Also, I suspect Orange is getting harshed on this thread a bit cos ppl are embarrassed at being into it as edgy youths. I do understand the implulse but imo it stands up better than most things I was into at 16
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:58 (eight months ago) link
enjoyers of mambo no.5 welcoming ilxors eric h. and bananaman begins into the only fandom that counts:
https://the-take.com/images/uploads/screenprism/_constrain-1080w/178763.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:59 (eight months ago) link
Ha!
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:03 (eight months ago) link
We all mambo down here
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:41 (eight months ago) link
Apparently the question prior to that one in the tweet was about "Rich Men North of Richmond," about which King only said: "I haven’t heard the song yet, but I’ve seen pictures of him. He’s got a beard and he’s got a cool guitar."
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:43 (eight months ago) link
there's a definitive "my life before and after seeing 2001" - so that.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:48 (eight months ago) link
orange is p good, mid-pack, prison section fairly dull, non-mcdowell performances certainly a choice (one choice, by one guy), when i was an edgy teen i thought it was an act of criminal irresponsibility (the worst kind of edgy teen)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:57 (eight months ago) link
i don't know why i said mid-pack; it's still down there actually.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:58 (eight months ago) link
I finally watched The Killing and loved how tight and ugly it was. I've already mentally paired it with Pick-Up on South Street and I'm not entirely sure why as yet.
Also, there is a guy who goes in my local who is so clearly Timothy Carey's doppelganger I'm going to have to ask him if he has seen this film.
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
Michael Fassbinder was a pretty good robot David, but I feel like he would have been better as David Bowman, mostly because he has a good laconic teeth-grinding expression to wear for most of the movie. Frank Poole: for some reason I'm thinking John C. Reilly.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:09 (eight months ago) link
God, the scene where Timothy Carey tells off the parking lot attendant in THE KILLING is so brutal and heartbreaking
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 21:24 (eight months ago) link
Wait the culture war part wasn’t about “Mambo No. 5”?
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 September 2023 11:05 (eight months ago) link
Re A Clockwork Orange, the book not the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-yk2el2b8k
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 September 2023 11:10 (eight months ago) link
rewatched The Killing and as much as I enjoyed the film it's hamstrung by one of my pet hates - the voiceover
― or something, Thursday, 7 September 2023 11:16 (eight months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:01 (eight months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 15 September 2023 00:01 (eight months ago) link
Suspicions more or less confirmed, held against the prior poll. Also, good job ILX
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2023 00:47 (eight months ago) link
not sure what you mean about suspicions confirmed, or "held against the prior poll", but there were a lot of votes
― Dan S, Friday, 15 September 2023 00:59 (eight months ago) link
my eyes wide shut-heads are once again the most correct
― ivy., Friday, 15 September 2023 02:18 (eight months ago) link
Glad Clockwork got nothing. The Killing and Paths of Glory are, I think, on the short-list of greatest American films of the '50s, but that's just the nature of click-polls that they'd sink to the bottom.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 September 2023 03:42 (eight months ago) link
agreed, i grew up in a TCM household and rarely anything caught my attention - it wasn't until seeing films like those that i wanted to go back and revist the era.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 15 September 2023 03:57 (eight months ago) link
I don’t think Paths or Glory or The Killing’s positions would necessarily be that much higher in a ballot-style poll, fwiw. The only sig change would probably be Strangelove moving up a spot or two
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2023 14:18 (eight months ago) link
Agree on Paths of Glory; it seems to have fallen away over the years. But I think The Killing would finish ahead of Full Metal Jacket, and possibly even ahead of Strangelove in a weighted poll.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:59 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_tJ6rVPyM
― ivy., Monday, 22 January 2024 16:36 (four months ago) link