This Is One Movie I Will Never Watch Again - Chris Gore
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One of my favorites that I have seen many times is John Carpenter's The Thing. It's all about the tension and the practical effects still hold up.
Yup i have rewatched The Thing so many times. The commentary w John Carpenter and Kurt Russell is fantastic as well
It's legit one of the best horror movies ever! So well made, good actors, everything holds up. :)
Me too. Love that flick.
Movie is amazing, i watch it all the time. Seen the newer prequel a few timez too but the original is so much better.
If you've never seen it, The Thing from Another World (1951) is definitely recommended viewing. Based on the same literature as Carpenter's version.
Please don't ever stop these interviews with Chris Gore.
He really doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@TheFragranceApprentice neither do the globalist shills destroying every facet of society.
@@TheFragranceApprentice and u r just an apprentice , so just listen and work hard 😜😅😅
I concur
Gore’s a National Treasure, a genuine friend of film and filmmaking.
Blade Runner is just simply a window into another universe entirely. It transcends filmmaking.
True that.
and 2049 isn't and doesn't IMO
No it doesn't. It's just a movie.
@@Revelian1982 Um, movies are often windows to other worlds. That's why they're so popular.
@Dave Mathews It's a movie, captured on celluloid for the purpose of commercial profit from viewing audiences in cinemas. It's just a movie. It may be a great movie, or thought-provoking movie, or a life-changing movie, but it's still just a movie.
I'm not a massive film buff...I've never studied movies or media in general.. but my god, I could listen to Chris Gore talk about movies for eternity! ❤️
"Logan's Run" was on TV this weekend and even though I've seen it a few times before, I found myself drawn in again. I was surprised, but the acting is very good and despite the special effects, the story is intriguing. The acting and the story create a world and characters worth watching - and rewatching.
One thing that I always remember about Logan's Run is that the story drives the movie. The creators did not need all sorts of special effects to tell a tale that draws the watchers in and makes them part of the story. That's why it is so good.
And its a huge part of why the MCU is dying. Instead of writing good stories and using the stories to draw people in, the recent movies have resorted to using special effects to hide their very failure in the storytelling.
The thing that stood out to me the most is how it visually influences Star Wars, or at least has similar influences. Logan's costume is similar, almost exact the same as Luke in ROTJ, and the interiors of the main facility resemble the Death Star immensely, and of course the hair styles.
Plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea.
I think Logan's Run holds up pretty well.
First movie to have CGI? Logan's Run.
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) pulls me in every time. The storyline, acting, and visuals still amaze me to this day. I saw it on its initial release and still watch it several times a year when I want to see something breathtakingly beautiful.
A movie I think is amazing and I don't want to see again is Irreversible. I was so pulled into the story that the final third of the movie crushed me....
I dozed off a couple of times. Beautiful cinematography, Daniel Day Lewis and a fairly enlightened view of indigenous peoples, but not much else to recommend it.
The music is sublime
The movie that opened the door for high-dollar scifi is from 1956, "Forbidden Planet" because it had an "A" cast, was a commercial success, and had a theme that did not include "from planet x" or "ate NY" or .... And creatives like Roddenberry say it influenced them.
I love that movie but I definitely haven't seen it a dozen times... and nowadays the crew all scamming on the professor's daughter is pretty squirm-inducing.
Great movie.
Saw it on TV as a kid and the sound effects were so eerie, and the creature was so frightening because of it's nature of not being stopped easily, I was terrified. It was essentially a horror film for me. But what you said is spot on; great production values made as seriously as any main stream movie was ever made.
It is a bit of a myth that this was the first big budget sci fi films. Both The Day The Earth Stood Still and War Of The Worlds had budgets of a million plus which made them A list films in that era. Walter Pigeon is the only real A list cast member at the time. Nielsen had only done TV to that stage. Anne Frances was only in her second lead role. The first being the year before. Which puts it primary cast on a similar level to the Day The Earth Stood Still
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TDTESS 1951: $995k budget, $1.85M box office
Just 5 years later:
FP 1956: Budget: $2M Box office: $2.8M
Some of the most well-known directors who have cited "Forbidden Planet" as an influence include:
George Lucas: The director of "Star Wars" has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as one of his inspirations for creating the film's iconic space battles and futuristic technology.
Steven Spielberg: The legendary director has cited "Forbidden Planet" as an influence on his classic film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Ridley Scott: The director of "Alien" has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as a major influence on his approach to science fiction filmmaking.
James Cameron: The director of "Avatar" has cited "Forbidden Planet" as a significant influence on his visual style and approach to creating immersive sci-fi worlds.
J.J. Abrams: The director of the recent "Star Trek" films has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as a key influence on his approach to sci-fi filmmaking.
Terry Gilliam: The director of "Brazil" has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as one of his favorite sci-fi films and a significant influence on his work.
Tim Burton: The director of "Edward Scissorhands" and "Beetlejuice" has cited "Forbidden Planet" as an inspiration for his visual style and approach to storytelling.
