#36787 - 03/20/10 01:25 AM
Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack
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Michael A.Aquino
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Conan the Barbarian ... Some of the best ritual music in any movie. Period.
It's amazing just how rich, varied, and downright voluptuous the music from this film is. There are some samples here, and probably longer selections on YouTube if you're curious.
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#36791 - 03/20/10 02:32 AM
Re: Top 5 movies
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Michael A.Aquino
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There are some "side excursions" in movies that I like to go back to when I just want to escape that might not fit into the top 5 category, but just seem to latch onto me in a fetishistic kind of way, and I tend to watch them whenever they show up in the HBO or Showtime listings.
O.K., my five "bad" movies:
Triumph of the Will. A jaw-dropper in every respect. How did they get all those people in and out of Nürnberg, and all in the right place at the right time without anyone out of formation/out of step? How did thousands of people know to the split-second when to Sieg Heil, when to right-shoulder-shovel, when to hit the floodlights? In the U.S. Army you're lucky if you can get a half-dozen soldiers to walk in the same general direction together. [And the best shot in the whole movie: During one of the megaparades through town, with all of the good citizens screaming themselves crazy with adoration, Leni's camera momentarily switches to a cat sitting in a window, completely bored with the whole thing.]
The Story of O. This is not a film about sadomasochism at all, but about the degrees of mutual surrender that love involves. O willingly endures the ordeals of Castle Roissy simply because her lover wishes her to, then emerges not as slave but as goddess for the three men - her lover, her taskmaster at the castle, and finally Sir Stephen - who are devoted to her. The atmosphere of her new divinity confuses, then obsesses a female friend of hers, who ultimately is drawn to Roissy for a similar initiation. Perhaps only the French, who are able to portray even the most outré and graphic forms of erotica without the slightest hint of obscenity, could have made a film such as this. It is a mirror to its audiences of what sexual and sensual maturity involves - and how remote from that maturity most persons of either sex actually are.
Fade to Black. In the flavor of Anger’s Hollywood Babylon books, this is a horror movie about a young, aliented film buff, Eric Binford, who, in a different application of lycanthropy, assumes various characters from classic films to give himself "their powers". Readers of my Church of Satan will recognize the parallels to the 1974+ obsessions and demons of Anton LaVey, to include the avatar of Marilyn Monroe as Eric’s ideal goddess and, ultimately, "death angel".
The Magus. This is an exquisitely-done film version of as much of the novel as could be stuffed into a single movie. You really need to read the novel first to get some idea of what's going on, because the plot twists & turns are confusing otherwise. Perfectly cast with Anthony Quinn as Conchis, Michael Caine as Nicholas, and Candice Bergen as Lily/Julie. Screenplay by the author, John Fowles, who has a cameo as a sailor talking with Nicholas at the very beginning.
Shadow of the Vampire. There have been lots of Dracula movies, from the scary to the romantic to the funny, but there was something about the original Nosferatu that give you chills. The 1979 Kinski remake was unintentionally burlesque, because KK is already so downright creepy, and when you add the N-makeup to him and Jonathan Harker says hello to him like any other client, you have to laugh. So sooner or later someone was bound to make a movie about the making of the original, and SOTV is a charmer, with Willem Dafoe playing a real vampire playing the actor Max Schreck who played the screen vampire. Dafoe was nominated for, and should have gotten the Oscar for this one.
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#37080 - 03/27/10 02:46 AM
Shave-and-a-haircut, TWO BITS!
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Michael A.Aquino
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?? I do love this movie! I would have never guessed in a million years that this film would be on your short list! 
Well, you know, every time I look in the mirror at Lilith & myself, I see Jessica & Roger.  
btw...I always believed Temple of Doom to be the more superior film of the series! 
To me Raiders, like the original Star Wars, was the "creative vision", with the sequels/prequels basically capitalization on same. I also thought that the overemphasized cuteness of Short Round and hysteria of Willie in TD got a bit tedious after awhile. And while I'm a Sean Connery fan, I thought that jamming him together with Harrison Ford in Last Crusade was awkward, as though each actor couldn't quite figure out who was the centerpiece of each scene [understandable when you have two megastars shoulder to shoulder].
I was thoroughly delighted with Crystal Skull, but then it was a nostalgia/fun flick for everyone who caught the Raiders bug in 1981. I said to Karen Allen that I would have been just as gruntled if they had gone right from #1 to #4: that I had married Indy & Marion in Secret of the Lost Ark over 20 years ago and it was high time for Lucas & Spielberg to catch up. 
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#37181 - 03/31/10 11:03 AM
Re: Madness takes its toll.
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I also wanna mention Rocky Horror Picture Show is great, but not if you rent it and watch it by yourself. :P I had to laugh; this brought back memories. I was a teenager at UCSB in the '60s when a friend invited me to a midnight showing of RH in Isla Vista. I knew nothing whatever about it. Suddenly I was in the middle of an audience gone crazy, throwing rolls of toilet paper, howling "Lips! Lips!", and doing the Time Warp in the aisles. I wasn't sure whether or not to bolt for the exit. 
LMAO. Every Friday Night in Chicago... they put on a great show and it's well worth the time to bring TP, Toast, and a Newspaper! I LOVE bringing RHPS virgins and watching their face!
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