April 7th – "Movie Madness”
6Movie Madness
Galactic Goat enjoys a good Netflix Original or Prime Original Series binge watch just as much as the next goat. But every once in a while I get excited for a good old fashioned movie night.
Movie night for the Goat is sort of a mixed blessing. On one hoof, there’s the relaxation and enjoyment of a few good movies and the reward of actually switching off for a change. On the other hoof, there comes this blinding realization that the Goat has shit taste in films.
No foolin’. I like some pretty embarrassing movies. I kid myself into believing I’m all cerebral and stuff, but then I see Napoleon Dynamite is on and I can’t switch the channel fast enough.
If you ask me to name my all-time favorites, there’s not a single film by Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles or even David Lynch. I’ve never even see the Twin Peaks movie.
Hey there! How YOU doin’?
Much as I like to think I’m a thinker, my favorite films are basically a who’s-who of cinema fluff. I would be hard pressed to choose a single “all-time favorite” but among the top is Emperor’s New Groove, Waking Ned Devine, Napoleon Dynamite, Closer You Get, Superbad, Barrytown Trilogy films (The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van). All a bunch of cinematic shite, BUT I LOVE THEM AND I CANNOT EXPLAIN WHY?!?!?!
The closes thing to a think film I’d have in my top 10 list would be Lost in Translation, and I freely acknowledge that’s not exactly Anbe sivam, is it.
I read Smithsonian, Archaeology, Scientific American, Nat Geo… I don’t read Mad Magazine or Readers Digest, so I like to think I have SOME cerebral awareness going on in there.
It’s time to speak up. What are your movie tastes? Brainiac or brain dead? Think piece, or think again? Admit those guilty pleasures!
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@woodhouse
The Twilight Zone - S05E32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54d0mk_the-twilight-zone-s-5-e-32-mr-garrity-and-the-graves_tv
(The connection to this episode is simple. I saw the phrase “Brainiac or brain dead”, and immediately thought of the undead.)
@PlacidPenguin Fast find. Well done yet again!
@ruouttaurmind
I honestly don’t know if @woodhouse is even watching these, but linking to them is fun.
@PlacidPenguin Now I feel compelled to play "Stump @PlacidPenguin when choosing tomorrow night’s topic.
@ruouttaurmind
So…
Saturday topics won’t get links until Saturday evening.
The 11th and 12th of this month won’t get links until the night of the 12th.
And the 18th and 19th won’t get links until the night of the 19th.
@PlacidPenguin Fair enough. I’ll have to make the topic extra interesting or entertaining to keep people engaged until your links arrive.
@ruouttaurmind
Also…
@ruouttaurmind
Truthfully though, the only reason I was "fast"was because I saw this thread before midnight, started looking for an episode, and then this thread was deleted.
@PlacidPenguin Galactic Goat gets busted trying to make the upload command behave on iOS on iPhone.
I gave up and killed the topic until I got home. Easier from the iPad.
I never could get into Napoleon Dynamite. It’s nice to know I’m not alone.
I love the sort-of-predictable-but-billed-as-mind-bender flicks. The Prestige, Sixth Sense, Primal Fear. I love picking through those types of films and figuring out the twist.
I am fairly incapable of paying attention to most art-house stuff, documentaries of most types, and it’s a rare Euro-flick that can keep me interested enough for subtitles.
My guilty pleasure used to be horror flicks, but can’t watch most of them anymore because, as a freaking adult, they started giving me nightmares.
@Thumperchick Totally with you on the subtitles. With the exception of the Steig Larsson (Dragon Tattoo) trilogy. The original Oplev vision is superior to the David Fincher English language remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
@ruouttaurmind I did get through the GWTDT trilogy! I loved that it wasn’t as… prettily cast a our version; It felt more true to the source because of that. However, I prefer the english remake, I think it was better overall.
My favorite so far is actually a horror/thriller that I never remember the name of. I think it was called P3 (like a parking garage.)
@Thumperchick P2 prolly?
