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Guilty As Charged: Super Sexy Thrillers: Now Disc. "9 1/2 Weeks" (1986)
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Zaz
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2/12 8:15am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "L. A. Confidential"
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Next: Fargo (1996)
"Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen casually rewrite the rules of the investigative thriller about once a decade (see: 1984's Blood Simple, 2007's No Country for Old Men). In this bloody yet nervously funny tale of a kidnapping gone horribly awry, the Coens create a detective for the ages in small-town police chief Marge Gunderson (Oscar-winner Frances McDormand), whose dogged but cheerful pursuit of the conspirators (William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, and Peter Stormare) makes her perhaps the most well-adjusted, least neurotic detective in movie history."
This is also a horridly funny black comedy with a pool of sweet sanity--Marge--at its centre. She is not cynical, embittered, a modern poet, or gay. She's just--sane. How rare is that? Everyone else is scambling after money. And pancakes.
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timmoishere
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2/12 11:17am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Fargo" (1996)
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Classic.
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Soontir-Fel
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2/12 1:50pm
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Fargo" (1996)
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The folksiest murder movie ever.
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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Date Posted:
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Fargo" (1996)
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Rogue and I once counted the murders...I believe there are 7, the one of which Timmoishere has thoughtfully provided a picture being the classic.
Yay, bears!
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Zaz
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2/13 6:19am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Fargo" (1996)
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Next: "The Usual Suspects" (1995)
"Detective Chazz Palminteri thinks he can get captured suspect Kevin Spacey to unravel the mystery behind a drug deal gone explosively wrong. Little does he know that he's stumbled upon ultimate evil, in the form of Spacey's tale of phantom crime lord Keyser Söze. If, as Spacey's character says, the Devil's greatest trick is making people believe he doesn't exist, then this movie's greatest trick is creating a villain who may or may not exist, until the revelations of the film's final moments."
The plot doesn't bear a whole lot of scrutiny, but the cast is excellent.
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timmoishere
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2/13 10:44am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "The Usual Suspects" (1995)
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I never saw this movie until a few months ago, but it is brilliant.
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Zaz
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2/13 10:35pm
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "The Usual Suspects" (1995)
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Next: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
"FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) proves she can sleuth alongside the agency's big boys when she charms one killer (Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lector) to track another (Ted Levine's Jame Gumb, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill). Sure, you've seen it a buncha times. Still scary, though, right?"
Right.
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timmoishere
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "The Silence of the Lambs"
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This is the movie that defined Anthony Hopkins' career.
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Zaz
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2/14 8:50am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "The Silence of the Lambs"
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He shouldn't have been good casting for that part, but he was.
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Zaz
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2/14 9:54pm
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "The Silence of the Lambs"
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JFK (1991)
"Some may say The Conversation is the most paranoid movie ever made. Scratch that. Oliver Stone's movie traces New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's (Kevin Costner) effort to probe the biggest conspiracy theory of all time. (Who killed President Kennedy? According to Stone, who didn't?) The movie may be historically dubious, but Stone's dazzling direction keeps it on track as a compelling, electrically energetic thriller."
Strike One: Kevin Costner (megalomaniac)
Strike Two: Oliver Stone (creep)
Strike Three: Jim Garrison (attention-wh*re from Hell)
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Zaz
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "JFK" (1991)
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Next: "Manhunter" (1986)
"Years before he started dusting for prints and issuing cryptic pronouncements on CSI, William Petersen starred as FBI profiler Will Graham, who, like Clarice Starling a few years later, must rely on killer Hannibal Lector to help him catch another serial murderer. Consensus among fans of movie thrillers and Thomas Harris novels is that Michael Mann's innovative movie is superior to Brett Ratner's 2003 remake (under Harris' original title, Red Dragon), and many also prefer Brian Cox's spooky Lector to Anthony Hopkins'. Bonus points for best use ever of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."
Haven't seen it. Would like to. Ze list.
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DarthBoba
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2/16 5:53am
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
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Eh...I donno about it being better than Red Dragon. The whole point of Red Dragon is Dolarhyde's journey, and Manhunter greatly dumbs that down, IMO, and turns him into not much better than a freak to be destroyed.
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soitscometothis
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
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Cox's subtle Lector is more disturbing to me than Hopkins' super-villain.
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DarthBoba
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RE: Guilty As Charged: 21 Great Crime Thrillers: Now Disc. "Manhunter" (1986)
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^points to previous post 
The point of Red Dragon isn't Hannibal. It's Dolarhyde, and Manhunter made him not much more than a skinny Jason Voorhees.
Fiennes' version>Manhunter.
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soitscometothis
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2/18 10:41am
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^I've never read the books so you are probably right.
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