Favourite Movies? by p1nkispunk

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Favourite Movies?

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:17 AM

Though of course, your wonderful taste isn't at all in question, due to the fact of course that you are Browncoats..
Just wondering however, what your 5 favourite movies would be...
Y'know the fantasmic, life-changingly brilliant onces?

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:34 AM

CHRISTHECYNIC

I have no 5 favorite movies, if I love it I love it and that is the way of things. When I love a movie I love no movie more than it, thus there is one big tie at the top.

Here are a few:
The Shawshank Redemption
The Crow
--I love the fact that though the movie is almost entirely killing people the story is really a love story, it is not about the killing, but the reason for it, and the power of that reason.
The Princess Bride
Aliens
--Newt is such a great character, I love the idea of a feral human. Almost the entire rest of the cast was good too. Other than Ripley none were mere stereotypes.
Lord of the Rings
--I consider it one three-part movie, after all Tolken considered the books one three part novel
Silverado
Real Genius
The Breakfast Club

There are a lot more that I find equally pleasing, but I’ve already listed more than requested.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:04 AM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
your 5 favourite movies would be...
Y'know the fantasmic, life-changingly brilliant onces?

(not in any particular order)
King of Hearts w/Alan Bates
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gee/gee12.html
Hard Day's Night the Beatles
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/
The Gods Must Be Crazy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
High Fidelity
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/
Spirited Away
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/

okay...I confess:
I LOVE the original Star Wars, all of Harry Potter, and the early Disney cartoons (like Pinocchio), but I wanted to avoid those obvious blockbusters and childhood traditions like Wizard of Oz

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:55 AM

ZOL

There`s a few movies but generally, I wouldn`t say I have a top 5, however 5 films I watch & rewatch (in no particular order) are :-

Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World - Russell Crowe

Fifth Elemant - Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

Star Wars (episode 4)

Red Planet - Carrie-anne Moss, Val Kilmer

A Knights Tale - Heath Ledger (with Alan Tudyk)

I have others that I`m fond of too, but those replay most often.

5 others are:

Casablanca,
Joe vs the Volcano,
The Hunt for Red October,
Brazil
& The Rocketeer.

Darin (Zol.)

p.s. also like Princess Bride too

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:38 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Hmmm - 5 favourites or 5 life-changing? I'm gonna go for the latter for poops and chortles...

Mr Smith Goes To Washington - I was young, I was ill, I couldn't be bothered to turn over the channel and discovered that B&W movies ruled, and Jimmy Stewart was da bomb.

Jerry McGuire/Almost Famous - its a Cameron Crowe thing.

Fight Club - but I can't talk about it

Lost In Translation - that whisper at the end.

Sideways - Most recent example of a film that just spoke to me at the moment I saw it.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:12 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

I can’t pick five favorites. Here are five movies that I can not look away from if they are playing…

Kitty Foyle
The Best Years of Our Lives
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Court Jester
The Dark Crystal

Yes, I know none of these were made in the last 20 years, sorry. I enjoy watching recent fliks too. I just have trouble remembering them, ya know? I’ve seen these others dozens of times, they’re like old friends, I know them well. The new kids, acquaintances, I always recognize them and I enjoy them, but I don’t know them well yet.

The Fifth Element is always fun as is Galaxy Quest and Princess Bride.
Say Anything
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Strictly Ballroom….LOVE, love, love, Strictly Ballroom!
His Girl Friday (1940)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Spirited Away…I could go on and on and on…

um, your turn p1nk

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:17 PM

PALADIN

There are so many movies to choose from! I love movies! I love exclamation points!! Anyway, 5 of my favorites (in no major order) are...

