clue...
1) tim curry... an incredible script...and social comentary
2) there are none like this
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posted on 30/11/2003 at 08:16 PM
Fargo
1. This is what happens in the real world. Because it is a movie that lies
about being based on a true story to wrench the audience. Because it is
very plain, and very disturbing. Because it looks so carefully and
accurately into the need to accept what you have, and the inability of some
to do so.
2. It takes a lot of work to make Minesotta threating.
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posted on 11/12/2003 at 01:36 AM
Inherit the Wind (1960)
1. Moody lighting, 128 minutes of arguing between an Agnostic and a
Christian. Awesome cinematography - especially for the 60's. In the real
life Scopes monkey trial (which the film is based on) William Jennings
Bryan died a week after winning the trial.
2. Will give you great quotes to use when arguing against creationism,
since most of the arguments for it haven't changed much in 75 years.
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posted on 11/12/2003 at 03:07 AM
Apocalypse Now
1. A film about the darkness inside every person. Based on the book Heart
of Darkness, put the moved to a Vietnam war setting.
2. Everybody goes completely insane in the end + directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
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Devin
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posted on 11/12/2003 at 12:05 PM
Glad you liked it - and told ya so - johnny depp just rocks
Nostradamus
1) It wasn't hookie-spookie, the special effects were only for the dream
scenes, but you still get an eerie feel from everything. Nostradamus is
goth as fuck.
2) Most movies like this are just exploiting legends. They usually just
make a huge spectacle of everything and make it all larger than life. This
was just a realistic account of what his life might have been like, and it
works even better this way.
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posted on 11/12/2003 at 01:03 PM
Immortal Beloved
(This movie is not about what the title might imply...it's about Beethoven
and his life.)
(1) Beethoven is a brilliant musician who suffered through an abusive
relationship with his father. He found escape in his music and in his times
alone. After his death, a mysterious letter is found that implies he had a
lady with whom he was secretly and eternally in love with...thus Immortal
Beloved. This movie tries to explain the possible relationship with this
mystery woman. The movie has unrequited love, a tortured existence, war,
death all surrounded with classical music.
(2) It shows a more secretive side of Beethoven that most people don't
think of...the part where he was a man and not just a great composer.
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Devin: ironically enough... saw it before I noticed it on here... due to
one of my best friends... I RECOMMEND HIGHLY, smoke signals... Farmer
(nobody) is one of the stars... excellent fucking flim (swedish chef
homage)
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posted on 13/12/2003 at 11:28 AM
100 Girls
1) Alot of discussion on the war of the sexes, and thier nueroses well
fitted into a plot about finding that special someone.
2) The main character dresses in drag several times, and bites off a guy's
tonuge.
The Deep End
1) One little accident turns into an extortian attempt.
2) A lession learned about covering someone else's mess.
Damn! I had another... oh well it will come to me later.
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posted on 28/2/2004 at 11:25 PM
The Big Lebowski
1. To be the Dude is to be so incredibly goth that you would never know it.
The Dude is the essance of cool, not from trying, but simply because it
falls into his lap that way. A "period" piece that becomes funnier every
time you watch it because you can hear Bush senior going on about Iraq.
And, if nothing else Maude Lebowski is just the end all be all of making
fun of those who think pretension really is a lifestyle.
2. An insane, quirky, comdey plot that manages to pull itself together in
the end and really work.
And since I'm doing Coen Films,
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
1. It's sneaky and stealthy goth because very few goths would ever, ever
admit to being interested at all in a campy movie that takes place in the
deep south. Those same would never admit that they also bought the fabulous
soundtrack of American Bluegrass and folk music. It's also very, very
stealthily based on a fairly goth as fuck classic, the Oddessy, but done in
a way that you might never have expected. Yet, it has so many gothic
elements to it, including the young guitarist who sells his soul to the
devil, the high and low bank robber, and the slapstick comedy that ensuses
during a hanging.
2. Dapper Dan, Redemption, and lots and lots of Hairnets.
[Edited on 2/29/2004 by Domkitten]
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posted on 29/2/2004 at 05:53 AM
*raising hand* I admit that I bought the soundtrack of bluegrass music. It
rocks.
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posted on 29/2/2004 at 10:25 AM
Taxie Driver
1. It takes you into the world of someone who has basicly cut himself
off from the world around him and sinks deeper into insanity and his own
self rightousness, after making freinds with a 12 year old hooker he sports
a mohawk and goes on a murderous rampage.
2. Jodie Foster plays the 12 year old hooker at the age of 12 and it
proves that Psychos can be heros too.
Nicholas
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posted on 29/2/2004 at 04:45 PM
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups)
1) 18th century france, 18th century weapons, Monica Bellucci dressed
constantly in black lace, leather, and corsets... sex, violence, gypsies,
lots of candles, aristocrats, giant monsterous wolf beast.
