Apolytoner's Favorite Films

[Tuberski]

Edit: I'm slow, but exceedingly dumb.......




It's a gimmick movie, just like forest gump.

If you took all the scenes and put them in chronological order, it's an average film.

ACK!

[Dis]

hmm I just noticed one of my favourite movies was supposed to be directed by George Lucas.

Can anyone imagine Apocalypse Now directed by George Lucas?

[Dis]

oh, and Apocalypse now (it appears to be the redux version) is on AMC right now. I'm not sure how much the tv version cuts out. I should watch the movie version.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ned
Has anyone mentioned "Memento?"

Oh yea. I forgot all about that one.

[Wezil]

A list that changes as I do.

The current list in no particular order:

American Beauty
The Big Lebowski
Chasing Amy
Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Valmont
Fritz The Cat
Magnolia

[monolith94]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Edit: I'm slow, but exceedingly dumb.......




It's a gimmick movie, just like forest gump.

If you took all the scenes and put them in chronological order, it's an average film.

ACK!

Perhaps, but the film is presented to us backwards, and as such it works superlatively. Only some films are absolutely truly linear. Playing with narrative construction isn't gimmicky - it's a tradition.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by monolith94


Perhaps, but the film is presented to us backwards, and as such it works superlatively. Only some films are absolutely truly linear. Playing with narrative construction isn't gimmicky - it's a tradition.

It's not presented backwards. It's presented at the extremes.

Color runs backwards and B & W runs forwards, they meet at the middle of the story.

I didn't like Pulp Fiction either.....the first time I saw it, there was no continuity. I have come to appreciate it, however.

The thing that amazes me is that Samuel L. gets a rep for being a bad mutha****** from that film.

Ving Rhames is a badder mutha****** in that movie IMHO.

nobody talks about that though.

ACK!

[Dis]

Originally posted by Tuberski


It's not presented backwards. It's presented at the extremes.

Color runs backwards and B & W runs forwards, they meet at the middle of the story.

I didn't like Pulp Fiction either.....the first time I saw it, there was no continuity. I have come to appreciate it, however.

The thing that amazes me is that Samuel L. gets a rep for being a bad mutha****** from that film.

Ving Rhames is a badder mutha****** in that movie IMHO.

nobody talks about that though.

ACK!

that's because he got banged in the ass

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Dissident


that's because he got banged in the ass

True, but he didn't like it.



ACK!

[Dr Strangelove]

Speaking of Pulp Fiction did Quentin Tarrantino edit the version currently out on Video and DVD? I dsitinclty remember that when I saw the film at the theater John Travolta says the line "I'm going to have to get medieval on your buttocks" early in the movie, when he and Samuel Jackson are in the kids' apartment retrieving the item stolen from the boss. In the movie the item retrieved is eventually shown, and it's some silly trinket. In the DVD the item retrieved is never seen. Has anyone else noticed this? Actually I liked the DVD better than the movie.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Speaking of Pulp Fiction did Quentin Tarrantino edit the version currently out on Video and DVD? I dsitinclty remember that when I saw the film at the theater John Travolta says the line "I'm going to have to get medieval on your buttocks" early in the movie, when he and Samuel Jackson are in the kids' apartment retrieving the item stolen from the boss. In the movie the item retrieved is eventually shown, and it's some silly trinket. In the DVD the item retrieved is never seen. Has anyone else noticed this? Actually I liked the DVD better than the movie.

No, Ving Rahmes says it to Zed the Rapist.

Which is why he is a bad mutha******.

ACK!

[Dis]

, John Travolta never said that! I have seen the movie in the theaters as well. I would have remember that. It's said by Ving Rhames as Tub said. And it's one of the more memorable lines of the movie. and he doesn't use the word buttocks.

[BlackCat]

Strange mix, but all worth seeing.

1. Kagemusha
2-5. The Aliens sequel
6. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
7. Casablanca
8. Silent movie
9. Star wars *)
10 Springtime for Hitler

*) Still remember the opening sequence - a tiny spaceship passing by, and then the big mother****er of a starship that just keep on growing

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Speaking of Pulp Fiction did Quentin Tarrantino edit the version currently out on Video and DVD? I dsitinclty remember that when I saw the film at the theater John Travolta says the line "I'm going to have to get medieval on your buttocks" early in the movie, when he and Samuel Jackson are in the kids' apartment retrieving the item stolen from the boss. In the movie the item retrieved is eventually shown, and it's some silly trinket. In the DVD the item retrieved is never seen. Has anyone else noticed this? Actually I liked the DVD better than the movie.

The item in the briefcase is, and has never been, revealed. It's a McGuffin, see.

[Ted Striker]

Weekend at Bernies 2!!!!!