"Memento" would make my personal list, but I doubt seriously that a whole lot of people would agree with me.
I would.
And I'd totally put Amadeus on that list as well.
And Princess Bride
Also, American in Paris.
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
'War Stories'
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Barb - Dec 28, 2008 3:49:26 pm PST #9178 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Gris - Dec 28, 2008 4:12:04 pm PST #9179 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Blu-Ray players are awesome, and The Dark Knight really is unstoppingly bleak. And good.
Probably not on the "all time greats" list, but possibly only out of prejudice against the genre? I don't know, I can't decide.
I'd put Breakfast at Tiffany's on there.
ETA: And The Little Mermaid.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2008 4:17:15 pm PST #9180 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2008 5:13:15 pm PST #9181 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The Shawshank Redemption
The one movie my daughter and I can agree on.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 5:22:54 pm PST #9182 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.
Star Wars.
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
"I want to stop crime!" "I want Rachael!" "I want to fuck shit up!"
Plus, with the bleak.
(In the current Batman comic, there's this whole weird-ass thing where Batman has been captured, and the bad guys are trying to extract his memories to -- follow me, here -- power an army of Batman clones. The idea being that all the trauma, etc., that made him what he is will transfer over and make unstoppable Batmen.
The problem? There's so much trauma that the clones are clawing their own eyes out and dying. They can't handle the sum total of Batman's trauma [not just his parents dying; WAY more shit than that] all at once, and it's destroying them, while Batman is merrily going "Yes, and?"
Batman is officially King of the Land of Fucked-Upped-Ness.)
le nubian - Dec 28, 2008 5:28:47 pm PST #9183 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that is hilarious in a way. I mean, damn.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 5:30:40 pm PST #9184 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
that is hilarious in a way. I mean, damn.
No, it IS. I mean, it's not meant to be, but the look on the bad guys' faces is priceless. One of them asks, "What kind of man can turn even his LIFE MEMORIES into a WEAPON?"
Duh. Batman.
Shoulda tried to brain-suck Superman.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2008 5:36:38 pm PST #9185 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Shoulda tried to brain-suck Superman.
But that would have left them empty-handed.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 5:41:07 pm PST #9186 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
::snerk:: It's funny because it's true.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 5:41:15 pm PST #9187 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
But that would have left them empty-handed.
And kind of limp.
What? I'm a total Batman fangirl.