favorite movies

[cristian12]

whats you favorite movie mine is a clockwork orange

[Jazzhands]

2001: A Space Odyssey, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Reds. I'm kinda a movie buff.

[Pirate Utopian]

Shaft, Black Dynamite, The Mack and Scarface.

[Il Medico]

Black Dynamite
Cream-Corn NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Terminator X]

A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, City of God

[leftace53]

Stalker, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Prestige, Lolita, Flintstones meet the Jetsons, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, A Beautiful Mind, and lots more that I can't think of this second.

[Invincible Summer]

Amelie, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Brick, Atonement, Terminator 1 and 2, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, The Fountain, House of Flying Daggers, Old Boy, and a whole bunch more

[Sir Comradical]

Stalker, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Prestige, Lolita, Flintstones meet the Jetsons, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, A Beautiful Mind, and lots more that I can't think of this second.

Those ones, yes. To establish my socialist credentials I'd add 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' and 'Matewan'.

[cristian12]

American history x is a good one

[Chimurenga.]

Taxi Driver, Eraserhead, etc.

[Sir Comradical]

American history x is a good one

Why does Derek change?

1. He goes to prison and realises that the neo-nazis weren't behaving like true neo-nazis.
2. He get's raped by them for his disloyalty.
3. A black inmate befriends him, makes him laugh and tells Derek about his harsh sentence.

I felt it was somewhat superficial.

[Ele'ill]

The Myth Of Fingerprints



http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Myth_Of_Fingerprints/The_Myth_Of_Fingerprints/2481124

[Ele'ill]

Lost and Delirious.

[Uncle Hank]

I'm only hovering around this thread so I can thank x359594's list (when/if posted) and look super cultured and cosmopolitan. :thumbup1:

My list: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=35012358

P.S. Commissarusa I'm not sure if that was sarcasm, (and if your user title didn't set my douchebag meter at approximately through the roof, I might be more sympathetic) but those are some fairly well known films, and by no means does putting those in your favorites make you a film buff. I mean at least you mentioned Kubrick, Bergman and a film with some pretty l33t communist sympathies, but sourcing those films as citation for your film buff-ness (-ocity?) is a pretty weak case. What I'm saying is don't be one of those smug losers who sees a bit of grand cinema and declares themself a film buff, k? I've seen quite a few films at my current age (including the ones mentioned by yourself) but I don't consider myself one. Idk. It's whatev.

[Os Cangaceiros]

My favorite film of all time is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).

All others pale in comparison.

[Spawn of Stalin]

Man From Deep River, Drunken Master, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Gerry, Saw, Watership Down.

[Pirate Utopian]

Cream-Corn NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UXXeIRRwGYY
FOyjmppAMI4
The greatest comedy ever.

[cristian12]

My favorite film of all time is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).

All others pale in comparison.
did not find it that scary

[Jazzhands]

I'm only hovering around this thread so I can thank x359594's list (when/if posted) and look super cultured and cosmopolitan. :thumbup1:

My list: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=35012358

P.S. Commissarusa I'm not sure if that was sarcasm, (and if your user title didn't set my douchebag meter at approximately through the roof, I might be more sympathetic) but those are some fairly well known films, and by no means does putting those in your favorites make you a film buff. I mean at least you mentioned Kubrick, Bergman and a film with some pretty l33t communist sympathies, but sourcing those films as citation for your film buff-ness (-ocity?) is a pretty weak case. What I'm saying is don't be one of those smug losers who sees a bit of grand cinema and declares themself a film buff, k? I've seen quite a few films at my current age (including the ones mentioned by yourself) but I don't consider myself one. Idk. It's whatev.

yes, it was sarcasm. thanks for noticing. should have made that more obvious. and what about my username sets off your douchebag meter?

[Uncle Hank]

yes, it was sarcasm. thanks for noticing. should have made that more obvious. and what about my username sets off your douchebag meter?
Not username, user title. The whole free Tyrlop thing. I wouldn't be surprised if that's sarcasm as well though, I know the premise is essentially a joke to all the serious users, but I've found there seem to be some people who actually feel Tyrlop, while contributing a whole shitload of nothing to this forum, is being opressed or some shit? Haha I'm prolly a might bit out of touch with the forum and relatively new users, so sorry if you felt I was attacking you. I can see how I might have come across that way.

[x359594]

I'm only hovering around this thread so I can thank x359594's list (when/if posted) and look super cultured and cosmopolitan...

