What's your favorite movie?

[Obdurate]

I know this is long but I can't really pick a favourite movie. Here's a top 25 I made recently, even though my top whatevers are never entirely accurate, since I forget things:

1: Fight Club
2: El Topo
3: Gummo
4: Julien Donkey-Boy
5: 2001: A Space Odyssey
6: Persona
7: Stalker
8: The Mirror
9: There Will Be Blood
10: Tropical Malady
11: No Country for Old Men
12: Fantastic Planet
13: Winter Light
14: Le Mepris
15: Pixote
16: The Idiots
17: Batman Begins
18: Rocky Balboa
19: Seven Samurai
20: Grave of the Fireflies
21: Paperhouse
22: Last Life in the Universe
23: Dark City
24: Peeping Tom
25: Story of the Weeping Camel

After that I watched Parasite Eve which I loooved so it should be in the top 25 but since I don't know what to get rid of...
26: Parasite Eve

 

[kazzman]

Pulp Fiction

 

[Anastasia]

I know this is long but I can't really pick a favourite movie. Here's a top 25 I made recently, even though my top whatevers are never entirely accurate, since I forget things:

1: Fight Club
2: El Topo
3: Gummo
4: Julien Donkey-Boy
5: 2001: A Space Odyssey
6: Persona
7: Stalker
8: The Mirror
9: There Will Be Blood
10: Tropical Malady
11: No Country for Old Men
12: Fantastic Planet
13: Winter Light
14: Le Mepris
15: Pixote
16: The Idiots
17: Batman Begins
18: Rocky Balboa
19: Seven Samurai
20: Grave of the Fireflies
21: Paperhouse
22: Last Life in the Universe
23: Dark City
24: Peeping Tom
25: Story of the Weeping Camel

After that I watched Parasite Eve which I loooved so it should be in the top 25 but since I don't know what to get rid of...
26: Parasite Eve

Let's see; Bergman, Powell, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Von Trier. Wanna be my new best friend?

 

[Obdurate]

Haha sure!

I've only seen two Von Trier films, The Idiots and Breaking the Waves, and while I admire Breaking the Waves, I don't particularly like it.

Tarkovsky does no wrong, though. Same with Bergman.
Only seen one Kurosawa film but I got a few waiting for me.

I don't think that Korine gets nearly enough credit for how daring he is, and Jodorowsky, outside of the blatant animal abuse, is also amazing.

So many films are missing from that list that I adore. INLAND EMPIRE, South Park: The Movie, Team America, Schizopolis, Living In Oblivion, Se7en, Network, Blair Witch, Chinatown, Persepolis, Even Dwarfs Started Small... I always feel like I'm doing movies an injustice.

Have you ever seen a Apichatpong Weerasethakul film? Tropical Malady, Mysterious Object At Noon, Blissfully Yours, Syndromes and a Century... the guy is like a Thai version of Harmony Korine and he's absolutely stunning. Tropical Malady ranks up there in my top 5, easily, along with Stalker...

And what gets me is that Masayuki Ochiai made a great film like Parasite Eve but also went on to make the horrid Shutter. I was shocked when I learned that that piece of crap was made by the same guy.


Sorry I've gone on and on and on. Sadly there was more I wanted to say too.

 

[BiPolar Betty]

Irréversible

BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. IT SCREWS YOUR HEAD UP FOR DAAAAAAAAAYS

 

[Anastasia]

I think Dogville is Von Trier's masterpiece. You MUST see it.

My favorite Tarkovsky is Andrei Rublev. My favorite Bergman is Through a Glass Darkly.

I've never seen any Korine. I heard about the dead cats in Gummo and avoided him but I know he casts Wener Herzog whom I love.

Never seen any Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Heard of him though.

My favorite director is David Lynch. My favorite film is of all things Showgirls. I also really love (in addition to the directors I mentioned above) David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Jane Campion, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Catherine Breillat, Paul Schrader, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris, John Huston, Frederico Fellini, Bob Fosse, Vincente Minnelli, Luis Brunel, etc., etc.

