Apolytoner's Favorite Films

[Kontiki]

Do you really need to ask what Apolytoners' favorite movies are before you do a tally?

1. LOTR trilogy
2. Matrix
3. Whatever the third biggest geek-fest movie was. Probably something from the Star Wars collection.
4 - 100. A random mix of personal choices

[Locutus]

Originally posted by MarkG

Simon (2004, Netherlands)

not the one with Al Pacino i hope...

I have absolutely no idea what movie you're talking about. So that should answer your question

It's a Dutch comedy/drama about the unlikely yet deep-seated friendship between hash dealer Simon and gay dentist Camiel. It deals with many issues of Dutch morality that many non-Dutch people often misunderstand: sex, drugs, gay rights, euthenesia, etc. At the same time heartbreaking and hilariously funny.

Together with De Dominee it's by far the best movie Dutch cinema ever produced (though frankly that isn't saying much...)

[Sir Og]

Just some realy good movies that noone has mentioned so far:

Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Reservour Dogs
SW The Return Of the Jedi
Dogma
Team America World Police
Philadelphia

[St Leo]

LotR sucks! Matrix sucks (though I kinda liked the second one^-^)! Star Wars sucks!

[Ned]

Originally posted by JohnT
So, Ned, have you determined Apolyton's favorite movie yet?

Soon as I have some time.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by JohnT
So, Ned, have you determined Apolyton's favorite movie yet?

[JohnT]

Btw, Molly, why do you dislike Amadeus so much?

My biggest complaint is that it is too much like a bio-pic, but it is not nor was it meant to be. Taken literally, as many audience members undoubtably did, it is a unfair, slanderous attack on Salieri.

On the other hand it is a film about Mozart, something that doesn't come around all that often. I take what I can get.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by JohnT
Btw, Molly, why do you dislike Amadeus so much?

It seemed infantile- and I'd rather have heard just the music, either Salieri's or Mozart's .

I prefer my pantomime villains in pantomimes, I suppose.

[JohnT]

Well, it did unfortunately propogate the "infantile Mozart" characterization that has affected that poor mans reputation since the day he died.

Hmmm... Upon consideration, perhaps I don't like this film all that much after all.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Kontiki
Do you really need to ask what Apolytoners' favorite movies are before you do a tally?

1. LOTR trilogy
2. Matrix
3. Whatever the third biggest geek-fest movie was. Probably something from the Star Wars collection.
4 - 100. A random mix of personal choices

Lord of the Rings movies weren't that great. They aren't on my list anywhere. Same with the Matrix.

[lord of the mark]

Just some thoughts , not a list

Ok - its been awhile, but Im inclined to put Godfather part 2 ahead of part 1. Both great though.

I cant really decide between Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters, but Woody dont deserve three slots.

Lawrence of Arabia - ah.

Kurosawa - yes - Seven Samurai, I suppose.

Apocalypse Now - something inside me rebells at the universal praise - it was good, but not THAT good.
edit - Dr. Strangelove better for Kubrick, I think.


Citizen Kane - maybe

A Night to Remember - good, but not THAT good.

Saving Privat Ryan - Maybe. Steve warrants one slot. I think Schindlers List may be underrated. And the kiddie films.

Casablanca - an irrational pick, I know. So sue me.

Glory - no not that good, but it deserves a mention.

A Passage to India. Well something by Merchand Ivory, anyway.

Dr. Zhivago.

My Dinner with Andre (cause life aint all big epics)

Amadeus wasnt THAT good a film - equus was a better play, and better as a play than a film. BTW the Amadeus character was based on Peter Shaeffers own agon, not on the historic Salieri, IMHO.

Chinatown.

Das Boot.

Z

In default of the best French films, which i havent seen, lets go with a sleeper "mon oncle d'amerique"

The Fast Runner, cause no one else is gonna mention an Inuit film.

The Seventh Seal, for Bergman, I think. Yes. Better than stuff about Swedish domestic life. Chess, anyone?

[Dr Strangelove]

In no particular order:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Dr. Strangelove (well of course)
The Pink Panther
The Mouse That Roared
Amadeus
A Beautiful Mind
Out of Africa
The Mission
Dr Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
12 Monkeys
Fifth Element
Empire of the Sun
Finding Neverland

Yeah, I have mixed feelings abou Amadeus when I think about how grossly inaccurate its portrayal of Mozart was, but the story told by Salieri was terrific.

[Berzerker]

LOTR trilogy
Patton
Aliens
Terminator
Pink Panther Strikes Back
Kelly's Heroes
Good Bad & the Ugly
Monty Python & Holy Grail
Dumb & Dumber
Jurassic Park

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by JohnT
Well, it did unfortunately propogate the "infantile Mozart" characterization that has affected that poor mans reputation since the day he died.

Mozart was infantile.

http://internetdump.com/users/coprologist/Mozart.html

That's part of his genius.

I'd rather have heard just the music, either Salieri's or Mozart's

Ugh. Ugh. Oof. Blech.

Salieri was really, really...mediocre. His music is utterly forgettable.

Come on, the play/movie wasn't meant to be historical. It was historical fiction, and explicitley stated as such. And taken on its own merits, I think it's absolutely superb. And I don't think the portrayal of Salieri is cartoonishly villainous, either. He's a pretty sympathetic character.

[JohnT]

So Mozart made scatalogical references. Big deal. So did Martin Luther, who claimed that he once beat back the devil partly by throwing his own **** at the hellbeast. Now thats crazy!

My theory about the Basle is that Mozart heard that she was into anal sex and this was his way of broaching the subject in the mid 18th-century. The fact that she was his first cousin (and was thus taboo) increased the need for a roundabout phrasing. However, there's no mistaking lines like this:

So come for a bit, or else I'll siht. If you do, this high and mighty person will think you very kind, will give you a smack behind, will kiss your hands, my dear, shoot off a gun in the rear, embrace you warmly, mind, and wash your front and your behind, pay you all his debts to the uttermost groat, and shoot off one with a rousing note, perhaps even let something drop from his boat.

If that's not a call for "hey, let's do it anal and then jump in the shower, washing each other off" in 18th-centuryese, then I don't know what is!

Again, Mozart wasn't a kid, he was a dirty coot who wanted to hit it as he wanted to hit it.