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Coolest Movie Evah!!!

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19:49 / 20.02.06

I just saw Crossroads yesterday again, for the first time in a couple of years, and I have to tell you people: this has got to be the coolest movie ever made. I mean, it's a movie with Ralph Machio in it, and you don't think about The Karate Kid trilogy not even once. Willie Brown saying "let me be", the Lighting Kid becoming a true bluesman after that perfomance in the "negro" (word used in context, of course) joint and then loosing the girl the next day. The spine-chilling meeting with Legba/Scratch at the crossroads. The guittar duel against Steve Vai in Hell Club, won with the graces of Moz-fucking-art. THE SOUND TRACK, goddamnit, THE SOUND TRACK.

"I know I'm not supposed to feel sorry by myself, and I know you've been through shit a thousand times worse than me... but I'll miss her".

"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad, thinkin' 'bout the woman he once was with".

"Muddy Water invented eletricity".

"Hell hounds on your trail, boy, hell hounds on your trail".

"Do you know the language I'm speaking?"

"That ain't no reason to break a deal".

"Hush, hush, somebody's calling my name".

"I'm giving you all the magic I have left".

Personally, I think there's NO WAY someone can argue with me when I say this movie is the paragon of cool, but since this is Barbelith, a place of unrelenting, unforgiving free speech, I dare you people to come up with a cooler movie (and I don't mean better, or more entertaining, or more meaningful, or more mind-shattering. I mean cooler).

Or just admit I'm unarguebly right, whatever suits ya...

19:52 / 20.02.06

I increasingly feel that members either approach the board as a community, or they approach it simply as a venue for self-expression.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:07 / 20.02.06

I totally agree with your choice, man! Crossroads is an amazing film. My favourite scene is when she reads him the poem she's written about journeying from childhood to maturity.

20:09 / 20.02.06

Personally, I think there's NO WAY someone can argue with me when I say this movie is the paragon of cool

You know, Britney Spears isn't all that to begin with. I found her debut to be distinctly lukewarm.

20:15 / 20.02.06

Yeah, Britney Spears shoulb be shot in the knee for stealing the movie's name...

Poke it with a stick

20:16 / 20.02.06

I'd argue that Capricorn One deserves a little consideration - a brilliant conspiracy thriller; Elliot Gould acting everyone else ever under the table without even trying and that guy from Law and Order climbing up a sheer cliff just to get to a punchline.
Oh, and James Brolin eating a snake raw.
And OJ Simpson. Not being eaten raw, obviously, but he's in it too...

21:05 / 20.02.06

Thats easy.... Fletch

Roger didn't like it much, but fuck him if he can't take a joke.

21:14 / 20.02.06

Fletch would've been way cooler if the main character was played by Humphrey Boggart...

21:18 / 20.02.06

No, it would have been way cooler had it been played by YOU. The you could watch it over and over again to the exclusion of everything else.

21:35 / 20.02.06

or they approach it simply as a venue for self-expression.

22:05 / 20.02.06

ok, then, I did not respond because I did not want to hijack the thread, but if I must:

"That would've been cool too, but old Boggart is way cooler than me... and 98% of humankind, for that matter..."

there

22:52 / 20.02.06

I like Fletch the way it is.

Bogart smokes too much,

and DM talks too much.

02:55 / 21.02.06

Chuck Norris didn't like the end of Superman IV, so he broke Christopher Reeves' neck.

03:25 / 21.02.06

Surely 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' is the greatest movie ever made?

To even start listing 'the reasons why' would be playing into the hands of the haters.

09:17 / 21.02.06

Chuck Norris didn't like the end of Superman IV, so broke Christopher Reeves' neck.

We all know that "Good Guys Wear Black.", the taut political thriller of the Chuck Norris genre, is possibly the coolest of all films.

With the possible exception of "Forced Vengence".

11:25 / 21.02.06

I'm sorry, is it actually possible to make a film cooler than "Performance"?

I think not.

15:03 / 21.02.06

"wild at heart".

passionate romance, unbridled violence, voodoo, willem dafoe, the fact that it's a road movie, elvis, wizard of oz, redemption, rebels without a cause. it's pure perfect american filmmaking, which is cool defined.

