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Let’s Make a July 4th Movie List
Raijin Quickfoot
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Let’s do it! Make a list of movies to watch over Independence Day weekend that are either terrible patriotic, anti-patriotic, or just stupid fun.
1 movie per person. Quote the previous movie when you add yours and let’s make a list.
EVERYONE loves lists
I will start with the obvious choice
Jaws
1 movie per person. Quote the previous movie when you add yours and let’s make a list.
EVERYONE loves lists
I will start with the obvious choice
Jaws
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Independence Day 2
Don’t be a Prometheus!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Uncle Sam
Born on the Fouth of July
I can think of nothing more MURICA than those movies right now.
Jackass the Movie
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die hard
Why We Fight
The Sandlot
Same movie I put on every forum list.
Jurassic Park
I'd rather hear the JP theme during fireworks than any tired John Philip Sousa march.
Just take it up an octave and try to make some people bleed from their ears
Team America, world police.
Do the Right Thing
Project A-ko
Magic Mike XXL
Independence Day 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July
Jackass the Movie
die hard
National Treasure
Why We Fight
Steel Magnolias
Top Gun
The Sandlot
Jurassic Park
Team America, world police.
Do the Right Thing
Project A-ko
Magic Mike XXL
An American Tail
As a patriot, and an American, the spirit of Independence Day for me is about gathering with community, celebrating our diversity, and saying, "Fuck the (British) government!"
(That, and good seasonal food, but that's every holiday.)
Attack the Block
I've never met anyone who's ever heard of this, but if you like summertime slice of life stuff, I highly recommend Kikujiro.
It stars Takeshi Kitano as a no-account gambler and small-time scammer who's tasked with taking a local sadsack kid to go see his mom down the coast. It's mostly just a series of light comedy vignettes but it's got very strong summer vibes (going to a local fair, eating watermelon and swimming at a random lake, hanging out in a field), and by the end it actually ends up being pretty sweet and touching. Plus a really good theme by Joe Hisaishi!
If you know and like Kitano, it's well worth the $4 Amazon rental or whatever.
Well…Mel Gibson…
I was actually going to add it, because it is a genuinely great movie, and Gibson's character is pointedly not a good person.
Independence Day 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July
Jackass the Movie
die hard
National Treasure
Why We Fight
Steel Magnolias
Top Gun
The Sandlot
Jurassic Park
Team America, world police.
Do the Right Thing
Project A-ko
Magic Mike XXL
An American Tail
Attack the Block
Kikujiro
Maverick
Lord of War
And I'm adding the movie 1776 because who doesn't want to see Mr. Feeney in a powdered wig?
>_>
psst
This is also how I occasionally have "PANDA GO PANDA GO PANDA" just pop into my head.
Alternate venue would have been my film club (or that group, more casually), which screened --via import or old family videos-- locally-underappreciated works. Classics and experimental, so long as it's got that je ne sais quoi. Samples from Asia: "Electric Dragon 80000v" (courtesy my then-friend-now-beau, so there's a copy currently (heh) within five feet), "House" ("hooooooowsuh"), "Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind", and "Happiness of the Katakuris." (The latter of which I think I was sick and missed, and I keep meaning to amend that, thanks ADHD.) Plus, my favorite professor was very cool. I was a lackadaisical film major but hung around those other weirdos, so I have a decent chance of recognizing various obscure shit TLB and the rest of y'all toss out.
Regardless, I agree! Pretty sure that was my first Beat Takeshi film, too, so "Battle Royale" was like, "Heeeeey (that guy)! --Oh nooo!" (I knew his rep, but still.)
Good pull for this list!
That's definitely a good version. My favorite is the the piano version (Summer)
Always puts me in that good sort of melancholy mood
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Jaws
Independence Day 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July
Jackass the Movie
die hard
National Treasure
Why We Fight
Steel Magnolias
Top Gun
The Sandlot
Jurassic Park
Team America, world police.
Do the Right Thing
Project A-ko
Magic Mike XXL
An American Tail
Attack the Block
Kikujiro
Maverick
Lord of War
1776
Apollo 13.
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JFK
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