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whiskeypriest
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:36 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Syd wrote:
No, it's not the best film of the 1990s.


Certainly not. But no one said it was that I know of. What I have said is that it is Scorsese's best and much, much better than Dances With Wolves. Best film of the 1990s would be hard to pick, but Fargo, The Silence of the Lambs and Schindler's List rank above GoodFellas just for starters.

My pick is Fargo, but that's just me.
Fargo would be an easy #1 for me. Schindler's List and Goodfellas would be on it some where, along with The Double Life of Veronique, Red, Naked, Being John Malkovich, Barton Fink (sorry, you are wrong), L. A. Confidential, others I can't recall right now.

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carrobin
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:55 pm Reply with quote
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For some reason, "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool" doesn't seem to appear on anyone's list. Robert Lindsay had lousy luck in pursuing a film career.
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bartist
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:13 pm Reply with quote
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Carlito's Way
Usual Suspects
Being John Malkovich
Trainspotting
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
Goodfellas
The Limey
Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Terminator II
Naked
Schindler's List
LA Confidential

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marantzo
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:28 pm Reply with quote
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Four of those I haven't seen but I agree with the one's that I have.
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whiskeypriest
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:32 pm Reply with quote
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bartist wrote:
Carlito's Way
Usual Suspects
Being John Malkovich
Trainspotting
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
Goodfellas
The Limey
Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Terminator II
Naked
Schindler's List
LA Confidential
Only one I really object to is Usual Suspects, which is like a magician's trick; once you know how it is done it is staggeringly uninteresting to watch.

Well, I do not like Carlito's Way or T2 much, either, and Silence of the Lambs is simply not my type of movie.

I'd probably put Election and Shakespeare in Love on my short list too.

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marantzo
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:39 pm Reply with quote
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Didn't see Shakespeare in Love but I sure liked Election.
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billyweeds
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:45 pm Reply with quote
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Didn't like Carlito's Way? I'm very hurt.

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Marc
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:27 pm Reply with quote
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Carlito's Way was destroyed by the scenery-chewing performance of some hack named (I think) Will Weeden. In addition to wearing one of the worst hippie wigs I've ever seen, this jerk kept waving at the camera and mouthing "mom, I love you." In the DVD extras there's about 30 minutes of Weeden outtakes. The most appalling are the scenes where he snorts dandruff out of Sean Penn's hair and a brief glimpse of him flashing his pathetically small genitals. My wife exclaimed "is that his dick or did he drop an escargot in his lap?" Just awful.
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marantzo
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:19 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Didn;t like Carlito's Way? I'm very hurt.

Smile


I'm surprised that Whiskey didn't like it. An excellent movie. Except for that lousy actor that Marc wrote about.

Terminator II was very good, but not as good as CW.
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jeremy
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:57 am Reply with quote
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CW features what is probably my favourite Sean Penn performance. He does sleazeball well.

Bill who?

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billyweeds
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:16 am Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
Carlito's Way was destroyed by the scenery-chewing performance of some hack named (I think) Will Weeden. In addition to wearing one of the worst hippie wigs I've ever seen, this jerk kept waving at the camera and mouthing "mom, I love you." In the DVD extras there's about 30 minutes of Weeden outtakes. The most appalling are the scenes where he snorts dandruff out of Sean Penn's hair and a brief glimpse of him flashing his pathetically small genitals. My wife exclaimed "is that his dick or did he drop an escargot in his lap?" Just awful.


It will probably come as no surprise that my audition for Boogie Nights was not a success.
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billyweeds
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 6:18 am Reply with quote
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Interesting sidelight--and this one is true--is that my wife Dolores McDougal has a front-and-center extra role in the sequel to Carlito's Way. The sequel, subtitled Rise to Power, was unfortunately terrible in every other scene.
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bartist
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:34 am Reply with quote
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I'd probably put Election and Shakespeare in Love on my short list too.
Definitely. That was off the top of my head, with distractions. And that's a fair crit of The Usual Suspects, in that if you are describing "great" as something that stands up to repeat viewings TUS doesn't. I could replace it with Miller's Crossing, a better Byrne vehicle, but then I'd have four Coen films on the list and people would start thinking I'm some sort of Coen fanboy and we can't have that.



Marc, you must have the Director's Cut. The original theatrical release only has Weeden "twerking" with female cast members and pretending to romance a watermelon at the party.

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knox
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:23 am Reply with quote
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Add Safe and Short Cuts to the list - Haynes and Altman need to be represented.

Can't imagine a list without Barton Fink, but our resident "Party Animal" doesn't like? For me, it seems like a film that speaks to everyone with the minutest sliver of an artist in their soul - and kicks the sliver's pretentious little butt.
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billyweeds
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:24 am Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
Silence of the Lambs is simply not my type of movie.



It's not my "type of movie" either, but that doesn't mean it's not a great movie.
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