Movies in four words ...

[Kullervo]

Hitchcock Edition

Shadow of a Doubt - One big sexual allegory
Rope - College buddy goes "Poulenc"
Strangers On a Train - Tennis player's creepy acquaintance
Rear Window - Perry Mason's the killer
Psycho - Hitch's wearing a stetson
Vertigo - Crouching nun, hidden identity
North by Northwest - Danger atop Lincoln's nose

[Mark]

The Shining - Nicholson is f***ing terrifying!

[MN Dave]

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Overrated to the max.

[Brian]

The World's Fastest Indian - Have bike, will travel

[Ephemerid]

Fight Club - All in his head

-- which disappointed the hell out of me.  That was just lame. 

[Mark]

-- which disappointed the hell out of me.  That was just lame. 

Which leads me to change my four words for Fight Club to: Great film, shit ending.

[DavidW]

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Overrated to the max.

Hell yeah.

[Ephemerid]

Soylent Green = IT'S MADE OF PEOPLE!!!!! 

Only one word for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan:
KKKKHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

Akira Kurosawa's Ran:
King Lear in Japan

[Ephemerid]

Which leads me to change my four words for Fight Club to: Great film, shit ending.

LOL - yeah!

[Sergeant Rock]

Woman finds her clitoris - Deep Throat


Sarge

[Mark]

Woman finds her clitoris - Deep Throat


Sarge

Or, 'Abused actress commits suicide'.

[Sergeant Rock]

Thanks for the reminder. I have to read it by Thursday, and kind of need to start.

Yeah, I wouldn't put it off too much longer 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Or, 'Abused actress commits suicide'.

Nah, she died in a car accident decades later.

Sarge

[Mark]

Nah, she died in a car accident decades later.

Sarge

Then who am I thinking of? I'm sure some pornstar actress took her own life years after appearing in an iconic skin flick.

[Sergeant Rock]

Then who am I thinking of? I'm sure some pornstar actress took her own life years after appearing in an iconic skin flick.

Several have committed suicide but I can't think of anyone from the Lovelace period, i.e., early to mid 70s.

Sarge

[MN Dave]

You guys sure know a lot about porn.

[Mark]

The Da Vinci Code - Adaptation of terrible book

Leon - Outstanding in every way

The Matrix Trilogy - Begins well, ends disappointingly

Shadowlands - Hopkins deserves Academy Award

Titanic - Visually breathtaking, but hyped

[Brian]

Yeah, I wouldn't put it off too much longer 

Sarge

It has come to my attention that I'm actually supposed to read "The Awakening" rather than "Age of Innocence."

Uh-oh.

[drogulus]

The Da Vinci Code - Adaptation of terrible book

Leon - Outstanding in every way

The Matrix Trilogy - Begins well, ends disappointingly

Shadowlands - Hopkins deserves Academy Award

Titanic - Visually breathtaking, but hyped

The Da Vinci Code - Garbage in, Garbage out

Shadowlands - Joss Ackland version superior

[Mark]

You guys sure know a lot about porn.

The key word in that sentence is 'guys'. Need I say more?