I like and have seen all these movies! 8/10
I will rank your favorite movies lists on a scale of 1-10
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Shannow style list, with many fucks!
The Fountain - This is the most beautiful movie I've seen, in terms of cinematography/visuals, music, and the story. While it is on one level a love story, it's also (and I think just as importantly) a story about a man understanding death. It's oddly grim and then also hopeful. I wish I'd seen it in theaters.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Mother-fucking fun. Some have said For a Few Dollars More is a better film, but Eli Wallach bring so much energy to the film, and he's such a lovable scoundrel--so is Clint Eastwood's character too. This movie kept me guessing the whole time on my first viewing, and it never feels like it's 3 hours long. Just damn fun. Amazing shots of the desert too.
Jaws - Probably don't need to explain this one much, except I will say this is one of those perfect little stories, where there's nothing you could really excise that wouldn't hurt the movie. I love the characters, the dialogue, and the intensity.
The Prestige - There's something new to discover every time I watch this. Again, folding timelines, I enjoy. But really it's a cool story and... there's a lot to be impressed with, but it's all so spoilery.
Princess Mononoke - Another movie that impresses me with its beauty, and though the characters aren't all that well-developed, their personality clashes are strong. I like the take on nature and magic here as well, and the last 15 minutes of the movie are killer.
Casablanca - Dialogue, characters, yay. Also, the movie's so fucking charm but not in the "please, please like me" way some movies are these days. I don't really care about the story a ton; I just love listening to the characters talk to each other.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Fuck you. I don't know if anyone here's even seen or heard of this, but it was one of the better movies featuring Ray Harryhausen's effects. This is the one without any boring parts--the only section without awesome monsters is the ship going back to the island, and then it gets silly as the sirens drive the criminals crazy. The monsters are great. The music's fun too. It's an awesome fantasy movie.
The Incredibles - I get what others might say of Toy Story or Wall-E being better... I don't care. There are movies where I value certain scenes in the sense that I enjoy the memorability or power of them even more than other parts of the film. This movie has scene after scene that is special. And I never get tired of the bit where Dash realizes he's running on water, giggles, and then speeds off as the music kicks into high gear.
The Dark Crystal - I can't stand Tolken. I love LOTR's story and characters, and the movies are glorious, but I don't like that book and I don't like the effect it's had on fantasy where so much of it has to be basically medieval Europe with barely anything of note or interest. The Dark Crystal is my kind of fantasy story, with an untamed world whose denizens are only somewhat aware of the bigger picture, of anyone even believing they have power, of monsters and weird creatures being the normal. I also adore the Henson puppetry, but that's a given.
Hellboy - Fuck it, I'm keeping it on the list. I love both the movies (and anything del Toro has done, honestly), but I like the first one more. The story feels stronger, and I can't get enough of the colors and character designs. Funny dialogue too--oddly, Myers is really the protagonist of this film when Hellboy should've been since he's more sympathetic here than in the sequel, whereas Hellboy is the protagonist of the sequel where he's more of a jerk than here. But regardless, I enjoy this movie a lot and can watch it again and again.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Standing aside from being fucking impressed with the special effects, this is actually a good story at its core. All the added toons just make it special. Such an awesome movie, from start to finish. And Roger Rabbit doesn't annoy me at all. Haters gonna hate.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - Emo/goth/Burton blah blah blah blah I don't care. The songs are constant, fun, they actually move the plot and characters along rather than stopping the story in its tracks like in Disney movies, and yeah, I love the dark and weird aesthetic. It's not perfect (Oogie Boogie is awesome, but he really feels thrown in there, like the writers realized late in that they needed an antagonist) but I love it.
Pulp Fiction - Like Casablanca, I can just sit and listen to the characters talk and not give a damn about the story (or in this case, stories). But the stories are still good too. I never get tired of this one.
Coraline - I'm usually one who puts a book on a pedestal above a movie version, and the book is one of my favorites, but I actually think the care Henry Selleck took to craft the story in a new way might have transcended the quickness in which Coraline finds herself in a bad place in the book. I question if I should or shouldn't put this on the list because it's still so new, but I love it dearly. Coraline is a fun character, the situation builds slowly and carefully like the beldam weaving her web, and while it never really gets scary for me as an adult, it can be creepy as hell.
Hmm... not enough...
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
There. It's perfect.
