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Ftk Posts: 2239 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2007,14:10    I've always liked "The Sound of Music"....     -------------- "Evolution is a creationism and just as illogical [as] the other pantheistic creation myths"  -forastero

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2007,14:37    Quote (Ftk @ Oct. 20 2007,15:10) I've always liked "The Sound of Music".... :)  :)  :) Julie Andrews is quite beautiful in Sound of Music, and a giant talent. So I declare it Good Kitsch. Plus I had a crush on Angela Cartwright (who is almost exactly my age) when I was a kid. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

Mister DNA Posts: 466 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2007,15:49    Quote (Ftk @ Oct. 20 2007,14:10) I've always liked "The Sound of Music".... :)  :)  :) My problem with The Sound of Music has always been the inexplicable lack of dancing zombies. Fortunately, that's been rectified. -------------- CBEB's: The Church Burnin' Ebola Blog Thank you, Dr. Dembski. You are without peer when it comes to The Argument Regarding Design. - vesf

BWE Posts: 1902 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2007,18:16    Also, I have not seen Gross point blank. Someone else recommended it. So, it's on the list for me. As is Silverado which I also haven't seen. -------------- Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered When wished on the morning star Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it Look what it's done so far The Daily Wingnut

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2007,19:02    Quote (BWE @ Oct. 26 2007,18:16) Also, I have not seen Gross point blank. Me neither, but the original Point Blank is amazing. -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

Hermagoras Posts: 1260 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2007,19:18    Quote (BWE @ Oct. 26 2007,18:16) Also, I have not seen Gross point blank. Someone else recommended it. So, it's on the list for me. As is Silverado which I also haven't seen. I love Grosse Point Blank.  Written very well, with a hilarious subthread about American capitalism and success.  The whole set of conversations about whether an assassin should join a union or not is brilliant.   Some of my favorite movies, with lines: Local Hero.  The first movie of a globalized world, I think.  My all-time favorite movie evah.  "I'll be a good Gordon, Gordon." The Commitments.  "Aren't we a little -- white -- for that?"  Dublin before the "Celtic Tiger" -- the place doesn't exist anymore, not like that.   The Advertures of Buckaroo Banzai.  Terrible production values, a screwed up movie for sure, but great lines.  "There are monkey-boys in the compound."  "Use more honey!"  "What's that watermelon doing there?"  Plus a great underground reference to Thomas Pynchon, locating the enemy in Yoyodyne Systems, Inc.  (Cf The Crying of Lot 49, and also Pynchon's Vineland, where he returns the compliment.)   My Life as a Dog.  In Swedish, yeah, but I lived in Sweden for a while as a kid, so I get all misty.  A terrific movie of adolescence.  Plus, the kid gets his wang stuck in a coke bottle.  What's not to love?   For some reason, I can watch Groundhog Day over and over again.  "Phil?  Phil Conners?" -------------- "I am not currently proving that objective morality is true. I did that a long time ago and you missed it." -- StephenB http://paralepsis.blogspot.com/....pot.com

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2007,20:00    Ghostbusters. Coneheads. Any Saturday Night Live adaptation with Bill Murray and/or Dan Ackroyd. Caddyshack. Echoing the Princess Bride as I watched it again the other day (my DVD arrived!). Funny. You Yanks do good comedy. I could live in the USA just for the comedy....wait I *did* live in the USA and although I was ostensibly at university, it was mainly for the comedy! If we expand to TV, then I have to say Cheers and Frasier are two of the funniest things I have ever seen. Staggeringly brilliant. Louis -------------- Bye.

ck1 Posts: 65 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 26 2007,20:49    Yes.  Princess Bride. Groundhog Day. Marx Brothers movies. And when I was really really pregnant my husband brought home what I thought would be a really awful cheesy shoot-em-up.  Terminator. (#1)  Loved it.

