My Top 10 movie choices, must be... !

1. Jarhead
2. Spirited Away
3. Universal Soldiers (Favourite as a kid)
4. The Matrix
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Inception
7. Pineapple Express
8. The Hangover
9. Pearl Harbour
10. Avatar

Hohohoho! Couldn't remember my favourite movies. So I just mentioned a few good movies.

Do you mean me? Cause I never insulted anyone for thinking Casablanca doesn't deserve to be in a Top Ten.

The only good thing about Zatoichi is it inspired Tarantino to write Kill Bill. Other than that and maybe a couple of the geisha fighting scenes, I thought it was pretty disappointing but I won't think less of anyone for liking it. ;)

YAY! :)

I have been waiting to put up my list a little bit, just to see what people are putting up. I am afraid my list is going to look old and curmudgeonly, but you will see Seven Samurai in the Top 3.

Aha. Straightforward kinda guy, I see. :D

I thought the character was kind of naive, kinda hard to empathize with, so I got bored within the first few minutes. I get that with pretty much every Kitano movie. But then again, I hardly ever like any of the Japanese films I watch. I really tried to like them but I can't seem to get into them. Best one I've seen would have to be Ugetsu. At least it was unlike anything I've ever seen.

MMM, I took a class on Welles today. :) Got me thinking about what we discussed here a few days ago. We pretty much talked about The Magnificent Ambersons, the one he made after Citizen Kane, and apparently the RKO released a final version of the film that was totally different from what he had initially planned. He pretty much didn't get a say in anything and they included scenes that Welles didn't mean to put in the film. I wonder how much of that was the result of the failure that was Citizen Kane at that time. I didn't get to ask if Welles really had no one to answer to while he was filming Citizen Kane, but it got me thinking... despite having control over everything during the process, I think the RKO supervised the process closely.

Yes, Welles was put on a short leash after Citizen Kane, as, in the studio's eyes, it was not considered a success. It wasn't until a few years later people were able to take another look and appreciate it for what it was. (I believe it was the French critics that revived CK, although it was lauded by many critics stateside.) Even classic movies by Welles like Touch of Evil and The Third Man have major studio changes. A few years ago Criterion released what they think would be Welles' version of the film based on his notes and letters he wrote to the studio. Definitely worth checking out... one of the most amazing one-cut opening sequences of all time in Touch of Evil. The sound is just as incredible as the visuals.

Funny you should say that,I actually have a male friend that likes Twilight!
I can't comment on the quality of it really,I haven't seen it.

I love Lord of the Rings...Though really you need to watch the Extended versions, they are truer to the books. I read the books in 4th grade...way back in..77,78....took a while to read 1000 pages. I dont even mind some of the "liberties" they took.. Like there were no elves at Helms deep aside from Legolas..but it fit well with how the Movie was going.

The eagles flew into Mordor after they got rid of the Ring, so that's not a huge thing cause Sauron allready lost.

The Big element in the story was that Sauron was going to win no matter what anybody did. Sauron didn't need the ring to win. The good guys could only defeat him by destroying the ring...and only the two lowest dudes who nobody would notice could do it. Not Kings, or wizards or elf heros... but two shmucks from the farm.

Tell me about it! I wrote a 15-pages paper on this shot.

Quality production wise? High. Like, very.

I don't know why people hate the Twilight saga so much. I have not seen any of the movies or read the books, but I can see why it sells so well and why all the 15 year-olds are so hooked on it. I mean, it's no wonder it's a success. It has everything a good story needs to attract a huge audience (especially teenagers). What's there to hate about it? They know how to sell their product + vampires are so in vogue these days. I don't get why all the hate towards this Pattinson boy, really.

Some things happen in the books that didn't make it to the movies and some things happen in the movies that are nowhere in the books. No biggie. There's no way you can fit everything from a book into a movie. Adapting a book for a screenplay is about taking the essence of the story. It's not a picture version of the book you read, and people need to understand that. Plus it wouldn't work. I truly believe the Lord of the Rings would not have been half the success it is if the movies were any more true to the books.

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