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Oh, you think we are going to do a 70s one?
No, that was a whiff on my part and was a late sub in my top 100 after the countdown started.
I mean....it won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and on and on. It's worth your time, but seeing it on the big screen as an 8th grader made a lasting impact for me so I'm probably biased.
Am I the only Footballguy that loved the movie Parenthood? 1989? It holds up when showing it to my kids. Great songs. Great acting. Great story.
I'm in agreement. My comment was a favorite quote from the movie.
No, that was a whiff on my part and was a late sub in my top 100 after the countdown started.
I mean....it won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and on and on. It's worth your time, but seeing it on the big screen as an 8th grader made a lasting impact for me so I'm probably biased.
Am I the only Footballguy that loved the movie Parenthood? 1989? It holds up when showing it to my kids. Great songs. Great acting. Great story.
As far as Platoon, IMO it's a bit uneven and I just don't like a ton of Stone's movies.
Sure, I already listed a lot of the reasons in that post.Can we talk a little about what made the movie #1? Actors, plot, originality, FX? I mean, it was a great movie and I have it #9, but I would then have 8 movies better than it.#1: BACK TO THE FUTURE [peacock]
My #1 and 80s' #4. Forget the decade, this has been my favorite movie period since the day in '85 I saw it in the theater. Instant love, and it's the main reason I have been obsessed with movies since. It's always the first movie I get when I upgrade formats. I don't think it's an underestimation to say I've seen the movie 500+ times. It didn't hurt that it was my first "date", it had my favorite musician on the soundtrack and in it (I had gerbils named Heuy and Lewis), and fed into my obsession with time travel.
My guy tells me you have it so high based on association. Nothing wrong with that of course, just curious if there was more.
I would agree that the tone shifts, but I don't think the two halves make it uneven. Both halves have to do with horrors of war of a sort. I find the female sniper they kill, Animal Mother, crazy gunner mowing down people in the rice patties, etc. to be every bit as well shot and haunting as the things we get in the first half. I also find it every bit as well acted, shot, and written through the whole movie.No, that was a whiff on my part and was a late sub in my top 100 after the countdown started.
I mean....it won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and on and on. It's worth your time, but seeing it on the big screen as an 8th grader made a lasting impact for me so I'm probably biased.
Am I the only Footballguy that loved the movie Parenthood? 1989? It holds up when showing it to my kids. Great songs. Great acting. Great story.
As far as Platoon, IMO it's a bit uneven and I just don't like a ton of Stone's movies.
I don't like a ton of Stone's movies either and think he's rather full of himself, but even with imperfections, Platoon was a sensational movie that showed the true horror of a war that never should have been waged by the US. I like it far more than Full Metal Jacket which is really 2 different movies, IMO. The first half in boot camp is outstanding. The second act in Vietnam is not and if we're using 'uneven' as a criticism, how do you account for Part II of FMJ?
I grew up in southern Indiana and is top of my list of all-time for sentimental reasons.Just watched it this past weekend…..seriously….one of the best sports movies…..ever.No “Hoosiers”.
Then go fix me a turkey pot pie
I would agree that the tone shifts, but I don't think the two halves make it uneven. Both halves have to do with horrors of war of a sort. I find the female sniper they kill, Animal Mother, crazy gunner mowing down people in the rice patties, etc. to be every bit as well shot and haunting as the things we get in the first half. I also find it every bit as well acted, shot, and written through the whole movie.No, that was a whiff on my part and was a late sub in my top 100 after the countdown started.
I mean....it won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and on and on. It's worth your time, but seeing it on the big screen as an 8th grader made a lasting impact for me so I'm probably biased.
Am I the only Footballguy that loved the movie Parenthood? 1989? It holds up when showing it to my kids. Great songs. Great acting. Great story.
As far as Platoon, IMO it's a bit uneven and I just don't like a ton of Stone's movies.
