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Films you really enjoy
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Some of mine are as follows
The Green Mile ( it is very long yet not once do I feel it gets boring and does make me shed man-tears at the end and got to love tom Hanks accent he does in the film )
The Dark Knight Rises ( I know the film is full of plot holes but I really Enjoy Tom Hardys Potrail of Bane and just a fun film to watch)
L.A confidental ( I love mystrey films and this films has a awesome overall mystrey and the ending is very good and some nice twists)
Les Miserables ( musical movie) ( I know it got mixed opinions but I like musicals and I even like Crowes singing *gasp*)
A few Good Men ( an excellent and very well acted courtroom drama with interesting view on who is considored responsible for the overall crime)
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Corpse Bride:
Often seen as the second of Burton best stop motion movie. I think that the story balance perfectly the cliché story while having quite an original set up and concept to make it forget that it's a story you heard a million times (in my opinion). This movie was there to help me pass through my first broken heart because of the ending (love the moral, we should have more kids movie endorsing those kind of things), so it will keep forever a special place in my litttle heart.
Amélie/ Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain:
Probably one of the most overated foreing movie in the world, I though it was okay the first time I watched it, the second time I fell in love with it. The main reason I didn't loved it the first time was because there was so much characters in this film that the main character is almost push aside most of the time. The second time I got it. Amélie IS someone who prefer to stay invisible. She IS a shy person that, while wanting to help people, is afraid of going into direct contact with them. It's normal she get easily pushed aside, that's what she is. The presentation of each character is quite unique and I like that. The score is just a master piece and yeah, a faboulous movie.
Ratatouille:
My most favorite pixar movie, is about a rat who try his chance at becoming a great cook even if it seem impossible. I think I love this movie because the plot is so relatable to anybody who dare to try something different (in my case trying to become an artist even if I have a greater potential in science and trying to work in a male domain while every women in my family work in traditional female domain). Really a great inspiration for me and those quote are just delicious! I never get tired of those two: "Anyone can cook, but only the fearless will be great" and "Not everyone can become a great artist... But a great artist can come from anywhere".
Honorable mentions:
Coraline for teaching me that even if animated a kid's movie can creep adult.
Spirit away for showing me a truly moving kid's movie.
Persepolis for explaining me how a revolution can turn horribly wrong (and help me understand better what's going on in the east)
Hugo for remembering me why I love movies so much each time I feel hopeless about the movie industry.
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Persona or Through a glass darkly. Or rather, both, but I like playing favourites. I have a very hard time deciding which is my favourite Bergman movie, though. The fact that these are, though, says a lot, since Bergman, next to Peter Greenaway, is my favourite director.
The Baby of Mâcon has to be my favourite movie by Peter Greenaway (I find most of his movies absolutely breathtakingly wonderful, though). It's beautiful, ugly, dark, occasionally funny, occasionally grotesque and disturbing as bloody murder. No movie, book or anything has given me such angst in concentrated form as this movie. The first, second and third (...after watching it the first time I was certain I would never ever see it again, but I was very wrong and happily bought it when I found it in a store just some week after) time I watched it I just sat there and stared for a while.
The blood of a poet. So damn gorgeous it's basically porn to me. I love Jean Cocteau.
The Wall. I didn't listen at Pink Floyd the time (I still can't say I do it actively, even though I do like them) I saw it, but it immediately became a favourite.
Marat/Sade. I can't get tired of that movie. It's like I discover new things each time I watch it or read the play.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I love German expressionism, I love silent movies and I love Conrad Veidt.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Just my kind of humour, I have a faiblesse for movies based on plays (and this movie is based on my favourite one) and I adore Tim Roth - Gary Oldman is lovely as well.
The last temptation of Christ. I find the Bible very interesting, and I love artistic, alternate takes on its people and stories. Jesus is very complex in this movie, and I love Judas as well. I can't wait to read the novel it's based on.
Some other favourites are Rope, Taxidermia, Steamboat Bill Jr., 491 and Faust by Svankmajer.
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I'm not really gonna go in depth, but basically I consider it a near perfect movie. Good characters, great soundtrack, awesome visuals and a good story and theme to go with it. I really don't know what else I can say.
