Hard Light Productions Forums
Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Polpolion on April 18, 2006, 09:52:34 pm
-
What is/are it/they?
Here are mine:
1: Zoolander
2: Blues Brothers
3: Mars Attacks -- you can't forget this one (no I mean really :shaking: )
4: War of the Worlds (original)
5: Indapendance Day
Can't they make a movie where nukeing(sp?) the aliens actually work?
EDIT: you guys made me remember some better ones
-
1. Broken Saints
2. Original Star Wars
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Independence Day
5. Office Space
-
(In no particular order)
- Skammen
- I Heart Huckabees
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Amélie
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- AI: Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Strangelove
- K-PAX
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Seventh Seal
-
Full Metal Jacket
-
Hmmm, well...
- My Plaything - Jenna Jameson 2 It's A Boy
- The Fashionistas
- Space Nuts
- The Private Life Series
- Naughty Bedtime Stories: Volume 2
- Debbie does Dallas: The Revenge
- ATM Machine #2
- Feeding Frenzy 3: Swallow The Leader
- Rack ‘Em
- Tera Tera Tera
:nervous:
-
Debbie Does Dallas was filmed at my school.
-
The Usual Suspects
Blade Runner
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
and the best movie ever -
Office Space
-
Serenity
Madagascar
That's about it.
-
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Stay
- Dead Birds
-
(In no particular order)
- Skammen
- I Heart Huckabees
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Amélie
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- AI: Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Strangelove
- K-PAX
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Seventh Seal
Oooh, look at me, I'm a big artfag and I like brainy independent films. Oooh!
I drink lattes and wear a berret. Lost in Translation is the best film ever!
No, I'm kidding. I kid because I love; or rather because I'm a joyless being of cynicism and hate.
Now then:
Willow
Princess Bride
Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Some Others I Can't Remember, possibly 13th Warrior and Snatch/Lock Stock.
-
:lol:
(I had that same thought go through my head when I read it too)
Also, on a sidenote, Lost in Translation was arguably one of the worst movies ever.
-
You got everything right except the beret. I wear a fadora.
EDIT: Also, I haven't seen Lost in Translation.
-
Good. Don't.
-
You'll have to forgive me if I don't trust your critical opinions.
EDIT: Oh ****, I have seen Lost in Translation. I totally had a blank thing going on. It was kind of weak. Nice, but nothing to write home about.
EDIT AGAIN: No I HAVEN'T. I was thinking of The Terminal.
-
No, I don't think I can.
-
You can't just take any stranger's word for it. A syndicated stranger, however, is a different (http://www.exile.ru/2004-April-05/kino_korner.html) matter.
-
Hmmm... I really like:
The Princess Bride
Old skool Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Serenity
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
X-Men 1 & 2
The Matrix
Quigley Down Under
-
See, I usually don't trust people who refer to art as "pretentious", because "pretentious" is all too often a term employed by embitterred anti-intellectuals, and actually means "went over my head because I don't like art that doesn't fit my child-like parameters". That review told me nothing except that the writer is most likely one of those infantile people who don't like books or movies where "nothing happens", or who think that anyone who likes to talk about ideas is just seeking to validate a superiority complex.
-
EDIT: Also, I haven't seen Lost in Translation.
I have. I liked it.
No one else in my family did though.
-
I have. I liked it.
No one else in my family did though.
Personally, I thought it was birds. I remember a time when Bill Murray movies were funny.
-
See, though, it wasn't a comedy. It was a movie about nothing.
-
See, though, it wasn't a comedy. It was a movie about nothing.
If I want to see a movie about nothing, i'll go see a Paul Anderson movie.
-
My favorite movie is Highlander, with honourable mentions going to The Princess Bride, Clue!, Dark City, and Zoolander. Oh and stop picking on Lost in Translation it's a great movie. Then again my favorite movie is Highlander so don't listen to me :).
-
Films I've enjoyed over the years
Fight Club
Seven
The Usual Suspects
The Manchurian Candidate ('62 and New)
Andrei Tarkofsky's Solaris
Office Space
The Life Aquatic
Indiana Jones : The Last Crusade
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (wha? no Temple of Doom? bleh)
Serenity
Event Horizon
Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan
Star Trek Generations
The Matrix (Sequels sucked except for the freeway chase scene. BUF rocks the house.)
Favorite Animation
Final Fantasy Advent Children
Ghost in the shell
The Animatrix
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Robot Chicken. This one's special. For me, the parodies of M. Night Shyamalan's films were way worth the purchase price for this ($17 at tar-zhay) because I absolutely hate Shyamalan's films. "Let me change into my good suit!" "But your suit is at the cleaners!" "What a twist!!"