David Cronenberg: The director of "The Fly" and "Videodrome" has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as a significant influence on his early work.
John Carpenter: The director of "The Thing" and "Escape from New York" has cited "Forbidden Planet" as an inspiration for his approach to sci-fi horror.
Guillermo del Toro: The director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Shape of Water" has mentioned "Forbidden Planet" as one of his favorite sci-fi films and a significant influence on his work.
Joe Dante: The director of "Gremlins" and "The 'Burbs" has cited "Forbidden Planet" as a major influence on his approach to genre filmmaking.
Stanley Kubrick: The director of "2001: A Space Odyssey" has been rumored to have been influenced by "Forbidden Planet" in his approach to creating a realistic portrayal of space travel.
Blade Runner made me want to become a professional screenwriter at a young age.
Me too
I feel so sorry for you. Can you tell me how robots from the novel became synthetic humans and how humans were surprised at how humans gave birth to humans?
"Let's create people who are stronger than people but that also look exactly like them." "WHY?"
Screenwriter:
Go on, this movie made you want to answer these plot questions.
I finally watched it the other day and understood the love at once.
to make it not suck?
It made me a rerecording mixer. I wanted to be the one who puts all the pieces together and creates that epic symphony of dialog, music and sounddesign.
//edit// and I wanted to marry rachel :)
I come back to two: Aliens and T2. Both are sequels, very simple, very dark, very violent. I have *no* idea why I like them so much!!
You like them so much because they're friggin excellent.
James Cameron knows how to do a sequel man. Aliens and T2 are two of the best, along with The Dark Knight.
T2 is awesome. Excellent choice.
Two of my all time favourite movies. My top three, 1# Aliens, 2# Terminator 2, 3# Die Hard
Yep, me too dude. Those two were my favorite movies when I was a kid.😁
Goodfellas. I've seen the movie over a hundred times and can quote the whole thing and I think this style and storytelling is so unique it just makes the movie almost timeless.
that's becaus you have very limited exposure and a simpleton brain
Completely agree. I think Goodfellas is as close to perfection a movie can get. I can watch that movie over and over and it always makes me feel something different.
@@Crichjo32 seriously, watch more movies...
@@zerpblerd5966 seriously, shut the hell up
Goodfellas is a perfect film.
And one of the greatest films of all time. It’s in my Top 10 for sure, if not Top 5.
The only movie I've seen recently that I watch over and over is a small Jeremy Renner film entitled " Wind River " and it seems to get better everytime.
That’s a great movie. Very sad but great. Written by Taylor Sheridan
@@samanthab1923 indeed. I blubber every time. After Mr. Renner's accident I find it even blubberier.
@@jonbutcher9805 Absolutely
2 sad 4 a rewatch but great movie,
One of my favorites.
"What movie have you seen at least a dozen times that you keep coming back to."
That movie for me is Jaws. To me, it's a perfect film! I love that every single character in that movie is an "every man" or "every woman". They all represent people we would come in contact with on a daily basis! If they made Jaws today, Chris Hemsworth would play Brody, Jennifer Lawrence would play his wife, Zack Efron would play Hooper, Jason Momoa would play the Mayor, and George Clooney would play Quint.
100%. I personally think it’s the best movie ever. If Jaws, Predator or Pulp Fiction is on I’m watching it guaranteed.
I believe people would rewatch "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" over and over if it wasn't for that gut-wrenching final scene.
Too brutal. I still have nightmares. Similarly I warn novices about requiem for a dream, or trainspoting. Of course I'm excluding" things" like "A Serbian Film".
@@myflatlineconstruct A Serbian Film is a great movie to take a first date. Lolz
And the exact opposite for Saving Private Ryan.
@@GreatUSTreasureHunt I always thought the most disturbing part in "Saving Private Ryan" was the slow, methodical penetrating knife in the chest scene. Horrific.
@@jim9685769 Also a horrible scene that was so effective that there's no reason to watch it again.
Horrible in the sense that it was just too real.
2001 was one of those films I didn’t get when I was younger. Now watching it, incredible movie.
Movies I can watch over and over again are Braveheart, The Big Lebowski, LOTR, Star Wars 1-6. A movie that I could only watch once but thoroughly enjoyed, Requiem for a Dream.
Requiem for a Dream is one of those intense films like Brazil, Perfect Blue, Black Hawk Down and Magic that are great but you don't feel the need to revisit because of they
leave an emotional scar.
I'm so happy someone mentioned The Fountain. It's highly underappreciated and unfortunately didn't do so well. I believe this was an ambitious project for Darren Aronovsky and it is easily my favorite movie that he's done. It may not be the best but it left an existential impression on me. The cinematography was amazing as well.
Yeah I really enjoyed that movie too! I saw it many years ago on HBO while I was in a hotel. I was just flipping channels and had no idea what the movie was called or anything about it… and it just was mesmerizing and really impacted me as a single guy away on a business trip back then.
