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Your Favourite MOVIE (pg. 2)
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| tribu |
In no particualr order:
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
Blow
Goodfellas
State & Main
The Princess Bride
The Ring/Ringu
Seven
12 Monkeys
A Clockwork Orange
Soylent Green
The Wizard of Oz
Bowling for Columbine
The Shawshank Redemption
Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?
Aladdin |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
Teh Croupier - British Film, starring Owen Wilson and that chick from ER - you get to see her naked.
EDIT: The Croupier even, LOLz can't believe I pulled that one. |
i've been trying to remeber that chick but had no luck.. why don't u post some pics of her? :D |
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| theEXODUZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
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The Shawshank Redemption
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oh, that's a good one... really like it too |
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| Lira |
My top-5... never mind the gap, I don't know why it happens to tables either :( I thought I'd better add description in case someone wants to know more about these films :)
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Lola Rennt (Run, Lola, Run): This film deals with choices, causes, and consequences in an interesting and playful way. Its fast pace fits well the soundtrack (which many TA's will probably like), turning a subtle philosophical debate into the background of what could be considered a 1 hour and a half long videoclip.
However, even if you just one some pointless fun, a girl running all over the city while things change around her may be entertaining as well. My father didn't agree though, he wants stuff to blow up.
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Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon): Poetry in motion, that's the best definition I can give. Naturally, it might look a bit awkward in the beginning to see people flight as if Dragonballz characters had come out of the Matrix, but once you understand the reason, it just the makes the film even better.
Although its suspense is soon revealed (and explained in the middle of the film, rather than in the end), it doesn't release the tension. In fact, it prevents the film from going to the wrong direction. There are some nice things they say too, that either reflect their culture or just sound nice. How amazing can that be?
My father doesn't agree though, he wanted stuff to blow up.
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ing Åmål (Show me love): Subtle, it talks about a girl who fancies her schoolmate as naturally as another teenage romance. The beloved schoolmate, however, is another girl, and the way the film explores the romance (and their behaviour) is touching.
Seriously now, we're talking about lesbian teens! First of all, if you're a teenage and you're happy, then there's something obviously wrong with you. Second, Sweden seems to be the land of depressed people (there's a reason their techno is so abrasive after all). Homosexuals in general seem to have a quite difficult time unless they live in San Francisco. Bring it all together, in a more seriously (and dramatic) approach and you have the most intense parts of all these different worlds together. Soon enough, you realise it's not about teens, lesbian or Swedes. I've seen "Chasing Amy/Looking for Amy", by the way, it's a completely different view.
I can't believe Lukas Moodysson (the director) had been to Brasília and I couldn't seen him, bugger.
My father didn't watch the film, as I told him it was not porn, despite of the name.
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Shinseiki Ebangerion (Neon Genesis Evangelion): Giant Robots + Schoolgirls + things blowing up = hours and hours of fun.
Don't take otakus seriously though, they religiously believe this was inspired by the kabbalah and it's a sign of the apocalypse. There are probably countless theses written about it. I believe it's due to Hideaki Anno's twisted mind and extensive use of elements that can be seen as metaphors and, as long as projection goes, each one of us will understand they differently so don't bother if all you've seen was Shinji whining and fighting monsters all long, that's most likely the truth. I personally thought the entire thing was just a big metaphor about his relationship with Asuka, but I reckon that's just my optimism and my mind being tired after enduring 12 hours of watching a cartoon. Watch it secretly, and don't even comment with the die-hard anime fan, otherwise you'll have to face a discussion twice as long as the anime series. I know I have, and to this day I regret it, as there was this girl I wanted to pull at this party and this otaku kept seeking me and I had to be polite because it was her cousin.
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A beautiful mind: He saw things that weren't there. He created his own reality. Although that's what all of us do anyway, he did it differently, which seems to have put him into trouble. Nevertheless, this film pretty much shows how much we're hostages of our own minds. And there's a bonus = it's a real story. It's not a mediocre fiction, but the report of what happened to a person as real (or not) as one of us.
No faux philosophy from the matrix, no psychological explanations. The film actually tricks us into believing his reality is real, when it's just an illusion created by his mind. Isn't this what reality is all about anyway?
Reminds me that I still need to watch Pi. And that there are several other good films with good content to watch.
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| Slylee |
American Beauty
The Saint
Vanilla Sky
Heat
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
Blow
that's all i can think of now...there's so many |
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| Radagast |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
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What are you, a writer for somethingawful.com now?
Anyways:
Jurassic Park
Falling Down
Rambo: First Blood 1&2
Star Trek: Generations, Insurrection, First Contact, Nemesis
Robin Hood: Prince of Theives
Bloodsport
Cube
Escape From Alcatraz
Predator
Contact
A Night At The Roxbury
Almost Heroes
Wayne's World
Major Payne
What About Bob?
....and so on... |
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fight club
memento
the life of david gale |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
What are you, a writer for somethingawful.com now? |
Uh?
Is it just because I preferred to actually make some comments on why I liked the films rather than throwing random titles? |
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| Mebot |
| DarkAngel is going to come and post a link to his thread he already made about Favorite Movies. Watch :p I'm nostradamus and I can predict things! :D |
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| Haak |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Reminds me that I still need to watch Pi. And that there are several other good films with good content to watch.
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i just watched that, didn't do much for me except give me a headache |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Haak
i just watched that, didn't do much for me except give me a headache |
Really? hmm... I'm curious though, I hear so many different things about it :) |
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| Sand Leaper |
(I haven't read the manga though, so the ending still confuses the hell out of me.)
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