-
(no particular order)
-The Rock (actually, this would be my single favorite)
-Red Dawn
-Serenity
-Independence Day
-Full Metal Jacket
-Dr. Strangelove
-
-Red Dawn
I really hope you enjoy that movie for its unintentional comedy value.
-
Hmmm.. in no particular order...
Lord of the Rings
Mr Holland's Opus
Highlander (The original only)
George of the Jungle (still makes me laugh)
Pulp Fiction
There are probably more that I've forgotten atm :)
-
Almost all of the above (I haven't seen lost in translation).
#1 Serenity! It's a masterclass in "How to write a film" which is important as I'm planning to major in Scriptwriting next year.
#2 The Star War Trillogy DVD additions for ANH and ESB, SE version for RotJ 'cos of the Anakin replacement thing.
Equal 3rd:
DIE HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kill Bill 1&2
The Indianna Jones Trillogy.
Highlander
Batman Begins
I used to like the Matrix, now the dequels colour my enjoyment somewhat.
War of the Worlds.
TPM & RotS but not the crapfest that is AotC.
Men In Black.
Does the BSG miniseries count as it was shown over here as a single film? Same goes for the Sam Niel Merlin film which was fun if flawed.
King Kong.
The full Lotr.
B5 Thirdspace & In the Begining (tv movies but movies none the less)
Ninja Scrolls, Vampire Hunter D ect.
Blade Runner.
Toy Story 1 & 2.
The Incredibles.
Ewoks: Caravan of courage
Walace and Gromit the curse of the wear Rabbit.
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
Independance Day
Stargate
Batman Returns
The Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before christmas
Big Fish
Willy Wonka's Chocoalate factory.
Charly and the Chocoalate factory.
Transformer the Movie
Airplane.
Blazing Saddles.
The Godfather Trillogy.
The last unicorn
Never Ending Story
Willow
Spiderman
Mallrats
Dogma
Watership down
the great escape
Dam busters
633 Squadron
the battle of britian
The Last Starfighter
Star Trek II
Star Trek First Contact
The Dark Crystal
Laberynth
Akira
A Bridge to far
Jurasic Park
ET
Close Encounters
The Lord of the Rings Trillogy
Mortal Kombat
Predator
Predator II
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Full Metal jacket
Mash
Pitch Black
A shed load of namby pamby art films no one's ever heard of/would want to hear of...
And so on and so forth.
-
Top-5 In No Particular Order:
- City of God
- Lost In Translation
- Spirited Away
- Boondock Saints
- Bubba Ho-Tep
-
1. Shaun of the Dead
2. The Matrix
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. Equilibrium
5. The Butterfly Effect
-
Knew I forgot something! Shaun of the Dead!
-
-Red Dawn
I really hope you enjoy that movie for its unintentional comedy value.
Not really. I suppose it means less to a Londoner than it does for a red state, military-enlisted American. I've always liked it because, no matter how unlikely the situation, it still shows Americans killing commies and doing a good job at it.
-
You should watch Rambo 3....
-
1. Gladiator
2. Phantom of the Opera
3. School of Rock
(Okay, so I'm a music type/sap)
Hmm, can't think of any more worth putting that haven't already been mentioned.
-
1 fight club
2 resivoiur dogs
3 the road warrior/mad max 2
4 dune (the 1980s version or the scifi miniseries, each have their good and bad points and no i dont plan on reading the book)
-
In no particular order,
Battle Royale
Lord of War
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
-
Blade Runner
2001
Aliens
Terminator II
-
The Lynch version of Dune is ****ing horrific.
It makes absolutely no sense and has that stupid voice-over bull****.
-
The Thing
-
The Lynch version of Dune is ****ing horrific.
It makes absolutely no sense and has that stupid voice-over bull****.
It was actually a pretty good stand-alone movie if you ignored the books entirely. They were nothing to do with Frank Herberts Dune story really, just sort of set in the same location with the same people...
-
You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?
-
You can't just take any stranger's word for it. A syndicated stranger, however, is a different (http://www.exile.ru/2004-April-05/kino_korner.html) matter.
no, you still can't take his word for it. you cannot judge any movie until YOU YOURSELF see it.
-
one of those infantile people who don't like books or movies where "nothing happens"
I guess I'm infantile, then. forgive me for thinking that plot is important to a movie.
-
You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?
