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08 Oct 2007, 6:13 pm

Any movie that has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.


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09 Oct 2007, 1:34 am

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Matrix!

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fight club
donnie darko
pulp fiction

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No kidding. :)


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09 Oct 2007, 1:41 am

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LOST IN TRANSLATION!! !! !
Finding Nemo (really, any Pixar movie except The Incredibles...)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Napoleon Dynamite
40 Year Old Virgin
American Pie
ANY 80'S TEEN MOVIE, including Ferris Beueller's Day Off and Fast Times
The Host
Pan's Labyrinth (I loved it but didn't think it to be the masterpiece many critics were calling it)
Brokeback Mountain (this from someone who loves Ang Lee's movies most of the time)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the sh**...sorry, Sith
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Bourne trilogy
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
The Third Man
The Godfather
Rear Window (really anything by Hitchcock...none of it scares me, and I find most of it boring)
The Departed
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Maltese Falcon
Seven Samurai
Batman Begins (good, but the visuals sucked, and the action sucked, and those are what I want most from a superhero movie, especially a Batman movie, which should be a fiesta of gothic-noir visuals. It was still a great movie because of the characters and story, but it lacked what I wanted from a BATMAN movie!)
Tim Burton's Batman (sorry but the best thing about it was Danny Elfman's score. Jack Nicholson was funny as The Joker but he didn't look a thing like the Joker should have--he's too damn round. Joker's a freaky skinny scrawney scary bastard--he's not funny. Michael Keaton actually would have made a better Joker...see Beetlejuice for an example of that! A crappy plot, miscast characters, dated visuals, and awful Prince songs ruined this for me even though I normally love Tim Burton)
Blade Runner
Million Dollar Baby
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (sorry but I don't like excessive gore)
The Big Lebowski (sorry, it just didn't do it for me)
Magnolia
Any of Disney's animated movies (i.e. Little Mermaid, Lion King...sorry but I hate the songs)
Re-Animator
Over the Hedge

Some of the classic films above meant a lot to their time or did something new and different, and I can understand that. But many modern films do what they did better now, and they no longer hold up for me. I can't help not liking them.


Are you joking?! Re-Animator?! Have YOU ever seen a zombie head give head? And what about the Campyness? There's no way you can "do it better" no matter what kind of Technology you have. Maybe you just didn't see the point of the Film? Damn that just makes no sense.

I would have to say 300 by the way, even it's crappyness is overrated.


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09 Oct 2007, 1:43 am

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Oh, and I forgot The Crow (this from a goth)...then again I don't like revenge flicks. Great gothic visuals though...

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I love The Host and Re Animator! Lol Re Animator I admit can get kind of stupid sometimes but its neat none the less, and I dont think it was meant to be realistic :lol:


I don't give a sh** about it being realistic. I just didn't like the rape by severed head scene.

The Host was ok, but Ain't It Cool News was calling it the best monster movie since Jaws. Psh...


Aha! I was right, you didn't get the point.

Damn prudes. :evil: :roll:


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09 Oct 2007, 8:41 am

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Anything with Will Ferrell doing comedy. Sorry, but I just don't think he's funny.

Ditto to that! My mom thinks he is so funny. I just don't get it sometimes. :?



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09 Oct 2007, 8:43 am

Some one said the Tim Burton Batman movies........ I agree. to me they could have been a hell of a lot better.



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09 Oct 2007, 6:13 pm

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Aha! I was right, you didn't get the point.

Damn prudes. :evil: :roll:


I just don't like seeing rape or torture in movies, and in this case it was so extreme that I found it difficult to like the movie all that much. Plus, I just didn't find any of it as funny as some people did...I much prefer "Evil Dead II" and "Shaun of the Dead." Had I found "Re-Animator" as funny as people said it was, then I might have been able to look past that scene.

If it helps at all I love the game in your avatar, "Dreamfall." I DO hope the third "Longest Journey" game actually answers all those questions, though...



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10 Oct 2007, 2:53 am

Veresae wrote:
Deus_ex_machina wrote:
Aha! I was right, you didn't get the point.

Damn prudes. :evil: :roll:


I just don't like seeing rape or torture in movies, and in this case it was so extreme that I found it difficult to like the movie all that much. Plus, I just didn't find any of it as funny as some people did...I much prefer "Evil Dead II" and "Shaun of the Dead." Had I found "Re-Animator" as funny as people said it was, then I might have been able to look past that scene.

If it helps at all I love the game in your avatar, "Dreamfall." I DO hope the third "Longest Journey" game actually answers all those questions, though...


But see you're missing the point still, that scene wasn't meant to be funny, just controversial, it was meant to push bounderies not be a found memory. Those are great movies but I don't think Re-Animator can be said to be in the same league as them, Re-Animator wasn't just a Horror-Comedy, it mish mashed a lot of things together which is it's strong point.

Yeah that was an incredibly good game, though I've only played the second one. I've even downloaded the Soundtrack because the songs are so good.


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10 Oct 2007, 10:27 pm

Anything from:

Steve Carell
Will Farrel
Tim Allen (I was forced to watch Zoom, and Tim was the biggest of all the babies forced into this craphole)
Pixar (taken as the Gospel)
Al Gore (torture porn, esp. if he imagines his audience in underwear and shows that image to reveal what will happen in 5 years when it is too hot if we don't hand over money to him, I mean the "regulation effort".)
Mike Myers
The Rock

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When a stranger calls (laughing through the whole movie)


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14 Oct 2007, 6:44 pm

Anything with Brad Pitt, except some of his early work.


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17 Oct 2007, 7:57 pm

Chariots of Fire-I liked it at one time, until I found out how many mistakes it contained. It was one of the most historically inaccurate movies ever made about the Olympic Games. The Olympics are one of my obsessions, so the movie drives me crazy now.



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17 Oct 2007, 9:11 pm

Ocean's Eleven


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14 Apr 2020, 5:08 pm

The Matrix
Fantasia
Titanic
Mamma Mia
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
The Jungle Book (2016)
Goodfellas
Godfather II



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14 Apr 2020, 5:13 pm

All the Star Wars and Harry Potter movies. There's nothing wrong with them, but IMHO they're nothing to obsess about like it seems most of the population around here does.


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14 Apr 2020, 5:17 pm

Any slasher movie franchise like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Scream.



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14 Apr 2020, 7:16 pm

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Any slasher movie franchise like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Scream.


This. I don't get the appeal of slasher movies.