"It's the most beloved Christmas story of all time..."
... so 30 years later, we decided to urinate on its memory with this straight to DVD abomination, a blatant last attempt to milk this cash-cow as much as we can and at the same time rape your warm and nostalgic memories of the original.
Starring Daniel Stern.
Then again, I like Daniel Stern...I honestly can't remember the last time I saw him in anything.
"... so 30 years later, we decided to urinate on its memory with this straight to DVD abomination, a blatant last attempt to milk this cash-cow as much as we can and at the same time rape your warm and nostalgic memories of the original.
There actually already is a sequel to "A Christmas Story", by the same director and writers, with Jean Shepherd's involvement - "My Summer Story". I've never seen it, but it is intended as a continuation of the first film.
Bored at work. This is my top 10 Horror movies in no particular order...
Day of the Dead American Werewolf in London Dog Soldiers The Thing The Descent The Resident The Wicker Man Fright Night Dawn of the Dead Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Where any remakes exist my list will ALWAYS refer to the original.
Bored at work. This is my top 10 Horror movies in no particular order...
Day of the Dead American Werewolf in London Dog Soldiers The Thing The Descent The Resident The Wicker Man Fright Night Dawn of the Dead Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Where any remakes exist my list will ALWAYS refer to the original.
In that case, just to be clear: when you say "The Thing", you mean the Howard Hawkes version, correct? That would sure be my choice.
here is a top ten favorite list...again no particular order.
Singing in the Rain Princess Bride Shawshank Redemption Raiders of the Lost Ark Star Wars Arsenic and Old lace Silence of the Lambs Seven Samurai Back to the Future Die Hard
My top thirty always subject to change. But the first three are always solid
Goodfellas The Empire Strikes Back The Godfather Sunset Boulevard Jaws Star Wars The Outlaw Josey Wales The Incredibles Raiders of the Lost Ark 12 Angry Men The Two Towers One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Return of the King Back to the Future Lawrence of Arabia Bridge on the River Kwai Finding Nemo Wall-E Shawshank Redemption Cool Hand Luke Return of the Jedi Fellowship of the Ring Seven Samurai Fight Club Bonnie and Clyde JFK The Dark Knight Batman Begins Toy Story Aladdin
Cool Hand Luke very nearly made my top ten. And my list, like yours, is subject to change depending on the day of the week. I debated putting Silence of the Lambs in my top ten Horror list but in the end decided it was more Crime Thriller than Horror. Star Wars may belong in a Sci Fi/Fantasy list and Back to the Future may belong on a time travel list if I were being more specific but since I was going general I felt okay including them.
Empire strikes back Blade runner Seven samurai Raging bull Do the right thing Real genius Life aquatic with Steve zissou Brazil Star trek wrath of Kahn Leon
10 best is a different animal. Citizen Kane Laurence of Arabia Seven samurai Raging bull Breathless jaws Easy rider metropolis 2001 a space odyssey Godfather
"It's the most beloved Christmas story of all time..."
... so 30 years later, we decided to urinate on its memory with this straight to DVD abomination, a blatant last attempt to milk this cash-cow as much as we can and at the same time rape your warm and nostalgic memories of the original.
Bladerunner - the movie that made me aware of the impact of buildings and design. I probably would not be an architect today had I not been so utterly blown away by this movie.
12 O' Clock High - An utterly spectacular character study into the the strain of command and the pressure on bomber crews during WWII. Incredibly artfully done without in your face gratuitous violence.
Tombstone - maybe the most quotable movie of all time.
Alien - More Ridley Scott. Horror plus sci-fi. In my mind, one of the most perfect horrow movies.
Aliens - Love those bug hunts. This movie drove me to buy a Laser Disc player while in college. 12 minutes of additional footage?!?!?
Big Trouble in Little China - Yet another appearance by Kurt Russell. Yet another wonderfully quotable film. Incredibly fun.
Buckeroo Banzai - what a cast! what terrible special effects! If one had to express the 80's with a single film, John Hughes should probably take a step back and let the Hong Kong Cavaliers take the stage.
To Hell and Back - My dad was a huge fan of Audie Murphy. I remember watching this movie over and over again as a kid. While I've come to realize that Murphy's story was hardly unique, and that numerous others performed in equally valorous ways. Regardless, I cannot shake the image of Murphy crouching on the back of a burning tank holding off the german advance single handedly.
01.Texas Chainsaw Massacre-Well crafted piece of modern southern gothic. 02.Return of the Living Dead-This is the film that got me in to zombies,and Linnea Quigley ;) . 03.Night of the Living Dead-Saw this one Halloween night hosted by Sgt Graves,the local UHF horror host. And the ending blew me away. 04.Jack Ketchum's The Girl next Door-One of the few films in the past 20 years to really get under my skin and upset me. 05.Hellraiser-I love Clive Barker's books. And this is the best film to come out of his various works of fiction. 06.Dead/Alive AKA Braindead- Remember when Peter Jackson could make films that were not 3 hours long? Back when he made low budget horror/comedies? 07.Dawn of the Dead- Didn't see this one for years cause no store near me carried it. But when I finally did I understood why it gets so much praise. 08.Sleepaway Camp-Was lucky enough to see this in the mid 80s,before I had had the ending spoiled for me. 09.Phantasm-BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very well done mind-F*** oF A film. 10.Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me-BOB has always scared me.
