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| Wright said: [snip] As for genres, I favor Sci-Fi over everything else, though I don't discriminate whenever I go to see a new flick. Among the top, outside Forrest Gump, I put The Fifth Element, The Iron Giant, Minority Report, Titan A.E., The Time Machine, Gattacka and a few more. Outside sci-fi? There's one movie which I definitively recommend and that's Yojimbo; both for its importance in cinematography and also for being a humorous, yet well conceived samurai drama. |
Love me some sci-fi too! Glad to see a fan of The Iron Giant, Minority Report, and Gattaca.
And Yojimbo is a great movie. I'd also recommend Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and Ran - all Kurosawa.
@OP: I love movies too. In fact, they're my first love. Starting in 1997 I started getting more and more into cinema. In 2001 it really exploded for me. By 2008, I had begun to move more seriously into video games and didn't watch as many movies as I used to. But I still adore them.
Some of my favorite filmmakers are Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Wilder, Kubrick, Scorsese, Lean, Fellini, Cocteau, Renoir, Yimou, Joon-Ho Bong, Mann, Cameron, Miyazaki, Lang, Malick, etc. I could go on forever.
Some of my favorite movies: L'Atalante, 2001: A Spacy Odyssey, Metropolis, Double Indemnity, It Happened One Night, The Grand Illusion, etc.
As far as negativity about the current movie industry, I totally get it. There are so many remakes, sequels, and creatively-bankrupt tentpole projects. And I'm not a fan at all of the serialized world-building Disney/Marvel and Warner Bros./DC are doing. I want a movie that's independently entertaining and meaningful. I don't want to watch the next episode in an ever-expanding cinematic universe.
