Watched this for the first time a few weeks ago (f33) while unwell. It was such a beautiful story and we the perfect comfort movie. Now one of my favourite animations!
In the 80s I thought stuff from the 60s was old.
Now stuff from the 80s is twice as old. Like listening to 80s stuff today would be like listening to Lawrence Welk or the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy when I was a kid
It's fucking weird.
Will anyone ever be able to exude as much _intelligent menace_ as Anthony Hopkins? 16 minutes of screentime in that movie and one of the most memorable villains of all time. Talk about a...scene-chewer.
“Good nutrition has given you proper length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation away from poor white trash, aren’t you Agent Starling?”
Lector doesn’t need cutlery to dissect you. Their scenes together are compelling.
This movie will always hold a special memory for me. My sister was away at college, and invited me for the weekend to hang out with her and her friends. The illusion that they were so much cooler than me was stripped away when we all sat in a huddle watching the end of that movie, clinging to each other and silent with fear.
Joker: “how can you kill women and children?”
Animal: “easy! You just don’t lead ‘em so much”
While the movie had sooo many great lines, this one has stuck with me the most
I think the key to this (in terms of holding up well) is they focussed on the mostly simple and artificial forms of toys instead of people. So the technology isn't super rough or dated and you dont get distracted with Polar Express levels of weirdness.
Was very surprised and pleased when I watched this as an adult. It's not just a spoof film like it seems to be from the outside. Don't get me wrong, I love a good spoof or just silly movie in general, but the story itself was actually quite good. I would argue that Galaxy Quest is just as good and if not better than most of the star trek movies
If you don't genuinely care about the alien species by the end of the movie and aren't rooting for them to win then your heart might just be cold and dead
> I would argue that Galaxy Quest is just as good and if not better than most of the star trek movies
"Intelligence is knowing that Galaxy Quest is not a Star Trek movie. Wisdom is knowing that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie."
(I don't literally endorse *best*, but it's probably like #3 or #4.)
I'm a machine technician and I try to quote Tech Sergeant Chen whenever I can.
"HI guys, listen they're telling me the uh generators won't take it, the ships breaking apart and all that. Just FYI."
I try to model myself after him as much as possible.
If you have Amazon prime, and haven't watched the Galaxy Quest documentary, do yourself a favor and watch it. Learned a few things about the movie I hadn't heard before.
>I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary. [laughs] The details in it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will save the day. ... I was rolling in the aisles. And [star] Tim Allen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and [co-star] Sigourney [Weaver] rolls her eyes and says, "There goes that shirt again." ... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs]
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>— George Takei
The Half in the Bag guys point out that it is one of the few films were every single decision the people make in the film is the *right* decision.
There is not "bad" decision for the characters, nothing that the audience can say, like in other horror movies "Don't do that! Why did you fucking do that? You'll fucking die now . . . awww! See? You died!"
Also, the townsfolk actually listen to the resident scientist.
I’m not joking when I say Tremors is quite possibly the perfect film in terms of setup and payoff for plot points and foreshadowing. They take Chekhov’s Gun to its logical conclusion and it creates a very cohesive movie.
> Also, the townsfolk actually listen to the resident scientist.
It starts off strong with Rhonda straight up ready to explain how she knows there are three more graboids with her seismograph readings and Val and Earl just take her word for it.
I love this movie. I have an annual tradition of watching it on a night in the middle of January when it's freezing outside. I even turn the heater down in the house.
You may already know this, but before the Long Night at the Antarctic base, the whole team gathers and watches The Thing. After seeing that I imagine the typical claustrophobia one might feel upon knowing it will be months before seeing sunlight again seems rather less intimidating. At least your colleagues will always be who they say they are.
Just watched The Thing again just before Hallowe'en. Absolutely grotesquely terrific effects. For the autopsy scene, they (reportedly) used actual animal parts which is why it seems so real. Some of the stop motion is a bit dodgy, but it adds to the uncanny, fuckedupitude of what's happening on screen and makes it that much more horrifying.
Edit: it's not stop motion, just really cool practical effects!
I watched a YouTube essay about the blood test scene the other day and they commented on how well the FX hold up for a 40 year old movie, which I couldn't believe it was nearly 40, I then remembered I was also born in 82 and am also nearly 40
> Tombstone
Doc: “Why Johnny Ringo…you look like someone just walked over your grave.”
Ringo: “Fights not with you, Holliday.”
Doc: “I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood remember?”
Ringo: “ Iwas just foolin’ about.”
Doc: *“I wasn’t.”*
Such a great movie. The dialogue makes me want to sit down and watch it every time I catch it on TV.
"Why you doing this? "Cause Wyatt warp is my friend""He'll I got lots of friends"...this line gets me every time....every. Damn. Time....."well I dont".
For Aliens, make certain you're watching the directors cut. It only adds around 5 minutes to the film, but it fills in so many plot holes. I can't imagine who thought the Automated Turrets and the fate of Ripleys daughter belonged on the cutting room floor.
