Film Favorites (Page 1 of 3)

I like that list.  I have not yet seen Stranger than Paradise or The Brother from Another Planet.  I'll have to find those.  Thanks for posting.

I know I have a long list, but I couldn't leave any one of these out.

First of all, my latest favorite film, I feel the best film I've seen in years and years, is The Last Samaria, and not because of Tom Cruise... hehehe, I was much more interested in the Japanese men.   I know it sounds corny, but this movie was "spiritual", or energetically/consciousness compelling, for me to watch, and it was as well cinematically beautiful.  I personally can't say enough good about this movie, even given the difficult (for me) battle scenes.  Anybody else feel this way about the film?

The rest is in alphabetical order, I like them all equally, and have seen most of them four or five times.

Action

~Armageddon
~Behind Enermy Lines
~The Matrix movies
~XXX (I only saw this once, but I ended up really liking it.  Go figure.)

Fantasy

~Blue Bird of Happiness (1940... waaaay before my time )

I haven't seen this movie for over 30 years, has anybody else seen it?

I didn't know it's been compared to The Wizard of Oz until I saw this below quote yesterday.  This raised my eyebrow given this as well as Oz were the two most thought provoking movies of my informative years.  In fact, Shirley Temple was set to play Dorothy in Oz, but was passed over for Judy Garland, because of Garlands vocal talents, and definitely not because of her acting experience (I saw this on a documentary about Oz).  This is the stock editorial review given of the movie, and where I saw the Oz comparison. 

~Edward Sissorhands
~The Wizard of Oz
~What Dreams May Come

Other films category

~As Good As It Gets
~Dogma
~Jesus Christ Superstar
~Prisoner of Second Avenue
~The Way We Were
~Tommy
~A Touch of Class
~Witches of Eastwick (Cherries anyone?)

Science Fiction

~Contact
~Enemy Mine (an extraordinary movie about a Reptilian and Human that are isolated together in harsh life threatening conditions.  A very interesting film indeed)
~Stargate

Westerns

~Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
~Cat Ballou (one of my all time favorites... I consider it an eco-feminist film, it's no wonder I liked it so much as a kid... and I still do.  I own it! )
~Purgatory

Purgatory wasn't released commercially, so I include this... rent it if you haven't seen it, it's a cool movie, as well as a Western.

And then there is this movie which has been shown on TV once--

~A Wrinkle in Time

I have not yet read this book (don't know how that happened, I did go to school), though I will before it's released on video Nov. 16.  Did ANYBODY OUT THERE see this on TV?  I so very much want to discuss this movie... though it would be best to wait until it's released on DVD because I know some members don't watch TV and probably didn't see this... no doubt our resident movie reviewer lyra will have a field day with this one.  

I watched this movie on TV when it aired this past May. I have to tell you, I was on the edge of my seat, or I had my face in my hands enacting one of those "Home Alone" gigs.

When we first started talking about syncs on NR there was a time lyra and me were talking about the sync of listening to the song "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin.  At that time I had mentioned that I had been experiencing many syncs, at times as if they were "raining" on me, there were so many coming down very fast. JT asked me in a PM if I could give him an example of what a raining syncs experience was like, I forgot to tell him about this time.  This movie was a raining sync for me, it took me about three days to absorb it all. I was bummed to find it wasn't yet available to rent, because boy-oh-boy I wanted to see it again right away to dissect it.

Just for the sake of a little food for thought about the movie, I mean it's not like the story's a secret--

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/plotsummary

There's a whole list of viewer comments on this page. The follow words caught my eye--

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/usercomments-index

When I was hypnotized to review a childhood abduction I was having sparse flashback memories of I remembered an adult male human (a babysitter) took me to the front door where I was met by a creature that looked just like a Wookie/Chewbacca.  This creature then took me to a cave. It was at this part I had the "Home Alone" face in hands gig going on.

Also from another reviewer was this, and I think well chosen words (even given the Wookie creepiness)-- 

I had three compelling questions following seeing this movie--

1.) Why did Disney release this as a made-for-TV movie when they could've released it commercially and made a truckload of money?

2.) Why was a first run Disney Family Film (that's what they were calling it, and Eisner even made some editorial comments about the film during its airing) shown on a Monday night, a school night, instead of a Saturday night?  A "family" film shown on a school night... hunh!, it didn't get over until very late, I doubt very many kids got to see this movie for that reason.