18:18 / 21.02.06

I have a very non-ironic love of "Flash Gordon." The one with the Queen soundtrack. Has there ever been a more Lee-Kirby movie produced in the history of cinema?

"This man stands for something... finer."

"Prince Barin! I'm not your enemy, Ming is! Let's all team up and fight him!"

"Keeping our word is one of the things that make us better than you."

Also, every superhero movie made should end with a scene like this one.

It is my sincere belief that if you were to amalgamate "The Incredibles" and "Flash Gordon," you would have a perfect Fantastic Four movie.

21:41 / 21.02.06

Blues Brothers.

"It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it."

12:21 / 22.02.06

Bill, John. Would you like to come to my house for tea and also sex?

12:29 / 22.02.06

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Russell and Carpenter! Ironic machismo! The hero being the sidekick! Badly acted ninja gods with blades for hands! Kim Cattrall! Mystic adventure in Chinatown! Gang war! Trucker trash talk! James Hong! Victor R.I.P. Wong! Action!

AYE.

13:05 / 22.02.06

It's been my firm belief for a good 14 years now that "Chinese Super Ninjas" (aka "Five Element Ninja," aka "Super Ninjas") is the coolest movie of all time.

A 1982 Shaw Brothers offering from legendary director Chang Cheh, it has everything one could want from a cool film.

I reviewed it under the guise "Joe909" here:

Super Ninjas Review (Second review down from top of page)

13:12 / 22.02.06

Triplets, I happen to have that particular super cool movie sitting next to me.

13:44 / 22.02.06

I think the best part about Big Trouble... are the trucker's monologues at the beginning and the end. In terms of delivery, they're perfect. The monologues have the right amount of arrogance to be funny without being annoying. Thematically, the monologues fit the character: he has no idea what's going on throughout the whole movie, he's so clued-out, but he tries to stay on top of it by conquering it. Allegory, anyone?
Ah, "Forget it, [matt]. It's Chinatown."

14:43 / 22.02.06

Another cool movie (which I also reviewed as "Joe909"...self-promotion be damned!) is the 1998 Japanese film "Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl." This one's super-cool, with villains who wear "hyper-fashion gear," two ultra-cool lead characters, and a pop-culture-spouting, many-divergent-threads plotline that would make Tarantino envious:

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

15:03 / 22.02.06

The trucker? The. Trucker.?

I think you mean Mr Jack Burton, owner of the legendary Pork Chop Express.

16:04 / 22.02.06

Wild Zero.

"Ace!!! Rock and Roll knows no boundaries, nationalities or genders!!!"

RIP Bass Wolf

16:16 / 22.02.06

(couldn't quite remember Kurt's character's name and I couldn't be bothered to look it up)

16:27 / 22.02.06

I think you mean Mr Jack Burton, owner of the legendary Pork Chop Express.

"Henry Swanson's the name and excitement's my game!"

Film is so best. I too have the DVD downstairs. It may have to be watched. Ching Dai demands!

16:37 / 22.02.06

My partner totally does not get the BTiLC love, which means I get to watch the movie very rarely.
ANNOYME!

16:38 / 22.02.06

Bass Wolf died??

When???

17:40 / 22.02.06

"Run Lola Run" and "La Haine" are two of the coolest films i've ever seen. especialy the section in RLR where her scream shatters glass!

18:05 / 22.02.06

I think "La Haine" is a very good movie, but is it the type of movie you can call your friends up on the phone and be like "[Name of movie]. My place. Twenty minutes. Be there." and be guaranteed of merriment for the evening? Come to think of it, "Big Trouble in Little China" is perhaps the perfect movie for that exchange. "Hercules in New York" (aka "Hercules Goes Bananas") ought to be a sure shot as well.

It'd be hard to deny that "Run Lola Run" is pretty cool, though.

Bill, John. Would you like to come to my house for tea and also sex?

Yes, but not at the same time for fear of scalding.

21:00 / 22.02.06

Guys, the coolest movie of all freaking time is Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

By far.

That movie owns.

21:28 / 22.02.06

I like Fear of Scalding in Las Vegas.

Bill?

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