@@MurderMostFowl That's awesome man. You'd think a movie with such heavy themes would be a tough rewatch but I can't tell you how many times I've rewatched this movie or just jumped to the middle of it. By the way, I think that was a great way to experience this movie for the first time. There's something special about stumbling upon something great and just being glued to the screen till the end of the movie.
What's it about?
I think The Fountain is one of the most romantic films I have ever seen. I man who conquers death so he can fulfil his wife's dream of being reborn in a star...now that is beautiful sci-fi.
@@SysterYster A scientist fails to cure cancer and save the woman he loves following the discovery of the tree of life. He then travels through time in search of immortality to fulfill her wish to be reborn as a star, thus being immortal. It's a beautiful movie with parallels happening across three time periods. It's awe inspiring and emotional and absolutely mesmerizing to watch.
Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended edition) always has me drawn back in. The best trilogy of all-time.
Meh.
I think it is absolutely terribile, its pure nonsense. Dreadful films
I love it too. I just don't tire of it.
Comfort films
@@adamgrimsley2900 pffft no taste
One of my top 5 films is The Iron Giant. It has influenced my own writing ever since I saw it.
Yes! A wonderful, overlooked gem with such a big heart.
Aside from the giant Android and massive military presence, my childhood.
That’s your top 5 film? What are you 3 years old? That’s laughably pathetic, not to mention there’s a lot better animated cartoons than that😉
“The Big Lebowski,” “Robocop,” and “Army of Darkness” are the only movies I’ve seen 10+ times and will continue to watch over again.
Fear and Loathing for me.
Greg, can you explain the attraction of The Big Lebowski ? I'll confess I just found it boring. Regards
@@Retroloft556 Ooh, good call. I forgot about that one. “As your attorney, I advise you take a hit from the brown bottle.” 😅
@@ourfarmhouseinspain Yeah, well… that’s just like… your opinion, man. 😉
@@gregbors8364 I entirely accept that Greg, and film appreciation is a personal thing, but I just don't get the point of this particular film. It wanders along without substance, and just .....ends. Regards
I love that Chris mentions two of my favorite films, “Blade Runner” and “Logan’s Run.”. I try to watch them every couple of years.
Tropic Thunder, one of them films I’ll never get tired of.
I re-watch the trailers at the beginning because they are perfection to me but I've only seen the film a couple of times.
The trailer for the original "Alien" back in 1979 terrified me as a kid.
I remember that time. When we finally got a VCR around then. Alien and Caddyshack were the two movies we rented first. I was 12 or 13 I suppose. One scared the pants off me the other funny as hell. Both are still my favorites that I'll watch again and again.
I remember when The Fountain was announced. I was pretty exited to hear Jackman and Arnofosky were making a movie. When i saw the trailer, I wasn't interested at all (some sort of Spanish conquistador movie??). Fast forward 8 years later, I still didn't have a clue what that movie was about, and my girlfriend had been fighting breast cancer for 4 years. No treatment had worked and we were pretty much out of options. One Saturday I was going thru my movie collection, trying to knock out movies that I'd never actually watched the physical copy of the movie before. Somehow I had acquired a Blu-ray of The Fountain, and being the completionist I am, I decided to watch the movie. Talk about a kick in the gut. The 9 year anniversary of my girlfriend passing away is rapidly approaching. While the details of each day of the last 3 weeks of her life are slowly starting to fade, what doesn't fade is the complete sense of helplessness you have watching someone you love die slowly. The Fountain does a beautiful job of capturing that feeling.
> Jackman and Arnofosky
When the film was announced with Brad Pitt it had a lot of press. He pulled out, Jackson came in, with a much lower budget and trimmed script. The original idea was much better, still it's lucky the film got made at all.
cancer is easy to cure as taking a piss
@@CmdrSoCal But grammar not so much.
"Eyes Wide Shut" is an underappreciated film, particularly with the interplay between Kidman and Cruise who were married at the time. It felt oddly real, and not reciting dialogue. And I've probably seen this well over a dozen times just for the bedroom chat between the two. There are several layers to this film, and it's one of Kubrick's best next to the first half of "Full Metal Jacket".
I finally watched that for the first time recently. Despite being a huge Tom Cruise fan since I saw Risky Business as a kid, the subject matter of Eyes Wide Shut always creeped me out too much to have any desire to watch. But with very prominent, disturbing things happening in the world the past few years that echo that movie in far too real ways, I felt I had, for lack of a better word, a duty to watch it at least once.
EWS haunted me after my initial viewing and still leaves me a bit disturbed years later after multiple viewings.
Three movies I watch over and over are “The Good, the Bad and and the Ugly”, “Once upon a Time in the West” and “Starship Troopers”.
You choose well
If we're gonna mention Aronofsky and movies you only need to see once... "Mother" & "Requiem for a Dream"... (though, I have seen Requiem at least thirty times, but Mother still just the once.)
These interviews with Chris gore are my favorite. Such an interesting guy.
As always I could listen to Chris Gore all day. Love his insights, his intelligence, and his passion for films and film making.
