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1. • CommentAuthorandy
   • CommentTimeApr 26th 2006

    
   The 102 films you must have seen to consider yourself "movie literate" according to this site: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/EDITOR/60419010
   
   I'm somewhere in the 40s, but troubled by the omission of Star Wars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Matrix, Bande a Part and the entire Chevy Chase oeuvre. And Ghostbusters.
   
   2001: A Space Odyssey
   The 400 Blows
   8 1/2
   Aguirre, the Wrath of God
   Alien
   All About Eve
   Annie Hall
   Apocalypse Now
   Bambi
   The Battleship Potemkin
   The Best Years of Our Lives
   The Big Red One
   The Bicycle Thief
   The Big Sleep
   Blade Runner
   Blowup
   Blue Velvet
   Bonnie and Clyde
   Breathless
   Bringing Up Baby
   Carrie
   Casablanca
   Un Chien Andalou
   Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
   Chinatown
   Citizen Kane
   A Clockwork Orange
   The Crying Game
   The Day the Earth Stood Still
   Days of Heaven
   Dirty Harry
   The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
   Do the Right Thing
   La Dolce Vita
   Double Indemnity
   Dr. Strangelove
   Duck Soup
   E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial
   Easy Rider
   The Empire Strikes Back
   The Exorcist
   Fargo
   Fight Club
   Frankenstein
   The General
   The Godfather,
   The Godfather, Part II
   Gone With the Wind
   GoodFellas
   The Graduate
   Halloween
   A Hard Day's Night
   Intolerance
   It's a Gift
   It's a Wonderful Life
   Jaws
   The Lady Eve
   Lawrence of Arabia
   M
   Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
   The Maltese Falcon
   The Manchurian Candidate
   Metropolis
   Modern Times
   Monty Python and the Holy Grail
   Nashville
   The Night of the Hunter
   Night of the Living Dead
   North by Northwest
   Nosferatu
   On the Waterfront
   Once Upon a Time in the West
   Out of the Past
   Persona
   Pink Flamingos
   Psycho
   Pulp Fiction
   Rashomon
   Rear Window
   Rebel Without a Cause
   Red River
   Repulsion
   The Rules of the Game
   Scarface
   The Scarlet Empress
   Schindler's List
   The Searchers
   The Seven Samurai
   Singin' in the Rain
   Some Like It Hot
   A Star Is Born
   A Streetcar Named Desire
   Sunset Boulevard
   Taxi Driver
   The Third Man
   Tokyo Story
   Touch of Evil
   The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
   Trouble in Paradise
   Vertigo
   West Side Story
   The Wild Bunch
   The Wizard of Oz
2. • CommentAuthorLucy
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    
   damn, i'm only in the 30s. And, much as I enjoyed the first two leathal weapons and I was a fan of Mel Gibson (until he went insane and til he filmed braveheart), what on earth is Mad Max doing on the list? I mean, seriously.
3. • CommentAuthorDavid
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    

   See, I think this is plain wrong. Mad Max 2 over the original? ditto Star Wars? And where oh lord is Brewsters Millions, that complex, interlocking and ultimately rewarding narrative?

   The Big Red One was plain shit, A Star is Born induces vomiting and A Hard Day's Night just beggars belief.

   Still, nice to see The Seven Samuri in there.

   I've seen 54 of them, but mostly the ones I'm not proud of seeing.

4. • CommentAuthorandy
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    
   Mad Max 2 is just insane.
   
   Choosing Empire over Star Wars is simple snobbery.
   
   Musicals are shit. The South Park musical is the best musical.
   
   Hard Days Night isn't a film. It's just...rubbish. If you want a band film, then you want "Head" by the Monkees. Or Spinal Tap.
5. • CommentAuthorDavid
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    

   even Purple Rain was better than Hard Day's Night for christs sake.

6. • CommentAuthorandy
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    
   Purple Rain is ace.
   
   Prince is ace.
7. • CommentAuthorLucy
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    
   Films with pop stars in them - Dune. Blue something or other, with Kylie. Moulin thingy, with Kylie.
   
   This could be a better game if I could remember the full titles of films!
8. • CommentAuthorDavid
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006 edited

    

   See, I was thinking more of films based around the pop star and his music, or even better as in Prince and The Beatles, around an album. You don't get a more glib idea for a film as an afterthought around an album that's done well.

   Still, if its pop stars in films, Bowie has done pretty well/terrible depending on your view - Man Who Fell To Earth, Merry Xmas Mr Lawrence, Absolute Beginners, Labyrinth.

   Also, Elvis should have been killed for any given movie he made.

9. • CommentAuthorLucy
   • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

    
   Labyrinth is great! I have the album, should anyone want to borrow it.
10. • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

     
    19. I am officially a film chav. Though if you take out all the scary ones which I'm never watching ever, the percentage will go up quite a lot.
    
    Lucy - Labyrinth? What are you thinking?
11. • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

     
    David Bowie in Lycra. I liked that look in the 80s!
    
    To be fair, the album was a gift.
    
    One of the memorable lines from the film: "slap that baby, make him pee". Class
12. • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2006

     
    "David Bowie in Lycra. I liked that look in the 80s!"
    
    First time I read that, I though David had posted it.
    
    After I had composed myself, I read it again.
    
    Let's not overlook the classic "Freejack", starring Mick Jagger.
    
    Imagine the pitch "It's the Terminator, but with Mick Jagger and no special effects. No, since you ask, he can't act for shit."
13. • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2006

     

    Freejack was more like The Running Man, really.

14. • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2006

     
    Plot summary: "Auto racer Alex Furlong is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak's 21st-century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie, now 15 years older and an executive at McCandless."
    
    A bit of both, I'd say. Though it does seem strange that a future society could have time travel and mind transfers, but not have cracked multiple organ donation.
15. • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2006

     

    who was the ailing rich man? i'm thinking it was someone who should have known better than to take the part but can't remember who. googling is cheating.

16. • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2006

     
    I've googled already to get the plot synopsis.
    
    And yes, it is someone who should have known much better, but is becoming a bit of a hack in his old age.