Maintain Revolutions!
I would also like to third (or fourth) Fifth Element. All the things I like: Dumb action, funny lines, kick ass women-- I even think Chris Tucker is good in it. Shows you how delusional I can be.
Hell, yeah. Make sure you never watch the execrable re-make.
We yell the serpentine line all the time.
I love The Long Kiss Good-bye too, Biggirl. I even came into it late the first time I saw it and still liked it.
I can’t watch Point Break because I find Patrick Swayze repulsive. I can’t stand to look at him. Has anyone read the book it was based on? Really weird.
There was a book? I didn’t know that Point Break was based on a book.
Tapping the Source. Different than the movie, and, as I said, the ending was waaay weird.
Ginger and Mary Ann.
Oh yeah!
“Chefs do that”
Oh heck yes!
Flash Gordon completely embraced the aesthetic of the old serials, and that is its crime and its glory.
Multiplicity (1996) holds up and never gets any love.
“I just hit it with a bigger hammer” is my favourite, but there’s something to be said about the scene where the one guy reads off the sign regarding “spitting, swearing and loose women”, and makes a crack about it pretty much covering Mary.
Time After Time. Talk about a weird premise that still holds us.
“If a man was smart, you know what he’d do right now?”
“What?”
“…I don’t know. I thought maybe you’d know.”
I can still watch the original Fright Night over and over again.
The main attraction is seeing Roddy McDowall’s character transform from a cowardly snob into a fearless vampire killer.
I haven’t seen Fright Night in decades. I barely remember Roddy McDowall. But there is one image from that movie that has stayed with me all these years. It’ll pop up in my head for no reason when I’m alone in the house at night and the house has a conversation with itself in the basement. It is that girl opening her mouth. And opening it. AND OPENING IT AND OMG SO MANY TEETH!!!
Tremors!
Everything about that movie is perfect, brilliant casting, wonderful location. But it’s the way it’s played and the tone of the film that makes it truly great - it’s not played for laughs, but doesn’t take itself seriously. Wonderful. Should have got an Oscar.
My nom is Buckaroo Banzai: Across The 8th Dimension.
Goofier than a bag of squirrels on crank.
Live it.
The flower children of the Sixties didn’t expect to grow old. They would have their brief bright day in the sun and then either be shot by the Man or incinerated in the coming thermonuclear war.
ETA: has any movie ever had the chutzpah to conclude, with no presaging whatever, by having nuclear war break out?
Not that I know of…but that would be amazing. Just going along. a rom-com or sports movie, suddenly missiles are flying and roll credits.