And yet he was incredibly defensive of She-Hulk for some reason.
@@SumDumGy Eh nobody's perfect.
@@SumDumGy that is indefensible
@@newsbender I won’t watch it because I both don’t stream and I boycott The Rodent House, so I can’t speak to that. I did listen to him get rather agitated though defending it against the guys on a Midnight’s Edge stream and the way he handled himself? I’ve never looked at him the same way since. He lost s lot of credibility with me.
Remember him from Attack of the Show way back when 2005!
I love movies from the '80s and '90s. ❤
Every time Goodfellas is on my afternoon is over. Movies I can’t lived without: Goodfellas, Ghostbusters still makes me laugh all the way through, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge On the River Kwai, the entire second season of the Sopranos, Heat - how many directors have tried to remake Heat, Pulp Fiction, Tremors -the perfect B movie, Close Encounters - back when Spielberg was reinventing the summer blockbuster. And for horror it has to be The Thing and The Shining - Stanley Kubrick used Jack Nicholson so differently than any of his other roles up to that movie.
I wrote 1500+ words a day every day for 18 years and stopped around 2021. These interviews with Mr. Gore have almost convinced me to write again.
Almost. Media still sucks.
Key word almost.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody always pulls me in. It captures a time and place like no other film, for me. Death Becomes Her is another. No Country for Old Men, Die Hard, Aliens, Shadow of a Doubt, All About Eve...Sixteen Candles is my frivolous favorite. I saw Cries and Whispers as a kid. It gave me existential dread, that I don't want to revisit.
I was a huge fan of G4TV back in the day...specifically ATOS w/ Olivia and Kevin. Who'd a thought so many years later that the best thing to come from that channel was Chris Gore!? This dude ROCKS!!!
I don't even remember him. What show was he on?
He's the only one that didn't go Woke
@@stevegarvey5607 He did the movie review segments on Attack of the Show
@@Superabound2 oh OK. I watched that show. I guess I don't remember that part
The Prestige by Chris Nolan is a movie I see new things with every god damn re-watch.
"I saw Human Centipede once because I HAD TO SEE IT" is one hell of a statement 😂
I take it Chris did not watch Human Centipede 2 lol.
Yeah...I felt similar with Felidae...it ended, and I was like "....huh, that happened!"
That is when being a movie critic is a terrible job.
Asparagus or shellfish?
The second one is a lot darker and depressing didn’t watch the 3rd
I went to Blade Runner with my mother. We left in the middle of it. I thought she was sick or something, but no. She HATED the movie. I LOVED it. Didn't get to see the end for at least 10 years, lol. We went to dozens of movies in the '70s and '80s, and that was the only one we ever walked out on.
I walked out too it was such a bore. It looks beautiful but that's all it has going for it.
Why? What could anyone hate about that film?
@@deanfirnatine7814 You have to put yourself back in 1982 and think about general audiences. It was not a popular movie at the time. (I don't think it got many good reviews either.)
It was probably disturbing to many people, and struck a chord because it is basically saying this is what the future will be. I mean we're pretty much there already, minus the flying cars.
She probably expected Star Wars or even Star Trek but ended up getting a dark gritty violent sci fi crime noir.
If I wanted to make a movie that actually makes money...that people actually love...I would hire Chris Gore to make the decisions.
Yep and have the studios with their equity checklists far far away lmao
Those people never work.
All they can do is complain and say whatever people want to hear. Just trying to milk nostalgia and imitating what everyone else does is never enough to guarantee success.
"My big fat independent movie " ?
He seems too indecisive, I’d say more people watch Pulp Fiction or Scarface more
LMAOOOO good luck, you might end up losing $3 million and with a huge piece of shit
I wish more people would seek out The Fountain and give it at least a couple viewings with plenty of time to reflect in between the viewings. It is an incredible, one of a kind film experience. Beautiful and awe inspiring in all respects.
I've never seen the human centipede, and I don't ever intend to. It seems that older horror movies truly are horrific. Far more horrific than anything made today. Heck! I can't even get through one scene from The Blob. Jesus that one scares me!
It's not that old xD. And it's not horrific but gross and disturbing. A truly "old" horro movie that is quite good in terms of being scary is A Nighmare On Elm Street
Just watch the South Park episode the human centipad because that’s all you really need pokes fun of apple and a funny parody of the movie
1 is arguably the "best". 2 is to some better but 3 is just stupid and shown to not even try in my opinion. Takes space on "banned" list and a shock/gore porn novelty for many but not really what I call scary but that's interpreted by the individual.
@@LibertyFromLead Centipede 2 legitimately stuck in my head for days, great horror, and will never watch it again. The first is more of a high-concept thriller that's particularly gross (but not as graphic as I expected). Third one is just dumb with a couple darkly funny moments, and way too much yelling.
@@jneilson7568 agree
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy I can't never stop watching them over and over
Yep. That’s what my pick is.
