Blade: House of Chthon.
Favorite non vampire Wesley Snipes movie?
The Return of the King with the elf and the human.
(Sorry, but the word "race" in reference to people with different skin colours is one of my pet peeves: there's not been an interracial romance involving humans since the death of the last participant of a homo sapiens - neanderthal couple died, so could we please stop using that term in that way, please?)
Favourite movie-scene with someone, completely out of nowhere, going on a big rant about something?
Lemme just pop in and express amazement and gratitude for the Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao love here! I especially like Wheels on Meals, which also features Benny "the Jet" Urquidez of Grosse Pointe Blank. Hung's Shanghai Express was also a lot of fun.
After KJ's PC rant, I'll have to go with Edward Norton's panegyric to get-along tolerance in Spike Lee's The 25th Hour. NSFW!
Faves Ed Norton role?
After KJ's PC rant, I'll have to go with Edward Norton's panegyric to get-along tolerance in Spike Lee's The 25th Hour. NSFW!
Faves Ed Norton role?
Not just PC - pro-science!
Surprisingly, though he did movies that were objectively stronger, but I love 'The Illusionist' so I say Eisenheim.
Favorite Paul Giamatti Movie?
Favorite 'underdog wins the day' movie?
Point Break.
And thinking of Keanu whats your favorite 80s-90s buddy movie?
[Ahem]
Well, is Rutger Hauer the villain in this movie? 'Cuz I don't think so.
If not,
Do you have a favorite non-action/adventure/sci-fi Harrison Ford role?
[facepalm]
Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard. Or was he Austrian?
Favorite Billy Wilder film?
EDIT: He was Austrian! Whatever. Austrians are German.
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Lemme just pop in and express amazement and gratitude for the Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao love here! I especially like Wheels on Meals, which also features Benny "the Jet" Urquidez of Grosse Pointe Blank. Hung's Shanghai Express was also a lot of fun.
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Every time some one expresses how good Jackie and Benny's fight at the end of Dragon's Forever was I ask if they've seen the fight at the end of Wheels on Meals. A couple of times people have told me that they avoided that movie because the name sounds stupid or that it seems like pure comedy. But when I tell them that the fight at the end with Benny makes the fight in Dragon's Forever look like they're playing patty cake that usually get's their attention.
My favorite bit of that fight is Benny throwing those hooks at Jackie that Jackie is backing up against the table and forcing the table back to get some distance between him and benny's punches. Then Benny follows up with that roundhouse kick that Jackie ducks, but the kick is so fast that it blows out he candles BEHIND Jackie.
Like I said, LOVE that fight.
Love Shanghai Express! The Cynthia Rothrock vs. Sammo Hung fight in that is pretty damn good. People sleep on her but Cynthia is NO JOKE. Between her in ABOVE THE LAW with Yuen Biao and YES, MADAM with Michelle Yeoh she's amazing.
Klaus Maria Brandauer in Russia House.
Hold on, let me go fact check this.
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Alright, there are no actors from either the Federal or People's Republics of Deutschland that have ever had a non-villainous role in an American movie.
Hold on, Peter Lorre in Casablanca. Where were you born, Peter?
Another Austrian.
I give up.
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Nastassja Kinski in One Night Stand (unless you are maintaining the gender-normative usage that an actOR must be male and that a female must be an actRESS, in which case I call PC shenanigans and say it's a valid answer).
Speaking of which, and speaking of the underrated movie One Night Stand and one of the primary elements of its subject matter...
Favorite movie featuring, as one of its primary themes, romance that includes at least one person who personally identifies or is commonly identified by others as having membership within the particular socially constructed boundaries of ethnocultural background that often, though not in all cases, also correspond to commonalities of phenotypic features including color, shape, texture, or other details of skin, hair, eyes, facial features, or other physical proportions, in combination with elements of sociohistorical heritage and shared cultural norms and experiences thereto appertaining, whether privileged, prejudicial, or pejorative, the sum total of which is sometimes loosely and very imprecisely labeled as 'race' despite the lack of an actual differentiation of species (even were we to accede to the point that race and species are functionally interchangeable as terms), who engages in romantic liaison(s) with one or more persons who personally identify or are commonly identified by others as having membership within the particular socially constructed boundaries of a different ethnocultural background from the party of the first part, that background being one that that often, though not in all cases, also corresponds to commonalities of phenotypic features including color, shape, texture, or other details of skin, hair, eyes, facial features, or other physical proportions, in combination with elements of sociohistorical heritage and shared cultural norms and experiences thereto appertaining, whether privileged, prejudicial, or pejorative, the sum total of which is sometimes loosely and very imprecisely labeled as 'race' despite the lack of an actual differentiation of species?
Hopefully the question is more clearly and precisely stated this time, so as to avoid confusion as to its intended meaning. :)
I don't know Kajehase and it may very well be that he is an exception to my past experience. His point is, of course, literally true, and racialized sociocultural discourse has been used to ideologically and sociologically divide. At the same time, the word 'race' is a linguistic shorthand that substitutes for paragraphs such as the above. Whether you believe such ciphers are inherently demeaning or pejorative is up to you.
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Ms. Kinski is completly acceptable, I meant to say actor/actress, I just wanted an actual german actor/actress, not just an 'hey, he is european and sounds like a gemrman, he must be german' actor. Sorry if that seemed like nitpicking...
Regardless of how much actual 'romance' is in the depicted relationship, the movie 'Monster's Ball' had quite an impact on me when I first saw it.
Favorite 'Independent Movie' that became a huge success?
Ms. Kinski is completly acceptable, I meant to say actor/actress, I just wanted an actual german actor/actress, not just an 'hey, he is european and sounds like a gemrman, he must be german' actor.
[Facepalm]
I still say Austrians are German!
Down with the Hapsburgs!
Attack of the Killer tomatos?
Holly Hunter film: Copycat, I noticed I have not seem too many of her films.
Raising Arizona
Favorite John Goodman movie?
I loved him as the exterminator in Arachnophobia.
Favorite movie that creeps you our?
The last 10 min or so of AUDITION.
Favorite Movie with a crazy female antagonist?
Nil By Mouth
Favourite Ray Winstone movie?
The Departed
Favorite undercover cop film?
The Millinium Falcon
Favortie movie robot?
HAL 3000 and/or Kevin Spacey in Moon which was awesome and I only saw because Lord Dice recommended it.
Favorite Sam Rockwell flick?
