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Just some films that haven't been mentioned yet:
Citizen Kane
Withnail & I
Psycho
Brokeback Mountain
The Exorcist
The Royal Tenenbaums
Fargo
Easy Rider
Kick-Ass
Toy Story
It's A Wonderful Life
Blazing Saddles
Kes
Billy Liar
The Italian Job (original)
Get Carter
i mentioned blazing saddles, thats my shit....but yea easy rider/get carter/royal baums/ and fargo are all the shit....and toy story ldo lol
Magnolia
Synecdoche New York
Happiness
Enter the Void
There Will Be Blood
Jackie Brown
No Country For Old Men
Little Dieter Needs To Fly
The Act of Killing
Precious
No particular order:
No Country for Old Men
Magnolia
A Clockwork Orange
Adaptation
Pulp Fiction
Boogie Nights
City of God
The Royal Tenenbaums
Airplane
Fargo
I've been thinking about this all morning and I find the exercise surprisingly stressful. An overall top ten is hard because I don't know what criteria to use and I can justify the inclusion of so many films as the criteria varies.
So instead here's a few movies that haven't been mentioned yet but are worth a watch.
Nil by mouth - realistic and brutal portrayal of life in London for the kinda scummy working-class folk I grew up around and this movie nails it.
Desperado - he has a guitar case full of guns, come on!
Amelie
Amores Perros
Labyrinth - best kids movie ever
No particular order
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Mr & Mrs Smith
Scarface
Goodfellas
Toy Story
Man on Fire
Deja Vu
The Italian Job (original)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
I had the same frustration as Rong... so here's some version of my top ten, off the top of my head:
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
Swingers
Grave of the Fireflies
Oldboy
Requiem for a Dream
Sideways
Inglourious Basterds
Would I be correct in assuming only those with experience of drugs would pick requiem for a dream?
I guess you could say that's sort of why I picked it, but not exactly. There is a typical teenage sentiment attached to it, watching it in 9th grade with my friends and discovering my own experimental side (not that I was looking to Requiem as a guide to that or anything, hah, definitely not).
I added Requiem to this list because I still think it's an objectively stunning movie. The cinematography, the direction, the music, the structure, everything. It's also one of the more impressive book-to-movie adaptations.
But that movie also carries a lot of weight for me... I watched it with my first serious boyfriend, who ended up dying of an overdose when I was 16, and whom I subsequently found out was deeper into hard drugs than I ever could have fathomed, naive as I was (I mean, if someone I cared about told me now that they had tried heroin "once," I wouldn't simply believe them, especially if they had depressive tendencies). So yeah, I have a very strong emotional connection to the film, but I wouldn't have added it to that list if I didn't think it could objectively hold its own.
(then again you know what, I haven't seen the film since high school probably - sometimes even listening to the music is too much for me - but I think I remember it well enough, and I believe I would feel the same way about its merit if I watched it again now)
I want more than 10, fuck you and your rules.
Natural Born Killers, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Twin Town, Dead Man's Shoes, True Romance, Black Cat White Cat, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Monty Pyhton's Life of Brian, The Shining, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Indiana Jones trilogy (fuck #4), Terminator 1 & 2, Battle Royale, Full Metal Jacket
I count 20 there (21 if you're a cunt who counts Kill Bill as two films).
+ Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.
Can't believe I forgot that.
Ong, didn't I harass you a while back to read Battle Royale the book bc it's a million times better than the movie? Or was that someone else? I can't keep my media bullying straight.
+ Withnail & I
That was me. I bought the book and took it on holiday with me. Did I read it? Did I fuck. I spent most of my time drinking and smoking instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
I sometimes try reading, but it usually fails after an hour max.
Stephen King puts it best: "an insanely entertaining pulp riff that combines Survivor with World Wrestling Entertainment. Or maybe Royale is just insane."
This is like, the number one book I would recommend to non-readers.
also:
+ Ghost World
+ In Bruges
My problem with reading is I can always find something better to do. I need either a long journey, or no internet.
Also, that film with the chick with the pigtails who has a labotomy and has a cool head journey where she dances to a Bjork song while fighting massive baddies.
The fuck is that called? It was awesome, but that's probably because the chick is beautiful, the soundtrack exceptional, and the cinemography outstanding.
Sucker Punch...
