011 ... My Favorite Movies
Submitted by Infomaniac on Wed, 02/13/2002 - 05:34
Tags:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Amadeus
- Fight Club
- Pulp Fiction
- Snatch
- Monty Python's Holy Grail
- Aliens (the second one with Bill Paxton)
- Three Kings
- Happy Gillmore
- A Clockwork Orange
- The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Grosse Point Blank
- Momento
- Airplane
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- 12 Monkeys
- Real Genius
- Leaving Las Vegas
- The Harvest (1993) Miguel Ferrer 'donates' a kidney
- Vegas Vacation
Author Comments:
NOTE: This is a list of MY favorites, not movies that I think are the 'greatest.'
What's the difference? A movie that is imperfect might have a special meaning to you. I was in Kenya and Somalia with the Air Force during the period of "Black Hawk Down," so it hits home with me. Was it the greatest movie ever made? No. But it is special to me. The same with Three Kings. Happy Gillmore? I'm a recreational ice hockey player, and I pretend to play golf. Besides, it's hilarious. A masterpiece in the comedy genre? Nah, but pretty damn funny.
To see what I think should be used as guidposts for other moives, see my "Masterpiece" list.
Sean, I can see where alot of these would be on anyones list. I'm finding it hard to swallow that Happy Gilmore, Fight club, Aliens (especially since the first one was so much better), Grosse Pointe Blank and Vegas Vacation are on here. Hey, its your list though bro. Whatever floats your boat. Incidently, your number 1 movie was directed by Milos Forman who happened to direct my number 1 movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Happ Gillmore? Certainly a throw away movie, but these are my favorites, not movies I think are the best or masterpieces. I should start a list like that. Number one, I play hockey and I PRETEND to play flog (golf, backwards), so I can really get into the show. Besides, where else are you going to see Bob Barker call someone a Bitch and punch their lights out? Or Carl Wuthers' horrible prosthetic hand run over by a car? ROFLMAO!!!
Fight Club? You either get it, or you don't. I don't argue Fight Club with my local or work friends because they can't appreciate something different. You guys do appreciate a lot that is different, so the discussion is worthy. I'll throw up an article on why I think it is great.
To me, Fight Club is 6th Sense with violence (and sex, yeah!)...string you along, divert you with the left (the fighting or the kid's disorder) to crush you with the right (the Tyler/Jack dichotomy or the lack of pulse in Willis' wrist). People were turned off by the violence in Fight Club (as jen points out, it's odd because Americans LOVE violence in movies). It's too bad.
I'll take Aliens (Game over, man, Game over. What the fuck are we gonna do now.) Over Alien. Hey, I think Alien is GREAT. I think it looks dated when viewed with Aliens, and I liked the story line and the situation (galactic Marines) in the second. I will concede that Alien made Aliens possible...it really set the fear factor to high when you first see the aliens in the secone movie. I think it's a toss, and it's based on preference.
Grosse Point Blank. Hmm. I love the fact he's a hit man, and that he and the people he runs into deal with that fact so superficially. How funny. The romantic concept of going back to meet your high school girlfriend...the sparks...that's cool. The sound track rocks. I has Jeremy Piven, a fav of mine. I like Cusak (neutral on Driver).
Vegas Vacation. I LIVE in Vegas. It is SO vegas. I live about 1 mile from Wayne Newton, and he's great for the town. Chevy Chase IS Clark Griswald (although an even better I.M. Fletcher). I collect Vegas movies.
Cuckoo's Nest is one of my favorites, by the way. I'll probably add that to the list, and up there as well.
Quickie technical note . . . It's important (but not in a life-or-death kind of way) not to forget the closing </spoiler> tag. I've fixed it here.
Jim,
This brings up another 'wish list', the ability for users logged on to edit, or at least delete their posts. I HATE having misspelleengs in my posts, and I'd like to be able to go back and fix them.
Also, I don't know what happened to the rest of my first post that you fixed. If the rest is still there, can you fix it so it all shows, or just delete the entire post and I'll ramble on some more psycho babble BS later.
Thanks, Sean
My only concern with being able to edit posts is that they can be edited for content as well as spelling, perhaps ruining the continuity of a discussion. Perhaps if you were allowed to edit within a certain grace period? This is on the wishlist already, but until then, *preview*, my good man. :-)
Sorry if I damaged your post! I don't think I deleted anything though! What's missing? Is part of the post I "fixed" missing, or are you talking about a different post entirely?
I can't remember the entire post, but you can see that after the closing spoiler tag, there isn't anything, and there must have been SOMETHING to spoil...LOL. The post is just kinda a mess now, if you could remove it, or just remove the spoiler tags so the white space isn't so out there, or something.
Sean
Well, you do spoil Fight Club in there, so I think it makes sense that it's all in those tags. Besides, if I delete that post this entire discussion will have to go too...
No, you're right, content could be edited. The time limit concept is actually quite interesting. I think that would be neat if it's not to hard to come up with a function to do that. If not, I guess you'd need to weigh the advantages of giving the users the ability to clean up their speelleeng and they're grammar airs against the disadvantage that someone might change the content. You are much more familiar with the threads and the discussions that go on, but if someone changed their content, would it really matter THAT much? I don't know, you've been here from the beginning . An option might be to mark each post that was modified with a line below the "Posted at Jan 22, 2002 08:30 am" that says "Modified on Feb 04, 2002" or something so people would at least know if a post was original or not. Just thinkin' here.
Sean
Well, shame on this techno-weenie. I didn't get the concept of "highlight to read"...I guess they'll have to revoke my Mensa membership.
Jim-dude, that is an EXCELLENT technique. How basic. How simple. Great design. Too bad I was such a moron to figure out how it was supposed to be used!
Sean the silly
:-) Thanks! I like that feature. Sadly, it doesn't work in my browser of choice, Opera. The selection just renders as black, so I have to do a quick copy to notepad to read "spoiled" content.
Holy smokes! Nice to see you popping in again after all this time, Infomaniac!