10 good picks

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Post by Grammaton_Cleric » 08 Nov 2005 05:57

My new top ten:

1)Equilibrium
2)The Boondock Saints
3)A Bridge Too Far
4)Fight Club
5)All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
6)Office Space
7)A Night To Remember
8)Seven Samurai
9)Downfall
10)Stalag 17

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Post by Notorious » 09 Nov 2005 23:40

Very nice thread.

1. The Big Lebowski- Second greatest movie EVER. For reals (First is "The Silence of the Lambs", btw).
2. Jacobs Ladder- Great Adrian Lyne thriller, very underrated. If you liked "The Machinist", you'll love this.
3. Orange County- Jack Black rules. That is all.
4. The Shining- Never gets old, no matter how many times you've seen it.
5. Office Space- Classic comedy, so many great quotes.
6. Suicide Kings- Freaking awesome movie, even better because it has Christopher Walken.
7. Slums of Beverly Hills- Made me have a small crush on Natasha Lyonne. Too bad she has let herself go.
8. Pink Floyd's The Wall- One of the biggest mindtrip movies of all-time. A must see for any stoner.
9. Rollerball- The orignal, mind you. And 10,000,000x better than the remake.
10. Altered States- William Hurt's first movie and visually ahead of it's time.
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Post by UncleMao » 10 Nov 2005 09:56

I had to refresh twice when I saw Boondock Saints in someone's 10.

But don't take my word for it... <a href='http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/b/boondocksaints.html' target='_blank'>this guy's</a> does a very good job of it.

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Post by Grammaton_Cleric » 10 Nov 2005 10:07

UncleMao wrote:I had to refresh twice when I saw Boondock Saints in someone's 10.

But don't take my word for it... <a href='http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/b/boondocksaints.html' target='_blank'>this guy's</a> does a very good job of it.
Fuck......forgot that people don't like Boondock Saints on here. Guess I will really be hated on here now if I wasn't before....

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Post by efilflah » 10 Nov 2005 10:49

Haven't seen many new films except "The Descent", which was far better than Marshall's previous horrow piece, "Dog Soldiers".

Some not so new films that I like but aren't necessarily great films (though some are):

1) Big Trouble in Little China
2) The Thing
3) In the Mouth of Madness
4) Miracle Mile
5) A Tale of Two Sisters
6) The Lost Boys
7) Brazil
8) Angel Heart
9) Perfect Blue
10) Boxing Helena
11) Candyman
12) Heavenly Creatures
13) Nightbreed
14) Lord of Illusions
15) Monster City
16) The Game
17) Society
18) Twelve Monkeys
19) Q&A

Only listing movies that most people haven't heard of but should give a watch. Some of my other faves (like "Lebowski" and "Jacob's Ladder") have already been mentioned.
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Post by gulliver » 10 Nov 2005 21:33

I dont have a top ten to post because of all the films posted above I could easily repost the same shit as my own in a different order, however I recommend you all check out "Once were warriors". A great film IMO.

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Post by UncleMao » 10 Nov 2005 21:42

OWW was a good film. A great study into the social nightmare of an impoverished Maori family living on the lower echelons of NZ society dealing with lower class issues like family violence, sexual assault and fractured family values between traditional and contemporary faultlines.

At a widest view it is the study of the Maori struggling to live in the confines of the Pakeha (White Man)'s world

At its narrowest it is the surgical satire of a disenfranchised Maori man who is slaved by the shackles of his tradition, weaknesses and chain of violence.

A deeply powerful film, flawed but arguably more effective by being so.

The sequel however...was terrible.

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Post by efilflah » 11 Nov 2005 01:51

Was it called "Twice were Warriors"?



*tumbleweed*

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Post by UncleMao » 11 Nov 2005 03:40

Where's that long cane they have to hook people off the stage?

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Post by TheGoodReverend » 11 Nov 2005 23:12

Anyone else see Dark City? Better than The Matrix.

How about The Ice Storm?

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Post by UncleMao » 11 Nov 2005 23:42

Dark City is the shit.

Ice Storm ...meh

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Post by Eamon Angelface » 18 Nov 2005 23:54

Grammaton_Cleric wrote:
UncleMao wrote:I had to refresh twice when I saw Boondock Saints in someone's 10.

But don't take my word for it... <a href='http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/b/boondocksaints.html' target='_blank'>this guy's</a> does a very good job of it.
Fuck......forgot that people don't like Boondock Saints on here. Guess I will really be hated on here now if I wasn't before....

Yes.

Boondock Saints is so fucking damned shitty I can't even rip on it in person without choking on my own rage. Anyone who likes Troy the fat fuck who borrows money now to pay for his pain killer addiction Duffy and/or his travesty of a movie needs a brain enema.

...and where the fuck are all the smarty pants motherfuckers?

somebody say Oldboy or Ichi The Killer and then rip on everyone else for only liking Hollywood movies. I haven't seen the word indie in here once! Fuck you.

How about we all just try and boast about liking movies we think other people haven't seen so we can feel smarter for having seen them first?

1) Chinatown
2) 8 1/2
3) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
4) Infernal Affairs
5) B13
6) La Dolce Vita
7) Yakuzas Law
8) Straw Dogs
9) A Woman Under the Influence
10) <a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374020/' target='_blank'>This one is in here just for the title.</a>

Oh ya, and who the fucks thinks Dark City is some underground piece of art. TBS plays it on the weekends sometimes. Asshat.
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Post by Grammaton_Cleric » 19 Nov 2005 09:40

TheGoodReverend wrote:Anyone else see Dark City?  Better than The Matrix.

How about The Ice Storm?
Equilibrium is better then The Matrix, probably better then Dark City too but I haven't seen it so I won't pass judgement yet.

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Post by TheGoodReverend » 03 Dec 2005 02:04

Watched the new old King Kong DVD. I was amazed at how . . . PG-13 it was. Kong ripping off Fay Wray's clothes was, um, interesting.

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