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Love this one. Catherine Mary Stewart
was a bonus.I'm thinking this is going to be my kind of list.
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My top 100 movies: #1: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (2 Viewers)
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was a bonus.I'm thinking this is going to be my kind of list.
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#46 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The movie that reminded everyone that Trek is fun. It made it accessible to non-Trekkers as well.
If you don't like this movie, you probably don't like italian food, use a keyboard at your computer, don't know where the naval base is, have immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distension, think unreal things exist, believe drilling holes in heads is a good way to relive the pressure, do too much LDS, and don't realize it's time for a colorful metaphor, to which I say..."DOUBLE ####### ON YOU!!!"
Trivia:
The woman who answers Uhura and Chekov when they are looking for the nuclear "wessels" was an extra who was not supposed to speak. Layla Sarakalo had never acted before and was told to "act naturally". So when she was asked, she improvised an answer. Much to Sarakalo's surprise, her unscripted line was kept in the film. Sarakalo happened upon the set when her car was towed away to make room for the film's production. Sarakalo offered to be an extra so that she could make money to get her car back.
According to George Takei, when McCoy, Scotty and Sulu are standing in front of the building with Yellow Pages advertisement, a door opens and an Asian woman appears. The scene in the movie ends at this point but originally this woman was to begin shouting for a young boy named Hikaru, who would run into Sulu. Sulu would realize that this boy was his great-great-(etc.) grandfather. The young boy hired for this scene began to cry on the set before the shot and they were unable to get him to do the scene. With no one to replace him, the scene was never shot.
The movie that reminded everyone that Trek is fun. It made it accessible to non-Trekkers as well.
If you don't like this movie, you probably don't like italian food, use a keyboard at your computer, don't know where the naval base is, have immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distension, think unreal things exist, believe drilling holes in heads is a good way to relive the pressure, do too much LDS, and don't realize it's time for a colorful metaphor, to which I say..."DOUBLE ####### ON YOU!!!"
Trivia:
The woman who answers Uhura and Chekov when they are looking for the nuclear "wessels" was an extra who was not supposed to speak. Layla Sarakalo had never acted before and was told to "act naturally". So when she was asked, she improvised an answer. Much to Sarakalo's surprise, her unscripted line was kept in the film. Sarakalo happened upon the set when her car was towed away to make room for the film's production. Sarakalo offered to be an extra so that she could make money to get her car back.
According to George Takei, when McCoy, Scotty and Sulu are standing in front of the building with Yellow Pages advertisement, a door opens and an Asian woman appears. The scene in the movie ends at this point but originally this woman was to begin shouting for a young boy named Hikaru, who would run into Sulu. Sulu would realize that this boy was his great-great-(etc.) grandfather. The young boy hired for this scene began to cry on the set before the shot and they were unable to get him to do the scene. With no one to replace him, the scene was never shot.
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Don't agree that 4 should be higher than 3. But having said that, in a completely nerd trekker way, I take the position that 3 and 4 are one big movie and should viewed together in one sitting. The beggining of three with stealing the enterprise and the ending of 4 with the trial and the new ship were the opening and closing of the same story.
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I would agree with that.
2, 3, and 4 - The "Spock" storyline - are really the only original crew movies worth watching. Yes, I mean The Undiscovered Country too.
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#45 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It's just a flesh wound.
What is your favourite colour?
African or European swallow?
I got better.
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Three shall be the number thou shall count
Where'd you get the coconuts?
What, the curtains?
Brave Sir Robin turned about..
Mind your own business!
Bring out yer dead.
It's only a model.
I have to push the pram a-lot!
Run awayyyy!
There was much rejoicing.
NI!
Message for you sir!
Get on with it!
Trivia:
The Enchanter's name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character's original name. He ad-libbed the line, "There are some who call me...Tim".
According to Terry Jones, the scene with Lancelot and Concorde required twenty takes. While the second take was perfect, the cameraman noticed that there was a lot of smoke in the background. At one point, an annoyed John Cleese quipped, "Well, was the smoke funny enough?"
It's just a flesh wound.
What is your favourite colour?
African or European swallow?
I got better.
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Three shall be the number thou shall count
Where'd you get the coconuts?
What, the curtains?
Brave Sir Robin turned about..
Mind your own business!
Bring out yer dead.
It's only a model.
I have to push the pram a-lot!
Run awayyyy!
There was much rejoicing.
NI!
Message for you sir!
Get on with it!
Trivia:
The Enchanter's name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character's original name. He ad-libbed the line, "There are some who call me...Tim".
According to Terry Jones, the scene with Lancelot and Concorde required twenty takes. While the second take was perfect, the cameraman noticed that there was a lot of smoke in the background. At one point, an annoyed John Cleese quipped, "Well, was the smoke funny enough?"
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Andy Dufresne
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I liked the last 10 minutes or so.
Spock: If I were human I believe my response would be, "Go to hell." If I were human.
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"And now for something completely different"
The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired 45 years ago today
The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired 45 years ago today
El Floppo
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love this.
eta: the trivia AND the movie. the improv only adds to the Tim line/character name.
