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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:44:24 PM   
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This is wrong, Fight Club should be #1!


Yay for Fight Club.. I do not know if it would be No One, but a top 10

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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:50:42 PM   
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I tend to like non storyliners, films of images and visual narrative.


Did you like Clockwork Orange?


Mostly, except the ending. It wasn't how Burgess's book ended at all. Burgess had Alex experiencing an epiphany.
 

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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:52:22 PM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:56:02 PM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:04:01 AM   
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It might have been challenging for Kubrick to translate that to film


I think he wanted to retain the pessimism that permeated the film. It is Kubrick after all.

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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:05:15 AM   
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It might have been challenging for Kubrick to translate that to film


I think he wanted to retain the pessimism that permeated the film. It is Kubrick after all.
Everything by Kubrick was beautiful beside Eyes Wide Shut.


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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:18:13 AM   
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It might have been challenging for Kubrick to translate that to film


I think he wanted to retain the pessimism that permeated the film. It is Kubrick after all.
Everything by Kubrick was beautiful beside Eyes Wide Shut.



Wasn't there a joke at the time about audiences having the same condition?
 
Full Metal Jacket was near perfect though.

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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:39:15 AM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:42:07 AM   
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It might have been challenging for Kubrick to translate that to film


Probably since Kubrik never experienced an epiphany himself. 


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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 1:02:14 AM   
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Ichi The Killer, OldBoy, The Martyrs..check them out.


OldBoy was good.  I keep hearing about Ichi the Killer, I think I need to check it out. 

Still, though, Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, American Beauty, and American History X have to be my all time favorites. 

Also, this little French film: Chaos, German film: 4 Minuten, <-- MUST SEE THIS CLIP, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

More French:
Blame It On Fidel
Amelie
La Vie en Rose
AngelA
Le Cite des Enfants Perdue (The City of Lost Children) <-- Talk about eye candy!

German:
Vitus
Run, Lola, Run
The Princess & the Warrior
Das Experiment

Spanish:
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
The Orphanage

I gotta get back to work, I've been fucking off way too much now!



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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 1:16:26 AM   
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Ichi The Killer, OldBoy, The Martyrs..check them out.


OldBoy was good.  I keep hearing about Ichi the Killer, I think I need to check it out. 

Still, though, Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, American Beauty, and American History X have to be my all time favorites. 

Also, this little French film: Chaos, German film: 4 Minuten, <-- MUST SEE THIS CLIP, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

More French:
Blame It On Fidel
Amelie
La Vie en Rose
AngelA
Le Cite des Enfants Perdue (The City of Lost Children) <-- Talk about eye candy!

German:
Vitus
Run, Lola, Run
The Princess & the Warrior
Das Experiment

Spanish:
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
The Orphanage

I gotta get back to work, I've been fucking off way too much now!


Oldboy was great, I loved the ending.Ichi The Killer kept me laughing from start to finish.Martyrs was the most brutal film I have ever seen in my life.


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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 1:24:16 AM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 3:07:21 AM   
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Blue Velvet
Betty Blue
Kundun
Velvet Goldmine

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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 12:27:39 PM   
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It might have been challenging for Kubrick to translate that to film


Probably since Kubrik never experienced an epiphany himself. 



I think his movies were expansive and visually stunning...

I was telling my brother just yesterday that there was something about some films from the 1970s that was visually captivating that has been lost in some ways... the use of color and texture, even if the films themselves had dumb plots. Such movies like Death Race 2000 and Phantasm may have been stupid, but they were visually wonderful

Then there is the Shining, which although it was made in 1980, it was of that same era of largeness and texture and color of the 1970s.

Other examples that come to mind are Charlie and the Chocolate factory (Violet's blue dress with red accessories comes to mind as an example of what I am talking about)

Clockwork Orange is one of these sorts of movies... like when he beats the woman in the head with the phallic art.. tell me that didn't impact you visually




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RE: Views on film - 8/18/2010 6:16:10 PM   
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I think his movies were expansive and visually stunning...

