Favourite Movies?

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P1NKISPUNK

Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:17 PM

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?

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:34 PM

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.

EMBERS

Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:04 PM

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

ZOL

Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:55 PM

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

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:38 PM

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"

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, March 28, 2005 1:12 AM

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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PALADIN

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:17 AM

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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REGINAROADIE

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:43 AM

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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FIVEBYFIVE

Monday, March 28, 2005 5:54 AM

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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BATMARLOWE

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:42 AM

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!

RAT

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:45 AM

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

CALIGARI

Monday, March 28, 2005 6:54 AM

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, t

KINGOFKOINS

Monday, March 28, 2005 7:00 AM

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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INDIGO

Monday, March 28, 2005 8:24 AM

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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Monday, March 28, 2005 9:48 AM

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"

SPOOKYJESUS

Monday, March 28, 2005 12:25 PM

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.

P1NKISPUNK

Monday, March 28, 2005 1:17 PM

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..

MANWITHPEZ

Monday, March 28, 2005 1:49 PM

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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EST120

Monday, March 28, 2005 2:07 PM

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.

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:38 PM

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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EMBERS

Monday, March 28, 2005 3:43 PM

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/

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

Quote:
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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DIETCOKE

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:58 AM

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"

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:01 AM

Quote:
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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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by STEVEthePIRATE:
and Boondock Saints.

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BERENTAUR

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:00 AM

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........

ZOID

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:37 PM

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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THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:45 PM

Quote:
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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MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:51 PM

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..."

MILT

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:04 PM

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

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:31 PM

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

LISTER

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:28 PM

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

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:21 AM

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

ZOID

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:44 AM

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

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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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AX

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:17 AM

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.

AX

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:28 AM

Double post.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:08 AM

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 11:16 AM

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 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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CALHOUN

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:29 PM

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..

THATWEIRDGIRL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:28 PM

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 6:33 PM

Quote:
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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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:01 PM

"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

EMBERS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:08 PM

that is the Court Jester
starring Danny Kaye...well worth checking out!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/

THESOMNAMBULIST

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:42 PM

I think I may have seen this when I was really young..... It rings familiar.

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MANWITHPEZ

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:56 PM

The sword fight in The Court Jester featured Basil Rathbone and Danny Kaye, though you'll notice that Rathbone is replaced from time with a stand in...Which was actually the fencing instructor on the film. Kaye was good, so its written somewhere...I'll have to find it, but he was wild, because the performance calls for someone who doesn't know what he's doing in places. Rathbone demonstrated his fencing skills several times in other movies, and tended to be very precise. In other words, he was a little overwhelmed by Kaye, and you'll notice that the swords in that scene are a little the worse for wear afterwards.

The sword fight is my favorite scene. Followed closely by "The Black Fox" song and dance number in the forest. And, both of those followed very closely by Danny Kaye having to show the baby's birthmark to people at the beginning and end of the movie. Especially at the end. That's a bloody hoot!

Plus...Angela Landsbury was so hot in that movie. So was Glynis Johns, I mean, she was pretty hot in most of the older movies she was in, but she looked great as a brunette!

As an added bonus: I got to write the phrase Angela Landsbury was so hot!

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..."

SALTYGOODNESS

Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:00 AM

Wow, thanks for all of the great movie suggestions...I am now heading over to my Blockbuster.com queue to fill up!

My faves that come to mind:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Swingers
The Secret of Nimh
Star Wars trilogy
The Three Amigos
Moulin Rouge
Sense and Sensibility

ZOID

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:09 AM

SaltyGoodness wrote:

Quote:
Moulin Rouge

Goood one. The ending credits get me, straight thru the heart. Likewise, I am not a Kidman-hater (even if she did push our movie back 6 months). I thought she was heart-breaking in Moulin Rouge.

Maybe as a payback for delaying our wait for a sequel an additional half a year, Ms. Kidman could pry herself off of husband du jour and do a cameo in BDM II: Shadow. How about a scene with her as a saloon singer (kind of reprising her role as 'Satine') on some backwater moon.

Right after Simon's duet with her, Serenity departs on a Toulouse-Lautrec Life-Size Bobble-Head Doll run; but Simon vows to come back for her. Unfortunately, the Reavers attack within the hour, and we see her consumption-ridden lung inspected and then discarded, uneaten, onto the refuse pile.

A single tear flows from her lifeless eye, down her cheek, and onto the dusty ground; a fitting tribute to the ill-fated love she and Simon will never share... Then the camera pans back, and we can see that her face is now the left brassiere cup of Mama Hog, Chief Medicine Woman of the Reaver war party. She burps loudly and kicks at her brats, who are busily plucking the sideburns off that narcoleptic 'Roxanne'-singing guy...

Is there any movie that would not be instantly better with the addition of Reavers? Somebody wanna do Gigli?

Gastronomically,

zoid

P.S.
Wow. That was pretty disgusting, huh? I blame it all on Joss (and the anti-nausea medications I'm taking: "Do not operate machinery or express yourself on the Internet"). I mean, equating Reavers with biker mamas: Where do these sick thoughts come from?

