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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 02:09am PT
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Locker, hope you understand the cross posting. I have dial up.
Loom, I might differ but thank you for the explanations. Interesting.
radical, I said Russell beat Costner. But look at the real history. 29 seconds, close to a hundred rounds, 2 ran, 3 died, 2 injured. Did you know that Ike ran into the studio of C. S. Fly, the only photographer to take pictures of native americans as enemies in the field.
Here's an interesting asian film, don't confuse it with the Tommy Lee Jones, Oliver Stone film of the same name.
Haruke Kadakawa's Heaven and Earth.
Its the usual bushido BS but the imagery is astounding. Freeze frame anywhere at random and look at it like a photograph.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 02:15am PT
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Ouch, he was the Sheriff in Red Lodge, Montana in his senior years.
There he once caught two youths spying into the dance hall and snuck them in under his duster. In his day he was 6'6" 250# and no fat to speak of. He disabled many of his 300 opponents with a powerful kick.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 02:19am PT
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Loom, the absurd editting of Das Boot is a thing of the past.
Just saw The Deer Hunter again on the deluxe DVD. A classic.
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Mom
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 10, 2005 - 03:29am PT
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radical & locker - yeah, know what you mean about Quaid playing Jerry Lee, but it wasn't that Quaid did such a bad job of acting, it was that Jerry Lee Lewis was such a sorry human being... music not included in the comment... saw him several times when i was a teenybopper and he was just as portrayed... arrogant and dumb!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 03:50am PT
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radical, you trying to make my case that it was the writing rather than the performance?
Some lines were better than others. Obviously you liked the one about a spelling contest. ( In truth I've been tempted to do the same on this very forum...)
OK it influenced you. No argument.
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chickenhead
climber
Oakland, CA
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Oct 10, 2005 - 11:16am PT
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just a couple more to add to the list...(and I'm surprised they aren't here already with the quality of the films already listed)
Yojimbo. My favorite lone-wolf-with a concience film. Has been re-made at least once (Last man standing)
The Man who Would be King. Best buddy movie ever.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2005 - 11:55am PT
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chickenhead, a John Huston film starring Connery and Caine based on a Kipling book,gotta suck bigtime huh?
Kidding, kidding. Love the polo matches. Talk about head games...
I always thought Yojimbo was the way the Bird was addressed 35 years ago...
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the Fet
Trad climber
Loomis, CA
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Oct 10, 2005 - 12:16pm PT
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Films that influenced me as a person or as a climber?
I'll do as a climber, since it's easier.
Here's my top 5 and why:
5. Touching The Void - anytime I'm 'epicing' at all, I think it could be MUCH worse!
4. Eiger Sanction - Ever put something in your partners pack? "If you hauled beer up this rock, you're insane. I may be insane, but I'm not stupid. I didn't carry it, you did. It's in your pack."
3. Masters of Stone V - Best exclamation ever: "Holy Sphincter!"
2. Blues Brothers - I can't rap with my brother without saying "Hut, hut, hut, hut"
1. Vertical Limit - Whenever someone is stuck (taking time) to do a hard move, someone else usually says "Any good climber would cut the rope."
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 10, 2005 - 01:59pm PT
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Some nice lists here.
Here's mine:
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton is the Man)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
White Heat
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (That's how I want to die. Machinegunning fascists for Ingrid Bergman)
Bataan (This machinegunning to the death to end a movie has a certain appeal!)
Million Dollar Legs
Duck Soup
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (this is a truly great movie)
Dial M for Murder
Lawrence of Arabia
200 Motels
The Saddest Music in the World (Isabella Rosselinni, the next best thing to Ingrid Bergman)
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Tom Bruskotter
Trad climber
Seattle
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Oct 10, 2005 - 02:02pm PT
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12 Angry Men - Rationalism, justice, overcoming prejudice.
The Thing (John Carpenter) - Ominous, scary, sometimes humorous.
The Truman Show - A metaphor for our own reality?
Donnie Darko - Mysterious. Beautiful melancholy.
The Sting - Great complicated con.
My Beautiful Launderette - Keeping it real.
JFK - Bullet from the right front always makes ones head go "Back and to the left."
Fight Club - I don't talk about Fight Club.
Cool Hand Luke - Kept fighting the Man, even when it was futile.
