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DividedQuantum
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#24026589 - 01/20/17 07:21 PM (7 years, 27 days ago) |
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I'm not a film critic, so I don't know what the best movies are. But here are my favorites, listed roughly in my order of rank:
Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey Apocalypse Now Citizen Kane The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Godfather The Bridge on the River Kwai The Shining Taxi Driver Eraserhead Chinatown The Silence of the Lambs One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest No Country for Old Men The Exorcist
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^Very, very solid list.
The Fountain Wayne's World (unlike the others, but probably my favorite film of all time for memory's sake) Enter the Void Her
... other than that, I'm not really sure. I literally haven't watched film in the last couple of years, so it's hard for me to remember.
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Some favorites from stuff I've watched recently:
The Curse of the Cat People The Thin Red Line This Sporting Life Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Love Actually
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Nice. What a synchronicity -- I have been planning to watch The Thin Red Line tomorrow. I bought the dvd back in '98 or whenever it came out, and I got it out after all this time because I intend to do a little Terrence Malick run (including Knight of Cups and the Tree of Life). Haven't seen it since the nineties, but I remember it being amazing -- way better than Saving Private Ryan, which if memory serves came out around the same time. Malick is a very fine director.
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Indeed, I've only seen his first three, but both Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line are really great. SPR came out the same year as TRL and won a bunch of oscars while TRL got nothing. I haven't seen SPR, but based on Spielberg's other stuff, there's no way it deserved to win over TRL.
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Yeah SPR was extremely well produced, but the story was neat and conventional, and it was quite trite when there were close ups of the flag. It's worth a watch for its realistic battle sequences, but it's not as sweeping and surreal and interesting as TRL, as I recall.
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I recently saw Knight of Cups and To The Wonder. I was pretty into Terrence Malick and didn't know he made any more after Tree of Life. I liked the cinemetography and poetic stream of conscious style of those last two, for sure. It is like the light is always glancing through his shots. Malick is Awesome.
Also, it's kind of cool he translated Heidegger's "The Essence of Truth".
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Where Heidegger talks about “world” he will often appear to be talking about a pervasive interpretation or point of view which we bring to the things of the world. This, in any case, has been the view of many commentators. But there is little sense in speaking of “a point of view” here since precisely what Heidegger wants to indicate with the concept is that none other is possible. And there is no more sense in speaking of an interpretation when, instead of an interpretation, the “world” is meant to be that which can keep us from seeing, or force us to see, that what we have is one.
As for a favorites they must come and hold that place for a bit. Those recent Malick one's weren't exactly my favorite movies, because they weren't really stories exactly. I saw Hayao Miyisaki's The Wind Rises (2013) recently, and I know some people might have liked to see another Spirited Away and have one more trip, but I am glad and appreciate his message and, that he didn't leave everyone hanging. So it is a favorite, but man, kind of a sad note though...
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Re: Favorite Movies [Re: Kurt]
#24053546 - 01/31/17 04:31 AM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Forgot to post the source for the quote. It was his intro to the Heidegger essay, apparently. I have tried to find the full essay itself online before but never had any luck.
http://aphelis.net/terrence-malick-introduction-essence-reason-heidegger/
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DividedQuantum said: way better than Saving Private Ryan
I wouldn't say way better, both films view WWII in a different way, with Private Ryan being more raw and unforgiving, and TRL being more about the ruminations the soldiers had while exposed to such a hellacious environment. There's a reason WWII vets say SPR is THE WWII film.
Also, if you like WWII stuff, check out Band Of Brothers/The Pacific, both are great.
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Re: Favorite Movies [Re: Lucis]
#24053879 - 01/31/17 09:19 AM (7 years, 17 days ago) |
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Oh, don't get me wrong, it's a good and quite possibly great movie. Maybe I exaggerated when I said "way better," but as an artistic piece exploring the ambiguities and surrealism of war, I think TRL is superior. No, SPR is one of the best produced movies I've ever seen, and it's intensely realistic, amazingly so. I think the D-Day storming of Omaha beach is what the veterans appreciate so much -- one of the best war sequences probably ever. But the story is rather conventional and predictable, and I gotta say, those close-ups of the American flag at the end are a real turn-off for me.
