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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:08 pm    Post subject: Best Los Angeles movies

Some thoughts:

Boyz n the Hood
Falling Down
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lobowski
Collateral
Swingers
Friday
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Best Los Angeles movies

mike_dee23 wrote:
Some thoughts:

Boyz n the Hood
Falling Down
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lobowski
Collateral
Swingers
Friday


Nice.

Add LA Confidential to the list.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:04 pm    Post subject:

LA Story also worth mention
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:20 am    Post subject:

To Live and Die in LA worth a mention. Willem Dafoe as a counterfeiter.
Not that it's a great movie, but Tequila Sunrise. Pat Riley was the influence for Kurt Russell's character.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:59 am    Post subject:

Reservoir Dogs
Training Day
Sunset Blvd
Blade Runner
ChinaTown
American Gigolo
The Limey
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:26 am    Post subject:

All are good!

Other good ones:

Boogie Nights
Beverly Hills Cop
Rebel without a Cause
American History X
Up In Smoke
Fast Time at Ridgemont High
La Bamba
Die Hard
Lethal Weapons
American Me
Fight Club
Terminator 2

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:35 am    Post subject:

No Karate Kid set in the heart of Reseda!? You ALL lose!

Also who can forget the shootout from Heat in downtown!?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:06 pm    Post subject:

Swingers is one of my all time favorites. Ish never gets old for me.

America Me/Mi Vida Loca/Training Day: Representing Echo Park.

No mention of Heat? Michael Mann generally does a great job of capturing the essence of LA. You know, with the smog and all the shootings.

Forgot Colors.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:56 am    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:15 pm    Post subject:

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Ed Wood
Clueless
Jackie Brown
Traffic
Rocketeer
Iron Man
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:03 pm    Post subject:

Blood In, Blood Out
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:40 pm    Post subject:

Escape from LA
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:10 pm    Post subject:

I like the noire genre when it comes to LA movies...

Devil in a blue dress
LA Confidential
Chinatown
American Me

Any more?

Black Dahlia sucked big ones.

And not noire...but Dragnet is a classic.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:26 am    Post subject:

Falling Down.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:07 pm    Post subject:

Pulp Fiction.. best movie anywhere
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:54 pm    Post subject:

ChinaTown.
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:49 pm    Post subject:

I'm so glad no one said CRASH.

Terrible movie and probably the worst movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture, by far.

Some white guy who has never been east of La Cienega wrote that movie and invented an LA race story that is so far from reality for LA and for race relations that it's comical.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:56 pm    Post subject:

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I'm so glad no one said CRASH.

Terrible movie and probably the worst movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture, by far.

Some white guy who has never been east of La Cienega wrote that movie and invented an LA race story that is so far from reality for LA and for race relations that it's comical.

That other LA movie, Crash should be on this list though.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:32 pm    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
To Live and Die in LA worth a mention. Willem Dafoe as a counterfeiter.


They set out to use the dirty/seedy backdrop of the ugly parts of LA as a character in itself and they succeeded. It has much more of an LA feel than most of the others named thus far, save for Boyz.

Hard to put Reservoir Dogs in there being that most of it was filmed in the building, but there's a ton of LA commentary that few outside of the area would understand.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:16 pm    Post subject:

Heat and Collateral

Drive was a silly kinda try-hard movie but it had some cool cinematography of la

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmx1fw_drive-intro
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:11 pm    Post subject:

'Beginners" which came out last year and provided Christopher Plummer an Oscar, was practically filmed in my backyard. Just about every location in that film is a stone's throw from my place, and when Melanie Laurent's character takes Ewan McGregor to "her favorite taco truck", it also happens to be my favorite taco truck.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:10 pm    Post subject:

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White Men Can't Jump
Training Day
Colors
Fast Times
Less Than Zero
They Live
Beverly Hills Cop
Terminator
Born in East L.A.
Dragnet
Lethal Weapon
Swingers


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:10 am    Post subject:

+1 on Less Than Zero. I was in love with Jamie Gertz when that came out. The book is amazing as well.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:32 am    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:07 pm    Post subject:

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