Well, as a matter of fact at least half (if not more) of the movies on my list are considered Hollywood fodder by culture vulture critics. You'll see when I get it together and post it.

[x359594]

My favorite movies:

Killer of Sheep, Sansho Dayu, Au Hasard Balthasar, Paisa, 7 Women, Chimes at Midnight, Anatahan, Under Capricorn, Play Dirty,Red Line 7000, Dog Star Man, Our Trip to Africa, Bigger Than Life, Shock Corridor, Ride Lonesome, Tokyo Monogatari, Akasen Chitai, Gion Festival Music, Tokyo Twilight, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, They Were Expendable, An American Tragedy (Sternberg,) L'age d'or, Diary of a Chambermaid (both versions, Renoir and Bunuel,) Belle du jour, Red River, Shanghai Triad, Blood of Jesus, The Black Cat (Ulmer,) Ai no corrida (aka In the Realm of the Senses,)The Profound Desire of the Gods, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Imitation of Life, Man of the West.

[Invincible Summer]

Isn't the term "movie" sort of redundant to use today? I mean, are there any films (hell, not everyone uses film either) that do not have moving pictures and sound? I always found it weird that we still say "movie."

[Os Cangaceiros]

My favorite movies:

Killer of Sheep, Sansho Dayu, Au Hasard Balthasar, Paisa, 7 Women, Chimes at Midnight, Anatahan, Under Capricorn, Play Dirty,Red Line 7000, Dog Star Man, Our Trip to Africa, Bigger Than Life, Shock Corridor, Ride Lonesome, Tokyo Monogatari, Akasen Chitai, Gion Festival Music, Tokyo Twilight, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, They Were Expendable, An American Tragedy (Sternberg,) L'age d'or, Diary of a Chambermaid (both versions, Renoir and Bunuel,) Belle du jour, Red River, Shanghai Triad, Blood of Jesus, The Black Cat (Ulmer,) Ai no corrida (aka In the Realm of the Senses,)The Profound Desire of the Gods, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Imitation of Life, Man of the West.



Wow. I've seen, like, two of the films you've listed.

[Ele'ill]

The Blue Lagoon.

Fuck the sequel- how can you make a sequel to a classic like that?









With heaps of bullshit- that's how.








(I've watched both)

[x359594]

Wow. I've seen, like, two of the films you've listed.

It's the list of a cinephile. I grew up seeing second run Hollywood features, Japanese movies in Little Tokyo, art movies, indie productions and avant garde movies at various inexpensive Los Angeles venues in the 1960s and 70s (though I saw most of the a-g movies when I moved to NYC.)

[Pretty Flaco]

Waking Life, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Life of Brian, Jackass, Army of Darkness, and Ferris Bueller's Day off!

[Os Cangaceiros]

It's the list of a cinephile. I grew up seeing second run Hollywood features, Japanese movies in Little Tokyo, art movies, indie productions and avant garde movies at various inexpensive Los Angeles venues in the 1960s and 70s (though I saw most of the a-g movies when I moved to NYC.)

That's cool...the only genre of film I'm pretty well-versed in is Horror, which in the film world is like saying that you're a gourmet connoisseur of fast food.

[Il Medico]

My favorite movies:

Killer of Sheep, Sansho Dayu, Au Hasard Balthasar, Paisa, 7 Women, Chimes at Midnight, Anatahan, Under Capricorn, Play Dirty,Red Line 7000, Dog Star Man, Our Trip to Africa, Bigger Than Life, Shock Corridor, Ride Lonesome, Tokyo Monogatari, Akasen Chitai, Gion Festival Music, Tokyo Twilight, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, They Were Expendable, An American Tragedy (Sternberg,) L'age d'or, Diary of a Chambermaid (both versions, Renoir and Bunuel,) Belle du jour, Red River, Shanghai Triad, Blood of Jesus, The Black Cat (Ulmer,) Ai no corrida (aka In the Realm of the Senses,)The Profound Desire of the Gods, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Imitation of Life, Man of the West.




Holy Fuck. I have only heard of a couple of these, and I don't think I've seen any of them.

EDIT: Nevermind, I have seen Belle du Jour, but still, damn.

[x359594]

...the only genre of film I'm pretty well-versed in is Horror, which in the film world is like saying that you're a gourmet connoisseur of fast food.

On the contrary, Horror receives its due from such critics as the late Robin Wood (a Marxist by the way) in his book The American Nightmare where he champions Texas Chainsaw Massacre, George Romero's zombie movies, Larry Cohen's movies and other modern horror movies. Another Left critic who values horror movies is Tony Williams.

