#51 2008-11-21 01:09:35

I miss Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, obviously.  I met Ginger, in San Francisco many, many years ago when I was a youngster.  Nice person.

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#52 2008-11-21 01:13:39

Taint wrote:

I like a good Bollywood epic from time to time. The music, the schmaltzy plot, the dancing, the sets - it's just fun. On the other hand, there are some pretty impressive non-Bollywood flicks coming out of India now, and I'm enjoying the hell out of them.

Case in point.  I really enjoyed this one, and I'm not big on romance movies.

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#53 2008-11-21 04:06:54



How about the 70's classic Network?

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#54 2008-11-21 04:10:59

Another great clip from Network around 1:00 is where it starts on this one: 

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#55 2008-11-21 05:33:01

Network is, indeed, a classic that I have tragically lost.

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#56 2008-11-21 05:49:55

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Network is, indeed, a classic that I have tragically lost.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3616870/Network.avi

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#57 2008-11-21 15:48:07

Thanks, footinass, I didn't realize that you could get movies off of TPB.

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#58 2008-11-21 17:48:49

American Beauty
Georgia Rule
Happiness
Hard Candy
The Kite Runner
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Lolita
The Woodsman

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#59 2008-11-21 17:58:34

Scotty wrote:

American Beauty
Georgia Rule
Happiness
Hard Candy
The Kite Runner
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Lolita
The Woodsman

You are fucking hysterical.

Hard Candy ruled.

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#60 2008-11-21 18:07:25

Scotty wrote:

American Beauty
Georgia Rule
Happiness
Hard Candy
The Kite Runner
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Lolita
The Woodsman

Innocence

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#61 2008-11-21 18:08:32

sofaking wrote:

You are fucking hysterical.

I try.

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#62 2008-11-21 20:04:18

I can't believe there aren't more drug movies on the list.


Trainspotting
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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#63 2008-11-21 20:15:28

Which Lolita--the James Mason or the Jeremy Irons?

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#64 2008-11-21 21:00:54

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Also Weeds, especially if you could also send the guy who plays Esteban this past season over to my house STAT.

Like a bit of paddling, do we? I'll go better than that, and with a Castillian accent, too. Savile Row suits? Sorry. Lindo mio, pues. Good actor, whoever he is.

Get your weeds fix here.

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#65 2008-11-21 21:47:59

OK...a quick glimpse into my fucked up world:

They call me Trinity
The Unforgiven
Sin City
Full Metal Jacket
Shaun of the Dead
The Wall
The Holy Grail
28 Days Later
A Clockwork Orange
Silk
Heavy Metal
RHPS
This is England
Deliverance


Links people- please provide links so we can find these.

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#67 2008-11-22 20:17:37

The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

and don't laugh at me, but I don't know how to post a link that's not separate from the title.

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#68 2008-11-22 20:55:40

BAAAAA-hahahahahah!  n00b!1

Hokay, now that's out of the way.  Here's how you do that:  look at the crap I typed below, and just substitute the bracket thingies, [ and ], every time I typed the pointy thingies < and >, and also take out the underlines.

<_url=the-url-of-the-link.whatever_>the text you want the link to show as<_/url_>

Here is an example:

The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

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#69 2008-11-22 21:20:35

Code:

 [url=http://your.url.here.com/]words words words[/url]

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#70 2008-11-22 22:31:24

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Code:

 [url=http://your.url.here.com/]words words words[/url]

Jewish singles
It works!

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#71 2008-11-23 00:24:28

choad wrote:

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Also Weeds, especially if you could also send the guy who plays Esteban this past season over to my house STAT.

Like a bit of paddling, do we? I'll go better than that, and with a Castillian accent, too. Savile Row suits? Sorry. Lindo mio, pues. Good actor, whoever he is.

Get your weeds fix here.

Thanks Choad! I hadn't caught any of the fourth season, yet. I had thought about going out tonight but my plans are now set.

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#72 2008-11-23 00:47:18

If anyone liked Pan's Labyrinth then I really recommend checking out El Espinazo Del Diablo, a.k.a. The Devil's Backbone

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#73 2008-11-23 14:30:15

George Orr wrote:

Which Lolita--the James Mason or the Jeremy Irons?

I'm actually more a fan of the remake with Jeremy Irons.

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#74 2008-11-23 14:50:44

Early films by Pedro Almodóvar (will need subtitled versions unless fluent in Spanish) made between 1982 and 1987.  They are much better than the crap he put out for general audiences after 1987.