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2007,12:59    Better late than never (in no particular order): L.A. Confidential The best film noir crime movie ever made, and the only good film version of any James Ellroy book. Everyone shines in this, Spacey, Pearce, Crowe, Cromwell especially. For non-Californians, a very good gutter level view of what LA is *really* like, and just how fucked up the place was in the 1950's. A warning, this is a very dense 2.5-hour boiling down of an extremely-dense 450-page book, so a LOT happens. PS, the book is even better. Usual Suspects Possibly the most clever mystery ever made. Spacey is brilliant. Even future wingnut/Christianist Stephen Baldwin is completely superb. Interrogation Cop: You know what happens if you do another turn in the joint? Hockney: Fuck your father in the shower and then have a snack? Are you going to charge me dickhead? Fight Club A remarkably profound movie that deserved a lot more credit than it got. Think Brad Pitt sucks? I did too, til I saw this. He deserved an Oscar for this one. Tyler Durden: Shut up! Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God? Narrator: No, no, I... don't... Tyler Durden: Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. Narrator: It isn't? Tyler Durden: We don't need him! Office Space The definitive statement on what it's *really* like to waste your life in a stupid office job. Good thing I hadn't seen this during the last office job I had, I would have had an even worse attitude than I did. Worth it for the neighbor Lawrence alone. Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. Bob Slydell: Great. Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out? Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Goodfellas What can I say? Joe Pesci's definitive performance. He even upstages DeNiro."Funny? Funny how? Am I a fucking CLOWN?" 2001 Space Odyssey A beautiful, lyrical movie. Its ability to portray the total emptiness and loneliness of space is amazing. Remarkably undated. Plus, Hal's dialogue is just plain *funny*. " I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you." Big Lebowski Possibly the funniest movie ever made. Worth it for Goodman alone. "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." Point Blank One of Lee Marvin's finest, filmed in a strangely empty San Francisco in 1965. Dreamlike, leaving you lots to debate afterwards. Spider Baby Completely hilarious. Possibly the most brilliant acting jobs you'll ever see in a movie made for under $40,000. Plus you get Lon Chaney and Mantan Moreland at the end of their careers. Carnival of Souls Circa-1964. Possibly the most dreamlike movie ever made. You literally start wondering if you're in a dream halfway through. Haunting. Das Boot, long version Apallingly realistic. Tragic, doom-laden. Disconcerting when you realize you're rooting for a bunch of actual Nazis. Memento A haunting, devastating movie that will take you several viewings to figure out. Guy Pearce at his peak. A stunning statement on how subjective memory is, and the loss of one's past. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly A very funny movie. Being as it was made by Italians, it was one of the first westerns to dump the image of the west as some clean, White, Protestant paradise. Worth it for Eli Wallach alone. "Ahhhh, this is why you come to Tuco! I kill him, I be right back!" Trainspotting Ugly, grim, bleak, also extremely compelling. Worth it for Begbie the psycho alone. The Iggy Pop soundtrack is just icing on the cake. "It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!" -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

carlsonjok Posts: 3326 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2007,13:11    Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Oct. 28 2007,12:59) Das Boot, long version Apallingly realistic. Disconcerting when you realize you're rooting for a bunch of actual Nazis. For fans of Das Boot, I would also offer The Enemy Below, a 1957 movie starring Robert Mitchum. -------------- It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

