Help a Hickman with Hints of Hollywood
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Posted on: 2010-09-18 06:06 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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This. Pick this one.
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Originally Posted by LiquidX
Ooooo! Oooooo! I know!
You should show them CLUE! It's 92 minutes, it's PG, and it's a friggen *classic*. |
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A Man for all Seasons is worthy, though at 120 minutes might be pushing the limits. A really great movie about moral choices. I quite seriously doubt you'll find a student that's seen it (which is an important criterion a lot of people here are ignoring).
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I'll give yah 3
Legend (No not I Am Legend, but the fantasy movie in 80s)
Time Bandits
Labyrinth
Bonus: Willow
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show them: The Greatest Movie I've Ever Seen in My Life!
Seriously, Neverending story would be a good one.
My suggestion: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Let your students know what Eastwood was like before he started taking pics of covered bridges. 
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Unfortunately GB&U is almost 3 hours long. Otherwise it would be a good choice.
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Originally Posted by Nylonus
My suggestion: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Let your students know what Eastwood was like before he started taking pics of covered bridges. |
Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
For an anime twist, I'd say the Urusei Yatsura Movie #2: Beautiful Dreamer. 90 minutes long, unrated. Can't recall if there's any toplessness of Lum in it though. It's, IMO, one of the best anime movies to ever come out.
Innerspace
Matinee (opens up a lot of discussions, plus it's funny as hell if you get it)
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A movie I just watched...
"The Battle for Terra"
available on Netflix
Humans detroyed Earth and need to colonize a new planet. The planet they have chosen has life on it already. So now what should they do?
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Manos: the Hands of Fate, sans MST3K |
Originally Posted by DJ1
You could've just mentioned Battlefield Earth and been done with it. I mean really once you have reached the nether depths of movie crapdom there's no were to go except up.
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Originally Posted by Shadowclone
Primer
It's an excellent movie on time travel and it's consequences. Oh, and it will blow their minds out. You won't get two reports the same. |
A Beautiful Mind is another good one (unfortunately 135 minutes). The story also leaves you guessing until near the end (that is, unless you know the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr.).
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I know this feeling...
It was a huge costume contest in Atlas, and my lowbie was dutifully in line, trying to look heroic. It dawned on us that the judge had been DC'd.
So for all we know, Troy is on a desperate mission on another planet, left helpless by exposure to Hickmanite, frantically trying to figure out how to snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat at the hands of his archnemesis.
Or he may have gone to Canada.
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You say that like Canada ISN'T another planet...|
Originally Posted by Melancton
I know this feeling...
It was a huge costume contest in Atlas, and my lowbie was dutifully in line, trying to look heroic. It dawned on us that the judge had been DC'd. So for all we know, Troy is on a desperate mission on another planet, left helpless by exposure to Hickmanite, frantically trying to figure out how to snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat at the hands of his archnemesis. Or he may have gone to Canada. |
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I think he's on the can. Again.
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Originally Posted by Melancton
I know this feeling...
It was a huge costume contest in Atlas, and my lowbie was dutifully in line, trying to look heroic. It dawned on us that the judge had been DC'd. So for all we know, Troy is on a desperate mission on another planet, left helpless by exposure to Hickmanite, frantically trying to figure out how to snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat at the hands of his archnemesis. Or he may have gone to Canada. |
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I went into watching that movie with no clue what it was about other than being based on a true story.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
A Beautiful Mind is another good one (unfortunately 135 minutes). The story also leaves you guessing until near the end (that is, unless you know the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr.).
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Total WTF moment!
I love a Beautiful Mind. There is so much one can learn from it and it really useful in a philosophy class.
Original Day the Earth Stood Still
The Great Escape
Apollo 13
Dr Strangelove
2001 Space Odyssey
12 angry Men
Robot Chicken version of 12 Angry Men using Fischer Price Toys
Metropolis
Napoleon (1927)
Blade Runner
Futurama - 300 Big Boys (its the same as the 2010 Republican platform economic plan,lol), gimme those Tricky D funbucks
The Queen (2006)
Hoop Dreams
Roger and Me
Comic Book Confidential
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Music Man
The Quiet Man
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what class ?
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Hey, a request for all you movie-philes. I need some suggestions (as many as you can give) for a movie to show one of my classes so they can write a review.
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Beat everyone off our new borders as we always have? It's worked pretty well so far.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
A movie I just watched...
"The Battle for Terra" available on Netflix Humans detroyed Earth and need to colonize a new planet. The planet they have chosen has life on it already. So now what should they do? |
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would you consider The Bucket List depressing? (PG-13 and 97 minutes btw)
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I was going to say "Make treaties with them then immedietly turn around an take their land anyways", but that works as well I suppose.
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Originally Posted by Lastjustice
Beat everyone off our new borders as we always have? It's worked pretty well so far.
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Yes, I know it's been five months, but I haven't responded to this thread yet because I'm still using it! I'm checking it out now for ideas for THIS semester's movie review.
A lot of great ideas, by the way, thank you. Unfortunately many of them don't meet the criteria of time and rating. I've found some stuff I'M going to watch, though!
But so help me, if I have one more student watch a classic film and then write "well, that was just STUPID," I'm going to be tried for a felony...
On that subject, by the way, here's a link to what they said about Cool Hand Luke.
Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe
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At first, I thought that said, "fried for a felony"...|
Originally Posted by TroyHickman
But so help me, if I have one more student watch a classic film and then write "well, that was just STUPID," I'm going to be tried for a felony...
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>.<
Really?
No one mentioned Big Trouble In Little China? (at 99 minutes and PG-13)
When you are tired of Jack Burton, you are tired of life!
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
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Troy, I would just like to apologize on behalf of my entire generation for making you suffer through that. Some of us do have more than two brain cells to rub together.
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
On that subject, by the way, here's a link to what they said about Cool Hand Luke.
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Goodbye, I guess.
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Primer
It's an excellent movie on time travel and it's consequences. Oh, and it will blow their minds out. You won't get two reports the same.