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post #1 of 49
4/18/11 at 6:29pm
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So I started watching Cheers* on Netflix last night and in the pilot, a debate starts up on the sweatiest movie ever made. ("Alien. BUCKETS of it!" Another great suggestion is Cool Hand Luke) and so I thought I'd bring that here.

 

Hustle and Flow: It's set in Memphis and everyone is absolutely drenched in the Southern climate's humidity. Everyone's skin is shiny with sweat and their hair is wet from it. Fans are on constantly, even at night. Makes you want a cold beer or soda so badly.  It's actually almost painful when they have to turn the fans off while recording. 

 

 

*This was a show I always thought was funny, but, you know, a laugh track sitcom with my mother's crush Ted Danson on it. I went on a binge of it last night, and Holy Shit, it's a great character driven comedy and with the live studio audience feels mostly like a play. The writing and dialogue and people feel so real.

 

 

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post #2 of 49
4/18/11 at 6:34pm

 

also:

 

Perfect

 

Do The Right Thing

 

All That Jazz

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post #3 of 49
4/18/11 at 6:40pm
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also:

 

Perfect

 

Do The Right Thing

 

All That Jazz


Ohhh, Do The Right Thing is a perfect choice.

 

Let's try and not just make this a list thread, okay?
 

 

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post #4 of 49
4/18/11 at 6:54pm
I recently went through a Frasier binge and got a similar 'stage play' vibe from it that nullified my hatred of the multi-camera sitcom format. Having Kelsey Grammar bellow his way through all the farce added to that sensation.

Also... Rocky movies! I guess most boxing movies would apply.
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post #5 of 49
4/18/11 at 7:16pm
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I recently went through a Frasier binge and got a similar 'stage play' vibe from it that nullified my hatred of the multi-camera sitcom format. Having Kelsey Grammar bellow his way through all the farce added to that sensation.

Also... Rocky movies! I guess most boxing movies would apply.


Frasier could be brilliant. His belligerence and arrogance getting him in so much trouble. There's one season final where Frasier absolutely refuses to do an ad and convinces the station manager to follow his principles...the station manager embraces his Latino heritage and turns the station into a salsa station.

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post #6 of 49
4/18/11 at 7:25pm

William Freidkin's Sorcerer. Everyone one in that film sweats 'till they bleed!


Edited by Cylon Baby - 4/18/11 at 8:57pm
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post #7 of 49
4/18/11 at 7:50pm
Barton Fink.
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post #8 of 49
4/18/11 at 7:55pm
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I recently went through a Frasier binge and got a similar 'stage play' vibe from it that nullified my hatred of the multi-camera sitcom format. Having Kelsey Grammar bellow his way through all the farce added to that sensation.

I got all 11 seasons of Frasier a few years ago for $50, one of my proudest Craigslist moments. It's consistently funny (which is kind of amazing given how long it ran) and Niles is one of the all-time great sitcom characters.

 

Not so much the whole movie, but I'll submit this scene from "Along Came Polly" for Sweatiest Scene. The movie is generic Stiller fare, but this features the always great Philip Seymour Hoffman as "that guy" in pickup basketball.

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post #9 of 49
4/18/11 at 8:30pm
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I got all 11 seasons of Frasier a few years ago for $50, one of my proudest Craigslist moments. It's consistently funny (which is kind of amazing given how long it ran) and Niles is one of the all-time great sitcom characters.


That is an AMAZING deal.  And Niles was definitely my favorite character on the show.  I may love Grammer's performance as Frasier, but Niles was the best balance between writing and David Hyde Pierce's performance... if only for this line:

 

"Oh please!  Are you mad?  You don't proposition a woman like that on the first date!  Last night after dinner, I dropped her home with nothing more than a courtly kiss on the wrist.  Tonight MAY proceed to hand-holding.  And if all goes well, in two weeks I shall STORM the CITADEL of her womanhood."