The critics who respect horror movies prefer the the films of the 1930s and jump ahead to the 70s where they see a renaissance of the genre and trace its present development back to that decade. Not to say that they disdain every horror movie from the 40s through the 60s but it's in the 1970s that the horror movie as a genre comes into its own.

[x359594]

...I have only heard of a couple of these, and I don't think I've seen any of them.

It's a mix of Hollywood releases, Japanese classics, French New Wave, avant garde and indie movies made between 1932 and 1977.

These pictures are westerns, war movies, melodramas, horror, crime, neo-realism, avant-garde non-narrative. I could come up with another list of favorites along the same lines. A lot of them are on DVD now but not all.

[M-26-7]

Chocolate (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183252/) is one of my favorite movies, but I don't tell people that, because when I do they invariably go, "You mean Chocolat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/)?"

My all-time favorite is probably The Wind That Shakes the Barley. A movie about the Spanish Civil War by the same director, Ken Loach, is also really good: Land and Freedom.

[MortyMingledon]

In Bruges is great. I find it hilarious. And not really relating to the question at hand, but the play that movie is loosely based on ,The Dumb Waiter, is also a must-see.

Then, on a whole different level of humour, I also find Superbad extremely funny.

[Jazzhands]

Ferris Bueller's Day off!

saying that's your favorite movie is like saying you enjoy sex. doesn't everyone?

[praxis1966]

I dare say my tastes run somewhat similar to x359594's these days at least in terms of French New Wave and Japanese "Golden Age" films. He probably knows a little more about them than I do, but then again he's had a couple decades' head start on me.:p

My favorites are Rashomon, Ikiru, Tengoku to jigoku, Wild Strawberries, Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, The Seventh Seal, L'Armee des ombres, Le Samourai, Un flic, Made in USA, M, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket (actually, Kubrick's entire filmography apart from Barry Lyndon), Bloody Sunday, Hunger, Let the Right One In, 28 Days Later, Se7en, Blade Runner, Syriana, Amorres Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Hable con ella, Todo sobre mi madre, El espinazo del diablo, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance, La Battaglia di Algeri, Gomorrah, Voces Inocentes, Das weiss Band, Shadows, A Woman Under the Influence, Down by Law, Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...

There's more where that came from (and I haven't even mentioned my favorite documentaries), but I doubt anybody really gives a shit anyhow... lulz

[Il Medico]

It's a mix of Hollywood releases, Japanese classics, French New Wave, avant garde and indie movies made between 1932 and 1977.

These pictures are westerns, war movies, melodramas, horror, crime, neo-realism, avant-garde non-narrative. I could come up with another list of favorites along the same lines. A lot of them are on DVD now but not all.
The Nouvelle Vague movies are the ones I recognized. Though I haven't seen any of them unfortunately.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

There will bee blood, Children of men, Fight Club, The wind that shakes the bareley,

Amelie, Der untergang, 28 days later, Finding Nemo, Mary & Max, V for Vendetta,

Enemy at the gates, The Machinist, Land and freedom, The Experiment, Leon, No country for old men,

Lock stock and two smoken barrels, Rec, The Road, Tigeland, Green street hooligans.

And many many more.

[Uncle Hank]

saying that's your favorite movie is like saying you enjoy sex. doesn't everyone?
Are you saying I don't enjoy sex? :confused:

[Theoneontheleft]

The entire "Planet of the Apes" series, everything "Star Trek", "Solaris", "The Time Machine", "War of the Worlds", & "Blood Diamond".:thumbup1:

[Apoi_Viitor]

Eraserhead, Nights of Cabiria, Donnie Darko, Un Chien Andalou, Il Posto, Planet of the Apes (the original one of course), Sword of Doom - there's probably a few I'm forgetting right now, but these are the main ones.

[Theoneontheleft]

"Moon(2009)", directed by Duncan Jones is fast becoming one of my new favorites.

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/moon/

[CHEGUAVARA]

Movies is one of my biggest hobbies. I like collecting old VHS tapes. I'm sort of crazy.

[Theoneontheleft]

I also watch "The Man Who Fell To Earth" quite frequently. I just never get tired of that movie. It is a classic, that many people have misunderstood. It was also ahead it's time. The book is great, as well!:thumbup1:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074851/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(novel)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Man_who_fell_to_earth_ver1.jpg

[Invader Zim]

To establish my socialist credentials I'd add 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'...

