What movies have they shown in times before?

 

BTW, since this week is such a crazy sports week (WBC, March Madness, more WBC plus regular season basketball and hockey) I'm going to hold off on the beginning of the list making process until next week.

 

Annie Hall, Run Lola Run, Adaptation....and the rest were just clips from movies during different periods (a lot of Hitchcock)

Run Lola Run was very cool. Adaptation... for all the accolades it gets, I must be missing something. I just didn't enjoy it.

I absolutely loved Adaptation. I think it deserves repeat watching.

 

The whole time the movie was about Charlie wanting to write a non-Hollywood script when in fact the entire movie was a parody on the 'Hollywood' style of movies in itself. Brilliant.

 

Nic Cage deserved every bit of his oscar nomination and if it wasn't such a stout year he would have probably won.

 

I can see how someone wouldn't like this movie, but I think it's a movie that can definitely change your opinion of it with a repeat viewing.

Charlie Kaufman movies fall into two categories for me: Good and REALLY Bad.

 

Being John Malkovich still remains his best work, in my opinion. But, I think, by the time Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine rolled around too many were expecting something that would change movie writing forever or he fell in love with his own genius.

 

I like Being John Malkovich, I like Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Human Nature is okay. But, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind put me to sleep. I dig the ideas, I just think the way they play out is done in a boring way.

have any of you guys ever seen The Sting? --Redford and Newman

have any of you guys ever seen The Sting? --Redford and Newman

 

 

Go to London.

have any of you guys ever seen The Sting? --Redford and Newman

Yes, very good.

have any of you guys ever seen The Sting? --Redford and Newman

 

 

Go to London.

:lol

Wow, I saw Magnolia last night.

 

That has to be one of the least respected movies of all time. When people have talked about the great movies of the 90s, I never hear this one discussed. I know Ebert didn't have it on his list and besides Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas I'd be hard pressed to name a better movie (This may top the latter two).

 

I'd challenge someone to mention a better ensemble cast then this movie featured. It had easily 8 amazing and powerful performances. Melora Walter's performance was so damn good to me, I can't think of many better oscar winning performances by females in the 90s that outdid hers in this film (she wasn't even nominated). I'm never going to forget Cruise's interaction with that reporter during his interview or his breakdown at the side of his father's deathbed. Phillip Baker Hall's whole time on the set of the game show or his interaction with his wife while he knows he is dying of cancer, William H. Macy confessing his love for the bartender, Moore in the pharmacy. I could go on and on.

 

This film as a whole got snubbed by the Academy. 3 nominations? Including one for best song? What a joke. I know '99 was a pretty solid year for movies but I would have given Walter the Oscar over Swank or Jolie (whichever category she would be put in). Cruise should have won over Caine. This film should have been easily nominated for directing and best picture as well. What a joke.

 

I recommend this for anyone. Alot of people got turned off by its length but I don't think it could have been more perfect, it needed every bit of its screen time.

 

Outstanding.

Wow I thought you were the movie guru, and you didn't see that movie until now?

 

But ya, I liked it a lot, definitely underrated.

Wow I thought you were the movie guru, and you didn't see that movie until now?

 

But ya, I liked it a lot, definitely underrated.

 

Thing is the length of it, I didnt really ever have time to fit it in, and I just remembered that I needed to see it. One of the last of anything critically acclaimed in the 90s (Fargo and The Insider are the last pretty much) I hadn't seen.

If Magnolia's not in my top 10 all time, it's very close.

 

The length is a bit of a problem, I suppose. I've only watched the film twice because of that. And the second time I had to break it up into two segments.

 

I think the biggest complaints people had with Magnolia were 1) that it was pretentious, and 2) the ending made no sense whatsoever.

 

I agree with the first point...it was certainly pretentious. But I don't see how that hurts the movie really.

 

The second point is valid, too, if you're unable to find meaning in the ending. And I don't think there's anything wrong with not being able to find meaning in the ending. Really, it's up to the viewer. I was able to find my own meaning in the ending, and to me it all added up.

 

The Academy Awards rarely get things right when you look at it years down the line...so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that the movie was largely snubbed.

Fargo was good, I liked it.

 

 

 

 

A better ensemble cast than Magnolia....Hmm....

 

What about Love Actually?

I have a friend who is good friends with Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia director). When she used to work at Barnes and Noble he'd come in there and buy an armful of books and then not show up again for another month. She said the last time she talked to him he told her a little about his new project but wouldn't give her any details. Everytime she comes home I keep asking her to call him, but she won't do it.

 

I would consider Magnolia tops, but in Anderson's own work I'm not sure it stacks up with Boogie Nights. I just like Boogie Nights more.