@ruouttaurmind Perhaps where I got the name confusion from, but not the film I was talking about.
A quick search proves my memory for names of movies I saw a decade ago is faulty. The film I meant to reference is called Inside.
@Thumperchick Oh my. No giggles to be had from this one.
Why the hell doesn’t the Goat like Mad Magazine?
What’s wrong with you?
@f00l I’ve just never been exposed to it I guess? Mad (and any comic book) was expressly forbidden in the house when I was a kid, so I just never was exposed to the pulp rag medium.
@ruouttaurmind I love Mad Magazine. I buy it for the kids (and sneak off and read it myself).
@sammydog01 I played a casino slot machine in Vegas once with the Spy vs. Spy theme. Does that count?
@ruouttaurmind It only counts if you won.
@sammydog01 I got a $200+ bonus round playing on the casino’s promo free slot play and ran outta there like I was on fire.
I am kinda out of it on fanatic movie watching since when - around 1990? Before?
Can’t remember. At some point it stopped being worth it to me to work so hard at seeing new stuff. I can remember a bits and pieces of a bunch of films I liked but I can’t remember the titles. Annoying.
Anyway, what’s wrong with being Brainiac, Brain-Dead, and Trailer Trash all in one?
Some Kurosawa would make my top 20 or something.
I enjoyed the films below: most are quite well-known and would make many lists of either very good or (sometimes) terrible films:
Orpheus and Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Pixote
City of God
Viridana
Contempt
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Day for Night
The Story of Adele H
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Hunger
Farenheit 451
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers (1970’s - never seen the other ones)
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Le Dolce Vita
Amarcord
Blowup
Badlands
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs
The Man Who Would Be King
Start the Revolution Without Me
The Earrings of Madame de…
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Look Back in Anger
Under the Volcano
Children of Paradise
Smiles of a Summer Night
Persona
Cries and Whispers
Scenes From A Marriage
The Virgin Spring
Walkabout
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Breaker Morant
My Dinner With Andre
Z
Thieves Like Us
McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Man in the Glass Booth
The Maids
Atlantic City
The Late Show
The Sheltering Sky
Return of the Seacaucus Seven
Play Misty for Me
The Conversation
State of Siege
Plenty
Falling in Love
Days of Heaven
The Apu Trilogy
Performance
A Passage to India
The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe
The Russia House
War and Peace (1960’s version)
Solaris (Soviet version)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Blue Thunder
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The War of the Roses (1950’s)
Laura
Far From the Madding Crowd
Sleuth (1972)
Cinderella Liberty
Paris Texas
Dial M for Murder
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Cat People
Tess
Night of the Iguana
Repo Man
Swimming to Cambodia
The Human Factor
The Third Man
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Fitzcarraldo
Women in Love
Wait Until Dark
A Clockwork Orange
Anne of a Thousand Days
Horse Soldiers
Blood of a Poet
Ok I just listed way too many films. Sorry. Too tired to cut it down.
I enjoy many films from the smart to the stupid. But like the Galactic Goat it is the stupid I will always re-watch. No surprises here, I think.
I remember hunting around Amazon Prime one time looking for a movie to pass the time and came upon this: Tucker and Dale vs Evil. I absolutely loved this movie! Full of stupid.
@mfladd For relatively unknown actors, I don’t know how I stumbled on this either, but it’s by far one of my favorite. It’s on-par with a better known actor, Clive Owen, but an equally unheralded classic:
The guy uses carrots as weapons. Can’t get more nonsensical than that.
@mfladd that movie was stupid, and funny.
@distractedriver I wanted Clive Owen for Bond.
My, what a long neck out April Goat has!
Someone should make s movie.
@f00l
@PlacidPenguin Full length. Impressive. Disney has such a litigious rep I’m surprised.
let’s see. far too many movies i enjoy, but ones that i can (and have) watch over and over again:
Stand By Me
Boondock Saints
Superbad
Shaun of the Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Serenity
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Alien
Aliens
Up In Smoke
Trainspotting
there’s probably more, but i got tired of thinking.
