Sum up your personality with five movies

Star Wars
Shadowlands (original TV movie with Joss Ackland)
Topsy Turvy
Rocky Horror Picture Show
...and whenever they get around to filming the life story of Ambrose Bierce -- not that 'Old Gringo' crap, thanks.

!!!!!!!!!

I envision it.

I love it that Ned put that in there.

I think it's a very affecting piece of work and I buy Ackland as C. S. Lewis more than Hopkins. It was very eloquently filmed and Ackland's portrayal of Lewis after the death of his wife I think captures the sense of utter, total grief -- even in something as simple as tight-mouthed, staring silence -- fantastically.

I was just reading about the actual history of Hauser, it was very intriguing. This was done by Herzog, right?

Serious answer:

1. next of kin (egoyan)
2. ratcatcher
3. a hard day's night
4. brazil
5. repulsion

Ned, Do you know if there any scripts/projects about Bierce out there?

Yes, go see it! Were you reading a book on Hauser?

Ned, Do you know if there any scripts/projects about Bierce out there?

Not to my knowledge, but I sure can dream. I'd LOVE a modern Bierce right about now, all his definitions about patriotism and war and all that are spot on for the current time.

Were you reading a book on Hauser?

A book on historical mysteries from the nineteenth century involving potential imposters and things (like fake dauphins and the like).

OMG Michael I totally forgot about this film, but it's great!

Dude, don't lie, you'd need a Showgirls/Road House double disc.

Ned: The State, I'm pretty sure

Just let-downs and disappointments the whole way through...

One think I like about the State is the random show promo they did which is based on The Conversation -- I only got it after I saw the film, but it was damned good.

My list is ridiculously incomplete to be sure but it was based on impulse. And I did think it captured a lot of different things together (early Star Wars damage in general, my not so secret emotional side, my love of history/the past through different filters, being sparkly and twisted (somehow) and, alternately, being a viciously crabby bastard who hates fools or, in my dreams, winning footraces with my hair streaming out behind me and then pounding unchivalrous competitors with baskets).

1. Five Easy Pieces (for frustrating times)
2. Pump Up the Volume (for all of the teenaged shit)
3. Brazil (for creativity)
4. Knife in the Water (for neuroses)
5. You Can Count on Me (for sincerity)

Speech from the third man
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock ..."
Speech from Broadcast News
"I believe that Tom, while a very nice guy, is the Devil. . . . What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing . . . he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance . . . Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. . . . And he'll get all the great women"
Yes they are both incredibly cheesy speeches, but they are the kind of incredible cheesy speeches I'd make. Except that I know nothing about Italian history.

um

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need one more

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Murder On The Orient Express (for fashion tips).

Notorious
(I'm not in control. I'm doing things I don't want to do because I'm being manipulated. Leave me alone, you bastards.)
The Third Man
(I know he's a devil, but I really can't help it.)
Witness for the Prosecution
(I will lie for you, but I guess you'll dump on me in the end.)
The X-Men
(Fuck, Logan's hot. But, you know, I'm with that guy with glasses and I don't cheat.)
Kill Bill
(My every fantasy of kicking and slaying all the vile shits who've been nasty to me, the safe way, with a cool wardrobe to boot.)

Hm. I think I'll save this list for my shrink.

The Holy Mountain
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Soul Plane
A Hole in my Heart
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Touch of Evil
The Third Man
Rashomon
Blade Runner
The Omega Man

American Splendor
Murder by Death
John from Cincinnati
Zardoz
Sense and Sensibility

Happy Guy Movie
Sad Guy Movie
Confused Guy Movie
Newsies
Spy Kids 2

Whatever common ground can be cross-indexed between:

Gertrud
The Warriors
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
Mommie Dearest
Make Way for Tomorrow

Duck Soup
Fight Club
Cops (Keaton)
A Moment of Innocence
Fox and His Friends

Metropolitan
The Leopard
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Drugstore Cowboy
Holiday

Dead Man
Slackers
Carry On At Your Convenience
Harvey
My Own Private Idaho

Abbott OTM about Spy Kids 2 being one of the best kids' movies ever!

Cruising
All That Heaven Allows
Dead Man
The Wind Will Carry Us
Scorpio Rising

His Girl Friday
Adaptation
High Fidelity
Annie Hall
Dead Poets Society (lol rite)

Spy Kids 2 is one of the best ANY movies ever.

Miami Blues
Barbarella
3 Women
Primer
Wings of Desire

thelma & louise
the fish & the whale
do the right thing
half nelson
talladega nights

awesome thread idea
1.) Duck Soup
2.) The Forbidden Zone
3.) The Brave Little Toaster
4.) The Good the Bad and the Ugly
5.) Waking Life

i'm stuck at 2!

I like your style Matt P.

my real one would be more like:

being there
beyond the valley of the dolls
network
annie hall
half baked

the princess and the warrior
200 cigarettes
alice in wonderland (1985)
romy and michelle's high school reunion
waiting for guffman

The Muppet Movie
Boogie Nights
Five Easy Pieces
To Be And To Have
Being There

Oh, I didn't even see the Being There two posts up!

All That Jazz
Manhattan
Play Time
Naked Lunch
Singin' In the Rain

kudos re: manhattan

Yes. It's about people who imagine they can talk instead of actually relating to others. :(

But offset by Play Time, which has almost no dialogue, but is about relating to your environment in a way that's totally impossible to put into words.

Yeah I considered putting Manhattan on my list before I realized Annie Hall fit better into a list of movies about neurotic funny men who can't deal with women.