I don't like a ton of Stone's movies either and think he's rather full of himself, but even with imperfections, Platoon was a sensational movie that showed the true horror of a war that never should have been waged by the US. I like it far more than Full Metal Jacket which is really 2 different movies, IMO. The first half in boot camp is outstanding. The second act in Vietnam is not and if we're using 'uneven' as a criticism, how do you account for Part II of FMJ?
I guess when I say uneven, I mean i think there are moments of brilliance, but sometimes I'm bored or sometimes don't think the acting works - things like that.
It's hard to top Ermey, I can admit that. The fact that I love the 2nd half almost as much is the reason for my ranking and I have it higher than most people I know. Most I would guess agree with you. They are in completely different situations, so having Ermey's level of intensity wouldn't make sense. But IMO where both halves, and Kubrick in general, excel is the dark humor that is going on around horrible situations. I find the 2nd half just as funny, quotable, and horrific as the boot camp portion.I would agree that the tone shifts, but I don't think the two halves make it uneven. Both halves have to do with horrors of war of a sort. I find the female sniper they kill, Animal Mother, crazy gunner mowing down people in the rice patties, etc. to be every bit as well shot and haunting as the things we get in the first half. I also find it every bit as well acted, shot, and written through the whole movie.No, that was a whiff on my part and was a late sub in my top 100 after the countdown started.
I mean....it won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and on and on. It's worth your time, but seeing it on the big screen as an 8th grader made a lasting impact for me so I'm probably biased.
Am I the only Footballguy that loved the movie Parenthood? 1989? It holds up when showing it to my kids. Great songs. Great acting. Great story.
As far as Platoon, IMO it's a bit uneven and I just don't like a ton of Stone's movies.
I don't like a ton of Stone's movies either and think he's rather full of himself, but even with imperfections, Platoon was a sensational movie that showed the true horror of a war that never should have been waged by the US. I like it far more than Full Metal Jacket which is really 2 different movies, IMO. The first half in boot camp is outstanding. The second act in Vietnam is not and if we're using 'uneven' as a criticism, how do you account for Part II of FMJ?
I guess when I say uneven, I mean i think there are moments of brilliance, but sometimes I'm bored or sometimes don't think the acting works - things like that.
Right, the first act of FMJ I am on the edge of my seat and have re-watched it countless times. The 2nd act? Not so much and have stopped there on re-watches.
Platoon? Riveted from start to finish. Every time.
My wife and I fired up The Running Man the other night.....she'd never seen it, and I'd seen it back when it came out......talk about a movie that did not age well! It's not one I think I'll go back to.......It must have a lot of sentimental value for you.
For me this #1 on my list of movies I actually want a remake of. It has a great idea and potential, but I can admit only my love of the cheesiness makes me still revisit it. It's a great bad movie.
Oh! There dey go! THERE DEY GO! Every...time...I start talkin' about movies, some dude gotta pull the Academy Awards out they ***! That's their one! That's their ONE! Academy Awards, Academy Awards... Let me tell you something, at one time the Academy Awards was good but along the way, the Academy became ####!
Good post. The duality of the Barnes and Elias characters was brilliantly realistic and IMO couldn't possibly have been portrayed by someone who didn't experience it firsthand.
Hell, even in boot camp with the racial insults.
I believe there is at least one remake being looked at, oddly enough, i believe staying more faithful to the book than the original
Of course, if that's what you are after. But as I rank and decide on nit-picky stuff between cheesy Arnolds like Predator and Running Man for example - that's when questions of how they hold up and other things come to play. In each tier I tried to have a rational reason for ranking one over the other.
A natural double feature right here.
Don't think he won an academy award, but it was him and not Cuzak that I mentioned before. Not sure why I thought Cuzak was the other stoner.
Crap, you are right. I remembered that Cage was in it, but got him mixed up with the stoners. Forgot Anthony Edwards was the other stoner.
correct. check my hint to confirm.
