Sum up your personality with five movies

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Intended as a companion thread to ILM's Sum up your personality in three pieces of music .

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if the point is to post five movies that mean something to you or five movies that represent various aspects of your character. You can decide.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I spit on your grave
a clockwork orange
28 days later
scarface (de palma)
bambi

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Citizen Kane
2. Gone With the Wind
3. How Green Was My Valley
4. Splash
5. Metropolis

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No "Tommy", kyle?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm.

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.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Ned's telling us he likes to play dress-up.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Shadowlands (original TV movie with Joss Ackland)

!!!!!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it that Ned put that in there.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Ned's telling us he likes to play dress-up.

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.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Key Largo or Wild At Heart
2. Bring It On
3. In A Lonely Place
4. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
5. Emak Bakia

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Enigma of Kasper Hauser

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and if I have to pick an actual fifth film that currently exists, the first Fong Sai Yuk with Jet Li.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

1. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
2. My Neighbor Totoro
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
5. M. Hulot's Holiday

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not necessarily my favorite films, but probably the ones that sum up my character best.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

WarGames
Real Genius
Conan The Barbarian
Behind Enemy Lines
Office Space

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Kaspar Hauser on DVD, I should finally watch that one of these days.

Serious answer:

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

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Wayne's World
2. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
3. The Day The Earth Stood Still
4. Twin Falls, Idaho
5. Palookaville

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Wayne's World
An Affair to Remember
A Guy Named Joe
Can't Stop the Music
Vertigo

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

La Vie est un Long Fleuve Tranquille
Brazil
The Shooting Party
The Awful Truth
and some kind of porno, I haven't decided which.

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

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to include a robot movie = I screwed my list up. No wonder I hate lists.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This was done by Herzog, right?

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

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1. After Life
2. Rear Window
3. Chungking Express
4. Annie Hall
5. Fitzcarraldo (xpost Kyle made me think maybe Brazil instead)

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And no Showgirls! This is what happens when I don't drink enough coffee.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Tombot's list is so perfect I can but stand in awe. El Diablo's reminds me I've not seen any of those films! D'oh.

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).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

La Vie est un Long Fleuve Tranquille

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

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And no Showgirls! This is what happens when I don't drink enough coffee.

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

where can one see Emak Bakia?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never even met Tombot, but that list seems perfect to me too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Bio-Dome

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Alien vs. Predator?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
wet hot american summer
harold and maude
deliver us from eva
the stoned age

― mandee, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What is "wet hot american summer"? It sounds great!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Tombot's list confirms my long-held suspicion that he is in fact Chris Knight.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

n-skillz! you must see it!

― mandee, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think so!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

IMDB confirms that it will deliver "summer camp hi-jinks"!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Which reminds me - s1ocki should do this, but he hates lists.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Which comedy troupe was behind Wet Hot again? I saw clips the other day on TV and immediately guessed that was the film before the title came up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

S1ocki is wise! I already regret my list! Fucking lists...

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

dazed and confused
all the real girls
swingers
national lampoons vacation
y tu mama tambien

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris is horny.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Again.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wet hot american summer is fantastic, I think we watched that 4 times one weekend (the DVD comes with an alternate soundtrack: added farts)

Ned: The State, I'm pretty sure

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Rain Man
Rain Man
Rain Man
Rain Man
Boogie Nights

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it was the State. And it has Bradley Cooper!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it as good as Meatballs?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Legal Eagles.
Teachers.
Irreconcilable Differences.
Air Bud.
Leprachaun 3.

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

― andy, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Earnest Goes to Camp
2) Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock
3) Better Off Dead
4) Repo Man
5) Rebirth of Mothra 2

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Bradley Cooper? *scratches head*

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).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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Rififi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Sanjuro
Street of Crocodiles
Last Tango in Paris

― Dan I., Friday, 4 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This exercise is actually pretty enlightening. I never realized the extent of my gender issues before.