It is just a shame it destroys your credentials as a fan of cinema, that film is nothing remotely special, in fact its pretty poor. Watch Land and Freedom, a vastly superior Loach film.

Anyway, my favorite film is probably Sergio Leone's For a few Dollars More. It is, of course, technically vastly inferior to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has a shoe-sting budget, looks shit, has a lesser score, has far less accomplished acting and direction... but it is more fun.

[Il Medico]

I've seen a ton of movies, many I can't remember their names because I watched them on IFC or some other movie channel (IFC is the best though). So here are the best ones I can remember.

L'Aubergre Espagnole, Russian Rolls, The Dreamers, The Edukators, Fulltime Killers, The Good, The Bad, and The Weird, REC, Belle du Jour, A Clockwork Orange,Y Tu Mama Tambein, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, City of God, L'Avventura, Novo.

There are others, I just can't think of them right now.

[Invader Zim]

"Moon(2009)", directed by Duncan Jones is fast becoming one of my new favorites.

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/moon/

Good call, did you know that Duncan Jones is actually Zowie Bowie?

[Sir Comradical]

It is just a shame it destroys your credentials as a fan of cinema, that film is nothing remotely special, in fact its pretty poor. Watch Land and Freedom, a vastly superior Loach film.

Anyway, my favorite film is probably Sergio Leone's For a few Dollars More. It is, of course, technically vastly inferior to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has a shoe-sting budget, looks shit, has a lesser score, has far less accomplished acting and direction... but it is more fun.

ARGHHH!! How can you say that!

The Wind that Shakes the Barley is far better than Land and Freedom, the plot is much better and the dialogue is fantastic.

[Invader Zim]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley is far better than Land and Freedom, the plot is much better and the dialogue is fantastic.

No, the plot is not 'far' better; what an absurd thing to contend. Have you actually seen both films? And dialogue? That is the worst thing about the Wind that Shakes the Barley, I've seen better dialogue in an Arnie action flick. Indeed all the dialogue does is further reinforce the utterly two-dimensional character construction. the result is that the characters are paper thin and largely boring. On the one hand you have the clichéd young guy with a place within the establishment who is won over to the cause, falls in love blah blah blah. On the other you have the brother, already within the cause, but who at the end is willing to sacrafice his beliefs and family to end the conflict. The guy who sells them out to the English, again in tedious heroic fashion see's his treachary and takes the slug to the head with good heroic grace, save for the sickeningly sentimental plea that his executioners take a message to his mother. The English characters on the other hand come across as something out of one of Mel Gibson's wet dreams. You literally couldn't make this stuff up, because we've seen it so many times before. And it was poorly done at that.

In short the film isn't special, people rave about it not because of its actual merits (which are largely technical, it is certainly the best looking film I've seen by Loach) but because of the subject it deals with.

Perhaps you should watch some films then get back to me.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

"Better Than Chocolate"

[kitsune]

Anything with The Marx Brothers, but especially Duck Soup. Anything by Kurosawa. Anything by Miyazaki.

Paprika
Grave of the Fireflies
Tokyo Godfathers
Tokyo Zombie
The Great Yokai War
Happiness of the Katakuris
Ichi the Killer
Linda Linda Linda
Swing Girls
I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay
Oldboy
Shutter (The original Thai movie)
Bangkok Dangerous (The original Thai movie)
The City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Wings of Desire

There's a lot more, but that's just off the top of my head.

[ContrarianLemming]

The deer hunter, A scanner Darkly, Ethernal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Stranger then Fiction, Waking dream, Finding Nemo, The Matrix, LOTR (if I can get thorugh it all), The Departed, Precious, The Pianist, SAving private Ryan

big fan of the Donnie Darko style "confusing sci fi" and phycological trillers, Inception is my kinda movie.

my favorite of all time is probably A Scanner Darkly.

[Theoneontheleft]

Good call, did you know that Duncan Jones is actually Zowie Bowie?

I did actually.

Recently, I have finally found a DVD of the original Solaris(1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It took me years to find. I have owned a copy of the 2002 version, which is good, but the Tarkovsky version is far superior.

[MarxSchmarx]

Hmmm... I'd have to say the following as top 10:

Godfather I
Old Boy
The Blues Brothers
Red Beard
Memento
Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were rabbit
Fight club
Hoodwinked (like Rashomon, but a million times more entertaining)\
Titus
The 7 samurai

I guess there are a few more I can name as honorable mentions (sin nombre, the exorcist, casablanca, Mishima, y tu mama tambien) but for now I'll leave it at the above.

