User:Jerome Charles Potts/Movies/seen

Films i've seen, and remember, and which have an entry in Wikipedia. Many of these i caught on TV, so i've probably missed some scenes. Of course this list is incomplete, and will most likely always be. _TOC_ &hellip;and, of course, countless others.
 * A Clockwork Orange, by Stanley Kubrick, with Malcolm McDowell
 * A Few Good Men, with Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore
 * Analyze This, With De Niro and Billy Crystal.
 * Armageddon, with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton
 * Animal House, with John Belushi
 * Babel, by Alejandro González Iñárritu. 'got on my nerves, i thought it a work of vanity. The Japanese part was very good in itself, but way overkill for this story. Without it, the film would have been comfortably shorter. 'am told that his following Biutiful is great.
 * Babette's Feast
 * Baby Doll, with Eli Wallach
 * Back to the Future. In the first one, Christopher Lloyd rules. Thomas Wilson (Biff) rules in the sequel. Of course i saw Part III.
 * Batman Begins. i like Michael Caine.
 * Beverly Hills Cop, with Eddie Murphy, plus at least one sequel
 * Billy Elliot
 * Black Robe, with Lothaire Bluteau
 * Blade Runner ; got me to read Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which, of course, was better
 * Bonnie and Clyde, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway
 * Brother Sun, Sister Moon, on Francis of Assisi. Educative.
 * Bullitt, with Steve McQueen
 * Cast Away, Tom Hanks.
 * Clerks :
 * &mdash; Wait, you said you've only had sex with three different guys! You never mentioned him.
 * &mdash; Because I never had sex with him.
 * &mdash; You sucked his dick!
 * &mdash; We went out a few times. We never had sex but we fooled around.
 * &mdash; Oh, my God. Why did you tell me you've only had sex with three different guys?
 * &mdash; Because I've only have sex with three different guys. That doesn't mean I didn't just go with people.
 * &mdash; Oh, my God, I feel so nauseous.
 * &mdash; Sorry, Dante, I thought you understood.
 * &mdash; I did understand! I understood that you only had sex with three different guys and that's all you said!
 * &mdash; Please calm down.
 * &mdash; How many dicks have you sucked?
 * &mdash; Let it go!
 * &mdash; How many?
 * &mdash; All right! Shut up a second and I'll tell you! Jesus, I didn't freak out like this when you told me how many girls you've fucked!
 * &mdash; This is different! This is important! How many?
 * [A customer comes up to the counter and Dante helps her while Veronica does some math]
 * &mdash; Well?
 * &mdash; Um&hellip; something like 36&hellip;
 * &mdash; WHAT? SOMETHING LIKE 36!?!?
 * &mdash; Lower your voice.
 * &mdash; Wait, what is that anyway, "something like 36,"? Does that include me?
 * &mdash; Um&hellip; 37.
 * &mdash; I'M 37!?!?
 * [A customer walks up to pay]
 * &mdash; 37! My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!
 * &mdash; In a row?
 * Coneheads : excellent ; now here's a film that stands the test of time.
 * Crank, with Jason Statham. I found it hilarious : the premise makes it so easily exploitable, so predictable ; and i enjoyed it for that
 * Dances with Wolves, by and with Kevin Costner. Very predictable, but i enjoyed it much.
 * Dark City, with Kiefer Sutherland
 * Dazed and Confused. I started 12th grade at Austin High a three months after the purported time of the events, and that movie does not match my recollection. I don't know where he got his sources.
 * Doctor Zhivago, with Omar Sharif
 * Electra Glide in Blue, with Robert Blake (Baretta)
 * Encino Man : pretty good, actually. I'm quite impressed with how they pulled it off, by skipping over the obvious difference between a caveman and the 20th century folks, keeping the viewer busy with trivial facets of his adapting to the modern world. "Well done" to you ! Supporting actor Pauly Shore was great !
 * Fargo, with Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi
 * Fool's Gold, with Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland and Alexis Dziena. Matt and Kate can't pronounce "Sebastian" properly, even though the characters they play are supposed to be educated and to have spent quite a while conducting research in Spain. Why is it that more and more people pronounce "st" as if it were "sht", à la German ? 'at's plain shtoopid.
 * Forrest Gump
 * Galaxy Quest
 * Ghost, with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg
 * Girl, Interrupted, with an impressive Angelina Jolie.
 * Ghostbusters
 * Harold and Maude. ++
 * Heaven Can Wait, 1978.
 * Highlander, the first one only, thank you. Was pretty good, though.
 * Hitman with Timothy Olyphant
 * House of Games, no comment.
