Movie Marathons

[Bos Docken]

Great choices.

I loved the Coen Brothers’ True Grit. Much like the 3:10 to Yuma remake, I thought it was way better than the (already good) source film.

Agreed. I've never read the original novel, but apparently the Coen Brothers' version of True Grit is much closer to it than the John Wayne version.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Great choices.

I loved the Coen Brothers’ True Grit. Much like the 3:10 to Yuma remake, I thought it was way better than the (already good) source film.

Yeah the acting in the 2010 version is a big upgrade across the board with the exception of Robert Duvall being about on par with Barry Pepper. All of the roles in the 2010 are master performances with lots of spin and nuance on the lines and beats that just isn't there in the original. But to be fair there is a big advantage for the actors in going second with the same lines and scenes (provided the first run left any room for improvement). I think the same thing favored the actors in Red Dragon versus Manhunter.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Short Circuit and Batteries Not Included. Those were a couple of fun ones that I haven't thought about in a long time.

Honest to god those were legitimately my two favourite movies from like age 3 to 6. The funny thing is going back and watching Batteries Not Included today it is NOT a kids’ movie, not at all. But I just thought the little robots were so darned cute when I was little I loved the movie.

But you’ve got the old lady with Alzheimer’s who thinks the street punk is her son who died like 45 years earlier. You’ve got the corporate dickheads trying to evict the tenants so they can burn down the building. You’ve got the artist dude in the Friendzone with the pregnant chick. And you’ve got that retired boxer that’s either got severe
CTE or PTSD.

The movie gets really dark during the building fire scene, especially when the old lady finally realizes Carlos is not in fact her son Bobby.

And the scene at the very end when Carlos tries to bring her flowers at the hospital and she starts crying and he just throws them in the trash? Heart wrenching.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Honest to god those were legitimately my two favourite movies from like age 3 to 6. The funny thing is going back and watching Batteries Not Included today it is NOT a kids’ movie, not at all. But I just thought the little robots were so darned cute when I was little I loved the movie.

But you’ve got the old lady with Alzheimer’s who thinks the street punk is her son who died like 45 years earlier. You’ve got the corporate dickheads trying to evict the tenants so they can burn down the building. You’ve got the artist dude in the Friendzone with the pregnant chick. And you’ve got that retired boxer that’s either got severe
CTE or PTSD.

The movie gets really dark during the building fire scene, especially when the old lady finally realizes Carlos is not in fact her son Bobby.

And the scene at the very end when Carlos tries to bring her flowers at the hospital and she starts crying and he just throws them in the trash? Heart wrenching.

Yeah it was really nice to see Frank McRae land a big role and do something with it. He was kind of like the original Michael Clarke Duncan...the friendly giant.

Plus Michael Carmine, who I mentioned in this thread...one of the several actors with lots of promise who died in the AIDS crisis.

 

[Highway99]

Here is a marathon of horror movies that take place mostly in a shopping mall and one that takes place in a supermarket:

Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004)
Night of the Comet (1984)
The Initialtion (1984)
Chopping Mall (1986)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)
The Intruder (1989)

Why did I make this list?

 

[BisexualMMA]

Here is a marathon of horror movies that take place mostly in a shopping mall and one that takes place in a supermarket:

Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004)
Night of the Comet (1984)
The Initialtion (1984)
Chopping Mall (1986)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)
The Intruder (1989)

Why did I make this list?

Career Opportunities was like one cannibal murder away from making the list.

 

[Highway99]

Career Opportunities was like one cannibal murder away from making the list.

Anyone else get a boner whenever they see a coin operated horse?

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Yeah it was really nice to see Frank McRae land a big role and do something with it. He was kind of like the original Michael Clarke Duncan...the friendly giant.

Plus Michael Carmine, who I mentioned in this thread...one of the several actors with lots of promise who died in the AIDS crisis.

One interesting thing I learned many years after the fact was that the actors for the old man (Hume Cronyn) and old lady (Jessica Tandy) were married irl, for over 50 years until her death in the mid 1990s.

 

[BisexualMMA]

One interesting thing I learned many years after the fact was that the actors for the old man (Hume Cronyn) and old lady (Jessica Tandy) were married irl, for over 50 years until her death in the mid 1990s.

Yeah they were a great pair. Also were in Cocoon, etc. Hume Cronyn is a great name, sounds like he came out of the womb at age 70 already.