Meh. I have not watched the 2nd 2 even a 2nd time.
Sorry, but “can’t never” ?????
The question should have eliminated those movies like it did for Star Wars.
I only watched them once.
I didn’t like the first one.
I love the second.
*Romancing the Stone* is the most rewatchable movie ever imo.
I read you books! I read all you books!
I also argue for this
Princess Bride, Clue, runners up
Damn, hearing the Fountain and Memento mentioned one after another made my day. Those movies are truly on another level.
Blade Runner and 2001 for me too. I keep revisiting those over and over again. Then there’s stuff like Cinema Paradiso, Lady Hawke, The Neverending Story ,( which is responsible for me becoming an illustrator ). But the movie I’ve seen the most in my life is The Big Blue by Luc Besson which I’ve seen every day one summer about 20 years ago and I keep coming back to it all the time too because it has a lot to do with me. I’ve seen The Big Blue more than 300 times since I discovered it in vhs when I was 18 years old in 1988, and I’m not joking.
Then there’s Casablanca and recently I discovered a 1940s supernatural movie called The Uninvited with Gail russel which I always come back to for the atmosphere and music. It’s like Casablanca with ghosts and made in the same period.
David Lynch’s Dune is another one I keep revisiting because it made an impression when I saw it when released in theaters. And Streets of Fire which to me is a masterpiece of song , pulp story and visuals.
I also love oriental cinema an Wong kar way’s - In The Mood For Love - is another of those that if I play my Blu-ray with , I have to watch it to the end once again.
When it comes to movies in avoid, I try to stay away from any Lars Von Trier movies, David Cronenberg or Darren Aranowsky stuff …unless I’m in the mood to kill myself or something. Although Requiem For a Dream it’s one of those that I keep coming back to when it comes across as I find it fascinating and the score is impressive.
The crow with Brandon Lee and Batman 1989 are movies I always watch. Just great pieces of cinema.
One and done? Grave of the fireflies, and American history x. Heavy incredible but only once.
I finally tracked down a copy of the director's cut of Blade Runner and intend to watch it this weekend. Having watched the theatrical cut and remembering very little, and then hearing the film get so much praise, I think I need to watch it again.
Aliens is my go-to film when people ask me for my favorite movie. I could rewatch that one over and over.
Workprint Cut or Director's Cut or "The Final Cut"? I have the DVD that came out about 10 years ago and I think there are 4 different versions on there!! I fell in love with the original back in VHS days but Ridley's "Final Cut," really is amazing.
Damn, it's a shame Rutger Hauer never played a real Batman villian. He sorta plays one in Batman Begins but imagine him as Mr. Freeze or The Scarecrow..
Yeah Aliens is great. Definitely in my top 20 movies.
The Final Cut is the best cut of Blade Runner. Although it's a great movie either cut.
One movie , besides Bladerunner , that I can watch over and over is "Brazil" . Everything, Everywhere, All at Once " made me think about Brazil for some reason. I guess it's the main character imagining themselves as a hero of some kind that triggered it
Brazil is a masterpiece and totally agree. Brilliant & beautiful. An all-time favorite.
Really enjoy watching these sit down's with Chris. Thanks for the upload.
Very true about how sometimes a film that requires a second viewing can be particularly more impactful. Deliverance and the original Sleuth were two such examples for me. Thank you, Chris.
Sleuth! Fuck, what a great film!
@@Superabound2 Yes! The original one right? They remade it for some reason.
Sleuth Yes-Deliverance definitely a one-timer for me.
I was a subscriber of
Film Threat magazine and had some interaction with Chris Gore, bought a few VHS tapes of amateur film makers - through his magazine - over all a good experience - glad I found this interview!
This interview gave me an epiphany. The two movies I certainly have re-watched the most both touch the topic I'm the most interested in: Biology.
Alien (parasitism) and Jurassic Park (paleozoology).
Jurassic Park was the first movie, that wasn't aimed for kids, I ever watched with my family. So nostalgic feelings also play a part.
I'll also throw in Jaws, which is about raw predatory carnivorism.
Terminator 2 for me... mankind creating its own doom....
Jurassic Park was definitely aimed for kids.
Regrettably my first time seeing Jurassic Park was on video on a 19" tv screen. I was watching distractedly while doing other stuff. And then THE scene happened, the T-Rex attack. Great filmmaker perfectly uses cgi and other fx to create a you are there scene of horror that had my stomach in knots. I mean, we knew the kids weren't going to die, but still...Man I missed out not seeing that on the big screen when it first came out.
@@jnnx yes, you are right. I meant to say it was my first movie that wasn't your typical disneyesque kids movie.
Exactly I have watched Blade Runner dozens of times. It is literally poetry in motion. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe......"
I can watch Once Upon a Time in the West over and over. The acting, the scenery, the story, the music. Few movies check all the boxes and reveal a transition of humanity. Five stars again and again.
Definitely a classic. Watched it several times myself.