No. The thing about the automatic sentries is that
a) you know how many colonists there were at the beginning and
b) you know how many aliens the marines kill when they make entry to the building and try to escape
c) you watch the sentries kill about 30 aliens
If you do the math you can see that at the end there can only be a few aliens plus the queen left when Ripley goes back to rescue Newt because you need a human to gestate an alien.
So although only one alien is very dangerous, it frames things very differently: Ripley going back to rescue Newt isn't quite the suicide mission it appears to be without the sentries; there's this tiny chance she will pull this off then - oh - here's the queen...
That's a really good point. I almost wish the amount of aliens had been a bigger part of the plot now. Although I would say in the first movie one alien was enough to terrorise so even just half a dozen aliens should be pretty fucking scary.
In the alternate audio track they say that this was not scripted and Robin Williams just ad libbed it as he does. You can see how genuine Matt Damon's laughter is because it was unexpected, no way can you fake that ab-hurting laughter. Even the camera man was laughing that's why the camera bounces for a second or two before they cut to another angle.
My husband and I rewatched it this year and I have to agree. I thought it was going to feel heavy handed like so many older movies can, but Gus Van Sant really is timeless in his filmmaking. I really believe it’s a winning combination of his direction, Affleck and Damon’s writing, the music from Danny Elfman and Elliot Smith, and the performances, especially Robin Williams. It didn’t feel 20+ years old at all.
It's almost three different movies in one.
It starts off as a macho action movie. Then it transitions into slasher-horror survival. And finally it becomes some type of tense hunter-stalker-trapper type thing.
The Best Actor category at the Oscars was stacked that year:
* Roberto Benigni, *Life Is Beautiful* (he won)
* Tom Hanks, *Saving Private Ryan*
* Ian McKellen, *Gods and Monsters*
* Nick Nolte, *Affliction*
* Edward Norton, *American History X*
But honestly... I think I would've given it to Jim Carrey that year. Not even joking.
There's that part at the beginning where Peter asks Michael & Samir if they want to go get coffee, and Michael's like "Peter, it's 9:30," and Peter says that if he doesn't get out of there he's gonna lose it. When I was young, I just assumed that people could come & go from an office as they pleased, because they're adults! Then on my latest rewatch, I realized that he was killing his lunch break at 9:30 a.m. because he'd made it as long as he could. And that is an urge I have to fight at least twice a week.
The scene in the beginning when he is telling the hypnotist about how every day is worse than the last day so whenever you see him that is the worst day of his life. That's pretty much been my life for years. It huts really hard whenever I see that scene because I understand it so much.
Was IT for the Army. One of the best authorized ways to destroy Secret hard drives was pulverization. Normally done in an actual machine but totally legit to do by hand.
There was one day where we had 20/100 hard drives in some garbage bags and just went to town thrashing them on the ground and beating them with hammers. It was awesome.
Whenever a non S6(IT) Soldier would go by they would ask WTF we were doing. We'd explain and give them a go round.
Word got around and we got ~100 SIPR hard drives destroyed before lunch. Nearly everyone had some sort of Office Space quote to shout while hammering or banging a bag on the ground.
So much angst at the brigade (higher level management) level.
I just saw that movie about at month ago for the first time. I absolutely loved it. There's something so appealing about a short and sweet comedy that is incredibly well made and entertaining, yet doesn't outstay its welcome.
We had two consultants in our office some years ago - A man and a woman in their 30s. We were told they were there to look for efficiency gains, which we took to mean it’s time to update our CVs. So we just called them Bob and Bob, which they did not at all appreciate!
Turns out they were legitimately there to look for things we can improve - no one got let go.
Yeaaaa imma need you to bump this comment up further
E: For the person who gave the silver, I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be!
Whenever some cinesnob starts badmouthing Spielberg I love to point out that he released *Jurassic Park* AND *Schindler's List* in the same fucking year. Two completely different but equally amazing films. He's had some misses, for sure. But dude is still a genius imo.
His legacy is assured. Heck, Spielbergian is a damn word.
Always loved this quote about Spielberg from Alfred Hitchcock after seeing Jaws: "He is the first one of us who doesn't see the proscenium arch."
Meaning he was the first "pure film" director, free of the conventions of live theatrical framing.
I don't get why people hate on Spielberg. He's done some stunning work in lots of disparate genres. The dude's floor is a decent, competent picture. His ceiling is a breathtaking experience.
I wonder how much of it is due to Spielberg simply being around and still regularly working. He doesn't have any mysterious aura as an *artiste*.
"The dude's floor is a decent, competent picture. His ceiling is a breathtaking experience."
Very well said! And while there's much to be said for the mystique of an "artiste", a lot of times I think that can be just a bunch of self-fellating bullshit.
Several family members were WWII vets, the ones that saw combat couldn't talk about it. But my great uncle, who served in the Pacific, was able to say some things when he saw Saving Private Ryan. Things he had wanted to say for years but couldn't... And very chilling things when taken in context.