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Mavericks, avengers, outlaws, love all this stuff. Kill Bill and Django Unchained are great, too. To be honest, I love all his movies, except maybe for Rersevoir Dogs. Watched them all at least twice.
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Reservoir Dogs is actually my favourite by him nowadays. Rediscovered it, so to speak, three years ago and watched it a couple of times. I feel like watching it again soon - I adore Tim Roth's acting, and Harvey Keitel is great too.
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I like watching his movies with friends, too. And with my cousin. My cousin probably loves Tarantino as much as I do. We are definitely going to watch The Hateful Eight together. I am crazy about this movie.
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Well, one of my pet peeves is that things can get a bit... gimmicky. As if some of the witty dialogues mainly are there to be quotable because he made it his thing. I just think it feels a little forced at times. This doesn't mean that I don't find any of these certain dialogues good/memorable/amusing, or that I think that the whole thing is forced, because I do like quite a lot of them, and I definitely understand why so many people enjoy it.
Ah, that sounds so nice! I really long to see that movie...
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Disney movies - I love them in general. The Emperor's new groove, Lilo and Stitch, Mulan, Big Hero 6, Pocahontas, The hunchback of Notre Dame are the best ones. For vastly different reasons.
Lock, stock and two smoking barrels - Because it's hilarious and the plot is just so neatly packaged.
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The list I wrote a year ago still stands, more or less, but there's a genre I've enjoyed for the longest amount of time in my life:
Something I'm absolutely crazy about is slasher-movies from the late 70's to 80's. Some of them are extremely kitschy, but it's a kind of kitsch I enjoy. I do find a few genuinely creepy, though. Halloween and April Fool's Day for example, I don't know how many times I've seen these particular two movies since I first saw them, the former when I was twelve and the latter when I was thirteen. I'm picky when it comes to my favourites, but I can't think of many movies of this certain genre I actually dislike, apart from boring sequels and such (and there are a few enjoyable sequels too, I like Halloween 2, 4 and 5 for example.) Another genre I love is giallo.
I absolutely love watching horror movies in general, though; classics, semi-obscure ones, new and "commercial" ones... I can be quite picky, though, especially when it comes to the newer ones. For some reason I often have this "cosy-creepy" feeling when it comes to older horror flicks, but when it comes to a lot of newer onces they just feel... bland. Quite fun to watch, but not memorable. Those that are memorable are those who surprises me and/or manages to actually scare me (and there aren't as many older horror movies that manages to do that, actually; pleasant shivers, but not this adrenalinish kick). Which might be the reason I'm so picky when it comes to them - I love a good scare but I'm definitely hard to scare. A movie that (almost) keeps me from sleeping is a movie that I'll rewatch and show my friends.
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Fight club - because Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are really really great in it. Damn, Edward Norton is bloody brilliant in it. Also I'm usually impatient when it comes to movies over 2 hours, but here I'm invested every second. There are just so many small details I don't wanna miss and and... I don't know. I just love it. I was a little iffy about the ending the first time I saw it, then the second time I just got shivers all over.
Oh yes, this movie is fucking awesome. "Things you own end up owning you". Brilliant. At first, I didn't like the ending all that much, either, but now I see it as something symbolic... cathartic. And I love Edward Norton. The guy always chooses to be in interesting, deep movies. Like American Story X, or Birdman.
Adding some movies to the list:
Oldboy (2003) - Everyone, no exceptions, should watch this movie. I'm not kidding, lol. It has everything. Good acting, good soundtrack, good drama and mind blowing plot twists. And generally makes the viewer absorved in existential rumination. Maybe not a good movie to watch if you are in a bad mood or depressed, though.
Whiplash (2014) - This movie deals with a theme everyone can relate to, at least to some degree. The acting is very good, too, and the protagonist's instructor... lol. He is the kind of character that makes you genuinely angry, wishing you could punch him in the face. Probably the best movie I watched in the last year.
@WaitingforGodot - Horror movies can be fun, but I think I've created some kind of "resistance" to them. Like, they don't scare me anymore. Suspense can make me a little tense, but horror and gore... I just don't feel the impact anymore.