I could listen to him talking about his love of cinema all day. Side note the scene in Human Centipede where he describes the procedure really stayed with me
I read an article about The Human Centipede and I had the same experience as you only without watching it. For a week, my mind's picture of it came up at any idle moment, and it horrified me. I have never told anyone what it's about, and I won't. My disgust extended beyond the antagonist of the story, to the actor who played him, to the principal creators who conceived and directed it, to the audience who knowingly went to see it. After all this time, there's still a line I won't cross!
A Serbian Tale is that for me. It horrifies me 10x more than Human Centipede.
@@johnkrstyen7351 Do you mean A Serbian Film? I just looked it up. At a certain point, it doesn't matter which movie is more disgusting or unwatchable. I felt like I could be sent to hell for just thinking about these movies.
@Edique yes, sorry mistaken on Tale vs Film.
any movie that relies on one main twist at the end, is a good example of a movie you'd only need to see once. Like M Night Shyamalan movies
...or The Usual Suspects. Fine flick, but once you've seen it...
those are predictable from act 1
@@deeperanddown wow, extreme delusions, extreme suppressed anger issues - seek help!
Seven
Unless you mean Signs.
What a piece of crap.
I liked 6th Sense & Village, though.
That particular decade (roughly 1971-1981) saw great films. It was a time when movies were very much a shared cultural experience. The films were cynical and gritty, but maintained a moral voice.
Academy Award winners of the 70's.
1970 - Patton, 1971 - French Connection, 1972 - The Godfather, 1973 - The Sting, 1974 - The Godfather II, 1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1976 - Rocky, 1977 - Annie Hall, 1978 - The Deer Hunter, 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer.
All great movies that I have watched more times than I can count.
What a fun series of questions that really we should ask more.
Of course great answers from chris even adding an addtional catergory of movies to watch twice to get the most out of them.
On the Waterfront is my go to movie. The cast was magnificent, the story was real and gritty and I am of an age that I remember how corrupt and overtly dangerous the corrupt unions were at that time.
After I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre I specifically remember saying out loud “I don’t ever need to see that again”. I don’t recall ever feeling the need to make that proclamation about any other movie, and I’ve sat through the likes of Battlefield Earth and Pooty Tang.
You gotta admit that it’s quite an effective horror film though. Right?
@@gregbors8364 Absolutely! I saw it 25 yrs ago and it’s still pretty vivid. I don’t retain bad movies that way. I just remember they were bad.
I rewatch a lot of films and I totally agree that when seeing them in different stages of my life I totally experience and appreciate them in new/different ways. Blade Runner is one of my all time favorites! Gone are the days where totally original voices and soon things will be worse and worse. The studios actually have AI programs that will analyze and “correct” scripts to make sure that they fit a certain mold. After hearing some inside info on this it’s really scary. I will always love movies and those especially from past “imperfect” eras.
Totally agree about second viewing. The first time I watched The Big Lebowski, I hated it. Second viewing helped me get it and appreciate it.
Same for me but with
Napoleon Dynamite
Same! Love it now, watch it at least once a year.
The 70s and 80s for sure is an epic time for movies. The 70s was sort of when the studio collapse paid off, there was simply a lot more creator fiat.
The 80s as well. Now you also had the home movie market, so there was a lot more money over a longer time in film. We got the "mid budget" movies, which we have more or less lost now.
I'm hoping with the rise of independent content creators and the slow collapse of Hollywood into the woke blackhole, that we will see a return to original and thought provoking pieces of film made by people passionate about the craft.
@@Crichjo32 The main issue these days is really in distribution. (I also hate the term "content creator" it's such a corporate term.)
But yes, independent creators can do a lot, but currently there isn't a CZcams for movies.
And the platforms we do have are part of the "woke" machine, so they aren't going to help much either.
Let’s just get this out of the way right now… Deckard was not a replicant. I will die on that hill. ;)
One of the few voices of sanity left in Hollywood.
For me it was The Accused. I saw this movie waaaaay too young (12) and I haven’t re-watched it fully in years but I remember EVERY part of that film. The color, the bruises, the smoking, and the assault scene.
This film is a must watch but only once.
The Lion King is my favorite film. The quotable script, the music, the atmosphere and grandiosity, the emotional storytelling and vocal performances, it’s a masterpiece of artistry.
If you love nature-themed animated films give 'Princess Mononoke' a try.
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers Also a favorite movie of mine, top three easily
Back in the "TV Network" days, if you were flipping the channels just before bedtime (we all did it) and stumbled across "The Outlaw Josey Wales" in progress, it was that moment of "Fuc*. I can't go to bed until this is over!" It's a long film, especially with commercials. But every scene is amazing moviemaking.
Oh yeah, TNT or TBS would air that or the other two "Dollars" movies pretty regularly.
I had someone describe the premise of Human Centipede to me, and I almost threw up in disgust. I've never watched it, but to this day, because of the scenario I imagined, it still makes me ill.
I like psychological thrillers just after action films, and I recommend Identity (2003.)
Yeah, I won't be watching that one either 😬
I've seen it.
