best/ worst movies that span over a long time

Started by pete, February 15, 2004, 10:44:55 PM

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pete

February 15, 2004, 10:44:55 PM
I think I've always had a weak spot for movies that follow their characters for several decades.
off of top of my head, I like cinema paradiso and To Live.  And all the truffaut films on antoine doinel.
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

ono

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February 15, 2004, 10:47:32 PM
Adaptation.  Or better, 2001.

Either way, I win.

SHAFTR

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February 15, 2004, 10:51:19 PM
how about....Citizen Kane?
"Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"

NEON MERCURY

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February 15, 2004, 11:11:34 PM
i'm trying to think of films that go from childhood on......right now my left foot.is a great one b/c it focus on the early years as much as later years

MacGuffin

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February 15, 2004, 11:35:58 PM
GoodFellas
The Godfather
The Last Emperor
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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SHAFTR

#5
February 15, 2004, 11:38:43 PM
boogie nights
"Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"

nix

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February 16, 2004, 12:13:05 AM
Shawshank
"Sex relieves stress, love causes it."
-Woddy Allen

pete

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February 16, 2004, 12:26:20 AM
haha, I remember my then-14 year old sister coming home from the movie.  I asked her how it was, she said "20 minutes into the film, all of a sudden I realized what the word 'Bicentannial' meant, and then I started crying."
speaking of another bad robot movie--A.I.
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

Pubrick

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February 16, 2004, 01:01:46 AM
best - A.I., being john malkovich, the red violin, forrest gump, raging bull.
under the paving stones.

SoNowThen

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February 16, 2004, 01:51:01 AM
Quote from: MacGuffinThe Last Emperor

Mac wins


...for now. Just wait until I make my 8 hour epic version of David Copperfield.
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.

Chest Rockwell

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February 16, 2004, 10:46:23 AM
Quote from: SoNowThen
Quote from: MacGuffinThe Last Emperor

...for now. Just wait until I make my 8 hour epic version of David Copperfield.

"The harrowing story of an orphan in the Nineteenth Century who magically teleports to the Twentieth and becomes an illusionist."

©brad

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February 16, 2004, 11:27:19 AM
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaAdaptation.

huh?

oooh, the whole beginning of life montage... i don't know.... i guess it counts.

cine

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February 16, 2004, 11:37:12 AM
I don't think Adaptation counts, but it doesn't make a difference for Ono because he covered his grounds with 2001...

xerxes

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February 16, 2004, 02:08:39 PM
sunshine was pretty good
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