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Title: Orson Welles' Batman
Post by: Derek on September 30, 2003, 03:47:55 PM
Damn, I wish this existed.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=thecolumn
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Post by: Ghostboy on September 30, 2003, 03:52:01 PM
I'm looking forward to getting that book.
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Post by: modage on September 30, 2003, 04:32:41 PM
me too.  god, what a movie that would have been.
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Post by: Find Your Magali on September 30, 2003, 11:34:05 PM
I thought this was a thread for cinematic non sequiturs...

Yasujiro Ozu's Thunderball
Francois Truffaut's Mothra
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Mary Poppins
Stanley Kubrick's Flashdance
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Post by: NEON MERCURY on September 30, 2003, 11:40:51 PM
lynch's  innerspace
mallicks'  mallrats
stone's my big fat greek wedding
McG's  indy trilogy
burton's my left foot
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Post by: edison on October 01, 2003, 12:14:25 AM
PTA's Matrix Trilogy
Lynch's LOTR Trilogy
Spielberg's Pulp Fiction
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Post by: MacGuffin on October 01, 2003, 12:26:46 AM
Kevin Smith's Magnolia
Brett Ratner's Boogie Nights
Spike Lee's Pulp Fiction
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Post by: Sleuth on October 01, 2003, 12:28:29 AM
Lynch's [insert any non-Lynch movie]
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Post by: bonanzataz on October 01, 2003, 05:06:36 PM
Lynch's The Straight Story.

oh, wait...
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Post by: Teen Wolf on October 07, 2003, 03:54:53 PM
Hey, I wanna play....


Brett Ratner's Wild Strawberrys
Robert Altman's From Justin To Kelly
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Post by: SoNowThen on October 07, 2003, 04:00:23 PM
Quote from: Teen WolfRobert Altman's From Justin To Kelly

you forgot the even bigger hit

Altman's Titanic

second only to

Godard's Schindler's List
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Post by: Cecil on October 07, 2003, 10:35:50 PM
spike lees jackie brown
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Post by: Find Your Magali on October 07, 2003, 10:51:01 PM
Quote from: Cecilspike lees jackie brown

In a double-bill with Tarantino's "Malcolm X"
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Post by: chinaski40 on October 07, 2003, 10:59:04 PM
Woody Allen's Boyz N the Hood

wouldn't that be great....a bunch of neurotic gangsters from the hood
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Post by: Ravi on October 08, 2003, 12:33:47 AM
Brakhage's 2001:  A Space Odyssey
David Lean's Ernest Goes to Jail
Michael Bay's Sense and Sensibility
Ingmar Bergman's Singin' in the Rain
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Post by: chinaski40 on October 08, 2003, 12:39:34 AM
good one, with the bergman's singin in the rain
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Post by: Squawks on October 19, 2003, 04:41:52 AM
Spielberg's Monster's Ball
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Post by: cron on May 06, 2004, 06:53:02 AM
Hey, cool thread,
Quote from: SoNowThen

Godard's Schindler's List

:laughing2:

Solondz' Amelie
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Post by: The Silver Bullet on May 06, 2004, 07:12:23 AM
Walt Disney's The Sorrow and the Pity.
Wong Kar-Wai's Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Alan Smithee's Lawrence or Arabia.
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Post by: cine on May 06, 2004, 08:05:52 AM
John Woo's "My Dinner With Andre"
Stanley Kubrick's "A.I."
David Lean's "Gerry"
Frank Capra's "Straw Dogs"
Andrei Tarkovsky's "Dude, Where's My Car?"
Buster Keaton's "The Passion of the Christ"
D.W. Griffith's "Barbershop"
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Post by: bonanzataz on May 06, 2004, 12:32:15 PM
mel gibson's hedwig and the angry inch
or
john cameron mitchell's the passion of the christ

i think it would be hilarious if john waters directed wuthering heights or some famous gothic romance novel. could you imagine? those books are just so "woe is me" anyway, taking that and exaggerating it 20x would make for hilarity.
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Post by: grand theft sparrow on May 06, 2004, 01:23:13 PM
Christopher Nolan's High Noon.
Abel Ferrara's It's A Wonderful Life.
Kevin Smith's Cremaster Cycle.
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Post by: RegularKarate on May 06, 2004, 01:36:57 PM
Kevin Smith's Salo
Paul Anderson's Magnolia
Slomb's Avatar
Woody Allen's Pokemon
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Post by: grand theft sparrow on May 06, 2004, 05:33:44 PM
Quote from: RegularKaratePaul Anderson's Magnolia

I can't decide if that or Kevin Smith's Magnolia are the best one.
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Post by: Just Withnail on May 06, 2004, 06:45:06 PM
Quote from: cronopioSolondz' Amelie

That one is pretty hard to top.