You made the right choice. You can't unsee it.
Thank you good interview.
Happy that The Fountain is getting more attention lately. That movie is just so strange and different. It's sad and heartbreaking as well. Good call.
I don't tend to watch anything again that depends too much on a plot twist at the end
I agree, even if they’re VERY good-like The Conversation (1974), Wicker Man (1973), Orphan (2009) or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." - Roy
Yes, I watched bladerunner over a dozen times too. Great movie. And like so many others the sequal nearly ruined it.
Well said, Chris. As usual, our views and opinions about movies are similar in majority of cases. Thank you for another great definition of what a good movie actually means (to you).
I saw it when it first came out. You could hear a pin drop in the theater, while watching it. It was the first DVD I'd ever bought ... even picked up the "suitcase" with the different versions in it, years later. It's one of my top 5 favorites and I've seen it countless times.
Sicario kinda did that to me. Despite the other stuff I’ve seen about cartels out of fascination, but that movie was intense. Good movie that I highly recommend, provided you can stomach that
Holy shit when she said what movie have you watched my mind went to blade runner & Logan’s run, I love Chris’s taste in movies so much.
I must agree that Blade Runner in my opinion is the greatest Sci- Fi movie ever made if only for the question that keeps coming up through out the the film "what makes us human. That and of course the monologue at the end by Roy Batty," Like tears in rain,. Time to die". Heart breaking.
One good animated film you will only see once is " flight of the Fire Flies "
By studio Gibily
A beautiful film
It's pretty intense and emotional
A box of tissues will be needed
Even I a guy couldn't watch it til the end ,it was too much to handle for me personally
If you are a parent with kids
You will know what I mean
I agree...i never could watch it a second time...
It almost broke me...
and the korean movie oldboy 2003 that one also nearly broke me...
Grave of the fireflies.
I watch aliens at least five times a year since it released. Never gets old.
Why dont you put her in charge! SO many funny lines. One of my favorites.
@@Gallasl666 it’s a perfect film and it has everything. Horror, drama, a tiny bit of romance, action, sci-fi, covers every base in the one film.
Play the "Hudson/Hicks"drinking game next time you see it... you'll get smashed.
@@rafaelfiallo4123 How do you play?
@@Gallasl666 Anytime you hear Hudson or Hicks take a drink if you want to up the ante drink anytime someone says Ripley or Newt screams.
It’s almost eerily similar how he grew up in Michigan to how I grew up in New Jersey -with the exact same movie playlist. We even got dropped off to a movie theater that isn’t there anymore. Even talking about Logan’s Run is very odd since most never heard of it, and definitely didn’t watch it in the movies!
Trailers:
Agreed, I only see the first trailer they release because it tends to be a teaser trailer and much shorter. It's difficult to ruin a movie when it's only fifteen seconds long.
I took a science fiction literacy class that featured Blade Runner. Blade Runner has so many versions too to watch, The best known versions are the Workprint, the US Theatrical Cut, the International Cut, the Director's Cut, and the Final Cut. The music is phenomenal. The cinematography is oneiric. The model of the building of the opening shot is in the museum of the moving image.
still a bad movie
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I recently gave great thought to what are my 50 favorite movies and after hours upon hours of internal deliberation, I came up with this list:
12 Monkeys
A Tale of Two Sisters
Aliens
Batman Returns
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Swan
Bladerunner 2049
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Children of Men
Double Indemnity
Ed Wood
Empire Strikes Back
Evil Dead 2
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fight Club
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Hot Fuzz
House of Flying Daggers
Inglorious Basterds
Kill Bill 1-2
Kubo and the Tale of Two Strings
Let Me In / Let the Right One In (Tied)
Let there be Blood
Moon
Mulholland Dr.
Nightmare Before Christmas
Nightmare on Elm St. Dream Warriors
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Pan's Labyrinth
Princess Mononoke
Repulsion
Robocop
Rushmore
Spider-Man 2
Spirited Away
Sunset Blvd.
Suspiria
Terminator 2
the Big Lebowski
the Big Sleep
the Fifth Element
The Host
the Thing
the Witch
Total Recall
Tropic Thunder
Vertigo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
That's a seriously great list. I'm right there with you.
Personally, my top 50 list contains well over 1,000 films.
I love your list. As I read it, I kept saying 'yeah, but where is---OH! Never mind...there it is." You even included my favorite David Lynch movies. You also included comedies, so i'm ready to turn over the Oscars to you now.
I'm of the same era. Here's one from that period that I'll never forget watching in the theater as a child. Simon, starring Alan Arkin, 1980. Seen it?
I know so many people who - like myself - watch bladerunner every now and then. That movie is like a symphony. I never get tired of that film.
Schindler's List I've only watched once, and I think I will only watch once. I'm so glad I saw it. But I can't put myself through that again.
Once you've seen it, if you haven't already, visit the Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC. I visited there a few years ago, and yet as I sit here writing about it, it brings tears to my eyes. That one room towards the end...I won't disclose here what's in it...something seemingly so mundane....but that room....
