one of my odd faves is to live and die in la.. and escape from ny. and of course heavy metal.
one of my odd faves is to live and die in la.. and escape from ny. and of course heavy metal.
cool hand luke.
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I guess it depends on who's day you're talking about...To Live and Die in LA seems like a pretty recent movie to me. 
I'm more of the Cool Hand Luke generation.
Two Lane Blacktop
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Italian Job
Vanishing Point
Not quite the same level, but I want to buy these for my kids:
Goonies
ET
Back2the Future series
Princess Bride
Short Circuit
Weird Science
The Last Starfighter
there's a few others
Mad Max
Road Warrior
Mad Max
Road Warrior
The Ruling Class
The original Italian Job
ALIEN and ALIENS. III and IV left me cold.
Blade Runner
Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape
The Flight of the Phoenix (the original, not that lame ass recent remake). One heckuva good book as well.
At the far edge, so to speak, of the era we seem to be speaking of (60's-'80's): The Eiger Sanction.
I'm sure there's more.
Not the best movie, but entertaining:
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Kramer wrote: Not the best movie, but entertaining: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Funny you mention that. Where I sit right now I am a couple hundred feet from where they filmed the scene with the twin beach flying through the billboard (airport is long gone now). That movie has lots of cool old shots of Los Angeles and some interesting old cars.
Edit: Just checked, that scene was shot at Santa Monica airport. The airport where they buzzed the tower (and landed?, I don't remember) is what I am next to.
Three Days of the Condor
Arlington Road
Blown Away
Telefon
Predator
Any Dirty Harry movie
Any Deathwish
Kramer wrote: Not the best movie, but entertaining: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
I have that saved on my DVR.
How could I forget:
Bullitt
Dirty Harry
The original Pink Panther movies. Steve Martin had some big ol' shoes to fill.
aircooled wrote: Funny you mention that. Where I sit right now I am a couple hundred feet from where they filmed the scene with the twin beach flying through the billboard (airport is long gone now). That movie has lots of cool old shots of Los Angeles and some interesting old cars. Edit: Just checked, that scene was shot at Santa Monica airport. The airport where they buzzed the tower (and landed?, I don't remember) is what I am next to.
A few weeks ago I found a site that had pictures of many of the filming locations as they look today. It was pretty cool. The hangar they flew the Beech through is still there. Some day I hope to make it to at least one of the shooting locations to pay homage. That movie is so 'American', I just love it.
OK, you made me look for it. I think this is site you were looking at:
http://gchudleigh.com/madworld.htm
Interesting stuff for someone living in the area. Apparently that Beach was trashed from flying through the billboard!
Comcast has condorman ondemand right now, Great cheesy classic featuring some cool porshces!
Anything with Cheech and Chong.....
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Better Of Dead ( I want my two dollars!!!!!!)
blazing saddles .... for me at least the funniest movie ever...
MAS*H
any John Wayne, any Eastwood
the history of the world part 2
the realistic war movies... TORA TORA TORA , Midway, and Pearl Harbor
Absence of Malice
Just for this quote alone:
James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ - e'scuse me, Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in muh briefcase.
Grand Prix
I get chills from that every time.
It's a Mad Mad Mad World (love the cars)
Quiet Man
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
To Live and Die in LA does, indeed, rock.
Strange Days is also a vastly underrated flick.
As is Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter's last good movie.
jg
Allow me to date myself..
The earliest movies I remember cutting my teeth on:
Babes in Toyland
Mary Poppins
All the Boris Karloff/Vincent Price/Christopher Lee horror flicks
Sound of Music
Ben Hur
My Fair Lady
etc., etc.....
JG Pasterjak wrote: Strange Days is also a vastly underrated flick.
F--- yeah!
I love that flick. Imagine my surprise to see it in Wal-Mart's $5 bin. I was ready to wrestle a lady in a wheel chair to snag that one.
Hmmm...
Eddie and the Cruisers (one of the greatest films of all time)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rad (don't expect anyone else to know it)
Gleeming the Cube
Little Monsters
Pete and Pete (not a movie but who cares)
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