FIVE FAVORITE MOVIES

POSTED BY: howdyrockerbaby1
UPDATED: Friday, May 28, 2004 02:05
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Only five? Oy. In random order

Lawrence of Arabia... similarities... has good-looking leading men?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail... has a group on a quest?

Two Mules for Sister Sara... has a lady of questionable repute and it takes place in hot, dusty locales?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon... has Chinese?

Fantasia... has images and music that together are greater than the sum of their parts?

Others... Where Eagles Dare; Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns; Bladerunner; The Maltese Falcon; Buckaroo Banzai; X-Men; The Lion in Winter; Chicago


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I agree with 'Tash about the Muppet Movie. Everything I need to know about life, I learned from the Muppets.

My random Top 5 Of The Moment:

DragonHeart: One of my two "realistic dragon" movies that I use as a basis of my own storytelling. Similarities to Firefly: Sir Bowen is a knight whose loyalty to the Code keeps him fighting a battle that ended long ago --just like Mal and the Browncoat/Alliance war. Also, Book and Draco would have the most fascinating conversations.

Spirited Away: Hayao Miyazaki is a god. Also, the other "realistic dragon" movie, for Haku's shape-shifting. Chihiru/Sen is like an inversion of River; a normal, innocent girl trapped in this surreal wonderland.

The Matrix Trilogy: A tiny rebellion of Lucids, fighting a war against an overwhelming foe that, it turns out, has been manipulating their every move all along. Smith ends up as the "hero" of the story, who changes his & Neo's destiny. Also, remember River's little comment to Mal in OoG:

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"Am I dreaming?"
"We all are."

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River isn't insane. She's a Lucid.

Star Wars: Having immersed myself in the EU since the early 90s (Heir to the Empire was one of the first SW books I read), my perspective of the whole phenomenon is kinda unusual. There's a surprising amount of moral ambiguity there (the Empire is not Absolute Evil, nor is the Rebellion/Republic unassailably good). I'm half hoping that, when/if the Unification War does restart, and Mal tears down the Alliance, that the Independent Systems will end up having the same problems as the Alliance, just with a new name.

Galaxy Quest: The greatest Star Trek movie ever. Ridiculous tongue-in-cheek humour, tied to an actual serious plot (this is where a lot of parodies go wrong). Plus, as for "Trekkie" behaviour, it's just so damned accurate.

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Mine don't have a lot of similarities, maybe outside of strong character development.

1. Brazil
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. Limbo
4. Fight Club
5. Rashamon

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Originally posted by howdyrockerbaby1:

J.R.R.Tolkien was kicked out of the catholic church...

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I have got to ask where you got this from. I have read quite a bit about Tolkien and this is news to me.

Arawaen

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Hmmmmmmmm - ok, here goes

Serenity - annnticccipationnnnn!

Amelie - love it, love it, love it!

Grosse Point Blank - sigh....AWESOME MOVIE!

LoTR (all 3) - they're so pretty!

Escape from LA - I adore this movie! I even like it more than the first one, believe it or not! The end ROCKS!!

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I forgot Ghost Dog! I saw this movie years ago, and I'm still thinking about it...

So many, many more....



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1. Star Wars
2. Two Towers Extended Version
3. The Three Musketeers starring Gene Kelly
4. Against All Flags starring Errol Flynn
5. I don't buy Kisses Anymore. A small indy film starring Nia Peebles and Jason Alexander.

I'm a movie buff so I love a lot of Movies. Five just isn't enough.

6. Twister
7. Notting Hill
8. CasaBlanca
9. Psycho
10. Tombstone

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Brain Candy - Hard to think of a similarity with Firefly. Oh I know - Canada and Nathon Fillion!

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If its the Kids in the Hall Movie, you're forgetting the pepperpot angle with Mal and his bonnet....

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Five favorite movies. How does one narrow them down to five. Oh well here goes.

1) Empire Strikes Back is obviously the best Star Wars film and maybe the best Sci-fi film of all time. The story arch is this film is brilliant. It defies all elements of a typical story arch. The big battle scene is at the beginning instead of the end. It does not end happily. Which in the world of Hollywood is a big no no. We lose one of the main characters, Han (true only for a time) But it does follow the Greek way of story telling with the addition of Darth Vader as Luke's father.

2) Return of the King. If I were to have to choose one film from the LOTR trilogy it would have to be ROTK. Every moment is given weight by what needs to accomplished. Theres a reason for everything in this film. Not to mention the emotion this film has. As my screenwriting professor says every scene must have emotion or you will lose the audience.

3) American Beauty. There as never been a movie as honest as this film. When most movies talk about the "American way" they neglect to mention the bad things. Like divorce, murder, death, etc... American Beauty hits these right on the head and never apologizes for it. Brilliant!

4) The Godfather. This movie while most think it's about the mob, really it's about Family and what we would do to keep it intact. Michael ends up the don of the family even though he and his father never wanted him to be a part of the business. We do things all the time for others that we don't want. Michael makes the ultimate sacrifice for his father. He gives up his future and becomes the don.

5) Fight Club. This film totally caught me by surprise which is a hard thing to do. I'm not saying I'm the film-know-all, but I've seen alot of movies and I can usually tell you what's coming next. Not to mention the dialog in this film is fantastic. "F**k Martha Stewart."

*some honorable metions are...

Clue, Snatch, Sixth Sense, The General (A Buster Keaton film), Chasing Amy, The 1st and last Indiana Jones, X2, and the list goes on and on...

Told you I could narrow them down to 5.

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Originally posted by filmgoddess:
Five favorite movies. How does one narrow them down to five. Oh well here goes.

1) Empire Strikes Back is obviously the best Star Wars film and maybe the best Sci-fi film of all time. The story arch is this film is brilliant. It defies all elements of a typical story arch. The big battle scene is at the beginning instead of the end. It does not end happily. Which in the world of Hollywood is a big no no.

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i don't know. from my perspective it seems that all hollywood can do now is make movies with not so happy endings and the critics are eating it up.

even big ones like X2 and spiderman.

i mean look at some of the movies that critics have been going on and on about for years, moulin rouge, unbreakable and the sixth sence, crouching tiger hidden dragon, titanic, fargo, just to name a few. most (including many i'm forgetting) feature one or more of the main characters dying at the end and/or a not so happy ending.

actually, in my mind the twist/sad/mind **** endings are the cliche and the actual happy endings where everything is all wrapped up and the good guys win with no regrets are scarce.

maybe its just the movies/tv shows i've been watching @_@

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