Favorite Movie

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

Are you kidding??? Did you read the book? Armand was supposed to be a very youthful (teenage) vampire. Don't get me wrong, I love Antonio Banderas - he is damn hot!! But Armand was not Latino neither. It was total miscasting. That whole movie sucked 'cuz the casting was so bad. Louis was suppose to be a tall slim dark-haired man. Lestat was a blonde - Tom Cruise bit!!!! Julian Sands was Anne Rice's initial choice but they waited so long to make the movie JS had gotten too old. That whole movie was a total letdown to Anne Rice fans who had read the book. Worse book-to-film ever! I was living in NO when they filmed it - my house is in the movie - and everyone was saying how horirble it turned out. 13 y/o Kirsten Dunst as Claudia?? Claudia was supposed to be 5 years old. It sucked!

They took liberties and Rice initially was pissed and said so publicly. But, she later recanted and said she liked it.

I lived in NOLA when they were filming it. It was way cool.

As for the movie, I thought that while it was different than the book, it, on its own, was good if not great. But, to each their own.

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

Are you kidding??? Did you read the book? Armand was supposed to be a very youthful (teenage) vampire.

Well, I guess I got my ass kicked on that

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Yer a Michael Douglas fan! I think "The Game" is awesome. And "Wonder Boys" is pure class.

How did you guess? .

[carrie721]

[Richard B]

I love movie threads.

Course, having close to 400 DVD's at home, I would be so hard pressed to pick just one fav as I love all my movies for various reasons. But right now, I love:

Pan's Labyrinth
Corpse Bride
Chocolat
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Lives Of Others
Ratatouille

[dnightshade]

Originally Posted by Richard B

I love movie threads.

Course, having close to 400 DVD's at home, I would be so hard pressed to pick just one fav as I love all my movies for various reasons. But right now, I love:

Pan's Labyrinth
Corpse Bride
Chocolat
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Lives Of Others
Ratatouille

That is a GREAT movie! Add it to my list, too. I was just talking about that w some friends the other day. Kurt Russell at his gorgeous best! Just the suspense and everything - great acting, too.

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

That is a GREAT movie! Add it to my list, too. I was just talking about that w some friends the other day. Kurt Russell at his gorgeous best! Just the suspense and everything - great acting, too.

I just watched it 2 nights ago. Wow. The film packs a punch, a hard punch. Still gives me chills and freaks me out.

[Serrart]

Just three of the many:






Romy

[skcin]

Like, ever? Just one? It's still gotta be Goodfellas for me. Runner-ups, off the top of my head:

Some Kind of Wonderful
The Breakfast Club
My Left Foot
Gone With the Wind
Imitation of Life (1930's version)
Little Women (Kate Hepburn version)
Grumpy & Grumpier Old Men
Silence of the Lambs
Dazed & Confused
Overboard
Awakenings

[vermicious knid]

Somebody had Europa Europa on their list. I watched it last night. It is about a jewish boy in the 1940's who is pretending to be Aryan. I thought the most powerful part was when he was riding the trolley through the ghetto, and looking through the filthy window, horrified at the conditions of his own people.

I did not know there had been such a thing as jewish ghettos right in the city. I thought you were either free or in a concentration camp in the country.

[GarboSpeaks!]

I knew there was yet ANOTHER reason I loved you Paula.
Tied for 1st are:
Sid & Nancy or Goodfellas
I've seen them both easily 100x's or more, and can recite from start to finish. If they are on TV I can't turn them off. I LOVE these movies!
Runners up are:
Brazil (an equally fuginfantastic film that I can't complteley recite but GD it's a good one!)
The Handmaid's Tale (Bought it recently & revisited, it's not as disturbing as it was the 1st time I saw it, but it's still a good flick)
Miracle Mile Just a good movie. Great to speculate as it unfolds.
Movies that are some of my fav views, but I don't currently have them, and some I haven't seen in years...starting w/ one that I guess made it to DVD recently.
Baxter (The Talking Dog) For all of you into "off" films, this is a must. Not for the morally faint of heart though. Think Solendz's (sp?) "Happiness" ...another must see...you are so disturbed by the fact that you are watching it, but there is not a snowballs chance in hell you'll turn it off.
"The Quiet Earth"-Sorta Omega Man/I am Legend but w/out the Zombies.
Classics include All About Eve, Imitation of Life & Grand Hotel.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

Somebody had Europa Europa on their list. I watched it last night. It is about a jewish boy in the 1940's who is pretending to be Aryan. I thought the most powerful part was when he was riding the trolley through the ghetto, and looking through the filthy window, horrified at the conditions of his own people.

That was I. IMO it's one of the very few excellent movies on the Holocaust. I will soon be revising a paper on it, specifically on how the makers depart from the book in just about every (biographical) detail but still promote it as a "true story."

I did not know there had been such a thing as jewish ghettos right in the city.

Ghettoization was a major stage in the execution of the Final Solution in eastern Europe - the Nazis did not really attempt it in the west.

The most famous one was in Warsaw, & you might remember the (really bad) David Schwimmer TV-movie, "Uprising", depicting the revolt there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_ghetto_uprising

I thought you were either free or in a concentration camp in the country.

It's estimated that over 2 million (of the 6 million) were executed by mobile killing squads, locals, etc. - sometimes in mass shootings into rivers or ditches, such as at Baba Yar in Ukraine, or as depicted in the otherwise weak movie, Everything is Illuminated. Several million died in the death camps, and a smaller number in the concentration camps.

As for Europa, Europa, there was some controversy about the refusal to enter it into the Best Foreign Film category.
Thanks for the opportunity to write about it here.

- Jake