Film debate

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Anyone mind me spliting the topic , I think we've moved a bit beyond the weather

[Grant Lamontagne]

Personally I like comedies... Rat Race was one of my all time favorites and has everyone in it...

John Cleese
Rowan Atkinson
Whoopi Goldberg
Laney Chapman
Seth Green
Brekin Meyer
Amy Smart
John Lovitz
Kathy Najimi
Dean Caine
Dave Thomas
Wayne Knight
Cuba Gooding Jr

I'm sure there was more but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.  If you like good, funny and pretty well clean comedies, that's a great one.  You'll be laughing all the way through it!

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Def

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I've never seen it, is it suitable for little ones?

[Grant Lamontagne]

More or less- there's not much naughty language in it, and some of the more bizarre humor is probably a bit beyond him... like Cuba Gooding Jr hijacking a bus load of Lucille Balle impersonators, or John Lovitz' infamous Nazi rally (you have to see it to believe it!) but other parts would amuse him, like Wayne Knight and Rowan Atkinson accidentally losing a human heart out the window of the van and having to fight a stray dog for it, or the cow being dragged along behind the hot air balloon and bouncing through traffic.

There's no graphic nudity or blood & guts to it.  There is one part where a woman flashed Seth Green and his brother and they drive off the road looking at where her piercings have been stuck, but the camera is behind her at the time, so nothing interesting is seen.

Of course he may learn interesting terms like what it means when you are "prairie doggin'" which is not something any parent wants to hear from their kid!

Oh yeah, and John Cleese's teeth in the movie are guaranteed to make anyone laugh the moment he comes onscreen!

Def

[hawkchucker]

Comeon Def. have you ever seent he original? Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad world. Classic cool

However no one has named yet the worlds greatest comedy. Blazing Saddles!!!!

[ducktapehero]

However no one has named yet the worlds greatest comedy. Blazing Saddles!!!!

I love Blazing Saddles, but MY favorite comedy is Caddyshack.

[hawkchucker]

Thats my second. Gotta love teh whole cast in Caddyshack.

[Grant Lamontagne]

I have both of those on DVD!

I love Blazing Saddles- and indeed all of Mel Brooks' films!  Lloyd Bridges has done some darned good stuff too like the Airplane series, Hot Shots and Mafia!

Great movies!



Def

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Might have to give it a miss for a couple of years yet then , mind you he love the original Mr Bean series, last weekend he practicaly wet himself, he was laughing so much, which is fine but he was sitting on my lap at the time

[hawkchucker]

But now do you have the 3 rd greatest movie on DVD.

Smokey and the Bandit! Yes there I said it. I am a redneck and love the Bandit.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Any 'The Crow' fan's

[hawkchucker]

I havent seen that flic for years. Maybe its time to check it out again. I kinda liked it.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I havent seen that flic for years. Maybe its time to check it out again. I kinda liked it.

It's my favourite film, it's got everything, Love, sex, violence and the best bloody bad guy ever!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aum04gP2Wd4&feature=related

Love that film.

[Benner]

I have both of those on DVD!

I love Blazing Saddles- and indeed all of Mel Brooks' films!  Lloyd Bridges has done some darned good stuff too like the Airplane series, Hot Shots and Mafia!

Great movies!



Def

I love Airplane!   I assume you like the Naked Gun series and Police squad as well then?

Mel Brooks is great.  I love Spaceballs. 

[edap617]

I thought windtalkers was terrible! It was all about Nickolas Cage's charactor and his drama,
and not enough about "WindTalkers!" I was very disappointed in that one.

Like the newer, "Epic" Pearl Harbor movie, I've seen the old newspapers and don't recall reading
about a luv story...

Yeah, those sucked. My favorite is The Longest Day. It has EVERYONE in it. You know a movie rules when it has John Wayne AND Sean Connery in it.

How can I forget that movie, "Operation D-Day, or The Longest Day". That film was in black and white but with movie greats cast during that decade:
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Peter Lawford
Richard Burton
Sean Connery
Robert Wagner

It's historical and it's that kind of movie you want to watch several times.

[ringzero]

Seriously speaking I like war movies, specially world war II movies like, The Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Pearl Harbor, Patton, Tora, Tora, Tora, Battle of the Bulge, etc. I don't like fiction war movies.

Eddie

Midway and Tora, Tora, Tora are very good flicks, mainly because the film makers went to considerable effort to achieve historical accuracy.

Patton is excellent, a true classic mainly because of George Scott's performance as Patton.  Also it's fairly accurate from what I've read.

A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day are good films, although perhaps not as good as the films listed above.

Das Boot is another one you might enjoy.  An excellent story of a German U-boat crew during WW2.

Some other war movies you may enjoy - these are gritty, realistic films, the kind of war movies I love:

-Paths of Glory is an excellent film set during WW1 starring Kirk Douglas as a French infantry officer.

-Hamburger Hill is an excellent film about the Airborne Infantry during the Vietnamn War.

-The Duelists is a superb film set during and after the Napoleonic Wars.  Awesome photography of the French countryside.  Great saber and pistol fights.

-Glory is a very good film set during the American Civil War.  Although the film makers took considerable liberties with the actual history, it's still a gripping film.

-Blackhawk Down is a superb film that chronicles a day long American Ranger operation in Mogadishu, Somalia.  Very accurate and well done.

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[Grant Lamontagne]

I have the first Smokey and the Bandit... I think I may have the third one but that was really Smokey and the Snowman...

I have the first Naked Gun, but that's it- I haven't found the others, or Police Squad... yet! 

I have Spaceballs too...  Funny, she doesn't look Druish!

Def

[hawkchucker]

We are combing the desert for her now sir.

[Benner]

I have the first Smokey and the Bandit... I think I may have the third one but that was really Smokey and the Snowman...

I have the first Naked Gun, but that's it- I haven't found the others, or Police Squad... yet! 

I have Spaceballs too...  Funny, she doesn't look Druish!

Def

I love Police squad.  That programme just defines stupid humour.

"Who are are and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith."

[Grant Lamontagne]

I'm just watching Superman III... boy what a piece of crap this one was!

In Christopher Reeves' biography he said he really didn't want to do this movie because it was soooooooo bad, but he was under contract to make any old piece of junk the studio wanted to do.  I haven't seen it since I was a kid and it was originally in theatres, and I remembered it not being the greatest... but as a kid you still get excited about these things.

Superman getting drunk, womanizing, straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa, then beating the snot out of Clark Kent... 

Christopher Reeves was such a fantastic actor, he managed to pull it off... of course everything else about it sucked.

Def