Suggest me some kickass movies to get me out of this depressive stupor.

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I ruined my back mid-asskicking at Karate and as such am in horrible pain, Elliot Smith went and died and I'm forced to have really important conversations with my girlfriend over AIM and the phone as she'd been confined to America by those muppets at the Immigration Department.

So, if anyone could suggest some cool movies, preferably with a lot of fighting and asskickey, I'd be eternally grateful.

I think I'm going to go cry now.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

violent movies are terrible and evil. get a copy of vice magazine and read my insightful work instead

― moomus (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Er - there is this film - Kill Bill. There is quite a lot of fighting and asskickery in it.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Zoo. Lan. Der.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

CONDITION: Must revel in the shedding of blood, the suppression of evil foreigners, feature unbridled drug use and the repeated image of the Bald Eagle clutchin' Old Glory 'twixt gnarled claws.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Death Warrant

― a shotgun, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Kill Bill twice now. Might wait another few weeks before seeing it again.

It's fun to paraphrase at people though, ie. 'I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons, . Firstly, you owe me an english assignment...".

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Five syllables: Der - ek - zoo -lan - derrrr

I'd also second Kill Bill

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'Through A Glass Darkly'
'L'Eclisse'
'Le Mepris'
'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Trouble In Little China

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

CONDITION: Must revel in the shedding of blood, the suppression of evil foreigners, feature unbridled drug use and the repeated image of the Bald Eagle clutchin' Old Glory 'twixt gnarled claws.

Patton (no drugs)
Scarface (no Old Glory)

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

CONDITION: Must revel in the shedding of blood, the suppression of evil foreigners, feature unbridled drug use and the repeated image of the Bald Eagle clutchin' Old Glory 'twixt gnarled claws.

Dobermann.

One of the coolest, most brutal action flicks made in the Old Continent. There's no Bald Eagle, but there's bloodshed and drug use aplenty, and lot's of evil Frenchmen too, which is understandable since it's a French film. I must warn you, however, that the bad guys int this film are the cops and the good guys the crooks, so if you like your action with a large dose of traditional values, I wouldn't recommend seeing Dobermann.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Watch the Axis of depression

Henry portrait of serial killer.
Requiem for a Dream.
Amores Perros.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

check the new Three Musketeers DVD set that Anchor Bay(i think) put out. Oliver Reed as a drunken lusty swashbuckler.

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Comes with the Four Musketeers with it, too.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

DRUNKEN MASTER II

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete and Dan OTM. Do you call them American Muppets? Why are they running the INS?

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

DRUNKEN MASTER I, too!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Screwed, starring Norm Macdonald and Dave Chappelle

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Come Drink With Me. There's blood all right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

God I just watched Heat.

What a fantastic movie. I can't get it out of my head.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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― calstars (calstars), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Heat has a really great soundtrack too.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan OTM re: Drunken Master 2. Time and Tide is a really good one too, if one doesn't insist on the Old Glory clutchin' element.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Let My Puppets Come, by the guy who directed Deep Throat & Debbie Does Dallas..

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Battle Royale.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sterling OTM,

but every time I'm feeling low I turn to

http://www.webstar.co.uk/~afzal/images/carpost.jpg

Trust me, it works a treat-even if you hate Pacino or Penn, this will add fuel to your fire.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally also OTM.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

CONDITION: Must revel in the shedding of blood, the suppression of evil foreigners, feature unbridled drug use and the repeated image of the Bald Eagle clutchin' Old Glory 'twixt gnarled claws.

Sounds like the Godfathers I and II, though the drug business is kept away from children and fostered in the colored neighborhoods.

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

LE MEPRIS TO GET YOU OUT OF A BAD MOOD?!!?!? ENRIQUE ARE YOU INSANE

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of people I know swear by The Last Boy Scout in this category, but I've never seen it.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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― calstars (calstars), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

A Bronx Tale...

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of people I know swear by The Last Boy Scout in this category

Definitely!

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers guys, you're all too damn sweet.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

There's 'Enter The Dragon' at the video store that is looking MIGHTY tasty.

This is a long shot, but does anybody know any video stores in Melbourne with a kickass selection of martial arts films?

I think I have whiplash and all the children call my cripple. I will school them all in the art of pain.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

There's 'Enter The Dragon' at the video store that is looking MIGHTY tasty.

This is a long shot, but does anybody know any video stores in Melbourne with a kickass selection of martial arts films?

I think I have whiplash and all the children call me cripple. I will school them all in the art of pain.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew was otm -- I can't imagine being in a bad mood after watching Zoolander.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem so OTM it isn't even funny (SOTMIIEF??). Who could be in a bad mood after Big trouble?