 

I must say, this is the strangest combo of topics for a single thread.  Sweatiest Movies and Multi-Camera Sitcoms.

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post #10 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:04pm
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That is an AMAZING deal.  And Niles was definitely my favorite character on the show.  I may love Grammer's performance as Frasier, but Niles was the best balance between writing and David Hyde Pierce's performance... if only for this line:

 

"Oh please!  Are you mad?  You don't proposition a woman like that on the first date!  Last night after dinner, I dropped her home with nothing more than a courtly kiss on the wrist.  Tonight MAY proceed to hand-holding.  And if all goes well, in two weeks I shall STORM the CITADEL of her womanhood."

 

I must say, this is the strangest combo of topics for a single thread.  Sweatiest Movies and Multi-Camera Sitcoms.



I think you meant awesomest there.

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post #11 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:10pm

The awesomeness was implied!

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post #12 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:18pm
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That is an AMAZING deal.  And Niles was definitely my favorite character on the show.  I may love Grammer's performance as Frasier, but Niles was the best balance between writing and David Hyde Pierce's performance... if only for this line:

 

"Oh please!  Are you mad?  You don't proposition a woman like that on the first date!  Last night after dinner, I dropped her home with nothing more than a courtly kiss on the wrist.  Tonight MAY proceed to hand-holding.  And if all goes well, in two weeks I shall STORM the CITADEL of her womanhood."

 

I must say, this is the strangest combo of topics for a single thread.  Sweatiest Movies and Multi-Camera Sitcoms.



Frasier also has one of the best and most elegant retcon fixes ever.  On Cheers, Frasier's dad is dead. On Frasier, it's revealed that he lied.

 

Frasier has one of the best and deepest father and son relationships ever on TV.

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post #13 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:51pm

White Lightning definitely has to rank up there in terms of sweat. Or pretty much every movie made in the 70s that's set in the South. Or that stars Burt Reynolds.

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post #14 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:52pm

My personal favorite Niles moment, a masterpiece of physical comedy

 

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post #15 of 49
4/18/11 at 9:59pm

Niles was certainly sweating in that clip! 

 

I tried googling for 'sweaty movies' and found a link to a list on Salon.com. (each entry is supported by a short write-up about its selection)

 

10.  Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet

 

9. Crimson Tide - Tony Scott

 

8. The Element of Crime - Lars Von Trier

 

7. In the Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison

 

6. Body Heat - Lawrence Kasdan

 

5. Cool Hand Luke - Stuart Rosenberg  (Cheers, CHEERS!)

 

4. Angel Heart - Alan Parker

 

3. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles

 

2. Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee  (Cheers, Art Decade!)

 

1. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola

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post #16 of 49
4/18/11 at 10:19pm

How could we forget Bridge On The River Kwai?

 

Special recognition should go to Tony Scott who made a career in the 80s photographing his actors as if they were...

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Edited by Art Decade - 4/18/11 at 10:33pm
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post #17 of 49
4/18/11 at 11:11pm

I love this thread. Carry on.

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post #18 of 49
4/19/11 at 3:05am
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Special recognition should go to Tony Scott who made a career in the 80s photographing his actors as if they were...

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Excellent choice of Coke image, sir. 

 

Back on the topic of multi-camera sitcoms... this thread popped up the same day that my friend told me about something he read on Tina Fey's book, Bossypants.  There's a part where she talks about starting 30 Rock and how it's shot on film with a single camera.  That wasn't her choice.  She didn't like it and was forced against the multi-camera format because the single-camera sitcom was the current fad.  The show's format makes the shoots longer than she'd prefer.  Her words were: "Show like Cheers and Frasier were great with shooting on 3 cameras!"  I guess it's not surprising that Fey would prefer the multi-camera format since she comes from SNL experience, but I have a hard time imagining 30 Rock's rapid-fire jokes and visual gags playing as well in the multi-camera format.

 

I should watch Cheers...

