View Poll Results: Your favorite John Boorman film?

Point Blank

15.63%

Hell in the Pacific

3.13%

Leo The Last

Deliverance

35.94%

Zardoz

Exorcist II: The Heretic

6.25%

Excalibur

29.69%

The Emerald Forest

1.56%

Hope and Glory

4.69%

Beyond Rangoon

1.56%

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The Tailor of Panama

1.56%

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10-01-12, 09:55 AM

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Hell in the Pacific. I know some people hate the ending but Mifune and Marvin give great performances. IMO it is Mifune's best non-japanese film.

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10-01-12, 10:07 AM

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Deliverance, that was easy

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10-01-12, 10:10 AM

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Hell in the Pacific. I know some people hate the ending but Mifune and Marvin give great performances. IMO it is Mifune's best non-japanese film.

Lee Marvin served with the Marines in the Pacific during the war and got wounded. Mifune served in the Japanese Air Force in an aerial photography unit.

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10-01-12, 10:15 AM

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Point Blank. He got Keanu to do his best work. I mean that line, "I am an FBI agent," oooh chills.

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10-01-12, 10:16 AM

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Point Blank. He got Keanu to do his best work. I mean that line, "I am an FBI agent," oooh chills.

You are thinking of Point Break...

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10-01-12, 10:22 AM

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You are thinking of Point Break...

Maybe I should have put one of these after the post.

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10-01-12, 10:28 AM

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Maybe I should have put one of these after the post.

That would've helped lol

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10-01-12, 01:05 PM

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Point Blank

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10-01-12, 07:52 PM

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Excalibur, with The Emerald Forest just behind it.

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10-02-12, 01:31 AM

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The Exorcist II is genuinely one of the worst movies ever made. And I love every minute of it.

Yes...this is what I meant when I wrote that even his failures are endlessly fascinating.

Richard Macdonald's production design, William Fraker's cinematography, the Walter Goss sound design and the Ennio Morricone score are all brilliant. This film is an utter disaster, but the production values are through the roof fantastic.

For anyone interested this is a great read about the troubled production...

http://www.amazon.com/The-making-Exo.../dp/B0006WNE78