I was telling my brother just yesterday that there was something about some films from the 1970s that was visually captivating that has been lost in some ways... the use of color and texture, even if the films themselves had dumb plots. Such movies like Death Race 2000 and Phantasm may have been stupid, but they were visually wonderful

Then there is the Shining, which although it was made in 1980, it was of that same era of largeness and texture and color of the 1970s.

Other examples that come to mind are Charlie and the Chocolate factory (Violet's blue dress with red accessories comes to mind as an example of what I am talking about)

Clockwork Orange is one of these sorts of movies... like when he beats the woman in the head with the phallic art.. tell me that didn't impact you visually


I did like A Clockwork Orange.  Sadly, I've had it in for Kubrik ever since he screwed up The Shining.  It was not the same as the book.  Maybe they just didn't have the technology to make it like the book, but it was so far off the beaten path, I mean, the dad still could have used a croquet mallet or whatever it was like in the book instead of using an axe.  I know the rest of the world loves him and thinks he's a genius, but when I read a book and go to the movie, I want to see what I read, not what somebody thought the book SHOULD have said instead. 


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RE: Views on film - 8/20/2010 3:30:40 PM   
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Inception was a beautiful film, you should definably check it out. 


I am going to go and see it in a few minutes....

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RE: Views on film - 8/20/2010 4:27:23 PM   
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Anything Spielberg, from ET and Close Encounters through anything with Hanks [although Ryan's Privates despite the bullshit revisionist history comes in the best of the cumdump (hey, my word-of-the-day!) at #10 for the OK battle sequence at the beginning]. And note it's movies, so that excludes 'Animaniacs'.

Movies I HAVE to watch even if they're on at 2am and I have the DVD:
Casablanca
All Quiet on the Western Front [1930]
Aliens 2
Terminator 1
Slapshot
Blood and Doughnuts
Anything Python, esp. Holy Grail
Anything Cronenberg, esp. The Dead Zone
1900
Wings of Desire

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RE: Views on film - 8/20/2010 8:42:53 PM   
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Boondock Saints
Pulp Fiction (or anything Quentin Tarantino in my opinion)
Army of Darkness
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Running Scared (sort of a modern day Alice in Wonderland kind of movie)
Stranger than Fiction
Underworld
Enemy at the Gates
Poolhall Junkies

And some of the ones that have already been mentioned would have to be

Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python's Holy Grail (or any of their work for that matter)
Pan's Labrynth

There are lot more that I think are good but those are some of the favorites off the top of my head


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RE: Views on film - 8/20/2010 8:58:45 PM   
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This is wrong, Fight Club should be #1!


Yay for Fight Club.. I do not know if it would be No One, but a top 10


Brad Pitt was great in Fight Club but better in Snatch, imo.



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RE: Views on film - 8/20/2010 9:04:05 PM   
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Ichi The Killer, OldBoy, The Martyrs..check them out.


OldBoy was good.  I keep hearing about Ichi the Killer, I think I need to check it out. 

Still, though, Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, American Beauty, and American History X have to be my all time favorites. 

Also, this little French film: Chaos, German film: 4 Minuten, <-- MUST SEE THIS CLIP, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

More French:
Blame It On Fidel
Amelie
La Vie en Rose
AngelA
Le Cite des Enfants Perdue (The City of Lost Children) <-- Talk about eye candy!

German:
Vitus
Run, Lola, Run
The Princess & the Warrior
Das Experiment

Spanish:
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
The Orphanage

I gotta get back to work, I've been fucking off way too much now!




I especially liked American Beauty, La Vie en Rose, and Run, Lola, Run from your list.

Some others i liked: The Barbarian Invasions (French Canadian) City of God (Brazilian) The History Boys (UK) Malena (Italian) The Commitments (Irish)

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