1. Because all goths are really nerds at heart.
2. Booger
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Domkitten
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posted on 15/11/2003 at 02:06 AM
I'm good at that, although Dev beat me to ghost world, by like a minute and
a half....so there....I have to admit, Ghostworld was a much better first
date movie than I had anticpated. Unfortunately on the second date we
couldn't see the movie we wanted to see and ended up settling for Zoolander
on the assumption that no movie could be so bad that it wouldn't be at
least laughable, and, sigh, she never called me again.
In Chicago we had a movie theater that had gone out of business and the
last movie it had run was "Dude, Where's my Car?" Some streetkids had
played around with the sign and it brought me endless joy to see the sign
"Dude, my car!" whenever I drove past.
Ridicule
1. A fantastic french film set in the France in just before the beginning
of the Revolution. It contains love, death, deceit, betrayl, and most
importantly wit.
2. Scientific explanation of the various categories of witty repartie.
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posted on 14/11/2003 at 10:32 PM
Darn, Dom you beat me to it.
The Devil's Backbone
1) A ghost in a Spanish orphange seeks vengence for his murder.
2) The plot revoles around the Spanish civil war and gold (greed)...and a
symolic bomb in the court yard.
Fight Club
1) Rule one you do not talk about fight club.
2)You do not talk about fight club.
3)project mayham
Dude Wheres My Car
1) Everyone needs a good laugh now and then.
2)An actual good plot, silly but good (wouldn't you like to know where your
car was?)
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posted on 13/11/2003 at 04:28 AM
So Dev, you actually get around to watching any of these movies, or is this
like Cliff Notes for the too busy?
The Virigin Suicides
1. Because this movie has very little to do with sucide. It's full of
ghosts, innocence and how painful it is to be alive.
2. It is honest and beautiful. Also, because the main characters in the
film are the less important then the message.
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Devin
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posted on 11/11/2003 at 02:06 AM
Ghostworld:
1) Almost like american beauty, but different. Discovery of music. The
bus finally does come.
2) Unlike other movies, the title doesn't tell you what the movie is about
- there's no ghosts - but if you look a little deeper there are.
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posted on 9/11/2003 at 05:31 AM
American Beauty
(1) Suburban Teenage Angst at its finest, artsy style filmmaking,
seduction...and of course death.
(2) Because only a goth could appreciate the true beauty of a plastic bag
riding on the wind.
K-Pax
(1) Rational Insanity is very goth.
(2) Because most insane people don't turn out to be visitors in a body.
An added plus to both movies: Kevin Spacey plays characters with such a
lovely darkness trapped inside.
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posted on 9/11/2003 at 01:15 AM
PeeWee's Big Adventure
1. What could be more goth than going on a roadtrip cross country to
retrieve the stolen object that you obsess about most. Plus, Large Marge is
really scary. With music by Danny Elfman, and directed by Tim Burton, this
has got to be one of the sneakiest and stealthiest goth films ever.
2. PeeWee Herman doing the shoe dance in front of a dozen scary bikers.
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posted on 8/11/2003 at 09:22 PM
The Mothman Prophecies is a lot better if you take a field trip to Point
Pleasant the day after watching it, and hang out in the cemetary and let
your kids climb on the tombstone of Chief Cornstalk, who cursed the town in
the first place, then buy a mothman doll in the freakiest little head shop
in West Virginia while a state trooper is in there talking to the hippie at
the counter, then scare yourself silly going into an abandoned shack in the
hills just outside of town...
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posted on 8/11/2003 at 08:46 PM
lets see....
Run Lola Run
1) If you like Memento you might aswell see this movie.
2) Actually there is a good plot to the movie other than seeing a woman
bust her ass to stop her boyfriend's plan to rob a place.
The Mothman Prophecies
1) Supernatural entity that precedes catastrophes
2) Some not so every day occurrences...and camera shots.
Anatomy (one and two)
1) Secret society of doctors that perform experiments and research at any
cost.
2) not alot of sequels that live up to the original.
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 06:31 AM
Psycho Killers In Love:
1) Two everyday people, that happen to be psycho killers, meet and fall in
love.