Yeah, it was a rather iffy attempt at squeezing several books into one movie, and, from the Book point of view, it didn't work out too well, but I was lucky to have seen the movie first and read the books after, I think had I done it the other way around, I wouldn't have been impressed.
The one thing I did like about that movie was the acting, Leto Atreides was brilliantly done, and Paul's sister (at least in her youth) from the series was obviously modelled on the incredibly creepy version of Paul's sister from Lynch's Dune.
Though, admittedly, Sting was a mistake, a big one, I suspect the movie would actually have done better without a grinning emaciated ginger haired skeleton playing the most vicious and heartless member of a warrior family.
Edit : Oh, and finally, the movie contained some of the best Music Toto ever produced, odd to think that the band who's song 'Africa' was used to represent Live Aid were the same group who did the music for Dune...
-
Never mind that. Patrick Stewert charging into battle with the warcry of "For Duke Leto!" while carrying the familly dog is one of those beautiful moments of film that stick in my mind forever :D
Of course Dune has alot to answer for. Thank you Dune film, for the look of GW's Warhammer 40k ... and thank you Dune books for half the backstory come to think of it.
-
Heh, well, fantasy battles was more than slightly based on an amalgum of Lord of the Rings and Raymond Feists' works. Though, in retrospect, Oblivion is pretty much the Warhammer 40K story with a Warhammer Fantasy battles environment.
-
I guess I'm infantile, then. forgive me for thinking that plot is important to a movie.
Don't get me started. Please don't. I'm an avid James Joyce fan, and if there is one lesson everyone should carry away from life, it's that you should never try to tell a James Joyce fan that plot is important for anything.
-
mine are,
- Wallace and Gromit curse of the Wererabbit
- Pirates of the Carribean
- back to the future 1 and 3 (can't stand 2!)
- Ghostbusters
- Dark crystal
- Dr Who and the Daleks
- the mummy and mummy Returns
- Tremors 1 & 2
- Blues brothers
- Shaun of the Dead
- Gundam wing Endless Waltz
- Appleseed
- Blood last Vampire
- Transformers
- Airplane 1 & 2
- the original Dune( got it free with the newspaper)
- Spaceballs
- Morons from outa space
- Saving Grace
- A brigde to far
- see no evil hear no evil
- Clue (film based on the game Cluedo)
and thounsands of other films.
-
Office Space, mainly for Milton's antics.
-
Memento.
-
I always laugh when i look at this picture
(http://home.comcast.net/~dfosket/snakes_800x600.jpg)
-
The Last Starfighter
Hero
Withnail and I
Original Starwars trilogy
Indiana Jones trilogy
Blazing Saddles
The Three Amigos
SouthPark the Movie
-
You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?
Yeah, it was a rather iffy attempt at squeezing several books into one movie, and, from the Book point of view, it didn't work out too well, but I was lucky to have seen the movie first and read the books after, I think had I done it the other way around, I wouldn't have been impressed.
The one thing I did like about that movie was the acting, Leto Atreides was brilliantly done, and Paul's sister (at least in her youth) from the series was obviously modelled on the incredibly creepy version of Paul's sister from Lynch's Dune.
Though, admittedly, Sting was a mistake, a big one, I suspect the movie would actually have done better without a grinning emaciated ginger haired skeleton playing the most vicious and heartless member of a warrior family.
Edit : Oh, and finally, the movie contained some of the best Music Toto ever produced, odd to think that the band who's song 'Africa' was used to represent Live Aid were the same group who did the music for Dune...
i have to agree with most of that. the music was so awesome its hard to believe a band called toto did it. paul's sister is one of my favorite characters. also the acting was awesome and it was nice to see sting get his ass kicked at the end. i think the lynch movie, while being a good movie, did a far better job at explaining some aspects of the dune universe. it had the side effect of the dialog being bloated with information about the universe to the point that it would sound unrealistic, yet still they managed to pull it off without comprimising the performance of the actors. it is a good intro to the universe and i watch it as such. from there i turn to the miniseries cause it was by far more accurate and because it had a longer running time, they were able to have the characters seem more natural. so i think they complement one another. children of dune is on tonight and while what i saw of it the first time i watched it sucked, maybe this time i can avoid falling asleep in the middle of it.
-
I've also read the books and think the movie was awesome. Again I read the books after but anyone who expects as much from a movie as you can fit into a book is pretty much expecting far too much.
It still remains one of my favourite films.
-
i finally read the book. satarted it this weekend and finished it this morning. it was ok but it only reminded me why i hate reading. still il read the other books as well, though il probibly read at a more leasurly pace.