RevJim 0 #51 November 29, 2004 Quote I felt extreme disgust at Spacey's character Funny, it was Spacey's character, or at least how he portrayed it, that impressed me most in this movie. American Beauty is, in my humble opinion, the best move I have ever seen, and I got to see it at home, before it hit theatres. In fact, it's the only DVD I kept when I sold mine off.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StevePhelps 0 #52 November 29, 2004 Foreign flick with subtitles, but well worth it. "Its a beautiful life" The main actor won Best Actor in comedy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gmanpilot 0 #53 November 29, 2004 As an alternative, check out some of the classics that were made before our time: On The Waterfront From Here To Eternity Casablanca To Kill A Mockingbird The Quiet Man_________________________________________ -There's always free cheese in a mouse trap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyinghonu 0 #54 November 29, 2004 1) Nina Takes a Lover; 2) Sliding Doors; 3) Raise the Red Latern (subtitles); 4) Killing Zoe (fairly violent); 5) Chinatown; 6) The Virgin Suicides; 7) A Dog's Life; 8) Step Into Liquid; 9) Grand Canyon; 10) Liam. Nina takes a Lover is my FAVORITE girly, snuggle up on the couch and eat ice-cream movie "Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #55 November 29, 2004 Lost in Translation The Station Agent American Splendour-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyingferret 0 #56 November 29, 2004 Interesting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I agree, but some days I don't feel like being moved. It is intriguing that you felt disgusted with Lester Burnham (spacey). My overwhelming feeling at the end of the film was that he was the only character in the movie that lived. He died, but none of the other characters were alive in the remaining routine anyway.-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VanillaSkyGirl 6 #57 November 29, 2004 QuoteRosa, Have you seen Baraka? Breathtaking WOW~ I have to rent that. It's good to remind oneself that we are so tiny and the universe (and all in it) so vast. It seems like a very humbling film. The title Barakais a Sufi word...I know very little about Sufism. I read about The Whirling Dirvishes back in '97, and I went to see them at UCLA. I found it fascinating, although this may not be true or authentic to Sufism, since we were able to watch them on stage. Thank you for the suggestion, Linny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RevJim 0 #58 November 29, 2004 QuoteInteresting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I agree, but some days I don't feel like being moved. It is intriguing that you felt disgusted with Lester Burnham (spacey). My overwhelming feeling at the end of the film was that he was the only character in the movie that lived. He died, but none of the other characters were alive in the remaining routine anyway. Very good point, and partof what makes the movies so appealing to me. It was essentiallyan eye opener, for myself at least. He hated his life. I can relate. He looked at younger women. I can relate. He stopped, for of all reasons,moral issues. I can still relate. He attempted to live his life, finally. I can seriously still relate. In essence, everyone dies eventually, he just illustrated the fact that for the most part, you don't get to choose, hence the majority of my signature line, that I have had for some time.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flyingferret 0 #59 November 29, 2004 I agree very much /not trying to hijack/ I thought that was the magic of the film. I thought a lot of people could relate to Lester. He felt he was in a position created mostly out of good intentions and good efforts, yet was very unhappy with the results. It was when he finally saw that he did not have to change it even, simply choose not to let it control, he finally started to truly experience life. An interesting parallel from a Nelson Demille novel character "The only truly safe boat is a boat in the harbor. But that is not what boats were made for." His character left me feeling that is only after you choose to acknowledge the full spectrum of inputs, that you can really feel you chose anything at all. Much like CS Lewis postulated that without pain it would be impossible to recognize joy. Perhaps this is all very subjective, and personal to my life this year But I very much enjoyed that premise....and have been kinda of searching for a tattoo with that larger message.-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bigwallmaster 0 #60 November 29, 2004 "The City of God" Really cool true story about a journalist's life growing up in a crime infested Rio De Janero slum. Very good movie. Not sure if Blockbuster will have it, but it's worth a shot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #61 November 29, 2004 Quote"The City of God" Really cool true story about a journalist's life growing up in a crime infested Rio De Janero slum. Very good movie. Not sure if Blockbuster will have it, but it's worth a shot. Yes, they have it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymama 37 #62 November 29, 2004 Love Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Touching the Void...this one is made like a documentary about 2 English climbers and what happens in the snowy, Peruvian Alps. I don't want to give the story away but it's definitely worth watching and very intense. You won't forget their story.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #63 November 29, 2004 QuoteInteresting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I don't find any movie that moves me impressive. American Beauty was a great film, though. My own personal feelings of disgust should not take away from my observations that it is a well-made film. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flyingferret 0 #64 November 29, 2004 QuoteLove Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Great movie, I dig it, as well as Serendipity. Vanilla, if you dont mind my asking...feel free to say you do, what disgusted you?