Seth's comments (member since Jan 24, 2008)

Seth's comments from the Movies We've Just Watched group.

Film that left me Completely Indifferent:

Forrest Gump. So a dope accidently meets a lot of famous people and is present for some big events, despite being a dope. He pines for a woman who treats him like crap, and comes up with some trite sayings. And I wasn't all that impressed with his performance, which seems artificial to me from start to finish, compared to Philedelphia or even Apollo 13.

But then I guess dopes do get by accident what hard-working intelligent people fail to accomplish even though they strive for their entire lives. Lesson: don't be born with any smarts, or life will suck. Wander through life as an idiot and be rewarded.

Worst Film Loved By Everyone but Me:

Heathers.

Worst Director:

Kevin Smith (though M. Night Shyamalan has really collapsed into an awful state as well)

1) Brazil
2) Blade Runner
3) Ed Wood
4) Broadway Danny Rose
5) Seconds
6) The Wizard Of Oz
7) Fargo
8) Pulp Fiction
9) The Parallax View
10) Back To The Future 2
11) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
12) Jaws
13) Die Hard
14) The Matrix
15) Psycho
16) Time After Time
17) Robocop
18) Man Bites Dog
19) Alien
20) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
21) The Empire Strikes Back
22) Gladiator
23) Titanic
24) Blade
25) The Taking Of Pelham One, Two, Three
26) Coma
27) Falling Down
28) Spider-Man 2
29) Family Plot
30) Taxi Driver
31) Revenge Of The Nerds
32) Heat
33) Sleeper
34) Fiend Without A Face
35) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
36) On Golden Pond
37) Kramer Vs. Kramer
38) Very Bad Things
39) The Dark Knight
40) Good Will Hunting
41) The Omen
42) Schindler's List
43) Three Days Of The Condor
44) Million Dollar Baby
45) Crash (2005)
46) The Big Lebowski
47) The Day The Earth Stood Still
48) Foreign Correspondent
49) Tremors
50) Lethal Weapon 2
51) The Last Samurai
52) The Brave One
53) Wait Until Dark
54) The Silence Of The Lambs
55) The Thing (John Carpenter)
56) Groundhog Day
57) Full Metal Jacket
58) Dr. Strangelove
59) Superman: The Movie
60) Planet Of The Apes
61) Insomnia
62) Minority Report
63) Casino Royale
64) Dead And Buried
65) Halloween
66) Speed
67) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1950s version)
68) King Kong (Peter Jackson version)
69) Dumb And Dumber
70) The Towering Inferno
71) Star Wars
72) The Hudsucker Proxy
73) Gattaca
74) A Christmas Carol
75) Carrie
76) The Quiller Memorandum
77) Where Eagles Dare
78) Innerspace
79) Planes, Trains And Automobiles
80) Batman Begins
81) Peeping Tom
82) The Salton Sea
83) Training Day
84) Deep Blue Sea
85) The Quick And The Dead (Sam Raimi film)
86) Young Frankenstein
87) Trading Places
88) Miami Blues
89) Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
90) Misery
91) The Mask
92) Deja Vu
93) Predator
94) Death Wish
95) Midnight Run
96) Heaven Can Wait
97) Notting Hill
98) Mystery Men
99) 2001: A Space Odyssey
100) The Terminator

Dead And Buried.

BRAZIL.

Clint Eastwood - Firefox

Nigel Hawthorne

Tom Sizemore - Lock Up

Sonny Landham

Yep. Did know that, but hadn't spotted him in the commercials. Lucky you. Anyway, we have a bon-fide comic-book crossover here; Tony Stark appears in the new Hulk movie.

Peter Stormare - Minority Report

Max Von Sydow

Frank Oz - Trading Places

Dan Ackroyd

In Stripes, with Bill Murray, I love what I call the "magical moving gym bag". In the middle of the night, Bill Murray is trying to desert from Army training; he's got this big gym bag with him. When his buddy, Harold Ramis, throws him to the ground and Bill Murray spends the next few minutes lying on his back, some quick dialogue ensues between them, with the camera angle shifting many times. The gym bag is sometimes: lying beside Bill Murray, lying just past Bill Murray's feet, lying under Bill Murray's head (!!), etc. etc. etc.

Broadway Danny Rose
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Radio Days
Crime And Misdemeanors

I was just a kid...and I unthinkingly blew into the end of an empty Smarties box during the film The Changeling, right at the seance scene, where there's a line like "If you can hear my voice, please answer....!".

ie.

Mystic (in film) performing seance: "If you can hear my voice, please answer...!"

Me (in audience) blowing into Smarties box without really thinking about it: "WWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Audience: Much laughter and frivolity.

Suspension of Disbelief: Suspended.

Simon Pegg - Mission Impossible 3

Laurence Fishburne

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Apocalypse Now
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Braveheart
Network
Maltese Falcon
Rocky
Ben Hur
anything with Charlie Chaplin

(but give me time...)

David Duchovny - Return To Me

Minnie Driver

Rip Torn - The Cincinnati Kid

Edward G. Robinson

Alfre Woodward - Heart & Souls

Robert Downey Jr.

Fred Ward - Miami Blues

Alec Baldwin

John Cusack - Con Air

Dabs Greer

Morgan Freeman - Nurse Betty

Greg Kinnear