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Derwood

06-29-2006 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longbough

Each character in Seven Samurai has a powerful personal story worthy of an entire film - and the film covers just about every aspect of the human condition (except birth) - love, regret, loyalty, youth, growth, wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, passion, folly, discipline, honor, vengance, sacrifice, joy, humor, dispair, hope ....

You can say the same about other films ... but whether or not it's done convincingly is probably a matter of personal taste. Seven Samurai does this more effectively than almost every other film to my memory.

Maybe it's because the themes aren't shoved down your throat or embarassingly overplayed with a symphonic underscore. Seven Samurai just tells the story ... and the themes you infer from watching the stories unfold. That's the best way I can describe it.

Most folks used to the Hollywood-style of directing might get thrown by the slow expositional pace at the beginning. But if you relax and watch uninterrupted from beginning to end (best in a theater) the 3 and a half hours just flies by. If you expect an obvious singular dramatic arc punctuated by emotional cues from the musical score you'll probably be somewhat disoriented.

And the editing is very economic. There is hardly a wasted moment. The pace of events is actually quite rapid and a lot of story is told in a small amount of time .... and since this is a 3 and a half hour film it plays out like a grand epic (which it is).

For me the measure of a great film is one that you can, on subsequent viewings, find new things, understand relationships better or just enjoy from a visceral or emotional level as much as the first time .... Seven Samurai works for me. So does Casablanca and It's a Wonderful Life.

But if you didn't get into the characters, stories or exposition the first time then I probably can't change your mind. Maybe it's a "guy" thing.

I'm a guy, it's not a guy thing.

Maybe all that is in there, but when you can't get past the horrible acting, terrible music, shoddy editing, glacier-eque pace and overwhelming ennui, well....

longbough

06-29-2006 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longbough

But if you didn't get into the characters, stories or exposition the first time then I probably can't change your mind. Maybe it's a "guy" thing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derwood

I'm a guy, it's not a guy thing.

OK then.
Maybe it's not a guy thing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derwood

Maybe all that is in there, but when you can't get past the horrible acting, terrible music, shoddy editing, glacier-eque pace and overwhelming ennui, well....

Just to avoid a quagmire let's just agree to disagree ... on all counts. One can't be objective on matters of personal taste.

hotzot

07-24-2006 08:16 PM

Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Spiderman II

Eweser

07-25-2006 05:39 AM

I don't think I could pick just three......but as of right now:

1. Indiana Jones (1 & 3 mostly)
2. Star Wars (all)
3. Victor/Victoria

Bill O'Rights

07-25-2006 07:00 AM

Hearts of the World, 1918
D.W. Griffiths best work. The film was commisioned to induce the United States into WWI. The U.S. entered the war, however, before the film was completed, so he used actual combat footage. Besides...Lillian Gish was just freakin' adorable.

Casablanca, 1942
Need I explain? Arguably Bogart's best work...unless, of course, you're a Philip Marlowe fan.

Toss up between
The Postman, 1997 and The Patriot, 2000
I'm not a big fan of either Kevin Costner or, Mel Gibson, but both gave excellent performaces in their respective roles.

For Sheer fun;
Cutthroat Island, 1995
The absolute best part being when Gena Davis, presumably beaten and about to be killed by Captain Dog Brown, uncovers a 12 pound cannon aimed directly at him, glares at him, growls; "Bad Dog", lights the fuse and blows him out the back of the ship. Freakin' hilarious. I love it.

jimk	07-28-2006 07:10 AM

raising arizona

blue velvet

godfather I

shesus

07-29-2006 07:00 AM

I don't know if I posted here before and I'm sort of lazy today so I'm not going to check. :p

Picking only 3 movies is hard and might change with my mood, but I'm going to pick:

1) Swimming Pool: I love the actresses in this movie and the premise is interesting. Still debating on what actually occurs in the movie after many viewings.

2) The Good Girl: Jennifer Aniston is one of my favorite actresses and in this movie she's different from any other role I've seen her in. Plus, it has Jake Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly in it. I like the transformation of the characters and the mix of comedy and drama.

