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[Eddie Teach]

I doubt GWTW stays on top when you factor foreign box office in.

[Josquius]

Detroit Metal City- Funny name. Japanese film. With Gene Simmons. Some young lad from the country moves to Tokyo determined to be a 'fashionable'(I think trendy is a better translation though) singer. Basically accoustic, twee rubbish.
For some unexplained reason though he ends up as the front man of a death metal band.
He has to run around juggling the duel life of hero of the metal heads and his sissy-boy real self as he tries to impress a twee girl he fancies. He absolutely hates his role in Detroit Metal City and the songs he writes there but goes along with it or else his manager will beat him up.
In typical cliched fashion the girl finds him out and declares she hates him so he tries to leave the duel life behind and return to his hometown in spite of DMCs biggest gig ever being due to happen. He realises he isn't quite so awful as a black metaller afterall and is actually making people happy and returns to save the day and get the girl.
Actually pretty good and funny.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if MIM's list is adjusted for inflation.

Larch: the plot was lame, the actors were just making funny faces for the camera.  Frances McDormand was horribly miscast, you really needed a hottie in that role.

[Barrister]

I wonder if MIM's list is adjusted for inflation.

Larch: the plot was lame, the actors were just making funny faces for the camera.  Frances McDormand was horribly miscast, you really needed a hottie in that role.

I thought part of the point was that the character is not a "hottie".

I dunno - I liked, but didn't love, Burn After Reading.

[Admiral Yi]

I thought part of the point was that the character is not a "hottie".

Then I didn't get the joke.

[frunk]

The best part of Burn After Reading was the CIA's chief's utter indifference/horror at the stupidity of everyone else running around.  Unfortunately that was only two short scenes.

[The Larch]

The best part of Burn After Reading was the CIA's chief's utter indifference/horror at the stupidity of everyone else running around.  Unfortunately that was only two short scenes.

Personally I liked better the scene at the Russian embassy. 

[Sheilbh]

I thought the biggest film adjusted for inflation was It's a Wonderful Life

I thought it wasn't very successful in it's initial run at the theatres, and only became a 'timeless classic' later on?

Just looked it up and you're right.  I'd always thought it was huge from the start.

I hope those quotation marks around timeless classic don't indicate doubt?

[katmai]

You forget, in Beeb's IWL Mr. Potter would be the good guy.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Bisexuals are scum. Like this is news. 

In the movie, it is pretty obvious that he is gay.  He never really went for either Gweneth Pawltrow or (inexplicably) Cate Blanchette. 

That said, the movie sucks, for other reasons, even though Philip Seymour Hoffman was insanely awesome.  Felt a lot like those "bourgeois" things that Hoffman was complaining about in Ripley's apartment .

Plein Soleil, a French 1960 adaptation, is a thousand times better.

Ripleys' Game with Malkovich as Ripley is far better than either.

[Josquius]

No For Country Old Men- I was expecting a very different film here. I've never seen either but in my head I have it mixed up with that one set in thne early 20th/late 19th (I forget which) century about the oil with the guy shouting about his son being dead....the name of it escapes me. Not important.
This film is OK, it has its moments, it seems like a modern western at times. Well...I say modern but its set in the 1980 it turns out- something which really is never clear and when the guy says he is a Vietnam vet the initial thinking is just 'huh? he looks awesome for....80 or something and...how'd he get that wife?'. In hindsight though I suppose it explains the base stupidity of the plot- if I found a bag of money the first thing I'd do after getting it out of the place where I found it would be to check for any trackers or anything else suspicious in there.
The ending though...seems they just got bored of gun battles and decide not to show the epic final one where the bad guy wins.  Just...wtf.

[Tonitrus]

No For Country Old Men- I was expecting a very different film here. I've never seen either but in my head I have it mixed up with that one set in thne early 20th/late 19th (I forget which) century about the oil with the guy shouting about his son being dead....the name of it escapes me. Not important.
This film is OK, it has its moments, it seems like a modern western at times. Well...I say modern but its set in the 1980 it turns out- something which really is never clear and when the guy says he is a Vietnam vet the initial thinking is just 'huh? he looks awesome for....80 or something and...how'd he get that wife?'. In hindsight though I suppose it explains the base stupidity of the plot- if I found a bag of money the first thing I'd do after getting it out of the place where I found it would be to check for any trackers or anything else suspicious in there.
The ending though...seems they just got bored of gun battles and decide not to show the epic final one where the bad guy wins.  Just...wtf.

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Eh?  Where he kills the dead guys wife?  The main bad guy didn't kill the protagonist...thought it was pretty clear that the Mexican drug runners did. 

[CountDeMoney]

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The main bad guy didn't kill the protagonist...thought it was pretty clear that the Mexican drug runners did.

Biggest main character Holy Shit He Got Killed Off since To Live & Die In LA, IMHO.

[The Larch]

No For Country Old Men- I was expecting a very different film here. I've never seen either but in my head I have it mixed up with that one set in thne early 20th/late 19th (I forget which) century about the oil with the guy shouting about his son being dead....the name of it escapes me. Not important.

There will be blood, with Daniel Day-Lewis.

This film is OK, it has its moments, it seems like a modern western at times. Well...I say modern but its set in the 1980 it turns out- something which really is never clear and when the guy says he is a Vietnam vet the initial thinking is just 'huh? he looks awesome for....80 or something and...how'd he get that wife?'.

God you're so dumb sometimes.

In hindsight though I suppose it explains the base stupidity of the plot- if I found a bag of money the first thing I'd do after getting it out of the place where I found it would be to check for any trackers or anything else suspicious in there.

The ending though...seems they just got bored of gun battles and decide not to show the epic final one where the bad guy wins.  Just...wtf.

It's not an action movie.

[Josquius]

God you're so dumb sometimes.

Where is it shown to be so obviously 1980 apart from the Vietnam talk?

It seems like common sense to me.
Keeping it in the same bag even is pretty silly.

It's not an action movie.

Had me fooled.
Its obviously not a 1980s action movie but it really seemed to be in that style of part of the fun of the action being the slow build up to it.

Eh?  Where he kills the dead guys wife?  The main bad guy didn't kill the protagonist...thought it was pretty clear that the Mexican drug runners did. 

It seemed to be the bad guy to me- he was the one tracking him and the lock was blown off- though checking wiki it says the Mexicans did it. Odd.