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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 27, 2005 15:26:25 GMT
This isn't the best films, just the ones you love to watch over and over. For me: King of New York - Chris Walken, and Larry Fishburne as a gangsta version of Run from RUN DMC. Includes a scene where a case supposedly full of money is actually full of tampons: "What the fuck is this?" "It's for the BULLETHOLES, puta!" ;D Plus, music by Schoolly D, gangsta rap legend Scarface - I luh du make thee impreshon of Tony Montana mang, iss da mos fun feeyum hyu'll see mang, ees got da big cojones, mang. I keel a communis' for fun, for a green card I carve him up real nice, huh? Back to the Future - Best kids movie ever. It was the LIBYANS! The Shining - Fucking terrifying, and a great band named themselves after it ;D Plus, the decor of that mansion means I could never go to Atlantic City: it all looks the same! A Clockwork Orange - I wish I could talk in Nadsat. The film just haunts you, you remember all the little things.
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Post by John Brainlove on Mar 27, 2005 15:40:06 GMT
Dead Man - slow moving, black and white existential cowboy movie that settles on you like a trance. by the end, i really felt like I had been through something important. Featuring cameos from iggy pop, billy bob thronton, robert mitchum, lance henrikson. It's a jim jarmusch 'joint'. hypnotic soundtrack by Neil Young.
Paris Texas. Again, a cathartic movie in which someone's life is completely changed forever. Such (seemingly) small, domestic events that get ignored in movies in favour of gunplay and meaningless fantasy. This film addresses the things that life is really about. often quoted as the best road movie ever made. this film is... just... ... the best.
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Err a theme seems to be emerging. A family saga in which the status quo is completely shaken up and everyone gets to say what they really think and resolve all their long-standing problems with eachother. Very sweet and funny also. You have to see this movie. The director went on to make the Incredible Hulk. Doh.
There are more. Not all of them are arty and 'important'. I have a heroin-like addiction to shit sci-fi and crap romcoms. They might not be life-changingly amazing, but they're a lot of fun. But those three above are actually just incredible. And important. To me, anyway.
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 27, 2005 15:48:58 GMT
I forgot The Hitcher! Great popcorn flick.
Is Paris Texas directed by Vincent Gallo? Or is that something else?
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Post by Wiggles on Mar 27, 2005 15:59:50 GMT
Back to the Future - Best kids movie ever. It was the LIBYANS! I think it's fucking stupid to characterise all Libyans as terrorists, especially in a kids movie. *Sigh* I guess I should be used to this sort of thing by now.
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 27, 2005 16:03:18 GMT
well, blatantly, but what can you expect from a 1980s Hollywood flick?
Plus, the Libyans drove a hippie van. A freakin' hippie van!
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Post by John Brainlove on Mar 27, 2005 16:12:46 GMT
Yeah. They were peace loving terrorists. Paris, Texas is directed by Wim Wenders, who did another of my most favouritest films ever - Wings of Desire. Incredible movie.
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Post by Smileadelic on Mar 27, 2005 16:24:21 GMT
Fantasia - awesome Disney animation with splendid colours, coupled with some of the greatest orchestral works in history. It's just hypnotic. I could watch this film a hundred times and not get bored. Apocalypse Now - for me it's the best-shot movie in history, with awesome use of light, shape and colour by Vittorio Storaro. Add to that some superb sound and editing by Walter Murch, eerie synth music by Coppola's father and phenomenally weird production design by Dean Tavoularis, and you get utter film-making genius. Notice the way the film gets audibly and visually weirder the further downriver we go. Also a massively underrated performance from Sheen, a superb supporting cast and - of course - Marlon Brando going nuts in the jungle. The script's all over the place but brilliantly so - especially Michael Herr's unbelievably odd narrated passages. Take it as a profound comment on the absurdity of human existence if you want, but for me it's just a superb story told by one of the greatest film-making partnerships in history. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - what can I say? It just never gets old. The whole self-referential, lo-fi aesthetic just makes it endlessly re-watchable. Every line is quotable. Gilliam's animations are wonderfully pointless. And Eric Idle has not just one but three of the funniest roles in movie history within the space of an hour and a half. The Shawshank Redemption - yeah, yeah, call it schamltzy and sappy if you want but they don't come any better than this. Freeman and Robbins in their best roles ever. Pristine photography by Roger Deakins and a truly awesome Thomas Newman score round it off beautifully. 12 Angry Men - another picture where every line is a great quote. Possibly my favourite screenplay ever. Everybody knows a character like each of the twelve. Maybe it's of special interest to me as a law student (hehe), but this is what the criminal justice system should look like. Great music on the few occasions it's used, as well. And loads more, but that's enough for one post
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Post by i_deserve... on Mar 27, 2005 16:29:44 GMT
yeah, Apoc Now really affected me. It fills you with utter despair for the characters, and manages to make one word so intensely fucking powerful - "Savages." That scene is one of the best ever IMO. Oh, and It's A Wonderful Life - I dare you not to cry!
