What's your favorite 'Regular People, Sticking it to The Man' movie?

[StellaBlue]

Just thinking this because I am half-watching Erin Brokovich, as previously posted. I also like "It's a Wonderful Life", but I am thinking there must be others.

[terrya]

1. "Norma Rae" is a favorite of mine.

Good film about unionizing low paid factory workers. Sally Field was very good as Norma Rae.

[StellaBlue]

6. On my Netflix list, haven't gotten round to it yet!!

(thirty plus years later!!!)

[grannylib]

2. Would "The China Syndrome" count??

[Deja Q]

3. "9 to 5" showed us how our forefathers coped.

It should be taught at schools... unfortunately, schools are more likely to teach classes like they do with math:

"If you have 1 bottle of cold, crisp coca cola and your friend gives you three bottles of cold, crisp coca cola, how many bottles of cold, crisp coca cola will you have?" (The answer really is 1, because people don't give away teeth-rotting soda pop. They drink it for themselves... but the student would have to answer '4'...)

[mikeytherat]

58. Or "Simpsons" math:

Troy McClure: If Johnny has four bottles of Pepsi, and he gives three bottles of Pepsi to Billy, how much more refreshed is Billy?
Student: Uh, Pepsi?
Troy McClure: Partial credit!

mikey_the_rat

[bertha katzenengel]

4. Although it's fanciful and unrealistic, "Working Girl" does it for me.

And even though it's got one of the worst lines ever written for film and ever uttered on film. How in god's name did this NOT wind up on the cutting room floor?

"I am not steak. You can't just order me." :eyes:

Other than that, it was brilliant, hysterical, terrific.

Edit: Oh, and it's "Regular People, Sticking it to The Woman." Sigourney Weaver plays evil very well. ;)

[taterguy]

5. North Dallas Forty

Not exactly "regular people" but definitely a "Sticking it to the Man" movie. John Matuzak delivers the monologue that we've all dreamed of saying to our bosses: 'You're all chicken shit cock suckers.' Nick Nolte is brilliant and makes a valid point. Sometimes being a productive and loyal employee isn't enough. The Man still expects you to kiss his ass. Of course the Man didn't suffer much from Nolte's rebellion. Ah hell, the Man can't be stuck, he's too powerful. Maybe I should edit this and compose a rant about how Risky Business fits your criterion; but I'd rather go upstairs and drink beer I purchased from the Man while watching his TV programming.

[Sannum]

7. I watched 9 to 5 this afternoon.

:D

[flamingyouth]

9. I love that film

My mom took my friends and me to see that for my birthday when I turned 12. :D

[arwalden]

15. Can You Believe That Movie Is Twenty-Six Years Old??

Ack!!

(It's one of my favorites too!)

"So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it!!"

[flamingyouth]

16. I think it's aged very well.

I, on the other hand.... :yoiks:

You've quoted one of the best parts! :D

[L A Woman]

20. the 25th anniversary dvd is fantastic

the commentary features all three women. i love it!

[dback]

51. That was the first thing I thought of too

"I'm no fool, I just killed the boss! You think they're not going to fire me for a thing like that?!?!"

Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton, never better.

[jberryhill]

8. Deliverance

:evilgrin:

[taterguy]

11. My avatar approves

If you were in the woods, and you saw Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds and Ned Beaty . . . which one would you pick to rape?

A tasteless joke I heard Abbie Hoffman tell at a speech.

[jobycom]

22. Holy Crap

:wow:
:spank:
:rofl:

[Burma Jones]

31. approved..........

bery bery funny

[jus_the_facts]

10. The Rainmaker.....

:cry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119978/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainmaker_%281997_film%29

[jus_the_facts]

12. Oliver Stone's JFK too...

"STUDY THE PAST"

"PAST IS PROLOGUE"

"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY"

DEDICATED TO THE YOUNG, IN WHOSE SPIRIT THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
MARCHES ON.