Labyrinth of Passions (1982) - a screwball comedy about multiple identities, one of Almodóvar’s favorite subjects. The plot follows the adventures of two sex-crazy characters: Sexilia, an aptly named nymphomaniac, and Riza, the gay son of the leader of a fictional Middle Eastern country, who are meant to be together. The campy roundelay also involves Queti, Sexilia’s “biggest fan,” whose delusional father rapes her.

Dark Habits (1983) - This film has an almost all-female cast featuring many of Almodóvar's favorite leading ladies: Carmen Maura, Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes and Chus Lampreave. The narrative centers upon a cabaret singer, who, running away from justice, finds refuge in a convent of destitute nuns, each of whom explores a different sin. The mother superior, a drug addict worse than the fallen woman trying to redeem, falls in love with the singer.

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) – It’s the tale of a struggling housewife and her dysfunctional family: her abusive husband, who works as a taxi driver; her oldest son, a heroin dealer; the youngest son, a hustler; and the grandmother who hates the city and just wants to return to her rural village.

Matador (1986) - Matador is a dark, complex story that centers on the relationship between a former bullfighter and a murderous female lawyer, both of whom can only experience sexual fulfillment in conjunction with killing.

Law of Desire (1987) - The narrative follows three main characters: a gay film director who embarks on a new project; his sister, an actress who used to be his brother (played by Carmen Maura), and a repressed murderously obsessive stalker (played by Antonio Banderas).


Those of you who were traumatized by a Catholic upbringing will love the subtle and blatant blasphemies featured in these films. Almodóvar clearly was expressing his hatred for the Catholic Church and its support of fascism under Franco.  The wretched film “Sister Act” was a highly sanitized version of “Dark Habits”, with the lesbianism, drug usage, sarcasm and blasphemy removed.  "Matador" is a comedy about two serial killers who meet and fall in love with each other.  They resolve to kill each other while making love during a solar eclipse.  Antonio Banderas got his start in Almodóvar’s films; he usually played gay roles and appears naked in “Law of Desire”.

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#75 2008-11-23 16:18:36

I highly recommend La Ley de Deseo. I was one of the first "foreign" films I ever saw, and they actually showed it Spanish class.

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#76 2008-11-24 18:22:19

With the coming shanty towns it is time we brushed up on our etiquette and hobo jungle survival skills.

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#77 2008-11-24 18:39:07

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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#78 2008-11-24 18:40:23

Arguably the best war movie ever.

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#79 2008-11-24 18:42:27

Where I stand so far.  I've got about 3 dozen dozen torrents queued up, and then I'm gonna start getting into the new recommendations that y'all have made.  I'm considering doing reviews.

user@nothing:~/movies$ ls -Rg1h
.:
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-22 07:10 Horror
drwxr-xr-x 3 user 4.0K 2008-11-22 17:28 Japanese
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-20 20:08 Martial arts
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-24 17:39 Nunsploitation
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-22 07:48 Sci-fi
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-24 17:35 War

./Horror:
total 2.7G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 896M 2008-11-19 23:24 Black Sunday.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 701M 2008-11-19 23:25 Dracula.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 1.2G 2008-11-22 02:58 The Hunger.avi

./Japanese:
total 8.2G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 1.2G 2008-11-20 05:06 Harakiri.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  75K 2008-11-20 02:48 Harakiri.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 700M 2008-11-21 02:48 Ley Lines.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  35K 2008-11-20 05:16 Ley Lines.srt
drwxr-xr-x 8 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:38 Lone Wolf and Cub
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 699M 2008-11-21 02:25 Rainy Dog.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  14K 2008-11-20 05:10 Rainy Dog.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 900M 2008-11-22 15:55 Rubber's Lover.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 701M 2008-11-20 12:59 Samurai 1 - Miyamoto Musashi.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  41K 2008-11-20 08:50 Samurai 1 - Miyamoto Musashi.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 701M 2008-11-20 23:29 Samurai 2 - Duel at Ichijoji Temple.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  48K 2008-11-20 08:49 Samurai 2 - Duel at Ichijoji Temple.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 698M 2008-11-20 20:36 Samurai 3 - Duel on Ganryu Island.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  50K 2008-11-20 08:53 Samurai 3 - Duel on Ganryu Island.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 700M 2008-11-21 02:45 Shinjuku Triad Society.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  50K 2008-11-20 05:17 Shinjuku Triad Society.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 629M 2008-11-20 11:01 Tetsuo 2 - The Body Hammer.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 699M 2008-11-20 08:40 Tetsuo - The Iron Man.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 701M 2008-11-19 22:59 Violence Without a Cause.avi

./Japanese/Lone Wolf and Cub:
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:38 1 - Sword of Vengeance
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:40 2 - Babycart at the River Styx
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:40 3 - Babycart to Hades
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:40 4 - Babycart in Peril
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:39 5 - Babycart in the Land of Demons
drwxr-xr-x 2 user 4.0K 2008-11-21 17:39 6 - White Heaven in Hell

