OT: G.O.A.T Movies
That whole scene is the perfect climax to the movie
"...Fights not with you Holliday."
"I beg to differ, sir. We started a game that we never got to finish. Play for blood. Remember?"
"Why, I was just foolin' about."
"I wasn't."
And then, while lightly tapping his finger on the butt of his revolver, utters the two deadliest words in the movie:
"Say when."
"I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear."
If we're going to list great Clint Eastwood westerns, then you have to include "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
"Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast".
If you want to see a great western starring Kevin Costner (and Robert Duvall), then check out "Open Range". That movie never gets it's fair due.
Absolutely. Costner's done some great movies (Bull Durham, Dances with Wolves) and some over-produced crap (Waterworld, The Postman). But this one's definitely on the plus side.
And between this and the Lonesome Dove series, Duvall established himself as one of the best western actors ever.
One of my favorite scenes is just before the gunfight, when they're crouched behind the wagon, eating chocolate bars and learning each other's real name. The classic moment of "calm before the storm."
Wyatt Earp is better than Tombstone.
Karate Kid
Saving Private Ryan/ Platoon/ Glory
Just watched Bleed for This Friday. Great inspirational movie.
"What's that?"
"This, is a shotgun Sol."
"It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun Vincent!"
You could do a thread just on great quotes from "Snatch" and it would easily be 40 comments long (probably more). "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch" are Guy Ritchie at his best.
I'm not say that it's the greatest movie ever made but if "Tin Cup" is on tv I watch it. Someday, I will shoot par with a 7-iron.
was terrible. But the 1st 2 were tops.
I enjoyed Tin Cup until a couple of years ago, when I read how much money Roy McAvoy left on the table by going for green repeatedly. Instead of finishing tied for second and earning over $204,000, he finished seven shots back and made over $33,000.
Yeah, I know - dramatic cinematic moment and all that. But it's a big plot hole. This is a guy who is so strapped for cash that he had to give his driving range to his stripper ex-girlfriend to pay off a loan. And nobody - Cheech Marin, Rene Russo, or any of his hangers-on - had the common sense to say "Hey Roy - what about the money?"
You'd think at least the stripper would have thought of it.
That's what I enjoyed about it. Did he need the money? Of course! But he was so determined, to a fault, to prove that he could hit that shot when everyone doubted him. It was vindication for him. Besides, I think he actually came to accept/find some pleasure in his lifestyle.
"Well, hell, Cup; it never occurred to me to try."
1) The Godfather
2) Shawshank Redemption
3) The Godfather II
4) Pulp Fiction
I recognize the bias towards movies in my lifetime, but these are all amazing films. Another old favorite that I don’t enjoy as much anymore is The Usual Suspects.
Pulp Fiction bored the fuck out of me.
If not... who ARE you?!? And who do you have in your basement?
A comment like that demands that you share what film didn't bore the fuck out of you.
Ohh thank you sir. I was hoping someone else in this world didn't care for it like me. I don't understand the love affair with Pulp Fiction. Also, Fight Club. Don't get it.
3 of my favorites are:
The Big Lebowski
Cinderella Man
Under Seige
Those aren't necessarily the 3 best movies ever made in my opinion, but they're 3 movies I wll watch all the way through if they are on TV.
I'm the other way - I don't get the love affair that some people have with Lebowski. I've tried watching it, but I always end up thinking "What's the big deal with this?" (Same reaction I have to Fargo.) I'll have to try it again.
Love Cinderella Man except for one thing: Ron Howard's insistence on making Max Baer into a total dick. Yes, he was a loud, gregarious party boy. But being such a cold-hearted prick that he jokes to Mrs. Braddock about comforting her if her husband dies? Bullshit. Yes, Baer killed Frankie Campbell in the ring - but was by all accounts horrified by what had happened, and donated the purse from a subsequent fight to Campbell's widow and children. No way he'd have joked about it.
Also, since this was the time of the violent anti-Semitism going on in Hitler's Germany, Baer wore trunks with a Star of David on the leg in the Braddock fight. But Opie chose to omit that.
I dont disagree with Titanic being very good, but up to that point all there was was basically big screen epics. Godfather, Star Wars, Jaws, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Superman, and on and on and on.
how does your boyfriend feel about that?
"You know we're always fascinated when we find leg irons with no legs in them."