Best movies.

[Taylor (imported)]

A-1. You are correct. That was the scene on the beach with explosions in the background and the cavalry officer (Robert Duval) makes that statement.

Although I didn't care for the movie it did have some great scenes.

[SplitDik (imported)]

Both Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket are great films. Yet, in my brain, they are not about the Viet Nam War. They are, of course, but they are not--in my mind's eye.

Kubrick shot his movie in London--I know that one does not have to be too literal, but, darn, his Viet Nam looks like London because it is London.

The current issue of The New Yorker has tumbnail reviews of Some Like It Hot and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. I think that you can read them online.

I know that the Billy Wilder movie is funny and I know that the acting is great. Yet, the film just never works for me. The flaw must be in my eye--not in the eye of anyone else.

The Cocteau film is one of my three favorite movies. My former wife introduced me to it. It is a splendid movie.

Wow, my list got a lot of commentary! I don't really consider either Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket to be commentaries on Vietnam specifically. In fact Apacalypse Now is really a resetting of the book "In the Heart Of Darkness" which was set in Africa and British (or French?) Colonialism a century earlier. I just appreciate the ambiance and the interaction between men under duress of such movies -- I like wondering what I would do in similar situations.

Humor is of course very personal. Some Like It Hot makes me laugh out loud. I'm not suprised not everyone likes it.

I have not actually seen any movie called Asian Anal Sluts, but I would bet good money that there is a movie out there with that title!

[Blaise (imported)]

Isn't Joe E. Brown wonderful in Some Like It Hot! Every performance in the film is splendid.

People who do post colonial studies have taken a second look at Heart of Darkness. I struggle seeing the world outside my colonial lens.

Maybe, some of my reservation about Apocalypse Now has to do with my reservations about the Conrad novella. I want to see the later cut of the film. I have not read the book in a long, long time.

When I was a teenager, the novel Lord Jim fascinated me. I suppose courage is something about which wonders in one's youth.

[Taylor (imported)]

There are so many good movies that get overlooked.

Better Than Chocolate.

The Weeping Camel.

Anyone else seen them?

[Blaise (imported)]

I just saw Flightplan. It almost works. It is a tight, well-made, and well acted film.

[Patient (imported)]

Thank you all for appreciating The Mouse That roared. As I have stated in another thread I think it is a priceless movie as is

its sequel The Mouse on the Moon,

despite the fact that there is some horrendously poor acting in one or the other (I don't recall which).

But then, Peter Sellers is one of my all-time favorites.

[docs (imported)]

My two best movies, hands down:

On the Waterfront Brutal for 1954

Some Like It Hot. Ms Monroe's costum in the stateroom with Tony Curtis is nothing short of nudity. Fully clothed but nothing left to one's imagination. And Joe E Brown was absolutely brilliant. And the last line was perfect: Well nobody can be perfect.

[Blaise (imported)]

That last line from Joe E. Brown is the movie. Roger Ebert says that it "is the best curtain line in the movies." It is.

By the way, Ebert writes that Apocalypse Now is the best movie about Vietnam and one of the greatest of all films. The Great Movies (p. 41).

Ebert celebrates the Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikiru.

When I think about it, I think that I have at least 100 first favorite movies.

Peter Sellers in Hal Ashby's Being There and in his multiple roles in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is brilliant and perfect. Hal Ashby was a great director.

Any William Wellman fans out there?

[Taylor (imported)]

I can't believe I didn't mention Dr. Strangelove.

Nobody who has seen it can forget the scene with Slip Pickins riding the atomic bomb like a bronco. I laugh my ass off every time I watch that movie. Obviously, it is a part of my DVD library.

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, it's the war room!"

Another twisted and delicious Kubrick film is Clockwork Orange

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[A-1 (imported)]

I can't believe I didn't mention Dr. Strangelove.

Nobody who has seen it can forget the scene with Slip Pickins riding the atomic bomb like a bronco. I laugh my ass off every time I watch that movie. Obviously, it is a part of my DVD library.

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, it's the war room!"

Another twisted and delicious Kubrick film is Clockwork Orange

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Where did I read that Kubrick had to leave England and the premier of A Clockwork Orange had to be cut short?

A-1