Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I was the same with Walker (Point Blank) and 'Silence' (The Great Silence) and only worked out who they were by reading the caption on the pictures.

Oh i know which films they are all from just not the character names. Vampyros Lesbos?, The Great Silence... no idea what they are called.

Point Blank has long been a fave of mine since the big box pre cert days.

It's not even had a dvd release in the UK up until it's Premium Collection release recently. Criminal!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Oh i know which films they are all from just not the character names. Vampyros Lesbos?, The Great Silence... no idea what they are called.

Ditto. I had to Google them to find out the character names!

That said, it has been many years since I saw Vampyros Lesbos and my memory of the film is very limited, probably extending to the fact it's about lesbian vampires!

[MrBarlow]

Trash (The Bronx Warriors)
Mike lowrey (Bad Boys)
Nick Parker (blind Fury)
Dredd (Dredd 2012 version)
Jerry Dandridge (Fright Night 1985 version)
Charlie (G:MT)
Mason Storm (Hard To Kill)
XXXX (Layer Cake)
Capt John Connor (Rising Sun)
Keyser Soze (The usual Suspects)

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Charlie (G:MT)

I had to Google that because I didn't recognise G:MT and it's a film I hadn't previously heard of and haven't seen. It sounds interesting and has a really good cast.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I had to Google that because I didn't recognise G:MT and it's a film I hadn't previously heard of and haven't seen. It sounds interesting and has a really good cast.

Yeah it is good, its like typical teen film leaving school and trying to get a grip on what lies ahead

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I'm probably the only person on the forum who finds the fact that 50% of your pictures contain people with visible guns disturbing!

Originally Posted by Wes

Susan's point is well made. I caught a chunk of Olympus Has Fallen on TV recently and the gun play in the film was totally gratuitous to the point where I was cringing. Okay, hardly a film of quality like Hardboiled, but I couldn't help thinking this was the last thing a trigger happy society needed. For years I thought James Cameron's pacifist Terminator in Judgement Day was ridiculous but 26 years later, I can better appreciate his decision...

I'm able to follow both Susan's and Wes' train of thought, but I tend to disagree.

Although they are closely related (and constantly cross-fertilize each other), I really like to differentiate between art (a film, a song, a poem, a painting,...) and real life.

If we allow recent events or the current emotional or social state of our society to decide whether it's appropriate or not to show a film, air a song, recite a poem, or discuss a painting, we're on the wrong track.

Why? Because not too long ago, we had quite a few discussions in different European countries about whether films or songs (or whatever media you like to think of) are able to negatively influence human behavior or not. Mentioning the Judas Priest song "Better by You, Better Than Me" and the whole debate about the dangers of "Video Nasties" should be enough to illustrate what I mean. In this day and age of regulations, I am really terrified that at the end of the road a new wave of (moral) censorship may be waiting for us.

As I already said, I perfectly understand both Susan's and Wes' point of view. Still, I have a queasy feeling about it.

Whether it is a sign of good taste to show Monty Python's Life of Brian on Christmas Eve, or perform a stage show that includes firearms pointed at the audience directly after a mass shooting or not... well that's definitely debatable.

Anyhow...

[Wes]

Well said and yes, most definitely we would be on the wrong track. For me, the older the get (41 in the new year), the more conservative my attitudes are becoming - to my regret if I'm honest, but the point Susan made strongly resonates with me. But this is learning to accept the rough with the smooth and certainly not a pro-censorship attitude.

[SilverSurfer]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I'm probably the only person on the forum who finds the fact that 50% of your pictures contain people with visible guns disturbing!

Have a look at all those action film covers on Videos(!),DVD and on Blu ray and 99% of the time there is a man/woman with a large gun prominently shown on them.

[nosferatu42]

Top 10 cool male characters.

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Harry callahan - Dirty Harry
Man with no name (Blondie) - The good, the bad and the ugly
Han solo - Star wars
Snake Plisken - Escape from New York / Mcready - The Thing
Dude - Big Lebowski
Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
Roy Batty- Blade runner / The Hitcher
Indiana jones
Mad max
Dale cooper - Twin peaks

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The Contenders -

Frank n furter -Rocky horror picture show
Batman - (Michael keaton)
Randle McMurphy- One flew over the cuckoos nest
Otto - Repo Man

[nosferatu42]

Top 10 cool female characters.

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Catwoman - Batman Returns
Ellen Ripley - Alien
Pris - Blade Runner
Mia Wallace - Pulp Fiction
Hit Girl - Kick Ass
Ramona Flowers - Scott Pilgrim
Eowyn - Lord Of The Rings
Black Widow - Avengers
Harley quinn - Suicide Squad
Jyn Erso - Rogue One

Almost ins.

Thana -Ms .45

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Barbarella
Veronica - Heathers

Morticia - Addams Family (Tv version)

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