Oh there are just so many, but here are some random favorites of mine: Iron Man Fight Club (kind of weird but great movie) Meet the Parents (Ben Stiller=) Meet the Fockers <---will this be blocked out? Pineapple Express, A.K.A. "The Funniest Movie Ever" National Treasure 1 & 2 Ocean's 11 & 13 (12 was too confusing to me) Anyways, those are just a couple that come to mind...
very nice like to see the PT Anderson films on their and donny darko should have been on my list kind of scared to see the sequel though don't wasn't to ruin it
Yea, PT Anderson is my favorite director at the moment And I completely agree with you - i was incredibly dissapointed when I saw the commercial for the new Donnie Darko movie (can't remember what the new one is called) - The same dissapointment I felt when I found out they made a sequel to the Butterfly Effect. Some things should be left alone and never touched again - its hard to improve on the originals.
Fight Club Truman Show Forrest Gump Step brothers And the best for last Labryinth Starring David Bowie... Freaking movie is Hensons best....
Yes, lot's of people have been mentioning Fight Club. That is awesome! That movie pretty much epitomizes how I feel about what America's become with all the rampant consumerism and our lives revolving around celebrities. It makes me sick, but at the same time I'm guilty of it. Well I don't really care about celebrities, but I surely buy crap I don't need. I guess we all do, since we all have iDevices. At least I don't watch reality TV. My favorite Fight Club quote would have to be "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Hmmmm... deep. Oh and this rant reminded me, Idiocracy is a pretty cool movie too. Basically it's what would happen to America in 500 years after we've all been dumbed down by constant advertising and corporations. It's maybe not as funny as it seems like it would be from the box, but still a pretty good movie and gives you that feeling of "wow, this could really be how it is someday. I'm gonna go read a book!"
Definitely. IT's really the way most of the developed world is, Fight is specifically about America, though. I also love the whole "remasculinization" aspect of it("we are a generation raised by women"). I just love the whole message of the movie. I usually hate movies with an agenda, but Fight Club is the exception. I especially love the scene with the owner of Lou's tavern. That is the greatest example of "turn the other cheek" I've ever seen ("no, Lou, I didn't quite get that" ). Awesome stuff.
Magnolia is my all time favorite movie, and has served as a main influence for a lot of fiction I've written back when I used to be really in to things like the NaNoWriMo and short story contests. Honorable mentions include: Go Amelie A Knight's Tale Moulin Rouge Voices of a Distant Star Big Fish
Are you sure? Check my post, no edit either... Best comedy ever! Also yea Fight club is great, my favorite quotes would have to be either... "Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer" "Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles." The imagery from the second quote gives me goosebumps everytime I think about it.... Read the book over the movie, they are both great and it's amazing that the movie portrayed the book so well (like they used the book for the script exact). But I read the book after watching the movie and that did it for me, best movie/book ever....
@Hodapp...I didn't really like Master and Commander, but A Knight's Tale is a classic, one of my favorites for sure
Dumb and Dumber The Exorcist The Dark Knight There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men V for Vendetta Superbad
@Hodapp: Magnolia is amazing, I get crazy chills when Goodbye Stranger plays in that movie, it actually got me into listening to Supertramp. Paul Thomas Anderson is genius, I can't help but mention Punch Drunk Love and Boogie Nights as some all time favorites as well. It's crazy that a movie can have such a "life changing" effect on someone, I could just about say the same thing for me with Fight Club. It changed the way I look at a lot of things in life. Yay movies! Oh, and StepBrothers rules!!
Delicatessen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYo_SkERMNI http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/ ----------------- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkMOjNWiHuA http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/ ------------------ Contact http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wPd9j7g0L0 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/ ------------------ Being John Malkovich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ahIGLNNwo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/ ------------------ Amelie of Montmartre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECzJY07oK4 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/ ------------------ Songs from the second floor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW8J5LvzeZI http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120263/ ------------------ A Clockwork Orange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EwT2JHDENE http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/ ------------------ Dancer In The Dark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYzO_n-gwck http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/
Oh yeah, everything PT Anderson touches turns to gold. I liked Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love, but neither compare to Magnolia.
I was beyond irritated when i watched that movie. That is one of the best books I've ever read. Because I read the book first, the movie just seemed horrible in comparison. If I would have seen the movie first, I might have liked it. The book is 1000x better without a doubt.
I love the ending of the book. The movie's ending is one of the greatest endings in film history, but it wouldn't have worked in the book and books ending wouldn't have worked in the movie. I love the last scene where they holding hands and he says "you met me at very strange time in my life" right when everything explodes. (I don't think that's a spoiler).
