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Torley Linden
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12-05-2005 21:49
... and... Torley, Freddy Got Fingered is the only movie that I ever just abandoned. I made it through about forty-five minutes before I had to flee the theater. Different strokes and all that... but just seeing it mentioned sent chills of horror down my spine... RUR RUR RUR... OMG. I know it's been critically reviled as a bad movie. But something about it just causes, as you described, dramatic reactions! _____________________
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Cid Jacobs
Theoretical Meteorologist
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12-05-2005 21:51
RUR RUR RUR... OMG. I know it's been critically reviled as a bad movie. But something about it just causes, as you described, dramatic reactions! I think it was the sausage keyboard that did it in for everyone  _____________________
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Torley Linden
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12-05-2005 21:53
I think it was the sausage keyboard that did it in for everyone Yes, a great meme. Appealing to me as a former musician. Wikipedia has this great writeup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Got_Fingered I once heard a mashup of it mixing it with the Super Mario Bros. underwater theme. _____________________
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Cid Jacobs
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12-05-2005 21:58
Ha! I love the comment on the wiki about it.
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."  _____________________
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Phoenix Psaltery
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12-05-2005 22:17
Santa With Muscles National Lampoon's Golf Punks Dudes Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Troll 2 Kazaam Death Spa Gigli Madame Chao's Ancient Chinese Cathode Ray Whorehouse 1 & 2 Serenity Oh. my god... what, are you a masochist, or what? Kazaam and Gigli arr rnough to kill off major amounts of brain cells! P2 _____________________
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Cid Jacobs
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12-05-2005 22:26
Oh! It just came on, so I want to add War Games to my list ^_^
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Gabe Lippmann
"Phone's ringing, Dude."
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12-05-2005 22:38
Shakes the Clown
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Sydney Jacobs
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12-05-2005 22:45
Just wanna remind you... Must see list.... not must LIKE list lol
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Loki Pico
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12-05-2005 22:48
Im sure the list would change if we narrowed genre and / or had all night to think about it. But, here goes...
Mystery Train Night on Earth A Clockwork Orange Repo Man Times Square Rocky Horror Picture Show Fast Times at Ridgemont High Beetlejuice Zoolander A Christmas Story |
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Margeaux Mirabeau
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12-06-2005 03:59
In no particular order :
1. The Shining 2. The Others 3. Sixth Sense 4. Pirates of the Caribbean 5. The Thing 6. Mars Attacks 7. Death Becomes Her 8. The Shawshank Redemption 9. Forrest Gump 10. The Truman Show but there are more than 10 movies that are a must see.. _____________________
 "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." ( From Dune by Frank Herbert ). |
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Hiro Queso
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12-06-2005 04:11
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Human Traffic Trainspotting Aliens Reservoir Dogs Romper Stomper Shawshank Redemption A Beautiful Mind Dead Poets Society _____________________
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Broken Templar
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12-06-2005 04:34
5 Seconds after I posted my net connection died. Again!
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Euterpe Roo
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12-06-2005 07:29
ooooh. I am all over the place:
1. The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries 2. The Bicycle Thief 3. The Pianist 4. Delicatessen/City of Lost Children 5. This Is Spinal Tap/The Princess Bride 6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover/The Pillow Book/The Tempest (Peter Greenaway) 7. Battle Potemkin (for the Oddessa steps sequence) 8. The General (Buster Keaton rocks!!) 9. Annie Hall/Manhattan/Love and Death 10.Pi Honorable Mention: Throw Mama from the Train _____________________
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Luth Brodie
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12-06-2005 08:32
1. The Princess Bride (My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!)
2. Cinema Paradiso (Alfredo!) 3. The City of Lost Children 4. Raging Bull (One of the best cut films ever) 5. The Apartment 6. This is Spinal Tap 7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8. Shaun of the Dead. 9. Trainspotting 10. Raising Arizona (and every other Coen Brothers' movie) Bugger I only get 10. Euterpe: Are you currently or have you recently attended film school? Sure does look like a typical film school list to me. Battleship Potempkin while being rather innovative at the time for cutting, is not what I would call a general everyone must see film just because of the Odessa Steps. Tho it was a great film to see played real big at Trafalgar Square last fall. _____________________
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Willow Zander
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12-06-2005 08:43
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I have over 600 dvds in RL, much like I collect skins in here, I collect DVD's in RL, won't list em all tho _____________________
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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12-06-2005 09:14
Ohh, a lot of good ones listed!
