Favourite Movies?

POSTED BY: p1nkispunk
UPDATED: Saturday, April 2, 2005 08:44
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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:43 PM

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Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
I blush at how few of these titles I've heard of..

thanks for this thread p1nkispunk;
it is very entertaining....
and you can't go wrong watching every film named here!

est120: I also loved Sideways
but maybe you have to be older to get into the dark humor
of people whose dreams have passed them by.
I guess I could see how it might seem depressing
but I thought it seemed sweet and hopeful at the end.

But I do think my list (above) was too full of 'up-beat' feel good movies...
and I'm ashamed of leaving Dr. Strangelove off my list...
so I'm adding five more, 'darker' films:

Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/441483/
The Man Who Would Be King 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/
The Life of Brian 1979
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian.htm
The Usual Suspects 1995
http://movieweb.com/movies/film.php?931
Stage Beauty 2004
http://www.stagebeautymovie.com/

OPPYH

Monday, March 28, 2005 4:58 PM

5. The Twilight Samurai. Wow, this is an excellent movie.

4. Crumb. Still the best documentary ever created.

3. Housekeeping. Why Criterion hasn't added this to their library is a mystery. It's sad, magical, and sort of tragic.

2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Steven Spielberg's crowning achievement. What most people don't know, is that this is the only movie he wrote, and directed. True genius.

1. After Life. The best movie I've ever seen.

CYBERSNARK

Monday, March 28, 2005 5:07 PM

Y'all are makin' me feel uncultured, but I'll try:

Galaxy Quest: The best Star Trek movie ever made.

Star Trek Nemesis: The second best. Despite being saddled with a bad choice of opening weekend, and a fandom that has grown militantly impossible to please, this movie, to me, encapsulates the entire point of Star Trek in one scene. The confrontation between Picard and Holo-Shinzon, arguing about whether or not it's possible to make ourselves into something better than we are created to be, never fails to give me chills.

DragonHeart: As a fantasy writer myself, I can't help but gravitate toward those stories that parallel my own worldbuilding (dragons as intelligent, wise beings), and thus could, possibly, happen in my continuity. DragonHeart is one of the three most "accurate" dragon movies I know of.

Spirited Away: Another "accurate" dragon movie (dragons as shape-shifters who adopt human guise), also a Miyazaki film, which makes it an automatic masterpiece IMHO.

Bicentennial Man: Just an emotional tour-de-force. Humour, wit, hope, tragedy, loss, pain, and serenity, all in the face of an eternal and uncaring universe. One of the few movies that leaves me teary-eyed.

(FYI, the third dragon movie is Dragons of Fire & Ice, a CGI direct-to-DVD thing that I happened to catch on Canada's crappy cartoon network ripoff.)

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P1NKISPUNK

Monday, March 28, 2005 5:20 PM

The Life of Brian!!!

I've never laughed so hard in a film..literally ever!

Sorry too lazy to look back on who commented on my Edward Norton opinion, but your deep in my heart all the same. He seems like one of those people who when he starts talking he sometimes just keeps talking for the sake of talking, but what stuck in my mind was the comment he made about them smashing up the new model Beatles, and the idea that people had just repackaged the symbol of the freedom, and gentle rebellion of the 70s, revamped it and sold it to the next generation.

I hope the Beatle was the symbol of the 70s. Right decade? Lord I hope so...

JADEHAND

Monday, March 28, 2005 5:47 PM

yeah 5 is hard, I think we did this a while back but it's always fun.

Feeling a little dark today(like most days) so we'll go with 5 that I think are a bit dark.

1. The Usual Suspects. Keyzer Soze!

2. The Game. I tend to dislike Michael Douglas (not sure why) but this was Great!

3. Seven. (is it wrong to empathize with the bad guy here?)

4. Momento. very well done.

5. American History X. wow! (this should actually be number 2)
EDIT: If you liked Ed Norton in Fight Club, Then you'll enjoy him in this too.

there are many other dark ones that I enjoyed but that's my top 5 that come to mind now. Well, "The Crow" should be in there,definitly. "Fallen" was good, "Heathers" for a little laugh.

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ZOL

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:45 PM

It`s quite interesting to see that all of use share similar tastes and some the same movies.

Of course everybody has their own opinions, and what some people consider the best movie in the world may not be for others but it`s like marketing - `watch this movie bacause it`s great` doesn`t make it great.

I don`t know where I`m going with this, I guess it`s a case of why a movie is great, and not that it is great.

Serenity is Great!(from the test sceenings), but, that`s down to dynamics, humour, character interaction & it`s uniqueness, amongst other things, so it will be interesting to see how many include it in their top 5 at the end of the year.

Darin (Zol.)

STEVETHEPIRATE

Monday, March 28, 2005 8:25 PM

These types of threads make my brain hurt. When I first saw the title of the thread, I thought I knew a few of the movies I'd list - then I read through the thread and saw a few that I hadn't considered that I might want to list.

Eternal Sunshine, Memento, Seven, Fight Club, American History X, Clerks, The Usual Suspects ... you guys have got a great list going.

I'll add Blow (highly underrated), Pirates of the Carribean (not just for Johnny Depp, although he was fantastic), Ocean's 11 AND 12 (12 is trendy to dislike) and Boondock Saints.

I've been called a pessimist before, probably because I can point out what I dislike easier than what I like. Movies I despise: Vanilla Sky, Swordfish and Monster's Ball. And, as a child, I was scarred for life by Bambi.

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P1NKISPUNK

Monday, March 28, 2005 9:52 PM

Why do you despise Vanilla Sky?

I didn't think it was that good really, trying too hard and had some faults but I wouldn't say I disliked it...

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, March 28, 2005 9:57 PM

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Originally posted by est120:
i am just curious why you liked this movie so much. i saw it too and found it to be rather depressing and not much of the comedy that it was billed as. of course, it is more of a dark comedy, but other than the part on the golf course, i did not really see the humor. of course, everyone has their opinion and this is just mine. still, i would love to hear your reasoning.

I shall do my best

First off, its not often laugh out loud funny (unless you're the idiot first year film student sitting two rows behind me who no doubt laughs as hard through Woody's "difficult" films because he really understands the clever Brechtian nods in the background), but has its moments.

For me, its in the performance of Paul Giamatti - Virginia Madsen as well, though her's is a much more understated performance. Whilst its depressing through much of it, the end is an uplifting message - as hard as you may try to wallow away life and sleepwalk away, it doesn't take much more than a smile or a friendly voice to call you back and make you realise you're being a dick. Its about the importance of trying to make a connection, and that you have to grasp those chances that present themselves to you, because there isn't a sign saying "last one for 104 miles" before them. At the end of the day, its similar to A Wonderful Life, which is unremittingly depressing for much of it, but leaves you feeling re-energised after viewing it.

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STEVETHEPIRATE

Monday, March 28, 2005 10:12 PM

The main reason I despise Vanilly Sky to this day is because for weeks after I saw it I couldn't get Penelope Cruz whispering "open your eyes" out of my head - and that made me want to .I'd need to watch it again to give you any other reasons - suffice to say, I remember being supremely disappointed as I left the theater that night.

Having said that, I thought Kurt Russell was fantastic in it.

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