[Diello]

Blue Velvet
Heavenly Creatures
Naked Lunch
Battle Royale
A Clockwork Orange
Let The Right One In
Lost Highway
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Velvet Goldmine
Amadeus
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Brazil
Barton Fink
Macbeth (Polanski)
Nosferatu (Herzog)
Eraserhead

So on and so forth.

[Theoneontheleft]

Lately, I have been watching "Shutter Island" over and over again. I hold the work of both Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio in very high regard, and I always find something that I missed, with every viewing of that movie.

[Summerspeaker]

Libertarias
Grave of the Fireflies
Princess Mononoke
Requiem for a Dream
El Norte
Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Palindromes
The Proposition
Last Life in the Universe
The End of Evangelion

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The Lord of the Rings movies
The Dark Knight
Kick Ass
The Dark City
The Sith Sense
The Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black
The Patriot
Transformers 1 + 2

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Lately, I have been watching "Shutter Island" over and over again. I hold the work of both Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio in very high regard, and I always find something that I missed, with every viewing of that movie.

I agree with 100% Scorsese is incredible with portrating the human mind (Taxi driver), DiCaprio always manage to adapt to all kinds of characters.
About Shutter Island, i know some people who works at a menthal institution, where the patients has done some pretty fucked up stuff, and they told mee that they recognized most things in the film frome theire work. Scary.

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is my newest favorite.

[Theoneontheleft]

I agree with 100% Scorsese is incredible with portrating the human mind (Taxi driver), DiCaprio always manage to adapt to all kinds of characters.
About Shutter Island, i know some people who works at a menthal institution, where the patients has done some pretty fucked up stuff, and they told mee that they recognized most things in the film frome theire work. Scary.

DeCaprio's Blood Diamond & Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead also rank among my favorites.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Out_the_Dead

[ContrarianLemming]

This Is England, hands down.

[Diello]

This Is England, hands down.

Watched the trailer; looks to me like it has the potential to be very good. I'll see it and tell you what I think.

[ContrarianLemming]

not for the light hearted

i adore it not only because it's amazing, but because the music in it introduced me to the classical artist "ludovico einaudi" and got me back into playing the piano, i've learned every classical peice from the film.

[Diello]

not for the light hearted

i adore it not only because it's amazing, but because the music in it introduced me to the classical artist "ludovico einaudi" and got me back into playing the piano, i've learned every classical peice from the film.

Saw it. A full critique hasn't yet germinated in my mind, but it was quite good. Worthy favourite movie material.

[mossy noonmann]

if i wanted to send a movie by e mail , could i do it?

bit off topic etc sorry

[Tatarin]

Free Willy 4: Escape from Pirate Grove



:laugh:

[praxis1966]

if i wanted to send a movie by e mail , could i do it?

bit off topic etc sorry

Theoretically you could, but you probably wouldn't want to. You'd have to break it up into small chunks using something like WinRAR as most e-mail providers (even using the address your ISP gives you that you essentially pay for) have size limitations on message attachments, usually no larger than 10MB. Generally, depending on your compression rate and the type of file you choose to send (you'll probably want to convert it to an .avi or .wmv or something), you're looking at somewhere between 750 and 800MB for a feature length film. That means you're looking at somewhere between 75 and 80 e-mails, lol.

A much better way to do it would be through FTP. Instructional article on how to do that at WikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-an-Ftp-Server-on-Windows-Xp-Professional).

[Diello]

Free Willy 4: Escape from Pirate Grove



:laugh:

Manos: The Hands of Fate.

[Fulanito de Tal]

Dumb and Dumber. It's so good.

[Oswy]

The Edukators
Michael Clayton
Silent Running
Funny Games (I've only seen the US remake, not the German original).
Jeepers Creepers II

loads of others, especially horror.

[Oswy]

Saw it. A full critique hasn't yet germinated in my mind, but it was quite good. Worthy favourite movie material.

The four part TV series is also worth watching - set some time after the events in the film.

[Oswy]

The deer hunter, A scanner Darkly, Ethernal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Stranger then Fiction, Waking dream, Finding Nemo, The Matrix, LOTR (if I can get thorugh it all), The Departed, Precious, The Pianist, SAving private Ryan

big fan of the Donnie Darko style "confusing sci fi" and phycological trillers, Inception is my kinda movie.

my favorite of all time is probably A Scanner Darkly.