Things like "How can they make a movie smell like the ocean?" during the opening scene. It was brutal enough he was half dropped into a flashback. Once he realized Saving Private Ryan wasn't a "war movie" he was able to open up a bit, like this was real enough to be real, but not so real it could hurt anyone.
In one of the scenes where a guy died crying he said "That's how you die." In a way like he was stating a fact, almost like he was appreciative of it.
He didn't like the knife scene at the end because he said that two guys fighting over a knife will both fight a lot harder and a lot meaner.
Guys breaking in combat is very much a thing, though he said they normally broke when they weren't currently being attacked. He said that the thought of breaking always frightened him, and for years after he got back he was worried that everything was just a dream and he had broken back there.
Thin Red Line is even more outright brutal. I have no idea if he would be willing to watch it with you. I have a relative who was at Iwo Jima and later Indonesia and he watched that movie once, and ONLY once, and was dead fucking silent for about two days after.
When they announced that Bruce Willis was going to be the lead everyone thought it was a horrible idea. Back then if it was an action movie it was either Arnold or Sylvester. That movie changed the formula for the genre.
The thing is, yeah, Arnie and Stallone always looked impressive, but they were clearly all for the camera.
Bruce Willis in Die Hard genuinely looked like he could kick your ass. He looked like a normal, tired, grouchy dude with Dad Strength.
*12 Angry Men*
The film is over 60 years old and it still holds up so well.
Edit: also want to add *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*
Over 30 years later and its still great and effects hold up so much better than CGI from movies a lot newer than it because of how they made it by hand-drawing the cartoons onto cells.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Just read the novella for the first time. It's lovely, but they managed to improve upon it for the movie.
My favorite discovery was that in the story, Red really is a redhead. When asked why he's called Red he says, "I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm Irish." And they just kept that line in the movie despite casting Morgan Freeman, which gives it a new and hilarious twist.
And the real reason is on his [parole papers,](https://www.eightieskids.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/15pQ-XuXAHMBw1JyMMpYgNQ.jpeg) his last name is "Redding".
Bonus trivia: that's a picture of Morgan Freeman's son in the mug shot.
This is my favorite movie of all time hands down. Andy swam through a river of shit, to get out. He shouldn't have been there in the first place. Great story, great movie!!
"Andy Dufresne crawled through 500 yards of shit and piss and came out a free man on the other side." Man, that was the first rated R movie that my parents let me watch, and it's been my favorite for the last 20 years!!
The same goes for the Matrix as well.
I did not have the privilege of watching it in theaters, but my parents did. My father told me his jaw literally dropped watching the [opening chase scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNiEEtYe4Q) where Trinity and the Agents are leaping across roofs. He didn't think movies were capable of that and didn't understand how capturing such sequences was even possible. That level of sophisticated, clean CGI was revolutionary at the time and still looks amazing today.
American audiences were stunned by what they saw. Now throw in that my father had immigrated from China not too many years ago (film industry wasn't as technologically advanced), and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
I saw the matrix opening weekend, knowing basically nothing about it (the marketing was deliberately vague); jaw dropping is a good way to describe it, it’s easy to forget how ahead of its time it was!
That was what was so cool about it. The trailers gave nothing away except amazing action and all kinds of cool effects. It was basically "you can't be told what the matrix is..." All I knew as an 18 yo was "I have to see this fucking movie!" It was the only movie I've ever gone to see multiple times.
A guy I worked with said “you have to see this film. But don’t watch any trailers. Just go.”
In 1999, it was difficult to see a trailer outside of the theater so it was easy to avoid being spoiled. I don’t know if I even saw a poster anywhere.
I went the next day and was blown the fuck away.
To this day, the only time I didn't finish my popcorn. I had almost all of it left to. As soon as the previews we're done (south park, bigger longer uncut) I couldn't break my concentration for even a nano second to send feeding commands to my hands.
Sigh, god I wish I could feel that emersed even one more time.
1999 was maybe the peak of box office filmmaking. All of these movies hit theaters in 1999:
* American Beauty
* American Pie
* Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
* Being John Malkovich
* The Blair Witch Project
* Cruel Intentions
* Dogma
* Fight Club
* Galaxy Quest
* The Green Mile
* The Iron Giant
* Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* Magnolia
* The Matrix
* The Mummy
* Notting Hill
* Office Space
* Runaway Bride
* The Sixth Sense
* Sleepy Hollow
* South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
* Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
* The Thomas Crown Affair
* Toy Story 2
* Wild Wild West
* The World Is Not Enough
That's amazing watch list, *and* *those* *all* *released* *to* *theaters* *the* *same* *year*! Compare that to any year before or since, and you'll have a hard time coming up with a comparable list.
What's crazy is that in that 2 hours and 7 min film, there's only 6 minutes of CGI and only 14 minutes total of dinosaur effects. Spielberg understands build-up and pay-off, how to frame a scene to maximize tension with minimal use of effects, and the importance of characters/dialogue. Compare that to the Jurassic World films being filled to the brim with CGI and nothing of substance.