Requiem is one of the first good movies I've seen, but I'm unlikely to watch it again. If I were to update my list it would include Inglourious Basterds.
oh oh oh AND
+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXPeLctgvQI
Someone mentioned dead man. Great film I'd completely forgotten about. Soundtrack is fantastic.
That was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeQuote:
Originally Posted by rong
I mostly forgot about it too, but remembered when bumping this thread
In return for reminding me of dead man, I give you...... Labyrinth!
dont you mean pans labyrinth?
No no. I mean labyrinth. With David Bowie.
You remind me of the babe.
What babe?
The babe with power?
What power?
The power of voodoo.
Who do?
You do.
Do what?
Remind of the babe.
god, i fucking hated Labyrinth. what a bad, not good movie.
"'ello."
Did you just say, "Hello."?
"No. I said 'ello, but that's close enough."
***
"Smeeeeell Baaaaadd."
A quick think gave me over 20 titles that could easily qualify as top 10. To set an arbitrary break point, I'd give this as a top ten list:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Spirited Away
The Princess Bride
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Shawshank Redepmtion
Full Metal Jacket
***
Any of the following titles could make the list on another day, or if I'm in another mood:
LOTR
Alladin
The Matrix
12 Monkeys
Back to the Future
American Beauty
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Heat
Groundhog Day
The Truman Show
His Girl Friday
Mr Holland's Opus
***
I'm sure I'll think of more movies that deserve at least an honorable mention.
Here's some random ones from my top 100:
The Lives of Others
Inglorious Basterds
Amelie
The Royal Tenenbaums
Vertigo
Singin' In the Rain
Snatch
Stalker (1979)
There Will Be Blood
Un Prophete
the Before trilogy (Thanks Wufwugy)
Edit: Django Unchained: I like it equally as much as Inglorious Basterds
Fight Club, yes I forgot that too. That's in my list of however many I want.
Did I see someone dissing Labrynth? Aubrey? How can you not have nothing but admiration for David Bowie in those tights?
Lucky Number Slevin... god fucking damn Lucy Liu.
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/sti...r_slevin16.jpg
Lawrence of Arabia's pretty good.
My dad's an extra in that.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
An extra what?
Wrong movie, I'm thinking of the 10 commandments. He was a slave I think.
They let him go, right?
Ah, you've seen it.
I do hope you mean "goddamn she's so overrated".Quote:
Originally Posted by OngBonga
Is your Dad 80 years old?Quote:
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Idiocracy... so funny/sad on so many levels.
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Don't wanna sound like a dick or nothin', but it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... ha ha... like... aha... you know, like, you know what I mean, like... haha...
Don't worry scro'! There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
No. Fuck. Lemme text him.Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
Tropic Thunder
edit Aliens
edit Memento
edit Usual Suspects, American History X
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btw this is hilariousQuote:
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I've never seen it. Looking to add it to a list of 'must see' now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renton
(I have seen 'Duel' though... when it was first released. It was the talk around our family dinner table for a couple weeks after)
Are you 80 years old?Quote:
Originally Posted by Poker Orifice
Good movie but I saw it about 35 years after it was released.
Jaws
Goodfellas
Godfather
Die Hard
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
The Big Lebowski
Spy Game
Pulp Fiction
Groundhog Day
Honorable Mentions to: Seven Samurai A Clockwork Orange, The Dark Knight, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fight Club, The Matrix, Top Gun, Breakfast Club, Heat, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Unforgiven and Before (Fucking) Sunrise - srsly.
Imma cheat a bit and say Band of Brothers and Lonesome Dove are the best mini-series ever for very different reasons.
Hmmmm Lonesome Dove hmmmmm
Why would I like this Benny? Higher rating than Generation Kill (which is the bees knees) and I love westerns, but I hate shitty westerns *cough* Wild Bunch *cough* The Good The Bad and The Ugly *cough* anything with John Wayne *cough*
Butch Cassidy and Unforgiven are legit though
Lonesome Dove has some of the best character writing and depictions I've ever seen, not just in Westerns, but in cinema. Particularly, Robert Duvall's performance is close to the pinnacle of acting, imo.
It's not an overly heroic movie. It's harsh and tragic and as a result of that setting, impressively human.
I'm with you on the John Wayne for the most part but he was pretty great in the original True Grit. He's entertaining as old and damaged goods - was rare for him - but the movie itself is just ok.
