The Lists Project

[colinr0380]

I'll also add my wish for us to get to 'Sports' movies at some point in the future. I'd love to track down a copy of Goldengirl after seeing the trailer for it on the fourth volume of the 42nd Street Forever collection - if the actual film turns out to be anywhere near as good (or amusing!) as the trailer, it would have a definite place on my list!

(I'm curious, how did the US do in the 1980 Moscow Olympics anyway?(!))

[matrixschmatrix]

So it looks like Animation won, yeah?

Is the Horror project really running until next November? I thought these were usually six months, not a full year.

[swo17]

I thought these were usually six months, not a full year.

Do you realize how many Friday the 13th movies there are?

[knives]

Or Maniac Cops. Yes I will harp on those until I hear someone say I agree.

[matrixschmatrix]

Knives, every time you bring up a movie with Maniac in title I hope you're talking about this one. One of these days I swear to God I'm going to find a project in which I can justify voting for that thing.

[knives]

I guess this is as close to justification as you can get. I know I'm considering voting for The Heretic just based on comedy value.

[Mr Sausage]

I thought these were usually six months, not a full year.

Do you realize how many Friday the 13th movies there are?

Because it's late and I'm bored:

Friday the 13th: 11 films, 1 remake.
Halloween: 8 films, 2 remakes.
Nightmare on Elm Street: 8 films, 1 remake
Hellraiser: 9 films

Ergo:

Horror List Project: 11 months.

[knives]

Don't forget the TCSM series. The second one is a laugh and a half. That was certainly a good year for Hopper.

[Mr Sausage]

Don't forget the TCSM series. The second one is a laugh and a half. That was certainly a good year for Hopper.

At 4 with 2 remakes, it's comparatively paltry. But #2 is more entertaining than 99.9% of the above films combined.

[Cold Bishop]

Knives, every time you bring up a movie with Maniac in title I hope you're talking about this one. One of these days I swear to God I'm going to find a project in which I can justify voting for that thing.

I actually considered, during the last kerfuffle of indecision, of proposing "Trash, Schlock and Psychotronic" as a potential genre. Ha! Try defining that!

But really, I'd love to do it.

[knives]

I think on the whole the Hellraiser series is very good. Between three and when they started going DTV it's pretty bad, but at least until the most recent one I thought they were doing something fairly interesting with the series though Nightmare is my series of choice even if it is a reverse Star Trek.

[matrixschmatrix]

I actually considered, during the last kerfuffle of indecision, of proposing "Trash, Schlock and Psychotronic" as a potential genre. Ha! Try defining that!

But really, I'd love to do it.

I would too, there'd be something cathartic about intentionally watching 'bad' movies after pushing myself to watch great ones for the other projects. Though coming up with a list of the best (or even the most entertaining) within that field would be a nightmare.

[knives]

It would give me a good excuse to explain why Color Me Blood Red is the best of the blood trilogy and it would give me ample excuse to finally pick up all of those trashy Something Weird DVDs.

[matrixschmatrix]

Seriously though everyone watch Maniac, it's less than an hour and it's on youtube and it's gloriously insane

[colinr0380]

I think on the whole the Hellraiser series is very good. Between three and when they started going DTV it's pretty bad, but at least until the most recent one I thought they were doing something fairly interesting with the series though Nightmare is my series of choice even if it is a reverse Star Trek.

I remember reading an excellent article around the time of the release of Hellraiser: Bloodlines (the fourth one) about how there was a good half hour or so of material cut from the 18th century France section because the producers wanted to get to the contemporary New York and from there to the 'Pinhead in Space' section faster. There was apparently a whole cyclical structure to the storylines that got ruined by those demands. The film did sound pretty overambitious in its original form but apparently the drastic editing is what caused a lot of the problems with that entry, and it was all downhill from there on.

[knives]

I've heard likewise and that's unfortunate since it sounds like it could have be a very interesting return to the source material. As is it's merely okay.

[Matt]

It would give me a good excuse to explain why Color Me Blood Red is the best of the blood trilogy and it would give me ample excuse to finally pick up all of those trashy Something Weird DVDs.

Once again you are the Bizarro Matt (or I am the Bizarro knives). Color Me Blood Red is a snooze-fest compared to 2,000 Maniacs.

[swo17]

As I'm preparing for the upcoming '50s decade project, I'd just like to thank those in the genre project threads who have gone to the effort of bolding titles and identifying the release year for films being discussed in guides, spotlights, list results, orphan defense, etc., and encourage people to continue doing this. It's really handy to be able to cross reference those viewing guides and quickly see which films are relevant to the current decade.

[swo17]

Prepping for the '50s list and was wondering if there is an OAR release of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell?

Speaking of which, starting with the '50s list, I was planning on starting a section in the first post where recommendations for the best editions of films with butchered releases can be summarized in a handy reference guide. So if anyone has any recommendations that they feel are worth sharing, feel free to start preparing something that I can include in the first post.

[domino harvey]

I am planning to include a DVD/Best Available Copy guide for all the films in my Auteur Walks this round

[swo17]

I hesitate to mention this because I know the genre projects are already planned out for the next year and a half, and because I know if we did this that domino would feel compelled to watch every film Kirk Cameron has done, but recent releases by Criterion and MoC have me thinking I'd be interested in a project devoted to religious films.

[Mr Sausage]

I hesitate to mention this because I know the genre projects are already planned out for the next year and a half, and because I know if we did this that domino would feel compelled to watch every film Kirk Cameron has done, but recent releases by Criterion and MoC have me thinking I'd be interested in a project devoted to religious films.

That is actually a really interesting idea. Although how would we define a religious film? A film that deals directly with the theology or metaphysics of one of the established religions, or any film with any sort of spiritual or metaphysical undertone? Would we include films that deal with mythological stories from religions long dead, like a Hercules movie or adaptation of the Homeric poems (at least one where the gods aren't done away with)?

Would be interesting to see if the top ten ends up containing something besides Bergman and Dreyer films.

[swo17]

The "Vote for it" rule would obviously apply, and that's where I think the discussions could get really interesting. I think it could encompass most any of the things you mention, addressing any sort of religious tradition, being either uplifting or critical of religion, or merely allegorical. Though I'd personally be more inclined to list something that directly engages with religion or spirituality in some way than I would, say, Ken Branagh's Thor.

[Mr Sausage]

I'm kind of sad this one isn't next, now. This is an area that's always fascinated me, and yet for whatever reason I haven't gone out of my way to see that many religious films.

[Ishmael]

Would be interesting to see if the top ten ends up containing something besides Bergman and Dreyer films.

Don't forget Bresson. But, really, stuff like von Trier's Breaking the Waves would probably top the list as well, unless religion is reduced to films explicitly about organized religion, which I'm sure wouldn't be the case for most voters. Maybe it would be better to say spiritual films rather than religious films.