What are your four favorite movies?
Mine are The Mission; Cool Hand Luke; The Matrix; and Fight Club
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The good books
- Heart of Darkness
- Christ the Eternal Tao
- Wounded by Love
- Dhamapada
- Visions of Gerard
- Rumi's poetry
- Leaves of Grass
- Batlthazar
- the gospel of John
- Emerson's essays
- Zen and the Birds of Appetite
- Ecclesiastes
- Walden
- Song of Songs
- Tao te Ching
- The Brothers Karamazov
Which of the following have most profoundly affected you? You can choose a couple of answers.
Quotations (feel free to add to this list)
- "Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you." -- William Blake
- "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." -- Thoreau
- "I don't want to die without any scars." -- Tyler Durden
- "I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough." -- Walt Whitman
- "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." -- Morpheus
- "My headphones saved my life." -- Bjork
- "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty." -- C.S. Lewis
movies worth watching
- The Painted Veil
- Three Seasons
- Hero
- Othello
- Smoke Signals
- Step Into Liquid
- The Long Hot Summer
- The Matrix
- Cool Hand Luke
- Fight Club
- The Mission
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9 comments:
Gee, I don't know if I can think of four. I haven't watched many movies in recent years. I see "favorite" as a movie that I can (and have) watched repeatedly, and liked it as much or more than when I first saw it, and would like to watch it again.
When Harry Met Sally
It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca
After that, nothing jumps to mind. There are a bunch of movies that I liked, but it's hard to think of any that fit in the same category (for me) as these three.
Oh, I left out:
Fiddler on the Roof.
That's definitely meets my criteria. Properly speaking, it's a stage musical, but the movie version is really good. I've seen it in both forms and loved it each time.
Interesting. I've watched Casa Blanca and It's a Wonderful Life multiple times, but I've never seen Fiddler on the Roof.
I saw When Harry Met Sally in the theater, but I don't think I saw what you saw in it. I'm always curious to learn what people value in art that I am missing, in the hopes that I might be able to see it too. So what is it about this movie that makes it one of your top picks?
Babette's Feast
Persuasion
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Sixth Sense
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I've never seen The Mission. I do like The Matrix and Fight Club. I also liked When Harry Met Sally, although I haven't seen it in years.
One movie that I haven't seen yet, but have heard very good things about is Ostrov (The Island).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LTTOOS?&camp=212361&creative=380737&linkCode=wey&tag=orthochrisinf-20
I really want to see it!
Cool pick: Babette's Feast.
I almost put that on my list, but since I only saw it for the first time in December, I couldn't rate it for re-play value.
Cool, so now I have some movies to watch. I'll check out When Harry Met Sally again. Babette's Feast is a really good movie; I forgot all about that one. I've been meaning to get Breakfast at Tiffany's for a while (trying to catch up on the major classics; I recently watched On the Waterfront). What is Persuasion? I've never heard of that one.
Oh, if you haven't seen it, you really should check out The Painted Veil (Ed Norton, 2007).
Persuasion is based on Jane Austen's novel:
http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persuasion/persuasion.html
I definitely plan on renting The Painted Veil!
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles masterpiece)
2. The Shining (Jack Nicholson, Stanely Kubrick--scariest horror movie out there)
3. Life of Brian (Monty Python at its best--I know every line)
4. Star Wars (I love the Matrix, too, but you got to start with the movie that made you love movies in the first place and for me, it was Star Wars. Watched it at least 4 times in the movie theater when it came out in 1977, and I still love it.)
There are a bunch of others that have stayed with me for a long time: Schindler's List, The Elephant Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Rings, etc., but those are the top four for now.
I've gotta agree with what you said about Star Wars; that was the first big movie for me.
Citizen Kane I watched in a film class in college. I understood that it was very inovative in a lot of ways, methods of camera work, etc., but I wasn't really moved by the characters or the story. Was I missing something?
Apocolypse Now almost made my top four list too. Lord of the Rings was a great series too. Gotta love these two in the books-to-film category.
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