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alixtii1) Spinning leeks!
2) Word. I told you guys about the time I found (what I assumed was) porn in my backpack and I gave it to a Catholic brother, right?
3) Movies I've seen are bolded; movies I've never even heard of are italicized.
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey: Monkeys dancing to Also Sprach Zarathustra; what's not to love?
7 North by Northwest Um, yeah. Hitchcock was, for the most part, a more honest Shakespeare; a populist hack who wrote for the masses, but without the pretension. And yeah, I can respect that, even if I found it somewhat . . . formulaic?
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko: The character moments were extremely well-done, in particular between the father and his son and the boy and his girlfriend. (Young love is one of my no-fail kinks.) But the science fiction elements not only didn't make sense, but more importantly they didn't play fair with the viewer. Now they almost earned it by acknowledging it--with mentions of "deus ex machina" and the like, but it wasn't sustained enough to be able to work as metafiction.
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation: I respect it, I suppose, but I never really saw why I should care in the least about the people. At least a cheesy romcom ending would have affected me emotionally rather than leaving me completely cold.
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyzn the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera Isn't this the Queen album upon which "Bohemian Rhapsody" is recorded?
24 Erin Brockovich This is a good movie, and Julia Roberts as always is love. But it's not that good.
25 Trainspotting This was quite good. I particularly liked the Lolita subplot. Also, apparentlyUrsula Blake Moaning Myrtle Shirley Henderson was in this.
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2: There's a lot to like here, admittedly. But I don't know how much there is to love, exactly.
33 Three Colours: Blue (This has a soundtrack by the same guy who did the soundtrack to the 1993 The Secret Garden, right? Or am I thinking of some other movie?)
34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands
Hmm, so conclusion is that I don't see many movies, am which I knew before and have heard of so few of the "greatest" movies of all time that I probably qualify as culturally illiterate. (I can quote Shakespeare or Eliot, but not Tarantino.) The ones on this list I have seen, for the most part, I liked but didn't love. *shrug*
4) Riddle!
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear,
On which we are bitterly pressed;
The truth is to say, we are full all the day,
And empty when we go to rest.
Solution: A pair of shoes.
2) Word. I told you guys about the time I found (what I assumed was) porn in my backpack and I gave it to a Catholic brother, right?
3) Movies I've seen are bolded; movies I've never even heard of are italicized.
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey: Monkeys dancing to Also Sprach Zarathustra; what's not to love?
7 North by Northwest Um, yeah. Hitchcock was, for the most part, a more honest Shakespeare; a populist hack who wrote for the masses, but without the pretension. And yeah, I can respect that, even if I found it somewhat . . . formulaic?
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko: The character moments were extremely well-done, in particular between the father and his son and the boy and his girlfriend. (Young love is one of my no-fail kinks.) But the science fiction elements not only didn't make sense, but more importantly they didn't play fair with the viewer. Now they almost earned it by acknowledging it--with mentions of "deus ex machina" and the like, but it wasn't sustained enough to be able to work as metafiction.
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation: I respect it, I suppose, but I never really saw why I should care in the least about the people. At least a cheesy romcom ending would have affected me emotionally rather than leaving me completely cold.
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyzn the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera Isn't this the Queen album upon which "Bohemian Rhapsody" is recorded?
24 Erin Brockovich This is a good movie, and Julia Roberts as always is love. But it's not that good.
25 Trainspotting This was quite good. I particularly liked the Lolita subplot. Also, apparently
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2: There's a lot to like here, admittedly. But I don't know how much there is to love, exactly.
33 Three Colours: Blue (This has a soundtrack by the same guy who did the soundtrack to the 1993 The Secret Garden, right? Or am I thinking of some other movie?)
34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands
Hmm, so conclusion is that I don't see many movies, am which I knew before and have heard of so few of the "greatest" movies of all time that I probably qualify as culturally illiterate. (I can quote Shakespeare or Eliot, but not Tarantino.) The ones on this list I have seen, for the most part, I liked but didn't love. *shrug*
4) Riddle!
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear,
On which we are bitterly pressed;
The truth is to say, we are full all the day,
And empty when we go to rest.
Solution: A pair of shoes.