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Reply #30 posted 09/19/16 11:35am

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Insomnia, where the fuck is Insomnia?? In my top ten. The Robin Williams, Al Pacino remake.

Minority fucking Report? The brits hate Spielberg. Fucking gnats.

I agree on Kill Bill. Great film.

No Country For Old Men, best film. Muholland Drive number two, they almost had it.

They won't fund his films. Rewatch Blue Velvet, wow.

Wild At Heart is good too.

Coen film that is under rated: The Man Who Wasn't There.

No Michael Moore films?? Dumb ass Brits.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #31 posted 09/19/16 12:12pm

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Muholland Drive, the Cowboy:

Never ignore the cowboy.

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Reply #32 posted 09/20/16 1:11pm

Ace

Not only should Match Point be on this list, it should be at the top of it.

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Reply #33 posted 09/20/16 1:13pm

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Goddess4Real said:

Adaptation (2002)


Agreed.

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Reply #34 posted 09/20/16 1:14pm

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RodeoSchro said:

I don't see "Bad Moms", "Fast and Furious 7" or "Expendables 2" on that list. Therefore, I call shenanigans.


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Reply #35 posted 09/20/16 1:29pm

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I've seen a grand total of 7 films from this list. I'm not counting In the Mood for Love, 'cause I fell asleep in the middle of it (nothing to do with the film - I was just exhausted that night).


Saw:



Requiem for a Dream:

Too grim for my tastes.


Her
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Too self-consciously "quirky" for my tastes.


Before Sunset
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Good picture, but I found Before Midnight eminently better.


Inglourious Basterds
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Meh.


Ida
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Loved it.


The Social Network
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Found the portrayal of Zuckerberg to be a cartoon. The rest of it? Meh.


Lost in Translation
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Thought it was overrated the first time I saw it, but liked it a lot on second viewing.


I did see a fair portion of Almost Famous and hated it for the same reason I hate most of Cameron Crowe's work: Overly sentimental.

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Reply #36 posted 09/21/16 8:55am

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Goddess4Real said:

Good list, but Into The Wild (2007), Milk (2008) and Adaptation (2002) should be there as well.

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Adaptation is amazing - Charlie Kaufman is brilliant

Moon should have been in there too (off the top of my head)

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Reply #37 posted 09/21/16 8:57am

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2freaky4church1 said:

Insomnia, where the fuck is Insomnia?? In my top ten. The Robin Williams, Al Pacino remake.

Minority fucking Report? The brits hate Spielberg. Fucking gnats.

I agree on Kill Bill. Great film.

No Country For Old Men, best film. Muholland Drive number two, they almost had it.

They won't fund his films. Rewatch Blue Velvet, wow.

Wild At Heart is good too.

Coen film that is under rated: The Man Who Wasn't There.

No Michael Moore films?? Dumb ass Brits.

If you're going to slag us off then at least learn how to use our punctuation.

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Reply #38 posted 09/22/16 8:14am

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Mark Kermode knows his shit.

ACE is dead on about Match Point. Quite a film. Woody didn't always have to be funny. He certainly got his idea from his love of Hitchcock.

Rico, not so suave.

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Reply #39 posted 09/22/16 3:17pm

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With 84 years remaining in this century this list will obviously undergo vast changes, but what a cool place to start the ongoing exploration/debate.

I would include "Match Point" on my theoretical list, too. However, this list is far, far more capable.

* 177 voters (52 women, 122 men)
* Professions: newspapers, magazines, websites, academics, cinema curators.
* 6 of 7 continents (so much for "Lovers of the Arctic Circle").
* 36 countries
* 81 pollsters from the U.S.
* 19 from the U.K.
* 5 from Germany, France, Cuba, and Canada
* 4 from Australia, Columbia, India, Israel, and Italy
* Also: Lebanon, the UAE, China, Bangladesh, Chile, Namibia, Kazakhstan, and 18 others.

Of course this needs to be even more diverse. But most other polls are so thin you can see right through them.

If I were to take a time machine to the year 2100 I'm guessing that the most prominent change here will be found in the national makeup and the parenthetical auteur stamp. It's been happening for decades already, but I think diversity is going to explode in the most profound manner.

And by "diversity" I'm not meaning some politically correct babble, I mean the natural force of embarrassing riches that exists all around us—and in us—that we far too often tragically squander.

Wish I were going to be alive at the end of it. wink

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Reply #40 posted 09/22/16 3:38pm

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EmmaMcG said:

CynicKill said:

Two movies I absolutely did not like but people tend to love generally are "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood". I can respect the artistry of them but to me it is unnecessary to subject yourself to them. I do not recommend.

No Country For Old Men is one of my favourite movies. Loved the book too. Brilliant villain. There Will be Blood was ok, i thought, nothing special.

Does the book give more info on Anton Chigur? He is indeed a great villain but the film gave very little info on him. Which was probably intended in order to make him more mysterious but still...I am still wondering who he really was, his background etc. etc.

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Reply #41 posted 09/23/16 8:44am

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KoolEaze said:



EmmaMcG said:


CynicKill said:

Two movies I absolutely did not like but people tend to love generally are "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood". I can respect the artistry of them but to me it is unnecessary to subject yourself to them. I do not recommend.






No Country For Old Men is one of my favourite movies. Loved the book too. Brilliant villain. There Will be Blood was ok, i thought, nothing special.

Does the book give more info on Anton Chigur? He is indeed a great villain but the film gave very little info on him. Which was probably intended in order to make him more mysterious but still...I am still wondering who he really was, his background etc. etc.





No, the book doesn't give any more background info on him. The movie is basically the book on screen. There's no real deviations from it. The ending is a little different in that where the movie ends, the book continues for a little bit afterwards.
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Reply #42 posted 09/23/16 8:47am

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Can you explain the ending?

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Reply #43 posted 09/23/16 11:39am

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2freaky4church1 said:

Can you explain the ending?



I wouldn't want to spoil anything in case someone hasn't seen the movie yet.
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