Famous films you HAVE watched...

[El_hefe]

Then again, if your favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption and my favorite were Happy Gilmore, that would not, in of itself make you a higher quality person, more intelligent, etc.

Sorry...... wrong! There are standards lefty....

[Lefty]

It's my opinion. How can an opinion be wrong? You can disagree and have your own opinion, but that's all it is, a difference of opinion. Perhaps those two movies were a little too diverse to be the best choices to support my point of view. I'll give you that.

[seanbeag7]

I love both films In bruges and Fargo, but like you said, it my not be for every one

[thaibound]

(Lefty @ Jun. 12 2010,11:07) if your favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption and my favorite were Happy Gilmore, that would not, in of itself make you a higher quality person, more intelligent, etc.

maybe not, but it would make the odds about 99 to 1 in the other guy's favor.

[JaiDee]

I can see lefty's point, no one likes the art house goofballs who claim to be smarter than anyone else because they like some obscure remake of Scarface done by some Hungarian director, and the normal rank and file are too stupid to figure it all out. On the other hand, I have been on airplanes where they are showing some UNFUNNY fucking movie I found ridiculous and all the people around me are laughing hysterically while I try and listen to my Ipod and I just think to myself "how can these people like this nonsense''?

Again, it takes all kinds and depends on personal preferences..... I like what I like, others like what they like, and if we meet somewhere in the middle, cool!

[thaibound]

agreed, jd
and just in case it wasn't obvious -- i was only taking the opportunity to slam dunk an easy lob. let me add that if i were predicting who'd be better company on the prowl, i'd take a happy gilmore fan over a guy into prison films any day.

[El_hefe]

Hey! My favorite movie genre: women in prison! Caged heat baby.... that genre has produced more cheese than Kraft.......

And as to my rather succinct reply above about lefty's opinions, there are 2 kinds of opinions, one about preferences : "I really like women in prison movies" "I like vanilla more than chocolate"
etc.,.. It's all about taste & choice, no problemo.

But the other kind of opinion is about facts & thats where it does matter about what is right/wrong, otherwise Sarah Palin would be in Mensa & Stephen King would be taught in Lit classes instead of Nabokov. (Adjusting my cravat...) One is better than the other, but that doesn't mean we have to enjoy either one though.

Mass produced corporate product designed to appeal to teenage boys with spending cash, whether movies, fast food or music, usually isn't very good. Some of it can be great occasionally.

Opinion: "Guitar bands are on their way out now." Decca exec memo on why he rejected The Beatles.

[JaiDee]

(thaibound @ Jun. 13 2010,06:53) i'd take a happy gilmore fan over a guy into prison films any day.

good point, and the guy who likes prison flicks may be a little too ''cozy'' for our tastes

[Jake_Sully]

This might be sacriledge but I haven't seen shawshank redemption, dead man walking or monster yet. Somehow I don't like prison movies.

[pacman]

    Don't forget The Green Mile, another classic prison movie.

[Jake_Sully]

I've seen that one.. I felt that was more about paranormal stuff than prison.

However its long and 1 I don't really care to watch again and again.

[JaiDee]

(pacman @ Jun. 13 2010,08:51)   Don't forget The Green Mile, another classic prison movie.

I enjoyed that movie, even though it was sci-fi in reality......no one lives to 140 or whatever.

  Shawshank is good, see it some time Jake.....if you can sit through ''Day after Tomorrow'' you can sit through that.

     A very well-done prison movie was The Glass House, and I'd be surprised if anyone here outside of Kahuna has seen it;

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068642/  

 1972 release date.....Alan Alda in his younger days, very good, under-rated and relatively unknown prison movie, I've seen it a few times.

American History X also; only 1/3rd of it or less was in prison but those parts were well-done, Edward Norton is a very good actor.

[Jake_Sully]

I've seen American History X, its disturbing but good. I'd say downfall is on par with it

[guydesavoy]

But the other kind of opinion is about facts & thats where it does matter about what is right/wrong, otherwise Sarah Palin would be in Mensa & Stephen King would be taught in Lit classes instead of Nabokov. (Adjusting my cravat...) One is better than the other, but that doesn't mean we have to enjoy either one though.

Art is not democratic.

My first Trannie movie (er video ?) was set in a jail. Can't remember the actors' names but they were mostly pretty skanky I seem to recall.

I see the cravat reference got Paccie back into the action    

[pacman]

As long as they don't mock my velvet smoking jacket & tortoise shell cigarette holder...