Classy couple like Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, or Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

 

[Gene Tunney]

More 70’s marathon movies

Rollerball
Castle Keep
Catch 22
North Dallas Forty
The Hospital
Up In Smoke
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Soylent Green
Blacula
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Interiors
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Young Frankenstein
Fiddler on the Roof
High Anxiety
Logan’s Run
Car Wash
Dirty Dingus Magee
Kingdom of the Spiders
The Seven-Ups
Breakheart Pass
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Swarm
Born to Win
Death Race 2000
The Return of the Pink Panther
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Welcome to L.A.
Orca
Drunken Master
The Frisco Kid
Same Time Next Year
The Brink’s Job
Time After Time

 

[BisexualMMA]

More 70’s marathon movies

Rollerball
Castle Keep
Catch 22
North Dallas Forty
The Hospital
Up In Smoke
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Soylent Green
Blacula
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Interiors
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Young Frankenstein
Fiddler on the Roof
High Anxiety
Logan’s Run
Car Wash
Dirty Dingus Magee
Kingdom of the Spiders
The Seven-Ups
Breakheart Pass
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Swarm
Born to Win
Death Race 2000
The Return of the Pink Panther
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Welcome to L.A.
Orca
Drunken Master
The Frisco Kid
Same Time Next Year
The Brink’s Job
Time After Time

Yeah Breakheart Pass had a great Jerry Goldsmith score. It was kind of like the precursor for the First Blood / Rambo music.

Logan's Run made my 100 movies for the desert island.

Some other good ones in there though. The 70s gave us a ton of good films, hence my claim that with those 20 actors or so you can randomly select any movie they are in from the decade and bat around .800 or so.

All kinds of other decent stuff from the 70s I didn't name as well...

All the President's Men
Sounder
Hester Street
Killer of Sheep
Short Eyes
Hardcore
Save the Tiger
Blue Collar
FIST
Paradise Alley
Patton
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
Vanishing Point
Fingers
Airport
Executive Action
Zardoz
Robin and Marian
Get Carter
Sybil
Norma Rae
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
The Andromeda Strain
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Comes a Horseman
Figures in a Landscape
Cross of Iron
Hard Times
The Missouri Breaks
Last Tango in Paris
Five Easy Pieces
The Omega Man
The Omen
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Warriors
Coffy
Badlands
MASH
Brewster McCloud
The Odessa File
Three Women
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Yakuza
Tommy
ZPG
Manhattan
The 7% Solution
The Great Santini
Doc
The Killer Elite
The Offence
My Name is Nobody

 

[Bos Docken]

More 70’s marathon movies
Fiddler on the Roof

I don't even like fucking musicals..... but I love this movie.

It's 3+ hours long and it's great. Topol as the lead character Tevye is incredibly likeable.

The songs are great, the way the plot unfolds is great. It's about one Jewish family in 1900s Imperial Russia and yet it is more epic than any Marvel movie.

I even love the incredible violin solo during the opening credits.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Yeah Breakheart Pass had a great Jerry Goldsmith score. It was kind of like the precursor for the First Blood / Rambo music.

Logan's Run made my 100 movies for the desert island.

Some other good ones in there though. The 70s gave us a ton of good films, hence my claim that with those 20 actors or so you can randomly select any movie they are in from the decade and bat around .800 or so.

All kinds of other decent stuff from the 70s I didn't name as well...

Sounder
Hester Street
Killer of Sheep
Short Eyes
Hardcore
Save the Tiger
Blue Collar
FIST
Paradise Alley
Patton
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
Vanishing Point
Fingers
Airport
Executive Action
Zardoz
Robin and Marian
Get Carter
Sybil
Norma Rae
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
The Andromeda Strain
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Comes a Horseman
Figures in a Landscape
Cross of Iron
Hard Times
The Missouri Breaks
Last Tango in Paris
Five Easy Pieces
The Warriors
Coffy
Badlands
Kramer vs. Kramer
My Name is Nobody

You and I know that there remains a special quality in regards to 70's production. An awakening, spiritually.

I don't even like fucking musicals..... but I love this movie.

It's 3+ hours long and it's great. Topol as the lead character Tevye is incredibly likeable.

The songs are great, the way the plot unfolds is great. It's about one Jewish family in 1900s Imperial Russia and yet it is more epic than any Marvel movie.