Leon (the Professional)
Labyrinth
Ghostbusters
Aliens
Spider-Man

As I have seen Fifth Element mentioned a couple of times already here and I have mentioned Leon, I'd like to make a reccomendation to anyone who has enjoyed both or either of those movies. You should check out Wasabi. It is also made by Luc Besson (who made La Femme Nikita, Leon, and the Fifth Element). It's about a French cop (aptly played by Jean Reno) who travels to Japan for the funeral of his long-lost love.....and ends up fighting the Yakuza along the way. Great action and comedy.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:43 PM

REGINAROADIE

Well, I actually have a very long list of favorite movies, but I don't want to give a laundry list of my DVD collection.

But in no particular order, these are my favorites.

AMADEUS- This film is everything I go to the movies for. Great drama, exciting characters, a sweeping epic feeling, a new way of looking at the world, plus one of the most killer soundtracks ever.

BACK TO THE FUTURE 3- I saw this movie when I was five or six, and since then, I've always wanted to be a filmmaker. When the DeLorean was being pushed by a runaway locomotive towards the edge of a ravine in a one in a million chance to get Marty home, I knew what I wanted to do in life. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to give someone else the exact same thrill I got when watching that.

CLERKS- This to me is independent filmmaking at it's finest, as well as a movie that sums up my generation.

AUNTIE MAME- This is a lesser known film from the 50's. I saw it when I was a kid, and I was fascinated by it's humor, it's style and it's emphasis on character. I had never seen a movie like that, and it has bar none the best female lead character in a movie. One of my dream projects is to remake the movie, since it has so much that could be improved upon.

RAGING BULL- I don't really need to explain it. It's Scorsese at his finest, and it's just an incredible, visceral experience.

As for movies as of late that has inspired me, I have to go with GARDEN STATE. I liken watching GARDEN STATE to that of a spiritual experience.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:54 PM

FIVEBYFIVE

Five favorites? That's pretty tough. I'm just gonna go top-of-my-head here, so these are just a rough 5 of my favs:

(No particular order)

1. On the Waterfront - Best classic film ever. Period. Dunno why people love Citizen Kane over this.

2. Office Space - Great humor, great cast, and possibly the most quotable movie ever. Rarely a day at the copy center passes where I don't mutter 'PC load letter?'

3. Fight Club - A film to live your life by, if you dare.

4. Predator - Far from cerebral, but one of the most entertaining and ass-kicking films i've ever seen.

5. Battle Royale - Wow. Just wow. I remember the first time I saw this at a LAN party at about 3 in the morning, and thinking through the massive caffiene overdose that I understood it. Both shallow and impossibly deep, philosophical and ultraviolent. Oh, and it stars Takeshi Kitano on top of all that.

Recently nothing's caught my attention, except for "Shaun of the Dead" which in hindsight I should have added to this list.

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Paladin: So, no wacky zombie with a Hawaiian shirt, then?

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:42 PM

BATMARLOWE

OUT OF THE PAST
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1973)
GOODFELLAS
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

And many many more!

Like ANNIE HALL, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, THE RULES OF THE GAME

And many many more! And coming soon to a theatre near me....
SERENITY!

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:45 PM

RAT

Five already mentioned in this thread:
The Princess Bride
A Knights Tale
The Rocketeer
The Court Jester
Office Space

And five more:
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
Iron Monkey
Life is Beautiful
That Thing You Do!
The Inspector General

-Ratboy

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:54 PM

CALIGARI

There are moments in film viewing that transend experience, where one feels that one is not just watching a Really Big Screen with teevee fodder on it, but Art, composed _for_ theatrical viewing, and not just watching galloping tintypes on a section of sheet. That, for me, was watching _Lawrence of Arabia_, right after they restored it and replaced the missing footage, back inthe '80's. That was _the_ moment that film stopped being a fun distraction, stopped being Going To The Movies, akin to video games and _A-Team_ reruns, and started to be Something More. This was Poetry. This was Art.

