Films to see
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featherynscaleAs it turns out, I live in a cultural void when it comes to movies. I had the experience of not being allowed to watch live-action film throughout most of my pre-majority years, and I've never really caught up. There is a ridiculous number of films that by all rights, I ought to have seen, which I actually haven't, and for whatever reason, if I should chance to go into a video rental establishment, I immediately forget what they all are.
To remedy this, I'd like to start a to-watch list of films I'd like to remember to rent, borrow, or see on the big screen when they come out. I know I'm not going to make 50 new movies this year like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chainwoman, but I'm going to try for 20. I've seen six already, those being 28 Days Later, Hellboy, Casablanca, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boondock Saints and Chicago. It probably says something about my taste in film that I enjoyed the first five just about equally (which was a lot), and didn't care much at all for the last.
Anyway, here's the list. If you could be so kind as to recommend a film to add to the list, I'd be grateful. (I tend to like the sort of films with monsters, superheroes, pirates and explosions better than the sort of films with none of those elements, but I'm pretty flexible on that.)
In Theatres:
- Van Helsing
- Troy
- I, Robot
- Shrek 2
- Alien v. Predator
- Neverland
- Spiderman 2
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
On the Box (can you believe I haven't seen these already?)
- The Usual Suspects
- Reservoir Dogs
- Silence of the Lambs
- Waking Life
- Requiem for a Dream
- Adaptation
- Lost in Translation
- Donnie Darko
- The Professional
- Cutthroat Island
- Heat
- Unbreakable
- Big Trouble in Little China (I've seen half of it, but could stand to see the whole thing)
- American History X
- Memento (another entry from the "rented but didn't watch" list)
More will be added here as they occur to me.
To remedy this, I'd like to start a to-watch list of films I'd like to remember to rent, borrow, or see on the big screen when they come out. I know I'm not going to make 50 new movies this year like
chainwoman, but I'm going to try for 20. I've seen six already, those being 28 Days Later, Hellboy, Casablanca, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boondock Saints and Chicago. It probably says something about my taste in film that I enjoyed the first five just about equally (which was a lot), and didn't care much at all for the last. Anyway, here's the list. If you could be so kind as to recommend a film to add to the list, I'd be grateful. (I tend to like the sort of films with monsters, superheroes, pirates and explosions better than the sort of films with none of those elements, but I'm pretty flexible on that.)
In Theatres:
- I, Robot
- Shrek 2
- Alien v. Predator
- Neverland
- Spiderman 2
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
On the Box (can you believe I haven't seen these already?)
- The Usual Suspects
- Reservoir Dogs
- Silence of the Lambs
- Waking Life
- Requiem for a Dream
- Adaptation
- Lost in Translation
- Donnie Darko
- The Professional
- Cutthroat Island
- Heat
- Unbreakable
- Big Trouble in Little China (I've seen half of it, but could stand to see the whole thing)
- American History X
- Memento (another entry from the "rented but didn't watch" list)
More will be added here as they occur to me.
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Date: 2004-05-12 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 06:23 pm (UTC)and see kill bill vol 2 at the theater.
van helsing although it wasn't a horrible movie it wasn't awesome either. i am sort of luke warm about it.
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Date: 2004-05-12 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 06:30 pm (UTC)I can't remember the name of it... It generated a huge buzz when it came out two or three years ago, it was about fairies. These little girls claimed to have seen them and a scientist/photographer came to their town to investigate and ended up getting caught up in it... Was it "a fairy story?" It might have been. Whatever the title, see it, it was beautiful.
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Date: 2004-05-12 07:23 pm (UTC)I saw the other one you're talking about - I think it was 'A Fairy Story', but it seems like it was out a lot longer ago than that... I seem to remember seeing it in my first or second year of college (I know this because I was dating a guy at the time who worked at a movie theater, which was the only reason I went to the theater I remember seeing it in), so that would have been like... 1996 or 1997. Yeesh.
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Date: 2004-05-12 07:24 pm (UTC)Re: Edit
Date: 2004-05-12 10:37 pm (UTC)Another good movie is Big Trouble in Little China. That's good stuff. I just gave it a review a month or so ago and it really holds up.
My aunt also just got me into Firefly, which is on DVD now but only ran 14 or so episodes vefore Fox canceled it. It was a Joss Whedon space western show, and it isn't half bad. You can see that if they had let it run it's course it could have gotten really good.
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Date: 2004-05-13 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 08:01 am (UTC)As far as brain candy exploding adventure flicks.... "XXX" was pretty nifty....
Have you seen Lawrence of Arabia?
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Date: 2004-05-13 09:35 am (UTC)Anyway, not sure but I don't think you've seen many of these: Memento, Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, American History X, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Tombstone, Sling Blade, Good Will Hunting, Heat, Unbreakable.
Ones that are on my list but cannot personally vouch for would be things like Snatch, Rain Man, and Goodfellas. And what did you tell me about Donnie Darko?
Don't worry; my 'to see' list is as long as yours, it's just different...
Sorry, aborted thought there
Date: 2004-05-13 09:41 am (UTC)Others I think might be good: The Professional and Se7en.
Re: Sorry, aborted thought there
Date: 2004-05-13 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 11:07 am (UTC)I've seen about half of the others on your list, but you've got some good ones on there I haven't seen... Time to update the big list. :)
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Date: 2004-05-13 09:27 am (UTC)Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-13 11:11 am (UTC)Re: Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-13 11:39 am (UTC)Oh... no, sorry, I only collect boring crap. Oh well.
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But seriously - yeah, I have more than 100 gigabytes of film on my computer (most movies are either 700 MB or 1.4 GB). Do you run Microsoft Messenger? That's the only IM client I have that I can do direct transfers with.
Email me at 'videogeek@greek2me.com' and we can figure something out.
Re: Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-13 11:43 am (UTC)Re: Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-19 06:08 pm (UTC)So you know, my AIM ID is: snorkelzzz
Re: Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-19 08:22 pm (UTC)I'd love to get Lost in Translation from you - I think I have Brazil already.
Re: Thanks!
Date: 2004-05-19 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 09:57 am (UTC)We'll just have to institute movie nights so that we can all work through our backlog.
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Date: 2004-05-13 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 12:22 pm (UTC)so, Troy?
Date: 2004-05-13 12:26 pm (UTC)Re: so, Troy?
Date: 2004-05-13 12:31 pm (UTC)There could still be a flaunt, but someone other than me needs to organize it.
Re: so, Troy?
Date: 2004-05-13 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-17 10:16 pm (UTC)"Yellowbeard" with half the cast of Monty Python, Madeline Kahn, Cheech and Chong, and Marty Feldman (who died during the filming; try to spot the point in the movie where...[grin]), and;
"Down Periscope" with Kelsey Grammer and Lauren Holly.