-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #65 November 29, 2004 It was sad to me that Spacey's character hated his life and wife so much. Also, his needs were more important to him that making his own daughter feel valuable. He lived in his daydreams...but I firmly believe that your life is what you make it. The main reason that Spacey disgusted me was because I was a teenaged cheerleader once, and I remember being looked at like that (blatantly ogled) by most men (many older)...sooooo many times. I didn't totally understand my sexuality back then, but I knew that they thought I was attractive or whatever. After seeing this film, it kind of struck me that some of those looks (it's in the eyes) that I used to get were pretty lustful. I was only 15 or so, and when I saw the film in my mid-20's, I had to face that this was what some men think when they look at young girls. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sunshine 2 #66 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Sheenster303 0 #67 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. Seriously when I first watched it, I didn't care for it at all, but for some reason the more I thought about what happened in the movie, the more I liked it. I'm always caught off guard when movies are weird like that and I normally just write them off as being sucky.I'm so funny I crack my head open! P.M.S. #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flyinghonu 0 #68 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. "Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #69 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. I'm intrigued with the emphatic negative feedback for this film. Why was it so awful? (I haven't seen it, yet.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #58 November 29, 2004 QuoteInteresting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I agree, but some days I don't feel like being moved. It is intriguing that you felt disgusted with Lester Burnham (spacey). My overwhelming feeling at the end of the film was that he was the only character in the movie that lived. He died, but none of the other characters were alive in the remaining routine anyway. Very good point, and partof what makes the movies so appealing to me. It was essentiallyan eye opener, for myself at least. He hated his life. I can relate. He looked at younger women. I can relate. He stopped, for of all reasons,moral issues. I can still relate. He attempted to live his life, finally. I can seriously still relate. In essence, everyone dies eventually, he just illustrated the fact that for the most part, you don't get to choose, hence the majority of my signature line, that I have had for some time.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyingferret 0 #59 November 29, 2004 I agree very much /not trying to hijack/ I thought that was the magic of the film. I thought a lot of people could relate to Lester. He felt he was in a position created mostly out of good intentions and good efforts, yet was very unhappy with the results. It was when he finally saw that he did not have to change it even, simply choose not to let it control, he finally started to truly experience life. An interesting parallel from a Nelson Demille novel character "The only truly safe boat is a boat in the harbor. But that is not what boats were made for." His character left me feeling that is only after you choose to acknowledge the full spectrum of inputs, that you can really feel you chose anything at all. Much like CS Lewis postulated that without pain it would be impossible to recognize joy. Perhaps this is all very subjective, and personal to my life this year But I very much enjoyed that premise....and have been kinda of searching for a tattoo with that larger message.-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bigwallmaster 0 #60 November 29, 2004 "The City of God" Really cool true story about a journalist's life growing up in a crime infested Rio De Janero slum. Very good movie. Not sure if Blockbuster will have it, but it's worth a shot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VanillaSkyGirl 6 #61 November 29, 2004 Quote"The City of God" Really cool true story about a journalist's life growing up in a crime infested Rio De Janero slum. Very good movie. Not sure if Blockbuster will have it, but it's worth a shot. Yes, they have it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymama 37 #62 November 29, 2004 Love Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Touching the Void...this one is made like a documentary about 2 English climbers and what happens in the snowy, Peruvian Alps. I don't want to give the story away but it's definitely worth watching and very intense. You won't forget their story.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #63 November 29, 2004 QuoteInteresting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I don't find any movie that moves me impressive. American Beauty was a great film, though. My own personal feelings of disgust should not take away from my observations that it is a well-made film. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flyingferret 0 #64 November 29, 2004 QuoteLove Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Great movie, I dig it, as well as Serendipity. Vanilla, if you dont mind my asking...feel free to say you do, what disgusted you?-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #65 November 29, 2004 It was sad to me that Spacey's character hated his life and wife so much. Also, his needs were more important to him that making his own daughter feel valuable. He lived in his daydreams...but I firmly believe that your life is what you make it. The main reason that Spacey disgusted me was because I was a teenaged cheerleader once, and I remember being looked at like that (blatantly ogled) by most men (many older)...sooooo many times. I didn't totally understand my sexuality back then, but I knew that they thought I was attractive or whatever. After seeing this film, it kind of struck me that some of those looks (it's in the eyes) that I used to get were pretty lustful. I was only 15 or so, and when I saw the film in my mid-20's, I had to face that this was what some men think when they look at young girls. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sunshine 2 #66 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Sheenster303 0 #67 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. Seriously when I first watched it, I didn't care for it at all, but for some reason the more I thought about what happened in the movie, the more I liked it. I'm always caught off guard when movies are weird like that and I normally just write them off as being sucky.I'm so funny I crack my head open! P.M.S. #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flyinghonu 0 #68 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. "Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites VanillaSkyGirl 6 #69 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. I'm intrigued with the emphatic negative feedback for this film. Why was it so awful? (I haven't seen it, yet.