I can't even get into horror films anymore; it's been decades since I've been able to find any of them to actually be scary instead of just gross or stupid (as in, stupid people doing stupid things that result in them getting killed). Usually, the films that I found genuinely frightening were usually the ones that didn't show you the monster or the ghoulie, or didn't show you until close to the end of the film, so that your imagination tended to run away with you.
The few films I found frightening were...
Psycho Alien The Haunting (original version by Robert Wise) Stephen King's It -- that one showed you a lot, but still left unseen corners; the clown in the sewers chortling, "We all float!" still gives me chills.
I can't even get into horror films anymore; it's been decades since I've been able to find any of them to actually be scary instead of just gross or stupid (as in, stupid people doing stupid things that result in them getting killed). Usually, the films that I found genuinely frightening were usually the ones that didn't show you the monster or the ghoulie, or didn't show you until close to the end of the film, so that your imagination tended to run away with you.
The few films I found frightening were...
Psycho Alien The Haunting (original version by Robert Wise) Stephen King's It -- that one showed you a lot, but still left unseen corners; the clown in the sewers chortling, "We all float!" still gives me chills.
Check out Jack Ketchum's the girl next door,it is the first film in years to really frighten me,make me angry,and sad at the same time.
I'm not much of a horror fan either. Certainly Alien is up there. Mostly, I'm a fan of old school horror: Masque of Red Death, Abominable Dr. Phibes, Casque of Amontillado (scared the proverbial material out of me when I was a kid). Of the newer stuff, the first couple of Hellraisers were pretty decent but it was Event Horizon that truly freaked me out... No sleep, lights on all night freaked out. I think it was the sound.
I can't even get into horror films anymore; it's been decades since I've been able to find any of them to actually be scary instead of just gross or stupid (as in, stupid people doing stupid things that result in them getting killed). Usually, the films that I found genuinely frightening were usually the ones that didn't show you the monster or the ghoulie, or didn't show you until close to the end of the film, so that your imagination tended to run away with you.
The few films I found frightening were...
Psycho Alien The Haunting (original version by Robert Wise) Stephen King's It -- that one showed you a lot, but still left unseen corners; the clown in the sewers chortling, "We all float!" still gives me chills.
I can't even get into horror films anymore; it's been decades since I've been able to find any of them to actually be scary instead of just gross or stupid (as in, stupid people doing stupid things that result in them getting killed). Usually, the films that I found genuinely frightening were usually the ones that didn't show you the monster or the ghoulie, or didn't show you until close to the end of the film, so that your imagination tended to run away with you.
The few films I found frightening were...
Psycho Alien The Haunting (original version by Robert Wise) Stephen King's It -- that one showed you a lot, but still left unseen corners; the clown in the sewers chortling, "We all float!" still gives me chills.
Totally agree with you on horror movies
I should probably add John Carpenter's The Thing as well. While I generally prefer and enjoy the original Howard Hawkes version, and although I find Carpenter's version more gross and gory, there are several effectively scary scenes in the movie... such as trying to determine which of them is actually the creature by sticking a hot wire into blood samples.
That Robocop suit looks horrible. Reminds me of the Phantom's costume from that really bad made for Syfy Channel movie a few years ago.
From what we've been told, the character will have several upgrades in the film, so there should be other designs.
I personally like it. It's a lot less bulky than the original one.
But this suit looks more like a guy in a modified wetsuit,not like a robot.
I don't know, maybe that's what it's supposed to look like. I mean, if the military or law enforcement were actually going to make a cyborg soldier/cop, I'd imagine he wouldn't actually be metallic. He'd have cybernetics on the inside, but wouldn't the outside be something akin to body armor? Something more lightweight and less shiny? Something like the armor/suit in the Nolan films.
Actually, and this can be said of the original as well, I've always found it odd that since Robocop was created by a company for use in a police force, there is no OCP logo prominently displayed.
Especially in the originally film, that emphasized that this company was basically trying to take over.
My big complaint with these first images of the new Robocop is that there is nothing distinctive about it, nothing that makes me think, "Oh, Robocop." The original version (and the blue-ish versions in the sequels) had that.
I look at this and it looks like the Nolan Batman costumes without the capes and cowls, or like a version of the Iron Man armor.
Wait, that's it - it looks like the Iron Man films decided to have a stealth version of the armor designed to project the same aura as a B2 Stealth Bomber.
That's my issue. It looks like a wannabe Iron Man armor instead of something distinct.
