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Author Topic: TOP FIVE MOVIES  (Read 4275 times)

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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2010, 09:51:00 AM »

In no particular order, and definitely not set in stone as I'm sure I'm forgetting something awesome and I can never pick my favorites anyway.

alice--Alice in wonderland done right; A wonderfully disturbing acid trip.
Battle Royale
The thing
Totoro/Princess Mononoke/pretty much any Miyazaki film
Ichi the killer
(Some Kubrick film, I'm not sure which is my favorite)


Most hated film: Citizen Kane.  Seriously, I like beggotten (Or whatever that horrible film with father time killing himself and mother nature jacking off his corpse was called) better than it.  I have no idea why anyone likes the film.  It's utterly unwatchable.  Very much analogous is my opinion of Catcher in the Rye.  Two 'great' stories that I can't stand at all and think that the things in them that other people seem to think are the 'best' things about them are the absolute most insufferable.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2010, 10:34:55 AM »

Catloaf. Do you even remember why everyone says they're the greatest thing?
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2010, 05:19:12 PM »

Little Shop of Horrors
Battle Royale
Six-String Samurai
Fight Club
The Incredibles
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2010, 05:55:31 PM »

I love so many fucking movies nowadays I cannot sort them into a single list. Maybe if they were separated by genre. But I can't put Unforgiven over Good/Bad/Ugly or vice versa. They are both great, in different ways.

Here, a quick few top five lists in no order

HORROR

Night of the Living Dead
The Thing
28 Days Later
Alien
Jaws

WESTERN

The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Magnificent 7
High Noon
Shane

ACTION

Terminator 2
Aliens
Empire Strikes Back
Fellowship of The Ring
The Dark Knight

COMEDY

MP and the Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Airplane!
Ghostbusters
Blues Brothers

DRAMA

To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
Chinatown
Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2010, 06:13:49 PM »

Most hated film: Citizen Kane.  Seriously, I like beggotten (Or whatever that horrible film with father time killing himself and mother nature jacking off his corpse was called) better than it.  I have no idea why anyone likes the film.

Because they're smarter than you.

No particular order and subject to change:

Casablanca
The Jerk
2001
Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2010, 09:22:12 PM »

Since you guys felt the need to dismiss my valid opinion on two vastly overrated pieces of crap, I'm gonna rant about it.  Because I fucking hate them and even remembering them makes me want to vomit.  No really, I become physically ill when I think about them. 

Catloaf. Do you even remember why everyone says they're the greatest thing?

Because Citizen Kane utilized every cinematographic technique known at the time expertly.  The problem is, all of it together makes it feel extremely inconsistent.  Sure, start it out film noire, then change the style several times,  without any relation to the plot.  The plot is awful; oh wow, a filthy rich bastard has regrets and is miserable.  Who cares!?  The absolute worst part is the audio, which is way too loud and distracting.  In the scenes the are supposed to be subtle the musing is blasting and dramatic.  And there's virtually no sound in the mundane scenes.  And using a loud brass band that is amplified just as much as the dialogue and thus way too fucking loud and obnoxious is never a good idea in film, seriously, it's my one complaint about kurosawa films.

On HoldenClaufielddoesnothingofinterestforanentirebook'sworthoftext, he's an idiot who rambles constantly in a manner of speech that makes him impossible to relate to or respect in this day and age.  Also kid's aren't innocent, they're bigger bastards than adults.  So shut up about protecting their innocence, they don't have any.  South park criticized it perfectly in their 'filthiest book ever' episode.

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First off, fuck you.
Second, it's not that I don't get them it's that they did not age well and I completely disagree with their messages.  Well, not so much the message of CK, but I just don't give a damn about rich people's problems.  They're rich, their problems are petty, vain and an insult to everyone else who would love to have those problems.  Sure I didn't get the other stuff by Salinger, but CitR is no 'a perfect day for bananafish' in terms of inaccessibility.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2010, 09:29:22 PM »

If I was to go anywhere for movie night it would be Friday's place. Or Niku's.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #27 on: September 01, 2010, 12:08:54 AM »

The more I think about this, the more I find the "just five" restriction means I'd select different movies than I would if you just asked me to name my favorites. As much as I love Amelie and Memento, I can't bring myself to put them on the list; they're movies I love, but they're no longer movies that make me think.

