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KarmaPolice said:
Ilov80s said:
Got around to watching it. . 
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You mentioned that you don't/can't do foreign films.
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I bet there are plenty of foreign films you'd enjoy. There's such a wide variety. I'd recommend all of these to start:

The Magdalene Sisters
Waking Ned Devine
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
La Femme Nikita
Lion
Trainspotting
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels 
Iron Monkey
The Lives of Others
Rififi
Diabolique (1955)
Downfall
Beauty and the Beast (1947)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
My Left Foot 
Pan's Labyrinth 
The Seven Samurai 
Topsy-Turvy 
Y Tu Mama Tambien 

 
jdoggydogg said:
I bet there are plenty of foreign films you'd enjoy. There's such a wide variety. I'd recommend all of these to start:

The Magdalene Sisters
Waking Ned Devine
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
La Femme Nikita
Lion
Trainspotting
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels 
Iron Monkey
The Lives of Others
Rififi
Diabolique (1955)
Downfall
Beauty and the Beast (1947)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
My Left Foot 
Pan's Labyrinth 
The Seven Samurai 
Topsy-Turvy 
Y Tu Mama Tambien 
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Thanks for the recommendations!

I have seen and like to love all of the bloded movies. Also really like Amelie, Das Boot, Cinema Paradiso, Grand Illusion, Breathless, 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Metropolis, M, Eyes Without a Face, Elevator to the Gallows, Les Enfants. It's not that I don't like foreign films, it's just that I always end up DVRing them and skipping past them over and over. I've had Z and La Ronde, Tokyo Story and Throne of Blood on my DVR for quite awhile. I am sure I will like them, but just keep skipping past them. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Thanks for the recommendations!

I have seen and like to love all of the bloded movies. Also really like Amelie, Das Boot, Cinema Paradiso, Grand Illusion, Breathless, 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Metropolis, M, Eyes Without a Face, Elevator to the Gallows, Les Enfants. It's not that I don't like foreign films, it's just that I always end up DVRing them and skipping past them over and over. I've had Z and La Ronde, Tokyo Story and Throne of Blood on my DVR for quite awhile. I am sure I will like them, but just keep skipping past them. 
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Is that Au Revoir les Enfants? That's a good one.

 
among the foreign films, i would toss in "Jean De Florette" and "Manon of the Spring" as two of the better French imports of the late 80's. Yves Montand, Derpardieu, Auteil were tremendous in that pair of films.

 
The AV Club has their list of 20 best movies of 2017.  I am really behind for the year, so I can't really comment, but I usually agree with a lot of their lists so I thought I would share.  

 
Walking Boot said:
I don't think that was a category then. None of the music was written for the movie specifically, right? Original Song is a category but 'needle drops' of existing songs into a film isn't a category I think. 
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right, there wasn't and still isn't a category for "best curated music in a movie"

 
Walking Boot said:
1967

A famous case of misunderstanding a non-nominated score: “The Graduate” isn’t acknowledged in the adaptation category, because it’s ineligible as mostly needle-drops — director Mike Nichols liked Simon & Garfunkel songs and littered the soundtrack with them. The only original tune penned by Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson,” wasn’t even complete. He finished it later and turned it into a hit single.

http://variety.com/2007/film/awards/song-score-rules-constantly-in-flux-1117978239/
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Cool. S/G were able to round it out to a masterpiece of the era. It's tough to come up with many songs that were as good and as associated to a great movie as that....any nominees?

 
Walking Boot said:
https://books.google.com/books?id=oIybBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT484&lpg=PT484&dq=mrs+robinson+ineligible&source=bl&ots=zYThLd8Er4&sig=ITWhTJEqrt-GVE6-ALrliMSlaiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXgqGfrJ_YAhWQk-AKHRTrApwQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=mrs robinson ineligible&f=false

Some info here too. Guess the rules were super strict. The song was originally written as Mrs Roosevelt but hadn't been recorded or released yet. They changed the name for the film, recorded it, and it appears first in the movie before being released on a record. But since it was technically already mostly existing before they were approached by Mike Nichols it got ruled out. 
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Sounds like the NFL rules about what a catch is 

 
gump said:
And maybe the most famous and connected movie songs ever...not counting cartoons..Purple Rain, Staying Alive?
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Purple Rain is a great song and album but the movie isn't anywhere close The Graduate. Stayin Alive is up there. 

 
The new Jumanji is very funny and fun. It's worth spending your money on and taking your family too. A couple profanities but that's about it.

And Karen Gillan...yowza! :wub:

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
The new Jumanji is very funny and fun. It's worth spending your money on and taking your family too. A couple profanities but that's about it.

And Karen Gillan...yowza! :wub:
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My son wants to see this one.  I was going to try to take him during Christmas break sometime, and glad to read that it was fun.  

 
:excited:

It looks like TCM is having a 24hr Hitchcockaton starting Christmas night.  Damn good mix of his movies and a couple I haven't seen, so I have my dvr set. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
The new Jumanji is very funny and fun. It's worth spending your money on and taking your family too. A couple profanities but that's about it.

And Karen Gillan...yowza! :wub:
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Our family always gets together on Christmas day to watch a family movie.. Already pre-paid for our tickets to see this at 1pm tomorrow.. Looking forward to a fun time. :thanks:

 
Andy Dufresne said:
The new Jumanji is very funny and fun. It's worth spending your money on and taking your family too. A couple profanities but that's about it.

And Karen Gillan...yowza! :wub:
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Good to know.  I thought it looked pretty stupid in the previews. Wouldn't have even considered it an option.

 
BTW - Of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Think about it. An entity who carries with him the law descends from on high to set free those held in captivity by evil forces. How does it get more Christmas than that?

