I *still* need to see Network. It's not right that someone like myself hasn't seen it. To my credit, I do own Broadcast News and Good Night and Good Luck. Not that the two can really be compared to each other, with the exception of the fact that they're both about TV.
I nearly re-watched Bueller the other night, but chose History of the World, Part I instead.
Regarding Altman -- have you seen The Player? It's noteworthy for the opening sequence alone -- a very, very long tracking shot.
New-ish movies: did you see Thank You For Smoking? I rented it a few months ago, loved it.
I haven't seen The Player. I think the next two Altman films I'll see are that one and Short Cuts.
Thanks for the recommendation on Thank You For Smoking. It's on my Netflix queue but I hadn't really heard much about it one way or the other. I'll check it out soon!
I had totally, 100% pegged you as the first person who would ask me for my all-time top 20! Psychic!
It'll be in another post. I don't think I've actually tried to write out an ordered, top-whatever movies list in a couple years, and a lot of things have changed since.
Rocky. Balboa.evagationJanuary 4 2007, 04:49:08 UTC
Seriously?!
That's great! Devin's been wanting to see it but I just couldn't... Rocky... Sylvester... Jess from Gilmore Girls!
I have to know how it was. Well. How was Milo (aka Jess from Gilmore)?
And I was raised by odd people and a lot of the movies you mentioned I felt myself sighing and thinking, "Ah, I haven't seen that since I was a kid."
About things like "Network," and "Tootsie."
"Tootsie" still scares the hell out of me. I don't care what anyone says. Try watching it as a kid not understanding why Rain Man was dressing up as a woman and romancing that nice lady from "Mr. Mom." Cannot get through it to this day.
But "Network" still rocks.
(Boo, also, to "Lawrence of Arabia" and my Dad making me watch that when I was sick with mono and trapped on the couch. That was EVIL of him. But, you know, probably much better if you are not nine and sick with mono.)
Re: Rocky. Balboa.discountsatoriJanuary 4 2007, 15:34:55 UTC
Lawrence of Arabia made me thirsty. I can't imagine watching it while sick.
Here's the thing about Rocky Balboa: it is SUPREME cheese. It is bright yellow cheese product for movie theater nachos. The first hour has Rocky making all these impassioned speeches about following your dream, never giving up, etc., but everything's punctuated with "yo" and you can't understand half the other words he's saying. You expect the people who are listening to him to just laugh in his face (especially the state boxing commission), but instead they all nod thoughtfully and take his suggestions to heart.
It gets good once he stops talking and starts boxing. That's the last 40 minutes or so. But it's worth it for that. Catch a matinee.
Milo V. is Peter Petrelli from Heroes to me. He looked and sounded exactly as he does in the TV show, and so I kept expecting him to say, "Yo, Dad, this boxing stuff is fascinating, but we really need to get around to saving the world."
11. Broken Flowers (2005) - Also known as The Movie Nobody Liked But Me.
I just got this as a gift from a friend last week and we watched it that night. I was sleepy, but I recall liking it due to liking Bill Murray in general. my friend pegged the vague ending.. I was slightly disappointed, but it seemed appropriate.
p.s. The one part of Network that made me want to watch the rest was when he said "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
It almost made me want to open a window and yell that, too.
It also made me get into Studio 60 (which started like a month or so after I first caught the movie on tv coincidentally) since it mimicked that bit in the first episode.
Heh. I was pretty fresh off my Network viewing when Studio 60, began so I was a fan of that first episode too. I regret to say that that was the only episode of that show I really got into before I quit watching it in November.
I recall liking it due to liking Bill Murray in general.
Yeah, that's about 50% of the reason I really liked Broken Flowers. (The other 50% was because of the lovely, quiet, reading-a-short-storyesque feel of the movie.) I'll watch anything Bill Murray's in. I am a shamelessly huge fan of this middle-aged-guy-searching-for-meaning phase he's in now.
I have been slacking a lot on the AFI list lately. I think I'm almost up to 50. It would be totally plausible to finish this year if I could tear myself away from recent and foreign films, but I don't think that's gonna happen. How are you doing on The List?
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I nearly re-watched Bueller the other night, but chose History of the World, Part I instead.
Regarding Altman -- have you seen The Player? It's noteworthy for the opening sequence alone -- a very, very long tracking shot.
New-ish movies: did you see Thank You For Smoking? I rented it a few months ago, loved it.
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Thanks for the recommendation on Thank You For Smoking. It's on my Netflix queue but I hadn't really heard much about it one way or the other. I'll check it out soon!
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I now want to see that all-time top 20.
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It'll be in another post. I don't think I've actually tried to write out an ordered, top-whatever movies list in a couple years, and a lot of things have changed since.
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Well, I would have preferred to be pegged as the one to look best naked or be able to speak five languages, but I'll take it.
Look forward to the list.
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That's great! Devin's been wanting to see it but I just couldn't... Rocky... Sylvester... Jess from Gilmore Girls!
I have to know how it was. Well. How was Milo (aka Jess from Gilmore)?
And I was raised by odd people and a lot of the movies you mentioned I felt myself sighing and thinking, "Ah, I haven't seen that since I was a kid."
About things like "Network," and "Tootsie."
"Tootsie" still scares the hell out of me. I don't care what anyone says. Try watching it as a kid not understanding why Rain Man was dressing up as a woman and romancing that nice lady from "Mr. Mom." Cannot get through it to this day.
But "Network" still rocks.
(Boo, also, to "Lawrence of Arabia" and my Dad making me watch that when I was sick with mono and trapped on the couch. That was EVIL of him. But, you know, probably much better if you are not nine and sick with mono.)
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Here's the thing about Rocky Balboa: it is SUPREME cheese. It is bright yellow cheese product for movie theater nachos. The first hour has Rocky making all these impassioned speeches about following your dream, never giving up, etc., but everything's punctuated with "yo" and you can't understand half the other words he's saying. You expect the people who are listening to him to just laugh in his face (especially the state boxing commission), but instead they all nod thoughtfully and take his suggestions to heart.
It gets good once he stops talking and starts boxing. That's the last 40 minutes or so. But it's worth it for that. Catch a matinee.
Milo V. is Peter Petrelli from Heroes to me. He looked and sounded exactly as he does in the TV show, and so I kept expecting him to say, "Yo, Dad, this boxing stuff is fascinating, but we really need to get around to saving the world."
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I just got this as a gift from a friend last week and we watched it that night. I was sleepy, but I recall liking it due to liking Bill Murray in general. my friend pegged the vague ending.. I was slightly disappointed, but it seemed appropriate.
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It almost made me want to open a window and yell that, too.
It also made me get into Studio 60 (which started like a month or so after I first caught the movie on tv coincidentally) since it mimicked that bit in the first episode.
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Yeah, that's about 50% of the reason I really liked Broken Flowers. (The other 50% was because of the lovely, quiet, reading-a-short-storyesque feel of the movie.) I'll watch anything Bill Murray's in. I am a shamelessly huge fan of this middle-aged-guy-searching-for-meaning phase he's in now.
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you know, i originally got the AFI movie goal from you. i'm not doing too bad, considering that i don't have netflix.
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