Mister DNA Posts: 466 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2007,15:41    That's a great list, Arden. I'm compelled to expound on some of your entries.   Quote L.A. Confidential The best film noir crime movie ever made, and the only good film version of any James Ellroy book. Everyone shines in this, Spacey, Pearce, Crowe, Cromwell especially. For non-Californians, a very good gutter level view of what LA is *really* like, and just how fucked up the place was in the 1950's. A warning, this is a very dense 2.5-hour boiling down of an extremely-dense 450-page book, so a LOT happens. PS, the book is even better. A fantastic movie. My only complaint was that they injected a chunk of Ellroy's The Big Nowhere into the plot, meaning we probably won't see that one make it to the big screen. Incidentally, the movie version of Brown's Requiem wasn't that bad; nowhere near as bad as The Black Dahlia, which was damn near unwatchable.   Quote Office Space The definitive statement on what it's *really* like to waste your life in a stupid office job. Good thing I hadn't seen this during the last office job I had, I would have had an even worse attitude than I did. Worth it for the neighbor Lawrence alone. A great soundtrack, too - "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta" and "Still", the latter being used to great effect when justice is meted out upon a certain printer. If anything, Office Space deserves credit for relegating the real Michael Bolton's career to a hilarious pop culture reference.   Quote Goodfellas What can I say? Joe Pesci's definitive performance. He even upstages DeNiro. Another outstanding soundtrack. What other movies features someone getting stomped to death to the strains of Donovan's "Atlantis"? "Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell you to go home and get your shine box."   Quote Big Lebowski Possibly the funniest movie ever made. Worth it for Goodman alone. If not the funniest, easily one of the most quotable movies ever made. "Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! Leads! "   Quote Point Blank One of Lee Marvin's finest, filmed in a strangely empty San Francisco in 1965. Dreamlike, leaving you lots to debate afterwards. I've got this in my Netflix queue because I've been on a John Boorman kick lately. Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, The General... all great films. I've always wanted to see Point Blank because the Mel Gibson remake wasn't half bad (Other than the first two Mad Max movies, Payback is the only other Mel Gibson film I enjoyed.)   Quote Das Boot, long version Apallingly realistic. Tragic, doom-laden. Disconcerting when you realize you're rooting for a bunch of actual Nazis. Das Boot set the bar for submarine movies; it has yet to be topped.   Quote The Good, the Bad, the Ugly A very funny movie. Being as it was made by Italians, it was one of the first westerns to dump the image of the west as some clean, White, Protestant paradise. Worth it for Eli Wallach alone. Agreed... Eli Wallach steals the show. The movie is beautifully filmed, but it's easy to overlook the great script. The running "there's two kinds of people" gag and "God is not on our side because He hates idiots also" are great lines (although the latter doesn't appear to be true). And as iconic as the theme music is, the piece used in the cemetery climax, "The Ecstasy of Gold", is one of my favorite pieces of film music. -------------- CBEB's: The Church Burnin' Ebola Blog Thank you, Dr. Dembski. You are without peer when it comes to The Argument Regarding Design. - vesf