2) Unlike most killer love movies, the body count stays stready, they dont
interfer with each other hobbies or get jelous of each others kills. He
says "Look honey! i de-feeted her!" when she gets home from a long day of
killing people at the beauty salon. ITs well lit, she wears a pink shirt,
and he looks abit like ron jeremy. The sound track is played on a casio
s-9.
And queen of the desert is one of the best movies. thanks for mentioning it
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 04:29 AM
Deilcatessan
1. Most of the main characters become lunch.
2. Conspiritorial (sic) mole men.
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posted on 4/11/2003 at 04:11 PM
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
1) Men in skirts and makeup.
2) Drag queens.
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posted on 4/11/2003 at 09:00 AM
Cold Comfort Farm:
1) The story was written to mimic and satorize the gothic novel. Everyone
is gloomy, insane, or both. The farm is called Cold Comfort, and the family
memebers arent allowed to go to any public gathering except funerals and
the churching of women.
2) This has a sense of humour about the story itself AND the making of that
story into a movie. And everyone ends up happy in the end unlike most movie
versions of old books.
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posted on 3/11/2003 at 08:51 PM
Snow White: A tale of Terror
1. The story is not at all like your average fairy tale it is beatifully
done grotesque in some places but yet a story to make you think. The plot
is well written and the story ends in a unique way. The clothes are
gorgeous, well crafted.
2. A tale made realistic yet done is a beatiful fashion.
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posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:44 PM
Little Red Riding Hood... the one starring Christina Ricci. It's a black
and white short, but will fuck you up forever as far as that story goes.
Gets into every sexual fetish imaginable, cross-dressing, cannibalism,
coprophilia... you name it. And it's pretty.
Moulin Rouge. The principles of the bohemien Lost Generation are the same
as the goths of today. Beauty, Truth, Freedom and above all things, Love.
and the heroine dies just as love is reconciled.
The Princess Bride. A Man in Black, action, adventure, swordplay, a
fire-swamp with R.O.U.S., beautiful maiden, and True Love. everything a
growing child needs to have faith in the good things in life restored.
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posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:30 PM
Snow White - A Tale of Terror
1. With fantastic acting, scenery and direction, beautiful music, and that
extra creepy sense of being alone in a big dark castle, stuck with your
evil stepmother, this film is beautiful and grotesque at the same time.
Some really intense and gorey scenes, including some mutant baby stuff that
can really turn your stomach.
2. A retelling of a children's fairy tale that is a hell of a lot closer to
reality than one would expect to see in a film.
Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Alien Resurrection
1. Science fiction mixed with the bloody slaughter of the entire cast on a
regular basis. And none of them get laid or even have time to take off
their clothes before they are masacred, which is really avant garde.
A kick-ass "take no prisoners" babe that manages to survive the
incompetance of everyone around her and still come back kicking. Sets based
on the art work of Giger that play on some of the darkest workings of your
imagination and dreams.
2. An acid for blood alien with two mouths, teeth till next week and a
really bad temper.
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ariadne
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posted on 30/10/2003 at 09:41 AM
titus - yeah that is a great movie and beautifully done , not done in the
traditional shakespearean style either, titus is placed in no definite
timeframe, that is the beauty of shakespeare there is no set time or era
for any of his plays. titus is so brutal and tragic and anthony hopkins
kicked some royal ass in that one.
anyhow,
the company of wolves
1) if you like little red riding hood and old wives tales set in motion, it
is beautifully done with a dreamlike quality, shall we say sublime?
2)aside from the cheesy special effects it is still a very beautiful movie
to watch, it is kind of surreal in its own way.
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]
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posted on 30/10/2003 at 09:17 AM
Coligula
Malcolm McDowell (of Clockwork ORange) as a psychotic Roman Emperor, in
elaborate leather costumes (mostly too short) and with a hefty need for
blood shed. You get the gambit here people:
Leather
Torture
Gigantic Head cleaving execution devices
Deformed freaks of nature
Hard core sex
Orgasms set to classical music
Rape
Bondage
A period piece
Out of control Roman pyscotics who commands his armies to cut down field of
reeds for fun
Tons of black lace
Blood everywhere
This flick was produced by PentHouse productions, so the sex is uber
liberal and highly prevalent, but dude, its the Roman empire, and he's a
crazy Roman Nympho who screw his own sister and marries the biggest whore
in all of Rome. It's also very hard to find, but it's probably the only
time Pornographic thmes where mixed with an actual plot and it works.