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #62 November 29, 2004 Love Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Touching the Void...this one is made like a documentary about 2 English climbers and what happens in the snowy, Peruvian Alps. I don't want to give the story away but it's definitely worth watching and very intense. You won't forget their story.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VanillaSkyGirl 6 #63 November 29, 2004 QuoteInteresting...I have a buddy like that who feels any movie that moves him is impressive. I don't find any movie that moves me impressive. American Beauty was a great film, though. My own personal feelings of disgust should not take away from my observations that it is a well-made film. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyingferret 0 #64 November 29, 2004 QuoteLove Actually...so cute and funny and it's a holiday movie! Great movie, I dig it, as well as Serendipity. Vanilla, if you dont mind my asking...feel free to say you do, what disgusted you?-- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VanillaSkyGirl 6 #65 November 29, 2004 It was sad to me that Spacey's character hated his life and wife so much. Also, his needs were more important to him that making his own daughter feel valuable. He lived in his daydreams...but I firmly believe that your life is what you make it. The main reason that Spacey disgusted me was because I was a teenaged cheerleader once, and I remember being looked at like that (blatantly ogled) by most men (many older)...sooooo many times. I didn't totally understand my sexuality back then, but I knew that they thought I was attractive or whatever. After seeing this film, it kind of struck me that some of those looks (it's in the eyes) that I used to get were pretty lustful. I was only 15 or so, and when I saw the film in my mid-20's, I had to face that this was what some men think when they look at young girls. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #66 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheenster303 0 #67 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. Seriously when I first watched it, I didn't care for it at all, but for some reason the more I thought about what happened in the movie, the more I liked it. I'm always caught off guard when movies are weird like that and I normally just write them off as being sucky.I'm so funny I crack my head open! P.M.S. #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyinghonu 0 #68 November 29, 2004 QuoteQuote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. "Excuse me while I kiss the sky..." - Jimi Hendrix Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VanillaSkyGirl 6 #69 November 29, 2004 Quote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ugh, i rented that last week and thought it sucked ass. You actually made it to the end...that was pure friggin' torture that I could not stand to subject myself to for longer than an hour. I'm intrigued with the emphatic negative feedback for this film. Why was it so awful? (I haven't seen it, yet.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #70 November 30, 2004 QuoteOpen water if your not a scuba diver Open Water had an excellent concept. The movie sucked though. I agree with skymama about Love Actually. If you haven't seen it, get it. And one of my all time fave movies that i think you would love is Amelie. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davedlg 0 #71 November 30, 2004 QuoteI'm intrigued with the emphatic negative feedback for this film. Why was it so awful? (I haven't seen it, yet.) I really enjoyed this movie, however I have also heard it compared to Punch Drunk Love, which I really did not like. You definatly have to get into the story and have some patience to enjoy Eternal Sunshine... I personally think it is one of the best love stories that I have seen in a long time. If you are coming into this movie expecting a typical Jim Carrey movie, you will not like it. Edited to add: There are a few good threads on this movie here and here These threads are a good example of how thought provoking this movie can be. Don't read too far into them if you don't want to read spoilers though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
windcatcher 0 #72 November 30, 2004 here Rosa, don't know if you'd really like any of these, but here's a few that are on my mind, not necessarily my faves. *Easy Rider (love the music and free-spirited men, and motorcycle/highway shots) *The Jerk (I'm picking out a thermos for you, not an ordinary thermos, for you) *The Story of Us(the end will make you cry) *Galliopoli (starring a very young and handsome Mel Gibson, nice soundtrack w/ Albonini's Adagio in G) *Amelie (interesting foreign flick--very artsy) *A Beautiful Mind *The English Patient *Forrest Gump ( just bought the soundtrack, oldies rock!!!) *Batteries Not Included (this movie made me laugh when I was a kid, it's probably pretty hard to find and might not be considered that funny by today's standards *I am Sam ( Beatles songs remade, soundtrack is actually quite good--good story line) *Super Cop ( I love Jackie Chan!) *The Red Violin *Hurricane ( the one w/ Denzel Washington, NOT the old 80's (?) flick that I mistakenly rented and my family laughed at me for renting, I thought it was the Hurricane movie w/ Dylan's song in it) *A Simple Twist of Fate ( awesome movie for its storyline IMHO) *The Truman Show Just a few movies that you might not have seen yet--most of em are fairly decent ( I don't know what your tastes are though) Mother to the cutest little thing in the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RkyMtnHigh 0 #73 November 30, 2004 "Camille" with Isabelle Adjani and "Martin Guerre" with Gerard DePardieu are both awesome French flicks!! _________________________________________ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #74 November 30, 2004 Like Water for chocolate Babettes Feast Anything by David Lynch Anything by Pedro Almodovar Anything by Wim Wenders The Three Colours Movies RED BLUE & WHITEYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #75 November 30, 2004 QuoteRosa, Have you seen Baraka? Breathtaking If you like Baraka, then check out 2 movies released before it. Koyanaquatsi and Powaquatsi, music in both by Philip Glass, AWSOME visiualsYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
