Serious Movie Discussion

[Striker22 redo]

My Top 10 list of mixed genres of movies that I had a great time seeing:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Braveheart
3. The Godfather
4. Casablanca
5. Star Wars Trilogy
6. The Shining
7. Goodfellas
8. Last of The Mohicans
9. The Matrix
10. Good Will Hunting
11. Hoosiers

Notice I went to 11. I could have made 10 the highest, but mine goes to 11.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by Striker22 redo

I got into thr classics a few years ago. Charlie Chan movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Laura. They are fucking great. Even some old Westerns are. Doesnt mean I cant enjoy Transformers when I want to vegg out and have fun.

Yes they are

If you liked Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon I'd check out the films Bogart made with Lauren Bacall: To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo if you haven't already seen them.

[JSN]

Originally Posted by magicman531

American Pyscho


spoilers
can someone explain to me what happens at the end? the lawyer claims to have had lunch with Paul Allen and Bateman's secretary is going through his drawings, which I assumed meant she discovered what he was doing.

*MOAR SPOILERZ*

they're playing with the definition of psycho. is he psychotic in the colloquial sense, as in a sociopathic serial killer, or is he psychopathic in the clinical sense, as in he's lost touch with reality? you can really interpret it either way.

one thing that the medium of film couldn't represent as well as the novel did, was to represent the strylized manhattan that bateman lives is, where every yuppy is so similar that you can't tell one from the other.

knowing that is key, because we don't know if people are confusing other people with paul allen because they're all doppelgangers, or if the murders were all in poor, boring, bateman's head because he's lame in real life so he needs a fantasy land where he harms people.

[magicman531]

^^^


I see, that's what I had thought about too. The ending, and entire movie for that matter, is so ambiguous I didn't know what the fuck was going on. I half expected him to wake up from a dream at the end.

[cXs808]

Originally Posted by Striker22 redo

My Top 10 list of mixed genres of movies that I had a great time seeing:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Braveheart
3. The Godfather
4. Casablanca
5. Star Wars Trilogy
6. The Shining
7. Goodfellas
8. Last of The Mohicans
9. The Matrix
10. Good Will Hunting
11. Hoosiers

Notice I went to 11. I could have made 10 the highest, but mine goes to 11.

nice list actually, i fucking loved the shining

[Pillbox Joe]

my list

1. Clockwork Orange
2. Godfather
3. Psycho (the original)
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Casablanca
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Silence of the lambs
8. Apocalypse Now
9. Vertigo
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, On The Water Front, and The Color Purple are close up there as well.

[Bullitt68]

^^^^

That a favorites list or a best list? Either way, kudos on the Kubrick films.

Originally Posted by magicman531

I see, that's what I had thought about too. The ending, and entire movie for that matter, is so ambiguous I didn't know what the fuck was going on. I half expected him to wake up from a dream at the end.

According to the director, she didn't intend the film to be so ambiguous and considers it a failure on her part that so many people were confused. I haven't read the novel, but apparently it's a lot clearer that Bateman was in fact killing people.

Originally Posted by cXs808

nice list actually, i fucking loved the shining

I don't know about anybody else, but I really don't have much respect for Brian De Palma, whose biggest achievements in the suspense/horror genre were blatant---and tacky---ripoffs of Hitchcock, so his resentment of Kubrick and The Shining and how Kubrick sort of waltzed right into the genre and did it better than everybody else is made that much funnier to me

[magicman531]

Originally Posted by Bullitt68

According to the director, she didn't intend the film to be so ambiguous and considers it a failure on her part that so many people were confused. I haven't read the novel, but apparently it's a lot clearer that Bateman was in fact killing people.

Figures... Never send a woman to do a man's job.

[JSN]

Originally Posted by Bullitt68

According to the director, she didn't intend the film to be so ambiguous and considers it a failure on her part that so many people were confused. I haven't read the novel, but apparently it's a lot clearer that Bateman was in fact killing people.

naw, it's more ambiguous in the book. it just works better in that medium.

she did a really good job, but made some really critical errors. for instance, for dramatic purposes (and prolly just because she wanted to work with him), she cast willam defoe as the PI as more of a straight PI type, whereas in the novel he's another twentysomething yuppy who looks just like bateman, allen/owen, van patten, and the rest of them. she played with the all alike theme, but didn't quite use it correctly, because she needed to create a more surreal atmosphere to pull the ending off.

[StillinKansas**]

Originally Posted by Striker22 redo

Notice I went to 11. I could have made 10 the highest, but mine goes to 11.

I see what you did there...