holy cow, I've seen 68 of the movies on the all time list. I would have thought I'd be in the 40s.
I watch a lot of movies, but I can't beat Megan.
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le nubian - Apr 18, 2010 7:37:51 am PDT #7666 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 7:41:13 am PDT #7667 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Truly, I'm surprised I'm so high on either list. If only I watched more Asian cinema, I'd be even higher.
Of course, the real shame is that some of the classics I haven't seen are Italian. Don't tell my boss.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2010 8:02:27 am PDT #7668 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, I watch a fair amount of Asian cinema, but not movies that are on these lists. Despite the fact I think the lists are deeply flawed, I keep wondering: man, am I watching shitty Asian cinema or something?
Jessica - Apr 18, 2010 8:11:55 am PDT #7669 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've seen 74 on the Modern Classics list. Most of the ones I haven't seen are horror films, which means I probably won't ever fill in those gaps.
The number I saw in theatres drops off sharply after 2007.
Sue - Apr 18, 2010 8:18:37 am PDT #7670 of 30000
hip deep in pie
62 on the first list, and 68 on the other. Which is strange since there are big holes in my movie watching...70s, westerns, war movies.
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2010 8:26:06 am PDT #7671 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
68 on the modern, 58 on the all-time, which is more than I expected. Huh.
Yeah, so I found Kick-Ass to be highly disturbing and upsetting. I found nothing amusing or entertaining about casual murder.
How was it casual? They were killing bad guys. Often to avoid being killed by them.
Sean, are you a fan at all of Tarentino or John Woo? The violence of Kick-Ass seemed on that level to me - kinda' cartoonish in its absurdity.
Right. I will say that some deaths made me a bit uncomfortable, but overall, besides the fact that there was rampant, bloody violence committed by a child, the violence itself wasn't that different from other movies of its ilk.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 8:27:48 am PDT #7672 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
This made me go back to look at my Paris movie diary from the first time I lived there. Paris having something like 425+ movie screens showing everything you can imagine, I thought many might have come from that, but only 6 did (which is amazing, considering I watched 72 movies in 9 months).
Sue - Apr 18, 2010 8:35:59 am PDT #7673 of 30000
hip deep in pie
God, I need to move to Paris for some serious movie watching.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2010 8:46:29 am PDT #7674 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And monthly passes! This is practically the only thing I know about Paris.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 8:51:44 am PDT #7675 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It was awesome, especially because they had all sorts of things to make it affordable, from true matinée prices to cards where you prepay for 5-10 movies (and now the UGC/Gaumont unlimited cards), to the city government sponsored "18 heures 18 francs" (a week where all movies between 5 and 7 pm were $3.50--don't know what they call this with euros) and the national "Fête du cinéma" weekend (where you pay for 1 movie at full price and got a passport that allowed you to see as many more as you wanted that weekend for 10 francs, or about $2).