General Movie Thread

[masterofsparks]

Spinal Tap is in my top 5 funniest movies of all time, but I also like metal more than most FOTs, which I think probably helps.

[Greggulator]

For real -- what am I missing w/ Spinal Tap? Educate me FOTs on funnier movies! You guys are way bigger film nerds than me.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I don't mind Spinal Tap. I do mind the Spinal Tap hysteria.

[hardweek]

Sorceror is good but certainly no better (it's been so long since I've seen either, I can't remember whether I thought it as good), and Wages came first, so it wins.

Agreed 99% of the time (Diabolique falling in that category in a big way), but Sorceror is SO good. The Tangerine Dream soundtrack, the insane bridge scene (and the "making of" story behind it), and the weird dawn colors when Schieder finally collapses. Perfect, through and through!

[wood and iron]

I just looked up Sorcerer and noted that it's both a remake of a Clouzot movie and made by William Friedkin starring Roy Scheider. Done and done and done.

Sorcerer, meet my Netflix queue.

[Sarah]

I see I need to watch them both again.

[masterofsparks]

I don't mind Spinal Tap. I do mind the Spinal Tap hysteria.

Is there really a lot of hysteria about a 30-year old movie?

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I don't mind Spinal Tap. I do mind the Spinal Tap hysteria.

Is there really a lot of hysteria about a 30-year old movie?

There is. Just today I was reading about Spinal Tap on the interwebz.

[daveB from Oakland]

I don't mind Spinal Tap. I do mind the Spinal Tap hysteria.

Is there really a lot of hysteria about a 30-year old movie?

Tom's talked about it on the show before, basically saying "okay, let's give it a rest, let's move on ..."

I'm a huge fan of the movie. But I can somewhat understand where Tom is coming from. It's not too hard to run across tool-ish nerds who like to parrot "these go to 11" and other lines that have been run into the ground.

But if you check out some of the bonus material/deleted scenes on the various versions of "Spinal Tap" DVDs ... there's just a TON of great & hilarious material that didn't even make it into the movie.

What's interesting to me is that Messr's Shearer, Guest, and McKean don't really seem to have any affection at all for metal. Yet the movie seems to be pretty well embraced by metalheads. So I figure they must have been doing something right.

[hardweek]

The Bruno Kirby outtakes rule.

[Martin]

For what it's worth, I really like Sorcerer too.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I don't mind Spinal Tap. I do mind the Spinal Tap hysteria.

Is there really a lot of hysteria about a 30-year old movie?

Tom's talked about it on the show before, basically saying "okay, let's give it a rest, let's move on ..."

I'm a huge fan of the movie. But I can somewhat understand where Tom is coming from. It's not too hard to run across tool-ish nerds who like to parrot "these go to 11" and other lines that have been run into the ground.

But if you check out some of the bonus material/deleted scenes on the various versions of "Spinal Tap" DVDs ... there's just a TON of great & hilarious material that didn't even make it into the movie.

What's interesting to me is that Messr's Shearer, Guest, and McKean don't really seem to have any affection at all for metal. Yet the movie seems to be pretty well embraced by metalheads. So I figure they must have been doing something right.

I play guitar and guitarists are by far the worst offenders for running Spinal Tap qoutes into the ground. The "but this one goes to 11" thing is the most common. We guitarist think it's so darned funny that there are amps from a few differnt manufacturers that have knobs that go to 11. For reals.

[roubaix]

La prisonnière is an extension of L'enfer.  It has a similar story and similarly fascinating photography of modern kinetic art.

I wish Clouzot had made more films in the 60s.  His final two projects were significantly different from the rest of his work.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Just watched The Fighter. I thought it was great. Definitely a contender.

Now on to Dogtooth...

[crumbum]

Dogtooth is great. I had heard it compared to Haneke and Von Trier, so I was a bit apprehensive that it would amount to a beat-you-over-the-head moral lesson. In the end I didn't find that to be the case -- although the ideas about the nature of family are spelled out pretty clearly it felt more open-ended and less caustic than their works.

I'm sure glad I didn't bring my girlfriend though. The cat scene would have done her in.