The Midnight Max Review: My Favorite Films From The Year 1975

 In Alphanumeric Order...

1.  3 Days Of The Condor - Advice from an Assassin - Tagline: His code name is Condor. In the next twenty-four hours everyone he trusts will try to kill him. - Memorable quote: "Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?" - "I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained."
2. The Apple Dumpling Gang - Tagline:Wanted: For chicanery, skulduggery, tomfoolery and habitual bungling! - Memorable quote: "You know something, Amos? The Lord poured your brains in with a teaspoon, and somebody joggled His arm. I keep trying to tell you we ain't got no lead to throw, and no powder to throw it with."- Memorable Soundtrack/score selection: The Apple Dumpling Gang by Shane Tatum
3. Bite The Bullet - Memorable quote: "We came out of the jungle and there it was - San Juan Hill. The Spanish guns lookin' right down our throat, the sharpshooters pickin' us off and we just charged right up that hill! ... That's not the way it happened at all. It wasn't anything like it was in San Antoine where we did our trainin'. That's where I ran into Luke and a lot of other men from every other country who wanted to be Roughriders. Bakers and barbers and Congressman, cattlemen, ballplayers, farmers and porters... cowboys. No, we didn't rough ride up that hill, 'cause we didn't have any horses. We didn't charge up there, either. We crawled up there on our scared bellies. There was only one horse and one rider - that was Colonel Teddy. He went chargin' up that damn hill and they shot his glasses off. He put on another pair and they nipped him in the elbow, and he said, "Follow me!" And we did, 'cause we was too damned ashamed not to."
4. Breakheart Pass - Tagline: Death rode the rails to Breakheart Pass - Memorable quote: "When a man is a killer, arsonist, a cheat and a coward, it's hardly surprising if he turns out to be a liar as well."
5. The Drowning Pool - Tagline: Harper days are here again...  - Memorable quote: (Last Lines) "Harper, you're not such a tough guy."
6. The Eiger Sanction - Memorable quote: "Don't for get your trench coat. How's anybody gonna recognize you without your disguise?"
7. Farewell, My Lovely - Memorable quotes: "Now wait a minute. I've been slapped, scratched, punched, knocked unconscious, drugged, and shot at, looking for your Velma, so quit trying to make a milkshake out of my insides, will you?" - "This past spring was the first that I felt tired and realized I was growing old. Maybe it was the rotten weather we'd had in L.A. Maybe the rotten cases I'd had. Mostly chasing a few missing husbands and then chasing their wives once I found them, in order to get paid. Or maybe it was just the plain fact that I am tired and growing old."
8. Hard Times - Memorable quote: "Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."
9. JAWS - Quint's Last Stand - Memorable quotes: "You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Quint's account of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis - "Smile, you Son Of A Bitch!" - "This was no boat accident!" - "That's some bad hat, Harry!" - Memorable Soundtrack/Score selection: Main Title (Theme From JAWS) as composed by John Williams - Show Me The Way To Go Home as performed by Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider - Spanish Ladies as performed by Robert Shaw
10. The Man Who Would Be King - Memorable quotes: "Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men." - "God's Holy Trousers!"
11. Night Moves - Tagline: Maybe he would find the girl... maybe he would find himself. Memorable quote: "Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't any better."- "When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business."
12. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Tagline: If he's crazy, what does that make you? Memorable quotes: "Mmmmmm, Juicy Fruit." - "But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that." - "They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!" -  "Goddammit chief, you fooled 'em all!" -  Memorable Soundtrack/score selection: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Closing Theme) by Jack Nitzsche
13. The Return Of The Pink Panther - Memorable quotes: "You fool! You raving Oriental idiot! There is a time and a place for everything, Cato! And this is it!" - "Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer!" - Memorable Soundtrack/Score selection: The Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini
14. Rooster Cogburn - Memorable quotes: (Last Lines) - Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn) : "Reuben, I have to say it. Livin' with you has been an adventure any woman would relish for the rest o' time. I look at cha, with your burned out face and your big belly and your bear-like paws and your shining eye, and I have to say you're a credit to the whole male sex, and I'm proud to have ya for my friend." Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne): "I'll be damned if she didn't get the last word in again. Well..."
15. Terror Of Mecha-Godzilla - Tagline: Metal Meets Monster - Memorable quote: "All right, we'll let them fight. Titanosaurus will be killed and Godzilla badly hurt; then, Mechagodzilla will be alone and we will march on Tokyo unopposed, and then we'll destroy it utterly!"- Memorable Soundtrack/score selection: Main Title (From Terror Of Mechagodzilla) Music composed and conducted by Akira Ifukube.
16. The Wind And The Lion - Memorable quote: "Mrs. Pendecaris, you're a great deal of trouble." - "To Theodore Roosevelt - you are like the Wind and I like the Lion. You form the Tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the Ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours. - Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates."- Memorable Soundtrack/Score selection: The Wind And The Lion Suite by Jerry Goldsmith

