Movies you've "seen"

by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jan 21, 2008 4:12 PM PST

That greatest movie thread got me thinking. There are a lot of classic movies that I haven't seen but I know the details so I just say I've seen them. Does anyone else do this?

My list includes:

The Godfather
Psycho
Casablanca
Dr. Strangelove
Schindler's List
Citizen Kane
Saving Private Ryan

I pretty much know the plots and lines from all of these movies, so I get by, but I feel pretty bad about it.

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Baseball needs to come quickly

These diary topics are killing me

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jan 21, 2008 4:34 PM PST 0 recs

Your top ten favorite toothpastes of 2007

LL seriously needs a separate OT blog.

by Robert on Jan 21, 2008 5:20 PM PST up 0 recs

I found toothpaste

for $1, full size tube, can't remember the brand. But its pink.

So that's on the list.

"Goddamn Romans. Sure know how to make a ... drum room." --Matt Cameron

by JI on Jan 21, 2008 5:29 PM PST up 0 recs

Crest.

End of discussion.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 21, 2008 5:31 PM PST up 0 recs

Sparkle Crest is digusting.

"Goddamn Romans. Sure know how to make a ... drum room." --Matt Cameron

by JI on Jan 21, 2008 5:57 PM PST up 0 recs

I did not say Sparkle Crest.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 21, 2008 6:32 PM PST up 0 recs

Arm & Hammer FTW

by JLC on Jan 21, 2008 5:32 PM PST up 0 recs

Colgate

It's a proven vet that's been through the wars.

by PetRock on Jan 21, 2008 5:39 PM PST up 0 recs

Attention advertisers!

Your customers are reading LOOKOUT LANDING!

by Shawk on Jan 21, 2008 5:53 PM PST up 0 recs

I choose, instead, to drink Belgian beer and have knife related injuries while watching television's hottest MILFs and reflecting on High School. Sometimes I find myself considering sucking off my boss for a raise, even though I'm terrible at my job, but usually I sit at home in front of my Xbox, anagramming the names of various cartoon characters and thinking up catch tag-lines for my "mojo stick" in case I need to use them on the ball-girl I'm trying to pick up on.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 21, 2008 4:43 PM PST 0 recs

A pun on

...Ball girl?

by yourfacemakesmewail on Jan 21, 2008 5:19 PM PST up 0 recs

pun?

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 21, 2008 5:25 PM PST up 0 recs

Good Summary

of the last month's worth of diaries. You did fail to mention all of the poster football games though.

"You guys should be in every major city. This is some heavy shit. This is, like, Lone Ranger heavy, man."

by AZSEAfan on Jan 22, 2008 8:27 AM PST up 0 recs

Meh, in a way, they're not OT enough.

People actually do them and have no other way to communicate their planning. I thought it best to leave those ones alone.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 22, 2008 9:41 AM PST up 0 recs

I want to know how

a babby is formed?

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jan 22, 2008 8:19 PM PST up 0 recs

You'll find out.

If the tag line for my mojo stick works as planned.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 23, 2008 9:44 AM PST up 0 recs

with powerthirst!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Matthew on Jan 23, 2008 4:01 PM PST up 0 recs

People you "know"

This post got me thinking. There are a lot of celebrities that I haven't really met but I read alot about them so I just say I'm friends with them. Does anyone else do this?

My list includes:

Britney Spears
Jerry Seinfeld
Steve Pool
RZA
Adam Carolla
Jaleel White
Tracy Morgan

I pretty much know everything there is to know about them, so people actually believe me when I say I'm friends with them, but I feel pretty bad about it.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by ConorGlassey on Jan 21, 2008 5:32 PM PST 0 recs

No, no one. No one else does this.

You're alone.

by JLC on Jan 21, 2008 5:33 PM PST up 0 recs

lol

by Wilder83 on Jan 21, 2008 5:37 PM PST up 0 recs

I just bought Josh Brown's football reference page

That makes us BFF's right?

by Robert on Jan 21, 2008 5:59 PM PST up 0 recs

Noticably absent from this list?

Paris Hilton.

//because you HAVE met her. LOL!

Ill Ligitamus Non Carberendum

by PositivePaul on Jan 21, 2008 10:36 PM PST up 0 recs

GO WATCH THE GODFATHER IMMEDIATELY!

by Wilder83 on Jan 21, 2008 5:38 PM PST 0 recs

Agreed

and then watch the Godfather II. You can skip the third however.

by Peen on Jan 21, 2008 5:47 PM PST up 0 recs

And then Dr. Strangelove

Do it. Do it NOW.

