What about Bob — BC
I don't enjoy 'noble' message films. And recent era cinema with overstated movie scores, swimming in clichés are really off putting. I prefer to see something visually inventive, with a focus on milieu and plots generally don't interest me much. Character does and sometimes dialogue. Clever production design can take your breath away and make something highly watchable. — Tom Storm
Thin Red Line — ssu
How about:
Inherit the wind
Mississippi Burning
Hoffa
Malcolm X — universeness
Falling Down — Vera Mont
A funny movie. I always thought it was a satire of conservative ideology and middle aged male fantasy.
— Mikie
That certainly shows how very differently we perceive things. I didn't find it at all; I thought it was tragic. — Vera Mont
Sometimes a Great Notion — unenlightened
Brazil
— Tom Storm
Hated it. Just too, too, too much. Same with Imaginarium.
Not everything needs to be illustrated with cartooney exaggeration. — Vera Mont
The Marx brothers are still awesome. As I child when I was in Seattle (for two years), my father took us to this incredible movie theatre showing black and white films. It's one thing to see on DVD Duck Soup and other all time classics. It's totally another to see the film in a movie theatre with an audience howling in laughter during the mirror scene. I remember laughing in the car when going home.I was also thinking about the best comedy movies: That's probably another at least top ten:
It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad world
Duck Soup
Are two of my favourites. — universeness
How about High Noon?Westerns — T Clark
Oh no! See the movie anyway. I implore you. I had to see it 3 times in the theater— a modern masterpiece on all levels. — Mikie
I had the same reaction to Night at the Opera. If you liked those you probably also loved the Court Jester (The Chalice with the Palace has the pellet with the poison. The vessel with the pestle has the Brew that is True. Or was that the Flagon with the Dragon?)It's totally another to see the film in a movie theatre with an audience howling in laughter during the mirror scene. I remember laughing in the car when going home — ssu
It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad world
Duck Soup — universeness
So how do you feel about movie's such as A Streetcar Named Desire or Scarface or Taxi Driver or Falling Down? — universeness
Hated it. Just too, too, too much. Same with Imaginarium.
Not everything needs to be illustrated with cartooney exaggeration. — Vera Mont
↪Joshs I generally dislike westerns, especially those priggish productions by John Ford. But I loved Deadwood the series and I like Once Upon A Time in The West. I think it's the Italians who got what Westerns should be, the dust, the filth, the sound editing... — Tom Storm
Agree with you. I'm more into overturning. — Tom Storm
I get it. Brazil is the only one of Gillian's that I like. It holds some of the most striking production design and visual invention of 80's cinema. — Tom Storm
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