Ridiculously Low Rating
A 2.8? That is way too low for what is the greatest film ever made. A 10/10 if there ever was one.
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Bullsh!t. Everybody knows that Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is the greatest movie ever made. This one's a 9/10 at best. Please.
The greatest movies ever made:
1. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
2. Death Race 2000
3. Dolemite
4. Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero
5. Enter the Dragon
6. Eaten Alive
7. Forbidden Zone
8. The Acid Eaters
9. Female Trouble
10. Citizen Kane
I think that's all of them. Honorable mention to The Cars that Ate Paris.
"Young people are scum. They didn't invent the cigarette, or the jeans. Nothing."
My list:
1. The Thing With Two Heads
2. Enter The Dragon
3. Mysterious Island
4. Murder at the Rue Morgue (the one with the blade-wielding dwarf)
5. Planet of the Vampires
6. The Raven (the one with Price, Lorre, and Karloff)
7. Scream and Scream Again
8. Casino Royale (I don't think I should even have to clarify which one I mean)
9. Coffy
10. Seven Samurai
I trust you will bow to my superior taste. Although I will admit not only have I not seen Pussycat, I haven't seen any Russ Meyer yet. So this list could change pending that.
What's the Spanish for drunken bum?
I haven't seen any Russ Meyer yet.I understand, and it's wonderful you don't care whether anyone questions your sexual orientation.
Obviously you haven't seen Dolemite either. Coffy over Foxy Brown? Interesting.
Have you seen The Comedy of Terrors with Price, Karloff, and Lorre? Great film. Funnier than The Raven. And it was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Jacques Tourneur!
I believe that you will come to realize in time that my tastes pwn your puny tastes.
Enter the Dragon:
Other honorable mentions I neglected: Bert I. Gordon's Attack of the Puppet People; Master of the Flying Guillotine; Fuller's The Naked Kiss; The Killer Shrews; The Adventures of Mark Twain; The Candy Snatchers; Alice in Wonderland (the softcore version); etc.
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Coffy over Foxy Brown was indeed a conscious choice, mostly because of the "this is the end of your rotten life" scene. But honestly, Foxy Brown could've gone in its place easily.
I have seen Comedy of Terrors, and I will agree it's funnier than The Raven. But it don't have no badass magic fight at the end!
Attack of the Puppet People is awesome ("The puppets! You're destroying the puppets!") and so is Enter The Dragon. Maybe I'll meander down to those boards and write something about how awesome they are.
As for Russ Meyer, where's a good place to start? I'm always eager to get into gaps in my film knowledge. Bresson and Ozu can wait, dammit.
What's the Spanish for drunken bum?
So I was just in a local record store and they had a used copy of Criterion's The Passion of Joan of Arc for $25. Should I have bought that? Or is this not the board on which to have that conversation?
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is probably the best Meyer film and the best place to start, and it contains wall-to-wall classic lines (like "I never try anything, I just do it. And I don't beat clocks, just people. Wanna try me?") that put Casablanca to shame. However, the Roger Ebert-penned Beyond the Valley of the Dolls has the fortune of being fairly mainstream, being available on video in the States, and playing on TV on a fairly consistent basis. (You have to send to Australia for a decent DVD set of Meyer's work right now.) You might have to wait for TCM to show Faster, Pussycat! and Mudhoney again.
See if you can count how many bands took their names or elements of their music from Meyer movies.
Actually, a region 0 PAL Pussycat goes for $17.95 right now on Xploited.com - I should probably get that. That's probably the source for other Meyer films too.
Attack of the Puppet People seriously affected me emotionally - I wasn't really paying attention through most of it, but John Hoyt plays the sad mad scientist so well that in the end I felt genuinely bad for him. Stupid John Agar. Also the scene where Hoyt explains how his machine works is priceless.
Bresson and Ozu? Those guys are booooring, dude. Are there any absurdly proportioned women using judo moves in Tokyo Story? Hell no. It's totally overrated... by that measure.
Enter the Dragon contains the most righteous scene in movie history, in which Jim Kelly is accosted by two racist cops, so he beats the *beep* out of them, steals their car, and flees the country. Fight the power.
"Young people are scum. They didn't invent the cigarette, or the jeans. Nothing."
I'll definitely be on the lookout for Meyer movies in the future.
My favorite scene in Enter The Dragon is the scene with the Norwegian (I think) bully kicking everybody on the boat and then getting left stranded on a raft by Bruce. "What's your style?"
What's the Spanish for drunken bum?
My favorite scene in Enter The Dragon is the scene with the Norwegian (I think) bully kicking everybody on the boat and then getting left stranded on a raft by Bruce. "What's your style?"
That "Norwegian" is actually from Australia (you can't tell by the accent?).
Peter Archer - his character was named "Parsons" in "Enter the Dragon".
Date of Birth - July 8, 1943, Queensland, Australia
Date of Death - April 13, 2000 (cancer), New South Wales, Australia (according to imdb.com)
Hehe, I liked that line also....and the way he delivered it.
Aside from "You guys come right out of a comic book.", that has to be one of my fave scenes from that movie.
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This movie is up from 2.8 when this question started to 3.3 now. Evidently people are discovery the true masterpiece in this film. Another 10 years it might break 4.0!
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