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Macabre Stalker
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 30 Jul 2004 09:19 pm
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Donnie Darko was just a movie that featured nothing that could be considered plot. I'm one for a brain twister (liking Fight Club prepared me for that) but it seems like the movie was just weird for the sake of trying to be hip and rather than succeeding it stood out for the poser that it was.
The countdown till the point when the 'shroom influenced bunny tells him the world will end and then an airplane engine crushing blah blah blah, it seems as though someone set out to make a cult favorite without the cult wanting it. I know some people really love the movie but I think it is overrated when compared to the likes of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive which is also messed up, but where Donnie Darko is a bad film, Mulholland Dr. teases you into liking it.
As for Final Destination I believe it is one of the most clever, well written series of movies in the post-Scream era of teen horror. The creative death scenes, the interesting take on a story, the whole series is a refreshing blast in a very stale genre (much like 28 Days Later is to the horror genre). I could argue all day but no one will ever convince me that FD and FD2 are bad films. |
Donnie Darko is a brilliant movie. It's okay not to like it, but to pass it off as 'a plotless wonder' is just ignorant. You have to distinguish between preference and fact.
I liked FD1 a lot, rolling over a couple of minor plot holes and ignoring the abundant clichés and predictable plot advancements...though I don't know how you can defend FD2 as 'a good movie,' since it's anything but. Again, you're entitled to enjoy the movie, but there's no way you can defend that it's a good movie. The acting skill is like straight out of Train 48. I'd tear the plot to shreds if I could actually remember the details of any of it, but thankfully it's all been blocked out of my mind to prevent internal brain trauma and hemorrhaging. |
Donnie Darko IS a brilliant movie. It is just made by a very green director who is not yet capable of telling his story tightly and with the greatest effectiveness. I'd point you to my review on the site..but I actually think that is more me fellating Jake Gyllenhaal than anything else. 
On the other hand, I WOULD be interested in seeing what you have to say about my FD 1 and 2 reviews..especially since you like the first and not the second. |
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Macabre Stalker
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30 Jul 2004 09:20 pm
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| Yeah, To Kill A Mockingbird and Citizin Kane? You definitely need to revise your list now that you've grown up a little. |
Fucking uncultured swine. I mean...RHPS? Why didn't you just go ahead and put "THE WALL" on there? |
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Notelgnis
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30 Jul 2004 09:25 pm
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It wasnt a Top 6 list?
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Macabre Stalker
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30 Jul 2004 09:32 pm
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| It wasnt a Top 6 list? |
You sicken me. |
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Larlar
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30 Jul 2004 09:36 pm
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Donnie Darko was just a movie that featured nothing that could be considered plot. I'm one for a brain twister (liking Fight Club prepared me for that) but it seems like the movie was just weird for the sake of trying to be hip and rather than succeeding it stood out for the poser that it was.
The countdown till the point when the 'shroom influenced bunny tells him the world will end and then an airplane engine crushing blah blah blah, it seems as though someone set out to make a cult favorite without the cult wanting it. I know some people really love the movie but I think it is overrated when compared to the likes of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive which is also messed up, but where Donnie Darko is a bad film, Mulholland Dr. teases you into liking it.
As for Final Destination I believe it is one of the most clever, well written series of movies in the post-Scream era of teen horror. The creative death scenes, the interesting take on a story, the whole series is a refreshing blast in a very stale genre (much like 28 Days Later is to the horror genre). I could argue all day but no one will ever convince me that FD and FD2 are bad films. |
Donnie Darko is a brilliant movie. It's okay not to like it, but to pass it off as 'a plotless wonder' is just ignorant. You have to distinguish between preference and fact.
I liked FD1 a lot, rolling over a couple of minor plot holes and ignoring the abundant clichés and predictable plot advancements...though I don't know how you can defend FD2 as 'a good movie,' since it's anything but. Again, you're entitled to enjoy the movie, but there's no way you can defend that it's a good movie. The acting skill is like straight out of Train 48. I'd tear the plot to shreds if I could actually remember the details of any of it, but thankfully it's all been blocked out of my mind to prevent internal brain trauma and hemorrhaging. |
Donnie Darko IS a brilliant movie. It is just made by a very green director who is not yet capable of telling his story tightly and with the greatest effectiveness. I'd point you to my review on the site..but I actually think that is more me fellating Jake Gyllenhaal than anything else.