./Martial arts:
total 2.4G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 285M 2008-11-20 02:41 Five Deadly Venoms.rmvb
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  73K 2008-11-20 02:00 Five Deadly Venoms.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 690M 2008-11-20 06:59 Master of the Flying Guillotine.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  29K 2008-11-20 02:01 Master of the Flying Guillotine.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 698M 2008-11-20 05:15 Ong Bak 1.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  38K 2008-11-20 02:34 Ong Bak 1.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 698M 2008-11-20 05:15 Ong Bak 2.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  14K 2008-11-20 02:32 Ong Bak 2.srt

./Nunsploitation:
total 2.7G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 659M 2008-11-24 16:33 Alucarda.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 699M 2008-11-24 09:39 Behind The Convent Wall.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 698M 2008-11-24 05:21 Images in a Convent.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user  42K 2008-11-21 05:35 Images in a Convent.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 670M 2008-11-24 09:25 Malabimba.avi

./Sci-fi:
total 2.9G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 702M 2008-11-20 03:55 A Boy And His Dog.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 851M 2008-11-19 23:00 New Rose Hotel.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 639M 2008-11-19 23:04 Stargate.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 701M 2008-11-21 04:19 They Live.avi

./War:
total 1.4G
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 698M 2008-11-24 07:48 Der Untergang 1.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user 696M 2008-11-24 07:48 Der Untergang 2.avi

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#80 2010-07-09 09:18:29

Any oppressive heat updates, anyone?

You can only rewatch 'The Wire' while whistling "The Farmer In The Dell" so many times.

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#81 2010-07-09 22:13:26

choad wrote:

Any oppressive heat updates, anyone?

This Just In:  You Northeast pussies are pussies.

It's been triple digits down here, on and off, since May.  And will be through probably September.  And that's normal.

Suck it up, pussies.  Your relief is but a few weeks away.

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#82 2010-07-09 23:12:26

George Orr wrote:

choad wrote:

Any oppressive heat updates, anyone?

This Just In:  You Northeast pussies are pussies.

True. Just doing my part to discourage visitors. This time last week it was clear and 55º.

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#83 2010-07-09 23:17:54

Well let's see. I work in a kitchen with a tiny air conditioner which serves as a placebo for actual cool air. The temperature yesterday touched 104º. In the kitchen it was more like 120º. Down sloping air off of the mountains heats up more than you would expect.

Ah, life is good.

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#84 2010-07-11 22:30:09

Being There
The Magic Christian (a bit dated, but then so is everyone here)
The Devil's Rejects (a putrid pile of trash, but worth sitting through until the 'Why do you hate clowns' scene)
   On second thought, no it isn't
Yellowbeard
Used Cars
All episodes of Blackadder II
S.O.B.  (I need a new copy)
Steelyard Blues

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#85 2010-07-11 23:09:33

Jonsing fans of HBO's The Wire can relapse in profane style with the BBC's State of Play.

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#86 2010-07-12 00:04:33

After having seen bits of it here and there, finally watched the whole of THX 1138 this weekend.  Very much a product of its time; not Lucas's best, but far from his worst.  He does have trouble keeping things coherent.  One bright spot is Donald Pleasence's performance.  We're so used to seeing him as the vaguely evil powerful guy (ala Escape from New York) in futuristic films that it's a surprise to find him playing a different role and doing it well.

If you want to see Robert Duvall in a dystopian fantasy, I'd recommend The Handmaid's Tale as he nails that character.  He's merely OK as THX.

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#87 2010-07-12 00:18:11

square wrote:

One bright spot is Donald Pleasence's performance.  We're so used to seeing him as the vaguely evil powerful guy (ala Escape from New York) in futuristic films that it's a surprise to find him playing a different role and doing it well..

Heroic, even, as Flight Lt. Colin Blythe, "The Forger", in The Great Escape.

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#88 2010-07-12 01:09:37

I have a friend who has worked with Duval.  Sez he is thick as two planks in real life, is only animated (just) when acting.

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#89 2010-07-13 05:19:21

The Man From Earth
Phantasm
When Worlds Collide
Clerks
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
sorry for any repeats

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#90 2010-07-16 22:50:52

I miss The Jesus.  Come back, man.

Has anybody mentioned The Ninth Gate yet?  I love that movie.

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#91 2010-07-16 22:59:15

JLP, don't be a pirate.  Pay the people who made that shit.  Ferfuckssake.

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#92 2010-07-17 23:49:11

(never mind)

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