 
 

 

 

 


Edited by mcnooj82 - 4/19/11 at 3:16am
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post #19 of 49
4/19/11 at 7:35am

I will simply add that I give my stamp of approval to any thread referencing the greatness that was Cheers.

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post #20 of 49
4/19/11 at 9:21am

Predator is an obvious one here. Even before they get to the jungle there's numerous close-ups of red faces amd glistening muscles, complete with lazy ceiling fans and cigar chomping.

 

Half of Universal Soldier's plot revolves around Van Damme trying to NOT be sweaty, leading to shots of naked glistening muscles as he attempts to cool down in front of air conditioners.

 

Speaking of multi-camera sitcoms, there's that early episode of Seinfeld that had Jerry and Elaine at Jerry's parents' house in Florida. The entire episode Elaine is sweating to death because they never turn the air conditioner on!

 

 

 

 

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post #21 of 49
4/19/11 at 9:40am

In a weird coincidence, last night Patton Oswalt tweeted "is DC Cab the sweatiest movie of all time"?  I now want to re-watch DC Cab.


 

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post #22 of 49
4/19/11 at 12:48pm

Ditto on PREDATOR and let's not forget...

 

Predator2-Poster2.jpg

 

"Tony Pope, live with Hard Core. On the scene and in your face, it's like Dante's Hell down here. Smoke, fire, oppressive heat. "

 

Speaking of HUSTLE & FLOW, howbout BLACK SNAKE MOAN?

 

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post #23 of 49
4/19/11 at 2:03pm

I remember Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear being pretty damn sweaty.

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post #24 of 49
4/19/11 at 2:22pm

How about THE BIG EASY? Ned Beatty automatically ups the sweat quotient of any film by 50% just by appearing in them.

 

Watched it on TV for the first time a couple of weeks ago, really enjoyable and Ellen Barkin looked smoking hot in it. 

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post #25 of 49
4/19/11 at 2:52pm

I've always enjoyed Brian Thompson's sweat-off with Stallone in the final act of COBRA.

 

"They'll say I'm insane...The court is civilized, aren't they...PIG!"

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post #26 of 49
4/19/11 at 3:31pm

Twelve Angry Men is all about twelve guys getting sweatier and madder by the minute.

 

Also, Die Hard With A Vengeance always struck me as being quite a sweaty film. Maybe that's just because of the opening scene though. "Hot time, summer in the city..."

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post #27 of 49
4/19/11 at 3:59pm
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4. Angel Heart - Alan Parker


 

This is a good one. Eliott Keener ("You're gonna burn for this, Angel") was also firing on all fat, sweaty, nervous cylinders as Randall in Hard Target.

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post #28 of 49
4/19/11 at 5:34pm

pilot_sweat.jpg

 

Do I win?

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post #29 of 49
4/19/11 at 5:41pm
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Do I win?


Congratulations!

 

Your prize awaits you:

 

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post #30 of 49
4/19/11 at 6:20pm

The title qualifies it. Jennifer Connelly skinny-dipping cinches it.

 

 

Isn't that right, Ted?

 

LL

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post #31 of 49
4/19/11 at 6:34pm

Mmm... that hit the... spot?

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post #32 of 49
4/20/11 at 5:35pm

Cheers is on Netflix Instant!  ALL OF IT!

 

I'm drenched in sweat from the excitement of going to where everybody knows my name!

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post #33 of 49
4/29/11 at 3:12pm

So a bit sad but I actually joined the forums due to this post. I'm watching The Bridge on the River Kwai tonight and watched Do the Right Thing a few days ago. I was thinking of sweaty films and was looking for a list (came up with Body Heat, In the Heat of the Night, and Cool Hand Luke, possibly because of their heat-related titles). Predictably "hot films" and "sweaty films" turned up quite different but equally irrelevant results on Google, so I started googling a bunch of the names of the films I had thought of and came across this thread.

 

Some good suggestions here, particularly Angel Heart and Touch of Evil. The only other ones I thought of that hadn't been mentioned are The Seven Year Itch, The Wages of Fear and I seem to recall City of God and Sleepers being quite hot as well?