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2007,16:58    Quote A fantastic movie. My only complaint was that they injected a chunk of Ellroy's The Big Nowhere into the plot, meaning we probably won't see that one make it to the big screen. Incidentally, the movie version of Brown's Requiem wasn't that bad; nowhere near as bad as The Black Dahlia, which was damn near unwatchable. Even worse news is that the people who own the rights to the LA Confidential screenplay (guess it ain't Ellroy) have indicated that they will not allow the characters of Ed Exley and Dudley Smith to appear in the planned film version of White Jazz. Considering that Exley and Smith are CRUCIAL characters in WJ, that should fuck up the movie pretty thoroughly (if it ever comes out). As for the movie version of Dahlia, I read that they cut a whole HOUR out of it. That would explain why it's completely incoherent. If some kind soul restores it for some DVD 'director's cut', that might salvage it. Otherwise, it was a writeoff. Lotta good dialogue in LA Confidential, too:   Quote Johnny Stompanato: You want an autograph? Write to MGM. Ed Exley: Since when do two-bit hoods and hookers give out autographs? Johnny Stompanato: What'd you say to me? Ed Exley: LAPD. Sit down. Lana Turner: Who in the hell do you think you are? Jack Vincennes: Ed... Ed Exley: Take a walk, honey, before I haul your ass downtown. Johnny Stompanato: You are making a large mistake. Lana Turner: Get away from our table. Ed Exley: Shut up! A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker. Johnny Stompanato: Hey! Ed Exley: She just looks like Lana Turner. Jack Vincennes: She is Lana Turner. Ed Exley: What? Jack Vincennes: She is Lana Turner. [Lana throws a drink in Ed's face]   Quote [White approaches Loew in the bathroom, after he refused to answer Exley's questions] Ellis Loew: Unless you came in here to wipe my ass, I believe we're through. [White looks at him, silently] Ellis Loew: Come on, don't try this "Good Cop-Bad Cop" crap on me. I practically invented it. So what if some homo actor is dead? Boys, girls, ten of them step off the bus to L.A. every day. [White proceeds to smash Loew's head into the mirror and then sticking it into the toilet] Ellis Loew: Pull him off me, Exley! Ed Exley: I don't know how. Bud White: Now, I know you think you're the A-number one hotshot. Well, here's the juice: if I take you out, there'll be ten more lawyers to take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all! [White drags Loew into his office and dangles him out of the window by his legs until he confesses] Ed Exley: Was that how you used to run the "Good Cop-Bad Cop?" Quote Dudley Smith: Edmund, you're a political animal. You have the eye for human weakness, but not the stomach. Ed Exley: You're wrong, sir. Captain Dudley Smith: Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment? Ed Exley: Dudley, we've been over this. Captain Dudley Smith: Yes or no, Edmund? Ed Exley: No! Captain Dudley Smith: Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty? Ed Exley: No. Captain Dudley Smith: Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some... lawyer... Ed Exley: No. Captain Dudley Smith: Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have to make those kind of decisions. -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

Mister DNA Posts: 466 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 28 2007,19:47    Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Oct. 28 2007,16:58) Even worse news is that the people who own the rights to the LA Confidential screenplay (guess it ain't Ellroy) have indicated that they will not allow the characters of Ed Exley and Dudley Smith to appear in the planned film version of White Jazz. Considering that Exley and Smith are CRUCIAL characters in WJ, that should fuck up the movie pretty thoroughly (if it ever comes out). I'm a bit apprehensive about White Jazz coming to the big screen. In addition to the problem you mentioned, Joe Carnahan is slated to direct; this could go either way. On the plus side, Carnahan wrote and directed Narc, which kicked ass - imagine Ray Liotta playing Bud White, and that's Narc. On the minus side, Carnahan wrote and directed Smokin' Aces, which I thought was horrible. Carnahan is also on board to bring Killing Pablo to the big screen. That was an astounding book; highly recommended. -------------- CBEB's: The Church Burnin' Ebola Blog Thank you, Dr. Dembski. You are without peer when it comes to The Argument Regarding Design. - vesf

Steviepinhead Posts: 532 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,18:58    Those who enjoyed Grosse Point Blank may enjoy The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Professional. The inimitable Samuel L has a great scene in TLKG in which he's singing the refrain to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" and then giving a version of the backbeat: ba dun da dun DUM.  Great stuff. The heroine is played by Geena Davis, who is also great in a light comedy, Earth Girls Are Easy. (And I'll second or third Pulp Fiction, speaking of Samuel L...  An indisputable modern classic.) Gotta agree on Kilmer as Doc Holliday: "my little blueberry..."  A classic performance (though apparently he's about the worst guy ever to have on a movie set). Kurosawa: one of his last movies, Dersu Uzala, is little known but great... One of the all-time greats: Lawrence of Arabia.  I also retain a fond spot for Dr. Zhivago... Has somebody mentioned Dr. Stranglelove? A great, but dated, comedy is The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming... The Tarentino half of the recent "Grindhouse," called Death Proof, is a kick in the pants--great dialogue for all the ladies, and great action. I'll also second Silverado. I'll go away and think of some more.

