Time for a bit of whimsy...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
Tropical Island Video Vault Draft - ROUND 20 - FINAL ROUND
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Great pick. Somehow I'd forgotten all about that film.
Finally I think I will go with some high art... awww, who am I kidding?
Clue - 1985
How can you not love a movie that closes with the line "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"?
Things I love about this movie in no particular order. Lee Ving. The 3 ending gimmick, yes I did seek out all 3 endings in Sacramento theaters when originally released. "This is how it really happened". The main cast is fantastic - Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and of course Tim Curry stand out. Jane Wiedlin getting shot. Mansions with secret passageways. The McCarthy era setting. Red herrings. Awkward pauses leading one to wonder if this was intended to be the next Rocky Horror style cult midnight movie.
May be a cult movie, I don't know. I do know that I can never turn myself away when it shows up on the tube.
Clue - 1985
How can you not love a movie that closes with the line "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"?
Things I love about this movie in no particular order. Lee Ving. The 3 ending gimmick, yes I did seek out all 3 endings in Sacramento theaters when originally released. "This is how it really happened". The main cast is fantastic - Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and of course Tim Curry stand out. Jane Wiedlin getting shot. Mansions with secret passageways. The McCarthy era setting. Red herrings. Awkward pauses leading one to wonder if this was intended to be the next Rocky Horror style cult midnight movie.
May be a cult movie, I don't know. I do know that I can never turn myself away when it shows up on the tube.
With this pick I’m taking, Sunset Blvd. If I had to pick one film that was the best of Hollywood's golden era, it may be this one. I've seen it about four times now and it holds up or gets better every time. It's centered around a great performance from Gloria Swanson. As close to a perfect film as I've seen. The dialog, the atmosphere, the story, the sets/locations, the acting, the direction, it gets it all just right. Plus I love that 1940s/50s Hollywood film noir style and this film is a great example of that style.
With my 16th choice, I select the first G rated film for my man-cave:
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Trailer in spoilers because it basically is an entire movie summary:
A how to guide to awesome island living. This film is so nostalgic for me, and brings back memories of childhood projects with my dad. I love the treehouse that they build, along with the quirky animal episodes and the adventures with the pirates (actually Asian pirates, not the stereotypical British/Caucasian pirates in the south pacific). A model of inventiveness, ingenuity, and family values. Every time I watch this film I want to build something by hand
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Trailer in spoilers because it basically is an entire movie summary:
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A how to guide to awesome island living. This film is so nostalgic for me, and brings back memories of childhood projects with my dad. I love the treehouse that they build, along with the quirky animal episodes and the adventures with the pirates (actually Asian pirates, not the stereotypical British/Caucasian pirates in the south pacific). A model of inventiveness, ingenuity, and family values. Every time I watch this film I want to build something by hand
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Finally I think I will go with some high art... awww, who am I kidding?
Clue - 1985
How can you not love a movie that closes with the line "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"?
Things I love about this movie in no particular order. Lee Ving. The 3 ending gimmick, yes I did seek out all 3 endings in Sacramento theaters when originally released. "This is how it really happened". The main cast is fantastic - Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and of course Tim Curry stand out. Jane Wiedlin getting shot. Mansions with secret passageways. The McCarthy era setting. Red herrings. Awkward pauses leading one to wonder if this was intended to be the next Rocky Horror style cult midnight movie.
May be a cult movie, I don't know. I do know that I can never turn myself away when it shows up on the tube.
Clue - 1985
How can you not love a movie that closes with the line "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"?
Things I love about this movie in no particular order. Lee Ving. The 3 ending gimmick, yes I did seek out all 3 endings in Sacramento theaters when originally released. "This is how it really happened". The main cast is fantastic - Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and of course Tim Curry stand out. Jane Wiedlin getting shot. Mansions with secret passageways. The McCarthy era setting. Red herrings. Awkward pauses leading one to wonder if this was intended to be the next Rocky Horror style cult midnight movie.
May be a cult movie, I don't know. I do know that I can never turn myself away when it shows up on the tube.
With this pick I’m taking, Sunset Blvd. If I had to pick one film that was the best of Hollywood's golden era, it may be this one. I've seen it about four times now and it holds up or gets better every time. It's centered around a great performance from Gloria Swanson. As close to a perfect film as I've seen. The dialog, the atmosphere, the story, the sets/locations, the acting, the direction, it gets it all just right. Plus I love that 1940s/50s Hollywood film noir style and this film is a great example of that style.
I'm at work and can't put up a true write-up. In order to keep the draft moving I'll pick and come back to add the flare. With my next choice, I select:
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
A how to guide to awesome island living
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
A how to guide to awesome island living
There's a few things that you never forget about childhood movies, even as an adult. It's cool when you go back and watch a movie like that after many, many years, and it stirs old memories and feelings that you'd forgotten about. It's even more cool when you, as an adult and now a parent, can share those movies with your kids, and they get excited and fall in love just like you did. A few months ago, I caught this one on TV and my daughter and I watched it together, and now it's one of her favorites. And for good reason. It's good, old fashioned swash-buckling fun, it's witty, it's Robin Williams before he started to wear out his welcome, and I can't be marooned on a desert island without it. So, without further ado...
With the 254th pick in the 2011 TDOS Tropical Island Video Vault Draft, Superman's Super Movie Lineup selects:
Hook (1991), directed by Steven Spielberg
Have to fly. Have to fight. Have to crow. Have to save Maggie, have to save Jack... HOOK is back.
With the 254th pick in the 2011 TDOS Tropical Island Video Vault Draft, Superman's Super Movie Lineup selects:
Hook (1991), directed by Steven Spielberg
Have to fly. Have to fight. Have to crow. Have to save Maggie, have to save Jack... HOOK is back.