Of course, at the time, I had no particular knowledge of what this More was. Sure, critics would go on about films being bad or good, and they would talk about other films that I had no idea what they were, so I merely assumed that the critics were being smart-asses. "Hey, look at me! I saw movies that you never heard of, and _that's_ why I'm qualified to say _Lost Boys_ sucks on ice!" I liked _Lost Boys_ when it first came out, but for the sake of originality, and I still stand by that. But the critics were mostly right. Something was missing in my filmviewing. What was it?

Spielberg, as always, satisfied my needs. I heard that he liked _Seven Samurai_, some Japanese movie that _Magnificent Seven_ was based on, and it was a movie that the critics seemed to like as well. I'd seen the Western, so I thought I'd see the Eastern. Mostly, I didn't get it. It especially spooked my young sensibilities to see Mifune's bare ass bopping about the last third of the film. That's scary stuff to a fifteen year old. But over a few years, it grew on me, and now I Get It. The World thinks in the same flm language that We do. Which, at the time, makes them less Alien to me.

The Japanese thing got into my blood, and I quickly found that they were doing animation a hell of a lot better than anything on teevee, and in some cases, better than Disney, which is like hearing about a new and better Jesus in some circles. One of the best films was _Akira_, which took my Hanna-Barbera views and trod upon them. I still haven't gotten over that.

A writer of some note called David J Schow had a collumn in _Fangoria_ Magazine. I knew his work at the crest of the splatterpunk scene, but the collumn rarely had anything to do with that. In one collumn, he mentioned a Hong Kong filmmaker called John Woo, who was Something Special. At the time, I was working as a video clerk for Tower Records, and it just so happened that there was a single copy of a subtitled edition of _The Killer_ on the shelf. I took it home and watched it. It was the first time that I shed tears of genuine emotion over an action sequence, and not because of the poetry of the sequence, but because of the _emotional content_ of the sequence, and rare thing those days, and these in filmed scenes of violence.

There is a certain romance in the Beauty of Ordinary Things. Many films feel a need to push plot forward without taking time to hang about and enjoy folks hanging about the sidelines, or even, allowing the filmmaker to interject interesting things into the narrative, just because it can be done. _Amelie_ is a film akin to Steinbeck's _Cannery Row_; a life-affirming tale told of regular individuals who have irregular ways of living life, but live fully they do. I read _Cannery Row_ every other month, and watch _Amelie_ every other other month....

Once upon a time, my parents took me out of school. I was healthy and fine and living in the mid-70's. There was no particular reason for me to be kept from school at the time. I got tossed into the back seat of the car and we three drove off one Thursday in mid-spring, on a _school_ day, ferfuckssake! We ended up at a theater in Century City, I believe. I'd never gone to a movie in the daytime, in all of my eight years; half the time it was drive-ins to see _Pink Panther_ sequels or Disney flicks, once it was to see _Fantasia_ in my first sit-down inside theater, which mostly went over my head. But this, this was new, seeing a movie at daytime, on a school day, when I should be _in_ school! Long story short, I played hooky with Mom and Dad to see _Star Wars_. And that, I think really separated All Things from Film.

That's five. But that is the proverbial teardrop in the ocean as far as I'm concerned....

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:00 PM

KINGOFKOINS

The Killer(1989) - John Woo's greatest achievement, and still something that will always get to me.

The Seven Samurai(1954) - The greatest film ever made.

The Maltese Falcon(1941) - I love Sam Spade so gorramn much.

Rainy Dog(1997) - Rain is pretty. And evil, apparently.

Double Indemnity(1944) - Nobody writes dialogue better than Billy Wilder.

