What are you favorite Top 5 Movies of all time?

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Stefen

#330
October 25, 2008, 11:28:40 AM
You gain points for being bold and listing the new world as your #1, but lose those points by listing donnie darko in your top 10, unless it's one of those movies that you credit for putting you on the path of seeking out good film, in which case, it's allowed for nostalgic reasons.

Good list, though. Varied, and the picks reak of elitist film nerd smuggy snobbiness, but you offset that by listing guilty pleasures. If you post more, you could possibly fit right in. How much do you weigh?
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cron

#331
October 25, 2008, 01:01:19 PM
1. mishima
2. naked
3. fitzcarraldo
4. nixon
5. the blues brothers
context, context, context.

ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ

#332
October 26, 2008, 01:47:41 AM
Quote from: Bram on October 25, 2008, 05:18:42 AM
And I have no idea if people are

Is this an existential quandry?
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

72teeth

#333
October 26, 2008, 04:47:22 AM
Quote from: Walrus on October 26, 2008, 01:47:41 AM
Quote from: Bram on October 25, 2008, 05:18:42 AM
And I have no idea if people are

Is this an existential quandry?

...because i assure you, WE AM!
Doctor, Always Do the Right Thing.

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Bram

#334
October 26, 2008, 10:46:54 AM
Quote from: Stefen on October 25, 2008, 11:28:40 AM
You gain points for being bold and listing the new world as your #1, but lose those points by listing donnie darko in your top 10, unless it's one of those movies that you credit for putting you on the path of seeking out good film, in which case, it's allowed for nostalgic reasons.
I know, I hate myself for loving that film. Everytime when I accidentally end up on some emokid's MySpace page I see this fucker in the favorite films list. It's really awful. But it's indeed the fact that Darko started my love for film (yup, nostalgic) and the last time I checked it out it was still a film that stays in the heart. But for the love of it: I could've thrown Schizopolis there instead of Darko.

Quote from: Stefen on October 25, 2008, 11:28:40 AMGood list, though. Varied, and the picks reak of elitist film nerd smuggy snobbiness, but you offset that by listing guilty pleasures. If you post more, you could possibly fit right in. How much do you weigh?
Snobbiness? Trust me, I've seen much much worse in the Dutch Forum Districts. I can watch a Tarkovsky and still love to look at Will Ferrell being an anchorman. Hell, I've even enjoyed watching Cloverfield.

Anyhow, thanks for the welcome... :)

SoNowThen

#335
October 26, 2008, 11:00:43 PM
Quote from: Stefen on October 25, 2008, 11:28:40 AM
You gain points for being bold and listing the new world as your #1, but lose those points by listing donnie darko in your top 10, unless it's one of those movies that you credit for putting you on the path of seeking out good film, in which case, it's allowed for nostalgic reasons.

All top whatever lists should now carry an extra line with an asterix where you get to list just such a pick. Perfect description.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Gold Trumpet

#336
October 27, 2008, 06:21:32 PM
Top 6 Favorite Movies. This took me a year to really get selections and an order I was happy with. Like I said in the other thread, favorite has nothing to do with best or greatest or whatever.

1.) Diner or The Wild Bunch
3.) Bull Durham
4.) Porco Rosso
5.) Natural Born Killers
6.) The Knack and How to Get It

New Feeling

#337
October 27, 2008, 07:00:41 PM
1. Boogie Nights
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Do The Right Thing
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Woodstock
8. Weekend
9. The Last Detail
10. Raising Arizona

modage

#338
October 30, 2008, 01:41:07 PM
Quote from: Bram on October 26, 2008, 10:46:54 AM
Hell, I've even enjoyed watching Cloverfield.
Even Cloverfield!  :yabbse-shocked:
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Bram

#339
November 01, 2008, 04:16:42 AM
Quote from: modage on October 30, 2008, 01:41:07 PM
Quote from: Bram on October 26, 2008, 10:46:54 AM
Hell, I've even enjoyed watching Cloverfield.
Even Cloverfield!  :yabbse-shocked:
I thought it was something special.

picolas

#340
November 02, 2008, 01:46:09 AM
mod's saying it's not at all unusual to enjoy cloverfield. i agree. i also agree donnie darko is one of those movies that you hate loving sometimes.

Reinhold

#341
November 02, 2008, 07:30:35 AM
Quote from: Stefen on October 25, 2008, 11:28:40 AM
You gain points for being bold and listing the new world as your #1, but lose those points by listing donnie darko in your top 10, unless it's one of those movies that you credit for putting you on the path of seeking out good film, in which case, it's allowed for nostalgic reasons.

Good list, though. Varied, and the picks reak of elitist film nerd smuggy snobbiness, but you offset that by listing guilty pleasures. If you post more, you could possibly fit right in. How much do you weigh?

donnie darko is dated visually and and the music isn't great, but i think its' a very solid film, earning a right to be listed alongside art films in a list like this. it's one of the five on which i'm focusing for an 8-credit project i'm doing to graduate. the others are Mullholland Drive, Nagisa Oshima's Death by Hanging, Soderbergh's Solaris, and (likely) Eternal sunshine.  There are five or six other films that i'm using for support, including Tarkovsky's Solaris, 2001, Eraserhead, and Schizopolis, and Persona. I still need to see tarkovsky's Stalker, but that will likely be in there too.  [The project will be 40 pages or so of theory/criticism related to truth seeking and films that problematize consciousness.]
Quote from: Pas Rap on April 23, 2010, 07:29:06 AM
Obviously what you are doing right now is called (in my upcoming book of psychology at least) validation. I think it's a normal thing to do. People will reply, say anything, and then you're gonna do what you were subconsciently thinking of doing all along.

Pubrick

#342
August 23, 2010, 10:31:37 PM
Quote from: P on October 15, 2006, 01:18:39 PM
1  Tree of Life
2  Paani
3  Mister Lonely
4  Youth Without Youth
5  the Battle Angel trilogy

man, i was way off.

okay this time i've got it:

1  The Tree of Life
2  The Master
3  The Social Network
4  Enter The Void
5  Eyes Wide Shut
under the paving stones.

Robyn

#343
August 24, 2010, 12:15:16 AM
1. There will be blood
2. Into the Wild
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Candy
5. The good, the bad and the ugly


yeah, just tell me how bad it is!

Pubrick

#344
August 24, 2010, 12:21:48 AM
under the paving stones.
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