SERENITY great cinema? Compared to what?
POSTED BY: Howard
UPDATED: Friday, November 4, 2005 01:41
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Should the Princess Bride be left out of must see list? and i didn't infer from Howard's post that we were under strict orders to view these films or else, just that they could be enjoyable as well as elevating-oh i wish i had time to enjoy while being elevated until i finish my degree the closest i'll get is eating a baby ruth while researching.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
...For one, not everyone who enjoyed Serenity thinks that it is one of the best movies ever made. I don't know of anyone who thinks that Serenity is one the best movie ever made. In fact, I dare you to show me five posts made by five different people saying that Serenity is one of the best movies ever made, not five people saying that Serenity is one of their favorite movies, five people saying that it’s one of the best movies ever made as you claim as is the case.
Okay...
I'll start:
Here's one: speaking as a film maker (writer/producer), I THINK 'SERENITY' IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.
And, By GAWD, I can go on for MONTHS about the bajillion reasons why. I agree with all the lists on this thread - many are movies that I consider "perfect - very many...
Now, who'll 'second' me on this commotion?
As to the lists: I notice none of you mentioned Piero Pasolini and I ...welll... if ya wanna intense cinema experience, just check out 'Salo' some time... this movie is soo Friggin' Intense, most people simply can't make it through a half hour, well... any amount of it. It stunned me so much that I was able to watch the entire thing, well... it was like, kinda, a trainwreck... or Meatloaf or Wendy O. & the Plasmatics in concert: you can't avert your eyes; you must look... because it's truly unbelievable. So after it finished, I watched it all over again, just 'cause I couldn't believe I'd seen it all the way through once.
Gosh I hope that helps
HOHOHO
Love All Movies {was it Ray Charles that said, 'The ear is ready for all kinds of sound," so I say, "The eye is ready for all kinds of vision"} "or your friends will think you're stupid inbred stacks of meat"
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Um . . does anyone else fall asleep halfway through Howard's rants? LOL just kidding. Seriously though, to me movies are about entertainment mostly, not about upping your IQ. If you wanna do that, read a book. Also, good to know you guys have some good taste (Castle in the Sky? loved it -- Spirited Away, have to see it). And LIM, you are the best -- that is a fantastic song. Anyways, y'all have fun now, ya hear? Hehe.
I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.
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Quote:Qualification: 'Best movies ever made' meaning a cross section to include musicals, drama, science-fiction, and comedy.....
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Okay...
I'll start:
Here's one: speaking as a film maker (writer/producer), I THINK 'SERENITY' IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.
Now, who'll 'second' me on this commotion?
Then DAMN RIGHT Serenity's one of the BEST movies EVER MADE!!!!!
You are seconded!
Chrisisall!
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Try the DVD of CARANDIRU (R1)
nothing warm and cudly about that.
Yes obviously we can all be multifaceted
and able to relate to very different things.
Warm and cudly AMELIE and not warm and cudly
CARANDIRU.
By the way to whoever said it. I NEVER said
that everyone who liked or loved SERENITY was
saying it is one of the greatest movies ever.
But some folks on this site do think that and
short of that there are such rich qualities and
potential contained in FIREFLY that I now feel
has been flushed away.
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Well no such luck GROOSALUGG...
DIE HARD for your cinema
and
Bush for your politics
yep that does count as rather stupid
BUT...
if you has said...
Anything staring Gweneth Paltrow for your
cinema
and
Clinton for your politics
that would be not just stupid
but truly sinister.
Not that the Bush gang is not sinister they
are but most of the world can see this.
What is more sinister than sinister is
sinister wrapped up and packaged like
everyone's down'n'hip, caring and sharing
friend...when it/he aint! As in Clinton and
other similar types.
Same with all Paltrow esque movie culture
one is meant to buy it as "deep" and "really
thoughtful" but of course it is a big NOT!
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Wow, someone's just an angry little person, aren't they? Totally missing the point, too.
I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.
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I have a really good suggestion for this problem that Howard is presenting alot of folks: Don't respond to anything he says! He obviously is pretentios, self-absorbed, middle-aged and lonely little man that makes himself feel better by coming on this site and ranting on about his taste in movies, music, or politics. Leave him be to galavant about his "superior" taste in anything. I learned really fast that people don't like to be critized for what they like regardless if everyone else in the world may think otherwise. If they like it than that's good for them and that's all that matters.(Again, sorry Jacqui, if your reading this) Just leave him be to his ostentatious ways. Or you can just do this 
"All you people up there, in city hall,
Your f***ing it up for the people that's in the streets"
Tim Tim Timmy!
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I can hardly wait to see Narnia
for a little brain candy!
oh goody oh
Limi
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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