Shawshank is a favorite of mine, but I’d say it is disqualified because Andy’s in prison for killing his cheating wife (he didn’t really do it thought) and he makes it clear he loved her very much.
Not a “great” film but I love John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Somebody mentioned <b>My Dinner with Andre</b>? Well, yeah, that goes without saying; it’s a movie without a plot. It’s good, but it’s just two guys talking for an hour and a half.
Well, in that vain, I nominate <b>Waking Life</b> and <b>Slacker</b>.
<b>Slacker</b> however, may be a bit dicey; there’s the couple who are going to see the movie but are early and go to a bookstore and there’s also that guy who was throwing his typewriter into the river because of a girl (iirc), but I think the movie works because, when taken in context, the couplehood and ruined relationship don’t count as romantic; they are, in my opinion, simply used as explanations of behaviour.
–greenphan
ahhh, crap; i still can’t get the hang of using the brackets instead of the point do-hickeys.
so…
BOLD!
–greenphan
and i think in reservoir dogs kietel had a nonsexual blooming love for tim roth. thats why he stuck up for him.
apocalypse now was free from any emotion besides psychotic rage and despair. beautiful
I don’t remember if it made it to the movie of The Hot Rock, but in the book, Dortmunder is married and pushed into the caper by his brother-in-law. He takes it on to keep his wife happy.
SadTomato mentioned:
My Dinner With Andre
Remember, Andre and Wally both have SO’s: Chiquita and Debbie ( I think), respectively.
Because seeing a movie in a theater often involves going on a date, and the all-important 18-34 demographic will be more likely to attend your movie if it has mushy stuff in it.
I think that movies have been destroyed by pointless romantic subplots.
I watched The Ladykillers recently. God forbid it be remade, or
Mrs. Lopsided will have a gentleman caller who adds nothing to the plot.
Pardon me? Are we talking about Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? The whole plot of the movie hinges on the rather sappy lovestory of the inventor’s son and the rebel leader girl.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, ensemble cast
Unforgiven, Clint Eastword uses movie Law of Dramatic Gun Chambering
Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, only good one
The Bank Dick, W. C. Fields as Souse`, accent grave (When was the last time you saw a movie when everyone clapped at the end?)
M, Peter Lorre directed by Fritz Lang, a must see, Hans Beckert will stay with you as long as Winston Smith or Holden Caufield
12 Angry Men, like someone said earlier.
Another movie, starring Jon Voight Runaway Train, about a prison escape. I didn’t realize the female was Rebecca de Mornay until I saw her name in the credits.