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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 23, 2009 18:41:05 GMT -5
Never heard of #28, haven't seen #26, and am apathetic towards #25.
#27, though, is a movie I actually like. Currently, it's my favorite of the Batman flicks.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 23, 2009 20:47:24 GMT -5
#24 Air Force One You know what I'm a sucker for, Die Hard on a thing movies. I already covered Die Hard on a Bus, I mean Speed here. I think Die Hard in a Stadium during Game 7 of the Stanley Cup, I mean Sudden Death is Van-Damme's best movie. Die Hard on a Train, I mean Under Siege 2 was Seagal's best until the almost-brillant Exit Wounds came out and at least Die Hard on a Boat, I mean Under Siege had Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey killing people. Now comes the best Die Hard on a thing, Die Hard on Air Force One....or to simplify matters Air Force One. There's a reason why this stands as the best Die Hard-clones and that is Harrison Ford. So what's so great about Harrison Ford this time, he's the President of the United States of America and he's the only one that can save Air Force One by his new terrorist plan, introducing his fists to their face! He makes Theodore Roosevelt look like Franklin Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson look like he wasn't a lunatic. If there was a presidential candidate that was like that with a proven terrorist on a plane body count, I would say f*** Barack my vote goes to him. Awesome Moment 1: "Get off my plane!" Awesome Moment 2: The terrorists taking over the plane Awesome Moment 3: "Forgive me, I lied."
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Post by Kermit The Hulk on Jul 23, 2009 21:06:20 GMT -5
haven't seen your last 2 picks Same here. Goddamn! You guys need to watch more movies. I've seen practically all the movies on this list. And, I enjoyed most of them.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 23, 2009 21:14:36 GMT -5
Seen it, and liked it.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 23, 2009 21:23:24 GMT -5
#23 Batman Begins 1997, Batman and Robin is released in theaters. There were only three survivors: George Clooney who was awesome enough to power through it unscathed, Uma Thurman who went into a coma after The Avengers only to wake up with Kill Bill and Schwarzenegger who used the open-heart surgery excuse to hide only to find a much different action world....he then became the governor of California. So needless to say, something drastic needed to be done with a new Batman movie if one was to ever exist. Something drastic did happen and we have the best Batman movie....until I see The Dark Knight, which I will see eventually! So shut up about it! For one thing, it's more grounded in reality than either the Burton or Schumacher ones. It also tells the story of Batman and for once, Batman is actually interesting by himself, not fighting much more interesting villains like the previous movies. Lastly, Christain Bale who absolutely kills it as Batman AND Bruce Wayne unlike Keaton who was a good Batman, Kilmer who was a good Wayne and Clooney who was a good neither(Schumacher's fault!). When I see The Dark Knight and if it is as good as everyone says, expect that to replace this. PS: I have The Dark Knight...it has. Awesome Moment 1: The Batmobile's entrance Awesome Moment 2: Batman's final kiss off to Ducard Awesome Moment 3: Bruce Wayne's return to Wayne Enterprises
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 23, 2009 21:26:15 GMT -5
#22 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb I said Kubrick would be back, here he is and no, he won't be back cause Dr. Strangelove is Kubrick's best. This may also have the ballsiest premise on this list "Mutually Assured Nuclear Destruction is funny!".....and Kubrick actually makes it funny. Now Kubrick isn't known as a comedy-of-any-kind director, even though the first third of A Clockwork Orange had moments of great humor, so the fact that he conquered comedy just expanded his range that much more. The genius of this is almost subtle but completely brilliant. Everybody is simultaneously over-the-top and grounded. The fighter pilot is an extreme trigger-happy Texan, the Russian premier is a drunken idiot, the President is ineffectual despite him being likeable, and George C. Scott is the normal one, despite his war-lust and the fact that 15-20 million dead Americans is justifiable in a Russian Land War. It's all quite mad and yet quite funny and I will say this again, this is Stanley Kubrick's best movie. Awesome Moment 1: President Muffley's apology to the Russian Premier Awesome Moment 2: "He'll see everything, he'll see the big board!" and George C. Scott stumbles, falls and gets right up like nothing happened. Awesome Moment 3: Dr. Stangelove's evil hand doing the Sieg Hiel
