# Help! Creative movie fans needed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982 "2000-09-13T02:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/21 "2000-09-13T17:02:10Z")
\*Scarlet Street The Grey Fox The Purple Rose of Cairo The Emerald Forest Pink Flamingoes The Crimson Pirate \* ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/22 "2000-09-13T17:48:10Z")
Ooh, I can connect the colors and foods lists with _Kurenai no buta_ aka _Crimson Pig_. ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/23 "2000-09-13T18:05:24Z")
You could also do odd actor circles: Sean Connery / Alec Baldwin in **The Hunt For Red October** Alec Baldwin / Geena Davis in **Beetlejuice** Geena Davis / Samuel L. Jackson in **The Long Kiss Goodnight** Samuel L. Jackson / Jason Flemyng in **The Red Violin** Jason Flemyng / Vinnie Jones in **Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels** Vinnie Jones / Nick Cage in **Gone in 60 Seconds** Nick Cage / Sean Connery in **The Rock** thus completing the circle. Of course in your case you won’t want to use crap like **Gone in 60** , but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/24 "2000-09-13T18:14:06Z")
How 'bout a number theme: 1. It happened **one** night 2. Lock Stock and **two** smoking barrels 3. **Three** Kings 4. **Four** Rooms 5. Nine to **Five** 6. **Six** Days in Roswell 7. **Seven** Samurai 8. Hard **Eight** 9. **Nine** Months? 10. The **Ten** Commandments You could do better for 5 and 9, i think… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/25 "2000-09-13T19:10:35Z")
Swiddles: > [@](#): > > I have to compile a list of 10 movies, either favorites (boring) or some clever/interesting list, and put it next to a polroid of myself. Like top 10 food movies. The owner’s put his dog’s picture up with dog themed movies, or with dog in the title. CoyoteFish: > [@](#): > > How about something like movies with Naked in the title? Like Naked Lunch and Naked Gun? I vote for this idea, and really hope to see the poloriod you put up to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/26 "2000-09-13T19:45:01Z")
Not all “art” movies and someone already took my color-movie idea, which I had headed it **Personal Prism** (yes, actually saw the thread and was thinking of ideas during work and by the time I checked back…well… White Nights Crimson Tide The Thin Red Line The Red Violin Reds The Man with One Red Shoe Old Yeller (technically–the story of a yellow dog!) The Green Mile Deep Blue Sea Meet Joe Black _A few other ideas I had–some just get you started…_ **What’s Your Sign?** The Zodiac Killer Hair Aquarius (aka Stage Fright) Capricorn One Tropic of Cancer **All in the Family** or **Lovers & Friends** Arkettes Baldwins Shean-Estevez Kirk/Michael Douglas Carl & Rob Reiner Coplas Lovers & Friends Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruz Alec Baldwin & Kim Bassinger Wood Allen & Mia Farrow Liam Neeson & Natasha Richardson etc. **Like Night & Day** The Light of Day Saturday Night Fever Night Shift White Nights Midsummer’s Night Dream Terminator II: Judgement Day **Time keeps on Slippin’** Midnight Run Clockwork Orange High Noon Midnight Cowboy Midnight Express Dawn of the Dead From Dusk til Dawn Good Morning Vietnam The Light of Day White Nights Time Bandits The Time Machine Back to the Future Night Shift Same Time Next Year Always 2001 **I’ve Seen that Face Before** Multiplicity Parent Trap Dead Ringers Twins Terminator II: Judgement Day **It’s a Seasonal Thing** A Change of Seasons The Four Seasons Summer of Sam I Know What You Did Last Summer Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams January Man April in Paris Seven Days in May Henry & June Born on the Fourth of July Red Light August August (Anthony Hopkins) September (Woodie Allen) Come September September Affair October Sky Four Days in November December Bride This kind of game is really too fun (and addictive) for me… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/27 "2000-09-15T02:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > **I’d chastise you for the demeaning stereotyping of a fine city, except that I mostly agree with you. But Winooski does offer three things: a good book store (at the Champlain Mills), good waffles (at Sneakers), and an excellent video store for renting hard-to-find videos. Regretably, I don’t recall the name, but it’s in a white building with a handicapped ramp, on the main street of Winooski approximately across from where the old Dairy Queen was (directions which obviously make no sense to 99% of the people on reading this). When I visit my family in New York, I drive over to Vermont just to rent movies there. > But if you tell us the name of your store, I promise I’ll check it out next time I’m in Burlington and I’ll be sure > to ask the owner for the Sass-o-matic pick of the week.** The book store in the Champlain Mill closed, I think. Sorry. That place is dead. And while I used to enjoy Sneakers quite a bit, the Free Press started publishing the health inspector’s ratings, and Sneakers did HORRIBLY. Like stomach-turningly bad. So I don’t go near the place. No idea about the video store you’re talking about. If I had my yellow pages, I’d look it up to find out the name, but I suspect it is folded. The store I work for is the one everyone comes to for hard-to-find titles, and I have never heard of another good one in Winooski. Of course, I have never heard of anything GOOD in Winooski, but I digress. ::badumbum!!:: THANK YOU! I’ll be here all week. I’m leaning toward Films for a Postmodern Afternoon. [ol] [li]Dr. Strangelove[/li][li]Three Kings[/li][li]Throne of Blood[/li][li]Fight Club[/li][li]Pi[/li][li]Richard Loncrainne’s Richard III[/ol][/li] I don’t want to put anything on my list that I haven’t seen, but I have taken out Lost Highways and Naked Lunch to see if I like them enough to put them next to my name. Any other suggestions? Would Resevoir Dogs count? Any other darkly comedic films that can be considered postmodern? Strangelove is the only one I have up there now. The more obscure the better. Think postmodern. (great suggestions, I loved JoeyHemlock’s suggestion of using numbers, I’ll have to do that one next!) ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/28 "2000-09-15T04:02:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Any other darkly comedic films that can be considered postmodern? Well, if your prime criteria is postmodernity, you have to include _RoboCop_. I don’t think there’s anything in Derrida, Barthes, Lyotard, Baudrillard, or any other -ard that isn’t explored somewhere in it. And darkly comic it definitely is. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/29 "2000-09-15T05:06:38Z")
