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Evil Dead Junkie
10-16-2003, 01:20 PM
Dementia 13: Never Seen

Finians Rainbow: The strangest ****ing Film I've ever seen, and I've seen Tesuo the Iron Man. A Fred Astaire film about Lepracons?

C

The Rain People: Never Seen

The Godfather: One of the Finest American films ever made despite what Hobbit Says.

A

The Conversation: A great film about Voyerism and perception. Surpassed only by DePalma's Blowout. That final Shot is Haunting.

A

The Godfather II: My second favorite movie chocked full of so many highlights that just a highlight reel would probably run half an hour. The Kiss of Death, the Stalking of Fulicci, Kays Confession, The final shot, the cross cutting execution. So good that it reduces the Godfather to just expositiom.

A

Apocalypse Now: An amazing film and arguably his last great one.

A

One From the Heart: Total Fayage.

C+

The Outsiders: Good adapation though it reduced the story of the gang to the story of Johnny and Pony Boy.

B

Rumble Fish: Over indulgent sloppy adaption of a book that wasn't that great to begin with.

D

The Cotton Club: Never seen.

Captain Eo: Never seen.

Peggy Sue Got Married: Fun Back to the Future Ripoff. Good Nic Cage craziness and Prime Kathleen Turner Hotness.

B-

Gardens of Stone: Never Seen

Tucker a Man and His Dream: Underated, but still not great.

B

New York Story: Definitely the weakest short in this collection.

C

Godfather III: Not the sheer perfection of the other two, but plenty of great scenes. The confession, the Helicopter attack, the Parade assination, and the Opera house seen which for my money is better then the Baptism for cross cutting vengance and remorse.

A-

Dracula: Despite Cary Ewles and Gary Oldman, my disdain for this film is well known.

F

Jack: You're shitting me right.

F

The Rainmaker: Thoroughly Average.

C

Evil Dead Junkie
10-16-2003, 01:21 PM
Would someone please combine this with the other thread

Matt
10-16-2003, 02:54 PM
i voted for The Outsiders..

Pony Boy ruled! lol

Evil Dead Junkie
10-16-2003, 02:56 PM
Why didn't Ralph Macino just use karate to take care of those socies.

LOL

Wiggum
10-16-2003, 03:40 PM
Stay golden, Matt.

Apocalypse Now, best movie ever.

The Outsiders: Good adapation though it reduced the story of the gang to the story of Johnny and Pony Boy.


Isn't that what the majority of the book is about?

Evil Dead Junkie
10-16-2003, 05:37 PM
Well yeah but the gang here was more or less a couple of cameo's the books characters had depth, and Pony's family wasn't explored at all in the movie.

Wiggum
10-16-2003, 05:42 PM
It wasn't as intimate as the book, but I got a pretty good sense of their bonds from the scenes at Pony's house and the big brawl.

Evil Dead Junkie
10-16-2003, 05:49 PM
You see to me he failed utterly with brawl. The brutality and confusion of the book was just replaced by a bunch of repeating images of people having their faces smashed into mud.