--
George Lucas' Citizen Kane the Special Edition
Terry Gilliam/ Jones' Gosford Park
Terrence Malick's Lord of the Rings trilogy
Woody Allen's American Pie
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Post by: El Duderino on May 06, 2004, 06:52:26 PM
Patty Jenkins The Little Mermaid
Darren Aronofsky Groundhog Day
Steven Speilberg 21 Grams
F. Gary Gray Elephant
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Post by: A Matter Of Chance on May 06, 2004, 06:53:42 PM
Terry Gilliam's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Robert Altman's Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Ingmar Bergman's Pulp Fiction
Louis Bunel's The Royal Tenenbaums
Quentin Tarantino's The Godfather Trilogy
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Post by: modage on May 06, 2004, 10:58:40 PM
everybody knows this thread was started because it was almost a real movie right?
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Post by: cine on May 06, 2004, 11:05:45 PM
Quote from: themodernage02everybody knows this thread was started because it was almost a real movie right?
Probably not everybody, but Mags luckily had a better idea.
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Post by: reelistics07 on May 07, 2004, 10:17:00 AM
oliver stones  Aguirre: the wrath of god  
tarantinos Snatch  
akira kurosawas kill bill
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Post by: cron on May 07, 2004, 10:19:42 AM
hahaha

Oliver Stone's The Manchurrian Candidate
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Post by: SoNowThen on May 07, 2004, 10:21:43 AM
Jim Jarmusch's Moulin Rouge
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Post by: mutinyco on May 07, 2004, 11:32:41 AM
SoNowThen's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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Post by: El Duderino on May 07, 2004, 05:57:34 PM
mutinyco's kill bill volume two
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Post by: mutinyco on May 07, 2004, 07:12:13 PM
Imagine! It would've been original, had a plot, and even momentum!
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Post by: El Duderino on May 07, 2004, 07:13:28 PM
no comment  

:drinking:  <-------does this and tries to forget you said that.
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Post by: SoNowThen on May 07, 2004, 07:15:45 PM
Quote from: mutinycoImagine! It would've been original, had a plot, and even momentum!

How would my version of 2001 have turned out?
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Post by: RegularKarate on May 07, 2004, 07:23:14 PM
It would have had more naked women and probably be in black and white
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Post by: SoNowThen on May 07, 2004, 07:29:28 PM
:lol:

Too true!
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Post by: mutinyco on May 08, 2004, 10:23:06 AM
Instead of space aliens, it would've been Jesus!  8)
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Post by: SiliasRuby on May 09, 2004, 02:59:51 PM
Tarantino's The Producers
Spike Jonze's The Silence of the Lambs
PTA's Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Post by: Ravi on May 09, 2004, 03:25:03 PM
Tony Scott's Dogville
Charlie Chaplin's Goodfellas
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Post by: Derek on May 09, 2004, 03:25:41 PM
what happened to my thread?
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Post by: mutinyco on May 09, 2004, 04:24:04 PM
It's now: SoNowThen's Thread

:-D
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Post by: cron on May 12, 2004, 09:29:38 PM
Kevin Smith's The Passion of The Christ.
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Post by: NEON MERCURY on May 12, 2004, 10:35:42 PM
takeshi miikes- in the heat of the night
juhn hughes-waterworld
gasper noes-police academy 9:mutilated brains and rape salad handcuff blues

........... :?:
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Post by: cine on September 03, 2004, 03:13:12 AM
Sam Peckinpah's "The Wizard of Oz"
Martin Scorsese's "New York Minute"
Baz Luhrmann's "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Yasujiro Ozu's "Home Alone"
Ingmar Bergman's "Say Anything..."
Michael Bay's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
D.W. Griffith's "The Colour Purple"
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Post by: bonanzataz on September 03, 2004, 12:11:52 PM
Quote from: Cinephile
Michael Bay's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
D.W. Griffith's "The Colour Purple"

these two made me laugh.
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Post by: pete on September 03, 2004, 12:18:46 PM
gus van sant's psycho.
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Post by: hedwig on September 08, 2004, 09:41:01 PM
John Cameron Mitchell's "Buffalo 66'"