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Sword of Doom is pretty dull, but the killer definitely has world class crazy eyes. I like Sword of Vengeance better.

I've got that series too fats...Ogami Ito rules. (I also like the American techno edited version Shogun Assassin.)

I don't know, there's just something about SOD that intrigues me. Maybe it's the fact that they were supposed to make three films and only finished the first one. All kind of plot lines were left hanging.

I like Sword of Doom largely for the swordfight in the snow.

I just finished watching another "anytime" movie: Escape from New York. Over the top cheese shot in St. Louis after some riots IIRC. Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Couch- I mean Donald Pleasence, Lee Van Cleef, this movie has it all. The death match between Kurt Russell and Slag is epic.

And DAMN did Adrienne Barbeau have some bodacious sweater puppies back in the day.

The thing about Sword of Doom is that it is incredibly atmospheric, and creates incredible tension just with the presence of the evil swordsman. However, as far as atmospheric villains go, it's hard to beat this guy:

What movie is that from fats?

GDG, that snow swordfight in the dark is yet another reason why black and white cinema is superior to color.

Cool Hand Luke

Fat Cat wrote:Mad Max
Conan the Barbarian
Red Dawn

Those are all on mylist.

Any Star Wars
Farewell To The King
Repo Man
The first 3 Dirty Harry movies
The Longest Day
Force 10 From Navarone
The Big Red One
The Mechanic
Rome:The Sereis
Spartacus
Excaliber
The 13th Warrior
Bravehaert
Truthor Consequence New Mexico
Road House
Groose Point Blank
Wrath of Khan
Animal House
Gremlins
The Jerk
Up in Smoke
Aleins
First Blood
LoneWolf McQuade
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Bridge on The River Kwi
The Hill
SLC Punk
Full Metal Jacket
Hamburger Hill-The best Vietnam flick IMO
Apocolypse Now
We were Soldiers
Fist Full of Dollers
High Plains Drifter

Jay and Silent Bob strike back

DARTH wrote:Any Star Wars

Really?

For you young 'uns out there who think a good heist film involves Matt Damon and George Clooney...check out Charley Varrick. This is a great film from our best decade ever for cinema...the 70's. Walter Matthau, John Vernon, and Joe Don Baker as a bad ass mob hit man.



Speaking of Joe Don Baker and Robert Duvall, they did a kick ass 70's film called The Outfit where they take on the Mafia. That needs to get a dvd release ASAP.

Anything with Sammo Hung, the man is a genius. Lau Kar Leung too.

Jaws, motherfuckers. "I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went right to my head."

Seven Samurai, Chinatown, Casablanca.
The Untouchables. "How far are you prepared to go, Mr. Ness?" "And then what?"

Die Hard & Gremlins are both great Xmas movies.

Grim Hamundarson wrote:Jaws, motherfuckers. "I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went right to my head."

Seven Samurai, Chinatown, Casablanca.
The Untouchables. "How far are you prepared to go, Mr. Ness?" "And then what?"

You really watch the Seven Samurai over and over?

Ronald RayGun wrote:

DARTH wrote:Any Star Wars

Really?

Yep I am one of the few who see Phantom Menace for what it was suppossed to be.

It was suppossed to be a more innocent, better time but you see where the snake is doing his work.

Sure Jar Jar was a bitch but that made it all the sweeter when he is the one who gets the ball rolling in the Senate for the rise of Empire.

Sometimes a Do gooder is the best tool for evil.

Not to mention the lightsaber work was great when you saw it the first 5 times and Darth Maul was awesome, that made you respect Obi Wan even more.

My problem with Menace wasn't Anakin's innocence. It was the horrible plot + horrible plot filler. Hate hate hate the silly pod racing scene. Hate Gungans. Hate that one of the coolest Sith ever only gets 15 minutes on screen only to lead up to a stupid death. The pacing makes me want to yack just thinking about it.

I mean shit, Gendy Tartakovsky proved with and animated series that Lucas should never be left in charge of writing ANYTHING Star Wars ever again.

Oh, and fucking Midiclorians......faaaaaack!

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:

Grim Hamundarson wrote:Jaws, motherfuckers. "I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went right to my head."

Seven Samurai, Chinatown, Casablanca.
The Untouchables. "How far are you prepared to go, Mr. Ness?" "And then what?"

You really watch the Seven Samurai over and over?

I've probably seen it about 15 times, which for me is a lot. Three times in a theater.

Braveheart
The Mummy 1 & 2
The Princess Bride
Ong-Bak
Rocky...all of them
Conan the Barbarian
Drunken Master
Rob Roy
Snatch
Underworld
The Machinist (fucking awesome)
Donnie Darko
Any Zombie movie ever made, literally.

Donnie Fucking Darko!

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:Donnie Fucking Darko!

Hell yeah.

Dunn wrote:Braveheart
The Mummy 1 & 2
The Princess Bride
Ong-Bak
Rocky...all of them
Conan the Barbarian
Drunken Master
Rob Roy
Snatch
Underworld
The Machinist (fucking awesome)
Donnie Darko
Any Zombie movie ever made, literally.

Man I forgot Rob Roy! One of the bst movies ever

Ronald RayGun wrote:My problem with Menace wasn't Anakin's innocence. It was the horrible plot + horrible plot filler. Hate hate hate the silly pod racing scene. Hate Gungans. Hate that one of the coolest Sith ever only gets 15 minutes on screen only to lead up to a stupid death. The pacing makes me want to yack just thinking about it.

I mean shit, Gendy Tartakovsky proved with and animated series that Lucas should never be left in charge of writing ANYTHING Star Wars ever again.

Dude the Pod Race was Killer!

And the way Maul went out was great, he was to clouded by his anger and overconfedence, the downfall of many a movie and reallife badass.

And I loved the "There was no father." part Jesus was a Jedi!

After playing two SW video games (Knights Of The Old Republic 1 & 2 ) and reading countless SW comics (the ones that take place during and just before the Clone Wars) that had better story telling & much more depth than episodes one & two, there's nothing anyone can say that will convince me that those movies are even slightly decent. To me they were nothing more than wasted talent & wasted opportunity.

And I agree with you about the Jedi-Jesus tread, but all they did was touch on it when they really could have driven it home in dramatic fashion that Palpatine and his former master manipulated the force to create Anakin.

*end thread hijack*

Shaun Of The Dead
Step Brothers (with the commentary track on)
The Happening + the Rifftrax for The Happening = crazy hilarious
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