Yeah, I forgot The Departed. I see this as a great study in the old sociological issue of structure and agency, i.e. whether we are made or make ourselves. The opening battle sequence in Saving Private Ryan was possibly the most intense experience I've had at the cinema but I thought the remainder of the film didn't quite live up to it.

[praxis1966]

Dumb and Dumber. It's so good.

I sincerely hope you're joking. I find it hard to believe that anyone over the age of 13 could actually sit through that movie, let alone like it.


The Edukators

Can somebody please explain to me what it was about this film that makes all the leftists go crazy for it? I've seen it and while I didn't hate it, it did leave me a little flat. I suppose if I had to sum up my feelings toward it in one word, that word would be underwhelmed.


Funny Games (I've only seen the US remake, not the German original).

See the German original. Dope shit.


Yeah, I forgot The Departed. I see this as a great study in the old sociological issue of structure and agency, i.e. whether we are made or make ourselves.

Here, here. It also doesn't hurt that I have a bunch of family from that area, including one cousin who I could almost swear they based Mark Wahlberg's character on, that is if you stuck him in the body of somebody who's 6'6" and about 350 lbs.


The opening battle sequence in Saving Private Ryan was possibly the most intense experience I've had at the cinema but I thought the remainder of the film didn't quite live up to it.

I'll second this one as well. The ending of that movie was just fuckin' cheesy, what with him standing there saluting the grave and shit. Friggin' saccharin garbage.

[Oswy]

...

Can somebody please explain to me what it was about this film that makes all the leftists go crazy for it? I've seen it and while I didn't hate it, it did leave me a little flat. I suppose if I had to sum up my feelings toward it in one word, that word would be underwhelmed.

See the German original. Dope shit.

Here, here. It also doesn't hurt that I have a bunch of family from that area, including one cousin who I could almost swear they based Mark Wahlberg's character on, that is if you stuck him in the body of somebody who's 6'6" and about 350 lbs.

I'll second this one as well. The ending of that movie was just fuckin' cheesy, what with him standing there saluting the grave and shit. Friggin' saccharin garbage.

All I can say is that I love The Edukators, great story, great acting, great cinematography and, ultimately, a positive message to the effect that you don't have to fall into line with what the system expects. Yeah, I intend to see the German Funny Games, I thought the US version, which I understand is a very close scene for scene remake, was very smart in challenging horror and sadism in film. Ahh, the Wahlberg character, Digby (?), was the best, I wish there'd have been more of him in it. The line in which he asks Leonardo if he knows any Shakespeare was genuis!

[Fulanito de Tal]

I sincerely hope you're joking. I find it hard to believe that anyone over the age of 13 could actually sit through that movie, let alone like it.

I love it. It think it's the best movie since the documentary on sliced bread.

It has so many good quotes.


Harry: I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
Lloyd: Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week.


Lloyd: Excuse me, Flo?
[Harry and Lloyd crack up]
Lloyd: Flo, like the TV show. Uh, what is the Soup Du Jour?
Flo, Waitress #1: It's the Soup of the Day.
Lloyd: Mmmm. That sounds good. I'll have that.


Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Lloyd: I'll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talking about a little place called Aspen.
Harry: Oh, I don't know, Lloyd. The French are assholes.

[praxis1966]

I love it. It think it's the best movie since the documentary on sliced bread.

It has so many good quotes.

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[Oswy]

Maybe it's to do with my age (mid-40s) but I also love The Lost Boys. It's one of those films that makes me nostalgic for a world I never really lived in but rather just lived parallel to, chronologically speaking. Don't know if anyone else has that kind of response to a film.

Fargo is another favourite, I never tire of watching it.

[Magón]

Lo was a good movie. Probably wouldn't want to watch it over and over again, but it's a good and entertaining movie.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi)
The Pianist
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
The Matrix Trilogy
The Cranes Are Flying

[Pawn Power]

Sweetgrass

[Magón]

I like the Pusher Trilogy a lot. (Danish films FYI.)

[lines]

The Falcon And The Snowman, it's a cold war oriented movie

[JosefStalinator]

One underrated movie is Rushmore, I reccomend it highly!

[Fulanito de Tal]

I LOVE Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It's so stupid!



Dewey: Edith, I am starting to think...that maybe you don't believe in me.


Edith: I do believe in you. I just know you're gonna fail.


D: What are you talking about, Edith?


E: What about my dreams?


D: Edith, I told you, I can't build you a candy house! It will fall down! The sun will melt the candy! It won't work!


E: It will if it never rains!

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