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Nancy |
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:30 pm |
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gromit wrote: Barry Lyndon was insanely boring. Midway through I found myself focusing on the set designs and costumes. Some excellent wall-paper, but a snooze of a film.
That's about what I thought of it. Pretty to look at, but boring otherwise. |
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marantzo |
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:52 pm |
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If it's anything like Tess, which my wife and I walked out of at intermission, I'm so not there. |
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Syd |
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:31 pm |
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gromit wrote: Barry Lyndon was insanely boring. Midway through I found myself focusing on the set designs and costumes. Some excellent wall-paper, but a snooze of a film.
It reminded me of some prints I used to have up in my dorm room. About as static, too. |
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inlareviewer |
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:29 am |
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Deleted for excessive whimsy. |
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ehle64 |
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:51 am |
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great ballz of fire, i missed some of inla's whimzy.
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inlareviewer |
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:17 am |
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ehle64 wrote: great ballz of fire, i missed some of inla's whimzy.
shhooooot Well, don't let it come to firearms....
Having missed the gist of every list, twist my wrist and let's play whist. |
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McBain |
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:17 pm |
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Is there a link to the resultant list?
(I remember The Forum 100 back when we were on NYTimes.com) |
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marantzo |
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:32 pm |
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The list is at the start of page #22 of this forum. |
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McBain |
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:35 pm |
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Thanks! |
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Syd |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:57 am |
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I don't have much to say here. I just wanted to see my name come up in all seven active film forums at once. Seagull is contagious.
I did promise to do my top 200 films of all time sometime and I know you all breathlessly await it, since my taste is, of course, impeccable. I've been watching a lot of pre-code films for that forum, and, although I like a lot of them, I also have caveats, such as, am I praising this film because it was good at the time or is it genuinely one of the greatest films of all time? For instance, The Divorcee and The Broadway Melody are both very interesting for historical reasons, both were deservingly praised at the time, and both are very badly dated. Frankenstein, Dinner at Eight, King Kong Queen Christina and Trouble in Paradise have stood the test of time very well, and I'd add Scarface and Twentieth Century to that collection. But what of films like A Free Soul and Five Star Final, not to mention The Big House and I'm No Angel? |
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seagull |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:31 am |
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Invitation to spam
Here are mine, which I will post by genre classification that holds good in my mind...from time to time.
Bollywood (in no particular order)
Kal ho na ho
Hey ram
Kagaz ke phool
Shri 420
Sholay
Sivaji
Chess players
Titash is the name of a river
Vanaprastham
Being Cyrus |
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seagull |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:31 am |
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Hollywood with computer graphics (non animated)
Lord of the Rings I
Laura Croft
Harry potter III
Troy
Sin city
King Kong
Matrix
The Perfect Storm
Mummy
Jurrasic park |
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seagull |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:53 am |
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European films of some vintage
8.5
Jules and Jim
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Virgin spring
Arabian Nights
rules of the jeu
full moon in paris
A man and a woman
round midnight
red desert |
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marantzo |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:03 am |
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Well, the inclusion of Laura Croft and A Man and A Woman, of the movies I've seen, is a puzzling inclusion of crap in those lists. |
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seagull |
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:09 am |
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I think Laura Croft was a seminal movie in my liking angelina jolie.
Man and a woman was more because i wanted a patrice leconte film in, I think his work after he grew to be a reaally old man is better than the two films he did when he was younger, but what's not to like about aman and a woman (aside from the violent reaction maranzo seems to have to films he dislikes, even worthy ones like se7en )? |
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