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Your Top 5 Films

El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt

22:38 / 25.01.02

Go.

Robot Man Reformed

23:23 / 25.01.02

1: The Mummy returns

2: Tomb Raider

3: Planet of the Apes

4: Errrhm, have to come back with that one.

5: Pokemon 3

23:25 / 25.01.02

quote:Originally posted by El Gato:
Go.

The mediocre raver flick? Erm, OK, whatever snaps yer radish, I guess.

23:27 / 25.01.02

well, right now it would have to be:

- all about my mother [beautiful, sad and funny story about strong women. almodovar rules!]
- whatever happened to baby jane? [the ultimate melodrama. once went to a bette davis triple bill at the scala. oh, those were the days!]
- deliverance [a family favourite. city boys can't hack it in the real world. 'who's pickin' a banjo here?'. my brother and sister quote endlessly from it]
- the great st trinians train robbery [just ludicrously funny. the train chase at the end has me on the floor every time]
- dune [a few dodgy bits but epic as hell]

[edited to add why]

[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]

00:26 / 26.01.02

also invoking the 'right now' clause, and now with added 'reasons why', it's

- nowhere (gregg araki permanently tarnishes the careers of a ton of talentless young quasi-celebs - some guy from baywatch, christina applegate, etc., crazed and hilarious)
- showgirls (glamour, bitchiness, epic)
- blonde cobra (amazing b&w short 'about' 60s underground artist jack smith, w/ smith telling fantastic, absurd, pointless stories over gorgeous visuals)
- moulin rouge (you've probably seen it)
- chelsea girls (warhol's 3 hour plus unexpected commercial success - no story, just drug addled 60s 'characters' tormenting each other for real)

apart from anything else, all these films have completely unique mise en scene and cinematography, with plot ruthlessly subordinated to aesthetics

[ 27-01-2002: Message edited by: Dread Pirate Crunchy ]

01:41 / 26.01.02

right now clause invoked also, and I've copied SFD with the adding of whys...

horror: Ginger Snaps- Did you see it? It was the best werewolf movie I've ever seen, creepy, sexy, funny, the whole nine.

sci-fi: Earth Girls are Easy- Jeff Goldblum was really, really hot and there were musical numbers.

80s: Lost Boys- Kiefer Sutherland, also really really hot. I love the 80s quasigoth clothes, we got both Coreys, and a town I've wanted to live in ever since I saw it.

recent: Monkey Bone- Though I fear Brendan Fraser with a great shuddery fear, I liked this movie. Fun nightmare world, fun cgi, fun characters. God I'm shallow.

comedy: Day of the Night of the...in Shocking 2-D (see zombie thread) There's no explaining it. It has to be seen.

[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: Mazarine ]

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

01:57 / 26.01.02

OK...real quick.

In no order:

Blue Velvet
Edward Sissorhands
Citizen Kane
The Breakfast Club
Empire Strikes Back.

And I have no defense for most of them.

02:18 / 26.01.02

Definitely, maybe:

-Chinatown
-Conan the Barbarian
-The Magnificent Seven
-Young Frankenstein
-Citizen Kane

[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: Tempus ]

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:59 / 26.01.02

(again, the right now thing...)
(and in no particular order)
Ed Wood (because Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi never fails to reduce me to tears)
Star Wars (just because)
Casablanca (supercool dialogue, and people who fight Nazis)
Harvey (one of the funniest films ever, and also one of the most sympathetic portrayals of an alcoholic I've ever seen)
Blade Runner (you need to ask why?).

(As with everyone else, the reasons have been edited in.)

[ 27-01-2002: Message edited by: Moominstoat ]

03:31 / 26.01.02

Would anyone mind going back to their posts and adding a bit of exposition? At the moment this thread ain't saying too much...

06:28 / 26.01.02

1. Delicatessen - Jet black humor. A protagonist with a strong resemblence to a proboscis monkey. Frenchmen cannibalizing each other, post-apocalypse. Jeunet and Caro working that Rube-Goldberg cinematographic voodoo that they do. The scene with the bed-springs...ha!

2. Citizen Kane - Bugger the critical assessments and endless art-house paeans: William Randolph Hearst, real-life counterpart of Charles Foster Kane, nicknamed his mistress's clitoris "Rosebud." Now go rewatch the movie and keep a straight face.

3. Yojimbo - the Western that was a samurai film that was a Western. Toshiro Mifune as John Wayne, only moreso. Amorality. Violence abstracted of pornographic, voyeuristic detail. Delightful, dark witty moments:
Bartender: "Are you going to die?"
Mifune: "No! I have very many more men to kill yet!"

4. Cyrano de Bergerac - the French version with Gerard Depardieau, prior to his assumption of role as Hollywood's transcontinental performing monkey. Faithful to the play, almost word-for-word. Brilliant acting all 'round. Surprisingly tragic and effective ending. Drags tears out of me every time.