My list of good westerns is as follows and mostly in order
The Proposition
Unforgiven
Butch Cassidy
Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
High Plains Drifter
A Fistful of Dollars
Everything else I've seen I've disliked, except sorta the True Grit remake, but there was nothing special there. Never seen the original. Are there any other westerns you'd recommend?
I guess Django is also a western, but I don't think of it as such. It's definitely good
How can you not like Once Upon a Time in the West?
Band of Brothers is so epic... I thought of it a number of times when making my list. It's so much bigger in scope than any movie, and it's superb on all levels.
BoB was one of the best things I've ever watched.
Yeah... not that it's in anywhere near the same league, but
Coming to America
was a great movie from Eddie Murphy... IDK if it was the first family comedy he did, but it put him on the map as being capable of more than dirty humor to me, at least... Don't get me wrong, Beverly Hills Cop is a solid film. Judge Reinhold brings a lot to the movie, but it was Eddie who made the movie watchable.
Sergio Leone. As much as I like a sophisticated western (The Proposition), I dislike spaghettis. I may give that one another shot though. The only spaghetti I liked was A Fistful of Dollars, and that's largely due to it being a decent rip of YojimboQuote:
Originally Posted by JL
I definitely prefer the new Westerns - they don't cheat history as much by hiding how ugly the period was socially and economically. Not all classic Westerns did that but most did. Even the remakes of good classic westerns like 3:10 to Yuma are much better because the acting in the classic period was so over the top. That said, there hasn't been that many great new ones beyond what's already been discussed. I'd put Open Range and Appaloosa on the should watch list but they aren't more than an interesting character or two with a coherent story. I wish Appaloosa was more about Viggo Mortensen's story than Ed Harris'. I'd count Dances with Wolves as a Western. I like that movie more than I probably should. It's TV but I'll recommend Hell on Wheels. Really didn't think I'd be interested based on the premise but it did suck me in on the strength of the lead, the railroad boss and the Indian sub-plots.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
You're probably into the Western's closely related cousin too - post-apocalyptic? Have you seen Book of Eli or The Road? I thought both were better than their imdb ratings suggest, even though The Road did pretty much make me want to kill myself.
I'll check out Hell on Wheels. Open Range was decent but not gripping, Appaloosa was surprisingly not bad but curiously highly forgetful. The only thing I remember is how much I want an 8-gauge shotty. The Road was great, but as you said, not uplifting. Did you like Book of Eli? IMDB gives it 6.9, which for anything drama related, I've only once or twice seen a good one score below a 7.5
In other news, I felt The Road should be a prequel. Shit was only just getting started when Guy Pearce showed up. I don't know why he keeps getting side roles. He can carry a lot more weight than that
Book of Eli is good, not great. You'll need to suspend your disbelief but I didn't regret the two hours. Gary Oldman as a bad guy is never a waste of time. It's vaguely reminiscent of A Canticle for Leibowitz, a premise I find extremely interesting; how and what scraps of civilization survive in the face of the chaos? It's probably why I enjoy Fallout so much.
i didnt know everyoooooooone was in book of eli. should be okay then
This is probably my favorite Clint Eastwood movie. I really liked the raw, unapologetic style.Quote:
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And The Quick And The Dead is good, not sure if that one's been mentioned yet.
There's another version of The Shining that Stephen King was much more involved with. It was actually a 3-part tv series. I still like the original film more, but the differences are interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Linky:
http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Kings-.../dp/B000077VRT
I found a torrent of this a while back.
City of God got a mention and deserves another. When the guy corners two kids and forces them to choose between being shot in the hand or foot... good stuff.
Agree with this. I'd say the same about Once Upon a Time in the West. It doesn't hold up....so much fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
LOL....I wasn't going to say anything till I read your response. Now that I have validation, OMG....I walked out of The Terminal. My mother was with me and she couldn't take it either.Quote:
Originally Posted by philly and the phanatics
I think this is an opinion held mostly by people who have watched these movies at home, which is fair enough since it may be impossible to get to view them in theatres if you don't have a film museum or festivals that play them, but I don't think its fair to judge them based on the one time you came home drunk at two in the morning and caught the second half of Brazil on TV and thought it was shit. These movies don't hold up on a small screen and a shitty sound system. Space Odyssey is a mind altering experience in the proper setting.Quote:
Originally Posted by PlayToWin
THIS. One of my favorite westerns.Quote:
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wolf of wallstreet was terrible, no idea how people liked it
Because it was awesome and had quite some realism.
And midget throwing.