Unlikely Glossary Project
Damage Potential Maximum
Damage Potential: Maximum. Weather Silo Armed
(Note: “Damage Potential: Maximum” refers to Wing Commander?, in which the computer screen (by Nokia) informs us that if the “skipper missile” (that’s miss-isle) hits the ship, the potential for damage will be at its utmost.) (Note: Weather Silo Armed refers to The Avengers.)
UGP-land’s Most Wanted
For the RRR?’s to own:
Radioland Murders?
The Professional?
Phantoms
- Simon Sez
So I Married an Axe Murder
Home for the Holidays
- Better Off Dead
Jump Tomorrow?
- Lost in Space?
Adventures in Babysitting?
- Pennies from Heaven?
- Six-String Samurai?
Suicide Kings
Nick desperately needs to see
Garden State
- Romeo is Bleeding?
- Pennies from Heaven?
- Sleuth?
- The Conversation?
[Official UGP-Endorsed Movies] (We can watch (and have watched) these over and over again…and/or embraced them as indispensable parts of our un/common culture)
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- Simon Sez
- Lost in Space?
- The Professional?
- Phantoms
- The Fifth Element?
- The Avengers
- Dark City
Nick and the R’s
- Head Over Heels?
- Home for the Holidays?
- Radioland Murders?
- Roxanne?
- The Paper?
- Sneakers
- Garden State
Everybody/General purpose goodness
- Better Off Dead
- Fish Called Wanda
- Say Anything
- The Usual Suspects?
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- Six-String Samurai?
- Radioland Murders?
- Five Corners?
- Crossworlds?
- Death and the Maiden?
- Jump Tomorrow?
All non-family needs to see:
- Roxanne?
- Dressed to Kill?
- Stepford Wives? (Original)
- The Thin Man?
Many need to see:
- Cabin Boy?
- The Mission
- Chinatown?
Most but not all have seen:
- Being John Malcovich
- Casablanca
- Maltese Falcon
Nick hasn’t even seen (Compiled on basis of mingled yearning and reccomendations):
- Pennies From Heaven?
- American Graffiti?
- Romeo is Bleeding?
- Get Carter? (Saw much of it, but not all)
- The Two Jakes
- Lawrence of Arabia
- M for Murder
- Vertigo
- Sabateur
- All About Eve
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- The Great Race
- Citizen Kane
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Ghandi
- Network
- Sleuth
- The Conversation
- Beyond the Stars
- The Addiction
- Valley of the Dolls?
- I Come In Peace?
- Resevoir Dogs?
- Jaws
o Jaws
o Jaws 2
o Jaws 3-D
o Jaws 4
- Glengary Glenross?
- Predator 2?
- The Big Chill?
- Morvern Callar ?
- Apocalypse Now
- The Graduate
- The Cell
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Moonlight Mile
- Oxygen
- The Hours,
- The 25th Hour,
- One-Hour Photo
- Mullholland Drive,
- Tape,
- Pollock
- Amelie,
- The Anniversery Party,
- Thirteen,
- House of Sand and Fog,
- Requiem for a Dream
- Dr. Strangelove…
- Brazil
- Fight Club
- Happy Accidents
- Garden State
Third-party rec’s:
- Kevin: Escaflowne (series)
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- Omega Doom
- Top Gun?
- The Exorcist?
- Pulp Fiction?
- Platoon? (To assuage John C. McGinley? lust)
- Suicide Kings? (Walken-riffic)
- Dead Poets Society?
- Point Break?
- Firestarter?
- The Dead Zone?
- Omega Man?
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- The Birds
- Grosse Point Blank
- The House of Yes
- The Usual Suspects
Trimmings:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0208196/
TODO: Update. Massive fucking udpate.