** In November, 1969 JIM GARRISON was re-elected to a third
term as District Attorney of Orleans Parish. In June of
1971, he was arrested by Federal Agents on charges of allowing
payoffs on pinball gambling by organized crime. In September
of 1973, after defending himself in Federal Court, he was
quickly found not guilty of charges that appear to have been
framed against him. Less than six weeks later, he was
narrowly defeated for a fourth term as District Attorney.

** In 1978, Garrison was elected Judge of the Louisiana State
Court of Appeal in New Orleans. He was re - elected in 1988.


To this date, he has brought the only public prosecution in
the Kennedy killing.



** SOUTHEAST ASIA: 58,000 American lives, 2 million Asian
lives, $220 billion spent, 10 million Americans air - lifted
there by commercial aircraft, more than 5,000 helicopters
lost, 6.5 million tons of bombs dropped.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

28. Great choice...would be mine also!

[jus_the_facts]

47. Watched it again just recently....sigh....

....ended up squallin' once again. :cry:

[blondeatlast]

13. M*A*S*H. nt

[maveric]

14. "Amazing Grace and Chuck".

Great flick about a kid silently protesting big-business. Basketball star Alex English was in it too. Along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck as The President.

[MissMillie]

42. I love that movie

though I don't think the kid's protest was against big business. His original beef was about nuclear weapons.

[Flaxbee]

17. Sneakers

with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Kingsley, David Straithern and the late River Phoenix.

Not everyone would agree it's in the 'sticking it to the man' category, but I love it.

[hyphenate]

35. Oh, yeah...

The ending alone, with James Earl Jones getting more flustered every single time one of the guys makes a request.

And then we can't forget the anonymous "donations" as they're announced on TV.......:)

[XemaSab]

36. "Peace on earth, and good will towards man."

[Flaxbee]

45. "We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing!"

"Well, try your best" (or something like that).


lol. Love that movie. Everytime I travel I think of Mary McDonnell (as "Doris") saying her favorite word is "passssssport. Ooh!"

[idgiehkt]

18. 'Bound', except it's more like

'regular dykes, stickin' it to the mafia'.

[begin_within]

19. "Salt of the Earth" (1954)

[Redstone]

21. "Valdez is Coming."

Redstone

[Broken_Hero]

23. I am surprised, Fight Club hasn't been mentioned yet...:) nt

[CanuckAmok]

26. Shhhh.

What's the first rule?

[Broken_Hero]

27. oh dammit! I fogot! nt

[idgiehkt]

24. I have to say, though they don't succeed in the end, EASY RIDER.

That movie is the ultimate. The regular guys are the main characters trying to fight for their self-determination, and 'the man' is the rest of society, which that movie characterized so well.

My favorite quote from that movie (hell, from any movie):

"They'll talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."

[jobycom]

25. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

[blonndee]

29. The Milagro Beanfield War

Although the ending isn't what one would hope, Joe Mondragon is definitely one of my most favorite "regular people."

[Burma Jones]

30. The Hudsucker Proxy

all the Three Stooges Shorts

Pretty Much all Frank Carpa flicks

The Graduate

[CanuckAmok]

32. I loved "Regular People Sticking it to the Man". That was a great movie.

Now all I need is for someone to make it for me.

[Dear Bastards]

66. Dude, "Regular People II" is way better

[Nicole]

33. Silkwood n/t

[hyphenate]

34. An underrated one from the mid-80s

Called Turk 182 with Timothy Hutton, Kim Cattrell, Robert Urich and Robert Culp.

Urich plays a fireman who is off-duty when there is a huge fire. When he is hurt during an off-duty rescue, the mayor (Robert Culp) refuses to give him his pension because he was off-duty. Hutton plays his younger brother who goes up against the mayor and his security department (led by Peter Boyle) to get justice for his brother.

