Posted on 12/12/2005 7:57:17 AM PST by pissant
I'm with you there, "Luke, I'm your father" was cheesy.
Exactly....
Which is why I think it needs to be listed more as a 'great guy flick' than a great flick in general. :)
and when the very Last Mohican kills Maguar right after that...deftly with that peculiar weapon.
It would be great to sit up late into the evening over adult beverages arguing the merits of GF1 vs GF2. I personally prefer 1, but can see the arguments for 2.
To me, however, here is one case where the TV presentation of these movies, reedited by Coppola as The Godfather Saga was the best way to see the films. GF2 gave me problems with the two widely separated prequel vs sequel stories. By putting the whole thing together sequentially it really clicked. Very powerful.
"Leave the gun, take the canolli."
Got bored, stopped watching in the first 30 minutes. ;)
"On July 30, 1945, after completing a top secret mission to deliver parts of the atom bomb "Little Boy," which would be dropped on Hiroshima, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to survive, fighting off hypothermia, sharks, physical and mental exhaustion, and, finally, hallucinatory dementia. By the time rescue -- which was purely accidental -- arrived, all but 321 men had lost their lives; 4 more would die in military hospitals shortly thereafter."
Perhaps a little poetic license.
Yep, she is. My favourite TV show was Northern Exposure. Cracked me up all the time.
"Life is hard... its even harder when you're stupid."
- SGT. Stryker
1. The last scene in the "Night of the Living Dead" (the original black and white version - a true cult classic), where the Sheriff shoots and kills the hero! A great and most unexpected ending!
"Is this Heaven?"
"No, it's Iowa."
Love that movie also.
Lol, Slim Pickins:
"Well I've been to two world fairs and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a headset".
So Captain Quint got the date wrong, the Indianapolis was torpedoed and sank a month later. But that was the quote in the movie. 220... 221, whatever it takes.
High Noon, Gary leaving town at the end.
Strangelove again, both George Scott with his arms spread wide immitating how the bombers will get through, and Peter Sellers as the Group Captain telling the Sergent-Major to shoot open the pop machine.
Finally, the Natural, when his true love stand up in the stands and is illuminated by the rays of sunshine and he just senses it.
And Ol' Yeller dying provided a litmus test. If she didn't cry, it was the last date.
Easy---
"Passion of Christ"
Christ looks at his mother, his face covered with his own blood, and says...
"See Mother, I make all things new."
"Would it help if we ran away further?"-Brave Sir Robin
Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson) crying after the battle in "We were Soldiers Once..."
And "The Passion", especially the scourging at the pillar.
Have you seen the original Champ? With Wallace Beery and (I believe) Mickey Rooney. You can NOT not cry your head off.
The wife refused to go see it with me, so I went, by myself, on a Sunday at 12:30 in the afternoon. There were only four or five of us in the theater. I sat dead center about 15 rows back so the screen pretty much took up all my periphial vision.
I was prepared to get choked up... especially at the end, but I didn't. I was kinda suprised at how exhausted and numb I was.
The whole thing made me want to go find a Vet and shake his hand. Now, when I watch it, it makes me want to go find a lib and kick his ass.
OK, these are all very good, so I gotta add one of my favorites "The answer is No, I am therefore going anyway"
Willian Shatner, Star Trek III
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