P.P.S.
Your moniker, SaltyGoodness... Please tell me that's got something to do with really liking chicken noodle soup, or something innocuous like that...
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YT

Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:07 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
4. Cyrano De Bergerac

Josie or Gerry?

SALTYGOODNESS

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:09 AM

Wow, Zoid, I'm truly speechless! I totally agree with you about Nicole Kidman--she broke my heart in Moulin Rouge--in the best way! I love everything about that film.

You wrote:

P.P.S.
Your moniker, SaltyGoodness... Please tell me that's got something to do with really liking chicken noodle soup, or something innocuous like that...

I'm a bigger ANGEL fan than even Firefly. The first time Cordelia sees Angel (on Buffy) she says "Hello, Salty Goodness!" (also reprised in Spin the Bottle on ANGEL S4.

Rachel

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by YT:
Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
4. Cyrano De Bergerac

Josie or Gerry?

That would be Gerard. I've not seen the one with Josié Ferrer but I'd like to.

The thing with cinema is if you catch a film at just the right time in your life it has so much more impact on you....This was the case for me and Cyrano De Bergerac.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I've not seen the one with Josié Ferrer but I'd like to.

There are three DVD transfers. Alpha Video (DVD cover: full-colour head shot of Cyrano (for a B&W movie)) is $5, but is worth less; if possible, avoid it. The other two (DVD cover drawings, one on yellow background, other on black (double-feature)) are good transfers.

Quote:
The thing with cinema is if you catch a film at just the right time in your life it has so much more impact on you....This was the case for me and Cyrano De Bergerac.

While not disagreeing with your principle, for me, Cyrano is so good it wouldn't matter.

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REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:53 AM

It seems that most of my favorites are trilogies.

Back to the Future trilogy

Star Wars trilogy (THX'ed original, not the "Greedo shooting first" pansy-assed, lousy CG, version)

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Gone in 60 Seconds (original 1973 version)

Dead Alive (also known as Brain Dead)

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:56 AM

YT wrote:

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While not disagreeing with your principle, for me, Cyrano is so good it wouldn't matter.

Very true YT.

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GLOWYRM

Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by christhecynic:

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.

for me the crow is my "number one all time, cant go wrong, give me more, could quote it word for word" movie. not just because of the plot, the real story of eric and shelley v's the blood and gore rush of revenge, or the almost hidden stories of "albreicht" "sarah" and "gabrielle"(the cat) this movie came at a particularly vunrable time in my life, and even though i watched it so many times i was quoting it word for word (i lost count at 147 times in the first two years of its release) i still to this day have parts of that movie seared into my mind. to remind me that "it cant rain all the time".

other than that, give me tarrantino, kevin smith, robin williams and robert rodreguez anyday... why settle for 5 movies when 1 movie and 4 awesome actor/director/producers will do?!?!?

"mother is the name of god on the lips and hearts of all children... morphine is bad for you... your daughter is on the streets waiting for you..."
eric draven to darla in the crow

"it cant rain all the time"
performed by "hangman's joke" in the crow

P1NKISPUNK

Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SaltyGoodness:
Wow, Zoid, I'm truly speechless! I totally agree with you about Nicole Kidman--she broke my heart in Moulin Rouge--in the best way! I love everything about that film.

I'm a bigger ANGEL fan than even Firefly. The first time Cordelia sees Angel (on Buffy) she says "Hello, Salty Goodness!" (also reprised in Spin the Bottle on ANGEL S4.

Rachel

I completely love every single frame of that movie. It's just incredible in every sense and I could literally watch it a trillion times. I'd say I found Ewan more heartbreaking than Nicole, but maybe that's because I'm a female? The throaty scottish cry at the end, got me *wipes away tear* I wonder what Baz Luhrmans up to at the moment, haven't seen him for a while. His Romeo and Juliet I thought was fantastic too, but Moulin Rouge has to be his best work.

As for being an Angel fan more than a Firefly, I thought yes I'm an Angel fan! No wait...Buffy's the first and best....no but hang on Firefly. So I'd just have to say, like Joss's wife Kai did, that they all satisfy a different need and I love 'em all equally :-)

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
I wonder what Baz Luhrmans up to at the moment, haven't seen him for a while. His Romeo and Juliet I thought was fantastic too, but Moulin Rouge has to be his best work.

Don't get me wrong, I love Moulin Rouge (I really do), but in my opinion Strictly Ballroom is just great. It is my favorite Baz work. Not everyone can watch it and enjoy it...in fact I've only met four other people...and the Pope (it's one of his favorite movies, odd...oh and I haven't met the Pope).

If you like Baz, try Strictly Ballroom.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:21 PM

SaltyGoodness wrote:

Quote:
I'm a bigger ANGEL fan than even Firefly. The first time Cordelia sees Angel (on Buffy) she says "Hello, Salty Goodness!" (also reprised in Spin the Bottle on ANGEL S4.