 * Idiocracy, with Luke Wilson. Meh.
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with Donald Sutherland
 * Jaws, like everybody else. Crap, now that i've grown up and seen all the documentaries on sharks.
 * Joe Versus the Volcano, where Meg Ryan plays three characters.
 * Jumpin' Jack Flash, with Whoopi Goldberg. Funny.
 * King Ralph, cute.
 * Lawrence of Arabia, but i could see it again, because there's plenty that i don't remember.
 * Legally Blonde, with Reese Witherspoon
 * Le Mans, with Steve McQueen
 * Live Nude Girls : once you've seen this one, it's obvious that Sex and the City is reheated leftovers.
 * MASH, with Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould
 * Miss Congeniality, with Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine.
 * Mississippi Burning, with Gene Hackman and Frances McDormand
 * National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
 * Neighbors, with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
 * Night of the Living Dead, with a good hint at racism.
 * Night on Earth, with Winona Ryder, Béatrice Dalle and Roberto Benigni.
 * 1941, with John Belushi. A riot.
 * Not Without My Daughter, With Sally Field and Alfred Molina.
 * Paris, Texas, by Wim Wenders, with Nastassja Kinski
 * Phantom of the Paradise, music by Paul Williams.
 * Postcards from the Edge, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine ; those two !
 * Primary Colors, with John Travolta and Emma Thompson.
 * Queen Christina : 'seen it twice, loved it each time.
 * Rendition, with Meryl Streep as the bad gal.
 * Scarface, By De Palma, with Al Pacino.
 * Schindler's List. Very impressive.
 * Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
 * Slacker. Yawn.
 * Slaughterhouse-Five is how i discovered Kurt Vonnegut.
 * Smokey and the Bandit, with Sally Field
 * Smokin' Aces, with Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, and Ben Affleck
 * Spider, thanks Scott for showing me it.
 * Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It was alright at the time. Never saw the following ones.
 * Superman, and its sequel and Superman III, all with Christopher Reeve
 * Taxi Driver. Big deal.
 * The Blues Brothers
 * The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum : they keep playing them on TV ! They're showing two of them on different channels right now (TNT and USA), 'makes channel surfing a bit dull&hellip;
 * The Fifth Element, where i discovered and enjoyed Bruce Willis ; Chris Tucker is too funny in there
 * The French Connection, with Gene Hackman
 * The Handmaid's Tale, damn i like both Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall. A very pessimistic warning against the religious "right".
 * The Hunt for Red October, with Sean Connery
 * Most of Thelma & Louise
 * The Man Who Would Be King, with Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
 * The Message, about the prophet Muhammad, with Anthony Quinn
 * The Mission, 1986. What a waste of time.
 * The Piano
 * The Poseidon Adventure, during the 1970s disaster movies fad. Yuck.
 * The Prince and Me, cute fairy tale. Reminded me of Le Mariage du siècle (not cute, since it's an abrasive French film, meant to be that way).
 * The Quick and the Dead, with Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. Crap, and they keep playing it on TV (which is how i ever saw it).
 * The Red Violin
 * The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, with Alan Arkin
 * The Shawshank Redemption. Bummer.
 * The Spanish Prisoner, with Steve Martin ; i missed much of the beginning.
 * The Towering Inferno, another abusive disaster movie.
 * Titanic, the 1997 one. I went with my dad, but i didn't really want to. What a waste of time !
 * Trading Places, with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy
 * Transporter 2, with Jason Statham
 * True Stories, by David Byrne
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the 1954 Disney one with Kirk Douglas
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * I've seen a couple or three from the Vixen! series by Russ Meyer.
 * Wait Until Dark, with Alan Arkin and Audrey Hepburn.
 * What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Pretty good performance by Leonardo DiCaprio, playing a retarded kid.
 * When Harry Met Sally... : I can proudly say that i didn't know anything about the fake orgasm scene in the café, and also that it's not a reason to go see the film. What impressed me was Meg Ryan bawling. This is where i discovered both her and Billy Crystal.
 * Wristcutters: A Love Story : 'found this on the tube by chance, and enjoyed it very much. Music of Gogol Bordello, which fit perfectly.
 * You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
 * Zulu, with Michael Caine.