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jhib
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I somehow had never heard this. It makes so much sense now why that line is delivered so awkwardly, with more than a hint of question mark at the end.
This makes it all that much funnier.
And it's just amazing how quotable that movie is - just look at that list that could have included so many more good ones.
Bull Dozier
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Great movie, criminally underrated on your list. Would be in my top ten.
"And that, my liege, is how we know the world to be banana shaped."
"Very small rocks" (as an answer to what floats on water)/
It's probably easier to list the lines of the movie that aren't quotable, rather than the ones that are.
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#44 - Blade Runner
Like a painting, I just like looking at this movie. It's so cool to just...see.
As far as plot goes, I think it's unnecessarily slow in parts. But that's not the point.
Like Apocalypse Now, I probably watch the opening scene on its own probably a half dozen times a year.
And Deckard is NOT a Replicant.
Trivia:
Ridley Scott and Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous 'shining eyes' effect by using a technique invented by 'Fritz Lang' known as the 'Schüfftan Process'; light is bounced into the actors' eyes off a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty five degree angle to the camera.
After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets Sebastian (William Sanderson), she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn't breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places.
The Hades landscape in the opening shot was filmed using forced perspective. The miniature itself was only 13 feet deep and 18 feet wide. Almost seven miles of fiber optics and over 2000 lights were needed to illuminate it.
Like a painting, I just like looking at this movie. It's so cool to just...see.
As far as plot goes, I think it's unnecessarily slow in parts. But that's not the point.
Like Apocalypse Now, I probably watch the opening scene on its own probably a half dozen times a year.
And Deckard is NOT a Replicant.
Trivia:
Ridley Scott and Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous 'shining eyes' effect by using a technique invented by 'Fritz Lang' known as the 'Schüfftan Process'; light is bounced into the actors' eyes off a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a forty five degree angle to the camera.
After Pris (Daryl Hannah) first meets Sebastian (William Sanderson), she runs away from him, skidding into his car and smashing the window with her elbow. This was a genuine mistake caused by Hannah slipping on the wet ground. The glass wasn't breakaway glass, it was real glass, and Hannah chipped her elbow in eight places.
The Hades landscape in the opening shot was filmed using forced perspective. The miniature itself was only 13 feet deep and 18 feet wide. Almost seven miles of fiber optics and over 2000 lights were needed to illuminate it.
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top 10 for me... top 3 on a given day.
eta: and how do you know Deckard isn't a replicant? that's what's so great about the director's cut... plants the seed deep.
not really trivia, but the scene where the snake-dancer replicant crashes through the plate glass windows just before her demise- the wig and stunt double are really, really bad... especally for a movie soooo amazing with its visuals.
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Andy Dufresne
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I just think the message is more relevant if he's not. It's just personal preference. The origami unicorn? Coincidence. But it is meant to ask the audience how they would know if they're a Replicant if they weren't told.
The Final Cut cleans up that bad effect work nicely.
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what I love about it- is that it formulates the conversation and consideration... what is it to be human? that deckard, as the protagonist and hero, may or may not be human adds a fantastic wrinkle to that conversation.
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But that's why, for me, Deckard has to be human. If he's not then there's no counterbalance to the Replicants. The message that I get is that in saving Deckard, Roy proves that he really is "more human than human". Meaning, Roy, the machine, has empathy and Deckard, the human, doesn't - making the former actually more human than the human.
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Holy Grail would be likely a top 10 for me. I find it to be pretty much the perfect comedic movie. There isn't a wasted scene or moment. And I still laugh like a little boy constantly.
Yankee Trivia - when I was a kid we had this copied on a VHS tape (yup, that old) along with History of the World Part 1. Greatest double feature VHS ever made. By me. Yup. I was awesome.
Yankee Trivia - when I was a kid we had this copied on a VHS tape (yup, that old) along with History of the World Part 1. Greatest double feature VHS ever made. By me. Yup. I was awesome.
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It's good to be the king.
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#43 - Miracle
I started playing hockey as a first grader in 1979. It may be a false memory but I swear I watched this game on TV (okay, the tape delayed broadcast) but it may have been the Finland game.
Herb Brooks drove off the road just north of my home.
This movie is great from top to bottom.
You were born to be hockey players...every one'ya.
You were born to be hockey players...every one'ya.
Trivia:
Buzz Schneider is portrayed by his son, Billy Schneider.
In real life, the "Herbies" after the Norway game did not end with Mike Eruzione saying he played for the United States of America. They instead ended with Mark Johnson's frustration of having to do the Herbies, where he smashed his stick against the glass.
While Al Michaels joined the film to recreate commentary for the games, Gavin O'Connor decided to use the last 10 seconds of Michaels' original "Do you believe in miracles?" call in the film because he felt he couldn't ask him to recreate the emotion he experienced at that moment. Thus they cleaned up the recording to make the transition to the authentic call as seamlessly as possible.
I started playing hockey as a first grader in 1979. It may be a false memory but I swear I watched this game on TV (okay, the tape delayed broadcast) but it may have been the Finland game.