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,19:13    Quote (Steviepinhead @ Oct. 30 2007,19:58) The Tarentino half of the recent "Grindhouse," called Death Proof, is a kick in the pants--great dialogue for all the ladies, and great action. The stunts in Death Proof are absafuckinglutely incredible. All real time, physical stunts, too, no CGI tricks. Zoe Bell: WOW. Great characters, too. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,19:16    This may sound a bit off the wall, but I recently watched my daughter's copy of Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki anime expertly dubbed into English. Charming, eye-popping mix of realism and dream-like fantasy, great story, lotsa fun. Spirited Away is also a great way to spend a couple hours. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

steve_h Posts: 544 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,21:18    I'm not especially proud of these. Note to self: be more high-brow in future. Brazil  (seen too many times, can't watch any more) Notting hill (almost ditto) Being John Malkovich  (code 1,  current player code 2) Fargo / The big Lebowski (Fargo on video, VCR dead) Dogma Shaun of the dead  (Hot Fuzz ok but doesn't quite do it for me) The sixth sense Erin Brokovich The Elephant Man La Vita è bella  (although, of course, I know it only as "Life is Beautiful") Easily manipulated, I inevitably get something in one of my manly eyes whenever I watch four of them. Hated:   Twister  (I wonder what's going to happen to all those wind chimes etc and how strong will the wind be exactly?  Couldn't stand the dialog, but loved Buffy and Firefly/serinity, how could the same guy be behind them?) Once Worked (unsuccessfully) where they shot: Life Story (TV) - recognised about 10 seconds (Franklin leaves the building at night). Chumley Warner Link

theloneliestmonk Posts: 11 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,22:18    Is anyone else here a fan of 12 monkeys? Usually can't stand Bruce Willis, but thought that he was good in this. Big shout out for The Big Lebowski!

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,22:32    12 Monkeys was awesome. That's when I started respecting Brad Pitt. Also, as you mention, Bruce Willis was good in that.

theloneliestmonk Posts: 11 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,22:38    Forgot about Brad Pitt. I wanted to hate the guy so bad because of his dreamy good looks. Oh well.

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 30 2007,22:54    Agreed: 12 monkeys was an awesome flick. One of my favorite Bruce Willis performances. "What a wonderful world it would be." -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

improvius Posts: 807 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 31 2007,09:43    The Mission Amazing in just about every way, this film takes place in 18th century Brazil.  Spanish Jesuits are trying to save a native tribe from encroaching slave hunters.  Jeremy Irons plays a Jesuit Priest, and Robert De Niro plays a Portuguese slave hunter.  The story, acting, and scenery are all top-notch.  If you can watch this film and not be emotionally moved by the end, then you simply aren't human. The Last Temptation of Christ I'm going to go out on a limb and recommend this one to you all.  I consider myself an agnostic and not particularly religious in any way, and I greatly enjoyed this film.  Willem Dafoe does a remarkable job portraying JC as a truly human character, which is why many fundamentalist Christians  probably didn't like it at all. Quote Jerobeam: God brought you here, didn't he? Jesus: All he brought here is my shame. Jerobeam: Shame is also a temptation. Jesus: God hunts me. He drives his nails into my heart. He wants to push me over. He wants me to speak. But he didn't touch my lips with burning coals. How can I speak? I sinned. Jerobeam: We all sin. Jesus: Not my sins. What does He want from me? Can't he see what's inside me? All my sins. I'm Lucifer. Jerobeam: Be quiet! Jesus: No! I'm a liar. A hypocrite. I'm afraid of everything. I never tell the truth. I don't have the courage. When I see a woman, I blush and look away. But inside I have lust. For God, I smother the lust, and that satisfies my pride. But my pride destroys Magdalene. I never steal or fight, or kill... not because I don't want to but because I'm afraid. I want to rebel against everything, everybody... against God!... but I'm afraid. If you look inside me you see fear, that's all. Fear is my mother, my father, my God. Dafoe is perfectly matched up with Harvey Keitel as Judas.  The relationship between Judas an JC is one of the central themes in the film.  Both are revealed as complex characters, as this movie goes well beyond any Sunday-school version of Christ's life. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack by Peter Gabriel is incredible.  Even if you aren't interested in the film, you should give it a listen. -------------- Quote (afdave @ Oct. 02 2006,18:37) Many Jews were in comfortable oblivion about Hitler ... until it was too late. Many scientists will persist in comfortable oblivion about their Creator ... until it is too late.

