― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link
my ten favorite movies: falstaff (chimes at midnight) (welles, 1966)rules of the game (renoir, 1939)grand illusion (renoir, 1937)kiki's delivery service (miyazaki, 1989)the manchurian candidate (frankenheimer, 1962)meet john doe (capra, 1941)the lady eve (sturges, 1941)vertigo (hitchcock, 1958)bande a parte (godard, 1964)a taste of honey (richardson, 1961)
it's weird that 4 of my choices are from the '60s, since i never thought that was a very good decade for movies. anyway, i don't have a lot of least favorites, but american beauty, the dreamers and stardust memories come to mind.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― doogie, Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Most of mine I saw almost blind or on minimal reviews - given five or ten years space (or 30 or 40) with the all the criticism and discussion that come with time, I wouldn't go to Garden State or Lost In Translation.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
or i guess you might think portman is so hot that you'd like it despite that guy and all the standing on a dumpster or whatever it was, yelling in the rain, and whatnot
― pilates, Saturday, 16 July 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Faves1. After Hours (Scorcese, 1985)2. Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)3. Local Hero (Forsyth, 1983)4. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)5. The Wind & the Lion (Houston, 1975)6. The Hunger (Scott, 1983)7. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)8. Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989)9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)10. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Weir, 1975)11. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
..and I could do about twenty-five more.
Least Faves/Most Loathed1.Dead Again (Branagh, 1991)2. Platoon (Stone, 1986)3. Scream (Craven, 1996)4. Weekend at Bernie's (Kotcheff, 1989)5. Mystic Pizza (Petrie, 1988)6. Pushing Tin (Newell, 1999)7. Die Hard 2 (Harlin, 1990)8. In Good Company (Weitz, 2004)9. Love, Actually (Curtis, 2003)10. Serendipity (Chelsom, 2001)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Aw, it's cool, dude.
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 16 July 2005 06:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Favourite
1. Human Resources (Cantet, 1999)2. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)3. Farewell My Concubine (Kaige, 1993)4. Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986)5. Street of Shame (Mizoguchi, 1956)6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)7. Stalker (Tarkovksky, 1979)8. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1987)9. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)10. Mary Poppins (Stevenson, 1964)
Least favourite
1. Bio-Dome (Bloom, 1996)2. Best of the Best 2 (Radler, 1993)3. Police Academy 6 (Bonerz[!], 1989)4. Home Alone 2 (Columbus, 1992)5. Friday the 13th Part VI (McLoughlin, 1986)6. Cobra (Cosmatos, 1986)7. Rocky IV (Stallone, 1985)8. Turner & Hooch (Spottiswoode, 1989)9. Cannonball Run II (Needham, 1984)10. Hook (Spielberg, 1991)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)2. L'Age d'Or (Bunuel, 1930)3. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)4. M (Lang, 1931)5. Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi (The One-Armed Boxer II) (Yu Wang,
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link
(Yu Wang, 1975)6. The Godfather, Parts I and II (damn straight I'm cheating) (Coppola, 1972, 1974)]7. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)8. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) (Kurosawa, 1954)9. For A Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)10. Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
1 Film I loathe:
1. 8mm (Schumacher, 1999)
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Some are just sentimal picks - fe Room With A View - and some are just random picks (by a director I admire).
― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link
And a ton of others, whover started the Godard thread, thanks btw, been digging Alphaville greatly and am delving further.
― mzui (mzui), Saturday, 16 July 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Spirited Away2. Donnie Darko3. ID4. Fellowship of the Ring5. Naked Blood6. Office Space7. Napoleon Dynamite8. Amelie9. Kill Bill vol 110. The Grudge
Least favourite:UnbreakableEssex Boys
My mind is blank, wtf?!
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
But I won't say that because "just don't get" is a difficult accusation to substantiate.
Maybe I'll say that I get the impression people are too quick to dismiss it and/or view it very cynically.
But maybe I'm wrong!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
re. caterbury tale: the powell & pressburger one from...er...1943? 1942?
re. carmen jones: based on the hammerstein black-cast musical which was based on bizet's opera (which was based on merimee's short story). starring dorothy dandridge and harry belafonte (both beautiful), directed by otto preminger. for some lucid thoughts on this movie see v.f. perkins, 'film as film.' (though it hasn't received much more critical notice.)
re. melodramas: i don't know, i like big outsized emotions put across with integrity. i like to cry at the movies. re. leave her to heaven, i like john stahl's strange hard-edged lighting, rusty colors, and deep focus. also gene tierney. creepy implied incest subplots are always good. see also: preminger's angel face w/jean simmons and robert mitchum.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10126000/10126217.jpg
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Least favorite:Donnie DarkoThe Santa ClauseMulholland Dr.RubyHarlem NightsThe FanKundunMission To MarsJerry Springer - RingmasterThe Sting
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
like one where he plays antonio gaudi?