5. Brazil - the most intricately psychological and philosophical film in ages, touched with enough of the Pythonesque absurb to not be tedious or pedantic. Almost cyberpunk carried in a different direction. Beautiful, surreal, at times frightening on some spiritual level.

Also-Ran:
The General - Buster Keaton, god of physical comedy, near his best.

08:31 / 26.01.02

My top five of the moment would have to be:

1. Wargames -- What can I say? There was war dialing!

2. Project X -- I'm not sure why I chose this movie, I guess because I think the idea of it was, well, something. Oh my.

3. Stargate -- Who doesn't love Stargate? I mean really, wouldn’t you like to travel to other planets and fight ancient aliens that made the people of Earth this they were Gods?

4. Sleepy Hollow -- A well done remake of a classic. Not to mention the flaming pumpkin!

5. Dr Zhivago -- Just because.

[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: Abydoss ]

Murray Hamhandler

17:19 / 26.01.02

1. 2001
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Muppet Movie
4. Being There
5. The Crying Game

I'm sure it'll change if I think about it too much, so there you go.
Arthur Sudnam

17:29 / 26.01.02

Can't do a proper to 5 (Film school graduate), so here's the 5 that I get urges to see. Real urges.

1. Seven Samurai
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Bad Taste
4. Starship Troopers
5. Apocalypse Now

19:00 / 26.01.02

Top 5 hmmm, lets see... & again in no particular order;

City of Lost Children
Alien
Fight Club
Pi
Usual Suspects

22:26 / 26.01.02

Um -

Police Academy
The Last Starfighter
Titanic
Forest Gump
Marry Poppins

11:42 / 27.01.02

Five films? out of, like, all the films ever?

not likely..

though Mars Attacks!, Dazed & Confused, If.., Mallrats and The Empire Strikes Back would prtobably fit into it somewhere..

12:09 / 27.01.02

Ok, in no order.

Seul Contre Tous

Fight Club (yeah I know, but shut it)

Escape to Victory

American Beauty

The Goonies

22:27 / 28.01.02

(as of right now and in no order)

1. Requim For A Dream -- they should show this one to high school kids, they'll never touch drugs again -- totally rocked my world -- I think i suffered post traumatic stress for days afterwards

2. Apocalypse Now - I haven't seen reduex, so I'm speaking original here -- pure genius

3.(a tie) Fight Club And The Matrix -- for the visuals and the pop spirituality that backed them

4. Henry & June --- a sexy flick about two of my favorite authors and of course, Uma (mmmmmm, Uma)

hanabius yamamura

15:35 / 31.01.02

in no particular order...

AUDITION .. for reasons i wont explain so as not to spoil it for anyone

SEANCE .. deeply disturbing

BLADE RUNNER ( dir. cut ) ..incl. that starships on fire speech at the end .. cinema magic

THE STORMRIDERS .. epic chinese film in the mold of MONKEY .. but get the directors cut 'cause the english one makes no sense having had 40 minutes chopped out

THE PROPHECY .. tacky i know , but i always liked it

15:59 / 31.01.02

no particular order:

1. the color purple - I always cry at the end. always

2. say anything - I love john cusacks character. one day.... *sigh*

3. some kind of wonderful - Im not really sure. I like the blonde chick, a lot

4. boondock saints - I usually dont like movies filled with gunfire. this is quite a notable exception

5. american history x - another crier, but twice in this one. dont you dare make fun of me

16:05 / 31.01.02

at this second (although it would have changed by the time i've finished typing) :

Hard Boiled
Ring
The Vanishing
Blair Witch Project
Airplane

16:08 / 31.01.02

In no particular order:
Rocky III
Rocky
Rocky IV
Rocky V
And Rocky II.

16:31 / 31.01.02

Fight Club - because deep down I want to destroy society
Usual Suspects - I would have Kevin Spacey's children. His performance in this film is a textbook of how to act
The Wall - Pink Floyd (however scary this may be) defined my teenage years.
Unbreakable - because deep down I want to save the world. And that doesn't contradict the "Fight Club" reason either.
American Beauty - see "The Usual Suspects", but apply to whole film.

Zoom.

17:32 / 31.01.02

Ahhh, another list...

1. Fight Club - because, like the good Captain, I also want to destroy society.
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - inspiration for my own fear and loathing in (insert city) vacations.
3. Clockwork Orange - cinematography is astounding, ultraviolence is fun, Ludwig van is great
4. Payback - overlooked Mel Gibson film where everybody is a bad guy. Love it.
5. Dark City - the noir-est movie ever. "How do you get to Shell Beach?"

Ouch. Picking only five is rough.

