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Old 01-16-2011, 09:21 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Helena Bonham Carter:
Fight Club > Conversations With Other Women > Planet of the Apes > The King's Speech > Hamlet > Women Talking Dirty > Sweeny Todd > Alice in Wonderland > Big Fish
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:29 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Kubrick:

A Clockwork Orange > Dr.Strangelove > The Shinning > Full Metal Jacket > 2001 >> Spartacus >>>> The Killing >>>>>> Barry Lyndon(couldn't get through it... boring boring movie)

Scorsese:

Taxi Driver > Raging Bull > Goodfellas > The Departed > After Hours(massively underrated) > Mean Streets >>>> The Last Temptation of Christ

David Lynch:

Blue Velvet > Eraserhead > Lost Highway > Elephant Man >>>>>>> Mullholand Drive

Park Chan-Wook:

Oldboy > Sympathy for Lady Vengeance > Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance > Thirst >>>> I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok

Tarantino:

Reservoir Dogs > Inglorious Basterds > Pulp Fiction > True Romance(it should count) > Kill Bill > Jackie Brown > Death Proof

Spielberg:

Indiana Jones Trilogy > Jurassic Park > Schindlers List > Close Encounters of the third kind > AI > ET > Jaws > 1941 > Saving Private Ryan(ridiculously overrated) >>> Gremlins 2 >>>>> Back to the future Part 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Anything else
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Terence Hill, as recently confirmed during an interview to an Italian TV talk-show, was offered the role but rejected it because he considered it "too violent". Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta declined the role for the same reason. When Al Pacino was considered for the role of John Rambo, he turned it down when his request that Rambo be more of a madman was rejected.
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:34 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Mulholland Drive is easily Lynch's best work.
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Kubrick:

A Clockwork Orange > Dr.Strangelove > The Shinning > Full Metal Jacket > 2001 >> Spartacus >>>> The Killing >>>>>> Barry Lyndon(couldn't get through it... boring boring movie)

Scorsese:

Taxi Driver > Raging Bull > Goodfellas > The Departed > After Hours(massively underrated) > Mean Streets >>>> The Last Temptation of Christ

David Lynch:

Blue Velvet > Eraserhead > Lost Highway > Elephant Man >>>>>>> Mullholand Drive

Park Chan-Wook:

Oldboy > Sympathy for Lady Vengeance > Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance > Thirst >>>> I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok

Tarantino:

Reservoir Dogs > Inglorious Basterds > Pulp Fiction > True Romance(it should count) > Kill Bill > Jackie Brown > Death Proof

Spielberg:

Indiana Jones Trilogy > Jurassic Park > Schindlers List > Close Encounters of the third kind > AI > ET > Jaws > 1941 > Saving Private Ryan(ridiculously overrated) >>> Gremlins 2 >>>>> Back to the future Part 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Anything else
I would've readied my hand to slap you after reading your Kubrick list, but then I would've lowered it to shake your hand after your Tarantino list.

Oh and how can Goodfellas not be #1? Mind blown.

You have interesting tastes, I'll give you that.
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:35 PM   #25 (permalink)
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For me, it's really good in a really bad way. Others might feel differently, honestly, but at least he was young when he did that stupid movie. Rating it lower than 50 First Dates? Yuck! Talk about boring...
I haven't seen 50 First Dates (Missed out on a lot of adam sandler movies actually) but I wouldn't even call the waterboy so bad it's good. I was just filled with regret and thoughts of dying for a while after.
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Old 01-16-2011, 11:30 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Mulholland Drive is easily Lynch's best work.
I strongly disagree. Essentially, it's not even a film. It's a pilot to a TV show that never occurred that has some random 10 minute narrative skewing at the end to attempt to make sense of the rest of the film. Then a million lesbian sex scenes thrown in to attempt to garner an extra bit of media attention.

A lot of Lynch films obviously are known for their rather bizarre incohesive narrative(Eraserhead, Lost Highway) however, for some reason Mulholland Drive doesn't seem to do this intentionally, or for a purpose. There was five or six subplots in the first half hour of the film that entirely disappear in the rest of the film, and go nowhere.

After I was done watching it I felt kind of like... "Why are there 17 characters, and situations introduced in the first half of the film that just go nowhere" then reading it was a rejected Television pilot, it begins to make sense.