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 9:27 PM PST up 0 recs

Best comedy EVER.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jan 21, 2008 9:28 PM PST up 0 recs

It's no Shakes the Clown but...

Yeah it's up there

Btw Shakes the Clown is known as the Citizen Kane of drunken clown movies or is it perhaps that Citizen Kane is the Shakes the Clown of historical biopics.

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 9:56 PM PST up 0 recs

You can't fight in here!

This is the war room!

Yesterday's Pants

by Katal LM on Jan 21, 2008 10:04 PM PST up 0 recs

I'm totally getting flamed for this:

The Godfather put me to sleep. Literally.
For such a "great" film, it had some of the worst acting I've ever seen. James Caan's character was laughable, and every death scene looked like it was lifted straight out of a 1930's era slapstick comedy.
I'm not exactly a connoisseur of films from that era, so perhaps seeing it just recently out of context from the era in which it was filmed is unfair, but I expected more from it.

by AnotherAaron on Jan 22, 2008 9:54 AM PST up 0 recs

word

i have never gotten through watching that movie... it just drags on and on and on. i either fall asleep watching it or lose intrest in it after an hour an watch infomercials

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

by wadswerth on Jan 22, 2008 12:10 PM PST up 0 recs

We need to have an investment thread.

Starting with this simple question:

How much will your portfolio go down tomorrow morning?

by Wilder83 on Jan 21, 2008 5:40 PM PST 0 recs

Jesus Christ,

no kidding.

Invest in Waffles immediately. Tasty Waffles with lots of syrup.

Babies hate me.

by Librocrat on Jan 21, 2008 6:31 PM PST up 0 recs

You know what I love?

Star Wars. Just in general.

by Shawk on Jan 21, 2008 5:47 PM PST 0 recs

Saving Private Ryan does not belong.

by Patrick517 on Jan 21, 2008 5:49 PM PST 0 recs

no kidding

by Mere Tantalisers on Jan 21, 2008 6:18 PM PST up 0 recs

Go see the Godfather

Knowing what it's about doesn't cut it. Part One and Two are legit.

Yesterday's Pants

by Katal LM on Jan 21, 2008 6:18 PM PST 0 recs

see the funny thing is

I've seen 2 and 3. Just never the first one.

by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jan 21, 2008 6:40 PM PST up 0 recs

Lessee

Oh God Book II
Oh God You Devil
Cannonball Run II
Every Which Way But Loose
9 to 5
Kentucky Fried Movie
Roller Boogie
Mother, Jugs, And Speed
Grease II
Night Of The Comet
Battlefield Earth

What? Those are all classics, right?

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jan 21, 2008 8:43 PM PST 0 recs

And exactly how did you get away

without catching Kentucky Fried Movie?

What exactly do you tell people the plot is?
Uschi Digart. mmmmm.

by marc w on Jan 21, 2008 10:17 PM PST up 0 recs

I've actually seen it

but it's been so long (I saw it in about 1984) that all i really remember is Uschi Digart.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jan 22, 2008 7:48 AM PST up 0 recs

Screw the Godfather

but definitely see Casablanca and Schindler's List.

by johnbai on Jan 21, 2008 8:49 PM PST 0 recs

indeed

Schindler's List is a laugh riot.

by Matthew on Jan 21, 2008 10:35 PM PST up 0 recs

I thought Schindler's list was

so lame. It's like Holocaust for Dummies or something. Spielberg generally takes a really one-sided subject, makes it somehow even more one dimensional and then tries to play one everyone's heartstrings in the most ham-fisted manner. He rally ought to stick to harrison ford adventure flicks.

by Mere Tantalisers on Jan 22, 2008 5:54 AM PST up 0 recs

nothing like

typos to take the credibility out of your argument.

by Mere Tantalisers on Jan 22, 2008 5:56 AM PST up 0 recs

You are correct

Unwatchable IMHO. It was incredibly hamfisted manipulative. Even worse about that film is that Kubrick was working on a similar film and dropped it when he heard about spielbergs version. Spielbergs last good film was Jaws = everything since has been pure shite.

