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asams · Joined: 17 Nov 2008

Please specify whether this is a movie/book list since there are some books that were turned into movies and vice versa.

I'll get my Top 10 list underway later

weebil · Joined: 24 May 2009

so like, books that have become movies? or two separate lists of 10 movies and 10 books?

asams · Joined: 17 Nov 2008

Guess I should clear that up. You can post either a Top 10 Movie List or a Top 10 Book List - just make sure you specify whether it's a movie list or a book list

Just looking for some ideas for timekilling

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP · Joined: 28 May 2009 Location: Electron cloud

Films in no order of preferance and off the top of my head (likely to change daily)

The Last Life in the Universe.
2046
Dolls (Beat Takeshi)
Vagabond (a samurai movie, not the Agnes Varda film)
Easy Rider
Ringu 2
Annie Hall
Talk to Her
Damage
The Lover

To be honest, the list would be different tomorow though as I love so many great films and my collection is somewhat large and I only keep those that I class as 5 gold stars on a 1 - 5 rating with five gold being par exellance...

movybuf · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Location: Mokdong

This is nearly and impossible question to answer, but let me give it a shot. Here are my lists in no particular order.

Movies:
Annie Hall
Brazil
Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
The Fall
Citizen Kane
Fargo
Duck Soup
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Graduate

Books:
On the Road
Still Life With Woodpecker
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1984
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Breakfast of Champions
The Dharma Bums
The Jesus Mysteries
A confederacy of Dunces

It was really hard to pick only 10 for each! My brain hurts now.

Kikomom · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject:

Top Movies:

Cinema Paradiso
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
Casablanca
The African Queen
Some Like It Hot
Schindler's List
Empire of the Sun
The Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride

And for classroom management Wink

Good Bye Mr. Chips
To Sir With Love
Blackboard Jungle
(that's a baker's dozen)

Bloopity Bloop · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Seoul yo

What about TV shows?

Arrested Development
Doctor Who
The Drew Carey Show
Venture Bros.
The Wire
The Tonight Show/Late Show with Conan O'brien
Chappelle's Show
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
Firefly

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

too, too hard... how about..

Top-10 hollywoodish heartfelt drama movies seen on DVD in Korea:

1. Elizabethtown
2. Life as a House
3. The Door in the Floor
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Around the Bend
6. Chasing Liberty
7. Perfect Strangers
8. Stick It
9. Broken Flowers
10. Big Fish

seonsengnimble · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject:

top ten movies in no particular order:

1. Fitzcarraldo
2. Casablanca
3. Hard Times
4. Duck Soup
5. Once Upon a Time in America
6. Straw Dogs
7. Django
8. Ran
9. Spirited Away
10. Treasure of the Sierra Madre

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject:

Top-10 songs I've first heard while in Korea:

"Everybody" by Stabilo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdZPC2pAWw

"Best I Ever Had" by State of Shock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9SjeM5Uxc

"Umbrella" by Lillasyster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PeEaNzg4os

"Only You" by Portishead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQRBgv4ri_Y

"Lonely No More" by Rob Thomas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jBa_rvtQo

"My Immortal" by Evanescence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idd_92ajjwY&feature=channel

"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GtN5fKuUiM

"Welcome to Wherever You Are" by Bon Jovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNYQwZDcf1E

"If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEUE-wMQBv8

"Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKEcV-66kM&feature=channel

All of the above music is fused in my experience and memory with my time in Korea. For instance, I'd just gotten Bon Jovi's then-new album on CD at a store in Jinju and the next day first listened to that "Welcome" song at a beach in Pohang on a beautiful summer saturday afternoon in 2006 while waiting for the fireworks festival to get going. Great lyrics, great day. Forever linked.

jahson4 · Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Location: Jamsil

Books:

The Birth of Tragedy
The World as Will and Idea
Poetry, Language, Thought
The Fall
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Where the Wild Things Are
The Vampire Lestat
On the Road
Residence on Earth
Leaves of Grass

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange
The Fountain
Sideways
Lost in Translation
Aladdin
Braveheart
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
American Beauty
Willow

Kurtz · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Location: ples bilong me

1. Reservoir Dogs

2. Silence of the Lambs

3. Dead Ringers

4. Altered States

5. This is Spinal Tap

6. Seven

7. The Fly

8. Blue Velvet

9. Blade Runner

10. Bad Lieutenant

Honorable mentions- The Usual Suspects, Being John Malcovich, Pulp Fiction, Three Colours Blue, Eraserhead, Evil Dead.

Binch Lover · Joined: 25 Jul 2005

asams · Joined: 17 Nov 2008

I tried my hardest and could only come up with 4 movies

We Were Soldiers
The Dark Knight
American Psycho
Saving Private Ryan

seonsengnimble · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:23 am Post subject:

Books:

Dune
The Brothers Karamazov
Cat's Cradle
Confederacy of Dunces
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Milagro Bean Field War
The Big Sleep
V
The Jungle Book
War with the Newts