site, I’ll save that for the scrapbook album), I could probably delve much further on why I love it as a film than as an inspirational idea, but that’s a nice basic hold on it, if I were to really go into it we’d be here for hours.

I also had a quit chat with Push in the Film Scenes thread I made about the transformation scene from An American Werewolf, but from what I recall it wasn’t particularly long or meaningful.

My three favourites of all time on the same kind of reasoning are:

  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. A Clockwork Orange
  3. Raging Bull

Although my top five tend to change around, those three stay solidly consistent. How about you? What are your favourites if you were to pick a few? (Also aimed at Karado if he cares to join.)

Three great films…Pulp Fiction certainly stands up to repeat viewings.
I don’t have a personal ‘Top Ten’ of all time, but off the list ‘Top’ of my head at the moment,
I would add films that truly resonated and resonated with me for many different reasons the first time
I saw them.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
2001: A Space Odyssey
‘Shawshank’
Runaway Train
Manhunter
Taxi Driver
Jaws
‘Close Encounters’
Superman… with Chris Reeve…the FIRST one.
Enter The Dragon
The Warriors
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Hard Boiled
The Legend Of Drunken Master
La Femme Nikita
Full Metal Jacket
Thief
The Professional
Blazing Saddles
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Scarface (1983)
Metropolis
Bad Boys (1983)
Scanners
The Dead Zone
The Fly
Dirty Harry
El Norte
Kagemusha
Don’t Look Now
Hard Eight
Boogie Nights
Pink Floyd’s The Wall
The Song Remains The Same
Tommy
'ClockWork Orange
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead
Straight Time
The French Connection
The Godfather Part 2
Requiem For A Dream
Dead Man Walking
River’s Edge…and many more.

By no means am I a film expert. The following is off the top of my head. My criteria for a favorite film is, for the most part, if will I stop channel surfing to watch it again. Plus there are some older films that I wished would get more TV time.

In no particular order:

To Kill a Mockingbird
12 Angry Men - (we used this film as a case study for an MBA speech class)
Wuthering Heights
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Rocky Balboa - any of the Rocky movies
Scarface
Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
Any of the Dark Knight movies
Blazing Saddles
The Hangover - yeah, so sue me.
The Usual Suspects
Hudsucker Proxy

Lucky Number Slevin is probably my favorite movie from a sheer entertainment perspective.
The Last Samurai
Legends of the Fall
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Primal Fear
The Ghosts and the Darkness is a holdover from when I was a kid. I watched it the other day and remembered it being much better.
Of Mice and Men
The Green Mile
Tombstone is another holdover from being a kid.
A Walk in the Clouds (feel free to flame)
Once upon a time in Mexico

“The Ghosts and the Darkness is a holdover from when I was a kid. I watched it the other day and remembered it being much better”

Yyyyeah I know what you mean on that one…the following is a list o’ mine in the same vein,
flicks that I thought were pretty damn good when I saw them as a VERY young kid…but SUCKED
when I saw them later on TV as a grown, mature, sophisticated adult…:wink:

Blacula
Earthquake
Beyond The Door…(Trailer below…guess which movie this tried to imitate?)
Bobbie Jo And The Outlaw
The Car (about a Killer Car…no driver…no shit.)
Killdozer (TV movie about a killer bulldozer ‘‘activated’’ when hit by a meteor from outer space…a masterpiece.)

I can’t type anymore…this is getting embarrassing.

Beyond the Door Trailer - YouTube