THE LIST WORD

You've seen the rest, now here's the last. The final thirty fillums that for no particular reason, I like more than others that I don't like.

A Fistful of Dollars Aliens An Awfully Big Adventure Attack Breakheart Pass Casablanca Cool Hand Luke Cry Terror Dudes Ed Wood Enter The Dragon Get Carter Green for Danger Hud JFK Jumanji Life of Brian Miller's Crossing

Nobody's Fool One-Eyed Jacks Pee-wee's Big Adventure Psycho Robocop Seven Days in May Strangers on a Train The Big Red One The Chess Game The Duellists The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Italian Job The Natural The Producers The Sting The Wanderers Three Days of the Condor Whisky Galore

That's the good gone. Pretty damn good, no? Now to the last five baddies. I was going to include Fight Club, but it's already in the comments somewhere below, so I won't bother. Don't you bother, either. Watching it, that is.

Maul That Jazz Whore's the Boss The Chump Nil By South Horse Play

And that's it. 120 fabulous films as voted by The Academy of Me. And twenty duds.

I just realised I never bagged any Australian films. Oh well, I suppose there's no need.

Comments

[John R]

Crikey, Tony. For a moment I thought you meant that awful Sly Stallone remake of "Get Carter". For that film alone the man should be shot.

Good to see "The Natural" in the list: brilliant novel, brilliant film. Great choices, mate.

[Tony.T]

John! Please have more faith in me than that. I reckon I've only seen about five minutes of Sly's GC; plenty enough to know it's total pants.

I loved the Natural when I first saw it, and, in fact, the next two or three times, but I saw it recently and it was excedingly hokey. Maybe that's why Darrin McGavin doesn't appear in the credits; he thought it nonsense and said "count me out".

However, there's no denying it looks great, and for a sports fan (I wouldn't class myself as a sports MOVIE fan), brilliantly captures the look of the era. But Kim Bassinger?!? Cannot act and is just plain embarrassing. It's a great book though, different to the fillum.

"Thwack. As the ball smacked into the catcher's mitt."

[James Russell]

You don't even need to see Sly's Get Carter to know what it'll be like. My heart just sank the first time I saw the poster for it. It was so completely... unnecessary.

[Tony.T]

Pretty much the same reaction here, James. As ill-considered a remake as ever there was. The Rollerball remake was complete rubbish too. And I just posted at Troppo about the Psycho remake.

[DJ]

Back to top form today, TT. Horse Play, nice one.

[Tony.T]

Thanks, DJ. A pretty even spread today, if I do say so myself, but they really did write themselves.

By the way, tell me which, if any, of the films do you actually like?

[hungbunny]

Some top films there, no question. But would I be exposing myself as a sad adolescent if I suggested Taxi Driver? And if you enjoy watching marionettes shagging, Team America is pretty good too.

[Big Ramifications]

Ed Wood was awesome. One of those movies where it was probably my missus turn to choose at the video store and I'm going "awww why do we have to watch that crap?" sort of thing.

Johnny Depp is a freakin' genius.

[Tony.T]

Funny you should mention Taxi Driver, Hung. You'll notice that in no list do I include Scorcese. I just don't like his stuff, it leaves me cold.

Big, Ed Wood was one of the few films from recent years that made me laugh out loud. A cracker.

[Big Ramifications]

Yep, me too. I was officially LOL.

[James Russell]

I like Scorsese's film history documentaries A Personal Journey Through American Movies and My Voyage To Italy far more than any of his other films. If he only ever made film history docos in future I know I wouldn't complain.

[Tony.T]

I think we mentioned that once before, James. Those docos are gold, wish I could say the same for the rest of his gear.

[DJ]

Many good movies there TT. I especially like the fact you picked Nobodys Fool in such a boysy list.

Rod.S is a special in Cry Terror.

[Sedgwick]

"Pee-wee's Big Adventure"

Wet my pants laughing at that one. (Boom Boom ... Crash Opera - or more likely I.E.)

On the other hand, joining the long list of sequels that died ingominiously and rightfully in the fundament, "Big Top Pee-Wee" was execrable.

Seriously though, the Big Adventure had one trick pony written all over it (a good one nonetheless) and a sequel was never a goer.

Keep an eye out for an old Nicol Williamson fillum - if it ever made it to video or such, "Laughter in the Dark" (1969). I remember thinking at the time it was good stuff, mainly because of Williamson's character. (It's based on a novel by the real Nabokov vs the novel and unreal Nabakov.)

[Tony.T]

DJ, love Rod's cool sunnies.

Sedge, I thought PWBA was going to be nonsense, but found myself laughing alot. I didn't found myself laughing at BTP.

I'll keep a look-out for Laughter in the Dark, I like Williamson, he does a fine MacBeth and is excellent as Merlin in Excalibur.

The unreal Nabakov certainly comes in widescreen Vistavision Todd-AO colour.

[Brett Pee]

Tony, check out some of the Swedes Ingmar Bergman's fillums, a bit heavy going perhaps but heavy symbolism and a touch of Scandinavian gloom. They haven't travelled all that well but some have very interesting scenes( a strange game of chess played by a crusader and death himself)

[Brett Pee]

But.....i saw 'dudes' about 5 years back and have to say it is the biggest pile of cow dung ever. Read into that highly technical review what you will but i found it in turn, meaningless, utterly pointless, dull, uninteresting, contrite with no ability whatsoever to lead me into anything else but to award it no stars whatsoever.