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 22, 2008 11:41 AM PST up 0 recs

Citizen Kane

Go see that one also. Sure, it's over rated, but not by much. There's a reason it's always rated Best. Movie. Evah.

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 9:31 PM PST 0 recs

The Top 1000 movies ever

I posted this on the movie thread but it was one of the last comments and nobody probaly read it. Anyway, here's the list of the top 1,00 movies ever made. Of interest to you stat heads is the methodology used in creating it. These guys compiled over 1600 polls, top 10, top 100, top whatever lists and then using a metric similar to all star balloting (#of 1st place votes, 2cnd place votes etc..) crunched these lists into a master list of the top 1,000 movies ever made.

Now, most of you kids wont see your faves as some of the source lists date back to the 1950's and really, it's film snobs who make up these lists anyway. But, as far as these things go it's pretty thorough and not really based on the biases of just a couple of critics.

So here they are, the top 1,00 movies ever made. Now go out and rent the top 100 and you too can be the film snob at parties.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_ranking1-100.htm

and here's how they came up with the list

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

and just for fun the top 100 directors from the list

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top100directors.htm

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 9:51 PM PST 0 recs

I refuse to believe

that nothing made after 1982 is among the best 100 movies of all time

MLS Seattle

by Nick S on Jan 21, 2008 10:45 PM PST up 0 recs

Well for a few reasons

Mostly, it's because the data they use goes back the 1950's so the list is somewhat wheighted toward older movies as they appear on more top lists. But also, the 70's were a golden era of movie making followed by blockbuster driven pruductions in the 80's til present time (albeit with a indie rebirth recently). I'm not saying that the entirety of the last 25 years of filmmaking sucks but, yeah it kinda does - it's just the nature of the multinational media conglomerate lowest common demoninator stlye of filmmaking currently being practiced. Of course there are few notable exception that should be in the top 100, though it's debatable what those should be. Time will tell...

Reminds me of a qoute from Bob Dylan on his XM radio show - Theme Time Radio Hour, paraphrasing, "people accuse me of playing too many old songs on the show, well, it turns out there's more old songs than new ones'

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 11:23 PM PST up 0 recs

Just curious

Name a short list of movies in the last 25 years that deserve to be in the top 100. I spent the last few minutes trying and it's tougher than one might think. I know there's alot in that top 100 that no one here would like compared to their personal faves but is it top 100 material, really? Open invite to make your case to anyone here.

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by Edanger6 on Jan 21, 2008 11:43 PM PST up 0 recs

off the top of my head:

-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (for impact on western cinema)
-The Usual Suspects
-Full Metal Jacket
-Shawshank Redemption
-Requiem for a Dream
-Reservoir Dogs
-Good Will Hunting
-Pulp Fiction
-Fargo
-The Matrix (again for film-making impact)

Others that have merit:
-Titanic (cliche and base, but it executed it to perfection)
-Silence of the Lambs
-Indiana Jones
-Glory
-Scarface
-Platoon

Not saying all of those warrant top 100, but I think they should all be within the top 200, and at least half or so should crack the top 100.

by Matthew on Jan 22, 2008 12:03 AM PST up 0 recs

Full Metal Jacket - Maybe

The rest - oh god no.

My picks would be Wings of Desire or Paris, Texas.

other maybes

Down by Law
In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai
Brazil
Blood Simple
Eraserhead

One has to consider there's over a hundred year history of films to take into account and it really becomes a pretty short list of candidates. Not that they're bad movies you listed (Titanic aside) but they just don't make the cut IMHO. O.K. I'll give you The Matrix as a possible.

Impeach Gary Bettman, Bill Bavasi, George McPhee, and George Bush

by Edanger6 on Jan 22, 2008 1:02 AM PST up 0 recs

wings of desire

was only good for getting it on. I've seen the first 20 minutes of that movie like 5 times. Have no idea what happens afterward.

by Mere Tantalisers on Jan 22, 2008 6:00 AM PST up 0 recs

Yeah I saw that on the other thread

Is really interesting and helpful. Glad you posted it. I really like the linked site with all the reviews for the films. I work at a university so in my free time I sometimes like to head over to the library and pull out the microfiche/film with reviews from these films at the time of their release. There are some amazing reactions depending on the type and biases of the media. While most of the reviews on the site are modern takes on old classics, its still fun to go back and relive them for a bit.

by DCMariner on Jan 21, 2008 10:49 PM PST up 0 recs