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Time for a bit of whimsy...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
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Great pick. Somehow I'd forgotten all about that film.
Time for a bit of whimsy...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
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Finally I think I will go with some high art... awww, who am I kidding?
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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.
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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)
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A how to guide to awesome island living
My pick:
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Donnie Darko
I am not going to lie, I heard this movie was all crazy before I saw it... then I saw it and I was disappointed that it wasn't more crazy. I wish I had no expectations before seeing this film; would have made it a lot more fun.
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
Awesome pick! I love Gene Wilder's acting in this, you never know what he's going to do next.Time for a bit of whimsy...
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
Has slowpoke timed out yet?
Has slowpoke timed out yet?
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
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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.
Snatch
Some extremely memorable quotes in this one - funny movie. Not sure how many have seen this but it's very good. Definitely re-watchable.
Not likely at this stage of the game, but honestly there are some I won't be able to pick that I'd love to see others pick. My 20th round selection that I am deliberately holding off on, well I'll cry if I lose it for being dumb like that.A little on the edge that I might be taking future films from you?![]()
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Snatch
Some extremely memorable quotes in this one - funny movie. Not sure how many have seen this but it's very good. Definitely re-watchable.