I want to say Gösta Berlings Saga (The Saga of Gösta Berling) (most known for being the breakthrough movie of Greta Garbo), but instead I think I'll go with Gnomes
Despite it being an American movie, I can't find a clip in English...
Favourite movie you think of in connection with a holiday?
Best on-screen character death is a tie between Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie and Boromir in LotR: Fellowship of the Ring.
Boromir's death has got nothing on Sonny Corleone's, from The Godfather!
I also love the tromping that Ricardo Montalbahn's body takes in The Naked Gun -- but my all-time favorite movie death is Robert Goulet's (SPOILER) in Naked Gun 2 1/2 (it's an inside joke from earlier in the movie, so if you haven't seen it, it will seem totally random).I like what they do with flashback scenes in Memento and Jacob's Ladder, but I'm not sure any from either one is a "best" -- so I'll leave Jason's question for the next person.
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In Being John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz is some kind of animal hoarder and she has a chimpanzee. At one point she says that she has taken the chimp to the animal psychiatrist and that they were making great progress on the ape's childhood trauma. It's kind of a throwaway joke line until...
It might not sound like much typed out like that, but I laughed my ass off.
Favorite John Cusack movie that isn't BJM?
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Since I loathed that movie with the fiery burning passion of a thousand exploding suns, I could say "any of them," but my all-time favorite John Cusack movie is easy anyway: The Sure Thing
An absolute classic.
Favorite movie with Cameron Diaz that isn't the above-loathed BJM?
Favorite movie with Cameron Diaz that isn't the above-loathed BJM?
The Mask.
Favorite Comedy movie later turned into a cartoon series?
The only parts worth watching are the first ten min and the last ten min but the Thomas Crown Affair remake some years ago had an awesome heist.
A topless Rene Russo from 1999 is also a good reason to watch The Thomas Crown Affair re-make.
Oh and FYI, it's a good long shot, not some quick sneak peek.
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Favorite movie with Cameron Diaz that isn't the above-loathed BJM?The Mask.
Favorite Comedy movie later turned into a cartoon series?
** spoiler omitted **
The Toxic Avenger....yeah think about that.
Favorite musician biopic?
I really enjoyed Ray.
Favorite biopic about a non-musician?
A topless Rene Russo from 1999 is also a good reason to watch The Thomas Crown Affair re-make.
Correction: a topless stand-in for Rene Russo, which will have to do for her fans like you and I.
Since I loathed that movie with the fiery burning passion of a thousand exploding suns, I could say "any of them,"
What??? How...? Never Mind.
but my all-time favorite John Cusack movie is easy anyway: The Sure Thing
The Sure Thing was fun, but not an instant classic like Better Off Dead. I like Cusack in serious roles (he was good in Identity and Runaway Jury, and I thought he was phenomenal in The Jack Bull), but my favorite movie of his is still Grosse Point Blank.
I can't watch anything with Malkovich in any more, it is always coloured by his stated desire to murder Robert Fisk.
If I let actors' personal politics interfere with my movie watching, I'd cancel Netflix and become Amish. I mean, Chuck Norris wants to machine-gun anyone who crosses the border, but Good Guys Wear Black is still a classic.
So where were we... oh, yeah, non-musician biopic. Hmmm.
I liked the Noble House miniseries an awful lot, with Pierce Brosnan playing a composite of Sir Hugh Barton and Sir Michael Herries named "Ian Dunross" to protect the innocent, and Jardine Matheson renamed "Struan's." Loved the book, too. Clavell was a lot of fun because by changing the names of the main characters, he could take liberties with the historical personages without necessarily offending anyone.
Honestly, I can't think of a straight-up biopic I liked. Kostner's Wyatt Earp was really good, but again veered a bit too far into the realm of fiction to strictly be called a "biography."
I waive the question and leave it to the next person.
The Gathering Storm about the life of Winston Churchill (played by Albert Finney) in the years leading up to World War II.
Favourite movie about British politics?