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My pick:
Donnie Darko
This is a strange film, which I usually don't like. But this one had something which intrigued me. It was clearly off the wall in a non "look-at-me" sort of way, and kind of documented the strange things happening inside a guys mind rather than anything else. Definitely one to watch when you're in the mood for something a little different. Wasn't initially in my plans as I'd assumed it would be gone earlier.
Donnie Darko
This is a strange film, which I usually don't like. But this one had something which intrigued me. It was clearly off the wall in a non "look-at-me" sort of way, and kind of documented the strange things happening inside a guys mind rather than anything else. Definitely one to watch when you're in the mood for something a little different. Wasn't initially in my plans as I'd assumed it would be gone earlier.
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Capt. Factorial you good people. I love your pick too. Its really hard for me to pick a favorite, but Manhattan is right up there with Crimes and Misdemeanors and Love and Death.
Also, in honor of Bricks awesome Road House pick I decided to find the worse, or best depending on your perspective, scene from this classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_Ph1-A6Q8
Also, in honor of Bricks awesome Road House pick I decided to find the worse, or best depending on your perspective, scene from this classic.
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Timed out or not, I would consider this right on time...
We have to sleep 8 hours everyday anyways right? 8 hour work shifts also...
But I digress..
The Squid and the Whale (2005) R
Movie Info
Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. One day, Bernard and Joan's two sons -- 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline) -- are told that their parents are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood. As the parents set up a schedule for spending time with their children, Walt and Jesse can hardly imagine that things could get more combative between their folks, but they do, as Joan begins dating Ivan (William Baldwin), Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing the house with Lili (Anna Paquin), one of his students. Meanwhile, the two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Walt taking after his father and Frank siding with his mom.
Double Indemnity 1944 (Never Rated)
MAJOR SPOILER BELOW
Another film from the golden era of movies... a great timless classic film noir with a femme fatale in Barbara Stanwyck
Movie Info
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate.
We have to sleep 8 hours everyday anyways right? 8 hour work shifts also...
But I digress..
The Squid and the Whale (2005) R
Movie Info
Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. One day, Bernard and Joan's two sons -- 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline) -- are told that their parents are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood. As the parents set up a schedule for spending time with their children, Walt and Jesse can hardly imagine that things could get more combative between their folks, but they do, as Joan begins dating Ivan (William Baldwin), Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing the house with Lili (Anna Paquin), one of his students. Meanwhile, the two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Walt taking after his father and Frank siding with his mom.
Double Indemnity 1944 (Never Rated)
MAJOR SPOILER BELOW
Another film from the golden era of movies... a great timless classic film noir with a femme fatale in Barbara Stanwyck
Movie Info
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate.
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Timed out or not, I would consider this right on time...
We have to sleep 8 hours everyday anyways right? 8 hour work shifts also...
But I digress..
The Squid and the Whale (2005) R
Movie Info
Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. One day, Bernard and Joan's two sons -- 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline) -- are told that their parents are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood. As the parents set up a schedule for spending time with their children, Walt and Jesse can hardly imagine that things could get more combative between their folks, but they do, as Joan begins dating Ivan (William Baldwin), Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing the house with Lili (Anna Paquin), one of his students. Meanwhile, the two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Walt taking after his father and Frank siding with his mom.
Double Indemnity 1944 (Never Rated)
MAJOR SPOILER BELOW
Another film from the golden era of movies... a great timless classic film noir with a femme fatale in Barbara Stanwyck
Movie Info
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate.
We have to sleep 8 hours everyday anyways right? 8 hour work shifts also...
But I digress..
The Squid and the Whale (2005) R
Movie Info
Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. One day, Bernard and Joan's two sons -- 16-year-old Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline) -- are told that their parents are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood. As the parents set up a schedule for spending time with their children, Walt and Jesse can hardly imagine that things could get more combative between their folks, but they do, as Joan begins dating Ivan (William Baldwin), Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing the house with Lili (Anna Paquin), one of his students. Meanwhile, the two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Walt taking after his father and Frank siding with his mom.
Double Indemnity 1944 (Never Rated)
MAJOR SPOILER BELOW
Another film from the golden era of movies... a great timless classic film noir with a femme fatale in Barbara Stanwyck
Movie Info
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. The murder goes as planned, but after the couple's passion cools, each becomes suspicious of the other's motives. The plan is further complicated when Neff's boss Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant insurance investigator, takes over the investigation. Told in flashbacks from Neff's perspective, the film moves with ruthless determinism as each character meets what seems to be a preordained fate.
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A little on the edge that I might be taking future films from you?
Kind of surprised this one is still available. When I realized that it hadn't been picked, it moved to the top of my list.
With the 259th pick in the 2011 TDOS Tropical Island Video Vault Draft, Superman's Super Movie Lineup selects:
The Town (2010), directed by Ben Affleck
I'm thinking about making a change...
With the 259th pick in the 2011 TDOS Tropical Island Video Vault Draft, Superman's Super Movie Lineup selects:
The Town (2010), directed by Ben Affleck
I'm thinking about making a change...
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I've let this film fall for quite a few rounds, and while I suspect it is safe, I have a soft spot for it. With my 17th pick, I select:
Phenomenon (1996)
Filmed in and around local Auburn, CA, this flick has a slower pace, but is very uplifting and fun to watch. I particularly like the parts of Robert Duvalle and Forrest Whittaker as the lifelong confidants and friends to an ordinary guy who begins to accomplish extraordinary things.
Phenomenon (1996)
Filmed in and around local Auburn, CA, this flick has a slower pace, but is very uplifting and fun to watch. I particularly like the parts of Robert Duvalle and Forrest Whittaker as the lifelong confidants and friends to an ordinary guy who begins to accomplish extraordinary things.
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