[Nicole]

I forgot all about that one

I loved that movie. :toast:

[XemaSab]

37. Wierd Science

[Blue_Tires]

38. no one mentioned "Cool Hand Luke" yet

so i guess i'll have to

[philosophie_en_rose]

39. Office Space!

:)

[sakabatou]

50. Yep!

[Initech]

52. We need to talk about your TPS reports!

:evilgrin:

[Phillycat]

67. Totally. nt

[underpants]

40. 'Take this job and shove it' starring Johnny Paycheck

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083163/

Paycheck of course in the memorable role of "Man with hamburgers"

[Deep13]

41. Serenity

[DemsRBetterLovers]

56. Oh hell yeah...Red Dawn isnt half bad either.

oh and the Goonies.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. A Freeper would say...

"Arlington Road."

[liberalitch]

44. Ghandi.... Malcolm X..... Cry Freedom....

[Frank Cannon]

46. Escape from New York

In just a few hours, Snake Plissken completely messes over the tinhorn dictator of the New York Penitentiary, the tinhorn dictator of the "city" of New York, the tinhorn leader of the United States, and presumably all of the tinhorn leaders around the world.

[Quantess]

48. Charlie Varrick

Anyone remember that early 70s Walter Matthau bank robbery film?

[NMMNG]

49. "Muriel's Wedding"

Although it's more like a "Regular gal sticking it to the popular chicks" movie.

[ceile]

53. Erin Brockovitch n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

54. Scent of a Woman.

Particularly the climax.

[Initech]

55. Kill Bill

[liontamer]

59. i don't think there are any regular people in that movie eom

[Rude Horner]

57. Animal House

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!

Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!

[ForrestGump]

60. "They Live" would be a strong contender

A sticking-it-to-The-Man-and-to-The-Alien subgenre.

[Rude Horner]

61. I watched that movie at a party once

The basic premise of the movie rocks. Fantastic idea, and great science fiction. But we were all rolling around on the floor when the Rowdy Roddy Piper character was fighting with that other guy in the alley about putting those special glasses on. I swear, that fight scene lasted 15 minutes, and it was just sooooo stupid. I mean, these two big guys beating the crap out of each other over something as simple as putting on a pair of sunglasses. :rofl:

[DanCa]

62. Self Delete (nt)

[distantearlywarning]

63. A really old cheesy one from the 80's

But I love it all the same: "The Legend of Billie Jean"

This young white trash girl who happens to be really hot has a run in with rich assholes who own the auto dealership over her brother's (a very young Christian Slater) Faggio. She knees rich father asshole in the crotch, steals his money, and they all go on the run from the law, becoming folk heros in the process. Rich assholes try to get richer off the scandal by printing posters and other cheap plastic Wal-Mart type crap with hot girl's picture on it. She sees an old B&W Joan of Arc movie on the TV and cuts all her hair off halfway through the movie, becoming even hotter. At the end of the movie there's a showdown between rich assholes and hot girl. She knees both of them in the crotch again and sets fire to all the cheap plastic crap while Pat Benetar sings.

It's an awesome movie!

[Rabrrrrrr]

64. Bonnie and Clyde; Triumph of the Will; The Thing; The Wild Bunch

Touch of Evil; Citizen Kane; MacBeth; Othello; Hamlet

[Kashka-Kat]

65. Powwow Highway - native americans getting some of theirs back...

[ohiosmith]

68. Alien. Against all odds, a single working mother subverts a plot

by a powerful military-industrial complex. And saves humanity to boot.

[KurtNYC]

69. "They Live"

Obey - Sleep - Marry and Reproduce

[DanCa]

71. Yes score one for Roddy Piper.

Hell I loved that bit about global warming and how the aliens were changing
the land scape to match their own home world.

[DanCa]

70. Not a movie but can Married with children recieve an honorable mention?

Al Bundy ruled.

[DanCa]

72. It begins and ends with Billy Jack. He still fighting the system.

www.billyjack.com