The Midnight Max Review: My Favorite Films From The Year 1986

1.  8 Million Ways To Die - Tagline: There Are Eight Million Stories In The Naked City...
2. 52 Pick-Up - Memorable quote: "So long, Sport!"
3. Aliens - Memorable quote: "Get away from her, you BITCH!" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Bishop's Countdown by James Horner
4.  An American Tail - Memorable quote: "Qu'est-ce que c'est? A little immigrant. Now they are coming by bottle."- Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Somewhere Out There as performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
5. The Big Easy - "Just relax, darlin'. This is the Big Easy. Folks have a certain way o' doin' things down here."
6. Big Trouble In Little China - Memorable quotes: "When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."-" & "It's all in the reflexes." - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Pork Chop Express by John Carpenter
7. Critters -Tagline: They bite!
8. Crocodile Dundee - Memorable quote: "That's not a knife... THAT's a knife!" Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Theme from Crocodile Dundee by Peter Best
9. The Delta Force - Chuck Norris kicking ass!
10. Down And Out In Beverly Hills - Memorable quote: "Call 9-1-1, call 9-1-1, call 9-1-1!" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Once In A Lifetime by The Talking Heads
11. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Memorable quote: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Twist & Shout by The Beatles
12. Flight Of The Navigator - Memorable quote: "See ya later, Navigator!"
13. The Fly - Memorable quote: "I'm saying... I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake."
14. F/X - Tagline: Murder by Illusion
15. The Great Mouse Detective - Memorable quote: "From that time on, Basil and I were a close team. We had many cases together, but I'll always look back on that first with the most fondness; my introduction to Basil of Baker Street, the great mouse detective."
16. Heartbreak Ridge - Memorable quote: "This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it."
17. Highlander - Memorable quote: "There can be only One." - Memorable soundtrack/score selection(s): Queen's Princes Of The Universe & Who Wants To Live Forever?
18. Iron Eagle - Memorable quote: "This one's for you, Chappy." - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Gimme Some Lovin' by The Spencer Davis Group
19. Let's Get Harry - Tagline: An Adventure about the Hero in all of us
20. Little Shop Of Horrors - Memorable quote: "Feed me, Seymour!" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Mean Green Mother From Outer Space as performed by Levi Stubbs and The Four Tops 
21. Manhunter - Memorable quote: "It's just you and me now, sport. And I'm going to find you, God damn it."- Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Inna Godda Davida by Iron Butterfly
22. Mona Lisa - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: In Too Deep by Genesis
23. The Morning After - Tagline: Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust?
24. The Name Of The Rose - Memorable quote: "...And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name."
25. Night Of The Creeps - Memorable quote: "Thrill me!" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: The Stroll by The Diamonds
26. No Mercy - Memorable quote: "I know the secret to happiness...a girl with freckles on her tits."
27. One Crazy Summer - Memorable quote: "Why am I talking to you? You're not a man, you're a cat! Go back to your feline world!"
28. Platoon - Memorable quote: "Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell."- Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Adagio For Strings as composed by Samuel Barber
29. Short Circuit - Memorable quote: "Number 5 is alive."
30. Something Wild - "I'd rather be a live dog than a dead lion." - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Wild Thing by The Troggs
31. Stand By Me - Memorable quote: "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Stand By Me by Ben E King
32. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Memorable quote: "Admiral, there be whales here!"
33. Three Amigos - Memorable quote: "Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Blue Shadows as performed by Martin Short, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase
34. Top Gun - Memorable quote: "I feel the need...the need for speed!" - Memorable soundtrack/score selection: Take My Breath Away by Berlin
35. Vamp - Memorable quote: "Formica, go figure."
36. Wanted: Dead Or Alive - Memorable quote: "Fuck the bonus!"