I haven't seen Borat and i don't really want to.

By Woody Allen

 * Take the Money and Run
 * Bananas
 * Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Woody allen
 * Sleeper, Woody Allen
 * Annie Hall
 * Manhattan, with Mariel Hemingway
 * Broadway Danny Rose
 * Zelig
 * Interiors

By Mel Brooks

 * Blazing Saddles, but i don't remember it well.
 * Bits of History of the World, Part I
 * Bits of Robin Hood: Men in Tights
 * Silent Movie, with Marty Feldman ; an appearance by Marcel Marceau
 * Spaceballs, in bits and pieces on TV ; by now i must've seen the whole thing. too bad i didn't notice it then.
 * The Producers
 * Young Frankenstein, with Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman

By Fellini

 * La Strada , with Anthony Quinn

By Tony Gatlif

 * Exils, also by Tony Gatlif. I like him. This one is OK.
 * Gadjo dilo, about Gypsies in Romania ; endearing.
 * Latcho Drom, about the trek of Gypsies from India. Everyone made a big deal about it, i like the other Tony Gatlif films listed here much better.
 * Vengo, about Gypsies in Andalusia. Really good flamenco. But they're so fullashit.

By Abbas Kiarostami

 * Close-Up, Iranian. Loved it. I've seen other Kiarostami films.

By Sergio Leone

 * The Dollars Trilogy
 * Once Upon a Time in the West
 * Duck, You Sucker!
 * My Name is Nobody
 * A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, with Terence Hill, Charlebois, and Miou-Miou

By Quentin Tarantino

 * Reservoir Dogs
 * Most of Pulp Fiction
 * ''Kill Bill, with Uma Thurman

With Harrison Ford

 * American Graffiti
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
 * The original trilogy of Star_Wars
 * The Mosquito Coast, with Helen Mirren
 * Witness

With Jody Foster

 * Contact, based on the Carl Sagan book.
 * Little Man Tate, by her. OK.
 * The Silence of the Lambs. I've also seen a bunch of films with Anthony Hopkins.

With Dustin Hoffman

 * Little Big Man
 * Marathon Man
 * Papillon. Saw it again in the 1990s, yuck, some of those older films were awful.
 * Rain Man, with Tom Cruise
 * The Graduate
 * Tootsie
 * Wag the Dog, with Robert De Niro

With Schwarzenegger

 * Conan the Barbarian. No thinking necessary. Did i mention that it's a waste of time ?
 * The Terminator. How can i forget it, as they keep replaying it on TV ? Was pretty good, though.
 * Total Recall. Managed to get you confused, just like Philip K. Dick would.

French, and remakes

 * Au revoir les enfants, very moving, looks and sounds like a true story, except that it ain't. I have a problem with that. Those blasted filmmakers !
 * Camille Claudel got on my nerves, bad : instructive about who she was, but Isabelle Adjani failed to convince me of Claudel's madness, and especially of the reasons for it. Or the director did the failing. Nul à chier, emmerdant comme tout.
 * Cyrano de Bergerac, the 1990 version with Depardieu.
 * Dupont Lajoie, with Jean Carmet. I'll not forget that one.
 * Le Dîner de Cons
 * Germinal, with Renaud
 * Grosse Fatigue, by Michel Blanc, with Carole Bouquet.
 * Irréversible. Wow. I'm not about to forget that one. It bugged me to watch it, but thinking about it afterward, i now feel differently about it.
 * Jonah, qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
 * La Cérémonie, by Chabrol. Loosely based on the story of Christine and Lea Papin, two French sisters employed as maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933. Odious. I guess he made the flick to make a buck, or because he had nothing else to do. If you're not gonna be true to the original story, then don't do the stinking film.
 * La Femme Nikita
 * L'Agression, 1975, with Claude Brasseur. I went to see it for all the motorcycles ridden by the racing champions of the time; i was a teenager back then.
 * La Lectrice, with Miou-Miou. I hardly remember it.
 * L'Argent de poche, by François Truffaut. I've seen quite a few others by him. Naïve art.
 * La Soupe aux choux, with Jacques Villeret.
 * L'aventure c'est l'aventure, 1972. A bunch of crap (includes Aldo Maccione, to give you an idea), but with Jacques Brel in it, so that's interesting.
 * La femme d'à côté, With Depardieu and Fanny Ardant
 * La Victoire en chantant, with Jean Carmet
 * La vie est un long fleuve tranquille
 * Le Bal, by Ettore Scola.
 * Le Dîner de Cons (film)
 * Les Femmes du 6ème étage. Not bad.
 * Les Ripoux, with Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte.
 * Le Fantôme de la liberté, by Buñuel. I saw it while too young to appreciate it.
 * Le Grand Bleu, by Besson. Plus others by him.
 * Le Locataire, by Polanski
 * L'Enfant, Belgian. No musical soundtrack, what a rest !
 * Le Père Noël est une ordure. It helps if you're French. Really abrasive. The Mixed Nuts remake is so lame&hellip;
 * Le salaire de la peur, with Yves Montand
 * Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, with de Funès. Like all French people my age and older, i've seen dozens of films with him.
 * Le Sexe qui parle
 * Les Nanas, with only women, no men at all. Pretty good feat.
 * Les Valseuses, back when Depardieu was young.
 * Les Visiteurs, hilarious.
 * Ma vie en rose
 * Préparez vos mouchoirs, with Patrick Dewaere.
 * Rendez-vous au tas de sable, de Richard Gotainer
 * Ridicule, with Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort, and Bernard Giraudeau. Rather good.
 * Tenue de soirée, with Depardieu, Michel Blanc, and Miou-Miou. I don't remember it well.
 * L'homme qui aimait les femmes, 1977. I like Brigitte Fossey ; who doesn't ? Charles Denner too.
 * The Return of Martin Guerre, Depardiou. Interesting historical document.
 * The Story of Adele H., by Truffaut. A real bore.
 * Trois hommes et un couffin
 * Vincent, François, Paul and the Others, back when Depardieu was really young. With Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, and Serge Reggiani back when he was still an actor