18:13 / 31.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
Fight Club - because deep down I want to destroy society
Usual Suspects - I would have Kevin Spacey's children. His performance in this film is a textbook of how to act
The Wall - Pink Floyd (however scary this may be) defined my teenage years.
Unbreakable - because deep down I want to save the world. And that doesn't contradict the "Fight Club" reason either.
American Beauty - see "The Usual Suspects", but apply to whole film.

Zoom.

OK, this may seem like a total cop-out (and yes kids, it is), but Zoom, your list fits me like a glove, man. It really does. Except for The Wall, which I've never seen (too late for it to affect my teenage years now). By the by, does The Wall *really* sync up perfectly (or semi-perfectly) with The Wizard of Oz when they're played simultaneously or is it an urban myth? I've gotta try that sometime (unless someone already knows it doesn't work.

Er...Zoom

19:59 / 31.01.02

By the by, does The Wall *really* sync up perfectly (or semi-perfectly) with The Wizard of Oz when they're played simultaneously or is it an urban myth?

<off-topic>Supposedly it's "Dark Side of the Moon" that synch's up w/ Wizard of Oz. Never been bored enough to try it, though.</off-topic>

20:47 / 31.01.02

I just realised I posted on here when I was drunk and made up some films, so lets try again...

1. Godfather - amazing story and acting.or maybe number 2 I can never decide.
2. True Romance - I just love it -I just love the scence with Dennis Hopper and it has other meanings to it, like personal ones...
3. I cant think of at the moment I had one and deleted it - let just say the Shinning for now
4. Big Lebowski - again just love the movie.. even more after learning that all the ummms and ahhhs were written in the script...
5. Metropolis the new anime version - just because its in my mind right now and its soooo fucking cute..KENICHI !!!.I just wish someone else would go and see and and give their opinion

and yeah I'm drunk again but this one if more like my other choices...dunno where the last starfighter came from but i did like the fist time I saw it ...

00:23 / 01.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Margin Walker:

<off-topic>Supposedly it's "Dark Side of the Moon" that synch's up w/ Wizard of Oz. Never been bored enough to try it, though.</off-topic>[/QB]

I stand corrected. Thanks. Glad I didn't try it with "The Wall."

The Damned Yankee

01:07 / 01.02.02

In no particular blah blah blah:

1. Goodfellas: The perfect gangster movie. Less epic than The Godfather, true, but it had more of the "brass tacks" of Mob life.

2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: If you have to ask, you may never know.

3. Sid and Nancy: A great movie. Lousy history, but a great movie. Tales of fucked-up love just hit me right here (thumps chest), y'know?

4. Interview with the Vampire: The only, I say only Tom Cruise movie I own. Otherwise I hate the midget bastard.

5. Jaws: That shark was the original movie slasher. He'd've had Michael Myers for breakfast, Jason Voorhees for lunch, and Freddy Krueger for dinner, and used Chucky for a toothpick. That was one badass fish.

11:55 / 02.02.02

Picking five is tough? These are about the only five movies I like:

1. Mary Poppins
2. Monty Python's Life of Brian
3. Godfather
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. Usual Suspects

12:56 / 02.02.02

a subjective list, for sure:

Blade Runner
"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe" but it needs no rubric in this company, I'm sure

Cabaret
because Tomorrow Belongs to Me turns so chillingly from a beautiful berceuse into a belligerent fascist anthem, and for one hundred other reasons

Goodfellas
but it could have been any of Scorsese's altho this is probably his finest, doing intriguing new things with a well worn theme

Nosferatu The Vampyr
the best in a highly competitive genre
Klaus Kinski, the Wagner, the Popul Vuh...

Death in Venice
a timelesss meditation on a heart-breaking theme, set to Mahler's 5th (ruhe und langsam)

no room for Babette's Feast then, shame...

16:41 / 02.02.02

quote:Originally posted by expressionless:
Would anyone mind going back to their posts and adding a bit of exposition? At the moment this thread ain't saying too much...

Seconded. And repeated, for the hard of... um... reading. List threads, when those posting give no reasons for their choices, are utterly pointless.

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:42 / 02.02.02

Thanks, Randy. I've been avoiding this thread a bit as, without wanting to be a spoilsport, I'm really fucking tired of list threads. I'd like it a bit if threads talked more about the meaty topics behind movies - why are certain films pushed and made big while others languish? Why are certain genres dominant? Etc. I'm all for people waxing lyrical about fucking amazing cinema, but when it devolves to lists of things that're great by dint of their having great cinematography (or, alternately, lots of shit being blown up) then it's a bit of a cop-out, methinks.

Not meaning to rant, but there's been a lot of lists around this forum lately - who's up for something beefy?

The Damned Yankee

00:53 / 04.02.02

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