<p>*** What Dreams May Come ***(#1)</p>
<p>followed by (not necessarily in any order):</p>
<p>Time Bandits
Bladerunner
The Matrix
Excalibur
Star Trek IV: The Journey Home
Princess Bride
Waking Life
Up in Smoke
The Devil’s Advocate</p>
<p>(I’m a little out-of-date - haven’t seen many movies lately)</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot the Big Chill. I remember seeing that for the second time, in about 1984 (or was it ‘87? it was during one of my pregnancies) and sticking Post-It notes with the characters’ names and details onto the seat in front of me. It seemed like such an important film at the time; I should rent it and watch it again. Perhaps it would be dated, like The Godfather or West Side Story.</p>
<p>Most BIZARRE and DISTURBING movies I’ve EVER seen:</p>
<p>Eraserhead
and another about Marquis de Sade that I can’t remember the name of, from just a few years back…glad that’s been blocked out of my mind!</p>
<p>bing, Run Lola Run is rather different from your other choices…interesting.</p>
<p>Most disturbing and bizarre:</p>
<p>Boxing Helena
8mm
Frailty (I liked the ending though)</p>
<p>ugh…8mm…I had forgotten I saw it. Yes it was distubing.</p>
<p>Also gross was Snakes on a Plane…last time I take movie advice from college age S!</p>
<p>corona~</p>
<p>ITA about Boxing Helena. But Irreversible puts it to shame :eek:.
Bitter Moon is also pretty weird…</p>
<p>Forgot Grand Canyon, one of my all-time favorites! :)</p>
<p>JHS’ ,
Veronica Mars all the way. Ditto for Firefly, Buffy and Angel. Hmm…somebody should start the thread about best TV shows. :)</p>
<p>Deep Space Nine anyone? :)</p>
<p>Beer good. :)</p>
<p>Or should I say Beer bad?</p>
<p>You got me curious, berurah, so I looked up Irreversible. All I can say is :eek:. That is DISTURBING!</p>
<p>Packmom, my husband and I went to see 8mm w/o knowing what we were walking into. The most disturbing thing about 8mm for us, was that some mom had two boys with her who were around ten years old. They kept asking to leave, and she kept shushing them.</p>
<p>10 Mangled movie titles</p>
<p>The Man Who Would Be King Kong
There’s Something About Mary Poppins
Ishtarzan
Buns of Steel Magnolias
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Max
The Godfather of the Bride of Frankenstein
Anne of Soylent Green Gables
Attack of the Fried Green Killer Tomatoes
A Lawnmower Man for All Seasons
Rainman of La Mancha</p>
<p>In no particular order</p>
<p>Pulp Fiction
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Matewan
Cool Hand Luke
Shawshank Redemption
Raising Arizona
Animal House
Philadelphia</p>
<p>Oops…also forgot Usual Suspects!</p>
<p>Ah, yeah, definitely Usual Suspects,</p>
<p>And also Gilbert Grape.</p>
<p>So much for sticking to ten!</p>
<p>I loved, loved, loved Philadelphia. But wasn’t sure if it deserved top 10 status. But if wharfrat says so, then I second the nomination. And the title song, too.</p>
<p>I remember reading the reviews for Irreversible and deciding that I didn’t have the right stuff to watch it. You guys are braver than I am!</p>
<p>A great, great, great movie also told in reverse order is Memento with Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano.</p>
<p>On my list of very disturbing films: Mulholland Drive, The Vanishing. The American remake of The Vanishing isn’t as terrible as the critics said it was, but it’s the Dutch version that’s just … horrifying.</p>
<p>At the moment:</p>
<p>-Wuthering Heights: 1939 w/Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven
-As You Like It: BBC, a young Helen Mirren as Roslyn
-Catch 22
-Pride & Predjudice: Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth
-Hamlet: Mel Gibson (suprise)
-My Life as a Dog
-Romeo & Juliet: Franco Zeffirelli, Olivia Hussey
-Oliver: the Musical, 1968
-Children of Heaven: Iranian film
-Lady Windemere’s Fan: Oscar Wilde/BBC
-Cyrano deBergerac: Jose Ferrer
-Wings of Desire: Wim Wenders
-Brideshead Revisited
-David Copperfield: BBC/Masterpeice Theatre
-The Adventures of Prince Achmed: 1926, German film.
-The Importance of Being Earnest: 1952, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>Memento is on my top ten list. I thought the movie told in reverse order really worked for giving the audience a sense of what living with no short term memory is like. I made my mother watch it, as my Dad has serious short term memory problems.</p>
<p>*Betrayal<a href=“the%201983%20Pinter%20play/movie%20with%20Ben%20Kingsley%20and%20Jeremy%20Irons”>/I</a> is also told in reverse, but in that case I thought it was just an artsy move to make a dull story more interesting.</p>
<p>It’s fascinating. I tend to appreciate Ms. Parker a lot, and share a lot of interests with her. We have opposite political instincts, but most of the time seem to share a lot of aesthetic common ground. I think she is really smart, and a good writer.</p>
<p>No one, no one, except Ms. Parker has managed to produce a list of favorite films that has more than one movie I actually hate (or, more accurately, about which I have mixed feelings including strongly negative ones). Her list has at least four. (I haven’t seen all of them.) Oliver: I love musicals to death, and I couldn’t take this movie at all, except maybe on a camp level. It may be my least favorite movie musical ever. Wings of Desire: four or five stunningly beautiful scenes embedded in two hours of the most aggressive boredom this side of My Dinner With Andre. (Also, shouldn’t a movie lose points for “inspiring” one of the most vapid remakes of all time?) The Zefirelli Romeo & Juliet: Can you say “gauzy”? Olivia Hussey was an absolutely stunning 16-year-old (especially when I was 16), but her work in this movie is more on the order of Calvin Klein ads than Shakespearean interpretation. (But at least I can remember her, as opposed to whatsisname.) </p>
<p>Anyway, de gustibus non disputandam est. I do love the Beeb’s Briedeshead and P&P and Lady Windemere. I wonder what Oscar Wilde would have had to say about Wenders’ long-winded angels . . . .</p>