― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
3. The Good, the Bad, and the UglySergio Leone, 1966POINTS: 456VOTES: 21
COMMENTS:
“I once saw a very very early matinee of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (with ice cream and everything) and I have rarely ever been so truly truly happy.”
-- @d@ml
“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly may be my all-time favorite movie, the more I think about it.”
-- El Diablo Robotico
“I just acquired the new double disc DVD of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Amazing! I planned on watching one hour of it tonight so I could do something else later, but I watched all 179 minutes of it. Fucking beautiful.’
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“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly gets better with each viewing. And what is often forgotten is that it contains one of cinema's more inexplicably haunting depictions of war. Aside from the battle between a couple of liquored-up armies fighting over a useless bridge, the war is nothing but retreating armies, dead bodies, military cemeteries, and prisoner-of-war camps.
“What I didn't know was that Leone was actually depicting a very real part of the Civil War that took place in New Mexico. I always assumed that he was creating a surreal version of the war. Perhaps the scope of what occurred was implicitly larger in Leone's fiction, but it's based in truth.”
-- Gear!
“The title sequence is for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is one of my favorite things ever (the rest of the movie is up there too!).”
-- Spencer Chow
“Leone is the master filmmaker. This is the dress rehearsal to his magnum opus. Therefore, it can’t fail to be anything less than utter, utter genius. A beautifully wrought musing on Conflict, Friendship and Greed – the three central protagonists are cinema gold but Wallach’s Tuco steals the show the moment he screams “You’re the son a thousand fathers… all of them bastards like you.””
--FIVE-EIGHT
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
2. PsychoAlfred Hitchcock, 1960POINTS: 513VOTES: 23
COMMENTS?
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
101 Head 102A The bed-sitting room B.alfie 104 Irma La douce 105 Last Year At Marienbad106 The Dirty Dozen 107 The Magnificent seven 108 Fail-safe 109 In the heat of the night 110 take the money and run
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
1. It Happened at the World's Fair2. It Happened at the World's Fair3. It Happened at the World's Fair4. It Happened at the World's Fair5. It Happened at the World's Fair6. It Happened at the World's Fair7. It Happened at the World's Fair8. It Happened at the World's Fair9. It Happened at the World's Fair10. It Happened at the World's Fair
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
ANYHOO:
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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombStanley Kubrick, 1964POINTS: 554VOTES: 25#1’s: 2
“I've seen it so many times I almost forget it's meant to be a comedy; in a lot of ways it works just as well as a straight thriller. But I never fail to crack up at "Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines!"”
--Justyn Dillingham
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
so lame.
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
My gripe: too many African films.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know why it would be a shock that a poll consisting largely of American voters (with a lesser number of Britishes and Australians, and the odd Scandinavian here and there) is dominated by films dominant in American culture.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I've never seen Lolita or Barry Lyndon, but the only Kubrick movie I could see an argument for not being entertaining is 2001.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
PETER SELLERS/GEORGE C. SCOTT/PETER SELLERS/KEENAN WYNN/PETER SELLERS/STERLING HAYDEN/and who could forget...SLIM PICKENS
Yet I did not vote for it.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Great flick, but maybe the problem in this case is that it was released in America by AIP in modified form as "The Conquer Worm" and has gotten spotty reissue since. MGM needs to get off their ass and put it out along with the Leone remasters.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
A Taste of HoneyIrma La DouceIn Cold BloodSatryiconWest Side StoryLast Year in Marienbad
James Blount completely on the money!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
100. The Fireman’s Ball99. The Odd Couple97 A. A Shot In The Dark97 B. Shock Corridor96. My Fair Lady95. The Magic Christian94. Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight*93. The Leopard92. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service91. The Cincinnati Kid*90. Cape Fear89. A Woman Is A Woman88. Cleo From 5-787. The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner86. Planet of The Apes85. Through A Glass Darkly84. Le Doulos83. Fahrenheit 45181 A. Mouchette81 B. The Exterminating Angel80. Z79. Charade78. The Thomas Crown Affair77. Bedazzled76. Knife In The Water75. Barbarella74. A Fistful of Dollars73. If….72. Pierrot Le Fou*70 A. Billy Liar70 B. Spartacus69. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?68. The Trial*67. Andrei Rublev*66. L’Avventura65. Masculin Feminin*64. For A Few Dollars More63. One, Two, Three*62. Tokyo Drifter61. To Kill A Mockingbird*60. Woman In The Dunes59. Blow-Up58. Yellow Submarine57. Le Jetee56. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance55. Contempt54. The Pink Panther53. Shoot The Piano Player52. Cool Hand Luke51. Help!*50. Breakfast At Tiffany’s49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*48. Goldfinger47. Bullitt46. Alphaville45. Playtime44. Carnival of Souls*43. La Dolce Vita42. Don’t Look Back41. The Birds40. Repulsion**39. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg38. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid37. Weekend*36. Mary Poppins35. Lolita34. High and Low33. Point Blank32. Le Samourai*31. Easy Rider30. Branded To Kill29. Au Hasard Balthazar*28. 8 ½27. The Great Escape26. Peeping Tom25. The Battle of Algiers24. Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live**23. The Hustler*22. Persona*21. Night of The Living Dead20. The Wild Bunch19. Belle De Jour18. The Producers17. Jules and Jim16. Yojimbo*15. Once Upon A Time In The West***14. Lawrence of Arabia13. A Hard Day’s Night12. The Apartment11. Bonnie and Clyde10. Midnight Cowboy*9. Rosemary’s Baby*8. The Graduate7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part*6. The Manchurian Candidate*5. Breathless4. 2001: A Space Odyssey*3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2. Psycho1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb**
Sometime soon i'll post a similar list of 101-228
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
i may be mistaken here but as far as i know the word "psycho" was not commonly used as an abbreviation for "psychopath" until hitchcock's film (it literally means "mind") it came into common currency, as an abbreviation, after that. also i'm not sure that that "psycho" as a title is referring to hopkins' charater.
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
This reminds me of a comment on one of the Kubrick threads I didn't use:
"AB and I rewatch 2001 earlier this year at a cinema: at the bit where the space-hostess walks upside down in non-gravity, AB looks at her butt and whispers: "I see in the future they can fly to Jupiter but they still haven't cured VPL." We giggle so much we risk being a. chucked out of cinema b. being lynched by humourless kubricoids around us."
-- mark s
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link