'Destiny'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
The Shawshank Redemption is my second favourite movie on that list, followed reasonably closely by Star Wars and preceded by A Clockwork Orange.
Those are not sacred cows at all, I agree. Put Casablanca on the list, or something. Those are just movies.
Corwood,
FYI, if anyone else you know is coming in for the festival in March: A computer glitch forced me to call the Habitat Suites for my reservation, and I ended up getting a $99/night rate. Very psyched.
I love Network. I hated Citizen Kane (well, hate is too strong, I was very bored is more on target).
Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey... now I'm trying to remember more classics that perplexed me.
Hmm.
I'm with ita. 2001 was also a "wha-huh????"
I've tried to watch 2001 several times but I keep falling asleep.
I think a big problem with 2001 for me (and my brother, who was equally mystified) was that we were watching a full-screen version on a 24-inch tv screen. It sounds like it's definitely one of those "you must see this in the theater" films.
What Kathy said about 2001 -- gotta see it on the big screen. Ditto Lawrence of Arabia -- you can't get the enormity of the desert on a TV screen.
Other classics I'm meh on:
Gone With The Wind
Psycho
Grand Hotel (except that Joan looks HOTT)
Arsenic and Old Lace
It's a Wonderful Life
GF doesn't understand how anyone could be meh on Grand Hotel or Arsenic and Old Lace. I'm not that big on Greta Garbo. Yes, she is beautiful but her acting style and accent leave me cold a lot of the time. I did enjoy Ninotchka and one other one that I can't remember offhand (I think it had Basil Rathbone as her dicky husband).
It sounds like it's definitely one of those "you must see this in the theater" films.
Oh, absolutely. Seeing it in a theatre is no guarantee that you'll love it, but seeing it on a TV is a near-sure bet that you won't. So much of what I love about it is the visuals and sound design, and there's too much that just doesn't come across unless you're practically surrounded by it.
(There's also the problem of it really being 4 movies of varying quality rolled into 1 big one. Dawn of Man = good. Space station = meh* HAL = great! Acid trip = um?)
*Well, meh on the bits that involve people talking to each other. The balletic spaceship sequences are some of the most beautiful things ever filmed, including the Best Match Cut Of All Time. So maybe it's more like 5 movies in 1.