@carl669
I certainly hope and expect that you have kinda memorized all the lines from at least Holy Grail and The Godfather.
Fuck, you’d better have.
@f00l Holy Grail, yes. Godfather, i’m working on it.
@carl669
One morning about a decade ago, I was listening to the Stern Show. They got to talking about The Godfather, and Artie Lange started doing the dialogue from the film.
He could have done all of it, no rehearsal.
The Stern Show people were pretty impressed, as was I.
@f00l Last year HBO was running The Godfather Epic. Basically the movies cut together and packaged into a 7:13 epic marathon. I recorded it then, but the commitment to watch has yet to find me.
@ruouttaurmind
I think perhaps you can purchase that monster cut on dvd or BR somewhere?
@f00l After posting that message I decided to fire it up. I’m 2.5 hours in. TBH, uh, I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. The first 90+ minutes with all the subtitles was annoying, and many of the performances are meh. I don’t get it. But I’m continuing on. Maybe the second film is mo bedda?
@ruouttaurmind
I saw the combo time-linear cut they did of I and II way back when they first did it. That one was masterful.
@f00l
@ruouttaurmind
I RESPECT Galactic Goat.
@f00l No, but I’ve memorized all the lines from Aliens and The Princess Bride.
@moondrake
I bow before you, Master.
I would be your Grasshopper, if you would have me.
@f00l Sure, I could always use another grasshopper. Snatch this pebble from my hand.
@moondrake @f00l
@moondrake
That’s a little advanced.
How about I start by petting the puppies?
@f00l Only if you like Zephyr face baths. Tempest, too, when she’s in the mood, but Zephyr’s one kissy face dog.
@f00l Over 7 hours of my life I’ll never get back. I finally finished The Godfather Epic, and all I can say: “excruciating”.
There was only one redeeming bit in the whole epic, but not redeeming enough for the price of 7 hours.
@ruouttaurmind
That may be a different cut than the one I saw, which was made well before Godfather III was shot.
@f00l Epic is a combination of GF1 and GF2. I wasn’t even aware there WAS a GF3?? How many hours is THAT one going to cost me?
In the genre, I think Goodfellas was a much more interesting film to me.
I watched Napoleon Dynamite once, and that was one time too many.
I love a lot of stupid movies, but that one just was too much.
My partner introduced me to this movie, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. It was ridiculous. They took an old movie and added new stuff to it to create this goofy parody. I’m not sure if my enjoyment of it was more than normal just because my partner loves it so much and we were laughing a lot together.
@RiotDemon Heh. Seen it. Watched the whole thing cover to cover. I’m not sure if I was enjoying it or it was morbid curiosity.
@RiotDemon Have you seen Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle? Silly kick flick comedies with a lot of heart. This clip from Shaolin Soccer was popular for a while.
Saw parts of the sequel. Didn’t really enjoy what I saw (though that may be because of the parts which I saw).
@PlacidPenguin Sequel not great. Original lots of fun.
Tons of animated kid flix in my library. I think they appeal to me because of the positive nature of the stories. Reminds me of when I was still optimistic and believed right would always prevail over evil. Silly child.
@PlacidPenguin Cooking. Nuff said.
I love all kinds of movies except for low brow comedies and splatter films. But I mostly enjoy films with involve hot guys kicking ass and blowing shit up. My favorite comedy is The Rundown. My favorite historic drama, Last of the Mohicans. I love comic book movies, sci fi movies, fantasy movies, (actual) horror movies, kick flicks, and any kind of action film. I like smart films if they have a good pace, but a lot of smart films seem to just drag on and on. My favorite directors include Renny Harlin, Joss Whedon, James Cameron, Stephen Spielberg, and Guillermo del Toro.
I guess I’m pretty mainstream, I usually like movies with the top directors/producers/actors of our time.
Pacino, DeNiro,Robert Redford, Meryl Streep being some of my fav. actors. For comedy Jim Carrey and Robin Williams during their prime.