Random roles…..but Aleatory rocks!

Totally agree. Superb thriller. The way the murders were never shown and the helicopter baddies were so anonymous. I remember being a kid, yelling and jumping up and down with nerves and excitement when Brolin hesitates and then starts running like a bastard for the biplane…….

I find there to be a lot of over-acting in his movies and the Academy does like its preformances writ big.

The plane crash in Fearless wasn't half bad either.

I've talked to two people who read the book and that scene of facing more mountains was the one that most affected them by far.

I can never tell whether Verhoeven is trying to be a serious film maker or if he’s just having a laugh at the audience’s expense. The SS uniforms in Starship Troopers kinda make me suspect the latter.

..and then there were the Chenowiths.
I'm surprised they haven't popped up in the discussion yet.

Yep. It was Rollo en the book and I think both he and Harry Lime were Brits. The name Rollo wouldn't really work for a yank.

There's surprisingly little love for 'Midnight' in the comments. I thought this was the track that truly showed what Moyet could do with her voice. By heck, she really does belt those lyrics out.

I believe Chiwetel already got around to that in 12 Years a Slave.

Yeah, but it would be so easy to screw it up and have it end up on this list - which would break my Irish heart.

I've always thought that the past participle of the verb 'smite' should be 'smut'. Your comment, Kettle, seems to back up this point of view.

I say we
get Andersson, put him in a pit with Peter Greenaway and Terry Gilliam.
Andersson gets a buzz baton, Greenaway a cutlass and Gilliam a loofah. Film the
whole thing with a static shot at twenty paces. See who makes it out alive.

That's what gettin' blacklisted will do for ya'.

Yeah, why'd she have to go and get so darned skinny.

Sounds like something Beckett would write of he was a lager lout:
Waiting for Drongo

Eric Rohmer = Tell, don't show.

Melville and Bresson were both masters of using long, long silences as a way of building tension.

Joe Don Baker might also win a 'Sean Bean' award for getting killed in movies. The guy's been murdered more times than Rasputin.

To Hell with it. Throw 'em all together in an action movie and call it:
'The Thinking Man's Expendables'.