Herb Brooks drove off the road just north of my home.
This movie is great from top to bottom.
You were born to be hockey players...every one'ya.
You were born to be hockey players...every one'ya.
Trivia:
Buzz Schneider is portrayed by his son, Billy Schneider.
In real life, the "Herbies" after the Norway game did not end with Mike Eruzione saying he played for the United States of America. They instead ended with Mark Johnson's frustration of having to do the Herbies, where he smashed his stick against the glass.
While Al Michaels joined the film to recreate commentary for the games, Gavin O'Connor decided to use the last 10 seconds of Michaels' original "Do you believe in miracles?" call in the film because he felt he couldn't ask him to recreate the emotion he experienced at that moment. Thus they cleaned up the recording to make the transition to the authentic call as seamlessly as possible.
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you just dropped two of my favorite movies, right in the middle of your list... going to be a lot of films that I think are way below those two.
oh... speak of the devil (tbh- I've never seen Miracle).
eta: and I remember wathcing the game on tv... on something like a 10" b/w thing... while we had company over, or immediately after they left. could barely make out what was going on due to the size and b/w- but dammit, I'll never forget it.
oh... speak of the devil (tbh- I've never seen Miracle).
eta: and I remember wathcing the game on tv... on something like a 10" b/w thing... while we had company over, or immediately after they left. could barely make out what was going on due to the size and b/w- but dammit, I'll never forget it.
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You guys aren't going to agree with the next two.
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#42 - Vanilla Sky
Sweet and sour. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. The little things...there's nothing bigger.
The movie begins with "Everything in its right place". A sour song that punctuated the irony that everything is NOT all right.
True love becomes possible with Sofia to the sounds of "Solsbury Hill" - a song about taking your life in a new direction.
David pays the price for forsaking the new live for the old lust. Attempting to rekindle what was possible David has a failed date with Sofia, who wears a t-shirt that says "St. Rose." - the Patron Saint of Vanity. St. Rose used to pray: "Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart."
Falling asleep and waking up "the next morning" to the sweet sounds of R.E.M.‘s "Sweetness Follows", David finds that a dream life with Sofia is actually possible.
The dream turns to nightmare as David's subconscious guilt overrides the dream.
As the mesmerizing "The Nothing Song" by Sigur Ros plays, David decides to give up the fake dream life for the chance at a real life.
His friend Brian once told him, "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone." But that turns out to be epically untrue. But it's okay. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. And he'll see Sofia again in another life...when they are both cats.
Trivia:
At the start of the movie, when David wakes up with Julie Gianni, her cell phone ringtone is "Row Row Row Your Boat" but at the moment she answers the call and the music stops, the next lyric would have been "Life is but a dream".
In the cell, Carl Jung's book, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections" can be seen on the table between David and Russell's character. The book is all about Jung's personal dreams and how they helped him uncover his "shadow" and remove his persona (or "mask").
Sweet and sour. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. The little things...there's nothing bigger.
The movie begins with "Everything in its right place". A sour song that punctuated the irony that everything is NOT all right.
True love becomes possible with Sofia to the sounds of "Solsbury Hill" - a song about taking your life in a new direction.
David pays the price for forsaking the new live for the old lust. Attempting to rekindle what was possible David has a failed date with Sofia, who wears a t-shirt that says "St. Rose." - the Patron Saint of Vanity. St. Rose used to pray: "Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart."
Falling asleep and waking up "the next morning" to the sweet sounds of R.E.M.‘s "Sweetness Follows", David finds that a dream life with Sofia is actually possible.
The dream turns to nightmare as David's subconscious guilt overrides the dream.
As the mesmerizing "The Nothing Song" by Sigur Ros plays, David decides to give up the fake dream life for the chance at a real life.
His friend Brian once told him, "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone." But that turns out to be epically untrue. But it's okay. Every passing moment is another chance to turn it all around. And he'll see Sofia again in another life...when they are both cats.
Trivia:
At the start of the movie, when David wakes up with Julie Gianni, her cell phone ringtone is "Row Row Row Your Boat" but at the moment she answers the call and the music stops, the next lyric would have been "Life is but a dream".
In the cell, Carl Jung's book, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections" can be seen on the table between David and Russell's character. The book is all about Jung's personal dreams and how they helped him uncover his "shadow" and remove his persona (or "mask").
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Fantastic movie and would also be in my top 100. I put this one in sometimes just to watch the locker room speech scene. At the end of that speech I'm ready to run through walls.
A few more fun facts:
Regarding the Norway exhibition game Janaszak was in goal and not Craig as depicted in the movie. Also, Craig and Schneider didn't do the "Herbies" after the game. Schneider had been ejected and was already in street clothes.
The USA was down 2-1 to Finland in their match after beating the Russians. Had they lost this game they would not have won the gold. Brooks came into the locker room after the 2nd period and told the team "If you lose this game, you'll take it to your f***ing graves." Quite the contrast to the "you were born to be hockey players" speech a few days earlier.
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Maybe I should've just said, "Penelope Cruz's boobies!"
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