Movies you just Love too much...

Ezekiel667 said:
Mortal Kombat. I just can't help myself, when the punches start rolling in that movie it brings up all my favorite MK childhood memories of gruesome fatalities.
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You know, I bet a really awesome martial arts/fantasy/adventure film could be made from the Mortal Kombat universe if it were treated seriously by Hollywood. There is actually a decent backstory that has tons of potential to be elaborated on and filled out by a talented screenwriter and director, as long as they respect it and take the whole thing seriously.

As for the technical side of things, if they got a good fight choreographer like Yuen Woo-ping (Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, etc.) and did all the fights Hong Kong style then I think that something really good could come out of a film adaptation of these classic games. The key too would be to make it more than just a martial arts movie where two foes square off and then one performs a fatality. Those elements are great in the games, but they need to take some of the cheesier elements out for the film and give it some gravitas. Just because it is in the game doesn't mean that they have to put it in the film.
 
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DM_rider said:
I still have some movies on vhs kicking around.
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not to force nostalgia, i have quite a few laserdiscs that i am proud of. too bad i lost my Poineer LD player in a fire 2 years ago. been looking for a nice used one. the sound on those are unreal.
 
I own four laserdiscs. I got them at Amoeba records on clearance for like a dollar each. I have The Empire Strikes Back, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boyz N The Hood (criterion), and Shine (criterion). I've actually been wanting to get an LD player for years now because there's a lot of criterion laserdiscs that haven't been re-released by them on DVD. I especially want the Taxi Driver disc. It's my all-time favorite film, and I really want to hear Martin Scorsese's commentary track.
 
Seen Snatch a lot. I like to think I can speak fluent Pikey. Though I enjoy Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels just as much.
 
I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie NOT the tv show) fits that bill for me, along with Galaxy Quest.
 
Lucas, Powder, Can't Buy Me Love, Rudy.....any movie about a lovable loser without being a 90's sex comedy. i'm drawn to "loser-tries-and-wins" movies.
 
Miami Blues...I love everything about this movie, of course I love a lot of movies, but this one seems to fit this thread the best. Fortunately I own it, because I never see it on anywhere.

Saving Silverman...I don't know why I like this ridiculous movie so much, but I'll stop and watch it anytime and at any point in the movie when I'm channel surfing.
 
Wild Orchid-Mickey Rourke Soft core porn film. The uncut DVD is hard to find and I really don't get the poitnt of the film but it just takes me somewhere. I love this film.

Miami Vice-Still love the look

Ferris Bueller's Day Off-Amazing film

Hard Boiled-The greatest action film ever made IMO

Mean Guns-Starring Ice T and Christopher Lambert...Nuff Said

Aliens-I know almost every line of that one

The 5th Element-I hated it in the theater, Now it is one of my all time favs

The king for me is Raising Arizona-I have seen this at least 30 times and it still cracks me up.

Coming to america-you already know.
 
filthrich said:
Aliens-I know almost every line of that one
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HUDSON
Hey Vasquez... have you ever been mistaken for a man?

VASQUEZ
No. Have you?

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After the dropship crashes and burns...

HUDSON
Well that's great. That's just poo pooing great man.
Now what the poo poo are we supposed to do?
We're in some real pretty shi* now man.

BURKE
Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs.

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HUDSON
Game over man! Game over!

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Here's a good one from the script that isn't in the movie. From the scene of Ripley briefing the marines.

RIPLEY
Okay. It's important to understand this organism's life cycle.
It's actually two creatures. The first form hatches from a spore...
a sort of large egg, and attaches itself to its victim. Then it injects
an embryo, detaches and dies. It's essentially a walking sex organ. The --

HUDSON
Sounds like you, Hicks.​
 
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