 

[Anastasia]

Irréversible

BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. IT SCREWS YOUR HEAD UP FOR DAAAAAAAAAYS

I saw that movie at a film festival in Chicago 5 years ago and during the opening sequence where (SPOILER ALTER) the guy gets his face beaten it made such an awful crushing noise than I covered my ears with my hands and started humming until the guy next to me who was a total stranger asked if was okay. LOL!

 

[BiPolar Betty]

I saw that movie at a film festival in Chicago 5 years ago and during the opening sequence where (SPOILER ALTER) the guy gets his face beaten it made such an awful crushing noise than I covered my ears with my hands and started humming until the guy next to me who was a total stranger asked if was okay. LOL!

isnt it a crazy ass movie???
and that massive major scene in the underpass?
fucking insane.
i was so messed up after this movie.

 

[Jersey]

Irréversible

BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. IT SCREWS YOUR HEAD UP FOR DAAAAAAAAAYS

*adds to Netflix queue*

 

[Anastasia]

isnt it a crazy ass movie???
and that massive major scene in the underpass?
fucking insane.
i was so messed up after this movie.

After seeing it the first time I had to take the L Train home and I had to get on it from underground (In Chicago the train is above around, at ground level, or underground in various places) and I remember standing in the dark alone in the tunnel. It was a surreal experience.

And yet ANOTHER story about the movie... I was a philosophy major in college ( I hear you snickering) and took this class called "Philosophy of Film" with this major film geek teacher so I handed him Irreversible knowing he loved weird/sick movies. The next class I got there early and we were talking about the film as other students went in getting very passionate about the conversation and nobody knowing what the hell we were talking about and they were all curious. Then he tells the rest of the class about the movie and says; "THIS (holding up a copy of Irreserible) makes THIS (holding up a copy of A Clockwork Orange) look like a Disney film."

 

[Obdurate]

I'm actually pretty new when it comes to seriously (that sounds so dorky to say) watching movies so I haven't heard of a few of the directors you mentioned above. Well maybe I've seen a movie and didn't know who it was, I don't know.

Lynch is a great director and so funny. Did you see what he said about product placement in movies? Hilarious.
Scorsese is a director that I admire but don't love any of his films that I've seen. Same goes to people like Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven, especially, had some awe-inspiring scenes but I didn't like the film that much overall).

You know who I like, who isn't a great director but still makes really good movies? Kevin Smith. I can't get enough of most of his films. He's just a master of interesting dialogue.

 

[Anastasia]

I got seriously into movies as a young teen myself but time passed and things happened and I got distracted. I'm starting to really get into them again.

I used to be really into Smith when I was younger. Not so much anymore.

Malick's films are beautifully shot. Never seen Days of Heaven. Seen all (all 3 lol) of his other films though.

 

[Obdurate]

lol, I've seen Badlands and Days of Heaven. Gonna see his other shortly.

I just find Smith really funny. Like, he's a go-to guy for comedy, for me. I could listen to the guy talk for hours.

Yeah when I was 16-19 I started getting into movies but didn't go far beyond what was popular at the time (Fight Club was my big movie that kinda, uh, set me apart... even though it didn't really). Then I kinda stopped for a lil while and now I'm back into 'em. I wish I would have been more interested in movies when I was younger so I'd have fewer to catch up on.

P.S. I still think Fight Club is awesome.

 

[Obdurate]

Anastasia, I was looking around to see if the cats harmed in Gummo were real and what I've found is that the cats were fake (which, I always figured anyways) except for once, where they used an already dead cat.
Why am I telling you this now? Well since the cat thing was turning you off of it, maybe now you'll want to watch it. I don't want you to miss out on one of the most daring directors out there. Hell, Herzog embraced him.

 

[Anastasia]

I like cats. I'm very much a "crazy cat lady." Real or fake, I know the film would upset me greatly.

 

[Obdurate]

Haha, well fair enough. Maybe check out Julien Donkey-Boy? I don't think there's harm to cats in that. And maybe his new movie, Mister Lonely, but I don't know if it's good or not. I haven't seen it and Roger Ebert was conflicted about it.