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duder
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Re: #222: Top 5 'On The Run' Movies
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The Warriors
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Quote from: duder on August 08, 2008, 12:55:42 PM
The Warriors
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YES. I wasn't surprised it didn't get mentioned, but I was hoping...
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T2, as usual, is the best movie in every way.
Catch Me If Your Can fun.
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Quote from: duder on August 08, 2008, 12:55:42 PM
The Warriors
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That's the definitive "on the run"movie...
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I seriously hoped that at least a few of these would be on their lists:
THX-1138
True Romance
Catch Me if You Can
The Bourne Series
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Quote from: frozenhamster on August 09, 2008, 10:06:47 AM
The Bourne Series
I didn't even think of Bourne, but now that you mention it, it is a little surprising since Adam loved it so much.
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North by Northwest
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Yay! for the
Pierrot le fou
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Sorry if this is not by the rules, but somehow I never feel like putting together a full list of my own five choices. (And thus never end up posting or sending it in.) But I'm trying to get around that neurosis today, by separately commenting on your choices and adding a couple of my own suggestions.
Pierrot.
I'm not a hater! But I do dislike the idolatry of Godard you can run into; and probably overreact by pretending to follow the dictum "He didn't do anything worthwhile after 1968." However, Pierrot was really a good one! Good choice, Matty.
Natural Born Killers.
Good to see this one not put down. I like it a lot, at least for the genre-confusion playing, if not so much the on-the-run elements or the implicit social criticism.
North by Northwest.
Thank you for listing this as among your favorite Hitchcock movies. It's probably not my number 1 Hitchcock but it belongs up there close. And if this is my day to be contrarian about standard critical opinion, let me take this opportunity to confess I don't understand the celebration of
Vertigo
and would take any of
NbNW, Psycho, Notorious, Rear Window, Dial M
, and even
The Birds
and
Marnie
as its equal or superior, both for enjoyable viewing and artistic achievement.
And now for my semi-list:
The Chase.
(1966) IMDB title /title/tt0060232/. Directed by Arthur Penn, with Brando, Redford, Jane Fonda, E.G. Marshall. It may stray slightly from the criteria you guys were using, in that the focus is not fundamentally on the escapee; but it's close enough, and a fine firecracker of a movie!
Cavale.
(2002) IMDB title /title/tt0233418/, a.k.a.
On the Run
(duh!), a.k.a
Trilogy: One
. Maybe not that great after all, but pretty good, and I had to nominate it if only for the English adapted title, which matches the top-5-list title. Also for the personal reason that when these were around in a theatrical release, the scheduling at our beloved Landmark Century in Chicago was so wacked that snce I had a bug up my @ss to see them in the right order I had to take a half a vacation day to do it. So I have an investment in claiming they are worthy!
Thelma and Louise.
Is it a deal like "the pantheon" or "the penalty box" that when you call a list "The so-and-so Memorial Top Five List" that so-and-so is not supposed to be on it? Well, if not that, then you could well have included this -- I saw it not too long ago and think it really stands up. Better than I remembered, in fact.
==mitch
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