On the other hand, I WOULD be interested in seeing what you have to say about my FD 1 and 2 reviews..especially since you like the first and not the second. |
Now I have to, what with us both being gay for Jake Gyllenhaal and all.
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30 Jul 2004 09:38 pm
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Larlar
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30 Jul 2004 09:45 pm
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I'M SORRY YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP
I'M BEING FELLATED BY A TOWEL
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30 Jul 2004 09:49 pm
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Heh. I talk about Day After Tomorrow in that article. I forgot about that.
Owell...at least DAT was fun if nothing else. |
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Beldin
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30 Jul 2004 10:01 pm
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Oh man, I could never pick five, so I'll just sort of throw out a bunch of catagories.
Martial Arts:
Enter the Dragon or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Kill Bill (I'm counting both parts together)
Crime/Drama:
The Godfather or Reservoir Dogs or The Usual Suspects
Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
The Lord of the Rings (all three parts) or The Empire Strikes Back
Comedy: (Man, this is a tough one)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Anchorman or The Big Lebowski (honorable mention to Blazing Saddles)
Animated:
Princess Mononoke or Shrek 1/2
Comic book movies:
Spider-man 2 or Batman (the 1989 and the 60s TV pilot)
Plain-old messed up, regardless of genre:
Battle Royale or Versus or Ichi the Killer
(anyone notice a pattern in the last three?) |
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sprouticus
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the favorites i tell people so i seem smart:
- the third man
- 8 1/2
- grand illusion
- band of outsiders
- sunset boulevard
actually they are on my top 100, just a little further down the list.
my actual favorites:
- star wars trilogy
- jaws
- the godfather 1 & 2
- e.t.
- thelma and louise (i can't explain it) |
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Amir0x
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Hmm...hmmm... five is extremely difficult.
I'll try, but it'll overflow. And I'll cheat a little, because I can do that 
Also it's not REALLY in a particular order, but I'll give them numbers anyway:
1. The Deer Hunter
2. Christiane F.
3. Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
4. Grave of the Fireflies
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Trainspotting
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Kill Bill (Vol 1/2)
9. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
10. Children of Heaven
11. Naked Lunch
12. Indiana Jones (Trilogy)
13. Clockwork Orange
14. Brazil
15. Requiem for a Dream (For Ellen Burstyn's performance alone)
16. Lost in Translation (my love, my great, great love...)
17. Whale Rider (Oh you know why, Macabre, you know why. Go Keisha Castle-Hughes!)
18. Princess Mononoke
19. Memento
20. Gattaca
21. Schindler's List
22. Fargo
23. Godfather I/II
24. Seven Samurai/Ran
25. Network
26. Monty Python's Life of Brian
27. 2001: A Space Oddessy
28. Lilya 4-Ever
29. Chasing Amy
30. Alien I/II
31. Toy Story 2
And more, much more...later for now, work++
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Timotei Centea
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The closest I can come to choosing my favorite movies is an unranked Top Ten; anything more specific than that (1) would change on an hour-to-hour basis and (2) would quite possibly kill me during the selection process. That being said:
Cries and Whispers (I. Bergman)
La Dolce Vita (F. Fellini)
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Just Shut Up and Love the Bomb (S. Kubrick)
The Godfather Trilogy (F. F. Coppola)
The Indiana Jones Trilogy (S. Spielberg)
Lawrence of Arabia (D. Lean)
Nostalghia (A. Tarkovsky)
Once Upon A Time in the West (S. Leone)
Rear Window (A. Hitchcock)
Schindler's List (S. Spielberg)
With runner-ups including: Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, by Richard Linklater; Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola; 2001: ASO by Stanley Kubrick; Once Upon A Time In America by Sergio Leone; 8½ by Federico Fellini, Chungking Express and Fallen Angels by Wong Kar-Wai; Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard; The Three Colors Trilogy by Krysztof Kieslowski; The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa, and more.
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