Which movie(s) do you remain "loyal" to?

[saskganesh]

I rewatched Reds (1981) this year, which has Beatty, Keaton, Nicholson and many non actors (Plimpton, Kosinski etc.) in acting parts and interview clips of a bunch of now dead old radicals and journalists as a Greek chorus. I was quite impressed.

[saskganesh]

Repo Man (1984) does not age well, because Otto really is an unredeemable asshole.

That movie was like my personal Star Wars (which has its own issues)

Crazily, I did see a Chevy Malibu at Davenport & Yonge a few years ago. The driver seemed very familiar..

[frunk]

Repo Man (1984) does not age well, because Otto really is an unredeemable asshole.

I still like Repo Man, but I always thought Otto was an asshole.

[Admiral Yi]

I still like Repo Man, but I always thought Otto was an asshole.

How old are you dude?

[viper37]

Robin Hood: Prince of thieves

Having seen it once more recently, it was not as good as my memory of it.  Kevin Costner's acting in particular always seemed wooden, especially compared to Alan Rickman.

It is a silly movie, and even if you admit Robin Hood's existence, the depiction of the middle ages by that movie makes it problematic in itself.  However, I had a lot of fun watching this as a teen, and I still think it's a fairly decent movie.  Better than any Robin Hood that came after, for sure.

[Oexmelin]

Mission has DeNiro. I suspect it is still great, but have not watched in years.

I think it's also a great example of movies I am still loyal to: Mission and Glory - even though they readily succumb to the white savior trope.

[The Brain]

I tried to watch The Mission. Twice. Such a sleeping pill.

[Admiral Yi]

I think it's also a great example of movies I am still loyal to: Mission and Glory - even though they readily succumb to the white savior trope.

Now I understand what you were asking.  Which unwoke movies do you still enjoy now that you're woke. 

All I've got in the way of an answer is a song I *don't* sing any more at karaoke, which is Sweet Home Alabama.  I started out, like 25 years ago, not even thinking about the line "In Birmingham they love the governor (whoo whoo whoo),"  then I felt a little uncomfortable when I got to the line but still sang the song, then recently I noticed at my jailbait bar the ones who are most into the song are the more meatheaded frat boys, so I decided to spike it.

The opposite case for me is "Black Betty" by Ram Jam.  Recently learned it's a cover and the original artist was a black man, James "Ironhead" Baker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCEVl_9-MM

It's a shame, but in this age there's no way I can sing that song in public.  A shame.

[frunk]

I still like Repo Man, but I always thought Otto was an asshole.

How old are you dude?

47.  Why?

[Admiral Yi]

47.  Why?

My mental picture was younger.  I was surprised you were familiar with Repo Man.

[frunk]

47.  Why?

My mental picture was younger.  I was surprised you were familiar with Repo Man.

I didn't see it in theaters when it was first released, but I had a habit of catching my college's cult/niche movie nights.  This would of been 92 or 93.

[mongers]

... 'The Mission', that Klaus Kinski film set in S.Americ.a.

You mean Aguirre, Wrath of God. It's still great.

Mission has DeNiro. I suspect it is still great, but have not watched in years.

My error, I should have written "and" instead of a comma, which would made it appear I was talking about one film rather than two. 

[Malthus]

Flemings Bond hasn't really aged well either, the parts about raping lesbianism out of his girls is no exactly pc today. The

Good god, I tried watching a Bond movie, and the misogyny was just too much.

[Duque de Bragança]

Flemings Bond hasn't really aged well either, the parts about raping lesbianism out of his girls is no exactly pc today. The

Good god, I tried watching a Bond movie, and the misogyny was just too much.

Not to mention Bond's opinion of the Beatles, in this age of autotune hip-hop. 

[The Minsky Moment]

All I've got in the way of an answer is a song I *don't* sing any more at karaoke, which is Sweet Home Alabama.  I started out, like 25 years ago, not even thinking about the line "In Birmingham they love the governor (whoo whoo whoo),"  then I felt a little uncomfortable when I got to the line but still sang the song, then recently I noticed at my jailbait bar the ones who are most into the song are the more meatheaded frat boys, so I decided to spike it.

It's an ambiguous line, 'boo-boo-boo" or "boo-hoo-hoo" followed by "we all did what we could do" - it could be interpreted as the band saying they didn't like Wallace despite his popular support and did what "they could do" to oppose him or it could be interpreted as sarcasm over the opposition to Wallace and expression of their support of him - i.e. doing what they could do to help his cause. IIRC one of the surviving band members says it was intended to signal opposition.  That interpretation sort of makes sense in light of the Watergate line that follows: i.e. we aren't judging the entire North because of the Watergate scandal; you shouldn't judge the entire South b/c of Wallace. On the other hand the band did incorporate the Confederate battle flag in their own iconography.  And the Watergate line could be read as saying we don't care what you libs say about Wallace just like we don't care about Watergate.

As a practical matter. rightly or wrongly the song seems to have been co-opted by the meatheads.