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Post by Wiggles on Mar 27, 2005 17:17:42 GMT
well, blatantly, but what can you expect from a 1980s Hollywood flick? Plus, the Libyans drove a hippie van. A freakin' hippie van! Yeah, I do tend to overreact about things like that. I'm not a PC thug, honest! And to be fair, it does contain the line "ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!!"
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Post by Miss Waistcoat on Mar 27, 2005 22:00:56 GMT
there are sooooo many great films i am not sure where to start...... Fight club- kicks arse Buffalo 66 - beautiful and happy Forrset Gump - kinda has memories Nightmare before Christmas - amazing animation and songs Dead Man- Totally moving and special
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Post by wishpig on Mar 27, 2005 22:11:55 GMT
my favourite films are so very unsophisticated. oh well. rock 'n' roll high school - duh, cos it has the ramones in. and a very good soundtrack (including devo, brian eno and the ramones). also, you get to see dee dee ramone eating pizza, and for the boys, you get to see pj soles in her underwear. ghost world - because its fantastic and i love it. and it is very quotable - "its obviously an original 1977 punk rock look, maybe johnny fuckface here is too stupid to realise it". and thora birch AND scarlett johannsen AND steve buscemi are in it. all good actors. also its sort of deep/intellectual. thats always a bonus to the many uses of 'fuck' and 'cunt'. bill and ted's excellent adventure - because its totally excellent dude. and keanu reeves is in it before he went all neo. napoleon dynamite - because i love napoleon dynamite liek woah. i love this film so much i would probably marry it if i could. why hasn't it come out on dvd yet? "what are you going to do today, napoleon?" "whatever i feel like i wanna do, GOSH!" ;D the rocky horror picture show - tim curry. in a corset. and tights. and also rocky horror running about in gold speedos. and also because it has the best songs ever. and i love it. 'i love it' isnt a very good reason for why these are my favourite films. *sigh* its true though.
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Post by Fellalady on Mar 27, 2005 22:50:22 GMT
Seems a perfectly good reason to me. I watched Ghost World for the first time the other day. It is a great film.....I didn't expect it to be so sad. Steve Buscemi is cool.
Films that I continue to rediscover are:
The Graduate. I love this film. Everything about it. It's great, the scene when Ben is made to go underwater and try out his new diving suit and the strip club scene expecially. I love the very end scene when they run to get the bus together and they are sat at the back is just brilliant. Watching the adrenalin slowely disappear from their faces. Ace soundtrack too.
The Straight Story. It's just beatiful. That's a bit of a cop out isn't it. I'm gonna watch it again and add to this later.
My Summer Of Love. This film came out last year. I watched it the other week and it keeps coming back into my head. The actresses who play the two girls are so good, most of the script was ad libbed and Paddy Considine who is one of my favourite actors is brilliantly menacing as an ex convict/born again christian.
All subject to change.
I can also watch many times over The Big Lebowski and Gross Pointe Blank.
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Post by Miss Waistcoat on Mar 27, 2005 22:54:24 GMT
yeah the Graduate is an absolute classic. Ghost World is ace too.
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Post by prettyvacant on Mar 27, 2005 23:22:26 GMT
dazed and confused - because its just...about nothing. its so fun and easy to watch because essentially there is no plot, its just about teenagers having fun. although it does make me feel i'm wasting my life away when i should be having as much fun as they are and smoking weed and having massive beer busts.. *sigh*
fantasia - because it is a cinematic masterpiece and is just wonderful and magical and everything disney seems to have forgotten about in its latest batch of shitty sentimental schmaltz (i love that word). and also because it has "night on bare mountain" at the end, which is one of my favourite pieces of music ever. like, ever
koyaanisquatsi - its just really interesting to watch. life seen differently. its not as innovative as it's made out to be really, but i still like it and all its colors and sounds and movement.
amelie - because it has the most wonderful atmosphere. full of beautiful things and quirky people
and Belleville Rendez-vous - because of all the little things that make it funny and sad and wonderful. the attention to detail is so great. and i completely adore the dog, and its train. awwwwww
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Post by Fullerov on Mar 27, 2005 23:23:24 GMT
I cant watch Ghost World anymore.
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