disowning all ilxors who don't vote Ghost Dog
― mh, Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Iron Giant
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 June 2012 05:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like a bunch of these, but will vote George Washington out of nostalgia for a time when David Gordon Green was going to be an important and interesting dude.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
And special shout-out to Box of Moonlight for being filmed in/around Knoxville.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
this one, i think
― uncondensed milky way (remy bean), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
memories of murder.
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
then probably 24 hr pp, ghost dog, iron giant, and perfect blue.
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
torn between 'the daytrippers' and 'together'
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
looooove Walking and Talking, which does what the title says.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
iron giant won my vote, though i strongly considered ghost dog, 24 hour party people and marwencol.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
Hate a few of those, but these are all good:
Iron GiantDevil's PlaygroundFly Away HomeTogetherOrphanageEve's BayouLayer CakeRescue Dawn24 Hour Party PeopleRare ExportsMemories of MurderMoon
Idiocracy is sort of brilliant despite being messed with by the studio disaster.
Anyway, what a stupid random EW list.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
Wait is Rules of Attraction that awful Brett Easton Ellis thing? That was awful.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Backbeat haha.
Some good movies on this list (lots and lots of Sam Rockwell hah). Memories of Murder probably the best of the bunch, but there is a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have any issue with watching again.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
i don't keep up w/ box-office receipts and shit, but i always kind of thought that layer cake and moon did OK when they were in the cinemas or as rentals. they didn't pull down harry potter-type money or get twilight levels of hype, but neither are they one of those movies that no-one but hard-core film nerds have ever heard of.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's weird to me that Lilya-4-Ever made the list, but 'Show Me Love' didn't, and I think that is 10 times over the best film.
― uncondensed milky way (remy bean), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
choose just one of these 50 movies an entertainment weekly intern likes
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
Is bubba ho-tep actually any good? It's always seemed lol Bruce Campbl as Elvis to me.
― uncondensed milky way (remy bean), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
That's pretty much what it is, but that's not really a bad thing.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
Rules of attraction is great.
Bubba ho-tep is fun, yeah.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
― idk (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
i never saw lilya 4-ever cuz i heard there was a scene in it that would make me cry
interesting they went for that over fucking åmal/show me love or together tho
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think i voted memories of murder, maybe ghost dog, idocracy is terrible but it has some good lines
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
go away im baitin!
tho i guess that would be batin
gatorade its what plants crave
for anyone who wants to see a sweet scifi romantic comedy starring dinafrio and tomei happy accidents is a recommend
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
george washington is good, primer too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
I liked Lilya 4-Ever but the end kind of ruined it for me, to be honest. Don't want to discuss it too much, because spoilers.
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
The whole thing will make you cry. A number of people had to be physically helped from the cinema when i saw it. It's horrific but enormously powerful. It's also completely different to Fucking Amal.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
I saw Ghost Dog in France. I found a screening with English subtitles, and it turns out I pick the one movie that happened to have a funny scene half in French, which of course was not subtitled.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
i saw it in france too!
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
memories of murder is good but it kind of paled to the host and i saw that one first so my expectations were crazy high
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
chuck and buck has not aged well imo
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
but like is Iron Giant even in this discussion? If you're the type of person who would be interested in an article like this Iron Giant is practically Star Wars
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
I remember Chuck & Buck being interesting but so visually ugly I couldn't enjoy it.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don't think Iron Giant belongs on this list either, but that has nothing to do with its quality.
two family house!! i loved that movie when it came out. it really spoke to me. michael rispoli's such an underrated actor. i actually had a dream with him in it a few weeks ago - i told him he was really underrated and he thanked me and invited me to eat a spaghetti dinner with his family, which i accepted
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
Lilja 4-ever was amazing to me when it came out too but i find it really corny now.
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
idgi how can you guys rank all of these movie that you've never even seen?
― carly rae (flopson), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
how are we sure these movies even exist?
― contenderizer, Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
I am always confused by The Iron Giant, because it's from 1999, but I remember a film *just like it* from when I was a little kid.― emil.y, Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:10 (18 hours ago) Bookmark
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:10 (18 hours ago) Bookmark
I'm sure there was an animated short of Ted Hughes' original story that i saw when i was young but i can't seem to find any info on it. It's either that or E.T.
― Number None, Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
that's never a problem for Morbz, so what's good for the goose ...
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
You could probably go on forever suggesting omissions/additions, so I'll limit myself to one: The Heart of the Game, which according to IMDB had taken in $444,687 a few months after release. So some people did see it--maybe 45,000?
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 June 2012 18:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
primer ahead of moon ahead of 24 party people
― Ну, там твое место, там сабе будь! (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 June 2012 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
top 5:
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)memories of murder (2005)primer (2004)the ref (1994)together (2000)
― omar little, Saturday, 30 June 2012 20:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
finally! this is why i love ilx! more or less consensus on the top 5 or so, of which i know of and agree on 3 of, the other 2 i've never even heard of and am downl<<<<<purchasing as i type this. also, i get to be contrarian and say that idiocracy is *easily* in my top 5, along with ghost dog, 24 hour party people, moon, and... fuck it. i'll just stop at 4. bubba ho tep was a perfectly fine evening's entertainment, but not really worthy of entering a list.
idiocracy was not meant to be taken seriously, obviously. and i'm sorry but anyone who thinks it's racist is clearly a) overthinking shit and b) too slow/kneejerk to realize that president camacho is clearly the smartest person in the movie if you pay any attention whatsoever
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 2 July 2012 12:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
and where is eagle vs. shark? too new zealand for ew i guess, peter jackson should be gnashing his teeth somewhere. heck, where is meet the feebles for that matter?
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 2 July 2012 12:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
Feebles was '89
― Number None, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah, thought that after i posted, i saw it in the 90's though.
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 2 July 2012 13:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
People have been quoting things for a solid decade.
yeah - on other boards! for some reason here they always say xpost here. xpost. geeze, which xpost goddamn it! there's always only like 927 answers per question/thread to chose from. i mean, yeah, i know, suppose i could theoretically decipher from context, reading all previous posts, but sometimes, what can i say tldr (<-useful webslang from other board[s?])
anyway screw it, ilx is ilx, i'm not complaining. i liklove the erase-what-you-were-typing-and-type-something-else thing they do here
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 7 July 2012 13:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
I've seen 13 of these. Probably would have voted for Together.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
ok, so i'm making my way through various thread recommendations, and if i could go back in time and change the past i'd totally give happy accidents a vote.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
DIG! was an interesting movie but i'd have liked it better if i liked the bands at *all*. all that talk about crazy dude's staggering genius and i'm thinking "it's just a mediocre indie take on 60's kitch, why does anybody even care!?!?" i remember being completely underwhelmed with them in the 90's or whenever they came out as well but i suppose they must have had their fans. still, interesting enough flick.
so, what should i watch next? i've now seen (in order of most enjoyment):
idiocracy (2006) 2moon (2009) 1ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999) 724 hour party people (2002) 10happy accidents (2000) 0the iron giant (1999) 8bubba ho-tep (2002) 0marwencol (2010) 3DIG! (2004) 1layer cake (2005) 0+ i tried to watch cold comfort farm but couldn't even make it past the first 10 minutes.
i tried to watch "together" but the subtitles seemed screwed up, so not that one.
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 23 August 2012 09:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
primer
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
ok, i understood maybe 80% of that? 70%? lets be generous and say 71%. i may watch it again today to see if it makes more sense. i understand it's meant to be convoluted and hard to parse the first time around...
anyway good recommend, i like time travel stories.
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:31 (8 months ago) Permalink