3) Dial M for Murder: This is my favorite Alred Hitchcock movie. It has Grace Kelly, who is tied with Audrey Hepburn as my favorite woman of all time. I like that it is a simple movie, well as simple as Hitchcock can get. It's a good movie to curl up to on a lazy afternoon.

nukeu666

08-02-2006 03:35 AM

Sin City
Terminator 2
Sound of Music

flstf

08-02-2006 07:22 AM

The Godfather I
It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca

sapiens

08-04-2006 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by willravel

Superman Returns (2006)

^Best movie of all time bar none^. This movie is absolute entertainment perfection. This movie makes Citizen Caine, Gone with the Wind, and Casablanca look like someone deficating into a trash can in front of kindergartners on Christmas Eve, IMHO.

In your past posts, you seem like a thoughtful, rational individual. That's why I find this post so disturbing. It is reasonable to suggest that Superman Returns is your favorite, but the "Best movie of all time"? It makes Casablanca and Citizen Kane look like "someone defecating into a trashcan..."? These kinds of statements are symptomatic of a serious break from reality. You should seek professional help immediately. </kidding>

My favorite movies are different from movies that I consider the "Best Movies"

Favorites
Le Samourai: If you like The Professional, especially the lone assassin with no life aspect, watch Le Samourai. It's great. I see a lot of other thrillers that seem to take a lot from it.
Groundhog Day: Probably my favorite Bill Murray movie. It's so much fun.
North By Northwest: I had to choose something from Hitchcock. I can't get enough Hitchcock, including the movies he made before he moved to the US.

Konichiwaneko

05-31-2007 05:54 PM

big fish
blood sport
dances with wolves :)

Nikilidstrom

06-01-2007 07:41 AM

Its impossible to have just 3, but I'll pick 3 out of the long list:

Big Trouble In Little China
Real Genius
Day Of The Dead

dirtyrascal7

06-01-2007 08:34 AM

Hmm....

Remember the Titans
North by Northwest
The Shawshank Redemption

MexicanOnABike

06-01-2007 09:51 AM

wow. i can't believe i've never posted in this thread before...
top 3 movies. that's hard to do!
so i'll do a top 3 in all genre.
Terminator 2 Is my ultimate favorite movie.
Office Space is my favorite Comedy.

pulp fiction, fight club, lock stock action comedy.
casino, goodfellas, godfather2 mafia/gangster.
Toystory(1&2), Spirited away, Iron Giant Animated movies.

and even now, i'm not sure this is a final list. It changes too much.

Willravel

06-01-2007 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sapiens

I grew up on the Donner vision of Superman. I was my life from the age of like 2 or 3 until I moved away from my first home. Superman Returns was, in my opinion, a wonderful continuation in that legacy. Singer channeled Donner in a way I couldn't have hoped for. I know it was hokey and there were some awkward parts, but that's a part of what it is.

Challah

06-02-2007 05:11 PM

The Big Lebowski
Fight Club
Death and the Maiden

ItWasMe

06-02-2007 06:56 PM

I'll try to pick 3 of my favorites.

Black Beauty
Pirates of the Carribean
While You Were Sleeping
What Women Want

ok, that was four.

StellaLuna

06-03-2007 03:10 PM

Love Actually
Hot Fuzz
Zoolander ("There's got to be more to life than being really really ridiculously good-looking!")

Telluride

06-24-2007 12:11 PM

Damn...it's hard to narrow it down to three. Especially when my favorites change from time to time, depending on my mood.

Right now it would be (in no particular order):

The Boondock Saints
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Black Hawk Down

Honorable mention: I could have replaced any of those three with The Searchers and not felt bad about it.

m0rpheus

06-24-2007 11:00 PM

Actually I'd be kind of interested to see if anyone's picks had changed since this thread started.

As for mine I would have to say

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
then either Blade Runner or The Princess Bride. They rate #3 and #4. Basically they flip depending if I'm in a jovial mood or depressed.

alicat

06-28-2007 07:54 PM

I have so many movies that I love that I'd have to spend some serious time thinking to narrow it down to my top three. But off the cuff:

Pretty In Pink

The Blaire Witch Project

Fargo

*must resist the urge to rattle off many more movies*

Then there is a completely different category of moviedom that would be "Tom Hanks Movies". My non-three-conforming list would be:

Forest Gump

Castaway (brilliant writing, acting and gorgeously filmed)

Saving Private Ryan

The Terminal (yes, I know almost everyone hated it, but we love it)

Ali

thespian86

07-26-2007 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TehOck

Fight Club
Snatch
American History X

All involving Brad Pitt and/or Edward Norton.

wow, those are possibly my list but I could also include: Boogie Nights, High Fidelity, 25th Hour (another great Norton Film). A film, and make fun of me if you must, I thought was suprisingly great, was The Butterfly effect. Really kept me on the edge of my seat.