Mystic River . . .
True romance is my favourite film of all time seen it probably 30+ times
"Looks like we got a Charlie Bronson here...Mr. Majestic..."
Hell yes!! I watch it on new years night the past 20 yrs
Mr. Gore is indispensable to the world of cinema. I’m so happy that I get to live in a timeline where you and Chris Gore are able to share the “forbidden” knowledge. I honestly can’t thank you enough
Great interview.
He called it all on Logan's Run - a romance to an 11 year old mind (which I was when I saw it as well) was such a different thing when you see it as an adult. I was always a bit of a social outcast being on the spectrum, so I would often play hooky from school and go to the local twin cinema. I was really good friends with the manager and had a bit of a crush on one of the concession girls (she was a senior in high school and I was still in the 9th grade). The manager would let me stay and watch the movies over and over again. It was a twin cinema and he let me go back and forth between the movies as well. I was there every week day practically and stood all day long. Then I would go home and pretend like I had a productive day at school. I later went to a self study program that was much more suited for me and I excelled at that. I excelled in college as well since the social aspect isn't as important as it is in high school. High school sucked for me and movies were my only escape.
I think there’s also a type of movie where it’s really well-made and valuable to watch, but the subject matter makes it extremely difficult to watch more than once. An example that comes to mind for me is Schindler’s List. It’s a great movie, but the topic is so horrific that it would be hard for me to bring myself to rewatch it. (I can’t imagine anyone watching that movie for fun.)
Agreed. Mine is Mystic River.
Incredible.
Will never watch it again.
@@proto-geek248 Hereditary. Definitely recommend if you want a slow burn horror movie. But it's a movie I never want to see again.
Blade Runner is my favorite film. It's something I'll put on once every few years just to study it. There's something new every time. I love all the symbolism in Roy Batty's journey to the end of his life, and how it makes Deckard appreciate his, and want to protect Rachel. Also, the director's/final cuts are the ones to watch once you know the story, without the horrible narration obliterating the brilliant soundscape and Vangelis' score.
Agree man, though I haven't rewatched it in a little while. Roy Batty is the most human out of all the characters, because he is terrified of death, and is violently searching for meaning in his life.
I named my miata Rutger😀
Deckard is NOT a replicant ...no way!
Network was one of those movies that opened my young eyes (at the time) to the fact that story and performance are what make a movie. I didn't appreciate the nuances when I first saw it,but as I grew older the movie reflected my maturity level to match the story being told. I still watch it every couple years.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who adores The Fountain. I even bought the expanded graphic novel for it.
The Fountain is really good.
Session 9, Enemy, Moon, The Prestige and Fincher's The Game are all films that are excellent within their genres and don't get brought up nearly enough for how good they actually are.
Session 9 is such a great film
The Prestige was a phenomenal film!
That last great trailer I saw which was actually eclipsed and exceeded by the film itself was Mad Max Fury Road.
The last great movie in my opinion.
I’m in the minority on that film… I thought it was good but it was missing an important component… Max. I don’t mean Mel Gibson per se. Just a character with some personality. Tom Hardy just felt like a “random guy” in that film.
Don’t get me wrong… I really enjoyed the movie. I just expected Max to be less the cold-unfeeling max like the original and more “maybe I have something to live for afterall” max at the end of Road Warrior and Thunderdome
Requiem for a Dream on my end. It made me understand a bleak, hopeless outlook of life. It changed my psyche forever. It might even have made me prone to depression. And though I doubt I was ever clinically depressed, I certainly lived on the edge for years. And I have that damn movie to thank for it.
John Carpenters "The Thing" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" are two of my go-to repeat viewing films.
Same for Blade Runner. My producer friend said the new one was good, and i respect her opinion, but I tried watching it 3 different times and never made it past the five or ten minute mark...it's like watching cardboard cutouts being moved around. I almost feel they should have tried a completely different way, instead of trying to imitate certain things. How can you do better than the Mona Lisa, anyway? It's pretty much a lost cause, haha
If you're going to build a franchise, DO IT FROM THE START... At the very least, HAVE a trilogy written, maybe not quite all 3 polished for the can, but written to a professional degree... something worthy of "clean it as you shoot it" in case someone plants a foot in the gas to keep it going...
To let Ridley Scott put out a stand-alone classic, and some 30+ years later, get to thinking, "Well, that was pretty popular, so we can make a cash-cow out of it and ride his genius ass to riches easy, NOW..." is just stupid.
There's no good way to get back to the old feel of the original, and there's only so close anybody can get to trying to relate back to it. Besides, there are LOTS of good sci-fi stories on similar lines that could be done... or taken for inspiration and build a franchise "anew"... No more than a tip of the hat to the old BladeRunner if you're going to, and show the respect... BUT don't just blithely copy-paste it.
That sort of sh*t has never worked before. It's not going to work now. ;o)
Yep. I love Blade Runner too.❤️