BOT: THE REVISITING -- now up, 1987! MINI-EXTENSION, deadline is tonight, June 25!

[aabattery]

FYC: Cobra Verde.

 

Last movie Herzog and Kinski did together, just finished watching it. Is good. Just as interesting is the stories about it's production. Shit is literally insane. There was apparently a documentary about it called Location Africa, which I haven't been able to track down. I imagine My Best Fiend touches upon it as well, but I haven't had the chance to watch that yet.

 

But yeah. This one was interesting. Definitely worth the watch.

 

[lilmac]

Wow, 1987 was a great year. I remember Batteries not included fondly. Many of these I saw later when I got old enough for R rated movies.   I have yet to see Robocop....I better get on that. 

[aabattery]

Extreme Prejudice is pretty good!

[aabattery]

I had a good time with Radio Days. Nice little movie.

 

Really dug Full Metal Jacket. I'd heard the second half was worse than the first but I gotta disagree with that. Second half was equally strong. Good stuff.

[Jake Gittes]

Yeah I'm tired of that FMJ criticism. It's great all the way through.

[CoolioD1]

I'd agree with that. generally i think that criticism comes from the Ermey/D'onofrio fire in the first half and you're left with Matthew Modine being a wet blanket black hole of nothing as an actor which i would also not disagree with also i guess.

[Plain Old Tele]

But... I agree with the criticism. ?

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, God Emperor Tele said:

But... I agree with the criticism. ?

 

Heh. Casual.

 

Bet you haven't even watched Cobra Verde 

 

I can definitely see why people would think that, since R. Lee Erney and D'Onofrio really do run away with it in the first half, but theres a lot of great little character moments all throughout the second half. I guess I just found myself engaged throughout the whole thing.

[Goffe]

My contrarian take, of course, is that the second half is actually a lot better than the first. Before that sniper sequence I was pretty uninvolved and bored by it.

[baumer]

Goffe: The new Gopher

[aabattery]

The Hidden was a lot of fun. 

 

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Iconic.

 

The ending didn't quite jive with me though.

 

[mahnamahna]

My list of films seen has gone up some:

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• Three Men and a Baby
• Fatal Attraction
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Moonstruck
• The Untouchables
• The Secret of My Success
• Stakeout
• Lethal Weapon
• Dirty Dancing
• Throw Momma From the Train
• Dragnet
• La Bamba
• Robocop
• Broadcast News
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Full Metal Jacket
• Wall Street
• Mannequin
• Roxanne
• Blind Date
• The Running Man
• Spaceballs
• Summer School
• Adventures in Babysitting
• *batteries not included
• Can't Buy Me Love
• The Princess Bride
• Harry and the Hendersons
• Overboard
• Baby Boom
• Innerspace
• Ernest Goes to Camp
• Raising Arizona
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Radio Days
• Hamburger Hill
• Less Than Zero
• The Chipmunk Adventure
• The Brave Little Toaster
• Babette's Feast
• Project A, Part 2

And here are the ones I hope to see before June 23rd:

 

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• Au Revoir Les Enfants
• Brightness
• Wings of Desire
• A Chinese Ghost Story
• Red Sorghum
• The Dead
• Housekeeping
• Predator
• The Living Daylights
• The Last Emperor
• Empire of the Sun
• My Life as a Dog
• Hope & Glory
• The Hidden
• Extreme Prejudice
• Evil Dead 2

 

Edited June 13, 2017 by mahnamahna

[Jake Gittes]

I still haven't caught up with anything I'd never seen before. Hopefully will find time for Maurice, Empire of the Sun, The Hidden, House of Games and and Broadcast News at least.

[Kalo]

On 6/11/2017 at 6:56 PM, aabattery said:

 

Heh. Casual.

 

Bet you haven't even watched Cobra Verde 

 

I can definitely see why people would think that, since R. Lee Erney and D'Onofrio really do run away with it in the first half, but theres a lot of great little character moments all throughout the second half. I guess I just found myself engaged throughout the whole thing.

 

I quite liked the second half as well, it's tone and kind of character shift is a bit odd. and I was kind of shocked when I realized D'Onofrio wasn't nominated for an Oscar. but overall I felt it was a pretty great film from start to finish. 

[Goffe]

The cute little kid makes Where is My Friend's House passable, but otherwise, it's pretty rough.

 

Final list. For reals this time.

 

1 Empire of the Sun 10/10
2 The Untouchables 10/10
3 Au Revoir Les Enfants 9/10
3 Extreme Prejudice 9/10
4 Broadcast News 8/10
5 Maurice 7/10
6 Near Dark 7/10
7 Spaceballs 7/10
8 Raising Arizona 6/10
9 Where is My Friend's House? 6/10
10 Full Metal Jacket 6/10 

[baumer]

I'm so thrilled this many people have watched Extreme Prejudice and liked it.  I used to be the only person I knew (besides my high school buddy) who had seen it.  But when everyone from Tele to Goffe seems to like it, then that pleases me.

[Tower]

Ok, I finished my list of films to see for this list, and I have a top 25 I'm happy with:

 

1	The Last Emperor
2	Raising Arizona
3	Empire Of The Sun
4	Angel Heart
5	Robocop
6	Matewan
7	Full Metal Jacket
8	Broadcast News
9	Hope And Glory
10	Extreme Prejudice
11	Wall Street
12	The Living Daylights
13	Predator
14	Cry Freedom
15	Maurice
16	The Running Man
17	Lethal Weapon
18	The Princess Bride
19	Withnail & I
20	Innerspace
21	Planes, Trains & Automobiles
22	Fatal Attraction
23	*Batteries Not Included
24	The Dead
25	Spaceballs

[aabattery]

Added a few more to my tally.

 

Near Dark was alright.

 

Withnail & I was very good. Killer performances from everyone involved and it has the best usage of My Guitar Gently Weeps in any film ever. Apparently this is one of Taika Waititi's inspirations for Thor: Ragnarok, so that's interesting.

 

The Untouchables was also very good. Sean Connery was obviously the standout, but it's a good film all around. I dug the score in particular. One scene was a little hard to take seriously though, since I saw The Naked Gun 33⅓ a few years before I watched this and it was all I could think of during that whole sequence.

[Jake Gittes]

1 hour ago, aabattery said:

Withnail & I was very good. Killer performances from everyone involved and it has the best usage of My Guitar Gently Weeps in any film ever. 

 

Not exactly a lot of competition there. Unless you just want to take down Kubo a little. In which case I'll allow it. 

 

1 hour ago, aabattery said:

Apparently this is one of Taika Waititi's inspirations for Thor: Ragnarok, so that's interesting.

 

I can't wait to see Thor and Hulk try to survive the cold English countryside. 

[aabattery]

2 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

Not exactly a lot of competition there. Unless you just want to take down Kubo a little. In which case I'll allow it. 

 

 

I can't wait to see Thor and Hulk try to survive the cold English countryside. 

 

Rank the While My Guitar Gently Weep's:

 

1- Withnail & I

2- Kubo and the Two Strings

3- The Mummy Trailer