some of your favorite movies

I hated Mullholland Drive, it was just crap piled upon crap wrapped in more crap with an extra crazy twist of crap on the side.

 

The Culture Club, that sounds interesting. might check it out when I have money.

 

You are a West Indian hooligan.

 

both among my favorites, but I felt he really came into his own when he went off the deep end with Mulholland Dr.

 

wow, you sound like a bright individual.

can I suggest some jugglers you might like?

 

Matt, do you like Barton Fink by the Coens? I felt it had a lot of parallels with Eraserhead, aside from John Turtorro having the same haircut as Jack Nance.

 

Exactly, I thought most star wars were shit, and anchorman...really, there is no justifying THAT.
To each their own, I thoroughly enjoyed the Illusionist tho.

 

I hope to someday be as knowledgeable as you guys in the realm of cinema.

I love movies...but have never kept track of directors or anything.

<--------inspired.

 

Its amazingly good, its one of the best books i've ever read. It won't really teach you anything in depth but it summarizes and references pretty much everything someone needs to know about pop culture and art in the last 100 years.

Did you know that Saturday Night Fever was inspired by the novels of Sarte? Debaser by the pixies is about the Marquis de Sade? Beck creates a lot of his lyrics using cut ups, a technique made famous by William Burroughs?

Its full of interesting facts like that, but just lots of them, and more interesting.

 

at least you have wisdom.

 

truly grateful. I'm going to have to go through this thread and take notes.

 

that's interesting. sounds up my alley.
Debaser may have been partially inspired by de Sade, but also Bunuel and Dali's 'Un Chien Andalou'. which is a silent film from 1928 and easily the most important surrealist film ever. everyone should see it.

 

See....I think this is what the taste debate about what is good and not good comes down to.

Some people see a movie like anchorman, that was obviously intended to be low brow, immature and tasteless and refuse to laugh at it because it doesn't live up to their standards of excellence, then they watch pretentious crap like the Illusionist or The Shawshank Redemption, or the number of arthouse films that came out after American Beauty and pretty much used the same music and film techniques, and buy their very obvious attempts at brilliance.

The irony is, Anchorman succeeds to be what it is, a harmless bit of fun, and the pseudo-intellectual crap that tries to be brilliant, fails utterly.

 

check out the one I just mentioned, Un Chien Andalou. it's only 15 minutes and is probably still on youtube.

 

I am with Zen, I am jealous of your wisdom and you have read your fair share of good science fiction I can imagine?

 

that is precisely how I feel. totally agree.

 

here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqoPUKs-mY8
I am totally watching this again now.

 

Has anyone here seen Kes?

Its so bleak and beautiful.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure thats in the book too. And the author said the same thing as you. 'Everyone needs to watch it'.

Hey, you know whats funny, I was going to add you as a friend tonight and when I went to do it I found that you had added me instead. Hows that for collective consciousness? Out of all the moments for two people to think the same thing.