Since we’ve got a good thread going about TV shows I just wanted to say I think “Cool Hand Luke” was just the best. The 50 eggs, mirrored glasses and “we’ve got a failure to comunicate”. Who can tell me the name of the actor that played the warden. Also don’t forget George Kennedy as Luke’s prison buddy.
I saw “Bourne Supremecy” at the 1:45 show. Wow! What a car chase! Reminds of two other favorites - “Bullitt” and “The French Connection” (“do you pick your feet?”) I would go see Bourne Supremecy, it’s a good sequel to Bourne Identity.
Also, The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and The Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin. Great stuff. Especially Jim Brown running across the roof dropping grenades in the vents, classic.
I’m sure you can see a theme in the kind of movies I like. Anybody else got some favorites?
Strother Martin played the warden. Wonderful movie.
We’re on the same wave length tonight Jon. Good old Strother Martin. Didn’t George Kennedy win a supporting actor Oscar for that portrayal? The egg-eating scene was one of the best in filmdom. Wasn’t that, “Do you pick your toes in Poughkipsie?”
Those were great movies with great car chases. I hate however movies where car chases are used as filler for an otherwise poor movie lacking in character development, etc. Gone in Sixty Seconds was a recent pretty good flick with all sorts of car chases. “What do you like better, stealing cars or sex?” Anjolina Jolie somehow moved me with that…
Another good genre with some recent entries - “The Heist” (remake), “The Score”… Or how about movies like “The Game” (Michael Douglas and Sean Penn) and “House of Games.” And speaking of Michael Douglas, I really enjoy movies like “Black Rain.”
How bout some esoterica and cult stuff - Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog, Way of the Samurai” or Jodorowsky’s “El Topo”?
Philo
Philo
Akira Kurosawa’s Ran. Especially the huge battle scene. And what was the name of that Lee Marvin movie where he was stranded with a Japanese enemy soldier on a Pacific island?
Remember the Lee Marvin Pacific island movie, but not the name.
Best Lee Marvin movie and perhaps one of the best but little known westerns: Monte Walsh …think it was made in about 1971, 1972. If you have an appreciation for real westerns, not Hollywood westerns, this movie will tear your heart out.
Susan
Well, that would be “Hell in the Pacific” with Toshiro Mifune; riveting.
Bingo! Other Lee Marvin movies, on more of a comic vain, are Cat Balou and Paint Your Wagon. And speaking of westerns how about The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brenner and James Coburn as a knife thrower. James duel against the haughty gunslinger was just the best.
You’re obviously not a girlie-man, Jon. How can you possibly talk about the Magnificent Seven and not mention Steve McQueen?!?!?
Better yet, Steve McQueen in Nevada Smith. sigh
e’re on the same wave length tonight Jon. Good old Strother Martin. Didn’t George Kennedy win a supporting actor Oscar for that portrayal? The egg-eating scene was one of the best in filmdom. Wasn’t that, “Do you pick your toes in Poughkipsie?”
Those were great movies with great car chases. I hate however movies where car chases are used as filler for an otherwise poor movie lacking in character development, etc. Gone in Sixty Seconds was a recent pretty good flick with all sorts of car chases. “What do you like better, stealing cars or sex?” Anjolina Jolie somehow moved me with that…
Another good genre with some recent entries - “The Heist” (remake), “The Score”… Or how about movies like “The Game” (Michael Douglas and Sean Penn) and “House of Games.” And speaking of Michael Douglas, I really enjoy movies like “Black Rain.”
How bout some esoterica and cult stuff - Jim Jarmusch’s “Ghost Dog, Way of the Samurai” or Jodorowsky’s “El Topo”?
Dang it Phil, Now you got me started. (This’ll cost me practice time.)
The second Matrix had a great car chase scene.
I loved The Game and Black Rain. Check out The Hunted with (Highlander star- blanking name) for more samurai action in modern Japan. (Verrry bloody.) Oh yeah, The Yakuza with Robert Mitchem. Memento was fabulous for a weird ride.
Loved Ghost Dog. Him watching the little Asian guy with the groceries getting mugged and laying some punches into the mugger- good stuff. I heard a good interview with Jarmuch on Fresh Air, public radio about making the movie and the samurai handbook the guy quoted from, which is real. Reminds me, check out Ghost in the Shell, a Japanese anime. The cyborg cop hero is trying to figure out if she’s real or created, whether her memories are real or implanted. Unbelieveable graphics.