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 23, 2009 21:27:16 GMT -5
#21 Akira If you love anime and you haven't seen Akira and are making no effort to, you don't deserve to love anime. If you love anime and you never even heard of Akira, you don't deserve to live. This rewrote the production rules of anime. Before this, anime had a cheap reputation about it. Faces were static, most scenes happened with plentiful light and voices were made to fit the animation. But Akira did things a lot differently. It's greatest contribution was to put most everything at night, literally inventing colors to accommodate the darkness. The animation was strong enough to make the faces a lot less static-y and the animation was made to fit the voices & not the other way around. And the strength of the story also elevates this into the top of the anime selection. Awesome Moment 1: motorcycle chase Awesome Moment 2: kids trying to scare Tetsuo Awesome Moment 3: opening scene
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 23, 2009 21:28:53 GMT -5
That's it for the night
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 23, 2009 21:33:37 GMT -5
#23 - Seen it; think it's okay, but not as good as the first Batman flick. #22 - Never heard of it. #21 - Heard of it, but never seen it (nor do I wish to).
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 24, 2009 7:30:57 GMT -5
#20 Sin City Some movies you know are going to be great at a certain point in the movie, like an opening scene or an awesome bit of dialogue. Others you know are going to be great by the people involved. In Sin City's case...when did I know it was going to be awesome? First trailer with that awesome song and those awesome scenes....and I was happy when that trailer didn't let me down. From the beginning this movie sucks you in into it's own world, a world that revels in it's own hyper-stylized reality. Nobody just dies, they die in the most violent, manliest way possible and that's if they actually stay dead. Everybody has something clever and awesome to say at any time. The woman are scantily clad...if they are clad. It is clearly Robert Rodriguez's shining moment. Awesome Moment 1: The opening scene Awesome Moment 2: Clive Owen's comedy of errors hiding Benecio Del Toro's body at the Tar Pits and by comedy of errors, I mean Clive Owen basically dies a lot in awesome ways Awesome Moment 3: "Here's a sign!"
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Post by thelesserevil on Jul 24, 2009 8:52:22 GMT -5
Sin City was good, I need to watch that one again, it probably deserved a spot on my list.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 24, 2009 9:00:44 GMT -5
#19 Predator This movie is clearly the most empty-headed movie on the list but it makes up for it's lack of brains by the sheer force of its manliness, awesome action and oh-so-glorious violence; this was Schwarezenegger's highest grossing movie at the time for a reason. This movie makes no pretensions about what it is by the opening scene where the arm-wrestling contest between Schwarezenegger and Carl Weathers focuses on their on biceps, not their less muscular faces and yes, it gets more manly than that. Despite it's brainless nature it does have two genius ideas. The first is that it almost tricks us in thinking it's going to just kill humans. There's a quick shot of Predator-vision but it's just before the assault on the rebel base so we forget that as we let explosions, deaths and manly one-liners wash over us. The second is that Schwarezenegger is actually human instead of some unkillable titan. Arnold bleeds, he shoots at something that doesn't die and he works in a team. So on that note, avoid the inferior Predator 2. Danny Glover is just not as manly. Awesome Moment 1: "I ain't got time to bleed!" Awesome Moment 2: "If it bleeds, we can kill it." Awesome Moment 3: "Get to the choppa!"
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 24, 2009 10:56:54 GMT -5
Never seen Sin City, and I don't think I ever will.
