100 Movies to see before you die.

Yahoo Movies ^ | 03/22/2009 | Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff  

[Mr. Jeeves]

VIRTUALLY ALL THE SCIENCE FICTION FLICKS OF THE LAST 60 YEARS HAVE A FAIRLY HEAVY PROPAGANDA LOAD CARRYING WATER FOR THE GLOBALIST OLIGARCHY AND THEIR CONSTRUCTIONS ON REALITY THAT THEY EXPECT ALL CITIZENS OF THE PLANET TO SUBSCRIBE TO.

That's what made Firefly/Serenity so great - producer Joss Whedon took direct aim at that very construct and showed us just what kind of a neo-fascist New Galactic Order would evolve from it.

Probably also why the show didn't last more than half of its first season. ;)

[Quix]

Hmmmmm. True.

[Quix]

Now, now.

Oscar and Hamerstein were masters at

FEEL GOOD STUFF.

And there’s a time for FEEL GOOD ESCAPISM.

Especially around priority honorable values.

[cyberaxe]

....."Thank You for Smoking" was way kewl.....

[Quix]

Thanks.

Haven’t seen it. Will watch for it.

I wonder if it’s on YouTube.

I’m not really a great movie fan.

I liked watching them at home where I could read a book at the same time.

It’s tooooo easy for me to get sucked into the alternate reality.

My friends seeing STAR WARS with me opening week laughed rating STAR WARS a “9 tripper.” for the number of ‘bladder breaks” I took.

[Quix]

I watch such with greatly more detachment nowadays. But my empathy dynamics still kick in very easily for the suffering in any film.

[Huck]

I just can’t stand Broadway style music. Never liked it. Hate it, really. For me, feel good escapism is classic 70s dystopian sci-fi. Or a corny old John Wayne western. Musicals are worse than waterboarding.

[Quix]

I actually felt that way about STATE FAIR, too.

LOL.

I don’t think there’s a non-Oscar and Hammerstein musical I ever enjoyed.

But even some scifi an some westerns are pretty bad on such scores, to me.

[a fool in paradise]

They have When Harry Met Sally but no The Girl Can’t Help It?

Why not have Home Alone and other “hits” of the modern era too?

[Slings and Arrows]

Not to mention Manos: The Hands of Fate.

[a fool in paradise]

The media certainly wouldn’t want audiences to see Mr. Smith Goes To Washington or Meet John Doe these days. Frank Capra’s films take them to task for their manipulation of public opinion.

[Quix]

What was that last one John Wayne did with Kathryn Hepburn . . .

ROOSTER COGBURN.

Worth it maybe to see them interacting . . . and entertaining in spots . . . IIRC, embarrassingly something in spots too . . . maudlin? I don’t recall for sure.

My wife was also an RN with a nurse that had the distinction of having had to give John Wayne an enema once. Said he was quite short . . . errr . . . head to feet.

[Poe White Trash]

Wow. I’ve seen 78 of these movies. Talk about a wasted youth...

[Huck]

The beauty of 70s dystopian sci-fi is that bad is good. My faves are Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, and Silent Runnings.

[50sDad]

I’m glad SOMEBODY else was paying attention!

Kinda like the puppy that miraculously appeared during the worst of the Clinton years...."Sure, I got serviced in the Oval Office on company time, but LOOK OVER HERE AT THIS CUTE PUPPY!!!!"

[Huck]

I can’t stand Katherine Hepburn. So annoying. Awful. I like “The Shootist”. That was Wayne near the end of his career, with Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard.

[wtc911]

you’re right but strike chinatown.

[Poe White Trash]

Ever read C. M. Kornbluth’s short story “The Marching Morons”? Same concept, just not funny.

[Brett66]

I saw ET about 10 years after it came out in theatres. I’d seen ripoffs like “Mac n Me” before I saw ET, but I actually thought Mac n Me was a better movie.

And I thought Mac n Me was lame.......

[NMEwithin]

Wow...barely any horror on that whole list?

Horror genre always gets the shaft...they could have at least included “Frankenstein”