Movies

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"Stone" with De Niro, Ed Norton and Mila Jockavich from 2010.

Major spiritual subplot. Line to De Niro from Norton:

"oh I know what you're feeling and I'm pulling for you buddy! .. Just let it go ... let it all go ... just burn it all down to the ground ... let it all go up in smoke ... you have NO idea of the freedom on the other side ..."

[andrew]

Jan 23, 2014 1:44:52 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Lawrence of Arabia

Hugo, my new second favorite, almost favorite.

King of Hearts, British, about 1967, small town during WWII (I think it was in France) is evacuated because of expected shelling. Everybody leaves except the residents of a Mental Hospital. The gates are open and they take over the town seeming rather Ok. Alan Bates (The King of Hearts.....picking a card at random....becomes the unexpected leader of the bunch). Bates realizes that the rest of the people of the world making war, are the crazy ones. As the town residents come back as the all-clear is called, the crazy people make their way back the the Mental Hospital, voluntarily. Movie ends with Bates standing at the gate of the Mental Hospital, naked, with a bird cage strategically held, awaiting entry.

Thunderheart.

The Matrix.

Good Will Hunting.

Contact.

Next.

Minority Report.

Bladerunner.

Imposter.

The Adjustment Bureau.

Paycheck.

The Thruman Show.

K-Pax.

Billy Jack.

Pleasantville.

I am a sucker for time travel movies........

That's all that come to mind.....

sdp

Pleasantville! Yes! I remember seeing that not long after spiritual matters started to become relevant in my life, and that film really struck a chord. On the surface it could probably seem like quite a superficial movie, but it definitely has depth.

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God almighty! Can't believe I forgot to mention Idiocracy.

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Jan 23, 2014 10:41:26 GMT -5 ???????? ???????????? said:

God almighty! Can't believe I forgot to mention Idiocracy.

i lik muny!

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Jan 23, 2014 10:41:26 GMT -5 ???????? ???????????? said:

God almighty! Can't believe I forgot to mention Idiocracy.

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


ahhh, the inspiration for one of your past monikers revealed

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Jan 23, 2014 10:51:17 GMT -5 @popee said:

Jan 23, 2014 10:41:26 GMT -5 ???????? ???????????? said:

God almighty! Can't believe I forgot to mention Idiocracy.

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


ahhh, the inspiration for one of your past monikers revealed

"ha ha u talk like a f@g"

edit: this is a quote from the movie

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Jan 23, 2014 10:54:31 GMT -5 laughter said:

Jan 23, 2014 10:51:17 GMT -5 @popee said:

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


ahhh, the inspiration for one of your past monikers revealed

ha ha u talk like a f@g

reported

"I want to speak to your supervisor"

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Jan 23, 2014 10:59:03 GMT -5 @popee said:

Jan 23, 2014 10:54:31 GMT -5 laughter said:

ha ha u talk like a f@g

reported

"I want to speak to your supervisor"

unreported

resolved

carry on captain

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Jan 23, 2014 11:41:45 GMT -5 @popee said:

Jan 23, 2014 10:59:03 GMT -5 @popee said:

reported

"I want to speak to your supervisor"

unreported

resolved

carry on captain

(** phew!, wipes sweat from brow **) ... thought I was gonna have to trick the guards about what line I was in ... those fat guys don't wash their overalls too often ...

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Jan 23, 2014 10:54:31 GMT -5 laughter said:

"ha ha u talk like a f@g"

edit: this is a quote from the movie

Jan 23, 2014 10:51:17 GMT -5 @popee said:

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/


ahhh, the inspiration for one of your past monikers revealed

Idiots.

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Jan 23, 2014 17:20:57 GMT -5 ???????? ???????????? said:

Idiots.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9GU4P-1AWI

[onehandclapping]

Jan 22, 2014 7:46:35 GMT -5 ???????? ???????????? said:

Jan 22, 2014 5:05:14 GMT -5 onehandclapping said:

Maybe Hollywood can push towards good acting and not just pretty faces in movies again someday.

I hope not. If I want to see ugly people then I just go out to the street. I want to enjoy movie experience and not have to be annoyed by ugly people.

And let's not kid ourselves. The difference between good acting and mediocre acting is very small, almost imperceptible to me. With someone like Daniel Day Lewis I notice that he is a really good actor, but with most the other actors I really don't notice and don't even care. It's much more important to see familiar faces and also interesting faces... or just actors that I like for some reason, for example guys like Steve Buscemi, he is ugly but still fun to watch. When I choose a new movie to watch first I look at the cast, if there are no familiar faces then I'm almost certain not to watch. And the second criteria is the rating, if the rating is low and I don't know the actors then I won't watch, but if the rating is low but there is a familiar actor (for exmple Ed Norton or Kevin Spacey then probably I will watch). And I will watch bad movies, even if the actors suck but I like them, for example I watched all the vampire movies with Kristen Stewart, just because of her, or for example I will watch any movie with Milla Jovovic just because she is in it.