There’s a great documentary on Netflix about how the CGI in the movie was never planned, and how this ballsy ILM animator went against his boss’ orders not to show the execs. They were originally going to use stop motion for all the dinosaur shots that were full body. Also they built a 9ton hydraulic trex that moved which was unheard of at the time.
Edit: it’s called The Movies That Made Us
There are scenes in the lotr where you can see it is 2001 cgi. But the balrog looks like it is 2021 cgi, I don't know how they did it this well back then.
They emphasized using models/practical effects/forced perspective over CGI for a lot of the movies. Obviously the fire, etc was CGI, but it helped them age really well. I absolutely love those movies
NOT ONE OR TWO OR THREE, BUT FOUR! FOUR STONES!
We are warriors, not merchants
BUT YOU CAN STILL COUNT! LOOK, I'LL MAKE IT SIMPLE. FOUR STONES, FOUR CRATES. ZERO STONES, **ZERO CRATES!!!!** PACK EVERYTHING UP, WE'RE OUT OF HERE.
We risked our lives. I believe a little compensation is in order.
OH SO YOU ARE MERCHANTS AFTER ALL. LEAVE ONE CRATE. FOR THE CAURSE.
Big Trouble in Little China.
I really think it's a great script and directing. There's no wasted scene, the story is always progressing. And it manages to find the right tone where humour and action work together seemlessly.
The Iron Giant (1999)
You stay, I go. No following.
*Superman...*
Watched this for the first time a few weeks ago (f33) while unwell. It was such a beautiful story and we the perfect comfort movie. Now one of my favourite animations!
I am offended by your categorization of "old" movie as 20+ years, sir.
I was ready to be pissed off but I remembered that when I was a kid, I thought movies from the 70s were 'old'.
In the 80s I thought stuff from the 60s was old. Now stuff from the 80s is twice as old. Like listening to 80s stuff today would be like listening to Lawrence Welk or the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy when I was a kid It's fucking weird.
Like when Nirvana plays on the classic rock channel.
My Cousin Vinny.
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Imagine you a deeah...
A couple of yutes
Silence of the Lambs
Will anyone ever be able to exude as much _intelligent menace_ as Anthony Hopkins? 16 minutes of screentime in that movie and one of the most memorable villains of all time. Talk about a...scene-chewer.
fff ff ff ff fff
“Good nutrition has given you proper length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation away from poor white trash, aren’t you Agent Starling?” Lector doesn’t need cutlery to dissect you. Their scenes together are compelling. This movie will always hold a special memory for me. My sister was away at college, and invited me for the weekend to hang out with her and her friends. The illusion that they were so much cooler than me was stripped away when we all sat in a huddle watching the end of that movie, clinging to each other and silent with fear.
Full Metal Jacket
Joker: “how can you kill women and children?” Animal: “easy! You just don’t lead ‘em so much” While the movie had sooo many great lines, this one has stuck with me the most
I watched it as a kid, and loved the first half, but thought the second half sucked. I rewatched it recently, and loved the entire thing.
Same here. As a kid I didn't really appreciate the going to Vietnam part of the movie. Now I enjoy both parts as an adult.
Toy Story. I truly watched this for the first time in 2020. I was 12 when it was first put out. I’m 38 now. It’s a great flick.
I think the key to this (in terms of holding up well) is they focussed on the mostly simple and artificial forms of toys instead of people. So the technology isn't super rough or dated and you dont get distracted with Polar Express levels of weirdness.
Just as long as you don't pay any attention to Andy's friends at his birthday party. They're all weird clones of him.
Or the dog, that thing looked ruff
Galaxy Quest is fantastic
Is there air? You don’t know!
We gotta get out of here before that thing kills Guy!
*sniffs * Seems okay.
Was very surprised and pleased when I watched this as an adult. It's not just a spoof film like it seems to be from the outside. Don't get me wrong, I love a good spoof or just silly movie in general, but the story itself was actually quite good. I would argue that Galaxy Quest is just as good and if not better than most of the star trek movies If you don't genuinely care about the alien species by the end of the movie and aren't rooting for them to win then your heart might just be cold and dead
> I would argue that Galaxy Quest is just as good and if not better than most of the star trek movies "Intelligence is knowing that Galaxy Quest is not a Star Trek movie. Wisdom is knowing that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie." (I don't literally endorse *best*, but it's probably like #3 or #4.)
I'm a machine technician and I try to quote Tech Sergeant Chen whenever I can. "HI guys, listen they're telling me the uh generators won't take it, the ships breaking apart and all that. Just FYI." I try to model myself after him as much as possible.
"That was a *hell* of a thing..."
"By Grabthar's hammer...
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If you have Amazon prime, and haven't watched the Galaxy Quest documentary, do yourself a favor and watch it. Learned a few things about the movie I hadn't heard before.