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DividedQuantum said: But the story is rather conventional and predictable, and I gotta say, those close-ups of the American flag at the end are a real turn-off for me.
This is really what matters. We're talking about a fictional movie, not a documentary. Unless the war scenes are so unrealistic as to distract, varying levels of realism in that regard are really secondary.
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I agree.
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Now that I have seen both TRL (today) and SPR (about four months ago) recently, I can say for sure that TRL is quite a bit better, imho. The Thin Red Line is all about the essence of reality, the eternal touching the temporary, good to be found among horror, the psychological intensity of battle, and promise in death. Very nuanced, subtle, beautiful and yet true to the narrative of the war, which was ambiguous for everyone involved. Also the directing is phenomenal; it's simply a great movie. Spielberg definitely does not have the same touch or the artistic skill that Malick does here, and other than the D-Day sequence which was extraordinary, I feel that the war effects in TRL measure up just fine to the bulk of those in SPR.
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Re: Favorite Movies [Re: opksunrom] 3
#24070073 - 02/06/17 02:58 PM (7 years, 11 days ago) |
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I am a huge movie fan. My list of favorites is pretty extensive so I will just name a handful, in no particular order:
True Romance Jackie Brown Bound (1996) House of Flying Daggers Running Scared (2006) Akira Haute Tension Mulholland Drive The Fifth Element Maverick (1994) Battle Royale
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Nice list.
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Nice list.
Heres most of mine:
Avatar  Back to the Future (series)  Star Wars (series) Star Trek (the new ones) Apocolopyse Now Legends of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'hole Momento Promethus The Matrix (series)  Half Baked Beerfest Super Troopers Starship Troopers Gamer Doom 7 Psychopaths Matchstick Men Cowboys vs. Aliens Jurasic Park The Lost World Jurasic World Speed Racer Transformers (series) The Hobbit (series) Lord of the Rings (series) The Avengers Enders Game The Fifth Element Iron Man (series)  Thor (series) Independence Day Oblivion Men In Black (series) Wall-E  The House at the End of the World Guardians of the Galaxy Dr. Strange Behind Enemy Lines Saving Private Ryan Windtalkers  007: Goldeneye 007: The World is Not Enough 007: Tomorrow's Another Day Man of the House Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Fast and the Furious (series) Tron Tron: Legacy Land of the Lost Blow Ice Age (series) Bad Boys Bad Boys II The Girl Next Door White Chicks The Time Machine Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby Go! Joe Dirt Theres Something About Mary Charlie's Angels Scary Movie (series) Airplane! Galaxy Quest Lost in Space! sci fi adventure with the talking robot: "Danger Mr. Robertson!" Oz Your Highness  Divergent Insurgent The Hunger Games Kung Fu Panda Ghost in the Shell (2017) weird ending thou. Still awesome. King Kong: Skull Island (2017) so artistic and a lil cheesy. But just a little. Life of Pi - just watched it Summer 2017. Wow, the surrealism, the intense feelz. So good. Planet of the Apes (the newer one) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (so good. Had a little of everything). Edge of Tomorrow - Whoa. This Is The End
And others i cant remember at the moment...
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Just to name a few...
2001: A Space Odyssey The Shining Drive The Big Lebowski Inception The Royal Tennenbaums The Godfather 1 & 2 The Terminator 1 & 2 Predator Wayne's World Hoosiers Die Hard Big Trouble In Little China The Departed Shawshank Redemption Fight Club Goodfellas Slumdog Millionaire Pulp Fiction
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The Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile American Beauty True Romance Love and a 45 Avatar KPax Half Baked The Matrix Star Wars The Fifth Element Down to Earth The Professional Taxi Driver Practical Magic How to Train Your Dragon Forest Gump Beetlejuice The Crow Ender's Game The Abyss The Neverending Story Up in Smoke Edward Scissorhands And so many more..
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I would add to my list:
The Conversation The Lady from Shanghai The Thin Red Line The Searchers
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