Ordinary People - Surviving tragedy. Sad sad film.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Oct 10, 2005 - 02:36pm PT
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That many posts and not a 'wit of respect' for "Time Bandits" - what climber could not appreciate that escape scene?
And no mention about any of the 206 films by the greatest solo climber and builderer (in street shoes) in the world pre-1950? Harold Lloyd simply isn't getting a wit of respect either...!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 10, 2005 - 03:28pm PT
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I forgot a great one:
Hombre
"I have a question. How do you plan on getting down that hill?"
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Steve L.
Trad climber
LA
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Oct 10, 2005 - 03:35pm PT
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Terms of Endearment
Postcards From the Edge
Yentl
....they taught me how to feel.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Oct 10, 2005 - 03:51pm PT
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The difficuties with this format are;
1) ten is a very small number
-How could I not have listed listed Monty Python & The Holy Grail? and dammit, thank you Karl, King of Hearts, as big an anti war movie as Ducksoup.
-also Eraserhead- maybe I wasn't as creeped-out proof as I thought. And Caligula - yes, as a grown man there are still scenes that I have to look away from;ORTS!
-But what gets the ax?
,2) It's influential, not favorite. And I take this to mean influential to ME!
Many of the movies folks have mentioned are among my favorites, but not personally influential because of 'where I was at' when I saw them.
Most of the time, I consider Seventh Seal to be, IMHO, the best movie ever made™, but, 'cause of, when, I finally saw it, I was already in line with it and it I was already influenced along it's road, so it's not influencial. In old photos, and in my boyhood memory, my grampa John (for whom I am named) who emmigrated from Goteborg in 1886 @ age three, looked just like Max Von Sydow circa 1956! (His retirement job was County assessor of Cook County, Steven Speilberg's job in the Blues Brothers!)
Compare that to my vote for best novel ever written™. Crime & Punishment, which I first read at about the right age to get full affect (14?)so it was great AND influential. I am a fan of the LOTR movies, but they were not influential to me at pushing fidy, since the novels had first catalized my world view about a year before Raskolnikov and a year after Poe.
Werner -DVDs!
a related aside, my sister inlaw is from Beijing, and in an effort to polish her english, their TV always has the subtitles
going. It appears that subtitling can be a language of it's own.
-a point brought out in Monster in a Box.
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flamer
Trad climber
denver
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Oct 10, 2005 - 04:20pm PT
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Here's 3 that haven't been mentioned....
Romper stompers....australian skinheads, very f*#ked up but a good example of what can happen to kids who are looking for something to believe in.....
Things to do in denver when you're dead.....
Kids....
josh
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Oct 10, 2005 - 04:50pm PT
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I can't believe I forgot The Mission. One of my top five, fer sure; thanks for pointing it out.
What about Scarface?
"Say hello to my leetle friend!"
Pacino is good. De Niro is better. Heat was pretty good because they were both in it, along with a ton of other good actors.
I took a film class in school and was introduced to The Seventh Seal there.
Werner, you would dig it because Ingmar Bergman did it in Swedish and there are English subtitles.
According to my professor, that movie is widely considered among the top five of all time. Maybe Citizen Kane is better...because it was groundbreaking, but The Seventh Seal is far more thoughtful.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 10, 2005 - 05:25pm PT
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Hey, what about "Bullitt"? Greatest car chase of all time?
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John Vawter
Social climber
San Diego
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Oct 10, 2005 - 05:31pm PT
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“the ten films that have most strongly influenced the way YOU view the world”
Who knows? I just tried to remember some of the movies that made an impression on me in my formative years.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
A Hard Days Night
If
Zorba the Greek
Emanuelle
A Clockwork Orange
Point Blank
A Boy and His Dog
Macon County Line
Little Big Man
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Oct 10, 2005 - 06:34pm PT
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"A Boy and His Dog "
Good one - haven't even thought about that one in decades...!
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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Oct 10, 2005 - 07:02pm PT
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Good thread. I really should spend more than two minutes coming up with a list but here goes...
Blade Runner
The Big Blue
The Right Stuff
Apocalypse Now
2001
Gross Point Blank
Rushmore
La Femme Nikita
A River Runs Through It
12 Monkeys
The first three for sure! I'd proably make some substitutions with more thought on the other seven.
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