The following is a partial list of films, part of the Liberated Collection, located at the Lib Porn National Archives in Philadelphia. Watch them. They’re good for you.
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Synopsis: Tom Hanks finds out he only has a few months to live. Understandably, Tom quits his shitty job and is liberated from the tedium of employment. Lloyd Bridges offers Tom a chance to die as a hero, via volcano, in order for Lloyd to gain access to mineral rights from an isolated and superstitious island tribe. In exchange for his services, Joe would be granted unlimited funds and is expected to endure a month at sea until he reaches the South Pacific. Joe says sure. Joe meets Meg Ryan. Meg and Joe sail to the South Pacific. They talk and get to know each other. A storm! Peril! Existential Experience/Fulfillment/Epiphany! They reach the island. Joe and Meg state their love for each other before Joe jumps in…then there’s about 15 minutes left.
Why It’s Awesome: Includes a spectacular “quit your job” scene in the first 15 minutes. Tom plays a ukulele.
Quotes: Joe Banks: And why, I ask myself, why have I put up with you? I can’t imagine, but now I know. Fear. Yellow freakin’ fear. I’ve been too chicken shit afraid to live my life so I sold it to you for three hundred freakin’ dollars a week!
Waponis Chief: We are the children of children and we live as we are shown.
Dr. Ellison: You have some time left, Mr. Banks. You have some life left. My advice to you is: live it well.
Tidbit(s): Meg Ryan plays three parts and is kinda cute. Kinda. The film flopped at the box office despite it’s astute exploration of human sentiment and meaning.
More Info: IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano Tom quits his job (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGLKnAvzlg4 .. .
Wall Street (1987)
Synopsis: Charlie Sheen is a young, ambitious, business-school-wall-street type who’s hungry to have it all. Mike Douglas has it all and is greatly idealized by Charlie. Basically, Charlie wants to be like Mike. Charlie makes his way into Mike’s inner circle. Mike shows Charlie how to make it. Making it involves acting shady. Charlie is having doubts that he wants to be like Mike. Charlie gets arrested. Charlie does the right thing. Charlie Sheen will always be Charlie Sheen, as much as he wanted to be Mike Douglas, he’ll always be Charlie Sheen.
Why It’s Awesome: The point of the film is to show that GREED IS NOT GOOD. Well, not as good as business school douches and Ayn Rand readers would like you to think. Yet, more people than I’m comfortable with fail to realize that. Everyone loves to quote Mike Douglas when they should be quoting Hal Holbrook.
Quotes: Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Carl Fox: I don’t go to bed with no whore, and I don’t wake up with no whore. That’s how I live with myself. I don’t know how you do it.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don’t want to do.
Tidbit(s): Daryl Hannah is in this movie and is kinda cute. Kinda.
Fight Club (1999)
Synopsis: This dude (Norton) meets another dude (Pitt) who helps him (Norton) get out of his shell through fighting. They fight outside sometimes where people see them. A following of interested individuals develops. Enough so where they have club rules and outings. Strong undertones of anti-consumerism abound. Things go swimmingly until the dude has some issues with the other dude. They fight. Turns out: the dude was himself all along. Only one dude. No other dude. Pitt and Norton are one and the same. Like peas and carrots but initially confused about it all. A plethora of credit card company buildings are imploded.
Why It’s Awesome: Similar to Wall Street in the sense that the vast majority of people fail to appreciate this film properly. The fighting is secondary to the message of anti-consumerism and acknowledgment of valid dissatisfaction with modern society. Further, a plethora of credit card company buildings are imploded.
Memeroble Quotes: Tyler Durden: Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Tyler: You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
[the Narrator's apartment has just been blown to pieces]
Narrator: I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was close to being complete.
Tyler: Shit man, now it’s all gone.
Tidbit(s): Helena Bonham Carter is in this movie and is kinda cute. Kinda.
More Info: IMBD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29 Fight Club Trailer (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgFWXLN-ug - - -
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