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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: Films that should be included in IMDB's Top 250 |
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I know I shouldn't worry over such trivial matters, but it really irks me that the following films are not currently amongst the Internet Movie Database's (www.imdb.com) Top 250 films:
Dazed and Confused
Halloween
Boogie Nights
The Big Red One
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:44 am Post subject: |
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Off the top of my head...
Taxi Driver
Dog Day Afternoon
Diner
National Lampoon's Animal House
Airplane!
MASH
The Aristocrats
Rocky
Nikita
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
Fargo
Leaving Las Vegas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Battle of Algiers
Apocalypse Now
Wings of Desire
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mad Max Trilogy
Malcolm X
American History X
Billy Madison
Chungking Express(重慶森林)
Night on Earth
Mystery Train
Lost in Translation
Chinese Box
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (복수는 나의 것)
A Pure Formality
Frantic
A Petal (꽃잎)
Over The Edge
301, 302
Trois Coleurs Trilogie
Bus, l'abri (버스, 정류장)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Address Unknown (수취인 불명 )
Papillon
I Wish I Had A Wife Too (나도 아내가 있었으면 좋겠다)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The Harmonium In My Memory (내 마음의 풍금 )
The Killing Fields
Bungee Jumping Of Their Own (번지점프를 하다)
Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊)
The Duellists
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Year of Living Dangerously
Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
Dead Poet's Society
The Hours
Blade Runner
Rabbit Proof Fence
Moulin Rouge
Groundhog Day
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Oasis
Irma Vep
Gandhi
Heat
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (कुछ कुछ होता है)
Lies(거짓말)
Attack the Gas Station(주유소 습격사건)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
The Thin Red Line
Peppermint Candy(박하사탕)
Gallipoli
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I'll put some more thought into it later. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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But, Flash, many of the films you mentioned are in the Top 250.
PS - I want to poop back and forth.
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
But, Flash, many of the films you mentioned are in the Top 250.
PS - I want to poop back and forth.
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Ah...I missed that.
Dang.
Well, a nickname unearned...is worth two in the bush. |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
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I was delighted to see John Carpenter's version of The Thing on the list. I may have missed them, but I saw neither Rocky, nor Paper Moon. Those are two films that I would like to see on such a list of quality films.
Note: If I have indeed missed their presence, then please do correct my error. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:40 am Post subject: |
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Million dollar baby??? Toy story 2???? Give me a break.
A Bronx Tale
Fletch
Clerks
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
E.T.
the Jerk
Get Shorty
Alistar Sims Scrooge
Duel
Rain Man
Swingers
The Wedding Singer
Roots (TV)
This is Spinal Tap
JFK
The Shining (needs to be said twice)
Apologise for the one's that I double posted from the top 250. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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One from the horny days of youth:
Hot Dog!
unbelievable hot tub scene. what a set of knockers. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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I checked and Rocky (the origonal) is not on the list which is suprising.
I also think these should be on there:
Lucas
I Am Sam
What Women Want |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
One from the horny days of youth:
Hot Dog!
unbelievable hot tub scene. what a set of knockers. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| American History X is a lousy propaganda film. It's the best recruiting tool for white supremacist groups. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| American History X is a lousy propaganda film. It's the best recruiting tool for white supremacist groups. |
But that's not why I enjoy it. And I feel that was not the intent behind it.
What are you, a skinhead or something? Lighten up. |
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
Off the top of my head...
Papillon
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I'll put some more thought into it later. |
I can't believe you put that in there... The book is simply fantastic; the movie was massacred. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| American History X is a lousy propaganda film. It's the best recruiting tool for white supremacist groups. |
But that's not why I enjoy it. And I feel that was not the intent behind it.
What are you, a skinhead or something? Lighten up. |
Without getting into it again, yes I am. Thanks to that movie people have some pretty backwards ideas about what that means. It would've been more effective to make a movie about skinheads without racism. |
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wormholes101
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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I recently discovered a friend of mine does not, and has not, watched a film that has subtitles ....EVER!!!! If you want to miss out on some fantastic movies, by all means....
Here's a few low key, foreign film gems
Life is a Construction Site
(GER) Wolfgang Becker
http://www.german-cinema.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=166
Princess Monoke
(JAP) Hiyaho Miyazaki
Ghosts of the Civil Dead
(AUS) John Hillcoat
Nick Cave, perhaps not suprisingly, does good psycho.
Friend of the Deceased
(RUS) Leonid Bojko
Suicide by hitman, it's an old idea, but done really well in post communist, no food and money, Russia.
Angst
(AUS) John Nettheim
Not that great really but resembles portions of my house sharing past enough to be nostalgic.
Lost Highway
(USA) David Lynch
Awesome Lynch psychological cinema. All of his work post Eraserhead (minus Dune) should be in there, and Lost Highway leading the pack.
Stalker
(RUS) Andrei Tarkovsky
If someone can film in abandoned rail yard, wastelands and convince you this is a metaphysical twilight zone then he's got to be doing something right. Art, philosophy and the sublime as film, Tarkovsky is THE world's greatest director.
Brother of Sleep
(GER) Joseph Vilsmaier
A 18th Century loony touched by god to make pipe organs and transcendant music.
Paris Texas
(GER) Wim Wenders
Walkabout
(AUS) Nicholas Roeg
Silent Night(GER) Franz Xaver Bogner
This was a made for German TV movie about how the 'Silent Night' christmas carol got written..Sounds boring and cheesy, right? Well yeah a little, but there's a lot more charm and German countryside sights and sounds than you'll get from "sound of music".
Ice Storm
(USA) Ang Lee
Fantastic film with 1970s suburban angst. The photography tells the story so well. Ang followed this with "Ride Like The Devil" a great American civil war epic, before bombing with Hulk.
Luck People Centre International
(SWE) Johan Soderberg
A rave and social enlightenment on film. Nothing else like it around.
To Die For
(USA) Gus Van Sant
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
(USA) John Hughes
State of Shock
(AUS) David Bradbury
Australian documentary, by one of our best. Aboriginal life in Australia, one of the best depictions around. Not a date movie.
Patrullero, El
(MEX) Alex Cox
Everyone raves about "Repo Man". A pile of alien punk crap compared to this all in Spanish movie about a poor Mexican patrolman dragged from his life of noble poverty into drugs, corruption and wife number 2. |
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