"My" Movies
Submitted by vera on Wed, 04/20/2005 - 06:50
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- Lonesome Dove: THE Western Masterpiece
- The Godfather: Haven't seen, but people *say* it's a classic, scary to me
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: I cried, mostly happy, overwhelmed by it all
- Shichinin no samurai: My first Kurosawa! I like
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Um, I have a hard time watching this
- Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le: I love the magic and color, but are the orgasms necessary?
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Usual Suspects: I only ever saw the broadcast cable version, so it's probably not the 'real' cut
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I saw recently, it's incredible, and moving. The sub-plot hurts
- The Apartment: Haven't seen, but like the casting
- Finding Nemo: My favorite animated feature so far
- Homem Que Copiava, O: I'd like to see, seems a bit madcap
- The Incredibles: Saw on an in-flight, late at night, in extreme discomfort. Liked anyway.
- The Sting: Clever, I'm amazed every time
- The Wizard of Oz: Comfort Cinema for me
- Dare mo shiranai
- Judgment at Nuremberg: Recommended by a WWII interested co-worker
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Western, right? Will see when ill
- Charade: The leads are masterful, and I love cutie-pie because of it. (can't think of her name)
- Duck Soup
- Lola rennt: Tense, and thoughtful. I like Franka Potente as Lola, and the soundtrack's pretty good.
- Monk: This is cop-drama at it's best. Not funniest, not harshest, but altogether - the ensemble, and odd cases are riveting.
- The Sixth Sense: I think, in channel surfing, I saw the end of this, sad, but not in the super-depressing, life is hopeless way.
- Bin-jip
- Brazil: Woah, this mind-trip is suggested in place of drugs, and has some strong social commentary.
- The LadykillersOld version, haven't seen
- Adaptation.: Recommended by my cousin who doesn't watch many movies, but reads
- Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le: Sounds artsy, I'll have to watch it sometime
- Gong fu
- The Magnificent SevenAh, Yul! You're my man among men. Oh, and Steve McQueen too, but the whole thing's great, I like Elmer Bernstein's music too
- X2What's better than one troubled superhero? A whole passle of them!
- Blazing Saddles: It's not as funny as they say, but I like nonetheless
- Choristes, Les
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- When Harry Met Sally...Haven't seen, but it's one of those lovey-dovey flicks
- American Graffiti
- Dirty Pretty ThingsHaven't seen, afraid of being grossed out, yet wanting to be disturbed
- The Game: One of those "dramatic twist" movies, it keeps everybody in the dark until the end, saw at grandmother's house
- Nueve reinasNine queens - a philatelic crime!
- Short CutsHaven't seen
- Werckmeister harmóniák
- Gormenghast
- Auntie Mame
- Best in Show: Dorky humor, I absolutely love Guest's troupe
- El Dorado
- Life as a House: Saw wMargaret, it takes you places, and drops you elsewhere
- Open RangeMore western, "Must see" or not
- The Shootistsee above
- Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les
- Fille sur le pont, La
- Grosse Pointe Blank: Comedy about a killer. It's messed up, I disagree with it, and it's cold hearted. I like the Cusacks, and Minnie in it though.
- Matchstick Men: Con-men are great, and Nick Cage is the best, haven't seen but read the spoiler
- The Piano: Haven't seen
- Tombstone: Lame western, but I like anyway
- Comme une image: Not yet released in US
- Gosford Park: A mystery I want to see
- A Mighty Wind
- Strictly Ballroom: Baz Luhrmann's only fave of mine. I do really heart this one.
- X-MenThe exposition to a long chain of sequels. Fun, but you know what's coming
- The Cincinnati Kid: Clueless about this, possibly a western, could see?
- Four Weddings and a Funeral: I've heard all over that Andie MacDowell is hell for a movie, and I'm not keen on that one englishman, but we'll see
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- The Italian Job: The original is the only "Job" worth taking. Forget the remake with Marky Mark & Crew
- The Lion in Winter: Glenn & Patrick, together and flaming, should be good,
- Mansfield Park
- My First Mister: Intro to Lelee (sp?), nothing unexpected, but still good
- The Salton Sea: Late night weirded-out film, it appealed to me in a very dark, dangerous way
- Stander: Haven't seen
- 2046: Not yet released in the US
- Bigger Than the Sky
- The English Patient: Haven't seen, seems very sad, hard to get into, at first, then hard to get out of
- Face/Off
- The Fifth Element
- Funny Face
- Runaway Jury: I own the DVD, in my very small (under 10) DVD collection, so yeah, it's worth watching
- True Grit
- Unbreakable
- Veuve de Saint-Pierre, La
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- I Capture the Castle
- Silverado
- Six Degrees of Separation
- The Snapper
- True Lies
- Cat Ballou
- The Dark Crystal
- Deadline at Dawn
- The Great Race
- Hussard sur le toit, Le
- A League of Their Own
- Mumford
- Unleashed
- Who's Minding the Mint?