Bottom line is I want to be entertained. I don't want to watch some movie in order to admire the subtleties of acting, I don't even notice the subtleties, so why bore myself? For example there was this black and white movie a couple of years ago, I even forgot its title, it won oscar awards and everything, I said okay everyone says it's good so I'll try, even though it was b/w (and I hate that, usually i refuse to watch b/w), after 10 min i say screw this, this is boring pseudo-intellectual nonsense. I know I am mega intellectual, I am honest with myself and I have nothing to prove, no need to waste time on stuff i dont like.


Some of my favourite movies:

Independence Day
GoodFellas
Indiana Jones trilogy
Alien trilogy
Terminator 2
Back To The Future (all of them)
Snatch
Snake Plissken
Die Hard 3? (The one with Samuel Jackson)
Big Lebowski
Good Will Hunting
Wag The Dog
Bourne trilogy
12 monkeys
Star Trek (everything, movies and the series)

There are some good movies in your list. And funny enough all with great actors. You say you don't notice the difference between average an great actors but yet your list is littered with top actors. Some pretty, some not.

My list:
Good Will Hunting
Pretty Woman
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump or Green Mile or Saving Private Ryan or pretty much any Tom Hanks film.
Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
Donnie Darko
Schindlers List
Silence of the Lambs
Dances with wolves
There will be Blood or Gangs of New York or pretty much any Danny day film.
Fargo
Intouchables (about the handicapped guy and his black caretaker) French version.
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Visually one of the most impactful movies I ever remember was Avatar in 3D at the movie theater. Insanely good flick visually.

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Jan 24, 2014 6:30:39 GMT -5 onehandclapping said:

My list:
Good Will Hunting - Robin Williams was awesome, Damon quite good, Afleck .. meh
Pretty Woman - always nice to see a hooker get a big break ;-)
Goodfellas - Scorcese is overated. Joe Pesci best gangster of all time.
Pulp Fiction - 'The gimp in the box' "gonna go medieval" - lol
Forrest Gump or Green Mile or Saving Private Ryan or pretty much any Tom Hanks film. I guess
Shawshank Redemption - brilliant movie
The Big Lebowski
Donnie Darko - too weird for my taste
Schindlers List - meh
Silence of the Lambs - Hopkins scariest villain eva
Dances with wolves - gay
There will be Blood - Day Lewis incredible performance, 'milkshake' scene ;-)
Fargo "wood chipper" lol
Intouchables (about the handicapped guy and his black caretaker) French version.
Star Wars - cheesy cheese
Lord of the Rings - Awesome (but still no where as good as the book)
Visually one of the most impactful movies I ever remember was Avatar in 3D at the movie theater. Insanely good flick visually. - wearing 3-D glasses sucks, but yeah, cool flick

Gladiator
God Father
Casino
Full Metal Jacket
Scent of a Woman
Apocalypse Now
Rudy
Training Day
Point Break
Dead Poets Society

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Buckaroo Banzai Through the Eighth Dimension
Robocop
My Name is Nobody
Man Facing Southeast

High Plains Drifter
Outlaw Josey Wales
Good Bad and Ugly
3:10 to Yuma
Fistfull of Dollars
Lonesome Dove
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
The Thin Man
The Big Sleep
Some Like it Hot

Singing in the Rain
Silk Stockings
Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
Moulin Rouge

Strictly Ballroom
Best in Show
Spinal Tap
Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Being

Being John Malkovich
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
adaptation

fargo
big lebowski
raising arizona

3 days of the condor
sneakers
parallax view
manchurian canidate
power
bullworth

The Mission
Star Wars IV, V
Indian Jones I
Bourne Series

The Incredibles
Fly Away Home
The Croods
Way Way Back
Moonrise Kingdom

Wings of Desire
Far Away, So Close
Breaking the Waves
My Dinner with Andre
The Princess Bride

The Godfather
Apocolypse Now
Dr Strangelove
2001
The Shining
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Silence of the Lambs (Varieties of human experience / Experiencing varietals of humans)

Vertigo
Rope
NOrth by Northwest
5 Easy Pieces
Easy Rider
Chinatown

Waterworld
Mad Max 1,2




I have a pretty broad palate for movies. I'm entertained by even the bad ones -- they're so dense...writing, music, editing, acting. Usually I look for the writer/director combo (either a team or the same person).

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Jan 24, 2014 11:32:39 GMT -5 maxdprophet said:

Being John Malkovich

"Malkovitch ... Malkovitch! ... Malkovitch-Malkovitch-Malcovitch..."

Cuszak to Malkovitch: "Most people find it to be a mildly pleasant experience ..."

Seeing Malky in drag was disturbing ... too much lipstick!