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movies that i love

eskimo

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...well dont realy know if there is a tread thats about movies and films as i didn't saw any toll now ... anyway : ) ... what are your top movies ... here are my top's

"Dark city" : John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.


"Naked Lunch" : (wikipedia says) William Lee (Peter Weller) is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) for recreational purposes. When Lee is arrested by the police, he believes he is hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent whose controller (a giant bug) assigns him the mission of killing his wife Joan (Judy Davis), who is an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated. Dismissing the bug and its instructions, Lee returns home to find Joan sleeping with Hank (Nicholas Campbell), one of his writer friends. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally kills her while attempting to shoot a drinking glass off of her head in a demented kind of William Tell routine.

Having inadvertently accomplished his "mission", Lee flees to Interzone. He spends his time writing reports for his imaginary handler, and it is these documents which, at the insistence of his literary colleagues, eventually become the titular book. Whilst Lee is under the influence of assorted mind-altering substances the typewriters he uses become giant talking insects who give him updates and advice on his "mission". Clark Nova, one of Lee's typewriters, tells him to find Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), by seducing Joan Frost (Davis).

After coming to the conclusion that Dr. Benway is, in fact, the secret mastermind of a narcotics harvesting operation for a drug called "black meat" which is supposedly derived from the guts of giant centipedes, Lee completes his report and flees Interzone to Annexia with Joan Frost.

Stopped by the Annexian border patrol and instructed to prove that he is a writer as he claims, Lee produces a pen. As this is insufficient proof for passage he inexplicably offers a demonstration of his William Tell routine using a glass atop Joan Frost's head. He again misses badly and thus re-enacts the earlier killing of his wife.


to be cont.....
 
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longearedfriend

I watched true romance a couple days ago (not for the first time)

fun movie

written by quentin tarantino, not directed by him..
 

HempHut

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Naked Lunch is a brilliant film -- masterpiece -- one of my favourites.

The black meat, the flesh of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede -- awesome. Don't forget about the mugwump juice, either. (Both drugs of increasing potency and purity that the protagonist graduates to as the story unfolds).

That reminds me, I haven't seen it in a good while. I've probably seen it close to a hundred times by now, but not once in the last decade. About time for another viewing.

This is a must see when high movie -- it's a trip.

Trailer:

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Talking asshole monologue -- brilliant:

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P.S. Yeah, True Romance is another great movie -- good choice.
 

DarthFader1

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Hmm i must see this Naked Lunch ive never heard of it.

Dark City is old school i can barely remember it...

True Romance is not bad although anything that Tarantino has had a part in is bound to be good.

For Tarantino films might i suggest Inglorious Bastards (totally epic just watch it), also Four Rooms is a hilarious comedy starring Tim Roth as a hotel porter very entertaining movie set on New Years Eve.. Very cool plot etc...

Life changing movies for me are "Into the Wild" & "Fight Club"

So many others but there's a start!

Peace
Darth :)
 

eskimo

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hello everyone : ) nice for joining the thread ...and thx for the inputs so far... hawend seen true romance (i think ).... inglorius bastards well ...its ok, but i don't like it that mucht, it wants to fight fire with fire nothing to learn out of that on (but thats just my opinion ) ... 4 room's is a great on i'm loving it :D ....
just saw on google its francois truffaut birthday today and i took a look in wikipedia and read about hin, a little ; ), soo i saw he made a film i had allmost forgoten, its called:

" Fahrenheit 451" : (wiki says)The Hearth and the Salamander

On a rainy night while returning from his job, fireman Guy Montag meets his new neighbor Clarisse McClellan, whose free-thinking ideals and liberating spirit force him to question his life, his ideals, and his own perceived happiness. Montag returns home to find that his wife Mildred has overdosed on sleeping pills, and calls for help. Since drug overdoses have become commonplace, the hospital sends two impersonal technicians to pump her stomach and replace her blood. The next day, Montag finds Mildred in the kitchen, eating a big breakfast and rambling how she feels hungry and has no memory of what she did the night before, blaming it on supposedly having a party and drinking so much that she blacked out. Before leaving for work, Montag tries to tell Mildred (who is watching an interactive TV program on three oversized screens that have been installed in the living room) that she overdosed, but Mildred denies that she would do anything that suicidal. For the next few days, Montag bonds with Clarisse, who tells him about how she has to see a therapist about her allegedly anti-social behavior, how school has become boring now that it's been devoid of intellectual content, and how her peers enjoy violent, shallow entertainment (such as street-racing, bullying people, and dancing) and treat her as an outcast. One day, however, Clarisse goes missing and Montag begins seriously considering how hollow his life is. While talking to Mildred one night, Mildred mutters that Clarisse died after getting hit by a speeding car and the rest of her family moved out following her death.