 

And is there any actor who is more underrated than John C. Reilly? By far, he and Cruise are my two favorite characters in Magnolia.

 

Also, if you're interested in Frank TJ Mackie you might want to check out Ross Jefferies www.speedseduction.com. He's the actual guy the character is based on and good for a few laughs.

The Passion of Christ

Wow, I saw Magnolia last night.

 

That has to be one of the least respected movies of all time. When people have talked about the great movies of the 90s, I never hear this one discussed. I know Ebert didn't have it on his list and besides Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas I'd be hard pressed to name a better movie (This may top the latter two).

 

I'd challenge someone to mention a better ensemble cast then this movie featured. It had easily 8 amazing and powerful performances. Melora Walter's performance was so damn good to me, I can't think of many better oscar winning performances by females in the 90s that outdid hers in this film (she wasn't even nominated). I'm never going to forget Cruise's interaction with that reporter during his interview or his breakdown at the side of his father's deathbed. Phillip Baker Hall's whole time on the set of the game show or his interaction with his wife while he knows he is dying of cancer, William H. Macy confessing his love for the bartender, Moore in the pharmacy. I could go on and on.

 

This film as a whole got snubbed by the Academy. 3 nominations? Including one for best song? What a joke. I know '99 was a pretty solid year for movies but I would have given Walter the Oscar over Swank or Jolie (whichever category she would be put in). Cruise should have won over Caine. This film should have been easily nominated for directing and best picture as well. What a joke.

 

I recommend this for anyone. Alot of people got turned off by its length but I don't think it could have been more perfect, it needed every bit of its screen time.

 

Outstanding.

 

 

Agreed. The movie is absolutely fantastic and the performances were all incredible. The scene with Tom Cruise and the reporter is also one of my favorites from the movie. When he says, "I'm quietly judging you," one of the best lines in the whole movie. Also, the movie's comedic sense of self-awareness: Phillip Seymour Hoffman's phone call where he says "This is the part in the movie..." and there's also a scene where Julianne Moore says something like, "I'm so f-ing confused right now, I can't stand it." While a perfectly valid reaction, it also serves as a pretty accurate description of what alot of people watching the movie are probably thinking. Another scene like that is during the ending with frogs, just as most people are probably thinking "What the hell? This can never happen?" the camera pans to a strip of paper inside a picture frame in Claudia's appartment that reads: "But it did happen." And the message serves a dual purpose, for the frogs and, potentially, for Jimmy Gator's suspected abuse. But, above all else, the movie's pacing is outstanding. First rate from from top to bottom.

A movie that i think is great is Vanilla Sky. It leaves me wondering at the end what really happens

A movie that i think is great is Vanilla Sky. It leaves me wondering at the end what really happens

 

As much as I like Cruise, I think the original version of that film, 'Abre los ojos' is better.

 

Luckily for me, I saw the original one first.

Gideon's Trumpet not mentioned yet

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

12 Angry Men

What About Bob? not mentioned yet

Indiana Jones trilogy

Star Wars original trilogy

Braveheart

Forrest Gump

The Outlaw Josey Wales not mentioned yet

The Boondock Saints

Love Actually

Debbie Does Dallas

Dangerous Tides

Satyr

Forgotten Tales

A movie that i think is great is Vanilla Sky. It leaves me wondering at the end what really happens

 

As much as I like Cruise, I think the original version of that film, 'Abre los ojos' is better.

 

Luckily for me, I saw the original one first.

Does it matter? Penelope is naked in both.

Edward Scissorhands, Forrest Gump, As Good As It Gets, The Truman Show, Team America, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Throw Momma from the Train, Office Space, There's Something About Mary, Anchorman, Gladiator, Sin City, Batman Begins, Cinderella Man, Being John Malkovich, Casablanca, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful, Citizen Kane

Debbie Does Dallas

Dangerous Tides

Satyr

Forgotten Tales

 

 

Are all those porn? :lol

Probably right Passion, I should at least give Adaptation another watch because I really liked Eternal Sunshine and Being Malkovich.

 

And yes Magnolia is underappreciated.

 

Dodge I have not seen Gideon's Trumpet.

It's pretty awesome. I think it was made from a book. Henry Fonda plays the main character, who is wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.

From prison he reads up on a lot of legal sh*t and manages to bring his case to the Supreme Court and finally wins his freedom.

 

 

It's pretty sweet if you're a big government dork like me.

Debbie Does Dallas

Dangerous Tides

Satyr

Forgotten Tales

 

 

Are all those porn? :lol

 

Must see porn.