Hmmm, I like the idea you’ve chosen. Some movies that come to mind right away (though I’m not sure how well they fit in the postmodern category): **A Clockwork Orange** **Trainspotting** **Seven** **Run, Lola, Run** **Cube** (probably not, but this reminds me of **Pi** for some reason) **Full Metal Jacket** ( **Fight Club** reminds me of parts of it) **Tetsuo: The Iron Man** (dark, frantic, Japanese movie, very low budget, made with stop-motion animation) ---
**Author:** ![CoyoteFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/67e7ee/32.png) [@CoyoteFish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoyoteFish)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/30 "2000-09-15T05:19:42Z")
Is “Brazil” postmodern? I went to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) for a definition of post-modern, but it was somewhat lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/31 "2000-09-15T06:41:21Z")
_Being John Malkovich_ is pretty damned po-mo. And Ferris talks to the camera in _Ferris Beuler’s Day Off_, does that count? 🙂 Would _Top Gun_ count as po-mo if viewed as homoerotic allegory? ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/32 "2000-09-15T08:42:37Z")
Excuse me, ignoramus here. Please explain “post-modernism.” I’ve had it explained numerous times, and my brain just can’t (or subconsciously won’t) hold onto the idea. As near as I can figure it means “ahead of its time, usually in a boring and/or irritating way.” Or, looking at the original list “films that are sorta whack.” (though I like almost everything on the list…) Is that about right? Try Wong Kar-Wai, he’s about as frustratingly ahead-of-his-time as it gets. Ooh, no script, how avant-garde! I love the way this shot is giving me a headache! Isn’t it cool how this voiceover is basically meaningless? Also, I think The Limey might fit well with your list, SR. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/33 "2000-09-15T08:47:15Z")
As an afterthought, my god Johnnie To has made some movies that might fit your definition of post-modern, particularly A Hero Never Dies and the highly-praised The Mission. Probably not available at your store, but worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/34 "2000-09-26T19:54:06Z")
Just looking for an update. Didja go with the naked idea? didja didja didja??? ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/35 "2000-09-26T20:10:54Z")
I’m afraid I didn’t go with naked. Sorry, Omni. I ended up doing a list that showcased the wide variety of flicks I love, entitled something clever like Brooke’s List of Sass-o-matic Flicks or something. (hey, it was a week ago. Short term memory is scarce around here.)[ul][li]Dr. Strangelove [_]Waiting for Guffman [_]Three Kings [_]The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert [_]Fight Club [_]Dead Again [_]Throne of Blood [/ul] and others. I can’t remember, I scribbled it off pretty quick. Basically tried to do half PM wierdnesses with funny, quirky comedies. To make me look like less of a goth scarey girl. Next time I go into the store, I’ll get a good list and post it. But I plan on using the ideas donated here in future lists.[/li] And the job kicks ASS. Sunday the shift supervisor put in Pee Wee’s Playhouse (before 6 we have to play things the kiddies will not be traumatized by in the store) and put the sound on mute. He then put The Pixies on the CD player. It was in perfect sync. I was mesmerized. This weekend I want to experiment with Scooby Doo and The Cure. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/36 "2000-09-26T22:22:37Z")
This thread reminds me of the first episode of the series Cheers. Diane walks in for the first time, and the guys are all having a game trying to name the SWEATIEST movies of all time. A few I remember from the show: Alien Hud Ben Hur And I’ll add: Jason and the Argonauts Sands of the Kalahari The Naked Prey The Bridge Over the River Kwai The African Queen Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/37 "2000-12-30T16:48:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Regretably, I don’t recall the name, but it’s in a white building with a handicapped ramp, on the main street of Winooski approximately across from where the old Dairy Queen was (directions which obviously make no sense to 99% of the people on reading this). > [@](#): > > No idea about the video store you’re talking about. If I had my yellow pages, I’d look it up to find out the name, but I suspect it is folded. The store I work for is the one everyone comes to for hard-to-find titles, and I have never heard of another good one in Winooski. I was driving through Vermont this week and detoured through Winooski. The video store is **Showtime** on 35 West Allen Street. Showtime is a local chain with about twenty stores but offhand I don’t know if the others have the same eclectic mix the Winooski branch offers. I will say however that this store has videos I have never seen anywhere else. So being as Swiddles is coyly avoiding naming her place of employment, Showtime will remain my cult video store of choice in the greater Burlington area. Nemo Bob says check it out. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982/38 "2000-12-30T17:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\* > I was driving through Vermont this week and detoured through Winooski. The video store is **Showtime** on 35 West Allen Street. Showtime is a local chain with about twenty stores but offhand I don’t know if the others have the same eclectic mix the Winooski branch offers. I will say however that this store has videos I have never seen anywhere else. So being as Swiddles is coyly avoiding naming her place of employment, Showtime will remain my cult video store of choice in the greater Burlington area. > > Nemo Bob says check it out. > \*\* Oh, MY store is way cooler. Seriously, I’m squeamish about posting the name of my work on the boards, but anyone who is passing through Burlington, email me and I’ll tell you the secret. And my store is actually IN Burlington. ps: Nothing coming out of Winooski is the best ANYTHING in the greater Burlington area. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-creative-movie-fans-needed/32982.md?page=1)