In the following days, while at work with the other firemen ransacking the book-filled house of an old woman before the inevitable burning, Montag accidentally reads a line in one of her books: "Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine". This prompts him to steal one of the books. The woman refuses to leave her house and her books, choosing instead to light a match and burn herself alive. This act disturbs Montag, who wonders why someone would die for books, which he (and the rest of society) considers to be without value. Jarred by the woman's suicide, Montag becomes physically ill and calls for sick leave. Fire chief Captain Beatty visits him at home to tell him the history of the firemen. He tells Montag that interest in books declined gradually over several decades as the public embraced mass-marketed new media and a quickening pace in life. Over time, books (save for trade papers, comics, and pornographic magazines) fell out of favor due to minorities protesting over controversial content, and the government had no choice but to have them suppressed to please everyone. While they are talking, Mildred feels the book hidden under Montag's pillow and reacts with surprise. Beatty adds casually that all firemen eventually steal a book out of curiosity, but all is well if the book is burned within 24 hours.

After Beatty has left, Montag shows Mildred the books he has hidden in the ventilator of their home. Mildred tries to incinerate the books, however, Montag holds her back and tells her that together they must read the books and decide if they have value. If they do not, he promises the books will be burned and all will return to normal....(there is more to read , take a look : )
 

redbudduckfoot

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any Tarantino movie is great. always in the mood for Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.

also, The Usual Suspects is a great, quick watch.
 

e4ian

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You never SEEEEEEEE us.White man from TOWN..

You never SEEEEEEEE us.White man from TOWN..

No more.Ive been 20 pages back and STILL cant spot recommend a movie thread..

Stephen kings Thinner.One of his finest.
Lol that old Indian gypsy EVERYTIME.


" I need something for my nose. WHATA U LOOK ATTT".

:biglaugh:
 

e4ian

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No more.Ive been 20 pages back and STILL cant spot recommend a movie thread..

Stephen kings Thinner.One of his finest.
Lol that old Indian gypsy EVERYTIME.


" I need something for my nose. WHATA U LOOK ATTT".

:biglaugh:



[Yes.Naked Lunch sounds good.Made a note Taa.]
 

hunt4genetics

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Sorry,Haters.

a very underrated 2005 film.

It deals with the lingering fear post 9/11 in NYC.

Sean Penn's wife is the star of this indie flick.
 
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longearedfriend

I have the mr bean collection
not really movies, but, classics

not big movies but I started watching some movies about ayahuasca
my friend put one on when I was at his place and I guess curiosity kept me going
 

BadTicket

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https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=100055

There's the "recommend a movie thread" 2008-2011.


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trem0lo

Some of my favs:

Blade Runner. Totally epic sci fi masterpiece. Very intellectual and heavy with an emphasis on mortality and what it means to even exist. Harrison Ford's best role by far. (My other Ridley Scott favorite is Alien. Scary as hell but not on the same level.)

Another underrated sci fi film is Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle. Deals with a ship's crew as they hurdle toward the sun, trying to save the earth, but things go increasingly awry the closer they get to our star, the creator and destructor of life. Great soundtrack on that one too.

The Big Lebowski. Not initially amazing, but lots to see and much thematic material to come back to (bowling, nihilism, white russians, lol) along with tremendous performances by John Goodman and Jeff Bridges. Tons of hilarious quotable material.

The Deer Hunter. Amazing 1978 film by one-hit-wonder director Michael Cimino. Young DeNiro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep (in her first movie) carry this 3 hour saga about a group of steel workers who go off to the Vietnam war. The famous Russian Roulette scene (symbolizing the luck and random destiny of war) is particularly nail-biting. A heartbreaking, anti-war masterpiece.
 

mrcreosote

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Seconded.
Right up there on a short list with Lawrence of Arabia for epic.
They could make 20 sequels to M&C and that would be fine by me. Patrick O'Brian gave them plenty of very good material to work with.

Instead we get...what? Transformers drek.
 
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