The Glade 4.0

In what genre?

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Watership Down (1978)

That's a question I've wrestled with for a very long time. I think one thing that may have helped me solve it was upgrading to a blu ray player. I was thinking about what movie did I absolutely have to see in high-def and had to be my first purchase. It took me a couple minutes, but the answer was:

The Fifth Element.

It has everything I like in a movie. Big, bold, beautiful colors. Great costumes. A good story. Great characters. Tons of action. Comedy. Romance. Lasers. Spaceships. Great soundtrack. So I would have to heavily lean towards that.

Which I, in turn, find very interesting. This movie has made an unusual journey on my list of "movies I like and dislike." If you were to travel back in time to the summer of '97 and ask me how I felt about The Fifth Element, I would have told you to "Go **** yourself."

But, in the movie's defense it was more the circumstances that happened to me surrounding the movie. I took a gal I had been dating for a few weeks out to see the movie and as the opening credits started, I went to hold her hand. She pulled away and basically dumped me right then and there.

Me, being the stupid, too-nice-guy that I was and knowing that I was her ride back to her house, didn't just get up and leave her there. No, I instead sat quietly fuming throughout the whole movie. ...... And then Chris Tucker's character appeared. I already had the knife in my gut. Ruby Rod appeared, grabbed a hold of the knife and began to simultaneously twist it and pour rock salt into the wound. It was quite a feat. I experienced a whole new level of agitation that day that I never thought I could, thanks to Ruby Rod.

A year passed and the knife-wound was mostly healed. I gave the Fifth Element another chance and it warmed up to me much faster. I am a guy who holds deep grudges against stuff like this. So the mere fact this movie was able to change my opinion of it speaks volumes about its appeal.

Now, many years later, I've owned several copies of the movie including the pointless "Superbit" DVD version of it. And it was my first Blu Ray purchase now as well. So, yeah... I'll have to pick that one as my favorite. And yes, I've also warmed up to Ruby Rod and he now makes me laugh as intended.




Stupid whore for not waiting until after the movie to dump me. grumblegrumblegrumble

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El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)

Hard to nail down a single movie. My favorite genre would be westerns.

OJW, Tombstone, TG,B,&U, etc etc......

Horror.
Ringu

The original "Highlander", although my affection for it was severely diminished after watching the Directors Cut on the DVD.

Hmm, I think my favorite is The Princess Bride.

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The Expendables.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Well, when we did the ten movies for a desert island thing a while back (previous Glade iteration?), I ended up with The Terminator at the top of my list. But then I had a change of heart about an hour later, and realized that I'd completely forgotten A Clockwork Orange.

Either way, I'm probably kind of messed up.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Dark City
3. Chinatown
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Also, Big Trouble in Little China.

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1. Romero "Dead" movies (originals not remakes and ignore Survival of the Dead completely)
2. Streets of Fire
3. Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis)
4. Tombstone
5. Time After Time
6. From Hell
7. Repo: The Genetic Opera
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Equilibrium
10. The Perfect Storm

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Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Tough to pick one, but I think Blade Runner would have to be up there, for me.

I'd like to point out that I didn't start this thread. Some spambot did and that was my response

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History is written by the victors.

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Cyborg - a movie that is not watched enough

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

For a long time, The Matrix was my favorite. These days I lean between that and Iron Man.

For animation, I go back and forth between The Incredibles and How to Train Your Dragon.

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In time, this too shall pass.

I'm not sure...maybe Commando or Demolition Man

Those are both fantastic movies.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Demolition Man is indeed one of those movie that majority seems to dislike (whether they've seen it or not) that I found I really enjoyed. Last Action Hero also falls into this category.

"What's your boggle?"

"I've seen the future. It's a forty year-old virgin sitting in his basement singing 'I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner.'"

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The Great Escape

"Cooler! Twenty days!"

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I was recently introduced to the cinematic masterpiece of Hobo With a Shotgun. Like Snakes On a Plane, it delivered everything promised in the title. It is a movie that sells itself, letting you know upfront exactly why you need to see this film.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

No way I could nail down one single movie as a favorite.

That being said, if you have a teen aged girl possessed by the devil tell a priest that his newly dead mother is sucking cocks in hell...it is on the right path.

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