I know, I know, it looks like it's just about lame-o poets, but there's some pro-French Revolution English radicalism in there and then, it turns out,
I don't know if that's really true, though...
Favorite movie about poets?
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I know, I know, it looks like it's just about lame-o poets, but there's some pro-French Revolution English radicalism in there and then, it turns out, ** spoiler omitted **
I don't know if that's really true, though...
Favorite movie about poets?
You don't need any kind of 'but...' there.
Poetry can be an awesome thing. Anyone who thinks poets, or even just the lake poets, are lame is telling you much, much more about themselves than they are about poetry.
A: Slam
Q: Favourite movie with an unlikeable central character.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
A stately Pleasure-Dome decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers was girdled ’round,
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But, oh! That deep, romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill, athwart a cedarn cover:
A savage place! As holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath the waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
And from this chasm with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this Earth in fast, thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced,
Amid whose swift, half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail;
And ‘midst these dancing rocks at once and ever,
It flung up momently the sacred river!
Five miles meandering with ever a mazy motion,
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean.
And ‘mid this tumult, Kublai heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the Dome of Pleasure
Floated midway on the waves,
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device:
A sunny Pleasure-Dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such deep delight ‘twould win me
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome within the air!
That sunny dome, those caves of ice,
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry: “Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle ’round him thrice,
And close your eyes in holy dread:
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was down with the [bubble bubble bubble].
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was down with the [bubble bubble bubble].
Great poem. Rush used some of the lines to make one of their very best songs Xanadu.
Last Q: Favourite movie with an unlikeable central character.
A: Taxi Driver.
What is your favorite Robert De Niro movie not directed by Martin Scorsese?
Godfather III.
What is the one movie you wish you could see for the first time all over again?
Mine is Sunset Blvd.
Meant Godfather II.
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Debbie Does Dallas
Favorite movie with cheerleaders?
More poetry:
The Seekers of Lice
by Arthur Rimbaud
translated by Jeremy Harding
When the boy's head, full of raw torment,
Longs for hazy dreams to swarm in white,
Two charming older sisters come to his bed
With slender fingers and silvery nails.
They sit him at a casement window, thrown
Open on a mass of flowers basking in blue air,
And run the fine, intimidating witchcraft
Of their fingers through his dew-dank hair.
He listens to their diffident, sing-song breath,
Smelling of elongated honey off the rose,
Broken now and then by a hiss: saliva sucked
Back from the lip, or a longing to be kissed.
He hears their dark eyelashes start in the sweet-
Smelling silence and, through his grey listlessness,
The crackle of small lice dying, beneath
The imperious nails of their soft, electric fingers.
The wine of Torpor wells up in him then
— Near on trance, a harmonica-sigh —
And in their slow caress he feels
The endless ebb and flow of a desire to cry.
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I think I'll do this all week.
Debbie Does Dallas
Favorite movie with cheerleaders?
Bring It On.
Favorite Movie that makes something from real life more glamourus than it seems.
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More poetry for Geraint
I'm a sucker for poets who romanticise my homeland, although he needs to work on his Welsh pronunciation.
Not all Welsh poets are/were romantics though, and only a Welshman like R.S. Thomas could be as eloquently bitter, and as loved for being so, as this:
To live in Wales is to be conscious
At dusk of the spilled blood
That went into the making of the wild sky,
Dyeing the immaculate rivers
In all their courses.
It is to be aware,
Above the noisy tractor
And hum of the machine
Of strife in the strung woods,
Vibrant with sped arrows.
You cannot live in the present,
At least not in Wales.
There is the language for instance,
The soft consonants
Strange to the ear.
There are cries in the dark at night
As owls answer the moon,
And thick ambush of shadows,
Hushed at the fields' corners.
There is no present in Wales,
And no future;
There is only the past,
Brittle with relics,
Wind-bitten towers and castles
With sham ghosts;
Mouldering quarries and mines;
And an impotent people,
Sick with inbreeding,
Worrying the carcase of an old song.
Meeting at Night
I
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
II
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
By Robert Browning
Favourite Iranian film?