Casablanca (we'll always have Paris! *sniffle*) Dr. Strangelove (Mr. President, we can not allow a mine-shaft gap!) Repo Man (The life of a repo man is always intense!) The Jerk (Lord loves a working man, don't trust whitie, see a doctor and get rid of it.) Rock and Roll High School (We're not students, we're Ramones) Manhatten (Woody Allen's black and white films were my favorites) Eraserhead (actaully I love all of Lynch's stuff) Yojimbo/Fist full of dollars (I like both versions  )City of Lost Children (so beautiful to look at) Miller's Crossing (It's a question of ethics) _____________________
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April Firefly
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12-06-2005 09:24
1. Willow
2. Dark City 3. Dogma 4. Galaxy Quest 5. Monstor's Ball 6. Enemy of the State 7. iRobot 8. Rear Window 9. Terminator 10. The Thirteenth Floor In no particular order _____________________
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Euterpe Roo
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12-06-2005 09:48
Euterpe: Are you currently or have you recently attended film school? Sure does look like a typical film school list to me. Battleship Potempkin while being rather innovative at the time for cutting, is not what I would call a general everyone must see film just because of the Odessa Steps. Tho it was a great film to see played real big at Trafalgar Square last fall. Hi, Luth. Nope, I am not a film school graduate. I have a degree in English which included a few classes in film/film theory. I metioned Eisenstein because, in addition to the editing innovation you mention, the film is part of almost every western director's filmic vocabulary since it was made (remember the sequence in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables?). _____________________
"Of course, you'd also have to mention . . . furries, Sith Lords, cyberpunks, glowing balls of gaseous neon fumes, and walking foodstuffs" --Cory Edo
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AJ DaSilva
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12-06-2005 10:03
Off the top of my head, trying not to list ones already mentioned:
I ♥ Huckabees The Deer Hunter Withnail and I Leon Any Monty Python film Being John Malkovich Lost in Translation The Blues Brothers Robocop Once Upon a Time in China _____________________
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JackBurton Faulkland
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12-06-2005 10:03
No specific order.
1.) American Movie 2.) Blues Brothers 3.) Johnny Dangerously 4.) Shawshank Redemption 5.) A christmas story 6.) Clerks 7.) Office Space 8.) Goodfellas 9.) Billy Madison 10.) Krull _____________________
You know what Jack Burton always says... what the hell?
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Zuzu Fassbinder
Little Miss No Tomorrow
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12-06-2005 10:07
No specific order. 1.) American Movie 2.) Blues Brothers 3.) Johnny Dangerously 4.) Shawshank Redemption 5.) A christmas story 6.) Clerks 7.) Office Space 8.) Goodfellas 9.) Billy Madison 10.) Krull naturally, none fo these movies feature Chuck Norris _____________________
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JackBurton Faulkland
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12-06-2005 10:10
Shakes the Clown Killer Klowns from Outer Space forgot about those! Two great movies _____________________
You know what Jack Burton always says... what the hell?
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JackBurton Faulkland
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12-06-2005 10:12
naturally, none fo these movies feature Chuck Norris Oh Well Chucks movies are in the category of: "Better see, or die from a roundhouse kick to the sternum" _____________________
You know what Jack Burton always says... what the hell?
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Kevn Klein
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12-06-2005 10:19
Did I miss it, or did no one list 'Major Paine' or 'Joe Dirt'? And also, for a funny movie, 'Brave Heart'
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Pol Tabla
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12-06-2005 10:19
The reasons a movie must be seen can vary. This is the kind of list where you end up slapping your forehead later when you recall those films you forgot. That being said, all of these films will continue to resonate even after you're done watching them.
Basquiat (dir. Julian Schnabel) Topsy Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh) Barton Fink (dir. Joel Coen) Four Weddings and a Funeral (dir. Mike Newell) The Thing (dir. John Carpenter) Titus (dir. Julie Taymor) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (dir. Shane Black) Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan) Singin' in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen) Out of Sight (dir. Steven Soderbergh) _____________________
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