Apolytoner's Favorite Films

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Amadeus

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.

Ahh, finally someone names my No. 1!

2) Casablanca
3) Low Down Dirty Shame
4) Hero -- Dustin Hoffman
5) Almost anything w/Clint Eastwood: "Fistful of Dollars" "Line of Fire" "Good, Bad & the Ugly" "The Unforgiven" "Josie Wales"
6) A buncha old flicks: "King of Hearts" "They Might Be Giants" "Bringing Up Baby" "Arsenic and Old Lace"
7) A buncha romantic comedies: "One Fine Day," "French Kiss." "American President."
8) A few comic-derivatives: "Spiderman II" "X-Men"
9) True Lies
10) Almost any sword & sorcery flick, esp. "Scorpion King"

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

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.

Abram's portrayal of a tormented, jealous rival methodically destroying the object of his jealousy was perfect. He made the movie.

[Kidlicious]

Boy some of you have some really bad taste.

Here's some of my favorites not in order.

Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption
The Grifters
Titanic
Pirates of the Carribean
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Cheech and Chong Nice Dreams
Pink Floyd The Wall
Star Wars


That enough.

Oh crap wait. There's also movies like

Forest Gump
Rainman

And **** like that that I like.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Boy some of you have some really bad taste.

Titanic
Forest Gump

Talk about pwning yourself in your own post. Sheesh.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Boy some of you have some really bad taste.

Here's some of my favorites not in order.

Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
Shawshank Redemption
The Grifters
Titanic
Pirates of the Carribean
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Cheech and Chong Nice Dreams
Pink Floyd The Wall
Star Wars


That enough.

Oh crap wait. There's also movies like

Forest Gump
Rainman

And **** like that that I like.

That isn't Cheech and Chong's best movie
And Fight Club? stupid
Titanic? overrated

[C0ckney]

@ kid

only two black and white films in the whole lot

1. kiss me deadly
2. kind hearts and coronets
3. open your eyes (can't remember the spanish)
4. human traffic
5. the lady killers
6. the italian job
7. vertigo
8. blow
9. fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, the good the bad and ugly (the whole trilogy is great )
10. from russia with love

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

Mozart was infantile.

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

That's part of his genius.

One can make a film about boredom or suicide without making the film itself boring or causing the audience to want to kill themselves.

Mozart may have been scatologically inclined (as on occasions were Oliver Cromwell, Erasmus and Martin Luther and James Joyce, the Marquis de Sade et al.,) but it doesn't mean I have to sit through a film that is itself ca ca doody.

As I said, I'd rather have heard Mozart's or Salieri's (no matter how tedious you feel his music to be) work than have sat through the film.

With regards to F. Murray Abraham's performance, I thought he perhaps had mistaken the film for an episode of 'The Perils of Pauline'- pity there weren't any railway tracks around.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by 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.

Let me help you here. All were great, but Manhattan was the best.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Lawrence of Arabia - ah.

When I was a kid I wondered why every movie wasn't as good as this one. I didn't know about talent and budgets yet.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Kurosawa - yes - Seven Samurai, I suppose.

Tough call, but that's the one that I always enjoy the most.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
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.

I agree that Dr. Strangelove was a much better film for Kubrick. Of course that's an easy comparison as Apocalypse Now was done by Francis Ford Coppola.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Dr. Zhivago.

A little dated perhaps, but a great film with a great score. Even as a kid I desperately wanted to have my way with Lara.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
The Seventh Seal, for Bergman, I think. Yes. Better than stuff about Swedish domestic life. Chess, anyone?

I prefer Wild Strawberries & The Virgin Spring personally.

Oh, and Diss, sorry but Fight Club rules.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander




I prefer Wild Strawberries & The Virgin Spring personally.

Although I like those very much, 'Fanny and Alexander' is my favourite of his. It just seems to radiate humanity and warmth- not terms normally associated with Ingmar 'Cheery Chappy' Bergman.

[monolith94]

I just recently revised my list to 100, and choose to present it in rough chronological order - by decade, really. I'm sure you intelligent folks will have no trouble figuring out the decades.


The Thief Of Bagdad
The Gold Rush
Un Chien Andalou
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Battleship Potemkin
By The Law
Metropolis

Scarface: Shame of a Nation
I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang
Freaks
Duck Soup
A Night At the Opera
Grand Illusion
Bringing Up Baby
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
It Happened One Night

Rebecca
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
This Gun For Hire
Cat People
Double Indemnity
Lifeboat
Spellbound
Children of Paradise
It's A Wonderful Life
La Belle Et La Bete
The Bicyle Thief
The Third Man
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Gun Crazy

Sunset Boulevard
Singin' In The Rain
Umberto D
Roman Holiday
Rear Window
Seven Samurai
Paths of Glory
Vertigo
Touch of Evil
Sleeping Beauty
The 400 Blows

The Apartment
Shoot the Piano Player
Jules And Jim
High And Low
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
A Hard Day's Night
The Collector
A Shot In The Dark
Dr. Zhivago
Wait Until Dark
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Rosemary's Baby
Yellow Submarine
2001: A Space Odyssey

Catch-22
The Godfather
Play It Again, Sam
Sleeper
Chinatown
Young Frankenstein
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Love and Death
Annie Hall
All That Jazz

Empire Strikes Back
TRON
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Blade Runner
Brazil
After Hours
Jean De Florette
Blue Velvet
Labyrinth
Raising Arizona
The Thin Blue Line
Akira
Roger & Me
Kiki's Delivery Service
Heathers
The Killer

Delicatessen
Barton Fink
The Fisher King
Batman Returns
True Romance
Léon
The Hudsucker Proxy
12 Monkeys
Before Sunrise
Leaving Las Vegas
Life Is Beautiful
Perfect Blue

Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon
Amelie
Rin-Taro's Metropolis
Adaptation
Millennium Actress
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Consider them all recommendations.

My top ten itself:

1. Brazil (1985)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
4. Delicatessen (1991)
5. Gun Crazy (1949)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8. Jules and Jim (1962)
9. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
10. By the Law (1926)

[Modo44]

1. Zmruz oczy (Squint Your Eyes)
2. Samotari (Loners)
2. Ghost In The Shell
2. Metropolis (the anime)
2. Blade Runner
2. The Crow
2. Daria (the MTV series)
2. Chasing Amy
2. The City of Lost Children
2. Alaska.de

For starters.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Dissident

Titanic? overrated

I almost cry everytime, and I already know what happens. It makes me feel like a little girl. Not that I like that or anything, but it's a good movie.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Kidicious


I almost cry everytime, and I already know what happens. It makes me feel like a little girl.

as well it might.

[Dis]

I don't understand what is so good about Fight club. Maybe I need to watch it again. It seems like I'm the only person who doesn't like this film.

[C0ckney]

i think it's a reasonably good film, but not nearly as 'clever' as people seem to think.