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Sleeping in EQ 07-19-2007 04:08 PM
Favorite Films set in San Francisco
 
The Maltese Falcon
Vertigo
Dark Passage
Dirty Harry
The Conversation
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
48 hrs


Just getting started...

BarbaraGordon 07-19-2007 05:17 PM
The Graduate
Escape from Alcatraz
I also love Herbie Rides Again and the music video to We Built this City.

jay santos 07-19-2007 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ (Post 103404)
The Maltese Falcon
Vertigo
Dark Passage
Dirty Harry
The Conversation
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
48 hrs


Just getting started...
When I first saw the subject line I thought of Vertigo. Great movie.

Indy Coug 07-19-2007 05:19 PM
Bullitt

Jim Swarthout 07-19-2007 05:48 PM
So I Married an Axe Murderer.

Archaea 07-19-2007 06:02 PM
Where was the Birds filmed?

creekster 07-19-2007 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 103437)
Where was the Birds filmed?
Exterior shots were in SF and Bodega Bay and a few other places in NoCal.

As a local, Vertigo is my favorite. Good local exterior shots and always lots of parking. Sort of like a dream SF.

Solon 07-19-2007 06:31 PM
The Game

non sequitur 07-19-2007 06:32 PM
Basic Instinct
Play it Again Sam

BlueK 07-19-2007 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 103437)
Where was the Birds filmed?
The Birds is one of my least favorite Hitchcock movies. It's closer to today's non-thinking action flicks than to the psychological mystery/thrillers he made. Not to mention it's just hokey. Flocks of seagulls don't attack people. Maybe that's the point and I just never got that movie. The special effects for the time are very impressive, though.

BarbaraGordon 07-19-2007 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueK (Post 103474)
Flocks of seagulls don't attack people.
Now don't get me wrong, I love Flock of Seagulls.

But I agree with you. I didn't like Birds either. At all. It just seemed so silly.

Archaea 07-19-2007 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 103479)
Now don't get me wrong, I love Flock of Seagulls.

But I agree with you. I didn't like Birds either. At all. It just seemed so silly.
I don't think it's his best work, but some of you are too spoiled to appreciate really how innovative Hitchcock was. An innovator doesn't always hit a homerun.

non sequitur 07-19-2007 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueK (Post 103474)
Flocks of seagulls don't attack people
That's the hook. It's why Cujo is so frightening -- St. Bernards are supposed to be loveable. And it's why The Omen is so creepy -- little boys aren't supposed to be evil.

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...I just never got that movie although the special effects for the time are very impressive.
My brother-in-law group up in Sepastapol and recalls when they were filming the movie. He said they had hundreds of these paper mache crows up on the phone wires and said it looked hokey as hell. At the time he thought there was no way in the world that anyone would ever believe those birds were real.

creekster 07-19-2007 06:56 PM
Forget the birds. Vertigo people, Vertigo is the one to see.

BlueK 07-19-2007 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 103485)
I don't think it's his best work, but some of you are too spoiled to appreciate really how innovative Hitchcock was. An innovator doesn't always hit a homerun.
I'm a huge Hitchcock fan. I suppose it was innovative in terms of being a modern, special effects dependent action flick. But I'm judging it based on his other works. In terms of plot and mystery it's very much lacking compared to his other films. I would say The Birds isn't even in the same time zone as the following:

Vertigo
Psycho
North by Northwest
Rear Window
The Man who Knew Too Much (the remake with Jimmy Stewart)
Rebecca
Rope

and I'd probably rank it below these as well:

Suspicion
Notorious
Shadow of a Doubt
Spellbound
The 39 Steps
Young and Innocent
The Lady Vanishes
Strangers on a Train

jay santos 07-19-2007 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueK (Post 103498)
I'm a huge Hitchcock fan. I suppose it was innovative in terms of being a modern, special effects dependent action flick. But I'm judging it based on his other works. In terms of plot and mystery it's very much lacking compared to his other films. I would say The Birds isn't even in the same time zone as the following:

Vertigo
Psycho
North by Northwest
Rear Window
The Man who Knew Too Much (the remake with Jimmy Stewart)
Rebecca
Rope

and I'd probably rank it below these as well:

Suspicion
Notorious
Shadow of a Doubt
Spellbound
The 39 Steps
Young and Innocent
The Lady Vanishes
Strangers on a Train
I agree with your list.

1. Vertigo
2. Psycho (and the best scene is not the chocolate syrup shower stabbing scene it's when norman bates jumps out with the dress and wig on--maybe the best scary scene in a movie ever, copied quite marvelously by the last scene in blair witch)

and then those on your top tier I would agree with except I'd put Notorious and Dial M for Murder in there. Birds doesn't make my top 10. I'd put it also below Frenzie and Marnie.

Tex 07-19-2007 07:32 PM
Star Trek IV. :)

SeattleUte 07-19-2007 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ (Post 103404)

The Maltese Falcon
Vertigo
Dark Passage
Dirty Harry
The Conversation
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
48 hrs


Just getting started...
Great list. You forgot Basic Instinct.

Sleeping in EQ 07-19-2007 07:42 PM
Since we've shifted to Hitchcock...

Frances Stevens: You want a leg or a breast?