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 23 October 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension -- if you've seen it already, see it again.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I know theres no asskicking but I third fourth and fifth Zoolander - it got me out of a FOUL mood last week :)

What about Big Trouble in Little China? Oh shit stevem already recommended that, heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tobey.gower.pl/filmografia_pliki/img/fist.jpg
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― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yojimbo fules

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Shaolin Soccer

Fear of a Black Hat

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem OTM x infinity

I bet you Nate P LOVES Big Trouble In Little China.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Fear of a Black Hat! Amazing.

"Naw, don't shoot until you see the whites. Period. That's it, end of story."

― rob geary (rgeary), Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"We got hats now, motherfuckas!"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hatless. Heads totally exposed to the sun."

― rob geary (rgeary), Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"They say it's always the quiet ones you have to look out for."

"Right, and if you've noticed, i ain't said shit for about 4 or 5 minutes now."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Kicking and Screaming.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sonny chiba 10pack dvd

velvet smooth

or just watch the dvd extras of ghost world with the parking lot scenes

― kephm, Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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'The Blood of Heroes':
Joan Chen, Rutger Hauer,
Vincent P. D'Onofrio

play dog-skull rugby
post-apocalyptically--
but will they triumph?

(this is a real film)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 24 October 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My 'comfort movies':

Dazed and Confused
Office Space
Tank Girl
Wonder Boys
Can't Hardly Wait, Josie and the Pussycats, Crazy/Beautiful (or any number of other cheesy teen comedies)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 24 October 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

And Kelly's Heroes

(TS: Donald v. Kiefer)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 24 October 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Tarantino's next film, Inglorious Bastards is supposed to be a bit of a Kelly's Heroes homage.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 24 October 2003 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Coup de torchon

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 24 October 2003 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Blood of Heroes is an all time goddamn classic! Post-apocalypse, futuristic sport with obviously complex, well defined rules of which we are largely ignorant, a rousing TOURNAMENT and...what, you want more? RUTGERfreakingHAUER.

― rob geary (rgeary), Friday, 24 October 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

before I can help you, I need to know if it's really a stupor you're in or more of a torpor.

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeremy Irons totally hams it up in Reversal of Fortune, for which he won an Oscar. Worth renting for his performance alone/only.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 24 October 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

torpor, my friend.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 24 October 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, let me see then...

One weekend long ago when I was in a torpor, I watched back-to-back videos of Pink Flamings, Desperate Living, and Female Troubles, a classic John Waters marathon. I felt as though I had been prison raped. I ran outside rejoicing, "I'm alive, I'm alive, and hundreds of miles from Baltimore!" Not that I necessarily recommend such a drastic measure. But as it's a torpor you're in, and not a stupor, I'd say give it a twirl.

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Flamings = Flamingos, obv., but still, an interesting typo...

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like a great triple bill!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not kick-ass in the ass-kicking sense, but one film that can't not put me in a good mood = Pecker.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My mind wanders back to Patrick Swayze films of the 80's ... Red Dawn with it's ultra-implausible teenagers vs. Russians storyline and ultra-bleak outlook, Next Of Kin with some great supporting performances (Liam Neeson, Helen Hunt, many others) and the crowned king of idiot action movies Road House. And there's always Point Break ...

You've probably seen all these 52 times each ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://shopping.yahoo.com/video/images/muze/vhs/bg/37/135837.jpg
How much will Tarantino steal from this?

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

by far the best line
in 'blood of heroes': rutger:
'juggers shouldn't fuck'

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Waters - Cecil B. Demented has its moments.

"Satan says you need more color!" cracks me up every time.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto "The Abdominal Dr. Phibes." Oh, wait, that must be the Vincent Price work-out video..."

― Skottie, Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I know this don't mean as much coming from somebody who loves Kill Bill as much as I do, but if Eraserhead cheers you up, there's something seriously wrong with you.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 25 October 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

best thread ever

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

AND I STARTED IT!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw the "Alien" director's cut. I'd, gulp, never seen the original, and am always leery of d.c.'s. But, wow, good movie. Nice suspense, nice handling of the actors. I guess the first thing the alien ate was Sigourney's butt.

― Skottie, Sunday, 26 October 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm quite curious to see the Director's Cut. Is it radically different?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Couldn't say, since I didn't see the first version. I assume the big dance number with Madeline Kahn and Burt Reynolds was in the original?

― Skottie, Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it was pulled because RS was worried it'd be too scary for family audiences.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 26 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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