- Confidence: I love a good con, this is scary, and tricksy
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Thomas Crown Affair: Dashing spy-like, man above the law
- Willow
- Bandits
- Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages
- Hellboy
- Maverick
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Barbershop
- Hidalgo: It's a fake. That, to me was hugely disappointing, would like to see anyway, well, sort of.
- Hostage:
- That Touch of Mink: Yay! Doris Day! I haven't seen, but she works in an auto-mat, and talks about abstaining until marriage. Woo-hoo!
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Armadillo: Saw on A&E, a brit film, and I liked it better than the book, it depicted loneliness with compassion
- Cherish
- Made:
- Rat Race
- Shade
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs
- The Cheyenne Social Club
- The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid
- The Ladykillers
- Tom Horn: What's this? I'm sure it's on my list because of who's in it
- Because of Mama: An aching short, with a young cellist, would love to show it to mother
- Hello, Dolly!
- The Phantom Tollbooth: Fun,
- Riders of the Purple Sage
- Under the Piano
- What a Way to Go!
- Wicker Park: Looks scary, but I like the ensemble, will have to see.
- Born Romantic
- The Cotton Club
- Dancing at Lughnasa: It's a sisters type pic, dunno, saw VHS @ sally's, didn't buy, but looks warm & fuzzy, after human drama, of course
- Far and Away: It's 'the' Cruise & Kidman film, when we know about them what we do now, and see their 'innocence'
- A Foreign Affair: I missed about a 30-min gap (the last 1/3, saw last 4 minutes) but liked its quiet, unassuming drama
- The Four Feathers: As they say, visually stunning. I like war heroism. Saw, twice.
- Lucky Break: Fun jail-break
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
- Ordinary Decent Criminal: I'm a crime girl, but haven't seen this
- Where the Money Is: Tricky, devious Linda Fiorentino, I'm lovin it! Saw in some late nite stupor
- Décalage horaireI don't know french
- The Impostors
- Legend
- The Other Sister
- Set It Off
- Addicted to Love: Fun, Broderick and Ryan should be together more.
- Cimarron
- Connie and Carla: Cheesy cross-dressing, singing
- Murder at 1600: Haven't seen, I like old noir/suspense
- The Cassandra Crossing: Seventies drama, good acting
- Duets: I liked the soundtrack, and Paul Giamatti, I'll have to see with sisters
- Reign of Fire: Dragons are cool, this story's typical post-apocalypse lame.
- Four Dogs Playing Poker: Looks disturbing, I'll have to save for a heavy night
- Un divan à New York: Silly french and their love stories - I probably won't, but it's got La Binoche!
- Wild BillA western, who knows if it's good, since not many people
- Death Becomes Her: Funny Hawn, typical dorky premise, my coworkers like it, no wonder
- Wisegirls
- The Way She Moves: Dance! (Have not seen)
- Bean
- Blind Date: The way they were...It's kooky and
- The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Victorian era superheroes, intelligent dialogue is nowhere in sight, but there's lots else to look at
- Against the Ropes: Haven't seen, but I like seeing Meg un-sweethearted
- Mixed Company: Dunno why I like this, it was a SHOwtime picture, and now I've got the VHS. Campy family feel-good.
- Tank Girl: Looks strange, and possibly just plain wrong, but I'd like to judge for myself
- Hanging Up: I don't know about this
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde: Dumb, perky, fun
- Howard the Duck: Huh?
- Absolutely Fabulous: Decadence! I find this hilarious because it's so far separate from my reality, and naughty
- Father Ted
- The Little Rascals
- Mary Tyler Moore
- The Prisoner
- Queen of Swords: All I know is - girl zorro-type. Fun, anyway, even if merit-less, but I don't know
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
- Aeon Flux: Female bad-guy change of heart, hmmm
- Bewitched
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Read the trilogy! This is a theatre pic for me
- The Island: Not sure about this...too formula, but has possibilities
- Just Like Heaven
- A Lot Like Love: Goofy, but secretly a cliche, I fear. Will have to check
- Lucky You
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Tateshi Danpei
- Thé à la menthe, Le
- The Weather Man: Nick Cage is my man, and I like
- X-Men 3
- Next Stop, Wonderland
I agree that the sub plot to Eternal sunshine damaged the movie slightly. i'm guessing you mean the whole kirsten dunst - older man thing?
Yeh, I think I understand the director's motive - to underpin the damage that such mind alteration can cause, and to bring the plot around to Joel and Clementine posessing their initial taped interviews, but it could've been done in a more artful, less hurtful way. (Just my perspective)
i agree here also. though i do like the idea of the tape scenes, you are right, the way they spoke about eachopther was way to agressive. Almost as if they never liked eachother in the first place, it contradicted what the director had earlier set us up to beleive (that they were deeply in love)