Post #106733 by tikicleen on Fri, Aug 6, 2004 5:58 PM

weirdly enough, i just had this conversation with king kukulele just the other week. and if you ever want to talk movies, he is the man.

as for my personal favorites...well like everyone else, i have many! limiting it to just 5 is near impossible. and i have so many guilty pleasures too. okay here goes nothing:

BLACK BELT JONES 1974 this is the ultimate blaxploitation movie in my opinion (well, actually its a tough call because Truck Turner is hard to beat with its pimp funeral and all). jim kelly is one karate badass who hoots and hollars while he throws punches at the italian mafia. there are so many inconsitencies in the plot that is makes it hilarious. and trust me, after watching the first 5 minutes with jim kelly beating up chinese henchmen in a parking lot to the tune of dennis coffey's black belt jones theme with spectactular 70's camera work, YOU WILL succumb to the powers of jim kelly too. shhhhhyeah.

RUN LOLA RUN 1999 franka potente is my hero. i went through a red phase after seeing this movie. great soundtrack. and i always enjoy the sound effect they used in the movie when she drops the gun in the street.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION how can you not like this movie? the ending is so hopeful. whenever it is on, i always get sucked in to watching the entire thing.

YOJIMBO kurosawa's finest piece in my opinion. great to watch in an older theatre with organ...like the stanford. (not too many still exist!)

uh-oh...only one more spot....damn i hate these things! er....eh.....guess i'll have to go with a hitchcock to round it out.

REAR WINDOW this is a tough one to choose...because i reeeally like vertigo as well. but i dig raymond burr, and the whole voyueristic element.

i know in 5 minutes i will be hitting my head against the wall for leaving off some movie....but these are my picks as of august 6th, 2004 at 4:58pm.

mahalo :)