best film ranked 1-50 on that film canon list that morbs posted

"Total Recall is the only one I've seen that gets close to the actual atmosphere of a Dick novel"

Except for the awful casting of Arnie in the lead!

A SCANNER DARKLY is prob the most faithful PKD adaptation, and manages to catch some of the humour that's so absent from BLADE RUNNER. Agreed, tho, that TOTAL RECALL also has some pretty 'Dickian' moments even when it differs majorly from the source material.

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"Total Recall is the only one I've seen that gets close to the actual atmosphere of a Dick novel"

Except for the awful casting of Arnie in the lead!

― Alex in SF, Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:23 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

It's saying something when an animatronic exploding head has more memorable lines.

Haha you don't remember "consider that a divorce"!

"Sleazy ... demure."

Haha you don't remember "consider that a divorce"!

― Alex in SF, Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:56 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Now I do! That's a pretty good one.

Out of Arnie, Ford, Affleck, Cage and Cruise, Arnie's got to be in the top two for best-suited for PKD adaptation.

In a vacuum, I guess, but for that movie almost any of them would have been a better choice than Arnie.

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O the suspense

i added a bunch of these to my netflix (not just the top 50, just stuff i hadn't seen that looked interesting) and my wife and i are working our way through them. 'laurence of arabia' was a snooze.

crazytalk

Lawrence of Arabia, like 2001, needs an 80-foot screen.

(or Playtime)

eh i'd probably enjoy it more if i were in the right mood i guess

otm re: playtime for sure, the first time i saw it was on the big screen

get yer last minute votes in

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La Strada - only movie to get zero votes on both polls. Is it the most okay movie of all time?

Andrei Rublev got zero didn't it?

o u right

there is no way that is the most okay movie of all time tho

whereas I think La Strada could be a contender

Hah yeah pretty clearly Andrei Rublev got that zero much more from laziness than from okayness.

lolz @ 2001 being both best AND (well almost) worst

Le Strada's allright but honestly I prefer Nights of Cabiria

seems logical that four of the top five films were directed either by Hitchcock or Kubrick, given the results of this poll:

who is yr favourite director of the most popular ones from the best films list that morbs posted?

who is yr favourite director of the most popular ones from the best films list that morbs posted?

the fact that the final human < superhuman evolution in "2001" comes through an act of transubstantiation, guided by a higher power, always blows my mind. It requires seeing on a very big screen and being very stoned...

xpost yes, a pattern has clearly emerged

2001? really? i am sorry, but you people suck.

ugh.

Amazing and lovely.

It is picking ONE of these that sucks

Hey, my pick got second place, nice!

Chinatown/Vertigo would be a helluva double bill!

comes through an act of transubstantiatio

it does? I didn't notice any catholic shit in 2001

Adrian Martin on a Star Wars canon, the old canon, the new canon

Canons favour an *organic* aesthetics – they valorise whole, entire films as perfect objects. This leaves no room for imperfect films, or brilliant bits or fragments of films. And we all know there are many films that are great for just ten minutes, maybe just for one scene.

Canons valorise singular masterpieces over bodies or corpuses of work. But there is no single great masterpiece to be plucked from the careers of many important and influential directors, including Fassbinder, Pasolini and Preston Sturges.

… In short, canons simply ignore too many good, important, significant and pleasurable movies. But what, realistically, is the alternative? I recall a story by Jorge Luis Borges in which fanatical mapmakers create a map of their territory so precise, true and big that it covers the whole territory. And I sometimes think that this is what the best canon of cinema would be: the cinema itself, whole and entire.

But, of course, nobody’s grasp of cinema could ever actually happen in that kind of impossibly holistic, total way. We can’t just go out and see everything, alas! What any of us understands of cinema depends, at every moment, on material, social and political factors: what films are available, or lost; what films are in circulation and in which format (celluloid, video, DVD, etc); what decisions are being made by those in power concerning which available films audiences will actually get to see, where and for how long.

http://www.filmcritic.com.au/essays/canons.html