A: The Color of Paradise.
Q: Favorite fake TV show from a movie. Name the show and the movie it's from please.
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"I'd Buy That for a Dollar!" from The Running Man
Favorite three Schwarzenegger movies, and three least favorite Schwarzenegger movies?
EDIT: I have to double-ninja myself, because of course that fake show wasn't from The Running Man; it was from Robocop! Getting my late 80's dystopian action movies mixed up!
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A: The Running Man fake TV show, from The Running Man movie.
Q: What is your favorite Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie?
EDIT: NINJA'd big time! It is interesting that Jason and I thought of the same movie, but different elements from it. Please go with Jason Nelson's next question, it has more to it. (Great minds!)
Cheers,
Mazra
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Lord of the Rings has cheerleaders?
Return of the King (extended version). When the Orcs ar bringing in the the Wolf's Head battering ram, the Orcs are shouting "Grond Grond". That is cheerleading.
My question is still open: What movie character would you like to be. (Non Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
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Lord of the Rings has cheerleaders?Return of the King (extended version). When the Orcs ar bringing in the the Wolf's Head battering ram, the Orcs are shouting "Grond Grond". That is cheerleading.
My question is still open: What movie character would you like to be. (Non Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
Sherlock Holmes.
Everyone always guesses the twist before it happens. Tell us what movie twist got you by surprise?
Favourite movie you saw and could predict every plot point of at least five minutes before it happened?
I have no idea how Welsh is supposed to be pronounced, but, obvious choice here:
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Bob Zimmerman's Namesake
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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I have no idea how Welsh is supposed to be pronounced, but, obvious choice here:
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Bob Zimmerman's NamesakeDo not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Which means we have two Welsh Thomas' and require only one more for a full set:
Old Man, or Lads-Love, - in the name there's nothing
To one that knows not Lads-Love, or Old Man,
The hoar green feathery herb, almost a tree,
Growing with rosemary and lavender.
Even to one that knows it well, the names
Half decorate, half perplex, the thing it is:
At least, what that is clings not to the names
In spite of time. And yet I like the names.
The herb itself I like not, but for certain
I love it, as someday the child will love it
Who plucks a feather from the door-side bush
Whenever she goes in or out of the house.
Often she waits there, snipping the tips and shrivelling
The shreds at last on to the path,
Thinking perhaps of nothing, till she sniffs
Her fingers and runs off. The bush is still
But half as tall as she, 'though it is as old;
So well she clips it. Not a word she says;
And I ca only wonder how much hereafter
She will remember, with that bitter scent,
Of garden rows, and ancient damson trees
Topping a hedge, a bent path to a door
A low thick bush beside the door, and me
Forbidding her to pick.
As for myself,
Where first I met the bitter scent is lost.
I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,
Sniff them and think and sniff again and try
Once more to think what it is I am remembering,
Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,
Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,
With no meaning, than this bitter one.
I have mislaid the key. I sniff the spray
And think of nothing; I see and I hear nothing;
Yet seem, too, to be listening, lying in wait
For what I should, yet never can, remember;
No garden appears, no path, no hoar-green bush
Of Lad's-love, or Old Man, no child beside,
Neither father nor mother, nor any playmate;
Only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end
A trifecta of Thomases!
Ahem... I believe we had a thread about movies going on here?
One time, I was tripping on mushrooms after school and had my mind blown by:
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
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A: Star Wars (R2D2 and C3PO) :)
From Jason Nelson:
Q: Favorite three Schwarzenegger movies, and three least favorite Schwarzenegger movies?
Total Recall
Conan the BarbarianTerminator
Twins
Batman and Robin (even though its so bad its kind of funny)
End of days
Q: Three favorite Jack Nicholson flicks and three least favorite?
Q: Three favorite Jack Nicholson flicks and three least favorite?
Favorites:
About Schmidt
The Pldege
The Shining
Least Favorites:
Anger Management
As Good As it Gets
Mars Attacks
Q: What's the film that disappointed you the most?
Film that was a pleasant surprise to you?