Shaun of the Dead(2004) - Should have taken best picture. (I say this only half in jest)

Oldboy(2003) - The best film of the past 5 years.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:24 PM

INDIGO

How to choose... well, on this moment's thought, though I'm perfectly sure that it's no concrete thing (and what sense of taste is?):

Sentimental favorites;
Little Big Man -- early Dustin Hoffman.
Practical Magic -- being from a family of witches, this is just pure fun to watch. Well, I mean the aunts especially. Who wouldn't.
Lawrence of Arabia.. beats most anything for epic story. While we're at it with Peter O'Toole: The Lion in Winter. Perfect cast, perfect script. Katherine Hepburn as the rather disposed but let out for Christmas from jail (trying on jewelry in a mirror with her husband's lover) "Shall I wear this? Perhaps I should hang it from my nipples... but that might shock the troops."
Crash -- wow; it truly turned me off the first time I saw it. Squicky. But then I saw it again and again and began to see how daring that it was. Not saying that it was great, but certainly memorable.
Apocalypse Now -- my all time, knock me down flick. Saw it in high school and trembled all the way through it. Studied my SE Asian history final exams while high and watching it. (straight A's)

I'm a movie junkie. Don't own a tv. Can't even say that these are what I think are the best films... a different thought all together. The Seven Samurai -- so great that it had our kid (who really didn't read quickly yet) watch it twice, totally rapt. The Bicycle Thief and so much that came out of the Cinecitta in Italy.
Ah, I blather.

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Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:48 PM

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
Y'know the fantasmic, life-changingly brilliant onces?

Chinatown
Million Dollar Hotel
Raiders otLA
Blade Runner
2001

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Bruce Springsteen, "Devils & Dust"

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Monday, March 28, 2005 2:25 AM

SPOOKYJESUS

My Favourite film is......

Dr. Strangelove!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

2 through 5 would be

2 - Citizen Kane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/

3 - Monsters, Inc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198781/

4 - Requiem for a Dream
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/

And a new entry at numnber 5.....

5 - Finding Neverland
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308644/

But coming soon........!
SERENTIY
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/

Which, looking at my imdb account I've got a registered vote of 10 for it. Everyone should vote now so.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:17 AM

P1NKISPUNK

Thank-you kindly thatweirdgirl..

Currently, as a young member of what they refer to as "Generation Y" my favourite films are...

1) Garden State - Someone above said they likened it to a spiritual experience. Very true. Strange how I empathise so completely with this 29 year old american jewish film maker (says the 16 year old British atheist)

2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - This is the only Kaufman I have seen but my God..incredible. And Jim Carrey *jaw drops*

3) Fight Club - The movie is completely incredible, as is Edward Norton in general (listen to the commentary for some of his spectacular insight)

4) Moulin Rouge - One of Joss's favourites I think. The storyline has been done so many times before, but it just builds up such a captivationg intensity in every way, through direction, acting, cinematography, costume, writing etc. It's like an actual world.

5) Donnie Darko - Hmmmm was reluctant to put this on my list because it's now become the "cool" thing to say is your favourite movie, regardless of whether you actually understood what was going on. Script is a bit weak in places, but again in just builds up such incredible intensity, on so many levels - so in some ways you can't really articulate what your seeing its just these huge feelings. The music and Jake Gyllenhaal play a huge part in that.

This list may change when I recieve these dvds for my birthday...

Annie Hall
Citizen Kane
The Breakfast Club
Harold and Maude
Being John Malkovitch
Adaptation

Thanks for all the replies :-) I blush at how few of these titles I've heard of..

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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:49 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

Spectacular insight? As I recall, Ed Norton said that the scene in the airplane where Jack and Tyler first meet was one the best written in the book, and then Brad Pitt and David Fincher told him that the scene wasn't in the book.

But, I digress...fantastic movie based on a great (but short) book.

thatweirdgirl beat me to The Court Jester (which contains probably the best sword fight on any movie ((take that Star Wars))) and His Girl Friday...So, here's some more that I don't think have been mentioned.

Beauty and the Beast
The only animated film to be nominated for best picture, and for good reason. Dark when it needs to be dark, funny when it needs to be funny, and some of the best writing ever.

The Incredibles
In the same vein, Pixar, I think, understands that computer animation is just a medium to tell a great story. While they tend to accomplish more with this medium than most that try it, the results speak for themselves.

