Most Watched Movie

I was watching Midsomer Murders when Anna Massey showed up. I immediately recognized her but in that where do I know her from mode. I like that Hitchcock gets his cameo over with quickly. I will re-watch Frenzy soon.

 

Stubborn he was. But at some point, stubborn crosses over a line...

Still, an excellent movie and is deserving of a Best Actor. Curiously enough, he received a Best Actor nomination the same year (1967) for The Sand Pebbles. Paul Schofield won the Oscar for A Man for All Seasons.

 

" I'm shaking it , boss. I'm shaking it!"

 

When I've seen the film I've probably forgotten the crash by the end too. The director (Renny Harlin) says he insisted on having it in the film, to let the viewer know the stakes were high. The producer Joel Silver thought a freight plane would suffice. A passenger plane crash just to show the terrorists meant business? Hollywood doesn't do that sort of thing, which is exactly why Harlin wanted to do it. It's kind of effective and then again, no. That's Renny Harlin to you, in my opinion. He has good ideas.

 

Butch Cassidy. The Great Escape would be a close second.

 

This is an easy one for me. The movie is fun, light, and based on a favorite subject of mine: That Thing You Do.

On a side note, in the extended version you get to see guy's hi-fi system in his apartment. It's pretty darned authentic. Other than that, the extended version kinda ruins the movie because it becomes a bit too "serious". It's like the difference between a movie showing the young couple come out of the hospital with their new baby vs the extended version that also shows the baby being conceived.

 

Top 3 most viewed movies where I owned and specifically rewatched it, rather than just chanced upon it on television:
Blade Runner (yep, I've got the briefcase)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Kill Bill 1.

Still love them.

 

Road House (1989):



And maybe the most quoted too:

"My way... or the highway."
"You're too stupid to have a good time."
"Calling me 'sir' is like putting an elevator in an outhouse, it don't belong."
"Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry."
"That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an a$$ like that."
"I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice."
"I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead."
"A polar bear fell on me."

 

I would say this is mine too

 

Not in any order.
These are the movies I've watched the most.

It's A Wonderful Life
Dog Day Afternoon
Taxi Driver
The Graduate
Wings Of Desire
My Life As A Dog
Song Of Bernadette
Ironweed
The Last Detail
The 400 Blows
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Picnic
The Last Picture Show
A Christmas Story
The Bells Of St. Mary
12 Angry Men
Goodbye Columbus
A Hard Day's Night
Broadway Danny Rose
The King Of Comedy
West Side Story
Serpico
Airplane!

 

Metropolis (1927 - silent - b&w)

As prophetic as George Orwell's book "1984".........



Fritz Lang's expressionist sci-fi masterpiece paints a futuristic dystopia that has had a deep impact on cinema history. Filmmakers like Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), George Lucas (Star Wars), and Tim Burton (Batman Returns), kneel at the alter of Metropolis. With cinematographer Karl Freund and special effects masters Günter Rittau, Konstantin Tschetwerikoff, and Eugen Schüfftan employing every fantastic trick of the trade, Metropolis's effects still dazzle. In an extraordinary turn of events, Lang's original version of Metropolis was discovered in a Buenos Aires museum and this—the only extant copy of Lang's original vision—served as the basis for the 2010 restoration that returned 25 minutes to the film!