Blue Velvet remains champion because albeit it was weird, and the narrative was unique, and unpredictable. Yet, it felt that every piece served a general purpose, and everything was tied up nicely.

Even Lost Highway which was equally confusing(and for some reason universally hated by critics for such) at least kept strict to it's themes of the relations of sexual confusion, and violence. Mulholland drive was just all over the place, and lacked too much closure in too many spots. Maybe it's doing the same thing, but it feels far less intentional.
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Just like the this album > that album thread...except with movies. You can use actors or directors

Marty Scorsese
Goodfellas > Shutter Island > Gangs of New York > The Departed >>>> Taxi Driver >> Cape Fear

Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Mononoke > Spirited Away > My Neighbor Totoro >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kiki's Delivery Service > Ponyo >>>>> Howl's Moving Castle >>> Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Hayoa Miyazaki... My Neighbor Totoro is much worse than Howl's Moving Castle (which is a great movie). I personally think Spirited Away is his best film, even though my favorite is tied between Porco Rosso and Laputa.

As for David Lynch... I personally like Eraserhead and Elephant Man the most. Eraserhead is the funniest, strangest, and creepiest movie I have ever seen. I'm still amazed at all the special effects he managed to make with the limited budget he had.
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I strongly disagree. Essentially, it's not even a film. It's a pilot to a TV show that never occurred that has some random 10 minute narrative skewing at the end to attempt to make sense of the rest of the film. Then a million lesbian sex scenes thrown in to attempt to garner an extra bit of media attention.

A lot of Lynch films obviously are known for their rather bizarre incohesive narrative(Eraserhead, Lost Highway) however, for some reason Mulholland Drive doesn't seem to do this intentionally, or for a purpose. There was five or six subplots in the first half hour of the film that entirely disappear in the rest of the film, and go nowhere.

After I was done watching it I felt kind of like... "Why are there 17 characters, and situations introduced in the first half of the film that just go nowhere" then reading it was a rejected Television pilot, it begins to make sense.

Blue Velvet remains champion because albeit it was weird, and the narrative was unique, and unpredictable. Yet, it felt that every piece served a general purpose, and everything was tied up nicely.

Even Lost Highway which was equally confusing(and for some reason universally hated by critics for such) at least kept strict to it's themes of the relations of sexual confusion, and violence. Mulholland drive was just all over the place, and lacked too much closure in too many spots. Maybe it's doing the same thing, but it feels far less intentional.
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Pink Flamingos > Polyester > Pecker > Female Trouble > Serial Mom > Cecil B. DeMented > Hairspray > A Dirty Shame > Cry-Baby

to be honest Mr Waters has yet to do me wrong....even his recent book was an absolute pleasure to read...i did notice that i've seem to have missed a couple of his early films....and those are some of the best....word is he is planning on doing a homosexual re-telling of the Wizard of Oz set on the filthy streets of America's favorite city.....Baltimore

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Color Me Blood Red > The Gore Gore Girls > Two Thousand Maniacs! > The Wizard Of Gore > Something Weird > Blood Feast > She-Devils On Wheels > Blast Off > The Gruesome Twosome

being honest....HG Lewis never made a "good" movie per say.....but what he did do was amazingly great....Color Me Blood Red will always go down...in my book as an ignored classic piece of American cinema history

David Cronenberg

Videodrome > Naked Lunch > eXistenZ > The Brood > Dead Ringers > A History Of Violence > Spider > The Fly > Scanners > Crash > Eastern Promises > Rabid > The Dead Zone

i know that Videodrome is not the best example o9f the amazing eye that Cronenberg possesses....but it is still my favorite and one that i re watch over and over again.....LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!!!!

Todd Solondz

Palindromes > Happiness > Welcome To The Dollhouse > Story Telling

i love his amazing ability to make you laugh at the worst possible moments....therre are parts of Palindromes that i,laughed at and almost immediately had a moral breakdown

Tobe Hooper

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre > Poltergeist > Invaders From Mars > Lifeforce > The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Toolbox Murders (seriously why?)

i mainly just wanted to bitch about him re-making the classic exploitation film "The Toolbox Murders" and really doing a horrible job at it....i still wonder if it was his revenge for hollywood destroying his classic film

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