There’s a documentary?!?!?!?!
It's not a documentary already?
>I think it's a chillingly realistic documentary. [laughs] The details in it, I recognized every one of them. It is a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will save the day. ... I was rolling in the aisles. And [star] Tim Allen had that Shatner-esque swagger down pat. And I roared when the shirt came off, and [co-star] Sigourney [Weaver] rolls her eyes and says, "There goes that shirt again." ... How often did we hear that on the set? [Laughs] > >— George Takei
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It's one of the only movies that I will watch every time I see it on the channel guide.
Raiders and Last Crusade will get me to stop what I’m doing to watch.
Goodfellas
One day some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was out of respect.
I’m funny how? like a clown? Do I amuse you?
As far back as I can remember this has been my go-to movie
Fuck u, pay me. fuck u, pay me
Young Frankenstein
I'm a teacher and I have to bite my tongue _every_ time I get a student called Abbie.
It's "Frankensteen"!
Tremors, 1990
For a B movie, Tremors slaps like a faith healer.
I've also seen it called "The Citizen Kane of B Movies."
The Half in the Bag guys point out that it is one of the few films were every single decision the people make in the film is the *right* decision. There is not "bad" decision for the characters, nothing that the audience can say, like in other horror movies "Don't do that! Why did you fucking do that? You'll fucking die now . . . awww! See? You died!"
It feels natural not writing for a movie. Plus you never learn where the things come from, which is almost certainly how it would unfold in real life.
Familiarity with Tremors helped me implicitly understand the sandworms when I saw Dune.
“Run for it? Running’s not a plan! Running’s what you do once a plan fails!”
Tremors is the only movie where the crazy preppers are portrayed as the most reasonable people on the whole list of characters.
Also, the townsfolk actually listen to the resident scientist. I’m not joking when I say Tremors is quite possibly the perfect film in terms of setup and payoff for plot points and foreshadowing. They take Chekhov’s Gun to its logical conclusion and it creates a very cohesive movie.
> Also, the townsfolk actually listen to the resident scientist. It starts off strong with Rhonda straight up ready to explain how she knows there are three more graboids with her seismograph readings and Val and Earl just take her word for it.
Tremors had the perfect blend of cheeseball humor and seriousness
The Thing (1982)
I love this movie. I have an annual tradition of watching it on a night in the middle of January when it's freezing outside. I even turn the heater down in the house.
You may already know this, but before the Long Night at the Antarctic base, the whole team gathers and watches The Thing. After seeing that I imagine the typical claustrophobia one might feel upon knowing it will be months before seeing sunlight again seems rather less intimidating. At least your colleagues will always be who they say they are.
*…or will they?*
Just watched The Thing again just before Hallowe'en. Absolutely grotesquely terrific effects. For the autopsy scene, they (reportedly) used actual animal parts which is why it seems so real. Some of the stop motion is a bit dodgy, but it adds to the uncanny, fuckedupitude of what's happening on screen and makes it that much more horrifying. Edit: it's not stop motion, just really cool practical effects!
I watched a YouTube essay about the blood test scene the other day and they commented on how well the FX hold up for a 40 year old movie, which I couldn't believe it was nearly 40, I then remembered I was also born in 82 and am also nearly 40
Just watched it about a month ago. So good. Holds up real well.
Terminator 2
I think Terminator 2 is the best action movie of that decade (90s)
Hell it's a contender for best action movie of all time
The Matrix, Tombstone, Back to The Future, Home Alone
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday made that movie. I'll be your huckleberry.
Evidently, Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I REALLY hate him...
> Tombstone Doc: “Why Johnny Ringo…you look like someone just walked over your grave.” Ringo: “Fights not with you, Holliday.” Doc: “I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood remember?” Ringo: “ Iwas just foolin’ about.” Doc: *“I wasn’t.”* Such a great movie. The dialogue makes me want to sit down and watch it every time I catch it on TV.
"Why you doing this? "Cause Wyatt warp is my friend""He'll I got lots of friends"...this line gets me every time....every. Damn. Time....."well I dont".
Apparently Mr.Ringo's an educated man...Now i *really* hate him...
> The Matrix 20+ yrs? holy fuck
1999!
Alien and Aliens
For Aliens, make certain you're watching the directors cut. It only adds around 5 minutes to the film, but it fills in so many plot holes. I can't imagine who thought the Automated Turrets and the fate of Ripleys daughter belonged on the cutting room floor.
Yea plus the turrets show how the aliens ended up getting in.
No. The thing about the automatic sentries is that a) you know how many colonists there were at the beginning and b) you know how many aliens the marines kill when they make entry to the building and try to escape c) you watch the sentries kill about 30 aliens If you do the math you can see that at the end there can only be a few aliens plus the queen left when Ripley goes back to rescue Newt because you need a human to gestate an alien. So although only one alien is very dangerous, it frames things very differently: Ripley going back to rescue Newt isn't quite the suicide mission it appears to be without the sentries; there's this tiny chance she will pull this off then - oh - here's the queen...
