movies

[jim]

I just saw It's a Wonderful Life more or less for the first time in my life. I've seen a scene here, and a scene there, and some scenes never. But I never knew the entire story, and I was 100% sure that somehow George figured out the Potter had the money and the mob went down to confront him. I kept waiting for that to play out and it never did, and then I realized I was confusing a SNL skit with the various other random scenes I had seen.

It's a very good movie.

[Jocephus]

one of the best snl bits

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sqx2 ... shortfilms

[stlouie_lipp]

Man, Out Of Sight is so fantastic. How many very very good to great performances, from micro to leading, are in that movie? Clooney, Lopez, Rhames, Guzman, Farina, Zahn, Cheadle (If I say this is my whip you know this is my car, Glen), Washington talking to Lopez about tussling with the dog, Albert Brooks, Keaton bringing back his Jackie Brown character. I'm probably forgetting like 5. Viola Davis. What a cast. I'd see a whole movie of just the Cheadle character.

One of my favs.

[Vidor]

I just saw It's a Wonderful Life more or less for the first time in my life. I've seen a scene here, and a scene there, and some scenes never. But I never knew the entire story, and I was 100% sure that somehow George figured out the Potter had the money and the mob went down to confront him. I kept waiting for that to play out and it never did, and then I realized I was confusing a SNL skit with the various other random scenes I had seen.

It's a very good movie.

"It's a Wonderful Life" is a great movie. A lot more going on there than its status as the feel-good Christmas movie entails.

That one theater chain that runs old movies from time to time--Cinemark? someone posted a link here--was supposed to run it sometime around now.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

ET a better movie than Gandhi? be careful, you're reputation's on the line.

?

Doesn't everyone agree on that by now?

IMDb has Gandhi at an 8.1 and ET at a 7.9. The reputation thing was a joke but personally, I'll take the epic story of one of the 20th century's greatest that was well acted over a children's fantasy story no matter how well done.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1989: "Driving Miss Daisy" is only fit for parody now. Although now that I look at the list none of those films really stand up as great movies. 1989 was a weak year. I think the actual Best Picture might have been "Say Anything". Or maybe "The Little Mermaid".

Do The Right Thing.

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[jim]

one of the best snl bits

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sqx2 ... shortfilms

I swear to god I've seen that so often I kept waiting for the mob to go get the money from Potter. When it ended I was like WHAAAAT?

[docellis]

As above, as below, I think french? Good. Not great.

[JL21]

IMDb has Gandhi at an 8.1 and ET at a 7.9. The reputation thing was a joke but personally, I'll take the epic story of one of the 20th century's greatest that was well acted over a children's fantasy story no matter how well done.

That's the IMDb users voting on it, not something reputable.

[ghostrunner]

IMDb has Gandhi at an 8.1 and ET at a 7.9. The reputation thing was a joke but personally, I'll take the epic story of one of the 20th century's greatest that was well acted over a children's fantasy story no matter how well done.

That's the IMDb users voting on it, not something reputable.

I think biopics are almost always mediocre. The best ones are about particular episodes in a person's life. The more encompassing they try to be the less cohesive they are and it becomes a series of events strung together. There are exceptions but I don't recall Gandhi being one of those.