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Beyond the (alleged) goal of padding the length of the film, I think the extended wedding scenes came from writers struggling to give the audience any reason to sympathize with a group of unlikable characters. When your protagonists are drunk assholes who drive recklessly and aren't perturbed by women getting slapped around or having guns waved in their faces, and who possibly enlisted as an excuse to shoot Vietnamese people ("Kill a couple for me!"), it's hard to care when they're subjected to the horrors of war. Paul's opinions this week strongly echo my own. I appreciate Platoon for its hyperrealistic portrayal of the war from someone who experienced it firsthand, and Apocalypse Now as an impressionistic fantasy based on "the war" as it diffused through American consciousness. I don't feel The Deer Hunter adds anything new to this duality, and I don't think it belongs on the AFI 100 for that reason. Also, I see Paul and Amy getting some pushback on Twitter for discounting a queer interpretation of The Deer Hunter. When Cimino has demonstrated so little interest in subtlety for the majority of the film, I can't imagine him playing coy about Michael and Nick's sexuality, especially when the simplest explanation (Michael pining over Linda while feeling honor-bound to not pursue her) slaps you in the face every five minutes.

Have a great time and be safe wherever your travels take you! I hope everyone can enjoy my family tradition of getting/ eating the ice cream of your choice on the 4th. My grandparents lived out in the country and the tiny one light town ( I mean this literally. They have exactly 1 fourway light) closest to them always has a little parade and the biggest business in town is the Ice Cream/ Pizza Parlor ( which isn't hard to do when there's only a convenience store, dollar store, one room library, a church, a weird but awesome artsy boutique out of someone's converted barn and you) . Everyone who goes to the parade goes to the Parlor. It's Tradition. Also it's a parade of fucking tractors we need something to look forward to besides children hurtling into traffic for cheap candy.

Was in LA for a work conference this weekend. Got a Jason Statham tour of LA. Saw Rock and Brews in LAX, all the important sights.

Devon Sawa? Eye-chi-wawa! Devon Aoki? Okie-dokie!

Both leads won Oscars: Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.

That's true, the PTSD thing is unique. Though if I were to pick a movie about that subject, I'd rather pick another movie from the same year: Coming Home. I think I'd also rather have Hal Ashby on the list than Michael Cimino anyway.

I didn't know if it was this, or the helicopters were retreating from an ambush and the dangling men were enemy soldiers, or just bad filmmaking.

I can do the 12th.

I agree with both @DanEngler and @sycasey 2.0, however, what I think sets The Deer Hunter apart from Platoon and Apocalypse Now is that The Deer Hunter isn’t so much about the Vietnam War as it is about PTSD. For me, that gives it a perspective that argues for its inclusion. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any other movies on the list tackle that issue (maybe Best Years of Our Lives, but I haven’t seen that yet)

A musically charged movie starring Meatloaf, in which he doesnt sing. He had vocal issues at the time.

I really enjoyed the lack of sexism and yellow face! * Glares at Breakfast At Tiffany's*. In fact I was so happy that the Asian actors were allowed to portray pretty much normal people who just were living their life. I was on the fence about the song with the little girls but I think in the context of the story of two little girls excited to teach Elvis and it's ok in context? Ish.

Apparently Hayes was going to post this weeks thread also asking for popcorn gallery questions for episode 300. He saw I had already posted it and decided to “knock that idea on the head.” This isn’t confirmed, but there likely won’t even be an episode 300. Sorry everyone

On my Elvis movies list, Love a Little is my number two movie! (Mostly because it was cuckoo bananas)

Re: Pro Version. Sean was mentioning old bits and I wanted him to say "the popcorn gallery" just to get that dopamine rush when the song lazily backstrokes through old worn-in neural pathways and he didn't say it on purpose!

OK, let's play Six Degrees of Separation. This technically isn't that but still... I have Elvis' movie Love a Little, Live a Little (1968) in my list of possibilities because of Michele Carey. She has a big role in El Dorado, one of my favorite Westerns. Looking at her IMDB page it turns out she just passed away in November, on the exact release date of Girls! Girls! Girls!. I'm very sad I didn't hear about her passing at the time.

Thanks Sharpie! Good cast, bro.

July 12 and 13 - Drop Dead Fred and Deadfall July 18, 19, 20 and 21 - The Hottie and the Nottie, Unforgettable (2017), Starcrash and Body of Evidence July 23 - Double Dragon July 24 - High Strung and The Master of Disguise July 25 - Underworld: Blood Wars and The Great Wall July 27 - Megaforce

That's ostensibly what his first movie is about (although everything I know about it I learned by listening to Blank Check.)

In other news, China just asked the world, "You know what Princess Mononoke was missing? The Country Bears!"

I just wanna say that now after things I've heard about Miller I hope they do actually do this and tear it the fuck apart.