Québec

 * Jesus of Montreal, excellentissimo.
 * Réjeanne Padovani, my first Québecois movie.

Australia

 * "Crocodile" Dundee, with the sequel. Nice guy, good looking girl (although she's a terrible voice).
 * See also Walkabout below, under U.K.

German

 * The Tin Drum
 * Wings of Desire, by Wim Wenders

Italian

 * Cinema Paradiso. Brigitte fossey is still as lovely.
 * Il Postino, includes Philippe Noiret.
 * Johnny Stecchino, by and with Roberto Benigni
 * Life Is Beautiful, by and with Roberto Benigni
 * Mid-August Lunch. Cute.
 * Romeo and Juliet, the 1968 version by Zeffirelli. I doubt that i'll ever see a better rendition.
 * Swept Away, the original 1974 version. Grandissimo. I've seen a few more by Lina Wertmüller.

U.K.

 * A Room with a View. Didn't leave much of a mark.
 * A Taste of Honey, a film Morissey got some lyrics from.
 * Atonement, with Vanessa Redgrave. Includes an incredible tracking shot (DVD chapter 11, or so.)
 * For Your Eyes Only, a James Bond, but with Peugeot 504 and Citroën 2CV in the car chase. With Carole Bouquet.
 * Greenfingers
 * Henry V, by Kenneth Branagh.
 * Howards End, with Emma Thompson.
 * Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * Mrs. Brown. I really liked this one. I fear, does that make me a royalist ?
 * My Beautiful Laundrette, with Daniel Day-Lewis.
 * Prick Up Your Ears, with Gary Oldman and some great Alfred Molina. I still think about it sometimes
 * Quadrophenia, by The Who. Saw it while tripping, that made its mark. To me, it's a very good film.
 * Shackleton, with Kenneth Branagh.
 * Saw bits of The Wicker Man (1973), 'looked pretty good.
 * The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
 * Walkabout (in Australia)
 * War of the Buttons, great Irish remake of the 1962 French film, itself from a pretty entertaining book.

Documentaries

 * Bill Cunningham New York. Pretty nice.
 * The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse), a French documentary by Agnès Varda
 * Waste Land Very, very good.
 * What the Bleep Do We Know!?
 * Which Way Home, a very moving HBO documentary about kids crossing Mexico to come join their elders in the US.
 * White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : i need to see it again, 'don't remember it well ; but i wrote it down
 * Wordplay
 * Young@Heart

Animation

 * Beavis and Butt-head Do America. Now i hated those two on TV, but the movie is something else ! A classic, if you ask me.
 * Heavy Metal. What a disappointment ! I went there for the music and the comix, but the comix sucked ass : mostly violence. Crap. An utter P.O.S.. The soundtrack is good, i still have it. I wonder if all those composers got disillusioned like i did. European comix are far, far better. I should've known, though, because Heavy Metal magazine was creepy, and lousy compared to its French Métal Hurlant incarnation. Assholes. Ridiculous, and pathetic.
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Shrek
 * The Simpsons Movie
 * Toy Story
 * Wallace and Gromit :
 * A Grand Day Out
 * The Wrong Trousers
 * A Close Shave

Music

 * Cinderella, the musical, with Julie Andrews
 * Paul McCartney in Red Square, a good follow up on How the Beatles rocked the Kremlin.
 * Purple Rain, good rock music movie
 * Rock 'n' Roll High School, with the Ramones. I liked it.
 * Sympathy for the Devil, on The Rolling Stones, by Godard
 * Tannhäuser, a filming of a performance of the opera, a good story
 * The Filth and the Fury, about the Sex Pistols
 * The Kids Are Alright, da Who.

Misc. others

 * Richard Pryor: Live in Concert