2) I challenge you to find another french movie with a whip-sword, giant
wolf beast, and a kung-fu indian
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posted on 29/2/2004 at 07:08 PM
I have never been able to watch "The Mothman Prophecies" all the way
through but I am curious about how closely it resembles the book. I read
the book when I was 14 or 15, maybe, and even then it seemed pretty obvious
to me that the author (the main character in the movie) was paranoid and
delusional. There is a part in the book where either the FBI or the CIA
(both agencies were fighting over who got to spy on him) was tapping his
phone line using a cigar load. He also discovers at one point that he has
two phone lines (the other installed by one of the above agencies, with a
number 1 digit off from his real one), and starts using it because his long
distance bills get too high. It was just so kooky I can't believe it was
made into a movie.
"Following" by the guy who did Memento is a good movie, but hard to find
and short.
I'm going to put this one on the list, though I suspect it might not be all
that steathy: Donnie Darko (despite the title, there are not really any
characters in the movie who could be called goth)
1. Deals with death, time travel, mental illness, figuring out one's
purpose, and ends with the main character killing himself in the most
bizarre way I have ever seen in a movie (not that it is terribly clear that
that is what is happening).
2. The plot is incredibly hard to figure out. You have to see it more
than once and each time you can come up with a different theory about what
it is about. The DVD has a director's commentary track that explains the
plot...I had gotten close but had missed something pretty critical.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1. Features an incredibly efficient mob hitman who follows the code of the
Samurai. The main character does not speak a language in common with his
best friend, but they always understand one another.
2. The movie has a very slow and deliberate pace to it. The main
character, even though he is a hitman, is incredibly passive, relying on
the code to dictate his every action.
dead-cell
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posted on 29/2/2004 at 07:57 PM
Hmm... If your going to recomend Ghost Dog might as well watch The
Professional, and The Long Kiss Good Night.
I guess Quentin Tarantino movies could be added to the cannon. A few
examples: Pulp Fiction, Curdled, Kill Bill vol.1-(3).
These are mere suggestions.
[Edited on 3/1/2004 by dead-cell]
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posted on 2/3/2004 at 10:30 PM
Oxygen
1. A psychotic kiddnapper that buries his victim alive in order to
become famous by out smarting the cops
2. Includes a cop that's in to being tortured and a very strange escape
plan involving ripping of his own thumb nail.......don't know about you but
I haven't seen that in a movie before.
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The Sandman, Dream Country
it was trying so hard to be goth that it failed... so it caught me by
surprise... the writing was decent, and the good was truly bad... etc...
and the others...just try
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posted on 8/6/2005 at 02:22 AM
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2 ingmar bergman films
first, the virgin spring
1) it is about a young maiden venturing out in her finest apparel to a
religious event revering the virgin mary, on her way she is brutally raped
and murdered by vagabonds she meets along the way. later these same
vagabonds seek shelter with a family and offer to pay w/ the girl's
clothes, they came to the wrong house.
2)it is an old movie, i believe made in the 1930's or 40's and it is very
rare to find such a violent movie filled with all the brutality and revenge
in graphic detail in the time frame in which the film was made. it can be
found in the foreign film section, if you don't mind subtitles i highly
recommend this flick.
second, the seventh seal
1)the main character is challenged by death to a game of chess , every
where the man goes death is waiting, he is playing for his own life.
2)never seen anything like it, talk about death being at one's elbow, i
will not tell you who wins
[Edited on 30/10/2003 by ariadne]
I just realized that in the Casa Bonita episode of South Park Jimmy tells
Cartman a knock knock joke to use to make people like him more.
Jimmy: Well, Eric, pah part of being nice is just making people smile and
laugh. The best way to do that is by telling a fan-tastic joke or a
humorius anti-d- ant'duhh ...antecdote.
Cartman: Like what?
Jimmy: Well, like, try this one on for size: Knock knock.
Cartman: Who's there?
Jimmy: Ing-mar ...Bergman. [Cartman jumps, but not because of the joke.
Kyle approaches them from the other end of the hall.] Now you say, "Ingmar
Bergman who?"
I was told that the joke might end with "Exactly". That could be the only
possible end to the joke. It made me laugh for a long time.
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scissors
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posted on 9/6/2005 at 03:44 PM
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Drop Dead Fred
1) Because everyone needs friends that aren't very real. Because it uses
symbolism that is totally believable and works with dream analysis and
normal psychology.
2) Other Kids movies don't adress adult themes in such a subtle but
accurate way.
DDF is my favourite movie of ALL time. I thought it was funny enough when I
was little, but once I grew up and found out how 'saucey' it was, it was 90
times better.
I'd have to add True Romance (Quentin) to the list because;
* Patricia Arquette screams like a ravenous she-wolf encrusted with blood
as her boobs hang out.
* The fight she has before the above scene is fantastic.
* Christian Slater's best friend is a hallucination of Elvis that tells him
to kill people
* Chistopher Walken.
- It's not like any other movie because it's kind of like Pretty Woman -
another hooker with a heart of gold (Patricia Arquette) - only this time we
get to see all the drugs, violence, and emotional upheaval involved. Though
I'm sure there's other movies like that, I don't think I've seen any as
wonderfully put together as our beloved Quentin has done.
[Edited on 9/6/2005 by scissors]
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posted on 13/6/2005 at 09:47 AM
Matrix
1)People dressed in ridiculous black clothing.
2)...oh...wait...
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