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I have decided to watch 100 movies in 100 days. Why? Well, I need an excuse to get on the exercise bike. These need not be movies I've never seen, but they should be movies I either want to see, or really really liked. I know what you're thinking: Hey, TL, we don't know what movies you've seen. On that point, here's a list of every movie I've ever seen:
Just kidding...
Here's my list of movies so far, categorized by have seen, and haven't seen:
Haven't Seen: Apocalypto, Atonement, Sunshine
Have Seen: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Stranger Than Fiction
Help me fill out the list! 94 more to go.
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I'm pretty open-minded about movies. I have no genre restrictions. I like intelligent writing everywhere it appears; I'm bothered by internal logical inconsistencies in movies. I like movies where the characters seem to have thoughts and feelings. I like longing. I like knowing, through little hints and deft touches, that the people in the movie had lives before the movie began. I like montages (exception: montages set to power ballads). But I also like fun; which I think I define as a sense of playfulness. This can either be dumb-fun (Hot Rod?) or intellectual fun (Being John Malkovich?)
All of these things can lead to surprises. I hate some movies I should like (for example Transformers); and I like some movies I should hate (for example the seemingly trash-bin Wild Things) (which is intellectually playful, in which the characters have thoughts and feelings, in which there are hints of inner lives and pasts which are richer than what we see).
So.... If that makes any sense at all, suggest away.
I'll add Harold and Maude. Not sure about Fight Club. I've seen it so many times, I might be all Clubbed out.
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Spys Like Us The Great Outdoors Close Encounters of the 3rd kind Princess Bride Goonies Star Trek: First Contact The Abyss Batman: Dark Knight Ironman Waiting... Just Friends Serenity Firefly (The Series) Spaceballs Young Frankenstien
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Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm going to wait for a while before replying further and hopefully more suggestions will come in from which to carve my list.
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Stardust Good Will Hunting Dead Poet Society History Boys Saving Private Ryan Finding Neverland Star Wars + LOTR Life of David Gale Memento Dan in Real Life Green Mile Ushpizin My Big Fat Greek Wedding Air Force One Usual Suspects
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Dear Frankie Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind Death at a Funeral Tristan and Isolde The Lives of Others
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Chumscrubber Thumbsucker A scanner darkly Brazil A Clockwork Orange Cube (horribly done science fiction movie, i liked the premise) Manchurian Candidate Pi The Blues Brothers(not weird, just great)
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Natural Born Killers The Philadelphia Story Citizen Kane Touch of Evil Benny and Joon Y Tu Mama Tambien Pan's Labyrinth Singin' in the Rain Pretty in Pink Resevoir Dogs Duck Soup Horse Feathers Kill Bill 1 and 2 Labyrinth The Dark Crystal Seven Samurai Sense and Sensibility Much Ado About Nothing Ghostbusters Spartacus That Thing You Do
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Clue 1776 Boondock Saints Blood Diamond The Departed Keeping the Faith Eurotrip Undercover Blues The Emperor's New Groove
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Pan's Labyrinth Labyrinth 1776 Shaolin Soccer Singin' In The Rain Serenity Princess Bride Iron Man Dan in Real Life
Other suggestions:
28 Days Later Howl's Moving Castle Princess Mononoke Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Crash Dogma The Incredibles Iron Giant Repo! The Genetic Opera Planet of the Apes (original) Remember the Titans Frailty The American President
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Ditto on some that have already been mentioned: Clue The Emperor's New Groove That Thing You Do Finding Neverland Dan in Real Life The Usual Suspects Moulin Rouge Singing in the Rain
My own additions: Ocean's Eleven Enchanted Ratatouille Pirates of the Caribbean (only the first one) What's Up Doc? It Happened One Night
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Sunset Boulevard Ladyhawke Run, Lola, Run Wings of Desire Batman (1989) Before Sunrise Blazing Saddles High Fidelity Chasing Amy Heat Waking Life
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-Stardust (it's so good it bears repeating) -The Lost Room (mini-series and absolutely positively brilliant. We saw it twice and will willingly watch it again.) -Taxi 1, 2, 3 (I think there's a third) - the French versions & originals. Much better than the Queen Latifah one. -Ong-bak (Thai movie with Tony Jaa with wonderful action sequences) -Tom yum goong (another Thai movie with Tony Jaa and wonderful action sequences, including a high speed trishaw chase)
If you want Tamil or Bollywood movies, I can suggest a bunch there, too. Not too sure how you feel about foreign movies/watching subtitles. And yet, I've already suggested some that require subtitles... Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Other suggestions: North By Northwest Death on the Nile Amelie Spirited Away Princess Mononoke Paprika Millenium Actress Enchanted 3:10 to Yuma (new) Solaris (old Russian) Nightwatch Daywatch Forbidden Kingdom Batteries Not Included Clash of the Titans Dark Crystal
Sorry if there are any repeats in there.
