I don't know that I could handle a whole draft, but maybe when we're done, everyone can post their list, based on the categories we've been working on.
Hands down, the funniest movie I have seen at the theater in a long time. I laughed so hard and so long. Tears and stomach pain were present nearly the entire film. I love comedy, but rarely do I see a film that makes me laugh that much. For that reason alone, it is worthy of selection here (and probably much earlier).
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are PERFECT in this movie. They bring the comedy of course, but each possesses just enough sincerity and in Owen's case sweetness to make the movie work so well. Throw in Chris Walken, an unexpected dose of Will Ferrell and two lovely ladies in Rachel McAdams and the yummy Isla Fisher and you have GOLD! I use lines from this movie a little too often probably!
Youtube goodness! (none of this is safe for work)
Trailer
Motorboat
Breakfast scene
Vintage Vaughn
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
A FBI agent (Val Kilmer) with native heritage (of which he is not particularly proud) is sent to a native reservation in South Dakota to help with a murder investigation.
It's a great story, well acted and realistic. The best part, though, is watching Kilmer's character transform. I don't want to give too much away as I am guessing not everyone has seen this movie. It is based on actual events and filmed on location in the Black Hills.
The movie also stars Sam Shepard and Graham Greene and contains one of the best ass kicking scenes in cinema history IMO. I think anyone who has an admiration and respect for native culture will enjoy this movie a lot. The Arrival
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
IJAFW are delighted to add Britain's favourite secret agent to their lineup. There was simply no way we could leave a player with the stature of James Bond off the roster, especially considering our GM's background. We're also going to select the best Bond too.
So without further ado we select for our final Wildcard selection,
Sequel: Part 2 selects for wildcard no.3 Your Friends And Neighbours (1998).
"You'd have taken the same steps; common decency dictated the entire thing."
This movie is bleak and rather uneventful; the story is driven entirely by dialogue, taking place in restaurants, at the gym, art galleries, grocery stores, book stores, and parties (I believe there is not a single outdoors scene in the film), and centers around 6 characters and their interactions, and nothing else. It has a razor-sharp script from writer/director Neil Labute (whose other work includes the equally good In The Company of Men and the more recent Lakeview Terrace), and it's about relationships, or people looking for love, or meaning, or... it's actually kind of about nothing. But it's a fascinating little movie and is at parts quite funny, and for some reason has drawn me back over and over.
The cast is stellar: Ben Stiller and Aaron Eckhart play against type as, respectively, a sex "talker" lit professor who screws around on his closet lesbian girlfriend (a scathing Catherine Keener) despite being a big wimp, and another wimp, a big overweight schlep whose wife (Amy Brenneman, the only semi-respectable character in the film) screws around on him because he prefers his own right hand to her. Stiller and Eckhart are both fantastic, and fantasically pathetic, but it is Jason Patric who really steals the show as their ultra-nihilistic, mysoginistic friend who at one point calmly recalls the details of raping one of his male gradeschool classmates in the shower. Patric is ruthless and merciless in this role, a truly malevolent human being; the way he tells off Keener near the end of the movie still remains one of the more vile pieces of acting that I have seen. Rounding out the cast is Natassja Kinski - who plays a rather bit part that functions mostly as a clunky plot device.
The draw of this film for me is just watching the interactions among these characters - Labute expertly writes them - and the way the actors bring them to life. The three male leads are mesmerizing and Catherine Keener is at the top of her unwholesome game here. This isn't a movie that will leave you feeling warm or fuzzy - or anything, really; it just plays itself out for an hour and a half and then you move on with your life. Nevertheless, there is plenty going on and the film is no less engrossing. It's just soulless.
This clip seems to have all the best Jason Patric scenes - NSFL
Last edited by Got Miikka?; 11-13-2008 at 10:50 AM.
Since I made the mistake of waiting too long to make my Sports movie selection, most of the so called "prestige" sports movies have been taken, so I've decided to go with one that might not be the greatest sports movie ever, but at least I didn't have to pick The Mighty Ducks! Team MissTeeks selects The Replacements in the Sports category.
This is just one of those movies I like to watch on a laid back Saturday or Sunday afternoon when football season is over. It's a pretty funny movie and Keanu Reeves is actually not a bad actor in it!
John Madden: I love to see a fat guy score. Pat Summerall: Why? John Madden: Because first you get a fat guy spike, then you get the fat guy dance.
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Clifford Franklin: The football's like a one-man cold to Clifford Franklin. Clifford Franklin's the only man catchin' it, Clifford Franklin's the only man comin' down wid it.
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Jimmy McGinty: Listen up! By this time tomorrow the strike will be officially over and you men will be out of a job. Up until now Dallas hasn't been afraid of you, and they should be because you have a powerful weapon working for you. There is no tomorrow for you, and that makes you all very dangerous people!
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
How on earth will I follow up the massive pick of the Replacements with something that is worse?
I chose The Transporter in my 3rd wildcard spot!
I just like this movie because the guy gets to drive around really fast, fight people, and then gets the girl. So kinda like my life, in my fantasy world. We all know how much I love fast driving.
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