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They Saved Hitler's Brain: just one of the many important topics discussed on Very Hot Jews
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Gimme the big violence, unless it's done to Jesus. In fact, pretty much anything involving Jesus is a dealbreaker. Loved Kill Bill 1 & 2 and pretty much all of Quentin's feature work. But he is a mere piker to Orson Welles, whose Touch of Evil is as stunning a genre piece as anyone ever created. Kubrick's high points (Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Paths of Glory), though he could certainly suck ass at times (I can't stay awake through 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut was just miserable). Frankenheimer's paranoid peaks, The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds. Tenenbaums, Boogie Nights, Rushmore. Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 and kindred funny gorefests, like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. Altman's Raymond Chandler adaptation, The Long Goodbye, is a neglected work of towering greatness. Singin' in the Rain, motherfucker, because you need to be taught what joy is. The Marx Bros. (start with "Duck Soup"). Preston Sturges. The Thin Man series. William Castle spookshows. Spaghetti Westerns? Yes, please; start with Leone's masterful epic Once Upon a Time in the West, in which Henry Fonda is scarier than Charles Manson. Sam Fuller's mind-blowing exploitation outings, like Naked Kiss. Caper flicks from the '70s, like Charley Varrick. Transcendent kitsch like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. And monsters, monsters, monsters (mainly the Universal classics of the 30s and 40s).