Fast Times is must viewing, a great movie full of heart with a terrific cast. Sean Penn really is brilliant; I never get tired of this movie.

I've gone through phases with films, Croupier, Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, Rebel Without a Cause, etc. Just to name a few...

I've seen Decline... part one a bunch.

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You're kidding, right? A petulant spoiled brat playing amidst a Lego Land of coloring book psychotics?

Well said but I think you're argument is with the previous poster. I was merely trying to explain why I didn't put it on my list; I have no real steadfast opinions on any Batman film. I can say Tim Burton's Batman holds a special place in my heart only because it was the first VHS tape I ever owned. Maybe that's why I was quick to praise it.

Seven
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
The Empire Strikes Back

Any Cary Grant comedy with His Girl Friday ranking at the top of the list.

H-GM wrote:Any Cary Grant comedy with His Girl Friday ranking at the top of the list.

His Girl Friday...I've seen this twice...Hildy...so independent, yet so easily manipulated. Makes me sad.

The movies I can watch endlessly will probably only piss you off, Randall. Feel free to look away:

Cinema Paradiso
The Big Lebowski...seriously, this movie does have endless replay value.
Most Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies (perhaps this doesn't count).
The Shining
Night of the Living Dead
Beavis and Butt-head Do America
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Office Space


There's probably more that I'm forgetting.

sethpomeroy wrote:Slightly off subject, has anyone here seen "Blow Out"?

Is that the one with Joh n Travolta? Wherein he's a sound recordist instead of a photographer, and he records a murder? If so, I saw that once, but only parts of it, and I was probably about twelve. Even if the movie sucked, that's still an interesting concept, piecing together events in retrospect... the evidence of a crime or wrong doing only really existing as evidence in the eyes of the few who are truly in any position to make proper sense of it. A rare combination of lucidity and imaginativeness. (afterall, how can one read between the lines if she doesn't know they exist in the first place?)

I've had the feeling before, of knowing something bad or nasty is happening (or has happened) and not really being able to prove it. It's happened several tiems to me, most notably as a child. Defintiely changed my view of people in general as well as society/power structures. (newsflash: exploitation is everywhere.)

Anyway, I just realized Zabirske Point was two and not one film away from Blow-Up. My bad, gotta check imdb more intently next time.

Today I got some DVD's in the mail: Naked (I drunkenly lent this to a pudgy furniture maker last october and he never returned it); Wings of Desire (I was watchign my mom's copy before); A Summer's Tale (Thanks 242Sumner for the recommendation, though I was already on to it); and Sweet Movie (a tremendously screwy yugoslavian "art house" film criterion just released -- really obscene and scatological and pointedly over-the-top; some one here has "Sweet Movie" as his namesake. I don't know if this will be my cup of tea, probably not, but i can just tell it'll be worth seeing.)