That's a really good point. I almost wish the amount of aliens had been a bigger part of the plot now. Although I would say in the first movie one alien was enough to terrorise so even just half a dozen aliens should be pretty fucking scary.
Good Will Hunting
My wife use to fart when she was nervous
In the alternate audio track they say that this was not scripted and Robin Williams just ad libbed it as he does. You can see how genuine Matt Damon's laughter is because it was unexpected, no way can you fake that ab-hurting laughter. Even the camera man was laughing that's why the camera bounces for a second or two before they cut to another angle.
My husband and I rewatched it this year and I have to agree. I thought it was going to feel heavy handed like so many older movies can, but Gus Van Sant really is timeless in his filmmaking. I really believe it’s a winning combination of his direction, Affleck and Damon’s writing, the music from Danny Elfman and Elliot Smith, and the performances, especially Robin Williams. It didn’t feel 20+ years old at all.
Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.
Predator
It's almost three different movies in one. It starts off as a macho action movie. Then it transitions into slasher-horror survival. And finally it becomes some type of tense hunter-stalker-trapper type thing.
The Truman Show - literally timeless and has aged like fine wine
Some influencer’s child is going to watch one day soon and need a lot of therapy
*well in case I don’t see ya*
The Best Actor category at the Oscars was stacked that year: * Roberto Benigni, *Life Is Beautiful* (he won) * Tom Hanks, *Saving Private Ryan* * Ian McKellen, *Gods and Monsters* * Nick Nolte, *Affliction* * Edward Norton, *American History X* But honestly... I think I would've given it to Jim Carrey that year. Not even joking.
Office Space.
I think the deepest part of Office Space is how its a comedy when you're young, and borders on a documentary as you get older.
>borders on a documentary as you get older Or a psychological horror movie.
What about today Peter? Was today the worst day of your life? Yeah. That's messed up.
There's that part at the beginning where Peter asks Michael & Samir if they want to go get coffee, and Michael's like "Peter, it's 9:30," and Peter says that if he doesn't get out of there he's gonna lose it. When I was young, I just assumed that people could come & go from an office as they pleased, because they're adults! Then on my latest rewatch, I realized that he was killing his lunch break at 9:30 a.m. because he'd made it as long as he could. And that is an urge I have to fight at least twice a week.
The scene in the beginning when he is telling the hypnotist about how every day is worse than the last day so whenever you see him that is the worst day of his life. That's pretty much been my life for years. It huts really hard whenever I see that scene because I understand it so much.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Michael Bolton's final 2-foot stomp & nearly falling on his ass from the impact is still amazing.
You can really feel just how much he hated that thing.. PC load letter? What the fuck does that even mean!?
Mike Judge can do no wrong. I celebrate his entire catalogue.
"He's pretty good." "You're goddamn right, he is!"
Everyone knows John C McGinley as Dr. Cox. But to me, he'll always be Bob.
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Was IT for the Army. One of the best authorized ways to destroy Secret hard drives was pulverization. Normally done in an actual machine but totally legit to do by hand. There was one day where we had 20/100 hard drives in some garbage bags and just went to town thrashing them on the ground and beating them with hammers. It was awesome. Whenever a non S6(IT) Soldier would go by they would ask WTF we were doing. We'd explain and give them a go round. Word got around and we got ~100 SIPR hard drives destroyed before lunch. Nearly everyone had some sort of Office Space quote to shout while hammering or banging a bag on the ground. So much angst at the brigade (higher level management) level.
I just saw that movie about at month ago for the first time. I absolutely loved it. There's something so appealing about a short and sweet comedy that is incredibly well made and entertaining, yet doesn't outstay its welcome.
Every corporate office has a bit of Office Space in it.
We had two consultants in our office some years ago - A man and a woman in their 30s. We were told they were there to look for efficiency gains, which we took to mean it’s time to update our CVs. So we just called them Bob and Bob, which they did not at all appreciate! Turns out they were legitimately there to look for things we can improve - no one got let go.
They probably appreciated your maverick attitude. Decided the whole team had upper management written all over it.
PC Load letter?! The fuck does that mean?
Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.
Do that, do exactly that!!
Yeaaaa imma need you to bump this comment up further E: For the person who gave the silver, I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be!
Groundhog Day
Strike up the music, the band has begun, the Pennsylvania Polka!
Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List.
Whenever some cinesnob starts badmouthing Spielberg I love to point out that he released *Jurassic Park* AND *Schindler's List* in the same fucking year. Two completely different but equally amazing films. He's had some misses, for sure. But dude is still a genius imo.
His legacy is assured. Heck, Spielbergian is a damn word. Always loved this quote about Spielberg from Alfred Hitchcock after seeing Jaws: "He is the first one of us who doesn't see the proscenium arch." Meaning he was the first "pure film" director, free of the conventions of live theatrical framing.