The Fountain - This is the most beautiful movie I've seen, in terms of cinematography/visuals, music, and the story. While it is on one level a love story, it's also (and I think just as importantly) a story about a man understanding death. It's oddly grim and then also hopeful. I wish I'd seen it in theaters.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Mother-fucking fun. Some have said For a Few Dollars More is a better film, but Eli Wallach bring so much energy to the film, and he's such a lovable scoundrel--so is Clint Eastwood's character too. This movie kept me guessing the whole time on my first viewing, and it never feels like it's 3 hours long. Just damn fun. Amazing shots of the desert too.
Jaws - Probably don't need to explain this one much, except I will say this is one of those perfect little stories, where there's nothing you could really excise that wouldn't hurt the movie. I love the characters, the dialogue, and the intensity.
The Prestige - There's something new to discover every time I watch this. Again, folding timelines, I enjoy. But really it's a cool story and... there's a lot to be impressed with, but it's all so spoilery.
Princess Mononoke - Another movie that impresses me with its beauty, and though the characters aren't all that well-developed, their personality clashes are strong. I like the take on nature and magic here as well, and the last 15 minutes of the movie are killer.
Casablanca - Dialogue, characters, yay. Also, the movie's so fucking charm but not in the "please, please like me" way some movies are these days. I don't really care about the story a ton; I just love listening to the characters talk to each other.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Fuck you. I don't know if anyone here's even seen or heard of this, but it was one of the better movies featuring Ray Harryhausen's effects. This is the one without any boring parts--the only section without awesome monsters is the ship going back to the island, and then it gets silly as the sirens drive the criminals crazy. The monsters are great. The music's fun too. It's an awesome fantasy movie.
The Incredibles - I get what others might say of Toy Story or Wall-E being better... I don't care. There are movies where I value certain scenes in the sense that I enjoy the memorability or power of them even more than other parts of the film. This movie has scene after scene that is special. And I never get tired of the bit where Dash realizes he's running on water, giggles, and then speeds off as the music kicks into high gear.
The Dark Crystal - I can't stand Tolken. I love LOTR's story and characters, and the movies are glorious, but I don't like that book and I don't like the effect it's had on fantasy where so much of it has to be basically medieval Europe with barely anything of note or interest. The Dark Crystal is my kind of fantasy story, with an untamed world whose denizens are only somewhat aware of the bigger picture, of anyone even believing they have power, of monsters and weird creatures being the normal. I also adore the Henson puppetry, but that's a given.
Hellboy - Fuck it, I'm keeping it on the list. I love both the movies (and anything del Toro has done, honestly), but I like the first one more. The story feels stronger, and I can't get enough of the colors and character designs. Funny dialogue too--oddly, Myers is really the protagonist of this film when Hellboy should've been since he's more sympathetic here than in the sequel, whereas Hellboy is the protagonist of the sequel where he's more of a jerk than here. But regardless, I enjoy this movie a lot and can watch it again and again.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Standing aside from being fucking impressed with the special effects, this is actually a good story at its core. All the added toons just make it special. Such an awesome movie, from start to finish. And Roger Rabbit doesn't annoy me at all. Haters gonna hate.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - Emo/goth/Burton blah blah blah blah I don't care. The songs are constant, fun, they actually move the plot and characters along rather than stopping the story in its tracks like in Disney movies, and yeah, I love the dark and weird aesthetic. It's not perfect (Oogie Boogie is awesome, but he really feels thrown in there, like the writers realized late in that they needed an antagonist) but I love it.
Pulp Fiction - Like Casablanca, I can just sit and listen to the characters talk and not give a damn about the story (or in this case, stories). But the stories are still good too. I never get tired of this one.
Coraline - I'm usually one who puts a book on a pedestal above a movie version, and the book is one of my favorites, but I actually think the care Henry Selleck took to craft the story in a new way might have transcended the quickness in which Coraline finds herself in a bad place in the book. I question if I should or shouldn't put this on the list because it's still so new, but I love it dearly. Coraline is a fun character, the situation builds slowly and carefully like the beldam weaving her web, and while it never really gets scary for me as an adult, it can be creepy as hell.
Hmm... not enough...
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
There. It's perfect.
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Philosopher B.
I like and have seen all these movies! 8/10[/QUOTE]
But ... have you seen 'Gator Bait?!
Actually, now I want to see 'Gator Bait. Badly.
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