I even love the incredible violin solo during the opening credits.

I recognized Topol in For Your Eyes Only and Flash Gordon and gave Fiddler on the Roof a look. It turned out to be an outstanding film. As far as epics, it's in my top ten. Topol was perfect in that lead.

 

[BisexualMMA]

You and I know that there remains a special quality in regards to 70's production. An awakening, spiritually.

Yeah I was saying in another thread how the look and feel of 70s movies is itself a quality that I enjoy and, while I enjoy many movies from the 90s, I don't get nostalgic at all for their look or feel. The look is almost a lack of personality or texture, save for the fairly short lived New Jack Swing look and sound early on in some movies or some stuff that has a lot of distinct character like very early Spike Lee.

 

[ufcfan4]

I don't even like fucking musicals..... but I love this movie.

It's 3+ hours long and it's great. Topol as the lead character Tevye is incredibly likeable.

The songs are great, the way the plot unfolds is great. It's about one Jewish family in 1900s Imperial Russia and yet it is more epic than any Marvel movie.

I even love the incredible violin solo during the opening credits.

It’s a movie that also cements for me that I like film as a medium so much more than live theater. I saw the revival on broadway some years back with my family and while the actors were great and the story/score was the same, it just did not resonate with me nearly as much as the film.

The movie is epic in my opinion. Topol is brilliant. But Jewison and his technical crew also do stuff with the sets and cinematography and editing that is far too effective to not notice the absence when seeing the play.

And for a three hour film, it’s really briskly paced. No dragging at all. Just the right amount of songs, dialogue, comedy, heavy dramatic sequences.

Scene where he rejects Chava is always tough for me to watch.

is it okay no spoiler tags. I figure there is a statute of limitations on films from
The 70s.

 

[Bos Docken]

The movie is epic in my opinion. Topol is brilliant. But Jewison and his technical crew also do stuff with the sets and cinematography and editing that is far too effective to not notice the absence when seeing the play.

I know exactly what you mean. For example, I love that when Tevye is deciding what to do about his daughters, the camera suddenly positions him in the foreground and the people waiting for his answer in the extreme background. it's a neat trick to show Tevye's one-sided conversations with God.

is it okay no spoiler tags. I figure there is a statute of limitations on films from
The 70s.

Haha It's okay. Extra spoiler: He doesn't fully reject Chava!

at the very end, when Chava is saying farewell to her family and he totally ignores her, just before she leaves, he mutters "And God be with you"

I mean, it's not a fulsome reconciliation, but at least it shows the door is open a crack.

 

[BisexualMMA]

And these 70s movies aren't great but they aren't bad. Certainly watchable and worth a look and definitely have more charm and character than whatever recently made "just above average" movie is on Netflix at the moment...

The Deep
Black Sunday
Mandingo
Across 110th Street
Next Stop Greenwich Village
Bobby Deerfield
Prime Cuts
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Lifeguard
Busting
Little Murders
Stay Hungry
Night Moves
The Drowning Pool
Conrack
The Wilby Conspiracy
The Hunting Party
The Brood
Images
Quintet
The Long Goodbye
Eureka
10 Rillington Place
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
England Made Me
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Michael York)
The Three Musketeers (Michael York)
Rabid

And I think My Dinner with Andre was 1981, but it is a 70s movie at heart, as are several other 1980/1981 films like Cruising and Nighthawks and Outland and The Lords of Discipline.

 

[puppybird]

That’s nothing compared to Steven Seagal getting done dirty two years later by Mel Gibson

That Seagal poster is insane

 

[BisexualMMA]

Another way to approach things would be checking out the impressive musical score careers of several accomplished musicians. People will probably think of John Williams and Hans Zimmer first at this point...and deservedly so...but I would recommend some highly acclaimed but slightly less commonly known ones like the following... Anyway, it might be a way to catch some decent movies that might not otherwise get on your radar.

JERRY GOLDSMITH
First Blood to Rambo 3, Breakheart Pass, Seconds, Planet of the Apes, In Life Flint, Patton, Tora Tora Tora, Papillon, Chinatown, Logan's Run, Capricorn One, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Outland, Gremlins, Explorers, King Solomon's Mines, Hoosiers, Leviathan, Total Recall, Medicine Man, Mr. Baseball, The Vanishing, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Matinee, First Knight, Executive Decision, City Hall, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Edge, The Russia House, and more.

