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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 216022" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>Point Break is so much fun. It is so over the top and completely unaware of that. "I am an F...B...I...Agent!" is one of the most laughable lines in the movie, and instantly quotable in the same instant. Kathryn Bigelow is really good at directing action sequences, setting them up. There's such an energy to the movie. It may be pure cheese, but you can't help but love it. When the first Fast and Furious movie came out, I said "It's a dumbed down version of Point Break, and that's saying something!" Keanu and Swayze totally make the movie, crappy surfing sequences included.</p><p></p><p>True Romance is a damn near perfect movie to me. A collection of fantastic individual scenes that somehow come together to make an entire movie. My favorites are the Walken/Hopper scene, Gandolfini/Arquette beat down (because she totally owns him in the end), and anything with Gary Oldman. Slater is so perfectly cast as you have no problem believing him as some knucklehead comic book store employee who could actually rise to do the things he does in the movie. It is incredibly romantic while being brutally violent, and thank god they didn't go with Tarantino's original ending of Clarence dying. The choices Tony Scott made that changed the script are spot on.</p><p></p><p>Absolute yes to The Professional. Mainly for Oldman's one line reading of "EEEVERRRRYYYYOOOONNNNNNNEEE!!!"</p><p></p><p>3 o'Clock High is a totally ignored gem. I used to love the kind of show off camera work it did, where everything seemed to be a trick shot. The impending doom that overtakes Jerry throughout the day is so great, as it's the kind of silly things a teen would totally blow out of proportion in there mind. Makes me laugh how being hot for teacher was still okay to be joked about back then, making the movie even somewhat taboo today. And the end resolution, so satisfying. A movie that you think is going to be warmed over John Hughes and instead turns into something completely unique.</p><p></p><p>Finally, Airplane. I defy you to show that to anyone, even a teen today, and not have them laugh. It's such a good spoof, without needing you to know all the pop culture references of the time. Of course it's even funnier if you do, but they don't drive most of the jokes unlike what passes for spoofs these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 216022, member: 134"] Point Break is so much fun. It is so over the top and completely unaware of that. "I am an F...B...I...Agent!" is one of the most laughable lines in the movie, and instantly quotable in the same instant. Kathryn Bigelow is really good at directing action sequences, setting them up. There's such an energy to the movie. It may be pure cheese, but you can't help but love it. When the first Fast and Furious movie came out, I said "It's a dumbed down version of Point Break, and that's saying something!" Keanu and Swayze totally make the movie, crappy surfing sequences included. True Romance is a damn near perfect movie to me. A collection of fantastic individual scenes that somehow come together to make an entire movie. My favorites are the Walken/Hopper scene, Gandolfini/Arquette beat down (because she totally owns him in the end), and anything with Gary Oldman. Slater is so perfectly cast as you have no problem believing him as some knucklehead comic book store employee who could actually rise to do the things he does in the movie. It is incredibly romantic while being brutally violent, and thank god they didn't go with Tarantino's original ending of Clarence dying. The choices Tony Scott made that changed the script are spot on. Absolute yes to The Professional. Mainly for Oldman's one line reading of "EEEVERRRRYYYYOOOONNNNNNNEEE!!!" 3 o'Clock High is a totally ignored gem. I used to love the kind of show off camera work it did, where everything seemed to be a trick shot. The impending doom that overtakes Jerry throughout the day is so great, as it's the kind of silly things a teen would totally blow out of proportion in there mind. Makes me laugh how being hot for teacher was still okay to be joked about back then, making the movie even somewhat taboo today. And the end resolution, so satisfying. A movie that you think is going to be warmed over John Hughes and instead turns into something completely unique. Finally, Airplane. I defy you to show that to anyone, even a teen today, and not have them laugh. It's such a good spoof, without needing you to know all the pop culture references of the time. Of course it's even funnier if you do, but they don't drive most of the jokes unlike what passes for spoofs these days. [/QUOTE]
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