 

Slapping my forehead over Apocalypse Now. I guess there are different types of hot films: city, jungle, desert, swamp.

 

I feel like there are at least a few hot film noir films that I can't think of right now too... D.O.A. or Kiss Me Deadly maybe? Pickup on South Street?

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post #34 of 49
4/30/11 at 8:40am

I'll throw in Graveyard Shift. That movie's nothing but sweat and rats.

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post #35 of 49
4/30/11 at 10:36am
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I'll throw in Graveyard Shift. That movie's nothing but sweat and rats.



Good call.  Probably one of the few films where copious sweating was a crucial atmospheric element.  Like Friedkin's SORCERER, you need a shower after watching it.

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post #36 of 49
5/3/11 at 6:24am

Y tu mamá también was fairly sweaty, no? Or is it just my memory? I tend to associate "Mexico" and "roadtrip" and "threesome" with sweat,

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post #37 of 49
5/4/11 at 8:16am

That might be a good reason why Predators wasn't as good as the other ones. There was major man sweat in the original, and the amount of sweat Danny Glover amasses in 2 is just ridiculous. There's barely sweat in the third one, I only remember Laurence Fishburne sweating for a bit. But that felt more like sweating due to his extra pounds than due to manliness, heat or tension.

 

Best recent theatrical sweat: The Rock, Fast Five.

 

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post #38 of 49
5/4/11 at 10:51am

So I started watching Cheers.  I sweat profusely from the intensity of my hatred towards Diane Chambers.  I even hate her name.

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post #39 of 49
5/5/11 at 3:16am
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That might be a good reason why Predators wasn't as good as the other ones. There was major man sweat in the original, and the amount of sweat Danny Glover amasses in 2 is just ridiculous. There's barely sweat in the third one, I only remember Laurence Fishburne sweating for a bit. But that felt more like sweating due to his extra pounds than due to manliness, heat or tension.

 

Best recent theatrical sweat: The Rock, Fast Five.

 

 

 

 

 

yeah i agree with you dear...the movies are nothing but sweaty............



 

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post #40 of 49
5/5/11 at 6:38am

Ryan Reynolds was getting pretty sweaty in Buried, if I recall.

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post #41 of 49
5/5/11 at 7:36am

Empire Strikes Back, the Dagobah scenes.

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post #42 of 49
5/5/11 at 10:54am

Strangely enough, there's very little sweating during the Tatooine scenes of Return of the Jedi. Maybe it's a dry heat...

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post #43 of 49
5/5/11 at 2:00pm
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Strangely enough, there's very little sweating during the Tatooine scenes of Return of the Jedi. Maybe it's a dry heat...

That and the electrolytes in those blue milkshakes!
 

 

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post #44 of 49
5/10/11 at 6:02am

Sweetest movie I ever seen in my life is P.S I Love You.

Its really a great movie.So much sweet story line and a great romantic drama.

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post #45 of 49
5/12/11 at 9:18pm

The Hunt for Red October. And most Stallone action flicks. The man perspired like Aaron Altman in Broadcast News.

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post #46 of 49
5/12/11 at 9:58pm
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Sweetest movie I ever seen in my life is P.S I Love You.

Its really a great movie.So much sweet story line and a great romantic drama.



...Right.

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post #47 of 49
7/19/11 at 12:23am

Perfect and Do The Right Thing

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post #48 of 49
7/21/11 at 12:41am

Wow! No mention of Schumaker's A Time To Kill. There's one scene where it literally looks like the make-up crew just smeared melted butter on Ashley Judd. And Sam Jackson manages to be sweating in nearly every shot. The idea seems to be that nobody in this whole town can afford air conditioning or something.

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post #49 of 49
7/21/11 at 3:09pm

Doesn't really hold up to many already mentioned, but I recall At the Earth's Core looked like it was filmed in a sauna.

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