movies...

[gravy boat]

Lets see TL, Crimestick, Stupornaut, and Masterofsparks have all beaten me to the punch with some of their I'll thrown in Prime cut watch it with a Vegan you love.

For watching with the Vegan you love, I suggest the weird lovable Buddy Boy. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/buddy_boy/#synopsis

[Joe Rogaine]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Plot Synopsis

A troubled teenage girl and her two pals decide to vent their repressed and roiling emotions via a punk rock band, the Fabulous Stains. Though utterly devoid of talent, the Stains manage to get a gig touring with another punk band, the Looters (comprised of former-Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones, Clash bassist Paul Simonon, and Tubes vocalist Fee Waybill). Thanks to clever promotions of their agent, the Stains become popular, even though they never waxed a single. The agent then exploits their popularity at every turn and transforms the talentless Stains into national sensations and causing them untold stress and inner turmoil.


Its on Youtube!



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[bruce]

Well since my cable was completely knocked out all of yesterday. I caught up on some movie watching.

Finally watched the Danish film PUSHER now that film is all kind of kick ass.

Other movies watched:
House of Dark Shadows - in ninety minutes they summed up three seasons of that show.
Street Law- Franco Nero going all revenge style of a group of robbers who almost killed him.

[Martin]

Bruce, there are two sequels to PUSHER, both are pretty great - they take place in the same world, but with somewhat different characters than in the first one.

Hey, Jules Dassin died today at 96 (guess he waited for Widmark to kick it - Dassin won). For anyone unfamiliar with his work, start with Rififi, then work your way through Night and the City (featuring Widmark's arguably best perf), The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, and the rough prison drama Brute Force. These are all very good films, but lots of his post-Blacklist stuff is ho-hum (including Never On Sunday, which various news outlets today dubiously refers to as his "most famous film").

[bruce]

I know of the sequels Crimestick Pusher II is sitting waiting to be watched. But I heard the third one is not so great

[Martin]

Yeah, to be fair #2 is good, #3 is alright.

[KickTheBobo]

Three O'Clock High

one of my favorites.

[dave from knoxville]

Buddy Revell seems like a Gorch in training

[Phantom Hugger]

personal favorite.... Bab Boy Bubby

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/

aims high, hits it's targets (mostly) and rewards!

also I'll throw The Cincinnati Kid into the gritty 70's film love pile.
(I also liked The Swimmer for what it's worth)

[Spoony]

It didn't get any harder or tougher than Jules Dassin. I am saddened to hear that (although I didn't think he was alive either).

For a jewish kid from the Bronx who gave up on MacCarthey's america before america gave up on him, Daddy didn't do too bad.

C

[buffcoat]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Plot Synopsis

A troubled teenage girl and her two pals decide to vent their repressed and roiling emotions via a punk rock band, the Fabulous Stains. Though utterly devoid of talent, the Stains manage to get a gig touring with another punk band, the Looters (comprised of former-Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones, Clash bassist Paul Simonon, and Tubes vocalist Fee Waybill). Thanks to clever promotions of their agent, the Stains become popular, even though they never waxed a single. The agent then exploits their popularity at every turn and transforms the talentless Stains into national sensations and causing them untold stress and inner turmoil.


Its on Youtube!

I believe that "You're fiyered!" is Brent Spiner, no?  (Also appears briefly in 1980's Woody Allen project "Stardust Memories.")

[Sarah]

Jules outlived his son by a lot of years.  Poor Joe.  Jules?  I bet he was ready to go.

[A.M. Thomas]

I three-quarters heartedly recommend the horribly-named "Duck You Sucker" by Leone, the middle one of his second trilogy.  It's a good weird western in the Leone style, with the revolution-era Mexican government standing in for the Nazis.  Rod Steiger's accent is embarrassing.  James Coburn is good but I kept wanting to say "Good... lauck..." every time he got in a stagecoach.

The name stuck because Leone insisted (over Steiger and Coburn's repeated objections) that Duck, You Sucker was a common American phrase.  Some places you'll see it called "A Fistful of Dynamite."

Yes.  I love it.  I believe its third aka is Once Upon a Time in the Revolution to go along with the other two Once Upon a Times.

[A.M. Thomas]

personal favorite.... Bab Boy Bubby

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/

aims high, hits it's targets (mostly) and rewards!

also I'll throw The Cincinnati Kid into the gritty 70's film love pile.
(I also liked The Swimmer for what it's worth)

This movie is great if you turn it off after the first twenty-five minutes.

[A.M. Thomas]

Something I recently saw that I very much enjoyed:
Little Otik.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qdLUrC6copM

A Czech film that (I think) is about the permanence of narratives.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0228687/