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Post by lm on Feb 27, 2005 22:22:19 GMT -5
If you could nominate any 5 movies for the Oscars and then choose one to win, which would you choose? They have to be movies from last year.
I will start (but I do have a disclaimer as I didn't watch very many movies last year):
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State
The Aviator
Spiderman 2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Winner: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Post by MW on Feb 28, 2005 12:51:47 GMT -5
If you could nominate any 5 movies for the Oscars and then choose one to win, which would you choose? They have to be movies from last year. I will start (but I do have a disclaimer as I didn't watch very many movies last year): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Garden State The Aviator Spiderman 2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Winner: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Good choices. Mine are in the area of: The Incredibles Eternal Sunshine Spider-Man 2 Sideways Fahrenheit 9/11 (come on, it was entertaining) winner: Eternal Sunshine |
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Post by Sean Jarrard on Feb 28, 2005 22:50:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I really enjoyed all of these:
Shaun of the Dead
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Oldboy (DVD came out in 2004...)
Hana to Alice
Napoleon Dynamite (It revolutionized my workplace)
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Post by MW on Feb 28, 2005 23:25:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I really enjoyed all of these: Shaun of the Dead The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Oldboy (DVD came out in 2004...) Hana to Alice Napoleon Dynamite (It revolutionized my workplace) I can't believe I didn't mention these. Napoleon Dynamite in particular. The Life Aquatic was great too. |
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Post by lm on Mar 1, 2005 11:34:42 GMT -5
awesome. I'm getting exactly what I intended with this thread: suggestions of quality movies to rent this weekend.  <--- does this face look sneaky? Also, I've heard good things about Napolean Dynamite. What is Hana to Alice? That's one I've never heard of. |
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Post by Sean Jarrard on Mar 1, 2005 18:44:48 GMT -5
Hana to Alice is the newest movie by Shunji Iwai, the universe's greatest director. Although not as good as some of his earlier films, I have no choice but to like anything he creates. Oh, and it's somehow a high school drama, for which I have a unusual tolerance.
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Post by BG on Mar 1, 2005 21:09:42 GMT -5
So I could conceivable add high school drama to anything, and as long as I do it right Sean Jarrard likes it?
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Post by Sean Jarrard on Mar 1, 2005 21:51:01 GMT -5
That "as long as it's done right" condition is pretty big, but yeah....that's about how it works out.
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Post by janisjoplin on Mar 20, 2005 18:54:54 GMT -5
Why are adults fascinated by movies set in high school? Are we trying to relive it? Are we relieved we no longer have to relive high school so we can enjoy watching kids squirm in high school psychic pain? Did anyone tell you high school would be "the best years of your life?" NOT! Even at it's sucky worst, college and thereafter is an improvement. Except for Mondays, and getting up at 6 a.m., tests, no recess.... Oh yeah, no recess in HS, either. No wonder HS was so awful.
Also, why are there more "girl" high school movies than those that appeal to boys, or both genders? Some girl movies of recent vintage: "Mean Girls", "13 Going on 30."
Alternatively, the movie "Napoleon Dynamite" was a rare one, showing HS life from a dysfunctional male's perspective. I can't think of an interesting male and female HS movie until you go all the way back to the brat pack movies of the 80's like "The Breakfast Club."
To change the subject, what do the intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, neo-intellectuals and anti-intellectuals that frequent this site think of the movie "The Village" by N. Night Shyamalan. (I can never spell his name right.) I liked it much better than I thought I would, after reading some poor reviews on it. I'd like to read a discussion on this movie. I can't tell you what it was about, because the moviegoer doesn't really know what it is about until the "surprise" is revealed. I wonder if it is getting harder for M. Night to figure out "surprises" for his movies.
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Post by BG on Mar 23, 2005 16:20:23 GMT -5
I actually quite liked the Village, it was way better than his previous offering of Signs. The main problem with M. Night is that everyone keeps marketing his films as horror movies, which they aren't.
-Being God
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Post by MW on Mar 23, 2005 16:40:09 GMT -5
The main thing you have to do to enjoy the last couple M. Night movies is just to simply abandon all logical reason whatsoever. Once you do that, you're okay, I think. Just don't think about the movie, and it's a lot better.
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Post by janisjoplin on Apr 1, 2005 19:57:52 GMT -5
I think I need to abandon my logical thought with many movies, but I wouldn't put M. Night's in that category. I recently saw "Kill Bill" for the first time. Now, how does one wake up from a 4-year coma and have any strength in your arms at all? Then, within a short, indeterminate period of time, manage to be better at martial arts than all the "expert" hoodlums in Japan?
I thought this one required putting logic on a shelf more than M. Night's.
I just bought "The Incredibles" so I'll get to find out why everyone likes this movie.
Thanks for letting me know what BG stands for. I hadn't thought of "Being God" - I thought of "Big Grin", "Big Godzilla," etc.
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Post by BG on Apr 26, 2005 19:42:29 GMT -5
Oh, BG actually stands for "Ben Gulley". Which is my name. But because it's the MW Website rather than the Matt Wilson Website, I call myself BG around here. And SB was the one who started putting the stuff at the end where you have to make up something each time. So BG has been "Bryant Gumble" or "Batmobile Gun" or whatever, really.
As far as Kill Bill, most of its source material were Hong Kong action movies, and yeah, you have to just ignore logic. Trust me, there's nothing more annoying than a guy watching a John Woo movie constantly pointing out the fact that the main characters have fired more bullets than their guns could possibly hold. You just have to accept that Hong Kong has different rules, and to just enjoy it.
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Post by VDeep on Apr 26, 2005 20:57:30 GMT -5
The Village is actually one of the few movies I saw last year (I was with friends) and I didn't think it was all that bad. All of my friends thought it was awful, though. I proclaimed "I thought it was pretty good," and was stared down until I amended it with "...at sucking!"
Side note, it wasn't until whatshername was in the forest that i realized she was blind. Up until that point, I just assumed she liked to feel things.
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Post by BG on Apr 26, 2005 22:23:15 GMT -5
But hey, at least everyone gets to make the joke about her walking out into the street and just getting hit by a car.
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