Rachel

So, it's a 'blood' thang, then. I thought it might be some obscure reference to a pet name for Lot's wife, post-Sodom...

-zed

P1NKISPUNK

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:02 PM

Okay I'll rent it and give it a go :-)

CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:19 PM

I'm with ya Glowyrm, The Crow is awsome and I cry everytime I watch it. All the more affecting that Brandon died making it. He was a rising star.

Chrisisall

EMBERS

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
SaltyGoodness wrote:
Quote:
I'm a bigger ANGEL fan than even Firefly. The first time Cordelia sees Angel (on Buffy) she says "Hello, Salty Goodness!" (also reprised in Spin the Bottle on ANGEL S4.

So, it's a 'blood' thang, then. I thought it might be some obscure reference to a pet name for Lot's wife, post-Sodom...
-zed

not blood... Cordy was just a HS girl when she said it,
and she didn't know Angel was a Vampire at the time...
personally I thought we were talking about other bodily fluids....

ZOID

Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:56 PM

embers wrote:

Quote:
...personally I thought we were talking about other bodily fluids...

Er, yeah... I was trying so hard not to go there. I figured I was getting in enough trouble just comparing Lot's wife to a salt lick...

Nauseously,
-zed

P.S.
Since it was strictly girl-girl, it was okay for you to point out the 'other fluids' possibility. I'd have been accused of being a lecherous hump if I'd openly suggested it. (NB: Even tho' the thought had likewise crossed my mind... Just call me 'LH', okay?)

MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:49 PM

When I was living in the dorms in Nebraska when I first joined the Air Force (lo, these many years ago), we were getting ready for an inspection. Me, and my two other roommates shared two rooms. We moved all our beds into one room, and all the entertainment stuff into the other. So, of course, before the inspection, we had to move everything back again, and vice versa once it was done. We accomplished it, but that night, there were two movies on that we couldn't stop watching. One was Cocktail, and I stand beside it. I think its a great movie, and I enjoy watching it every time I see it. The other was Strictly Ballroom, and it was like crack on the screen...While we were trying to clean and watch the movie, several other airman came into our rooms (we were kind of a gathering place for most of them), sat down, and started watching it with no complaint. I like all of Baz Luhrman's movies.

Plus, I noticed that in I, Robot, Sonny moved just like Paul Mercurio.

Actually, that's a joke. I mean, I know he was the choreographer for the movie, teaching robot movement, but I didn't notice anything.

The only other thing I want to say about Paul Mercurio is that after seeing Exit To Eden, I've seen too much of him. Every other shot in that flick is of that man's ass.

Blech!

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Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:06 PM

think it odd, that today of all days, we should be discussing Ballroom and Paul Mercurio? It's his birthday.

i admit too much of a nice ass can be a bad thing...sometimes...other times it is very much a good thing...i kinda liked it.

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CAT85

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:18 PM

Wow, theres so many...and so many different kinds(sci-fi, western, classics...)
But some of my faves would have to be:
Willow,
Pride and Prejudice,
Pirates of the Caribbean,
Grease,
Aliens,
(all of which I watch repeatly)
And my faves trilogies are:
The Lord of the Rings,
Star Wars,
Indiana Jones,
Theres just too many to name!

PAINISSCARY

Friday, April 1, 2005 1:19 AM

Always difficult to narrow the list down to five or ten, but here it goes:

The Bicycle Thief
Lenny
The Devils
Two For the Road
Husbands and Wives
Star Wars: ANH
Singin' in the Rain
Nashville
Slacker
The Conversation
Gallipoli

So many more... here's a few:
Finding Nemo
Crimes & Misdemeanors
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Before Sunrise
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Moonlighting
Jean de Florette
Au Revoir Les Enfants
It's A Wonderful Life

"Hamsters is nice."

RUE

Friday, April 1, 2005 4:36 AM

To Kill a Mockingbird - rabies was a big deal where I grew up, the scene with the rabid dog struck fear into me
Blade Runner - an alien earth
Never Cry Wolf - one scene of mountains, it gave me a feeling I can't describe
The Duelists - gorgeous photography, and great physical acting in a duel scene
The Man Facing Southeast - I have no idea why it had such an impact, but after all the years, it is still quietly there

I saw that somebody likes (? did I get that right - likes?) Brazil. I squirmed through the whole thing. The ugly city, the oozing face ("I had a complication of my complication"), the claustrophobia, the torture ... kneecap vs electric drill ...

GLOWYRM

Saturday, April 2, 2005 8:44 AM

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Originally posted by rue:
To Kill a Mockingbird - rabies was a big deal where I grew up, the scene with the rabid dog struck fear into me

wow rue, mocking bird was the greatest book, i havent seen the movie but i can tell you, the story makes me cry every time i read it.

i rank it (as a book) right up there with "a time to kill"by grishom... same kind of emotions, strong family roles and pivitol moments... gotta love it.

"glowyrm is getting old"