[10:31:57 AM] pD says: just saw it last night and for senseless and cheeky violence, this is great!
[10:33:59 AM] nsy says: I watched the first and second season of the tv series intermittently - hilarious stuff.
[10:34:29 AM] pD says: i must say that brits have a really weird sense of humor and more often than not, i enjoy it
[10:34:31 AM] AE says: there's a series?
[10:34:37 AM] pD says: something about not taking life too serious
[10:34:39 AM] AE says: I've only seen the movie.
[10:34:48 AM] pD says: is there a TV series? that is cool!
[10:34:52 AM] AE says: And you have to see their zombie flick too, Sean of the Dead
[10:35:13 AM] pD says: that is on my list too
[10:35:28 AM] pD says: my problem is that the list keeps expanding although i watch a lot of films
[10:35:34 AM] nsy says: sorry for the false alarm, i was thinking of reno 911
[10:35:50 AM] AE says: ah. never seen that. is it good?
[10:36:00 AM] nsy says: sean of the dead is definitely in my favorites - i forgot to add that one!
[10:38:23 AM] nsy says: the improv is great in some of the reno 911 stuff, but its not in my favorites
[11:04:23 AM] AE says: I've got my super cool running shirt on today:
[11:04:28 AM] AE sent file
shirt.jpg to members of this chat[11:04:42 AM] AE says: So off I go, Mr. Trekie
[11:08:25 AM] nsy says: we talked yesterday about making trekie shirts with the company logo ;)
[11:08:34 AM] nsy says: oops - no names, sorry!
[11:09:47 AM] nsy says: run, trekkie, run!
[11:35:54 AM] pD says: this is from nsy:
[11:35:55 AM] pD says: Favorite Movies, huh? Ok, that's tough, but I'll give it a shot... and this is without looking at my collection, which I'm sure would remind me of ones I've forgotten.
The Crow
The Lost Boys
Blade Runner
The Fisher King
The Princess Bride
Legend
The Holy Grail
Lord of The Rings trilogy
Lady Hawke (damn that horrid score, though)
Leon, The Professional
... agh! can't stop myself...
Raising Arizona
True Romance
Edward Scissorhands
Clerks
The Princess and the Warrior
Ghost Dog
What Dreams May Come
The Breakfast Club
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen
Office Space
Goonies
Kung Fu Hustle
Hackers
American Beauty
Wild At Heart
Fright Night
Grosse Pointe Blank
Super Troopers
... still can't stop...
one crazy summer
Sleeping Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dogma
The big blue
Subway
Sin City
Delicatessen
Dark City
near dark
the devil's rejects
vampire hunter d bloodlust
dead poets society
the evil dead
ginger snaps
the dangerous lives of alter boys
the man who fell to earth
the usual suspects
even cowgirls get the blues
snatch
clockwatchers
Untamed Heart
Beloved Directors...
Anything by Luc Besson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson (Leon, The Big Blue, Subway)
Anything by Federico Fellini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellini (La Dolce Vida, La Strada, 8 1/2)
Akira Kurosawa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru)
Anything by Jim Jarmusch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise)
Anything by Terry Gilliam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gilliam (The Holy Grail, The Fisher King, Brazil, Baron Von Munchausen, Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Ridley Scott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott Blade Runner, Legend, Alien)
Tim Burton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse bride)
John Hughes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_%28film_director%29 (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's day off, Uncle Buck)
Tom Tykwer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tykwer (The Princess and the Warrior, Run Lola Run, Heaven)
Coen Brothers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers (Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where art Thou?, Fargo)
Quentin Tarantino http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, True Romance (writer), Sin City (Guest Director))
Kevin Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_smith (Clerks, Dogma, Mall Rats, Chasing Amy)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, Amile, The City of lost Children)
Responses to your list:
1. Life is Beautiful
- Netflix didn't have it last I checked - still need to see it.
2. Train of Life
- Netflix didn't have it last I checked - still need to see it.
3. Brazil
- Oh, beloved Gilliam! He can do no wrong (although I haven't seen tidelands).
4. Aliens
- I like James Cameron's work (seen "The Abyss"?). I need to see this one again.
5. The Milagro Bean field War
Great movie - I saw it in English class of all places. Need to watch it again.
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- own it! Love it!
7. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- keep trying to own it, but not finding it in convenient places. can I borrow it?
8. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- never seen it! must watch this one... haven't read the book, either - such a sinner!
9. Leon
- in my top 10, own it.
10. Blade Runner
- in my top 10, own it.
I better send this before I remember more movies I love...
-nsy
[2:36:48 PM] pD says: i am surprised that Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder and the likes did not make into the lists
[2:37:02 PM] pD says: their work inspired many of the people mentioned above.
[2:38:57 PM] AE says: well, we're not exactly a 'Citizen Kane' crowd...
[2:39:34 PM] pD says: never quite got Citizen Kane
[2:39:42 PM] pD says: but, some of the works are pretty time-less
[2:40:14 PM] pD says: for example "some like it hot" - although it is black and white, it was the first instance where a gay-ish personality was a main character
[2:40:56 PM] pD says: going even further back, Griffin's "birth of a nation" was absolutely amazing - politically incorrect, but the level of sophistication on many levels are quite mind blowing
[2:41:17 PM] pD says: then, there are the Chaplin series, Buster Keating series
[2:42:06 PM] pD says: this is why i cannot come up with a list, each list would predicate on a prior list and very quickly, it becomes a chronology
[2:42:34 PM] AE says: Buster Keaton rocks!
[2:42:41 PM] pD says: my point!
[2:42:57 PM] AE says: Jackie Chan reminds me a lot of him. Doing all his own stunts with a very smart physical comedy
[2:43:24 PM] AE says: pD, you need to learn to let go of things.
[2:43:55 PM] AE says: For further reading on our hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
[2:44:37 PM] pD says: yet, but i am ready to be a Buddhist yet
[2:44:54 PM] AE says: good! That's the spirit!
[2:45:10 PM] pD says: not letting go? :)!
[2:45:41 PM] AE says: no, saying you're ready to be a Buddhist.
[3:38:48 PM] pD says: hahah! I meant to say i am NOT ready yet
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