Also track down Jarmuch’s older films: Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law. Hilarious in a twisted way. Both in black and white. And speaking of my favorite twisted movie: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. The houseboys for two wealthy neighboring women make a bet to see who can nail the other’s boss first or something like that.
Tell me about El Topo. Haven’t seen it.
Tony
(Now, I’m going upstairs to practice.)
I’m just so enamored with knives that’s all I could think about when I was a kid. Steve McQueen is really awesome. Bullitt is one of my all time favorite movies.
Kelly’s Heroes, with a cast of thousands…uh…er..O.K., tens. Favorite characters? Donald Sutherland as ‘OddBall’, Don Rickles as ‘CrapGame’.
A bank heist during the middle of the second world war, behind enemy lines, with a bunch of misfits…folks, they don’t write 'em much like this anymore. 
Thank goodness. I didn’t care for Kelly’s Heroes - a rip-off of The Dirty Dozen.
How about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid…On the Waterfront…
To Kill a Mockingbird… Stagecoach… Red River… The Outcasts… Guns of Navarrone…
Are we going for a specific genre here? Or just stuff we like?
Susan
Susan, I’m in love..we could see movies together forever…ok, movies get me excited. Remember the days when you could sit through the same movie in a theater twice through? I did that for Butch and Sundance. IMHO, On the Waterfront is the greatest American movie ever made. To Kill a Mockingbird did justice to a great book. Red River may be my favorite western.
Jon, how bout the original [Magnificent] Seven Samurai by Kurasowa.
Tony - I was worried about practice time too until I read the other whistle sale thread and was so aghast at someone parting with a Bflat WW, that I pulled mine out and played for a half hour - still the best bang for the buck in the Bflat category!
Philo
Phil, of course I forgot "The Magnificent Seven was patterned after a Kurosawa film. Does anybody know the name of the Japanese movie with the blind samurai? I mean this is really out there. It was in black and white with subtitles.
I wish we all lived close enough to have a regular movie night. We’d definately watch Fawlty Tower videos.
Yes Susan this is about favorites not just testosterone. For example The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers. What was his oriental karate partner’s name?
Kato.
Susan your wealth of info is priceless. How many is that for you?
Ah, those were the days. We had the “early show” and the “late show” at our little theater and you could sit through both if you wished - for the same 50 cents of course (kids 25 cents). Saw some great movies there.
Susan
(I’m not even using a search, Jon. 
Just an old movie buff - old movies, not old me. Well, somewhat old me too.)
Edited because I’m an idiot and just realized I meant The Misfits, not The Outcasts (sounds like a movie of Gilligan’s Island). :roll:
Ok, I got in a majorly long practice. Drank some Jameson’s. (That’s when I get into slow airs.)
Toshiro Mifune! Yojimbo. The dog sauntering down the street after a samurai battle with a hand in it’s mouth. He also did a western with Charles Bronson: The Red Sun. Train robbers hold up a train with the Japanese ambassador visiting President McKinley with a gift of a valuable sword. Toshiro, the samurai guard, is sent after the gang to retrieve the sword. Bronson is one of the robbers who is double-crossed by the gang and is after them to retrieve some loot. They’re reluctant partners. Hair raising scene of Mifune, sword at the ready, surrounded by Cheyenne warriors with spears. Came out in early 70’s. A samurai-western. How can you beat it?
Also in Chushingura, the 47 Ronin. Samurai plot to avenge the death of their master. Mifune, a masterless samurai, agrees to aid them by preventing enemy reinforcements from crossing a bridge. Holds off about 20 samurai with a 15foot long pitchfork. Ballet. Gorgeous filming. (subtitled) That movie played every day for a solid year in a small theater in Berkeley, CA when I was in high school. The only place I’ve seen it since is in a public tv mail order catalogue for about $50 (It’s a long movie.)
Tony
Good film.
Which reminds me- I always thought that Donald Sutherland was a bit of a Liberal.
I particularly remember him in a two or three part T.V. series several years back,which was the true story of an American Doctor who provided assistance to the Republican side during the Spanish civil war,and then went on to give medical aid to Mao’s followers in China,before being killed in action there.
To my horror,Donald Sutherland has now turned up in an Advert for Barclays Bank-the same British Bank that invested heavily in Apatheid South Africa during the 1970’s-80’s 
maybe that should be 
One of my favorite car chases has to in Dirty Harries “the Dead Pool”.