mrdfnle wrote:real genius
better off dead
pee wee's big adventure

brw--rank these movies

Pee-wee's Big Adventure: This movie, she is some kind of crazy and beautiful lysergic dream of the "asexual" man-child. This movie, she has weird "soul". I like is movie! Pee-wee, you and your big adventure, they engaged me, and I was "pulling" for you and Dottie! Plus, the "Tequila" dance, "Large Marge", the Alamo basement, and the pet store fire with the snakes, these are funny and touching bits for a funny and touching movie. And that bicycle is so great! Number one!

Better Off Dead: To this day my brother and I we will say to each other, "I want my two dollars." Is true. This means something, I think! Plus, this film, she features the mighty acting talents of Curtis Armstrong who plays every role in every film as exactly the same character. He is never any different! You will always say, "Hey! Is 'Booger'! And in this different movie he is also to play 'Booger' again! Even in 'Ray'!" To be so immediately recognized for the lack of acting range, this is maybe to be exactly like Tommy Lee Jones! Anyway, this "Better Off Dead" movie, she is pretty funny movie, but she is maybe only 48% as good as "Pee-wee" and maybe only 12% as good as the mindblowing "Risky Business", which I would rather watch -- and also features "Booger"! Number two!

Real Genius: Is she maybe the "best" of the three films? This is possible! Or not! And Val Kilmer, he is to me very much preferable to "Chicago" John Cusack, who sometimes has been at this place called the Elbo Room in Chicago, which always has only terrible bands, usually! But "Real Genius", I cannot recall from my large bank of useless trivia data anything about you except something about an evil laser! Val Kilmer, you went to college, but then what happened? Did you blow up the moon with Dr. Doom? I cannot remember! And I have seen you X number of times! "Real Genius", this says something about you, and it is not good. And I somehow get "spider sense" that maybe if a guy likes "Real Genius", then maybe he likes "Red Dawn", which is TERRIBLE movie! Is this true? Maybe! Number three! Wolverines!

RANQUED!!!

E.T.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a great film? Probably.

Trading Places
Once upon a time, John Landis was a bad-ass.

Aliens
Maybe the best action movie of the past 20 years.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Better Off Dead: To this day my brother and I we will say to each other, "I want my two dollars." Is true. This means something, I think! Plus, this film, she features the mighty acting talents of Curtis Armstrong who plays every role in every film as exactly the same character. He is never any different! You will always say, "Hey! Is 'Booger'! And in this different movie he is also to play 'Booger' again! Even in 'Ray'!" To be so immediately recognized for the lack of acting range, this is maybe to be exactly like Tommy Lee Jones! Anyway, this "Better Off Dead" movie, she is pretty funny movie, but she is maybe only 48% as good as "Pee-wee" and maybe only 12% as good as the mindblowing "Risky Business", which I would rather watch -- and also features "Booger"! Number two!

This movie! It is fucking great!

"Now that's a shame folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy." I remember watching it as a kid feeling like I must be really demented for liking it. It really is a bizarre movie.

And a David Lee Roth hamburger! How can you go wrong? You can't!

tmidgett wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Fast Times at Ridgemont High

My favorite line is when Damone says to Jennifer Jason Leigh (in the next room), "This is great tea," before even lifting the glass from the table.

My favorite movie, period.

A perfect film.

The first DVD I ever purchased. No film I have seen more thoroughly captures my adolescence, the cusp of the 1970's/80's. Parts of Over the Edge and Dazed and Confused ring true, but Fast Times covers the whole shebang--except for punk rock.

Aliens.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

mrdfnle wrote:real genius
better off dead
pee wee's big adventure

brw--rank these movies

Pee-wee's Big Adventure: This movie, she is some kind of crazy and beautiful lysergic dream of the "asexual" man-child. This movie, she has weird "soul". I like is movie! Pee-wee, you and your big adventure, they engaged me, and I was "pulling" for you and Dottie! Plus, the "Tequila" dance, "Large Marge", the Alamo basement, and the pet store fire with the snakes, these are funny and touching bits for a funny and touching movie. And that bicycle is so great! Number one!