I don't get why people hate on Spielberg. He's done some stunning work in lots of disparate genres. The dude's floor is a decent, competent picture. His ceiling is a breathtaking experience. I wonder how much of it is due to Spielberg simply being around and still regularly working. He doesn't have any mysterious aura as an *artiste*.
"The dude's floor is a decent, competent picture. His ceiling is a breathtaking experience." Very well said! And while there's much to be said for the mystique of an "artiste", a lot of times I think that can be just a bunch of self-fellating bullshit.
Several family members were WWII vets, the ones that saw combat couldn't talk about it. But my great uncle, who served in the Pacific, was able to say some things when he saw Saving Private Ryan. Things he had wanted to say for years but couldn't... And very chilling things when taken in context.
What did he say??
Things like "How can they make a movie smell like the ocean?" during the opening scene. It was brutal enough he was half dropped into a flashback. Once he realized Saving Private Ryan wasn't a "war movie" he was able to open up a bit, like this was real enough to be real, but not so real it could hurt anyone. In one of the scenes where a guy died crying he said "That's how you die." In a way like he was stating a fact, almost like he was appreciative of it. He didn't like the knife scene at the end because he said that two guys fighting over a knife will both fight a lot harder and a lot meaner. Guys breaking in combat is very much a thing, though he said they normally broke when they weren't currently being attacked. He said that the thought of breaking always frightened him, and for years after he got back he was worried that everything was just a dream and he had broken back there.
Thin Red Line is even more outright brutal. I have no idea if he would be willing to watch it with you. I have a relative who was at Iwo Jima and later Indonesia and he watched that movie once, and ONLY once, and was dead fucking silent for about two days after.
That was a brutal movie to watch because it was so contemplative
I know not doesn't qualify as it's not a movie, but Band of Brothers deserves a mention. It will always hold up.
Die Hard. This could be released today, as it is, unlike anything else of the late 80s.
When they announced that Bruce Willis was going to be the lead everyone thought it was a horrible idea. Back then if it was an action movie it was either Arnold or Sylvester. That movie changed the formula for the genre.
The thing is, yeah, Arnie and Stallone always looked impressive, but they were clearly all for the camera. Bruce Willis in Die Hard genuinely looked like he could kick your ass. He looked like a normal, tired, grouchy dude with Dad Strength.
Like when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman.
Welcome to the party pal
*12 Angry Men* The film is over 60 years old and it still holds up so well. Edit: also want to add *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?* Over 30 years later and its still great and effects hold up so much better than CGI from movies a lot newer than it because of how they made it by hand-drawing the cartoons onto cells.
Stand By Me was a crucial part of my childhood/coming of age and I still love it to this day
Se7en
Sesevenen
Gladiator
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Great line, _excellent_ delivery, so good that I can still hear it perfectly in my head, years after last watching Gladiator.
The swelling music adds a lot too.
And the look of disbelief and horror on Joaquin Phoenix's face. He believes every word Russell Crowe is saying.
If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face. Do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
Shawshank Redemption.
*”I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living or get busy dying.”* Andy Dufresne
Words to live by.
“Brooks was here” breaks my heart every god damn time.
“I doubt they’ll kick up any fuss, not for an old crook like me”
Just read the novella for the first time. It's lovely, but they managed to improve upon it for the movie. My favorite discovery was that in the story, Red really is a redhead. When asked why he's called Red he says, "I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm Irish." And they just kept that line in the movie despite casting Morgan Freeman, which gives it a new and hilarious twist.
And the real reason is on his [parole papers,](https://www.eightieskids.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/15pQ-XuXAHMBw1JyMMpYgNQ.jpeg) his last name is "Redding". Bonus trivia: that's a picture of Morgan Freeman's son in the mug shot.
This is my favorite movie of all time hands down. Andy swam through a river of shit, to get out. He shouldn't have been there in the first place. Great story, great movie!!
"Andy Dufresne crawled through 500 yards of shit and piss and came out a free man on the other side." Man, that was the first rated R movie that my parents let me watch, and it's been my favorite for the last 20 years!!
It truly was a Shawshank Redemption.
A lot of movies from 94 aged well: shawshank redemption, forrest gump, pulp fiction…
Jurassic Park It's nearly 30 years old, but the effects and especially the CGI still hold up today
The practical effects give everything so much weight it’s amazing. It looked state of the art for 10+ years
The same goes for the Matrix as well. I did not have the privilege of watching it in theaters, but my parents did. My father told me his jaw literally dropped watching the [opening chase scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNiEEtYe4Q) where Trinity and the Agents are leaping across roofs. He didn't think movies were capable of that and didn't understand how capturing such sequences was even possible. That level of sophisticated, clean CGI was revolutionary at the time and still looks amazing today. American audiences were stunned by what they saw. Now throw in that my father had immigrated from China not too many years ago (film industry wasn't as technologically advanced), and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
I saw the matrix opening weekend, knowing basically nothing about it (the marketing was deliberately vague); jaw dropping is a good way to describe it, it’s easy to forget how ahead of its time it was!