I've seen and liked Predator, though. And while I agree that it's better than the sequel, I think the sequel is decent as well.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 24, 2009 11:14:47 GMT -5
#18 The Matrix You remember The Matrix when it was just one movie and before Matrix Revolutions ruined everything(Reloaded remains awesome though)? I do. I remembered when bullet-time was all new and fresh before everyone from Swordfish to Deace Bigalow: Male Gigolo stole it. But before I turn this into nostalgia-hour, The Matrix still remains as awesome as it did the first time it came out. The movie actually played to Keanu Reeve's stoner-esque acting abilities and in turn, Keanu actually gives something that resembles a performance. Let's face it, The Waschowski brothers knocked this off the park even though after this, it was all downhill from there. Awesome Moment 1: lobby shootout Awesome Moment 2: Agent Smith's theory of humanity Awesome Moment 3: Neo vs. Morpheus
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 24, 2009 11:44:05 GMT -5
I'm not a Matrix fan. I was slow to get interested in that craze, and was pretty disappointed by the movie when I finally did see it.
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Post by bob on Jul 24, 2009 11:55:52 GMT -5
#18 The Matrix You remember The Matrix when it was just one movie and before Matrix Revolutions ruined everything(Reloaded remains awesome though)? I do. I remembered when bullet-time was all new and fresh before everyone from Swordfish to Deace Bigalow: Male Gigolo stole it. But before I turn this into nostalgia-hour, The Matrix still remains as awesome as it did the first time it came out. The movie actually played to Keanu Reeve's stoner-esque acting abilities and in turn, Keanu actually gives something that resembles a performance. Let's face it, The Waschowski brothers knocked this off the park even though after this, it was all downhill from there. Awesome Moment 1: lobby shootout Awesome Moment 2: Agent Smith's theory of humanity Awesome Moment 3: Neo vs. Morpheus one of my favorite movies of all time.....I think it gets a bad rap because the sequals were awful
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Post by thelesserevil on Jul 24, 2009 12:48:16 GMT -5
I didn't like the first Matrix movie all that much, second was good, third was crap.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 24, 2009 14:24:47 GMT -5
#17 300 Could there be a formula for awesome movies? This and Sin City says there is and it's such a simple formula too. Let Frank Miller do all the work for you in graphic-novel form, then film that. It's so simple that anyone could do it and Zach Synder certainly was anyone just coming off his Dawn of the Dead remake which was good zombie fun to everyone who never saw the original, like me and no I still haven't watched it yet. Now for him to go from good Dawn to the extremely awesome 300 would be a shock if the Frank Miller formula wasn't in effect. Once again, Zach Synder makes a hyper-stylized world but unlike Sin City's, this one at least looks like it's based in reality. The men are ripped to an extreme, the woman are hot and horny & the bad guys are practically mutants: that guy with the blade-hands and Xerxes is 10 feet tall. I look forward to the next Frank Miller translation. Awesome Moment 1: Leonadis makes the God King bleed Awesome Moment 2: "We will fight in the shade." Awesome Moment 3: "THIS IS SPARRRTAAAAAAAAA!"
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 24, 2009 14:33:05 GMT -5
Saw it in theaters and liked it. I didn't even know it was comic-based at the time, either.
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Post by Shovelman on Jul 24, 2009 15:37:54 GMT -5
#16 Casino Royale James Bond movies are always a crap shoot, some are good like Goldeneye. Some are mediocre like Live and Let Die. Some are horrible like Diamonds are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me. But every so often, there's a great Bond movie like Goldfinger or On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Casino Royale is different though in the fact that it's a reboot. It had to reboot after Die Another Day(I like it and all but let's be real, if Bond 21 attempted to top that, we would have a Batman and Robin disaster but this time no one would survive). Then to not have Q or Moneypenny was a ballsy move but then the ballsiest move came...Daniel Craig is James Bond! I mean, he's blonde and young that's not James Bond. Of course, he proved us all wrong by pretty much playing Bond as a ruthless thug in a tux. He kills whoever, puts a bomb on a terrorist and goes through a wall...yes, a wall. Then the movie also pulls the rug from under us by making Texas Hold'em, a game I despise, tense and exciting. Then there's the last act which seems unrelated to the film but then becomes the best part of it. I am so excited to see Quantum of Solace now. Awesome Moment 1: Bond being tortured with rope Awesome Moment 2: Bond's first two kills to achieve 00 status Awesome Moment 3: the parkeur chase where he bursts through a wall And just to reiterate, James Bond goes through a FREAKIN' WALL!
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