Why Do You Love Movies?

RANTBO · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:08 am

Rantbo’s: Why Do I Love Movies?

MINE

Re-posted with the link to my original, as it got bumped from the main page...

luvmetender009 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:25 pm

Holy FUCK

Thats a long list

Well, nice rant as always

Kain424 · **Joined:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:16 am **Posts:** 4271

Film Crit Hulk did a bit a while back with a great list just like this. I will share because I concur: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/05/why-you-love-movies/

Rutledal · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:33 pm

That was beautiful.

And also my two favourite bits from that other list.

Hulk wrote:

BECAUSE THEY GAVE US WARREN FUCKIN' OATES.

BECAUSE ATTACK THE BLOCK IS TECHNICALLY A FILM ABOUT "BIG GORRILA-WOLF-MOTHERFUCKERS" ATTACKING AND SAYS MORE COMPLEX THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY'S RACIAL ISSUES THAN THE HELP.

RANTBO · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:06 pm

Kain424 wrote:

Film Crit Hulk did a bit a while back with a great list just like this. I will share because I concur: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/05/why-you-love-movies/

Yeah, that's why I included the link to his article in the first couple sentences of mine... ??? You should try reading my posts before commenting on them... Or did you happen to miss it when posting over it an hour after me with a killcount that easily could have waited till tomorrow?

DynamiteKid · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:34 pm

Because it combines all the other mediums into one totally different beast?

Dr. Judas · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:57 pm

Great article, Rant. Many reasons I love movies have already been mentiond in the articles posted here, but I feel like adding some of my own examples.

Because of the bar fight in Out For Justice

Because Linton Barwick is a boring f star star cunt.

Because Harry´s wife is an inanimate fucking object.

Because of David Chiang´s introduction in Vengeance!

Because of the entirety of A Bittersweet Life

Because of Lance Henriksen in Stone Cold

Because of Lance Henriksen in general

Because Paul Kersey is Death

Because of mind-blowing stunts from insane thai movies

Because of the final shootout in Way of the Gun

Man, I could go on forever.....

Rutledal · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:49 am

Why I Love Movies (Should any refrences be lost, please complain)

Because Wild at Heart changed how I saw movies

Because Travis Bickle would not take it anymore

Because Johnny "Two Times" had to get the paper, get the paper

Because Quentin Tarantino picks his own soundtracks

Because of how sad I get everytime Mortimer leaves at the end of For a Few Dollars More

Because Blondie is just a dirty son-of-a-b...

Because I shed a tear every time Rocky tells Adrian he did it

Because Han knew

Because James Bond is Indiana Jones' dad

Because Sean Connery interrogates a dead man in The Untouchables

Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too

Because of James Cromwell's slight Irish accent in L.A. Confidential

Because The Donger needed food

Because of the cinematography in The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

Because I still get chills when the final bell rings and 'Going The Distance' starts playing

Because Rocky didn't hear no bell

Because of the way Arthur stole a kiss from Ariadne

Because Mark checked her math on that

Because I have never recognised myself more in a character than at that moment

Because if Visser sees him, he'll sure give him the message

Because of Ulysses Everett McGill's hair

Becuase of how hauntingly crazy Klaus Kinski is at the end of Aguirre

Because I shed a tear every time the underdog wins

Because when preformed correctly the crane-kick is unstoppable

Because I still don't see the chest trap coming

Because this shark, swallow you whole

Because Django opened the coffin

Because Ennio Morricone wrote music for Sergio Leone

Because Ennio Morricone wrote music for Sergio Corbucci

Because Ennio Morricone wrote music for Sergio Solima

Because Ennio Morricone writes music period

Because of Bolo Yeung's peck

Because Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made them together

Because Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski had the most intense "love/hate" relationship

Because of the dick drawings in Superbad

Because Erik Poppe thought me that Norwegian movies can be great

Because of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous

Because of everything else in Almost Famous

Because 'Furious' Styles thought me more than my real dad ever could

Because Stanley Kubrick settled for only the best

Because of Scorsese's New York

Because of Woody Allen's New York

Because 34 years later Alfred Hitchcock is still unrivaled

Because of the chemistry between Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps

Because I could listen to Jimmy Stewart's voice all day

Because Max Schreck didn't get any make-up

Because of those 45 minutes in Rififi

Because of every casting decision the Coen brothers ever took

Because Nic Cage made Deadfall tollerable

Because Nic Cage buying booze in Leaving Las Vegas

Because of Charlie Kaufman

Because of Donald Kaufman

Because City of God made me forget I don't speak Portuguese

Because of the amount of love an existentialist art-house thriller about a getaway drive could get in 2011

Because "enough" was not in Sam Peckinpah's vocabulary

Because John Woo got to make one studio film in Hollywood that was his own

Because Shane Black came back for Lethal Weapon 2

Because Blain ain't got time to bleed

Because I know what a courter pounder with cheese is called in France

Because shut the fuck up Donny

Because Carl Showalter would never shut up

Because of the way Leone built scenes

Because of Robert De Niro in Raging Bull

Because he thought it was the begining of a beautiful friendship

Because he was not an elephant, not an animal, but a human being, he was a man

Because he was worse than an animal, he was human, human!

