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megaman79 on 24 August 2008

Still no Raging Bull or Taxi Driver or even Goodfellas. Christ this is an awful thread

Credit for idiocracy, unbreakable, anything written by Kaufman (eg. Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation my fav.), SOTD (no way is Hot Fuzz better).



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rudyrsr8 on 24 August 2008

Recently i would say the dark knight.



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megaman79 on 24 August 2008
colonelstubbs said:

Reservior Dogs.

I DARE someone to disagree

 

I dont, but i do believe distinguishing good from bad with Tarantino is quite difficult. Depends if you like the genre's he pastiches in his films. I really like Jackie Brown despite alot of people not liking it.

 



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

SnesTea on 24 August 2008
Gnizmo said:
Soriku said:
Titanic

 Well I'm glad you finally feel comfortable enough to come out of the closet like this.

 Casablanca, Serenity, Unbreakable, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, and Secret Window off the top of my head.

 

 

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perpride on 24 August 2008

The Dark Knight.



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BringBackChrono on 24 August 2008

Ive posted before.These are my 5 for today

The Unforgiven: The best movie made by Clint Eastwood(which is saying a lot),brilliant performances by all 3 lead actors

Rurouni Kenshin:Trust and Betrayal :brilliant story-telling, beautiful animations, heart breaking climax

2001 A Space Odyssey: my personal favorite sci-fi movie(though i think it transcends genres).

Requiem for a dream: I watched the movie without any prior knowledge of what it was about, and for me, its the most recently made masterpiece

Wings Of Desire: A Great story, Beautifully shot and one of my personal favorite acting performances by Bruno ganz



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Frodaddyg on 24 August 2008
Profcrab said:
Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, Animal House, Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Pearl Harbor, and The Unforgiven.

I give this thread a 9.7.

Such Pig bait right there.

Have to agree on pretty much all of them, but particularly the comedies. All are basically amazing writing that was flawlessly executed on screen.

Off the top of my head, aside from the above quote:

Fight Club - Norton and Pitt nailed a book to film transition that I basically thought was impossible.

Sin City - Visually stunning, and nailed pretty much every aspect in the transition between mediums.

Shawshank - Cannot turn the channel if this movie is on, regardless of what point it's at. If it's just starting, I'm stuck there for 3 hours, helpless to resist it.

Ghostbusters - Peter Venkman may be my favorite single character in any movie, ever.

Star Wars: A New Hope  - The movie basically redefined movie-making. Empire may be the better overall movie, but A New Hope changed the world of cinema.



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rocketpig on 24 August 2008
Frodaddyg said:
Profcrab said:
Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, Animal House, Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Pearl Harbor, and The Unforgiven.

I give this thread a 9.7.

Fight Club - Norton and Pitt nailed a book to film transition that I basically thought was impossible.

Shawshank - Cannot turn the channel if this movie is on, regardless of what point it's at. If it's just starting, I'm stuck there for 3 hours, helpless to resist it.

I dare say that in those two examples, the movies actually surpassed the books, which is nearly impossible. While I liked both the books, I thought the movies actually did a better job of getting into the characters and telling the story.

 




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rocketpig on 24 August 2008

I could list 100, but I'll keep it simple. These aren't necessarily my "favorite" movies, but stuff I've seen recently:

2001: A Space Odyssey - An extremely arty sci-fi movie that is incredibly interesting to watch. How difficult is that? Clarke and Kubrick pulled off the impossible.

Citizen Kane - Lighting, camera angles, dialogue... This changed movie-making forever.

Star Wars - For good or bad, it changed the way we think about movies. Lucas truly achieved his vision of modern mythology with this film.

Apocolypse Now - Every single moment of this film is incredible. It works on so many levels that every time I watch it, I catch something new and it amazes me all over again.

Magnolia - It turned Tom Cruise into an actor. Well, at least for the second half of the film. Overall, a stunning example of how to make an ensemble cast movie work.

Dr. Strangelove - Simply put, one of the smartest comedies ever put on celluloid.

Blazing Saddles - I dare you to watch the first half hour of this movie without bursting into hysterical laughter. A perfect example of lightning striking at the right time. There is no way this movie ever gets made today and that's a damned shame. Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks deserve sainthood for that script.

Rear Window - Filmed in one room, creepy as fuck. I heart Hitchcock.

That's just off the top of my head. I could keep going all day and I know the moment I click "Post", I'm going to kick myself for forgetting something. These are just some of the higher profile films that came to mind, there is plenty of low profile stuff I respect as much if not more than these movies.




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colonelstubbs on 24 August 2008
perpride said:
The Dark Knight.

 

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