Post your favorite movie - ONE PICK ONLY!

[Hector]

That's one of my favorite movies period.

Do you like it a lot? Or is it a crappy movie to you?

Hector you should PM me your email addy----I don't usually push my music
on others around here, but there is a GARY84 song called
TEQUILA SHOWDOWN that quotes from that movie and just seems like a song
of mine you should have on mp3 and i could send an mp3 of it for you to d/l
if you're OK with that

You are not going to show up at my door and shoot me...are you?



I LOVE The Three Amigos...one of my favorite all time comedies...

[huedell]

You are not going to show up at my door and shoot me...are you?

How the HECK did you get that from my post? That's what I get for asking for
email adressess

I LOVE The Three Amigos...one of my favorite all time comedies...

Its just perfect... and funnily enough, I didn't balk at GALAXY QUEST
even tho' its a lot like that plot.

I still like THREE AMIGOS better tho'....its probably in my top 10 favorites.

[huedell]

Hector...I get it now.
When I said

Do you like it a lot? Or is it a crappy movie to you?

I guess I meant like how I view NOTHING BUT TROUBLE as really a "crappy"
movie.
I wasn't going to get angry if you said it was...cause you know
its so hard to define "crappy"

[huedell]

Prime example: At Forty, I can say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."...and mean it.

I couldn't say that without feeling at least a tinge of "patronizing"...
but I guess some people can REALLY drop their concern over issues.

Maybe that's one reason I don't gel with TBL as being an overly tight movie.

[saildog]

I'm so so curious as to what you mean by that.
I'm a big big Coen Bros. fan and don't really understand the special cult following TBL has....to me its one of their more average films.
It'd be cool to know what it was that you "understood" about it
due to you having seen it at a later age?

The only way I can answer that is that at 30, I would have approached that movie critically, looking for meaning that probably isn't there to begin with, and missed the whole point (as if there were one). At 40, I watched it, took it in, interpreted it through my experience...and got it ( as if there were something to get...and there might not be anything there to get).

Hue, I know you get what a MacGuffin is. Not only is the plot driven by a MacGuffin...the whole damn movie is a MacGuffin. It doesn't mean anything except what it means to you and if it means nothing, that's cool.

It takes ballz fer dayz to make a movie like that on the heels of a critically acclaimed movie like Fargo. They paid for it at the box office. They paid for it with critics. If you love the Coen's and don't get this movie, trust that they knew what they were doing. Give those of us who get what might not be there a pass and let it be what it is (or isn't). Don't marvel that someone gets it and be not dismayed if you don't.

With that realization, I try to apply the lesson to all things and opinions. That's what the movie taught me and that's why I love it.

Just an opinion.

[huedell]

The only way I can answer that is that at 30, I would have approached that movie critically, looking for meaning that probably isn't there to begin with, and missed the whole point (as if there were one). At 40, I watched it, took it in, interpreted it through my experience...and got it ( as if there were something to get...and there might not be anything there to get).

Hue, I know you get what a MacGuffin is. Not only is the plot driven by a MacGuffin...the whole damn movie is a MacGuffin. It doesn't mean anything except what it means to you and if it means nothing, that's cool.

It takes ballz fer dayz to make a movie like that on the heels of a critically acclaimed movie like Fargo. They paid for it at the box office. They paid for it with critics. If you love the Coen's and don't get this movie, trust that they knew what they were doing. Give those of us who get what might not be there a pass and let it be what it is (or isn't). Don't marvel that someone gets it and be not dismayed if you don't.

With that realization, I try to apply the lesson to all things and opinions. That's what the movie taught me and that's why I love it.

Just an opinion.

Wow. I am so glad you took the time to post that.
Believe me....I had actual "chills" while I read it...which rarely happens
when I read posts.
Why was I so affected by your post?
Because of your explanation of the movie being a MacGuffin mostly,
I think.
I had such a hard time connecting with that movie....and I absolutely LOVED
Fargo and was a longtime BIG fan of RAISING ARIZONA...and I've since
became a huge fan of at least three others of theirs....well...for you
to explain the movie like that....it got to me.

[CrimsonGhost]

Man it is just too hard to pick only one. I'm going with the original "Night Of The Living Dead."

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Almost Famous

[Brazoo]

Man it is just too hard to pick only one. I'm going with the original "Night Of The Living Dead."

NICE! So overlooked on all-time classic lists - but when I first watched it the ending very nearly sent me into shock.