I've seen Boys Don't Cry and Leaving Las Vegas. While Audition fascinates me by dint of its reputation, Million Dollar Baby is the only other film on the list that I have a real desire to see.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 05, 2007 7:29:15 am PST #2058 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Glamcookie - Nov 05, 2007 9:01:26 am PST #2059 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'd add Araki's Mysterious Skin to that list. Absolutely stunning movie. We even bought it. But we can't quite bring ourselves to watch it again...
Jars - Nov 05, 2007 9:03:20 am PST #2060 of 10000
When the Wind Blows scared the everloving shit out of me when I was a kid - I still can't watch it to this day. What they were doing showing it in a primary school, I do not know.
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2007 12:37:36 pm PST #2061 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When the Wind Blows scared the everloving shit out of me when I was a kid - I still can't watch it to this day. What they were doing showing it in a primary school, I do not know.
I'm thinking they showed it to us in high school. It's the only way to see it that makes sense for me.
Gutting.
-t - Nov 05, 2007 1:23:58 pm PST #2062 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've been trying to remember under what circumstances I saw it, and I can't. Must have been some kind of special showing. It's not the kind of thing I would have caught on Bargain Night at the multiplex.
JZ - Nov 05, 2007 2:14:54 pm PST #2063 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
On that list, I've seen The Passion of Joan of Arc, Safe and Boys Don't Cry, and I'd be very, very willing to see any of them again -- well, maybe only one "very" for JoA, since it was such a harrowing experience for the lead actress and I'm not particularly supportive of dickish directorial mindgame-playing. But the other two, oh my yes, anytime.
We have a borrowed copy of Grave of the Fireflies at home right now, but I'm beginning to think that I really shouldn't watch it.
Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2007 1:51:07 pm PST #2064 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Juliebird - Nov 06, 2007 2:02:09 pm PST #2065 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I lucking fove Lady in the Water.
::holds DVD tightly to chest and feels closer to it knowing so many people hate it::
Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2007 2:07:39 pm PST #2066 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I want to see it, still.
Juliebird - Nov 06, 2007 2:46:31 pm PST #2067 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
People can mock it and be all ejamakated and enlightened and poo poo it and call it garbage and mock M. Night and be all meta about how he's making himself this huge character and stroking his ego. Poo on them.
Because they forgot that they were watching a story, a beautiful sweet little story with these lovely little characters and yet another gorgeous score from James Newton Howard. Sure, perhaps the language was clunky and silly, but the characters are wonderful and the feeling of family and community is once again pervasive throughout, and M. Night portrays the most endearing brother (the brother/sister relationship was just so authentic and sweet) and I think he's getting more comfortable with the acting thing (and he's cute to boot).
Even if everything else in the movie was horrid, if they had only the brother/sister relationship and kept that last scene from the pool where all the music and sound goes quiet... (I get chills everytime, it's so perfect), I'd still want to own this movie.
If I'm a little passionate about how this movie doesn't suck, it's because there was so much hatred and mockery tossed at it before, during and after it's release. Which is so doesn't deserve.
And I hope all those mean people get eaten by Scrunts.