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Infernal Affairs, Brotherhood, Amelie, Battle Royale are all incredible. I haven't seen any of the other films but I'll look into them now considering the 4 you mentioned. Great films.

My Top Ten

• 1. Donnie Darko
• 2. Fight Club
• 3. Garden State
• 4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• 5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 6. City of God
• 7. Brotherhood
• 8. Battle Royale
• 9. This Is Spinal Tap
• 10. Y Tu Mama Tambien
• LOTR/Star Wars[/b] They're hard to place  ​
  

You guys are gay. Jurassic Park sucks.

I don't like you anymore Lars.

I didn't put Jurassic Park on my list because it is a quality film, because these days it really isn't.. But man, when it first came out it was new and amazing (real looking dinosaurs, holy shit!) and do you know how many little kids wet their pants in excitement to see the movie? It's just a really special movie. A lot of people like to hold onto it.

Garden State is a really beautiful film. I rented it out a while back and I really enjoyed it. (It was a very moving piece.) It definitely belongs up there in the top 10 list somewhere but being as I don't have room I still reccommend anyone go see it if they can.

Yeah, it's definately in my 11-20 list. Grand film, loved it alot.

I've only seen The Third Man once, but never really saw what was so great about it in that viewing, other than Orson Welles being super fun to watch. I was thinking of maybe renting it again, as my opinion on movies tends to vary quite a bit as I grow older.

to be honest, i can see how somebody would not be too impressed with what the third man set out to do, but i found it to be an interesting collision of culture and expressive visual techniques. i really can't think of a film that conveyed so much of its subtext and sheer emotion simply through where the camera was placed, all the while doing so in pretty simple ways. it's strange because the film isn't really MINDBLOWING, but i found really everything about it very effective. also, one of the big things i really appreciated was how international the film felt. practically every movie you would ever see(in my opinion) is very much a part of the country that the creators were from. even movies that feature characters in an entirely different cultural setting still very much ARE ABOUT the home country of the characters. third man isn't really like that. carol reed and graham greene were both british, but it doesn't feel like a british film. it's like they completely detached from that and just gathered together characters from different cultural backgrounds and put them in a location in which none of them really fit. anton karas' score really emphasized that for me, particularly in how it doesn't exactly fit in with any of the film's characters. it's strange because as much as the film is about THE THIRD MAN, i found the story itself to really be about the practically post-apocalyptic state of europe after World War II. it's like the story and the way the film visually works are deliberately working against eachother to create this feeling that everything is wrong. really the story and the subtext come together in that lyme has embraced the new chaotic nature of the new world, even though the rest of the people in the film haven't. i think, overall, that's what impressed me most about it. not only was it an interesting and engaging story, but it managed to have a very powerful and important subtext without addressing it actively in the storyline itself. like, reading the screenplay itself would not inform you of all the film was about, which is something that almost always impresses the hell out of me. directors and cinematographers usually do not possess that kind of power over the medium.

of course, that is just my reading of the film, and one i don't really expect everyone to give as much of a shit about as i do. as much as i was very much impressed by the structure of the film, it's something that i really understand that most other people would not value quite so much, even if they did have the same read of it as i did. i like jarring stories where different ideologies and cultures deliberately clash together. feels more real to me that way than the stories that go along way too smothly.

still, it is probably worth a second viewing. apart from being a pretty damn classic film imho, the third man is a pretty fun experience.

edit: also i like how it is one of the few films on the top 50 of the imdb that i think actually deserves to be there. i can only count 11 films on that list that i would actually agree with being that highly ranked. i think that always speaks a lot about how the film can appeal to both the casual viewer and also the rabid animal viewers like me that can find things wrong with literally every movie ever made, with the exception of maybe 4 or 5 films.

I accidentally deleted Asphalt Jungle and have regretted it ever since because it looks so interesting and NOW I HAVE DOOMED MYSELF.

I did get that In The Mood for Love movie, and Brick (an SB recommendation).  Next on my list is the Trial, if I can find it, and Like Water for Chocolate (same dilemma), so I'll probably get Asphalt then.

Also Dogville ARAGFDAFDSAFF DO NOT WATCH THAT MOVIE I HATE IT.

Well, compared to some people's lists, Dogville isn't that bad, but jesus christ I've never felt so fucking dirty watching a movie.  It doesn't really have a strong point, and it's got this amazingly inaccurate anti-American view (I'm okay with that view, but the sheer levels this dude brings it to is stunning).

Also wasn't Sky Above Berlin remade as City of Angels or some other movie?

Anyways, my list is mostly been posted here (put To Kill a Mockingbird at the top though because I love that movie), and other than the Apu Trilogy which no one here will ever watch, I have nothing to contribute so far.

best part of dogville is the post-rape balls shot

Hmm. I expected to see Rules Of Attraction on SOMEBODY'S list...

hasnt fucking anyone seen shrek...?

I'd rather pour acid in my eyeball sockets than watch that again. I almost fell asleep halfway through.

I've seen all three, and I'd say the first and last one are both pretty horrible. It's all torture and gore with like little music-box melodies playing in the background.  Perfectly distastefull, pretentious, and meaningless at the same time. Oldboy was cool, but god damn those Koreans and their fucking nonsense.

Uh.

Amazing to lose so much respect for one person in a single post.

What the fuck, man. Welcome to the film industry. People have been making films like this for many many years. Also, I can't speak for the third in the triology, but in the first, there's only one scene of torture, which is painful to watch, but that's the entire point of that scene, it's not meant to be an enjoyable experience. And there is alot more to the films than just gore and violence, I'd advise you to watch it again, but that would be pointless.

Man, I'd hate to see what you'd think of the Americans after watching films like Hostel. Jesus christ.

god forbid someone form his own opinion on a movie

Anyway, I downloaded Oldboy a few days ago but I can't get the subtitles working.  Does anybody know how to change the video renderer type in Media Player Classic?  I know it's off-topic but I wanted to see if somebody could give me a quick answer so I don't have to make a whole topic about it somewhere else.