Daoust

07-26-2007 05:22 PM

Usual Suspects
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Requiem For A Dream

What's with all you Fight Club fans? I thought that movie was shite.

MexicanOnABike

07-26-2007 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daoust

...What's with all you Fight Club fans? I thought that movie was shite.

If you see it without any kind of hype and no possible spoilers or anything like that, then it's awesome. I saw it on tmn 1 year after it came out so i had no fucking clue what to expect apart from being about a fight club.

The movie itself is really well done and i love edward norton and brad pitt as a pair. 9/10

pan6467

07-26-2007 09:15 PM

Casino
Godfather 1 & 2 (I know they are 2 movies but you can't just count 1 and not the other..... 3 sucked sewer water though.)
What about Bob

The top 2 probably will never change the bottom one will alsway be in flow depending on mood, temperment and just what I am liking at the time.

Impetuous1

07-27-2007 04:53 PM

Godfather I and II
Gladiator
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

IanSturgill

07-27-2007 08:50 PM

1. wrath of khan
2. shawshank redemption
3. natural born killers

radioguy

07-29-2007 06:00 PM

empire records
mystery, alaska
jay and silent bob strike back

kurtisj

08-06-2007 01:05 AM

Fight Club,
Donnie Darko,
The Departed, if i can only pick 3

abaya

08-06-2007 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daoust

What's with all you Fight Club fans? I thought that movie was shite.

... really? Wow. I mean, it's not on my top 3, but that movie definitely got me all hot and bothered. Maybe it was the Pitt/Norton combo, I don't know, but mostly I just thought it was incredibly intense and thought-provoking... a very important movie in its own right (apart from the book). I also think about it every time I go to IKEA. :lol:

As for me, I thought I posted here before, but here goes:

The Syrian Bride
Sideways
Three Seasons

Garden State (dammit, I can't help it)

snowy

08-06-2007 01:48 PM

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Lost in Translation
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Yes, two Scarlett Johannson movies...suppose it's dictated by my mood today. Ask me tomorrow and they might be different, but generally I have a top ten, and if asked to pick less than 10, I pick from that list.

albania

08-06-2007 02:13 PM

Shawshank Redemption - I read and quite liked the short story first, the movie really lived up to my expectations.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - just the music and the theme, I would watch it anytime just for that.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - this is probably on here because I watched it recently.

desal75

08-10-2007 09:06 AM

Goodfellas
The Godfather II
Grandma's Boy

roachboy

08-10-2007 09:49 AM

um....any list i give is just a function of what i can remember right now and my mood. arbitrary, then.

vera chytilova: daisies
andrei tarkovsky: solaris
chris marker: la jetée

i love napoleon dynamite almost as much.

mixedmedia

08-10-2007 10:31 AM

This is an impossible question, but I will submit the first three that pop into my mind:

Cinema Paradiso
The Bicycle Thief
Sullivan's Travels

hagatha

08-12-2007 12:42 PM

Yeah, its a toughie and I took a few days to consider it...

Das Boot --Director's cut, undubbed
Angels and Insects
The Shining and/or Fight Club/and Fanny and Alexander

tecoyah

08-12-2007 01:28 PM

The Thing-second one
Aliens
My Fair Lady- Hey, what can I say.....Shes a perfect woman in so many ways

Not Right Now

08-14-2007 07:14 AM

Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Sanjuro

the next three are in no particular order so I couldn't pick just one:

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
American Psycho
Fear and Loathing

Izathatch

08-14-2007 07:26 AM

Batman Begins- I'm a massive Batman fan and I can't get enough of this movie, The Dark Knight however looks like it'll surpass this one.

Hellraiser- One amazing movie. While HR2 is a better movie overall IMO, it wouldn't exist without the first one so I barely place this one before HR2.

Transformers: The Movie (1986) - I have seen this movie over 200 times, literally. It was my favorite movie as a kid and it still is my favorite movie.

dd3953

08-15-2007 07:35 PM

i haven't even seen most of these movies listed (including fight club) . . . but let's see . . .

love stories: loving annabelle, when night is falling, & 2 girls in love
other: labyrinth, friday, & serial mom

picking 3 was too hard, so i didn't.

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