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Oh yes, this movie is fucking awesome. "Things you own end up owning you". Brilliant. At first, I didn't like the ending all that much, either, but now I see it as something symbolic... cathartic.
Yes, excactly. That's how I see it too.
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dangerousoffender wrote:
@WaitingforGodot - Horror movies can be fun, but I think I've created some kind of "resistance" to them. Like, they don't scare me anymore. Suspense can make me a little tense, but horror and gore... I just don't feel the impact anymore.
Ah, yeah, I understand. I'm very hard to scare when it comes to them, always have been, even though I'm not completely immune to them yet, haha. I've seen loads and loads, and still it's only a few percent that managed to scared me (even though there are a few more that have creeped me out). I just continue browsing until I find something memorable and/or scary (there are a lot of them I know I liked quite a bit while watching them - but then I realize I don't remember much later on; had fun watching them but apparently they didn't stick).
Gore, though, I've never really liked that. I've seen a lot of gore but I'm not even sure why because they either gross me out in a bad way or bore the hell out of me.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I grew up reading the Harry Potter books and watching the movies afterwards, never vice-versa. Chamber of Secrets was my favorite book in the series because of the mystery surrounding the attacks and the bits of evidence pointing to several possible culprits keeping you on your toes (not unlike quite a few Ace Attorney cases
). Coincidentally, the film version of Chamber of Secrets was the closest to the book out of all the Harry Potter films. Naturally, this made me very happy. I don't care what Honest Trailers says, Chamber of Secrets will always be my favorite installment in the Harry Potter series, books and movies alike.Apollo 13
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by spaceflight, particularly the advances and achievements of the Space Race. The thought of travelling beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere thrilled me, but the fact that something could easily go drastically wrong horrified me. This combination made me very interested in the "successful failure" of the Apollo 13 mission. By the time I first saw the movie, I had already learned about the several hurdles the crew had to jump through in order to make it home safely. However, despite knowing what the end result would be, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. The fact that I was watching a dramatization of the events that I had only read about prior made me realize just how difficult it was to bring the astronauts home safely.
My viewpoints regarding these films may not be completely objective, but I stand by my reasoning for liking these movies more than any other.
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I make a trollface when someone asks me, "What's your favorite superhero movie" and that is my reply, but that is honestly one of my favorite movies of all times. It is a brilliant deconstruction of the superhero genre with really likable, realistic characters you can empathize with. Not to mention the soundtrack is one of my favorite movie soundtracks of all time. : D
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shippersdreamer wrote:
I'll say it a million times if I have too because my favorite movie is the original Gojira, the 1954 Japanese Monster movie.
I'm not really gonna go in depth, but basically I consider it a near perfect movie. Good characters, great soundtrack, awesome visuals and a good story and theme to go with it. I really don't know what else I can say.
I'm not really gonna go in depth, but basically I consider it a near perfect movie. Good characters, great soundtrack, awesome visuals and a good story and theme to go with it. I really don't know what else I can say.
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The King and I, The Sound of Music, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera.
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1. Ghostbusters 1 (Havn't watched 2 yet)
2. Star Wars 5
3. Doctor Who 50th
4. Lego Movie
5. Wreck it Ralph
6. Avengers 2
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I love Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This is another amazingly beautiful film, and the martial arts scenes are fantastic. (I know there's a sequel that was made for Netflix but I heard it wasn't that good and tried too hard to be Lord of the Rings or something).
Blade Runner is really good, although it's a little depressing. I'm a big Film Noir fan so any neo-noir film is right up my alley.
Others I like a lot are Rain Man, Stranger than Fiction, The Matrix, Frost/Nixon, and Office Space. I have a lot more that I really enjoy but I'm not in front of my Blu-Ray collection so I can't remember all of my favorites (that sounds weird, but I don't have a top 5 favorite movies or anything, I can't really sort through it past the first 25, mostly because my opinion can change day by day.
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Other than that,the Marx Brothers are classic comedians and are great. Laurel and Hardy as well as Mr.Bean carry the genre.
I also really like most of the 3D Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movies I've seen.
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It's a stunning movie with a beautifully 5-act Shakespeare tragedy plot. Screw all the haters, I loved this movie.
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