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Day of the Dead
American Werewolf in London
Dog Soldiers
The Thing
The Descent
The Resident
The Wicker Man
Fright Night
Dawn of the Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Where any remakes exist my list will ALWAYS refer to the original.
Singing in the Rain
Princess Bride
Shawshank Redemption
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Arsenic and Old lace
Silence of the Lambs
Seven Samurai
Back to the Future
Die Hard
(I'm not a child of the 80's or anything)
Goodfellas
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
Sunset Boulevard
Jaws
Star Wars
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Incredibles
Raiders of the Lost Ark
12 Angry Men
The Two Towers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Return of the King
Back to the Future
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge on the River Kwai
Finding Nemo
Wall-E
Shawshank Redemption
Cool Hand Luke
Return of the Jedi
Fellowship of the Ring
Seven Samurai
Fight Club
Bonnie and Clyde
JFK
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Toy Story
Aladdin
In order favorite to tenth favorite
Empire strikes back
Blade runner
Seven samurai
Raging bull
Do the right thing
Real genius
Life aquatic with Steve zissou
Brazil
Star trek wrath of Kahn
Leon
10 best is a different animal.
Citizen Kane
Laurence of Arabia
Seven samurai
Raging bull
Breathless
jaws
Easy rider
metropolis
2001 a space odyssey
Godfather
I like the cut of your jib.
Anchorman
The goodfellas
Back to the future 1&2
Indiana jones trilogy
Original star wars trilogy
Pulp fiction
There not all masterpieces. But i've watched them over and over.
Unfortunately, that also holds true for all the bad movies I've seen as well.
Avengers
Citizen Kane
Ghostbusters
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Dark Knight
And, a bonus one: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
Bladerunner - the movie that made me aware of the impact of buildings and design. I probably would not be an architect today had I not been so utterly blown away by this movie.
12 O' Clock High - An utterly spectacular character study into the the strain of command and the pressure on bomber crews during WWII. Incredibly artfully done without in your face gratuitous violence.
Tombstone - maybe the most quotable movie of all time.
Alien - More Ridley Scott. Horror plus sci-fi. In my mind, one of the most perfect horrow movies.
Aliens - Love those bug hunts. This movie drove me to buy a Laser Disc player while in college. 12 minutes of additional footage?!?!?
Big Trouble in Little China - Yet another appearance by Kurt Russell. Yet another wonderfully quotable film. Incredibly fun.
Buckeroo Banzai - what a cast! what terrible special effects! If one had to express the 80's with a single film, John Hughes should probably take a step back and let the Hong Kong Cavaliers take the stage.
To Hell and Back - My dad was a huge fan of Audie Murphy. I remember watching this movie over and over again as a kid. While I've come to realize that Murphy's story was hardly unique, and that numerous others performed in equally valorous ways. Regardless, I cannot shake the image of Murphy crouching on the back of a burning tank holding off the german advance single handedly.
The Killer - John Woo at his finest.
Empire Strikes Back - 'Nuff Said.
01.Texas Chainsaw Massacre-Well crafted piece of modern southern gothic.
02.Return of the Living Dead-This is the film that got me in to zombies,and Linnea Quigley ;) .
03.Night of the Living Dead-Saw this one Halloween night hosted by Sgt Graves,the local UHF horror host. And the ending blew me away.
04.Jack Ketchum's The Girl next Door-One of the few films in the past 20 years to really get under my skin and upset me.
05.Hellraiser-I love Clive Barker's books. And this is the best film to come out of his various works of fiction.
06.Dead/Alive AKA Braindead- Remember when Peter Jackson could make films that were not 3 hours long? Back when he made low budget horror/comedies?
07.Dawn of the Dead- Didn't see this one for years cause no store near me carried it. But when I finally did I understood why it gets so much praise.
08.Sleepaway Camp-Was lucky enough to see this in the mid 80s,before I had had the ending spoiled for me.
09.Phantasm-BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very well done mind-F*** oF A film.
10.Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me-BOB has always scared me.
The few films I found frightening were...
Psycho
Alien
The Haunting (original version by Robert Wise)
Stephen King's It -- that one showed you a lot, but still left unseen corners; the clown in the sewers chortling, "We all float!" still gives me chills.
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I personally like it. It's a lot less bulky than the original one.
That's what I think.
Especially in the originally film, that emphasized that this company was basically trying to take over.
My big complaint with these first images of the new Robocop is that there is nothing distinctive about it, nothing that makes me think, "Oh, Robocop." The original version (and the blue-ish versions in the sequels) had that.
I look at this and it looks like the Nolan Batman costumes without the capes and cowls, or like a version of the Iron Man armor.
Wait, that's it - it looks like the Iron Man films decided to have a stealth version of the armor designed to project the same aura as a B2 Stealth Bomber.
That's my issue. It looks like a wannabe Iron Man armor instead of something distinct.
NEW HOBBIT TRAILER !!!
There are actually FIVE differnent endings to this trailer. Visit the official site to view them all.
http://www.thehobbit.com/index.html#content=choose-your-moment