Unpopular movie opinions...

[jamespowers]

[video=youtube;quaQRYahPf8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quaQRYahPf8[/video]

"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
BANG!

What's not to like?

 

[The Good]

If there's a thing I don't like about that scene, it's that it's so often misquoted! But yeah, Dirty Harry's a good series. Some of the best non-western Clint Eastwood roles.

 

[rue]

All men love Clint

Well I love almost all Meg Ryan's movies, except the more serious ones

My favorite one:
[video=youtube;96gRJxIGa5A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96gRJxIGa5A[/video]


I've watched it so many times I can't count.

I know it's based on the movie Shop Around The Corner, but I still like this version better. I can't help it.

 

[Lincsong]

[video=youtube;cE_jOD2Fxvs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE_jOD2Fxvs&feature=related[/video]

 

[rue]

?? :noidea: Are you on the wrong thread Mr. One liner?

[video=youtube;cE_jOD2Fxvs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE_jOD2Fxvs&feature=related[/video]

 

[Lincsong]

Drat

 

[rue]

lol I do like the song though

 

[Lincsong]

Goodfellas

 

[rue]

Goodfellas

Can't post it here because of language, but this is one of the best scenes.... Funny how? lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

Not to mention MASH; The Long Goodbye; Busting; The Silent Partner...

BTW, I thought this and the music thread had every FL member adding their two cents in a passionate debate of the good stuff they hate, but it's mostly "Rue" bumping and re-bumping...you know, like an instigator.

 

[rue]

Not to mention MASH; The Long Goodbye; Busting; The Silent Partner...

BTW, I thought this and the music thread had every FL member adding their two cents in a passionate debate of the good stuff they hate, but it's mostly "Rue" bumping and re-bumping...you know, like an instigator.

Actually, if you'll notice I have help from two others, but my apologies.

 

[John in Covina]

The 70's films have a certain sense that is hard to define as they loved to be Twilight Zone like with no fear of things ending badly for the hero or the anti establishment screw the man concept. It echoed the fact that so much infrastructure had worn out and things did not work like they should maybe.

Quinton Tarrentino seems to make 70's style films as a theme.

 

[jamespowers]

Quinton Tarrentino seems to make 70's style films as a theme.

He sure does. PU! His movies always end up like some kind of combination between Shaft and Cheech and Chong movies.

 

[Lincsong]

Quentin Tarantino makes Russ Meyer look like Cecil B. DeMille.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

The 70's films have a certain sense that is hard to define as they loved to be Twilight Zone like with no fear of things ending badly for the hero or the anti establishment screw the man concept. It echoed the fact that so much infrastructure had worn out and things did not work like they should maybe.

No other period in film history has as many downbeat endings. Chinatown, Night Moves, The Seven Ups, The Godfather Part II, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor...

In an age when the likes of Shia Lebeouf, Ben Affleck, and those girly vampire boys are thought of as gods, the likes of Sam Peckinpah, Alan J. Pakula, and Arthur Penn are a menacing and refreshing breath of fresh air.

 

[rue]

Pardon me for interrupting this deep conversation, but I had to comment....

Quentin Tarantino makes Russ Meyer look like Cecil B. DeMille.

lol lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

Quentin Tarantino makes Russ Meyer look like Cecil B. DeMille.

I can agree with that but then again that isn't saying much.

 

[Lincsong]

No other period in film history has as many downbeat endings. Chinatown, Night Moves, The Seven Ups, The Godfather Part II, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor...

In an age when the likes of Shia Lebeouf, Ben Affleck, and those girly vampire boys are thought of as gods, the likes of Sam Peckinpah, Alan J. Pakula, and Arthur Penn are a menacing and refreshing breath of fresh air.

Once THE CODE was done away with, then you had all these movies where evil triumphs over good. The movie makers just went ape &^%% in making movies that they couldn't in the past.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Once THE CODE was done away with, then you had all these movies where evil triumphs over good. The movie makers just went ape &^%% in making movies that they couldn't in the past.

Yep. For those who haven't read it, here's the Motion Picture Production Code.

 

[jamespowers]

Here is an unpopular one:
[video=youtube;HhLGYUYTTD0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhLGYUYTTD0[/video]