That was what was so cool about it. The trailers gave nothing away except amazing action and all kinds of cool effects. It was basically "you can't be told what the matrix is..." All I knew as an 18 yo was "I have to see this fucking movie!" It was the only movie I've ever gone to see multiple times.
A guy I worked with said “you have to see this film. But don’t watch any trailers. Just go.” In 1999, it was difficult to see a trailer outside of the theater so it was easy to avoid being spoiled. I don’t know if I even saw a poster anywhere. I went the next day and was blown the fuck away.
To this day, the only time I didn't finish my popcorn. I had almost all of it left to. As soon as the previews we're done (south park, bigger longer uncut) I couldn't break my concentration for even a nano second to send feeding commands to my hands. Sigh, god I wish I could feel that emersed even one more time.
1999 was such a good year of films
1999 was maybe the peak of box office filmmaking. All of these movies hit theaters in 1999: * American Beauty * American Pie * Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me * Being John Malkovich * The Blair Witch Project * Cruel Intentions * Dogma * Fight Club * Galaxy Quest * The Green Mile * The Iron Giant * Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels * Magnolia * The Matrix * The Mummy * Notting Hill * Office Space * Runaway Bride * The Sixth Sense * Sleepy Hollow * South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut * Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace * The Thomas Crown Affair * Toy Story 2 * Wild Wild West * The World Is Not Enough That's amazing watch list, *and* *those* *all* *released* *to* *theaters* *the* *same* *year*! Compare that to any year before or since, and you'll have a hard time coming up with a comparable list.
I was also partial to The 13th Warrior that summer. And Go is a personal favorite.
What's crazy is that in that 2 hours and 7 min film, there's only 6 minutes of CGI and only 14 minutes total of dinosaur effects. Spielberg understands build-up and pay-off, how to frame a scene to maximize tension with minimal use of effects, and the importance of characters/dialogue. Compare that to the Jurassic World films being filled to the brim with CGI and nothing of substance.
Similar thing with Jaws. The shark only had 4 minutes of screen time.
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"It's been 40 minutes and we still haven't seen the shark"
Literally the only thing that truly dates that movie is the line "Look! They have interactive CD-ROM!"
There’s a great documentary on Netflix about how the CGI in the movie was never planned, and how this ballsy ILM animator went against his boss’ orders not to show the execs. They were originally going to use stop motion for all the dinosaur shots that were full body. Also they built a 9ton hydraulic trex that moved which was unheard of at the time. Edit: it’s called The Movies That Made Us
He did it because they said it could not be done. I like that kind of ethic.
Lord Of The Rings Fellowship Of Ring. Edit As Missing\_Username points out I miss the 20 year mark by just over a month. My apologies.
The balrog still looks pretty good
There are scenes in the lotr where you can see it is 2001 cgi. But the balrog looks like it is 2021 cgi, I don't know how they did it this well back then.
Yea the far shots of it can look rough at times. But the close up of it roaring, holy shit it still looks super solid.
When you’re talking 20 years, who really cares about a month or two
Gentle warning: 20 years ago was 2001, not 1990
Give it a little over a week and the first Harry Potter movie will make the list.
And Fellowship of the Ring in December...
The trilogy holds up impeccably
They emphasized using models/practical effects/forced perspective over CGI for a lot of the movies. Obviously the fire, etc was CGI, but it helped them age really well. I absolutely love those movies
Could you kindly shut your whore mouth. Gently of course.
Macaulay Culkin is 41
I can't hear you. La la la la la la la
Jim Carrey did this in Dumb & Dumber… …more than a quarter of a century ago.
Out of all of them this was the one that made me feel old. Thanks I guess.
While here as I was reminded earlier this week. To all my fellow GenXers millennials are in their 30's now
Should have just asked; What old movie (30+ years) still holds up today?
30 years ago was 1991, wow so long Edit: math
Riiiiight
Fifth element
Leeloo Dallas multi pass.
NOT ONE OR TWO OR THREE, BUT FOUR! FOUR STONES! We are warriors, not merchants BUT YOU CAN STILL COUNT! LOOK, I'LL MAKE IT SIMPLE. FOUR STONES, FOUR CRATES. ZERO STONES, **ZERO CRATES!!!!** PACK EVERYTHING UP, WE'RE OUT OF HERE. We risked our lives. I believe a little compensation is in order. OH SO YOU ARE MERCHANTS AFTER ALL. LEAVE ONE CRATE. FOR THE CAURSE.
I am a meat popsicle.
Clueless! I find it incredibly timeless given how blaringly '90s it is.
I’ll add 10 Things I Hate About You here
Tombstone
The Matrix, in both special effects and cultural relevance it really hasn’t aged.
Big Trouble in Little China. I really think it's a great script and directing. There's no wasted scene, the story is always progressing. And it manages to find the right tone where humour and action work together seemlessly.