improvius Posts: 807 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 31 2007,09:46    Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Oct. 30 2007,20:16) This may sound a bit off the wall, but I recently watched my daughter's copy of Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki anime expertly dubbed into English. Charming, eye-popping mix of realism and dream-like fantasy, great story, lotsa fun. Spirited Away is also a great way to spend a couple hours. I strongly recommend everything Miyazaki has ever done, period.  Spirited Away was probably my favorite, but all of them are wonderful and unique in their own ways. -------------- Quote (afdave @ Oct. 02 2006,18:37) Many Jews were in comfortable oblivion about Hitler ... until it was too late. Many scientists will persist in comfortable oblivion about their Creator ... until it is too late.

Darth Robo Posts: 148 Joined: Aug. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 01 2007,21:08    Quote Oh yeah, and the soundtrack by Peter Gabriel is incredible.  Even if you aren't interested in the film, you should give it a listen. Got it.  And got the soundtrack for The Mission.  Haven't seen either of the films but I do likes me movie soundtracks tho. On movies, we do likes Blade Runner, Empire Strikes Back and Star Trek II - BEST Star Trek out of ALL of 'em - don't care wot ANYONE sez!   In case anyone didn't know, I like my science fiction.   Liked Stargate as well, for a bit of mindless entertainment.  Couldn't get into the TV show - Richard Dean Anderson ain't a patch on Kurt Russel.  "Send my regards to King Tut, asshole!"   Speaking of which, no-one's mentioned Big Trouble In Little China? Also like LA Confidential, Grosse Point Blank, Leon (The Professional) , and the Long Good Kiss Goodnight. "Nathan: Alice, please. Your dog, Alice. It and my appetite are mutually exclusive. Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog? Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?" And as an alternative to Die Hard I'd recommend Hard Boiled. -------------- "Commentary: How would you like to be the wholly-owned servant to an organic meatbag? It's demeaning! If, uh, you weren't one yourself, I mean..."

Roland Anderson Posts: 51 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 01 2007,21:36    An insomniac night inspires me to the following: 1: Brief Encounter 2: Casablanca 3: The Maltese Falcon 4: All About Eve 5: The Wizard of Oz I like the old 'uns! Good day all. Nice to see you again.

skeptic Posts: 1163 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 02 2007,01:45    Quote (improvius @ Oct. 31 2007,09:43) The Mission Amazing in just about every way, this film takes place in 18th century Brazil.  Spanish Jesuits are trying to save a native tribe from encroaching slave hunters.  Jeremy Irons plays a Jesuit Priest, and Robert De Niro plays a Portuguese slave hunter.  The story, acting, and scenery are all top-notch.  If you can watch this film and not be emotionally moved by the end, then you simply aren't human. The Last Temptation of Christ I'm going to go out on a limb and recommend this one to you all.  I consider myself an agnostic and not particularly religious in any way, and I greatly enjoyed this film.  Willem Dafoe does a remarkable job portraying JC as a truly human character, which is why many fundamentalist Christians  probably didn't like it at all.   Quote Jerobeam: God brought you here, didn't he? Jesus: All he brought here is my shame. Jerobeam: Shame is also a temptation. Jesus: God hunts me. He drives his nails into my heart. He wants to push me over. He wants me to speak. But he didn't touch my lips with burning coals. How can I speak? I sinned. Jerobeam: We all sin. Jesus: Not my sins. What does He want from me? Can't he see what's inside me? All my sins. I'm Lucifer. Jerobeam: Be quiet! Jesus: No! I'm a liar. A hypocrite. I'm afraid of everything. I never tell the truth. I don't have the courage. When I see a woman, I blush and look away. But inside I have lust. For God, I smother the lust, and that satisfies my pride. But my pride destroys Magdalene. I never steal or fight, or kill... not because I don't want to but because I'm afraid. I want to rebel against everything, everybody... against God!... but I'm afraid. If you look inside me you see fear, that's all. Fear is my mother, my father, my God. Dafoe is perfectly matched up with Harvey Keitel as Judas.  The relationship between Judas an JC is one of the central themes in the film.  Both are revealed as complex characters, as this movie goes well beyond any Sunday-school version of Christ's life. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack by Peter Gabriel is incredible.  Even if you aren't interested in the film, you should give it a listen. I'm gonna shock you but I really liked The Last Temptation of Christ.  The interpretation of the "let this cup pass from me"-theme is really thought-provoking and brings out the real human angst.  Gibson hit it pretty hard in The Passion but in a completely different way.  In any case, I'd recommend it as well. As far as my most favorite, it varies from time to time but most frequently it is Jaws.  IMO, it just doesn't get much better than that.