LA Confidential
Not one for the kids, LA Confidential is a spot on adaptation of a great book. Granted, its only about a third of that book, but there some real power behind the performances, especially Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe.

Arsenic and Old Lace
I won't say much, because I've found that people's jaws fall to the floor once they find out what it is they're really watching.

My Man Godfrey
A great old movie, showcasing one of the finest actors ever. William Powell may long be remembered for The Thin Man series, but he really shines (Shiny!) in this flick about a bum who teaches everyone a little humility.

And, there's five...that went too quick. I didn't even mention The Quiet Man, Toy Story, Fright Night (My favorite horror film), Bringing Up Baby, The Terminator (and, I mean the first one!), The Game, Minority Report, A Damsel in Distress, ETC!

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Monday, March 28, 2005 4:07 AM

EST120

Quote:
Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
Sideways - Most recent example of a film that just spoke to me at the moment I saw it.

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.

in response to this thread, it is so hard to choose 5, but here are some of my favorites.

beauty and the beast (as someone mentioned earlier). i loved it as a child, i still love it today.

someone mentioned LA confidential which i may have to agree with. i loved it when i saw it. the gunfight at the victory motel is one of the most amazing and slickest i have ever seen. it was great!

a christmas story. i watch it every year (multiple times). all of us had a similar thing when we were young. something we HAD to have and tried everything we could to get it. some of us still do this.

when harry met sally. i guess that is a standard for a lot of people.

bridget jones' diary. okay, i am a guy, but i like some "chick flicks" and this one probably qualifies. i just find it hilarious.

of course, these are not my ABSOLUTE favorites because that seems to change all the time. these are just ones that i thought of on the spot.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:38 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

oh yeah, Harold and Maude! How could I have forgotten that one?

and everything on ManWithPez's list...and all the other ones too. Ditto to Willaim Powell, great actor.

Know what? Lets just say TWG likes movies and call it good.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:43 AM

EMBERS

Quote:
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/

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Monday, March 28, 2005 6:58 AM

OPPYH

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.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:07 AM

CYBERSNARK

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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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:20 AM

P1NKISPUNK

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...

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Monday, March 28, 2005 7:47 AM

JADEHAND

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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Monday, March 28, 2005 8:45 AM

ZOL

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.)

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Monday, March 28, 2005 10:25 AM

STEVETHEPIRATE

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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Monday, March 28, 2005 11:52 AM

P1NKISPUNK

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...

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Monday, March 28, 2005 11:57 AM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

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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.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Monday, March 28, 2005 12:12 PM

STEVETHEPIRATE

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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Monday, March 28, 2005 3:58 PM

DIETCOKE

Okay, great movies THAT SPOKE TO ME! These are movies that at the time were just what I needed:

1. All three "Lord of the Rings"
2. "Shawshank Redemption"
3. "Rudy"
4. "The Philadelphia Story"
5. "Gone With the Wind"
6. "It's a Wonderful Life"
7. "Charriots of Fire"
8. "Ghandi"
9. "High Noon"
10. "Rear Window"

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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:01 PM

CYBERSNARK

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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
(unless you're the idiot first year film student sitting two rows behind me

He goes to your theatre too?!?

Needless to say, I'm a great fan of the Shepherd's "special place in Hell" speech.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:11 PM

JADEHAND

Quote:
Originally posted by STEVEthePIRATE:
and Boondock Saints.

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Boondock Saints!
you rock.

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Monday, March 28, 2005 6:00 PM

BERENTAUR

Don't really have a top 5... too much of a movie junkie. These are some I love:

Lord of the rings (all of them, but especially Fellowship)
Before sunrise and
Before sunset
Eternal sunshine...
Finding Neverland (or anything with Mr Depp in it)
Garden State
Donnie Darko
Hard days Night

there are many, many more........