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Here's a really weird one that I bet no one else will suggest: Lord Love a Duck. It's a 1966 satire about the teen culture of the time, but there's also a lot more going on. It's very bizarre, and at times disturbing, but I really like it.
And I'm pretty sure he's building up to a third book. There are a bunch of 'Great Movie' reviews on his website that aren't in the books yet.
Last week was 'Annie Hall' and 'Amarcord', and I've got 'Bridge Over the River Kwai' for tonight (and yes, I'm going through the lists mostly alphabetically. It's the most random way I can think of, in terms of dates and directors).
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Mrs. Henderson Presents Dial M for Murder Rear Window The Big Lebowski Burn After Reading American History X Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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Big Trouble in Little China The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension Fletch Sneakers Henry Fool Simple Men Robocop The Iron Giant The Incredibles Adventures in Babysitting The Last Days of Disco Sabrina Breakfast at Tiffany's Two Mules for Sister Sara Say Anything... Grosse Pointe Blank High Fidelity About a Boy Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Dead Man Down by Law The Hudsucker Proxy Cool Hand Luke Time Bandits The Big Lebowski Sullivan's Travels Harvey Donnie Darko The Wedding Singer Wonder Boys Ninotchka To Be or Not to Be Trouble in Paradise Midnight Run Into the Night The Ruling Class
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Michael Collins Braveheart Lone Star An American in Paris West Side Story Couching Tiger Hidden Dragon The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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I would suggest: Garden State Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind City of God Requiem for a Dream Braveheart Terminator Terminator 2 Aliens Jurassic Park Forrest Gump Dead Poets Society Good Will Hunting Rounders Gattaca Natural Born Killers The Ring Goodfellas The Departed Casino The Matrix Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon House of Flying Daggers Hero American History X Higher Learning Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Shawshank Redemption The Professional Saving Private Ryan Donnie Darko Children of Men Twelve Monkeys Rosemary's Baby
You've probably already seen quite a few of these, of course.
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Mel, if you recommend it, it goes on the list.
Mel, I like you more and more. I'm sorry we didn't become friends when we were at the other place. I was wrapped up in my own universe, then. It was a very insular universe. Your comments (though they were several months ago) of encouragement about quitting my job.... Well, I appreciated them greatly. And I did it, by the way. How's your writing coming along?
Mel, it takes me a long time to get back to the point where I feel sharp, after I've stopped for a while. The mind requires practice. I'm just now beginning to feel again as though I'm in command of my fiction. It's taken this long to get the words to behave the way I wanted them to.
/unrelated comments to mel
Now where the heck to find a copy of Lord Love a Duck.....
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Lord Love a Duck is easy; Amazon has it. Alternatively, if you get Turner Classic Movies, I believe that's where my dad saw it sometime in the last year. So it could be on again at some point.
So did you end up moving to Oregon? I'm really glad to hear that you're working on your writing.
quote:Mel, it takes me a long time to get back to the point where I feel sharp, after I've stopped for a while. The mind requires practice. I'm just now beginning to feel again as though I'm in command of my fiction. It's taken this long to get the words to behave the way I wanted them to.
That is so very true. I do write most days, but not fiction. I keep a journal of what we do on our farm, and I find that if I write in it at least every other day, then I constantly find new things to write about, but if I don't post for a while I hit writer's block, even if there are plenty of big things that I could use for inspiration.
OK, Troy, you've motivated me. It's time to stop procrastinating and saying that I'll get back to writing fiction someday. I'll never get there if I don't start, so now is the time.
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The Breakfast club Taxi Driver Spirited Away (I know someone already said this but it's REALLY good) Martian Child
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