IanBrown_101 Posts: 927 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 02 2007,02:03    Quote (Roland Anderson @ Nov. 02 2007,03:36) 2: Casablanca First time I saw it I almost cried. I don't think I've seen many performances top Humphrey Bogart in that. The man is a god and that film a video bible. Utterly marvellous in every single way. Still, my favourite film varies, as I'm sure most people's does, but most of the time it's either Godfather Part II (DeNiro is one of the performances that equals that of Bogart in Casablanca, and Pachino is also superb) or The Shawshank Redemption. If you don't cry at Shawshank at least once, you're some kind of inhuman robot thing. -------------- I'm not the fastest or the baddest or the fatest. You NEVER seem to address the fact that the grand majority of people supporting Darwinism in these on line forums and blogs are atheists. That doesn't seem to bother you guys in the least. - FtK Roddenberry is my God.

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 02 2007,20:23    I've never been into audiophile or videophile stuff, but today I wanted to see if my component video outputs were really noticeably better than s-video, so i hooked both up, put in a DVD, and switched back and forth. Wow. Component video color was much better. If you have component video outputs and inputs, use them. s-video and especially coax make for a distinctly poorer picture. Oh, and what DVD was it? Here's how it began: Quote "History has known many great liars. Copernicus. Goebbels. St. Ralph the Liar. But there have been none quite so vile as the Tudor king, Henry the Seventh...." Edited by stevestory on Nov. 02 2007,21:23

Darth Robo Posts: 148 Joined: Aug. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 03 2007,19:11    Quote If you don't cry at Shawshank at least once, you're some kind of inhuman robot thing. Me liked but didn't cry.  But I am a droid.   -------------- "Commentary: How would you like to be the wholly-owned servant to an organic meatbag? It's demeaning! If, uh, you weren't one yourself, I mean..."

Assassinator Posts: 479 Joined: Nov. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Nov. 03 2007,19:42    I didn't cry at Shawshank, but it's truely one of the best drama's I've seen in my short life so far and I definatly don't like drama's :P And because my life is short, I don't have a lot of fav movies yet, but some nonetheless. Gattaca: Such a beautifull sci-fi movie, it almost made me cry. Just to see in what world someone could do to achieve his dreams, beating the system...downright beautifull, hard to explain with more words. Contact: How people would react to the discover of intelligent extra-terrestial life, the phylosphical (I misspelled that didn't I?) and religious questions it would arise. Awsome. The Matrix Trilogy: Simply lóve the fighting :D Kill Bill 1 and 2: Simply awsome :D Delightfuly over-the-tup, pure cult, awsome martial-arts. The Big Lebowski: Seen it a couple of time's, it's soooo funny! Awsome cult-status. Hmmm, all i can think off right now.

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