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
the buildings in the 'fountainhead' movie are gloriously ugly, though.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
1. the santa clause - judge reinhold is a big needledick and tim allen clowns his sweater
2. die hard 2 - when bruce willis figures out that dude from good times was firing blanks at the terrorists, also willis vs sipowicz, also dude from law & order as the frog-like air traffic controller
3. scream - all the movie horror nerd stuff and also the fonz saying 'your havoc-inducing, thieving, whoring generation disgusts me'
4. 8mm - ok this one is kinda bad but cmon lots of good stuff- funny dialogue, its well filmed, joaquin phoenix and tony soprano and nic cage bein squirmy, i will watch any nicolas cage movie and especially shitty fake noir ones
5. mission to mars - gary sinise astronaut bbq
― 33, Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
My list remains the same I think:
8 1/22001: A Space OdysseyIn The Mood for LoveIt's a Wonderful LifeLast Year at MarienbadTop Secret!The Night PorterWest Side StoryDeuce Bigelow: Male GigoloApocalypse Now
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― 33, Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
1. nic cage 2. jeff goldblum3. martin lawrence
― 3, Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
# Aguirre: The Wrath of God # Sunrise# Shortcuts # La Dolce Vita # Yi Yi# Wings of Desire# Fitzcarraldo # 8 1/2# Andrei Rublyov# M # The Night of the Hunter# A Woman Under the Influence # The Thin Red Line # In the Mood for Love # Double Indemnity# Taxi Driver # The Third Man # Gertrud# Trois couleurs: Rouge # Flowers of Shanghi
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
the messenger: story of joan of arci also hate kubrick, especially a clockwork orange, but not dr. strangelovethe "i am curious" films from sweden or norway are sooooo boring and bad.
i could write a book on why the dreamers is a terrible film. some key points include how trite the dialogue is, the unneeded nudity, the terribly shot ending, how the film focuses on films that are 1,000,000 times better than the dreamers actually is. etc.
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always appreciated am's posts, especially in the movie threads, where he consistently makes unexpected insights.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 November 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
funny how opinions can differ
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
I realize I've been mixing up Aimless and Amateurist for years, something that won't happen again after Aimless' tragically stupid sci-fi thread
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
how on earth can you mix those two up??? i mean, unless you're bad with names that start with "a"
― Operating Thetan III (monster mash), Monday, 16 November 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
xp- say "tragically stupid sci-fi thread" out loud
― flopson, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
it's the latter. prior to that scifi thread I hadn't really noticed Aimless' pedantic schoolmarm charm
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
amateuris, i asked you a questiont: WHAT TIME IS LOVE?
― Operating Thetan III (monster mash), Monday, November 16, 2015 4:28 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
4:38 PM IIRC.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
also , mattresslessness, are you a jason lescalleet fan, or perhaps jason lescalleet himself?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
no to the latter
― mattresslessness, Monday, 16 November 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
amaeuturist: we don't know each other. i appreciate your presence, though! :D lol. i always enjoy your posts. but, mordy's the man. if he has an issue, i have an issue, sir!
― in a hideous town (monster mash), Monday, 16 November 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
did you sleep last night? I've seen in several updated threads in the last few hours.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
no, i've been very stressed lately and can't sleep! which is bad because i have to get up ("get up") to cook thanksgiving dinner for arriving family.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
didn't want to keep my partner awake so just casting about for some kind of 'interaction' here i suppose
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Hope it is all going well
― All The Squares Go Pwn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Amateurist
Was this ever sorted out?
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
ILX -- post when you're manic, but please be polite, for fuck's sake.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
eh?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
What's going on at the beginning of this thread?
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
IIRC anthony easton asked me to start a thread where he could ask me for advice!
i know. it was a long time ago!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
back to cooking...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
I think some time stamps got messed up - I remember this coming up when searching for "earliest mentions of..." when some things were mentioned before it was possible (e.g. people talking about bands that hadn't formed yet).
― emil.y, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
But then, I thought that happened with whole threads, not just some posts, so I dunno. It all seems a bit strange.
― emil.y, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
also i'm kind of embarrassed when this thread is revived and i apologize for it (it wasn't me!) :) :(
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
At least you have a thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
Sorry. I abandoned that post and thought I had just closed the tab, hadn't realized I had posted it. There is no content behind it.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link