3.) As noted by the reviewers' Wookie comments above, and even though I don't yet know how Madeline L'Engle described Aunt Beast in her novel, why, why, why did they make this particular character look like a Wookie, I gather really digressing from the original character of Aunt Beast?  I've picked up through the years through different sources that among those who remember childhood abductions Wookie type of creatures transporting them from home to where ever wasn't uncommon.

The first two questions are probably easily answered--the content is too compelling, but then why not just can the flick?  And the last question so smacks of disinformation with me, but the rest of the film is intriguing, and as I said was hugely synchronistic for me.

I hope everybody's interest is peeked and will rent it in Nov....I can't wait to hear y'alls comments about it.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

i just watched Donnie Darko for the first time.  What a Cool flick!  So many special touches and little references to other films.  Donnie's "Frank" was Jimmy Stewart's "Harvey" on acid, from hell, or both.  The Escher "eye" poster seen near the end wowed me, as I'd just changed my avatar to that very image recently.  I'm changing my philosophy to "synchromysticism" since synchronicity increases daily.

I wanted to mention two other movies I like very much, even though neither could be called great.  Palookaville and Bottle Rocket are somewhat similar in concept: Losers trying for the Big Score.  Bottle Rocket is the first film from Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums).  Palookaville features William Forsythe (one of my favorites), and has a sweet irony at the finish.

Yojimbo by Kurosawa to satisfy the samurai craving.  Hey, did anyone else see the "samurai" in Billy Bob Thornton's "Karl" from Sling Blade?  The way he carried himself, his selfless honor?  Although Thornton's been something of a letdown since Sling Blade, it's still one of my top picks.  The scene at the hamburger joint where Karl chooses between the small and large fries.  You just know he's thinking the fries are bigger in a large order.  Priceless, as is anytime Karl says "Alright, then".  And check out that band Dwight Yoakam's character pulls together: Col. Bruce Hampton, founder of The Hampton Grease Band, whose Music To Eat was a psychedelic classic back in the day.  Vic Chesnutt (in the wheelchair), one of the finest songwriters in the country.  Mickey Jones, who as the drummer on Dylan's legendary 1966 world tour, was a key element of the sound that fractured a musical universe, second only to Dylan himself.  Without Jones, Bob would not have rocked the world the way he did.   And John Ritter was Perfect in this film.
And I always forget (but not this time) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  Brazil casts a big shadow over the rest of Gilliam's work, and it's easy to neglect this masterpiece.  I was disappointed when Gilliam was unable to complete his treatment of the Don Quixote story.  The "making-of" special (more like "couldn't make it") I saw, Lost In La Mancha, was heartbreaking.  This project started off with such high potential.  And then Everything went wrong.  Not to compare the two, but I was also disappointed when I heard that the Nicolas Cage Superman picture wasn't going to happen.
Anyone here ever make up Fantasy Movies?  Any story or concept you want, any director, any stars, any screenwriter, cinematographer, ad infinitum.  Who would score the music to your movie?

equilibrium is awesome.

enemy mine is also great.

heres my incomplete list that i can think of at the moment;

- Matrices (the matrix trilogy)
- Dark City
- Brazil
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
- 12 Monkeys
- A.I.
- Dreamcatcher
- Wallace & Grommit
- Drop Dead Fred
- Pi
- Saving Private Ryan
- A Beautiful Mind
- Alex & Emma
- Batteries Not Included
- Mallrats / Kevin Smith films

the list could go on forever.

Dune - the bennijesarat witch must leave!
LoTR - although not as re-playable as Dune.
Matrix - Same as LoTR
Ran - Almost as good as dune.
Shinobi no mura - Takamatsu was a consultant on the Ninjitsu moves... Takamatsu is probably the greatest Ninjutsu Practitionaer to ever live.
Toshiro Mufune movies - one bad ass samurai.
Four rooms - funny

ehhnus, have you seen The Office? Nothing has made me laugh harder or resonated with me like The Office. Season 1 & 2 should be available to rent. I'm still waiting for the christmas special.

yeah i love american beauty, watched it like 10 times

magnolia is also pretty nice, a bit similar.