(best scene) Solving the Roman deficit by mating the biggest whore in
rome=Senators wives. with his opinion of who the richest in Rome
are=pimps.
Imperial orgy! 5 gold pieces and you get a senators wife! Genius.
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*it's john carpenter, and it's got an evil plot that is exposed when Roudy
Roddy Piper of WWF fame finds super secret sunglasses that allows him to
see past the human exterior to the zombie like mind rulers beneath as well
as the subliminal signs behind advertisements that say "obey" "sleep" and
"marry and reproduce". Evil subliminal zombie plots are TRES goth,
friends.
*beause nobody else could turn a ridiculous plot like that into a watchable
movie. And come on...it's Roddy Piper...Plus, who else would put a 20 min
fight sequence into a film that doesn't involve explosives?
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posted on 29/10/2003 at 08:57 PM
Man, Titus was a fantastically disturbing movie, and does Shakespeare ever
know how to kick some serious ass. That was one of the darkest goriest
love/bloodbath fests I've ever seen, and I was so disturbed I don't know if
I could ever watch it again.
Needless to say I thought about this all night last night.
The Grifters
1. It has John Cusack as the worlds best short con man. It has a big
Oedipal complex and lots of good advice for the future short con artists of
America. Not to mention explaining about the oranges.
2. It has Angelica Houston as a blonde bombshell, and I for one haven't
seen that anywhere else.
The Piano
1. It's a period piece about a Scottish woman being wed to someone she's
never met. It's highly erotic, has fantastic scenery and the music will
make you laugh cry and orgasm all at the same time. It's obsession and love
and violence, slavery and freedom.
2. The main character doesn't say a word during the film and expresses
herself completely through music.
Dangerous Liaisons
1. Fantastic costums and some of the most strategic fucking imaginable, all
planned of course, as a stage in the downfall of others; well planned, and
with a real sense of revenge.
2. John Malkovich doing slapstick.
Dancer in the Dark
1. It's a bitter and crushing view of America, immigration, health care,
and the justice system. It is a no holds bare attack on the politics of
yesterday and today. It's beautiful. It is also the only time I've been to
the theater and told I would not be given my money back if I got sick while
watching it.
2. It's a musical about a blind factory worker cum murder, and all the
music is by Bjork.
Dogville
1. Another real stab at the American class system this movie has so much in
it I don't know where to begin. It's essentially a play, as it has nothing
but a black box set with minor props. It's graphic description of violence,
rape, and death will make you squirm in your seat. It turns on
intellectuals, the poor, the rich, and those with pretended beliefs. In the
end everyone becomes what they are the most opposed to. It will teach you
the true nature of Stoicism.
2. Nicole Kidman as a slave to an entire town, complete with a leash and
weighted chains; learning that the ideals one has can become very different
when faced with reality.
Todo Sobre mi Madre
1. Set in Madrid a story that revolves around a person killed in the first
ten minutes of the film, an obsession with women of all ages and walks of
life, and Tennessee Williams. Plus it’s a foreign film for god sakes.
2. Some of the most interesting takes of transsexual prostitution ever put
to a film that has actually won an Oscar.
Ran
1. A Japanese version of King Lear in which everyone is killed and in which
you feel that almost all the deaths are entirely justified. A horrific
battle scene featuring soldiers with spears, swords, and horses that is
more graphic and wrenching than anything a modern director had down.
Deception, betrayal, and deceit, and only the Court Jester is really aware
of what is going on.
2. An ending that will fill you with loneliness and a complete despair for
mankind and yourself.
If I really start going with the foreign films we might be here all day,
but just one more:
Lenigrad Cowboys go to America
1. A fantastically funny take on enterprising entrepreneurs, including a
classic road trip, the discovery of a long lost cousin, and a beer drinking
corpse.
2. The Lenigrad Cowboys.
[Edited on 10/30/2003 by Domkitten]
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