So:

-Hot Fuzz
-Being John Malkovich
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-Lucky Number Slevin
-12 Monkeys

It feels kind of weird to leave out Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Stranger Than Fiction, Pleasantville, and Kung Fu Hustle, but you asked me for five, and the five I gave above are my selection.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #28 on: September 01, 2010, 12:12:19 AM »

Catloaf; it's pretty easy to go back and look at Citizen Kane and The Catcher in the Rye as meaningless and stupid half a century after the era they were relevant in has passed.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2010, 12:25:50 AM »

At which point he's perfectly justified in not enjoying them very much.

The best you can argue is that rolling around in that unenjoyment is really unnecessary, but then so is arguing with Catloaf.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #30 on: September 01, 2010, 05:32:57 AM »

Yeah, I kinda hated Holden Caufield too until I realized that at the time teen angst didn't exist yet.

So now I don't know whether that makes me hate him more or less.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #31 on: September 01, 2010, 05:47:57 AM »

Here, a quick few top five lists in no order

Oh man, Geothermal is gonna come down on you like a ton of bricks, dude.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #32 on: September 01, 2010, 05:51:36 AM »

Here, a quick few top five lists in no order

Oh man, Geothermal is gonna come down on you like a ton of bricks, dude.

Maybe I should have mentioned The Wild Bunch again (which did briefly cross my mind for this list). :lol:


Speaking of that and Friday's longer list, I do enjoy a good western. I think my own five would have looked like Friday's, but with the substitution of The Wild Bunch for maybe The Magnificent 7 or Shane (I would have to watch both again to decide which one would fall to 6th. It's been a long time since i saw either.). High Noon is <3<3<3
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #33 on: September 01, 2010, 06:17:00 AM »

Oh wow. I just realized that the closest thing to a western I've seen was Back to the Future III.
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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2010, 06:34:54 AM »

I think that A Fist Full of Dollars deserves worry mention. It's not as front to back entertaining as the perfect The Good the Bad and the Ugly and it doesn't have the benefit of Revolver OcelotVan Cleef like A Few Dollars More, but it has the absolute best Eastwood blowing away multiple guys before anyone gets a shot of at him scene I can remember other than possibly the ending to Unforgiven which is a more realistic and interesting but necessarily less slick looking take on the same concept.

Also, it has the part where he just walks towards the badguy taunting him and getting shot over and over but not dying because he's wearing a steel plate under his poncho and that part is bad ass.

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Re: TOP FIVE MOVIES
« Reply #35 on: September 01, 2010, 08:02:40 AM »

I've always liked Hang 'Em High. It's a great "fucked with the wrong guy" Western.
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« Reply #36 on: September 01, 2010, 09:08:05 AM »

Ringu
Mars Attacks
Jurassic Park
Crank 2
The Wizard of Oz
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« Reply #37 on: September 01, 2010, 09:20:13 AM »

Bleh, I really don't like "Hang 'em High". I don't really like how Eastwood's character is written in it and the whole movie just sort of has the wrong "feel" to me, I dunno.

But then I don't really like "High Plains Drifter" for the same reason and I mean, that movie SHOULD be cool. I love how they actually paint the town red at that one point but the movie just has this really jarring pace and direction to me that I don't care for.

"Pale Rider" is just boring and sucks.
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« Reply #38 on: September 01, 2010, 10:23:35 AM »

I suppose since Blazing Saddles is technically a western, it would have to find a place on my list somewhere too.

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« Reply #39 on: September 01, 2010, 10:53:53 AM »

Oh, I hate Space Balls and Blazing Saddles too.

Actually I think I hate all Mel Brooks movies except Young Frankenstein and Men in Tights. Oh wait, was Princess Bride him too? That movie's good.
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