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:37 AM

ZOID

p1nki:

Life-changing (coz movies can do that):

"It's A Wonderful Life" (this is what life is all about. No further primer is required to identify what's important and to illustrate how seemingly inconsequential choices place you in the position to affect thousands of other lives, either for good or ill.)

"Monty Python's Meaning of Life" (coz even tho' it's funny, there are some spookily true life lessons in it. The Galaxy Song kicked off a 20-years and counting obsession with cosmology and physics.)

"Fight Club" (coz it scared the beejeezus out of The Money, and they needed scaring.)

"Bladerunner" (coz it was the first to question what 'life' might include.)

"The Matrix" (coz it modernized Plato's Cave http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm ; tho' I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for the sequels, specifically, because that element was gone.)

Philosophically,

zoid

P.S.
I rewatched "The Devil's Advocate" last night. Although I am no fan of Pacino's and am lukewarm on Keanu Reeves (loved his "Little Buddha", no pun intended), the movie does have its strong philosophical moments in Pacino's monologues. (EDIT: ...and strong religious moments in Theron's full frontals. Just bringing it back from 'lofty'.)
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:45 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

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Originally posted by zoid:
The Matrix" (coz it modernized Plato's Cave http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm ; tho' I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for the sequels, specifically, because that element was gone.)

more reasons to love Mr. Zed.

Salut! I lift my PepsiMilk to you, sir. Thank goodness someone has heard of Plato and the shadows in his cave.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:51 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

See...the machines in The Matrix should've gone the route of the machines in The Terminator and just tried to wipe us all out. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would've been a lump in The Matrix. I can't get up enough energy to type "I can't get up enough energy" sometimes. The Matrix would have spit me out for actually taking up their energy as opposed to providing it. Oh, and Plato's Cave, which I just read about here and looked up is pretty cool too.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:04 AM

MILT

1. Shawshank Redemtpion
2. Lost In Translation
3. Collateral
4. United States Of Leland
5. Fight Club

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:31 PM

CHRISISALL

Here's my lists:

MY FAVOURITE FIVE
Blade Runner
Back to the Future (1,2&3, it's one movie to me)
Star Trek the Motion picture
Superman the Movie
Aliens

...and having attained Kolihnar I will objectivly give you the FIVE BEST
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Star Trek the Motion Picture
The Abyss
Solaris (recent version)

I did not include Serenity 'cause I didn' see it yet, I did not include Airwolf 'cause technically it's a "pilot", not a movie, and I did not include the Terminator films 'cause the whole concept is ridiculous; one cannot send ones' father back in time to meet ones' mother when ones' father did not meet ones' mother in the original timeline, thereby never creating the son to send the father back in the first place! I did not include Star Wars or other Star Trek films due to the limit of only five films. I did not include The Matrix 'cause I can't get 2 and 3 out of my head. I did not include Army of Darkness 'cause it's not just a movie, it's another level of reality as we know it.

uh-oh, Deadites, gotta hit the gas!

Chrisisall

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:28 PM

LISTER

Finally someone mentioned Army of Darkness! That's #1 on my list. It's just movie fun.

Others:

Starship Troopers
Better Off Dead
The Quick And The Dead
The Hudsucker Proxy

I'm sure there are others, like Airheads and Gladiator, but these come to mind first.

I'm a little different in that I like the third Matrix best, as well as the second Predator and third Aliens movie, but just about anything Raimi does I like, with AOD tops of them all.

Run to the Tower, and call out the Magus
If he has caused this, we'll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles, AND REMOVE HIS HANDS!
- Red Horse Rainbow, CLUTCH

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:21 PM

CHRISISALL

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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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:44 PM

ZOID

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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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:17 PM

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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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:28 PM

Double post.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:08 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:16 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

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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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:29 AM

CALHOUN

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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:28 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Quote:
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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:33 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Quote:
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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'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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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:01 AM

CHRISISALL

"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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