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fugazifan 05.01.2008 09:15 AM

brazil is in my top five movies. eveything about it except for KG is perfect. the acting, the script the characters
THE SOUNDTRACK!

fugazifan 05.01.2008 09:15 AM

oh and i concur with a woman under the influence. the best cassovetes i have seen and some of the finest acting on film

mangajunky 05.01.2008 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Oh fuck yeah, Rob, Bad Lieutenant is in my top 10 favorite films ever.

Fuck it, here's my top 10:

1. taxi driver
2. el topo
3. tetsuo: the iron man
4. videodrome
5. holy mountain
6. izo
7. maniac (1980)
8. wild at heart
9. bad lieutenant
10. pinnochio 964


Great list! I love many of these don't know 2 of em (Maniac and 964 Pinnochio) and am puzzled by your inclusion of Izo.

Izo just seems like a marathon of violence - and that guy maniacally strumming on his guitar...
From what I've been told, a lot of the point of this film is lost in the west because most of us don't know the pop culture icons in this Japanese ensemble film and we don't know the historical figures they are portraying.
It ends up just being a long series of murders in a lot of varied settings.

!@#$%! 05.01.2008 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ✌➬
So recommend me a movie. Also anyone can use this to ask for some advice on movies.


what kind of movie? there are thousands.

random?

shock corridor.

that's a movie i'd recommend.

sarramkrop 05.01.2008 09:26 AM

Random movie 2: Amores Perros

Rob Instigator 05.01.2008 09:33 AM

More MOVIES FOR THE BOX MAN


Dark City
Unforgiven
Vampire's Kiss

atsonicpark 05.01.2008 09:36 AM

I think Izo is just amazing.

A surreal journey through a man's afterlife.

Just amazing. I can't put it into words. Though I did. There's a review I did on imdb, my name on there is polysicsarebest...

Derek 05.01.2008 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
Eyes wide shut sucks in my opinion (I'd recommend many Kubrick films but not that one). I agree on Mulholland drive.

Weird, it's my favourite Kubrick.

✌➬ 05.01.2008 10:47 AM

Thanks guys, I just wanted you guys to recommend me any movie that you like. I just want to order more from netflix.


Eyes Wide Shut, bored me when I watched it.

Amores Perros, I have seen it one too many times.

!@#$%! 05.01.2008 11:09 AM

i think a lot of people missed the point in eyes wide shut

the point was not to shock or scandalize

the point was to present a bumbling moron way way out of his depth

and kubrick did just that

just like in barry lyndon, where another mediocre male actor portrays a similar case

which actually make it a good casting choice.

Derek 05.01.2008 11:13 AM

Quote:

the point was to present a bumbling moron way way out of his depth
I thought that was the point of Tom Cruise in general?

Rob Instigator 05.01.2008 11:16 AM

I thought Eyes Wide Shut was very interesting. It was sold as one tghing but in actuallity it is a tale of one man, his relationship with his wife, a day full of nearly every type of temptation imaginable, from under age girl to whores, to orgies, to drugged decadence, and he does not take them. he plows his way through and finds himself back at home with his wife, without ever betraying her

Derek 05.01.2008 11:21 AM

Eyes Wide Shut is in my top 5 movies. This is how much I like it.

sarramkrop 05.01.2008 11:23 AM

Some movies by Mike Leigh:

Secrets and Lies
Naked
High Hopes
Life is Sweet

And if you find this dvd of a play he wrote years ago: Abigail's Party.

Everyneurotic 05.01.2008 11:25 AM

i'm the only person in the world who thinks amores perros suck big fucking time.

afterthefact 05.01.2008 11:26 AM

Fellini's La Strada. I could watch that every day for the rest of my life.

HECKLER SPRAY 05.01.2008 11:49 AM

MAD MAX

Signpost 05.01.2008 12:21 PM

Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Six String Samurai
Evil Dead
Pillow Book
Barton Fink
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 version)
Shadows And Fog
Boogie Nights

!@#$%! 05.01.2008 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derek
I thought that was the point of Tom Cruise in general?


yes while i generally detest tits cruise i think he was properly cast in this movie. his inability to adopt any facial expressions other than boyish smile & brood-with-chin-forward certainly contributed to the characterization of the naive fool. kubrick was an evil mastermind putting him in that position, and cruise's then-wife blew poor tom out of the water both in acting chops and as a character in the film. funny thing, they divorced afterwards (she's too much woman for that asswad in my opinion).

but anyway. yes.

also watch barry lyndon & observe how ryan o'neil's mediocre performance actually serves the same purpose. very smart.

Rob Instigator 05.01.2008 12:55 PM

one o my all time favorite movies

The Children of paradise
Les Enfants Du paradis

get it, watch it, love it.


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