The Fifth Element
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Amy - Aug 07, 2019 5:08:19 am PDT #2203 of 3461
Because books.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2019 6:02:20 am PDT #2204 of 3461
"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
Visually striking films:
- Amélie
- What Dreams May Come
- Alien
- Legend
- The Cell
- 300 (despite my loathing of Zack Snyder, I must admit he has a great eye for visuals)
Steph L. - Aug 07, 2019 8:20:17 am PDT #2205 of 3461
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm loving reading all of these!
sj - Aug 07, 2019 10:21:43 am PDT #2206 of 3461
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Only Lovers Left Alive
Sweeney Todd
Gris - Aug 09, 2019 3:24:54 pm PDT #2207 of 3461
Hey. New board.
Some that haven't been named unless I missed them though I agree with lots that have.
-Bad Movies, still striking-
Avatar
-Good or at least okay Movies-
Parts of Titanic
Spirited Away
Inception (is this striking or some other adjective?)
P.M. Marc - Aug 10, 2019 6:06:52 pm PDT #2208 of 3461
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I said this on Facebook, too, but I'll say it anywhere: Snowpiercer is the single most visually astonishing movie I have ever seen. As I said there, I wanted something that could stop me from blinking so that I didn't miss a single frame.
Older-but-striking: Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Brazil...
I may have a type.
-t - Aug 10, 2019 6:20:45 pm PDT #2209 of 3461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, City of Lost Children, how could I have forgotten that? Good one.
Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2019 7:44:34 pm PDT #2210 of 3461
brillig
Yes, Brazil! A wonderful usage of imagery. I was thinking more on the line of gorgeousness rather than image as storytelling device.
Scrappy - Aug 11, 2019 9:24:41 am PDT #2211 of 3461
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The last Emperor
Vonnie K - Aug 11, 2019 10:33:52 am PDT #2212 of 3461
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Until the title card at the end of this trailer I thought it was a remake of Clue.
I've seen GIFs from the movie, including the famous "flames... on the side of my face..." one, but hadn't actually seen the damn movie until last night, when I found out it was streaming on Amazon Prime.
It was an ABSOLUTE GAS. I hadn't laughed so much at a movie in a long while. Just, every word out of Madeline Kahn's mouth! And that last long reenactment gag! How does Tim Curry speak so fast?!
A++ will watch again when I have some company over.