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silverthoughts and found this meme:
1. Fantasia - Classic. Good music. Good animation. No, there is no plot. When I need to bliss out, I watch Fantasia.
2. Memento - Filmed backwards, this film is amazing. Possibly one of the only films that had me glue to the seat wondering how they were going to make it all make sense. And it does at the end - or is that the beginning *g*
3. Ed Wood - Johnny Depp and Martin Landau are so freaken amazing in the film. The chemistry between them as Ed Wood and Bella Lugosi (respectively) was so perfect you couldn't have casted the roles any better. I'd buy the film for the squid scene alone. Johnny, I swear, changed the bone stucture of his face to do this role. He captured both the character and the campy acting style of 50s B-flicks so perfectly that the only time I actually saw Johnny on the screen was when he was in drag. Say yes to angora!
4. Wisconsin Death Trip - They were playing this in the theater for only two nights at the midnight showings - and I'm so glad I happened to find out about it. This was one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever seen. It's on bizarre disasters that hit Black River Falls, Wisconsin inthe 1890's. It's eerie as all hell and all true.
5. Resevoir Dogs - I still think this is Quintin Tarentino's best film. Amazing dialogue. Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth rock. The opening dialogue still has me in raptures. The ending just leaves me staring at the screen well after the credits roll.
6. Requiem for a Dream - This was one of the hardest movies I've ever watched, but the filming of it was just poetry. Very dark, twisted poetry, but still poetry. Ellen Burnstein was fantastic in the film. I was frightened of NyQuil after this flick.
7. Glory - What I love about this is that it's a civil war movie without a love story. I really hate love stories in war flicks. This is a great look at a black regiment in the northern army - how they were treated, how they fought, how they lived and finally died. The whole cast is great - Andre Brauer, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes and Matthew Broderick.
8. Being John Malkovich - One of the most original movies I've ever seen. Just about everything in the film makes me sit back and think "Who thought this up???" But in a good way ;)
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still - Never thought that a robot could be a Christ figure, but there you go. Get your act together and live peacefully or be destroyed dipshits. Love this movie.
10. Frida - Just a great look at the artist Frida Kohla and her husband Diego Rivera. Salma Hayak is wonderful in the role and the film is shot as though it were a canvas.
silverthoughts and found this meme:1. Fantasia - Classic. Good music. Good animation. No, there is no plot. When I need to bliss out, I watch Fantasia.
2. Memento - Filmed backwards, this film is amazing. Possibly one of the only films that had me glue to the seat wondering how they were going to make it all make sense. And it does at the end - or is that the beginning *g*
3. Ed Wood - Johnny Depp and Martin Landau are so freaken amazing in the film. The chemistry between them as Ed Wood and Bella Lugosi (respectively) was so perfect you couldn't have casted the roles any better. I'd buy the film for the squid scene alone. Johnny, I swear, changed the bone stucture of his face to do this role. He captured both the character and the campy acting style of 50s B-flicks so perfectly that the only time I actually saw Johnny on the screen was when he was in drag. Say yes to angora!
4. Wisconsin Death Trip - They were playing this in the theater for only two nights at the midnight showings - and I'm so glad I happened to find out about it. This was one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever seen. It's on bizarre disasters that hit Black River Falls, Wisconsin inthe 1890's. It's eerie as all hell and all true.
5. Resevoir Dogs - I still think this is Quintin Tarentino's best film. Amazing dialogue. Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth rock. The opening dialogue still has me in raptures. The ending just leaves me staring at the screen well after the credits roll.
6. Requiem for a Dream - This was one of the hardest movies I've ever watched, but the filming of it was just poetry. Very dark, twisted poetry, but still poetry. Ellen Burnstein was fantastic in the film. I was frightened of NyQuil after this flick.
7. Glory - What I love about this is that it's a civil war movie without a love story. I really hate love stories in war flicks. This is a great look at a black regiment in the northern army - how they were treated, how they fought, how they lived and finally died. The whole cast is great - Andre Brauer, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes and Matthew Broderick.
8. Being John Malkovich - One of the most original movies I've ever seen. Just about everything in the film makes me sit back and think "Who thought this up???" But in a good way ;)
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still - Never thought that a robot could be a Christ figure, but there you go. Get your act together and live peacefully or be destroyed dipshits. Love this movie.
10. Frida - Just a great look at the artist Frida Kohla and her husband Diego Rivera. Salma Hayak is wonderful in the role and the film is shot as though it were a canvas.
