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Parts of it made me want smack that guy. And I could live without seeing the music videos ever again. On the other hand, I didn't know a Coldplay song could break my heart. And I thank them for that.

Well, the story behind it is that Harry had a fever and was tired of fighting and he asked Spielberg if he could just shoot the guy. I think the consequences go beyond the scene.

I'm going with Bill Murray in a strong supporting role.

I'm going Indy, but it's close. And I'm'a tell you. The big flaw of this film is the big laugh one gets when he blows away the scimitar guy. God help you if you think about why you laughed. That shot changes everything about his character and our attitudes about ourselves. He's no longer a brave guy in deep trying rescue his girl and save a precious relic from the exploitation of madmen --- even though he doesn't believe in it's power. He's an American jerk. (OE: Did I say this the previous round?)

Yeah, I met him too. He was pretty nuts. Said the picture was completely inaccurate, except for the romance part --- an old coot having a pretty good time telling people about being the Real Crash DavisTM

Well, he's a Met fan, and that was shot in the eighties. He should have some idea.

WarGames bested my choice last round, but I vote for it now. Along with Romancing the Stone, it is one of two films in the running that commisioned a title song that I think didn't make it into the final cut of the movie. Romancing at least worked eight instrumental bars into it.

I'm not so down with this. You meet some wonderful folks, and you appreciate that they have this meaning at the end of their lives. But I feel, at some level, they're being exploited. The choir director kind of rubs me bad. His tan looks fake and his attitude seems self-serving. He's sort of doing the opposite of Dewey Finn --- instead of raiding a middle school to find a band to back him in order to sustain his waning musical aspirations, he's raided a senior center. I don't want to resent him too much, because none of the seniors seem to. The videos appear to have been shot a coupla years before and they change the tone of it all to burlesque.

I mis-voted Terminator when I wanted BR.

My misvote is swinging this contest so far.

Willets Point wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Emotionally manipulative, yes, but so are most successful works. Eh, I think that only counts if you don't notice you're being manipulated. Well, you notice years later on reflection and repeat viewing, but, at the time, folks was swept away in a brand new terribly creative way.

Melissa Mathison showing screenplay economy Stallone can only dream of. Come. Stay. Ahh... Ouch. Ouch. I'll be... right here. Bye.

Um, agreed.

Agreed.

It's Elisabeth Shue vs. Elizabeth Daily in Fman's pants.

Two things I'm not down with there: "Cruel Summer" is excellent and raises the rest of the music out of the crappy field. Ralph Macchio is tough to like and, when he sort of asks for it (like dousing Zabka as he rolls his reefer on the can), I'm sort of not rooting for him.I guess I should accept that stupid teenagers sometimes make their own trouble --- or just get over it with the thrill of Miyagi's asskicking rescue --- but what sort of asswad does that shit while dressed as a shower?

At least you don't mis-vote.

I think I just mis-voted.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm so bad at this. I'm pretty sure I saw Terminator, but I don't think I saw Blade Runner. You weren't much of a moviegoer in the eighties, were you?

Pee-Wee is the only Tim Burton movie I like without reservation. Vote Pee-Wee.

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Whoah...

It's a pretend baseball field? As in, you can't actually play there?

Man, culture is definitely in the shitter when Fast Times is the choice of chardonnay-swilling elitists. On the other hand, it may just be laziness that Grant Roberts was never nicknamed Spicoli.

Very beginning. He's a grumpy groan who is dragged into the cause of liberty as martial law comes to Boston in the aftermath of the massacre. NOT TRUE. He had made studious arguments for liberty and the rights of Americans going back over a decade before that, and was a member of societies so devoted. Sam Adams, rabble rouser to the point of anarchy. NOT TRUE. He was thoughtful man consciuos of his choices. Worst of all is John Hancock --- in a scene concocted in a seeming attempt to inject grusome inhumanity masquerading as realism --- inciting a crowd to tar and feather a customs worker. NOT TRUE. Hancock was prudent and fair-minded (the disposition which got him the presidency of the Congress), and that incident apart from Hancock appears to have been the product wholecloth of British propaganda. This portrayal --- which left me fiercely (thugh thankfully briefly) sympathic to the British alone by the end of that episode (I wanted to retroactively impose martial law on Boston) ---- is extra upsetting when I read that it was a British director. Hancock and the Adamses were Whigs, and they pubilckly cried out against vigilantism. I'll also toss in that the foreshadowing of his disappointment with his son Charles is the sort of heavyhandedness that you come to get used to in telefilms, even on big-budget cable channels. This isn't a biography. It's a MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT, and it doesn't appear to deserve to be taken seriously.