John Robie: You make the choice.

BlueK 07-19-2007 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ (Post 103514)
Since we've shifted to Hitchcock...

Frances Stevens: You want a leg or a breast?

John Robie: You make the choice.
The scene where she's driving fast along the cliffs right before that is good too.

RockyBalboa 07-20-2007 12:06 AM
Psycho always freaks me out cause Janet Leigh looks EXACTLY like my Mom did at that age. EXACTLY. THey are twins. Whenever I see that scene it's like watching my mom getting butchered. It is eerie.

Black Diamond Bay 07-20-2007 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ (Post 103404)
The Maltese Falcon
Vertigo
Dark Passage
Dirty Harry
The Conversation
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
48 hrs


Just getting started...
What's up Doc?

cougjunkie 07-20-2007 12:35 AM
the rock

creekster 07-20-2007 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103637)
What's up Doc?
That must be the dental pain drugs talking, right?

Black Diamond Bay 07-20-2007 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by creekster (Post 103639)
That must be the dental pain drugs talking, right?
I am drug free for the first time in two days today. I think that movie is hilarious.

BarbaraGordon 07-20-2007 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103641)
I am drug free for the first time in two days today. I think that movie is hilarious.
That is a GREAT movie!! I've never met anyone else our age who's heard of it before.

creekster 07-20-2007 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 103642)
That is a GREAT movie!! I've never met anyone else our age who's heard of it before.
You are an age-ist!

If you like Babs, you'll like it. If not, then you won't. Guess what I think?

Black Diamond Bay 07-20-2007 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by creekster (Post 103644)
You are an age-ist!

If you like Babs, you'll like it. If not, then you won't. Guess what I think?
Oh, that's not at all true. I ordinarily have very little tolerance for Barbara Streissand, but in that movie I love her.

Black Diamond Bay 07-20-2007 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 103642)
That is a GREAT movie!! I've never met anyone else our age who's heard of it before.
Me neither. My parents owned a copy that's how I know about it. I am now the proud owner of that movie on DVD though. It's one of my all time favorites.

BarbaraGordon 07-20-2007 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103645)
Oh, that's not at all true. I ordinarily have very little tolerance for Barbara Streissand, but in that movie I love her.
Exactly how I feel. I met Barbra Streisand once. She's everything you'd expect her to be. And more.

Black Diamond Bay 07-20-2007 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 103647)
Exactly how I feel. I met Barbra Streisand once. She's everything you'd expect her to be. And more.
Madeline Kahn is really what makes that movie brilliant though. One of my favorite parts is where she's talking to Howard. "...over the years romance fades and something else takes it's place. Do you know what that is Howard?" Howard: "senility?" Eunice: "TRUST HOWARD!!! I AM TALKING ABOUT TRUST!"

creekster 07-20-2007 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103649)
Madeline Kahn is really what makes that movie brilliant though. One of my favorite parts is where she's talking to Howard. "...over the years romance fades and something else takes it's place. Do you know what that is Howard?" Howard: "senility?" Eunice: "TRUST HOWARD!!! I AM TALKING ABOUT TRUST!"
That scene is funny. I iwll stay out of the fray now, so you two young people can talk about classic Babs moments in peace.

BarbaraGordon 07-20-2007 01:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103649)
Madeline Kahn is really what makes that movie brilliant though. One of my favorite parts is where she's talking to Howard. "...over the years romance fades and something else takes it's place. Do you know what that is Howard?" Howard: "senility?" Eunice: "TRUST HOWARD!!! I AM TALKING ABOUT TRUST!"
I love that scene.

As much as I (generally) despise Barbra, that's how much I love Madeline.

She also did some great work with Grover on Sesame Street, but that's another story. However, if anyone did, say, want to see it, the video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCOTsE4atQ

8ballrollin 07-20-2007 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Indy Coug (Post 103418)
Bullitt
"Best chase scene ever." My dad used to say. "Those sounds are real...Hear that four speed shifting...Listen to that big block hum."

Pops was in The City during one of the days of the filming, so whenever the movie was on TV he always had to try and show us where he was standing.

We could never pick him out, but that didn’t matter.

mpfunk 07-20-2007 02:39 AM
I agree chase scene in Bullit is amazing.

Plus the movie has Homer Simpsons hero Steve McQueen in it.

BarbaraGordon 07-20-2007 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted by 8ballrollin (Post 103665)
"Best chase scene ever."
Another great SF chase scene:

Sleeping in EQ 07-20-2007 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay (Post 103649)
Madeline Kahn is really what makes that movie brilliant though. One of my favorite parts is where she's talking to Howard. "...over the years romance fades and something else takes it's place. Do you know what that is Howard?" Howard: "senility?" Eunice: "TRUST HOWARD!!! I AM TALKING ABOUT TRUST!"
Since Madeline Kahn is in it, I might have to give it a chance.

Mormon Red Death 07-22-2007 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 8ballrollin (Post 103665)
"Best chase scene ever." My dad used to say. "Those sounds are real...Hear that four speed shifting...Listen to that big block hum."

Pops was in The City during one of the days of the filming, so whenever the movie was on TV he always had to try and show us where he was standing.

We could never pick him out, but that didn’t matter.
the best chase scene ever is in Ronin...


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