Better Off Dead: To this day my brother and I we will say to each other, "I want my two dollars." Is true. This means something, I think! Plus, this film, she features the mighty acting talents of Curtis Armstrong who plays every role in every film as exactly the same character. He is never any different! You will always say, "Hey! Is 'Booger'! And in this different movie he is also to play 'Booger' again! Even in 'Ray'!" To be so immediately recognized for the lack of acting range, this is maybe to be exactly like Tommy Lee Jones! Anyway, this "Better Off Dead" movie, she is pretty funny movie, but she is maybe only 48% as good as "Pee-wee" and maybe only 12% as good as the mindblowing "Risky Business", which I would rather watch -- and also features "Booger"! Number two!

Real Genius: Is she maybe the "best" of the three films? This is possible! Or not! And Val Kilmer, he is to me very much preferable to "Chicago" John Cusack, who sometimes has been at this place called the Elbo Room in Chicago, which always has only terrible bands, usually! But "Real Genius", I cannot recall from my large bank of useless trivia data anything about you except something about an evil laser! Val Kilmer, you went to college, but then what happened? Did you blow up the moon with Dr. Doom? I cannot remember! And I have seen you X number of times! "Real Genius", this says something about you, and it is not good. And I somehow get "spider sense" that maybe if a guy likes "Real Genius", then maybe he likes "Red Dawn", which is TERRIBLE movie! Is this true? Maybe! Number three! Wolverines!

RANQUED!!!

This post has left me (and my wife) speechless. I feel like my soul has been peeked at by you, Brad.

For Better Off Dead, the "two dollars" line pops up around the house, but not as much as, "He likes corn!"

Here's something to remember about Real Genius (beside, "Kent! This is Jesus"): The scene in which the kid is talking to his mom and he is talking about how he wants to come home. He says something like, "I want to come home! I want to live with you!" The tone of his voice sends chills up my spine.

Fast Times... is an incredible movie. I would also like to submit 1989's Uncle Buck, my favorite John Candy movie.

Real Genius was on of my favorite movies as a kid, and for a short while inspired me to become a Tears for Fears fan (my god).

Also Planes, Trains, and Automobiles & Great Outdoors were my favorite of the John Candy canon.

I do believe though that Coming To America beats all of these out for me. The last movie Eddie Murphy was at all funny in, also Arsenio Hall. Plus the oft quoted/impersonated Randy Watson-Sexual Chocolate scene. This movie resonated quite powerfully with my 8 year old self.

-Jeremy

*double post*

Nico Adie wrote:Other than those already mentioned, Rocky IV

"He is not human. He is made of iron."

So little dialogue, but boy do they make it count.

You know the driving scene, backed by "No Easy Way Out"?

That's Robert Tepper! I played in a band with his sons from his first marriage! (I'm going to see Randy Fucking Johnson strike out Royals indiscriminately with one of them tomorrow, as a matter of fact) I have slept on his floor many times! He is a great man!

Robert Tepper has stories that will kick your fucking ass! He has partied with David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen! Very hard! Among other events!

I played "Beast of Burden" at a wedding in Montana with Robert Tepper! It was fucking awesome! Robert Tepper has a set of pipes! The wedding band didn't know what hit them! Their mouths hung open! Literally hung open!

Robert Tepper was like a football dad when his sons played Spaceland in Los Angeles! He tore the soundman a new one in the middle of the set! I was crippled with laughter! The soundman left the board, hanging his head in shame! Sorry, soundman, but Robert Tepper knows best! It did sound better with Robert Tepper turning the knobs!

I owe a great debt to Robert Tepper! He made my life better! Seriously! I need to call him and see how he's doing! Probably awesome!