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30 Jul 2009, 7:46 am

Casablanca.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version)

Destination Moon (1950)

The Flight of the Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart version).


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30 Jul 2009, 7:48 am

ouinon wrote:

Others:
Mulholland Drive
Brazil
American Beauty
Desperately Seeking Susan
Excalibur
( Pink Floyd's ) The Wall
"Safe", ( by Todd Haynes ), with Julianne Moore, ( who is one of my favourite actresses ), and "The Hours", also with her.
John Carpenter's "The Thing", and "Prince of Darkness"
Bagdad Cafe
The Princess Bride
Batman Returns ( Tim Burton )
The Silence of the Lambs
and Charlie Kaufmann ( "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Adaptation" etc ) is one of my favourite writers/directors


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Good choices. Especially -Brazil-. Brazil is what -1984- would have been if George Orwell (Eric Blaire) had a sense of humor which he did not.l

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30 Jul 2009, 2:49 pm

Dilbert wrote:
At the height of its power, the Roman Empire was vast, stretching from the deserts of Africa to the borders of northern England. Over one quarter of the world's population lived and died under the rule of the Caesars. In the winter of 180 A.D. Emperor Marcus Aurelius' twelve-year campaign against the barbarian tribes in Germania was drawing to an end. One final stronghold stands in the way of Roman victory and the promise of peace throughout the empire.


I'm with you on this one 8)



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30 Jul 2009, 4:42 pm

I’ve had my share of such interests, including:
Love at First Bite
The Labrynth
The Creepshow
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nightmare on Elm Street movies

When I was younger, I was obsessed with particular scenes in the movie The Dark Crystal.



I also had “composite interests” around media entailing groups of movies/tv shows that I was obsessed with as a group (and perceived as being actually related and mutually entailed in some way that is impossible for me to explain), such as the Star Wars series Krull, and the tv shows Star Trek, Battlestar Galatica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blake’s Seven, Tomorrow People, Saphire and Steel, Doctor Who, Tron, the Pigs in Space skitz on the Muppet Show, and a cartoon that involved some plant species attacking earth… there were a few other shows/movies involved in that particular grouping that I cannot remember meaningful specifics for (I’d know them if I saw them).

When I was even younger still, I was obsessed with the name for a movie (from a book) called “Watership Down” (or something that sounded like that to my inept audio processing), and with the theme song from this movie (Bright Eyes I think it was called). I thought there was either some water related space ship or a big “olden day” sailing ship entailed in this movie, (either was fine with me as I had a liking for both space ships and anything to do with the“olden days”). I was mystified and disappointed beyond belief when I finally saw the movie on tv and neither space ship nor “olden day” sailing ship appeared.



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30 Jul 2009, 11:26 pm

Oh my ! !

Pink Floyd "The Wall', I've got the disc and sat and listened to the narration by Roger Waters who is not entirely a fan of the movie, great flick, great music, fascinating choice of imagery throughout.

When it first premiered, I remember standing against the back wall of theater because they oversold it. The opening is fantastic, being familiar with the album, I never imagined such an opening sequence....


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31 Jul 2009, 5:52 am

Blade Runner is my all-time favorite. A sci-fi cult movie, beautifully shot!

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It's about what actually makes us human. They use the Voight-Kampff test to detect empathy, in order to determine if you are human or an escaped robot.

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When I arrived in Hong Kong for the first time, it was night, extremely hot and pouring rain. It felt so like being in this movie.
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