Favourite Movies?
POSTED BY: p1nkispunk
UPDATED: Saturday, April 2, 2005 08:44
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Allright, listen up you primitive screwheads!
Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
Gimme some sugar, baby.
Groovy.
Shakespear was crap, now this is dialogue!!!
Bruce is a celluloid god.
Now when is Brisco coming to dvd?!!??!!
Sorry, lister got me off- topic......
Chrisisall
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TiPpY and manwithpez:
Semi-interestingly, I wouldn't know from Plato's Cave, if it hadn't been referred to as philosophically prescient of Gerard 't Hooft's Holographic Principle (further refined by Susskind and elaborated upon by Bohm, et al). See http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Holographic_Universe/id/34895 for complete article written in layman's terms, by physicist Jacob Bekenstein reprinted from Scientific American (a notoriously 'pop-sci' mag, apparently). The 'experiencefestival' website looks to consist of crystal-wearing, third-eye stuff; but this particular article appears to be a faithful reprint.
So, I learned about Plato's Cave, by learning about physics and cosmology, which was prompted by memorizing The Galaxy Song from "Monty Python's Meaning of Life", which was a comical look at philosophy ("Ahm so sorry! Ah deed not know we had a rass-cist workin' here!").
As Steve Martin's character said in "Grand Canyon" (another life-changing movie): "All of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Pseudo-Intellectually,
zoid
P.S.
manwithpez: Your moniker reminds me of 'Pez People' from "The Big Picture", an offbeat Kevin Bacon/Jennifer Jason Leigh/Michael McKean flick. It's a cautionary tale about a young filmmaker who compromises his ideals for the lure of fame. Mr. Whedon? Call for you on line 3...
(God forbid)
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity
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American Beauty: My favorite movie hands down. I just love how it makes me stop and take stock of the small things that have so much more weight than we ever realize.
The Iron Giant: Man, this is such a great movie. Animated brilliance. By the end of the movie the title character is like an old friend you don't want to leave behind.
Gattaca: Science fiction that shows us a piece of what we may become in just a few years. The ending gives me chills every single time.
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind: Just a great look at the arc of a relationship between two people.
Gangs of New York: This movie's triumph for me is the way it captures how time erases things that seem so large to us at one time. The final scene hints at the fate that ultimately awaits all of us in this world. To be forgotten.
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Late into the fray here but anyway: in terms of life changing then these are they - although I wouldn't say I watch these over and over, they are my favourite films and thus highlight the reason I go to the cinema, basically to be moved, or provoked into thinking.
1. Jean de Flaurette and it's sequel Manon de Source
2. City of the Lost Children
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Cyrano De Bergerac
5. Creature From the Black Lagoon (in 3D)
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
thatweirdgirl beat me to The Court Jester (which contains probably the best sword fight on any movie ((take that Star Wars)))
I've not seen The Court Jester but if you enjoy sword fights in films may I recommend Scaramouche The films finalé has the best sword fight I've ever seen.
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No one has mentioned "Black Hawk Down"... Am I the only one who thinks this is a kick-ass movie?
I'm going to include entire mini-series in my choices cause I consider them akin to movies.
Firefly
Band of Brothers
Battlestar Galactica
Aliens
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Shanghai Noon
Star Wars originals
Matrix 1 and 2
Hmmm was only supposed to be 5 wasnt it... i'll stop now. 
I feel like i've forgotten some important choices too..
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
thatweirdgirl beat me to The Court Jester (which contains probably the best sword fight on any movie ((take that Star Wars)))
I've not seen The Court Jester
Yes, the sword fight is brilliant, but really the crowning glory of the movie is the delightful confusing 'flagon with the dragron.'
Ric,
I can't beleive I could have left out Jean de Florette and Manon. Actaully I can, there are too many great movies to list them all. I enjoyed them much more in French without subtitles.
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
thatweirdgirl beat me to The Court Jester (which contains probably the best sword fight on any movie ((take that Star Wars)))
I've not seen The Court Jester
Yes, the sword fight is brilliant, but really the crowning glory of the movie is the delightful confusing 'flagon with the dragron.'
Ric,
I can't beleive I could have left out Jean de Florette and Manon. Actaully I can, there are too many great movies to list them all. I enjoyed them much more in French without subtitles.
www.thatweirdgirl.com
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'Flagon with the Dragon" eh?..... Hmm. Ok I'm suitably intrigued by this T.WeirdGirl when was it made? I know nothing about it. Of course I could look it up on the internet but I like to do things the old fashioned way on occaisions :) and ask.
Also - how could you forget Jean De Florette? It's a good film isn't it.... Am I to understand you speak french? I can understand it in parts but I can't follow it when there are lots of characters talking.... Which is a pity because three of my top five are french films and if this list went to six 'Amelie' was going to be next! Have you seen that?
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"Flagon with the dragon" comes from a Danny Kaye
movie from the fifties, I forget the title..
It goes: "The pellet with the poison's in vessel with the pestal, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true." And it get real cofused after that.
Sword fight? Have you seen The Mark of Zorro (Basil Rathbone) ? Whoah...
Chrisisall
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