BILL CONTI
Next Stop Greenwich Village, Rocky 1-3 and 5-6, FIST, Paradise Alley, Lock Up, Uncle Joe Shannon, Private Benjamin, Victory, For Your Eyes Only, The Karate Kid 1-3, The Terry Fox Story, The Right Stuff, F/X, Baby Boom, Broadcast News, Betrayed, Lean on Me, Necessary Roughness, Rookie of the Year, 8 Seconds, and more.

ALAN SILVESTRI
Romancing the Stone, Cat's Eye, Young Guns 2, Flight of the Navigator, Clan of the Cave Bear, Delta Force, Critical Condition, Predator 1 and 2, Overboard, Back to the Future 1 to 3, The Bodyguard, Dutch, Grumpy Old Men, Clean Slate, Blown Away, The Quick and the Dead, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Practical Magic, Ricochet, and more.

BASIL POLEDOURIS
Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Robocop, Starship Troopers, Big Wednesday, The Blue Lagoon, Red Dawn, Protocol, Iron Eagle, No Man's Land, Cherry 2000, Quigley Down Under, The Hunt for Red October, Split Decisions, On Deadly Ground, Serial Mom, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, It's My Party, Breakdown, For Love of the Game, Mickey Blue Eyes and more.

HAROLD FALTERMEYER
Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop 1-2, Fletch 1-2, The Running Man, Thief of Hearts, Fatal Beauty, Tango & Cash, Kuffs, and more.

VANGELIS
The Bounty, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Fire, Chariots of Fire, Alexander, and more.

GIORGIO MORODER
Scarface, American Gigolo, Flashdance, Cat People, DC Cab, Over the Top, Electric Dreams, Let it Ride, and more.

TANGERINE DREAM
Risky Business, Three O'Clock High, Miracle Mile, Thief, Firestarter, Legend, Sorceror, The Keep, Vision Quest, Red Heat, Near Dark, and more.

MICHAEL KAMEN
Highlander, Open Range, Frequency, Against the Ropes, What Dreams May Come, Event Horizon, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jack, Don Juan de Marco, The Three Musketeers, Last Action Hero, Shining Through, Lethal Weapon 1-4, The Last Boy Scout, Rooftops, Road House, Die Hard 1-3, The Dead Zone, Mona Lisa, Shanghai Surprise, and more.

JAMES HORNER
Commando, Braveheart, Cocoon 1-2, Star Trek 2-3, Battle Beyond the Stars, 48 Hrs 1-2, Krull, The Journey of Natty Gann, Uncommon Valor, Humanoids from the Deep, Aliens, An American Tail, The Name of the Rose, Batteries not Included, Willow, Field of Dreams, Red Heat, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Field of Dreams, The Rocketeer, Class Action, Thunderheart, Unlawful Entry, Patriot Games, The Pelican Brief, The Man Without a Face, Swing Kids, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Clear and Present Danger, Apollo 13, Legends of the Fall, Jade, Ransom, Mighty Joe Young, The Devil's Own, Titanic, Courage Under Fire, The Mask of Zorro, Bicentennial Man, Enemy at the Gates, A Beautiful Mind, The Perfect Storm, House of Sand and Fog, Apocalypto, The Dresser, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and more.

TREVOR JONES
Runaway Train, Last of the Mohicans, Excalibur, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Sea of Love, Bad Influence, Arachnophobia, Freejack, In the Name of the Father, Cliffhanger, Hideaway, Kiss of Death, Richard III, Lawn Dogs, GI Jane, Desperate Measures, Dark City, and more.

BRAD FIEDEL
The Terminator, Terminator 2, The Accused, Blue Steel, Let's Get Harry, The Big Easy, Fright Night, The Serpent and the Rainbow, True Believer, Gladiator (the Robert Loggia one), True Lies, Striking Distance, Johnny Mnemonic, and more.

MILES GOODMAN
Teen Wolf, Indian Summer, What About Bob, La Bamba, K9, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Opportunity Knocks, The Super.

Anyway, those are a handful of my favorites and just about every movie listed is at least worth a look.

 

[Bos Docken]

BASIL POLEDOURIS
Conan the Barbarian

Probably my favorite film score of all time! I used to put it on while driving, it's so damn good.