Rain based films

draylander · 24-10-2011 6:34pm #1

Im making a list of rain based films (obviously im bored).
So far ive got

Hard rain - Set during a massive flood started by a dam accident in a small town, Christian Slater is an armored truck guard who gets robbed by Morgan Freeman.

Sin city

Bowfinger (Chubby rain reference)

Shaw shank redemption - if im going to allow myself away with bowfinger then the fact that "Andy Dufresne crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of **** smelling foulness I can't even imagine" during a storm no doubt.

Anyone else?

O and waterworld dont count

Otis Driftwood · 24-10-2011 6:41pm

Urge to troll rising........

Fishooks12 · 24-10-2011 6:42pm

High Fidelity- Crazy rain!

FortuneChip · 24-10-2011 6:42pm

I read your username as DRYlander... Which it isn't...

super_furry · 24-10-2011 6:44pm

The Crow

draylander · 24-10-2011 6:45pm

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Urge to troll rising........

not the only thing rising at the moment. the river outside my house is looking pretty ominous right about now

saintsaltynuts · 24-10-2011 6:45pm

Rain Man.

Fajitas! · 24-10-2011 6:46pm

I could be getting mixed up, but isn't every outdoors scene in Blade Runner raining?

draylander · 24-10-2011 6:47pm

Fishooks12 wrote: »

High Fidelity- Crazy rain!

Also "identity". Another deadly john cusack film

BrianJD · 24-10-2011 6:47pm

Cape Fear

I think the climax on the boat. The remake i mean.

draylander · 24-10-2011 6:48pm

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Rain Man.

Just facepalmed myself for not thinking of that one

MagicMarker · 24-10-2011 6:50pm

Glengarry Glen Ross? I seem to remember a lot of rain in that movie.

Se7en

johnny_ultimate · 24-10-2011 6:50pm

Did anyone else want to punch Andie McDowell really hard in the face when she didn't notice it was raining? Perhaps the single worst delivered line in the history of cinema. Or at least non dodgy sci-fi cinema.

draylander · 24-10-2011 7:08pm

All in favour of finding Andy Macdowell and punching her in the face say Aye.

Aye

Motion passed.

SVG · 24-10-2011 8:31pm

Singin' in the Rain, obviously...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

...and, more recently, Magnolia has a memorable rain sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7As_q6PSKSM

Dotrel · 24-10-2011 8:48pm

The Matrix Trilogy. Green Rain seen frequently in the Matrix scenes (to mimic the cascading green computer code).

BlitzKrieg · 24-10-2011 8:54pm

purple rain...

Gamb!t · 24-10-2011 8:59pm

Army movies,there's always a bit of rain in those.

johnny_ultimate · 24-10-2011 9:29pm

Eighteen responses and not a mention of Seven Samurai yet.

What kind of low brow film forum do you think we're running, huh? :P

Dotrel · 24-10-2011 9:31pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Eighteen responses and not a mention of Seven Samurai yet.

What kind of low brow film forum do you think we're running, huh? :P

Rashomon too.

Mickeroo · 24-10-2011 9:34pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Eighteen responses and not a mention of Seven Samurai yet.

What kind of low brow film forum do you think we're running, huh? :P

I'll see your Seven Samurai and raise you Ferngully the last Rain Forest.

Gee Bag · 24-10-2011 9:38pm

Black Rain - 80's scutter with Michael Douglas

johnny_ultimate · 24-10-2011 9:39pm

Now that's flooding, bro.

draylander · 25-10-2011 12:14am

In the spirit of things i just watched a film called cold weather. slow film to start but it gets better as it goes on. Though the weather in it didnt seem too cold if you ask me.

on another note what about point break. starts and ends in the rain.

Da Shins Kelly · 25-10-2011 12:20am

It's dreary and wet in almost every scene in Se7en.

Kinski · 25-10-2011 10:13am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqkT62OMDQ

delbertgrady · 25-10-2011 10:26am

A Clockwork Orange: When Alex is beaten by the millicents and stumbles his way (inadvertently) back to HOME
Manhattan: When Isaac and Mary have to seek shelter in the Planetarium
Withnail & I: At the end, when Marwood leaves and Withnail does the Hamlet soliloquy

JP Liz V1 · 25-10-2011 11:16am

Garden State & The Notebook

Auvers · 25-10-2011 11:28am

Key Largo

nothing like a bit of 40\50ies noir

Wossack · 25-10-2011 11:37am

bladerunner

lotsa funky rainwear iirc

p to the e · 25-10-2011 1:16pm

Reign of fire!

Norma_Desmond · 25-10-2011 2:02pm

Les Diaboliques 1955, has a water theme with lots of rain. There's also the American remake Diabolique with Sharon Stone from 1996.

LittleBook · 26-10-2011 1:27pm

The battle for Helm's Deep was pretty rainy.

And I love the line and scene from Forrest Gump about the rain:

"One day it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain … and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. And then one day it just stopped."

Sin_J · 26-10-2011 1:34pm

Jurrasic Park? There's the opening raptor bit in the rain, but mainly the storm is cover for nedry's heist is what kicks off the whole t-rex attack on the jeeps in the rain. An Nedry himself gettin chomped on

dark crystal · 26-10-2011 1:53pm

The Perfect Storm features a lot of rainy weather!!

Wimbago · 26-10-2011 2:03pm

um, Twilight . . .

Funglegunk · 26-10-2011 2:08pm

Black Rain, in which Michael Douglas plays a total asshole.

Edit: oops already been mentioned.

take everything · 26-10-2011 4:47pm

draylander wrote: »

All in favour of finding Andy Macdowell and punching her in the face say Aye.

Aye

Motion passed.

Thanked this but the weird thing is i actually like that movie.
Is there something wrong with me.

Bobby Baccala · 26-10-2011 4:52pm

Road to perdition
Now thats some rainy shít.

Nolanger · 26-10-2011 5:44pm

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Road to perdition
Now thats some rainy shít.

The Joan Crawford movie Rain did it first!

johnny_ultimate · 26-10-2011 5:52pm

take everything wrote: »

Thanked this but the weird thing is i actually like that movie.
Is there something wrong with me.

Yes. Yes there is

That said, there are many 'three act structure' screenwriting enthusiasts who will go on at length about how perfectly formed the film is - it hits traditional story beats, turning points, midpoints, climaxes etc... almost mathematically. One man's 'perfectly formed' is another's 'formulaic garbage', though.

Giruilla · 27-10-2011 8:48am

Funglegunk wrote: »

Black Rain, in which Michael Douglas plays a total asshole.

Prob Ridleys Scotts most underrated film imo!

Wimbago · 27-10-2011 8:55am

Jurassic Park, lashing out when they get stuck at the T-Rex enclosure and when Nedry is on the run from the 'spitter'

don ramo · 28-10-2011 12:02am

rained a lot in twister,
spiderman when he kissed MJ
castaway
gothika
the pianist,

and sahara, that was some rain soaked to the bone:D

Skinfull · 29-10-2011 8:34pm

How did it get this far in the thread without a mention o Day After Tomorrow? O_o

Corsendonk · 29-10-2011 9:44pm

The Rainmaker 1954 with Burt Lancaster

BlitzKrieg · 29-10-2011 9:53pm

Skinfull wrote: »

How did it get this far in the thread without a mention o Day After Tomorrow? O_o

cause its sh*t?

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