Because I saw Spider-Man at a pre-screening at it was all my childhood dreams come true

Because the sequel was even better

Because as far back as he could remember he always wanted to be a gangster

Because Richter never made it to the party

Because your foster parents are dead

Because of the reaveal in Deep Red

Because Franco Nero dubbed himself

Because of the scene where Salieri reads the music

Because watching Grease resulted in the best 24 hours of my life

Because my palms still get sweaty when I watch Vertigo

Because Edgar Wright makes films

Because when Clark Griswold finally get the Christmas lights to work I share every part of his joy

Because of the sex scene in Mullholland Drive

Because only David Lynch is David Lynch

Because Steve Buscemi doesn't believe in tipping

Because Ordell Robbie knows what you need when you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room

Because it really was a Hattori Hanzo sword

Because Esteban Vihaio tells a story about Bill

Because of Quentin Tarentino's Thunder Bolt

Because Shosanna feelt guilty a little too soon

Because Un Amico played over that scene

Because actors like Christoph Waltz can still be discovered

Because Fred Williamson ‘accidentally’ killed a loud mouthed sergeant

Because an Austrian bodybuilder retiered into movies

Because of John Cazale's tragically short career

Because it is true, this man has no dick

Because Rocky stopped ducking Clubber Lang

Because Rocky fought Drago on Christmas Day

Because Loren Avedon made three films in the late 80s

Because the villain in Enter the Dragon had a detachable hand

Because of how spaghetti westerns sound

Because of Rollo Tomasi

Because Jeff Bridges never gives a bad performance

Because Paul Thomas Anderson has yet to make a bad movie

Because of Daniel Day-Lewis dedication to the art

Because subtitle translators doesn't know the difference between cocaine and Coca-Cola

Because subtitle translators doesn't know the difference between a chopper and a helicopter

Because it gave us Warren Oates

Because Sailor kicked the shit out of Bob Ray Lemon

Because nobody knows if Keyser Soze is real

Because Jason stole that kid's hockey mask

Because Paul Newman's eyes were blue even in black & white

Because of the coffee scene in Heat

Because I feel so sad for Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross

Because I still don't know if Total Recall was a dream

Because Al Pacino made films between 1972 and 1975

Because Scorsese met De Niro

Because of Dogme 95 and because it was perfected upon the first attempt

Because Elton John wrote the songs for The Lion King

Because there where two Pink Panther films before the accent

Because everything sounds cool if Clint Eastwood says it

Because home video has introduced me to South Korean cinema

Because the first friend I made at my last new school was through a conversation about movies

Because of the theme from The Third Man

Because if your head comes away from your neck, it's over

Because Citizen Kane still amazes me

Because two Israeli cousins decided to buy a film studio

Because of the original Universal monster films

Because the silent version of Ben-Hur had more impact the '59 version

Because of every frame in Once Upon a Time in the West

(Because Frank sent them to meet him

Because they brought two too many

Because he called Frank by name

Because a man who wears both a belt and suspenders can't even trust his own pants

Because they call them 'millions'

Because Judas was content for 4970 dollars less

Because they had sons of bitches in them days

Because inside the men, there were three bullets

Because every line exchange between Bronson and Robards is golden

Because when he stops whittling something is gonna happen

Because of how much build is in the opening sequence

Because it still manages to deliver

Because of each character's theme

Because people scare better when they're dying

Because of the moment Frank realises why

Because of any other reason you can think of)

Because it led me to this site

Because of many reasons I have yet to think of

Because of all the movies I have left to watch

Kain424 · **Joined:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:16 am **Posts:** 4271

RANTBO wrote:

Kain424 wrote:

Film Crit Hulk did a bit a while back with a great list just like this. I will share because I concur: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/05/why-you-love-movies/

Yeah, that's why I included the link to his article in the first couple sentences of mine... ??? You should try reading my posts before commenting on them... Or did you happen to miss it when posting over it an hour after me with a killcount that easily could have waited till tomorrow?

It was all queued up. It posted automatically. I had it set for 3am. You might have said something about posting something this morning. That could have avoided any discomfort.

dude · **Joined:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:27 am **Posts:** 912

Ha, I've been working on something of my own, that shares some similarities to this. It's sort of a love letter to action stars. I'll post that whenever I'm done with it and contribute here soon after.

www.allouttabubblegum.com

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