Plus, "Holly"...I mean, hello?

 
Andy Dufresne said:
BTW - Of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Think about it. An entity who carries with him the law descends from on high to set free those held in captivity by evil forces. How does it get more Christmas than that?

Plus, "Holly"...I mean, hello?
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What dummy is arguing against this fact?

 
Ilov80s said:
My 3 favorites are NxNW, Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt.
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I still haven't seen Shadow, and there are a couple odds ones in there I haven't seen either like Topaz and The Trouble With Harry.  

Rope was one of the first I saw, but I think my faves are Rear Window and Psycho with Vertigo climbing the ranks.  

No wrong answers with that man's collection of great movies.  I am looking forward to this marathon of movies. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
I still haven't seen Shadow, and there are a couple odds ones in there I haven't seen either like Topaz and The Trouble With Harry.  

Rope was one of the first I saw, but I think my faves are Rear Window and Psycho with Vertigo climbing the ranks.  

No wrong answers with that man's collection of great movies.  I am looking forward to this marathon of movies. 
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I haven't seen Topaz or The Trouble with Harry either. Maybe I'll check them out.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
The new Jumanji is very funny and fun. It's worth spending your money on and taking your family too. A couple profanities but that's about it.

And Karen Gillan...yowza! :wub:
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Wife & I enjoyed it very much. Lots of laughs, good action and we both thought all the main actors did a good job. Definitely will be buying it on blu-ray as, much like the original, it has "rewatchabilty" :thumbup:

 
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I will have to watch again, but Strangers didn't stick with me and I am surprised to see in on people's lists over the ones I am used to seeing like Vertigo and Rear Window.  

I was liking what I saw last night with Dial M for Murder, but it was a little late and my gin caught up with me so I ended up falling asleep.  I will give it another (sober) go tonight or tomorrow.  

 
Family went to see Jumanji as well. We all loved it. My wife, 14 and 11 year old daughters and myself.

Good humor and solid action.

My daughters convinced grandma to take them again today while we are at work.

 
KarmaPolice said:
I will have to watch again, but Strangers didn't stick with me and I am surprised to see in on people's lists over the ones I am used to seeing like Vertigo and Rear Window.  
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Relentlessly irritating, but a very important movie. Dont really know if this is dealt with in the Highsmith novel (altho everyone in her books seems ambisexual anyways) but Hitch almost certainly used this flick to convey how unhappy "passing" gay men were with their societal roles when buggery was buggin'. Though Hitch had to make the "deal" work semantically, he shonuff tried to make the gayhit between the two men work as the tacit element of the agreement. Farley Granger, from the more explicitly gay "Rope", was the climber who learned from his first wife that women w masculine sensibilities dont work at ALL as fakemates, decided to use his friend value with women to gain social import and Robert Walker's insipid mosquito of a gay bachelor brutalized from the start by a father too rich to leave sought nothing but revenge upon the sex that trapped him in his role. Rich stuff - and sensibilities i saw a lot of from gay friends in the times before they had a choice - though little fun at all til the end.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Relentlessly irritating, but a very important movie. Dont really know if this is dealt with in the Highsmith novel (altho everyone in her books seems ambisexual anyways) but Hitch almost certainly used this flick to convey how unhappy "passing" gay men were with their societal roles when buggery was buggin'. Though Hitch had to make the "deal" work semantically, he shonuff tried to make the gayhit between the two men work as the tacit element of the agreement. Farley Granger, from the more explicitly gay "Rope", was the climber who learned from his first wife that women w masculine sensibilities dont work at ALL as fakemates, decided to use his friend value with women to gain social import and Robert Walker's insipid mosquito of a gay bachelor brutalized from the start by a father too rich to leave sought nothing but revenge upon the sex that trapped him in his role. Rich stuff - and sensibilities i saw a lot of from gay friends in the times before they had a choice - though little fun at all til the end.
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I feel like Hans Gruber listening to Ellis... :whoosh:

 
KarmaPolice said:
I will have to watch again, but Strangers didn't stick with me and I am surprised to see in on people's lists over the ones I am used to seeing like Vertigo and Rear Window.  

I was liking what I saw last night with Dial M for Murder, but it was a little late and my gin caught up with me so I ended up falling asleep.  I will give it another (sober) go tonight or tomorrow.  
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Vertigo doesn't connect with me like Rear Window does. I'll put Rear Window near the top of my list of Hitchcock films. I do like "Strangers..." but it's definitely in his middling works like "Sabateur" or "39 Steps". Films like "To Catch a Thief" or his remake of his own "The Man Who Knew Too Much" are pure Hollywood system stuff. 

 
Jumanji Solid A Out and out :lmao:  in spots and Karen Gillan  :wub: :wub:  with her dance fighting.

Alicia Vikander, who I live do death, is starring as the new Lara Croft. I think after watching Jumanji,  Karen Gillan would have been 10xbetter

 
Mr. Mojo said:
Love these 2 from '97:

LA Confidential 

The Full Monty
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I haven't seen The Full Monty, I should check that one out.  

The ones that are way at the top of my all-time list are:  Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown, The Ice Storm, and The Sweet Hereafter.  

I also love Gattaca, Starship Troopers, Austin Powers, Good Will Hunting, Princess Mononoke, Grosse Point Blanke, Lost Highway, Donnie Brasco, Men In Black, The Game, Chasing Amy, hell - even Titanic.   I am betting there are others I am forgetting as well.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I know @jdoggydogg is a fan too, so I thought of him when I read:  Jackie Brown at 20

I am starting to feel even older with these 90s movies I love going on 20 years.  I've said it a few times, but '97 just might be my favorite year for movies.  
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I love 90s movies but can't remember which one's were '97. Tell me your favorites.

 
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