Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I'm not sure if it's meant to be taken entirely seriously or a little tongue in cheek because if you strip it right down, the premise is, she says, is very strange and wouldn't be out of place made is a horror film.

No, it's the usual PC claptrap from The Guardian.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Here they are ranked:

1. The Thing (1982)
2. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
3. Escape from New York (1981)
4. Bone Tomahawk (2015)
5. Overboard (1987)
6. Death Proof (2007)
7. Escape from L.A. (1996)
8. Vanilla Sky (2001)

Good list. If you want to find out what your missing, this could be an expensive week for you!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Good list. If you want to find out what your missing, this could be an expensive week for you!

To be honest there aren't many more of his films that intrigue me. Backdraft maybe but everything else seems very 'meh'.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

To be honest there aren't many more of his films that intrigue me. Backdraft maybe but everything else seems very 'meh'.

You'd love Soldier. Russell plays a man of very few words. Obviously one of those lurking Last Jedi fans.

Ha'ha. I've finished now.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

You'd love Soldier. Russell plays a man of very few words. Obviously one of those lurking Last Jedi fans.

Ha'ha. I've finished now.

I haven't even seen it so your references are wasted on me!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

No, it's the usual PC claptrap from The Guardian.

Didn't that Chris Pratt film have a similar issue? (I think it's called passengers)

I find it quite fascinating to look back on older films and see how the culture has changed. I thought overboard was a bit 'rapey' back when I last saw it in the 90s. But society changes and evolves and I'd rather people treat them as cultural artefacts rather than trying to sweep them under the carpet. In some ways it's very educational I suppose.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

No, it's the usual PC claptrap from The Guardian.

I don't think it is. All she's doing is looking back on film she likes (for the most part, anyway) and pointing out how, as an adult and not a child of the late 1970s who was watching these films unquestioningly.

It's not a case of saying she doesn't love them (she loves Ghostbusters, thanks Say Anything is the greatest teen movie of all time, and Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie ever), but they have elements which, if made today, would be looked at with raised eyebrows by people in the filmmaking process.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

To be honest there aren't many more of his films that intrigue me. Backdraft maybe but everything else seems very 'meh'.

Looking at your list, you'd probably really like Tombstone, Backdraft, and Tango & Cash. If you have Netflix, Deepwater Horizon is on there and something I'll watch (for a second time) before submitting my top 10.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Looking at your list, you'd probably really like Tombstone, Backdraft, and Tango & Cash. If you have Netflix, Deepwater Horizon is on there and something I'll watch (for a second time) before submitting my top 10.

Seriously. Check out breakdown. It's a great little thriller.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Looking at your list, you'd probably really like Tombstone, Backdraft, and Tango & Cash. If you have Netflix, Deepwater Horizon is on there and something I'll watch (for a second time) before submitting my top 10.

Even i don't rate Tango and Cash that much and i'm a sucker for daft action movies.

B_e might like Deepwater Horizon though.

Similar to Solaris only set on a drilling rig.