― Dan I., Friday, 4 June 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

wish:
1) Fight Club
2) Scanners
3) Hero (based on the preview)
4) Brewster's Millions
5) Miracle

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

6) office space (duh)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Having just watched Catch-22 again I feel compelled to shoehorn it in somewhere. Yossarian, c'est moi

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

1. The Good, The Bay & The Ugly. (for the "friendships," the obsession of gold, greed, vengence, death)
2. Eraserhead. (for sometimes being too different)
3. Les Bronzes Font Du Ski. (for the good times)
4. Wings Of Desire. (for the creative side)
5. Goodfellas. (for the "I'm gonna stab you while you're in my trunk" moments)

― Kamdine, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Obviously, it's "The Bad..." not the Bay. Unless it's a new western about San Francisco.

― Kamdine, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Pitch it!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is like the ultimate Jeremy bait.

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)

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Wayne's World 2 (For the random hilarity and what the hell am I going to do with my life? I will put on a concert, oh yes, I will put on a concert)
The Third Man (for that time, you know, I tried to kill a hospital full of babies with Penicillin in Vienna.. )
Punch Drunk Love (For the fury)
Broadcast News (For the ethics wrangle)
Say Anything (For the pathetic romantic within)

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.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Clash of the Titans
Sword of the Valiant
Circle of Iron
Electric Dreams
Mannequin

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Heathers (for all the teenage shit)
Annie Hall or Cabaret or Breakfast At Tiffanys or Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (for the heroines who came a bit too close for comfort in some aspects)
Almost Famous (for the writers who will never be cool, I wish I had the snap of Rosalind Russel in His Girl Friday or the work ethic, without the lies, of the people in Shattered Glass, but I don't.)
Reality Bites or Slacker (yes, Reality Bites sucks and they are both around a decade old, but they feel like my life does now, esp. as last night I got into a cheap-red-wine-fueled arguement about whether or not the revolution will be televised. You can all hate me now.)

....

need one more

...
Murder On The Orient Express (for fashion tips).

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No! Scratch Orient Express. It's got to be Billy Liar. The whole not getting on the train thing was one of my most painful filmic moments ever. It could have been me, but it wasn't (Thank God). I ended up shouting at the television and crying.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm replacing Punch Drunk Love with Igby Goes Down and Say anything with School of Rock, thankyou very much.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting idea. Too much emphasis on ancient films for me, shock, horror.

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.

― _chrissie (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

how to get ahead in advertising
logan's run
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
sex & lucia
big lebowski

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

rear window
la collectioneuse
ratcatcher
electra glide in blue
playtime

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Another Woman
Cremaster Cycle/Series/whatever
Amelie
Waiting For Guffman
Not One Less

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (the dementia! the roffle! the psychedelia!)
2. Dark Crystal (the emo! the supposed kid-friendliness! the actually really creepy!)
3. Tampopo (the food! the horny! where the hunger meets the horny!)
4. Ferris Bueler's Day Off (the whimsical eschewing of responsibilities! the SMOOOVness)
5. Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke (1 part maui wowwie, 1 part acupulco gold, 1 part LABRADOR)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

for the absurdity
for the future of love
for the memory of love
for the sex
for the fraternity

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't understand this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

bande a part
a taste of cherry
l'histoire d'adele h
rushmore
rumblefish

― minerva, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oh cool minerva. I totally almost typed bande a part and ATOC before I decided to make mine all cheesy 80's B-movies

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dazed & Confused
Wonder Boys
The Straight Story
Last Night (the Canadian apocalypse movie)
Morvern Callar

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

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

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

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

― I Want to Edit My Profile... (Ioannis), Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

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

― i'm shy (Abbott), Sunday, 8 February 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

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

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

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

― h.o.u.s.e. (Matt P), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

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

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

― i'm shy (Abbott), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

Miami Blues
Barbarella
3 Women
Primer
Wings of Desire

― abanana, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

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

― pterodactyl, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

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

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

i'm stuck at 2!

― gangsa paradise (tehresa), Sunday, 8 February 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

I like your style Matt P.

― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

my real one would be more like:

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

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 February 2009 23:13 (sixteen years ago)

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

― gangsa paradise (tehresa), Monday, 9 February 2009 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 9 February 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 9 February 2009 04:57 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, 9 February 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

kudos re: manhattan

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 February 2009 06:17 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, 9 February 2009 06:18 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, 9 February 2009 06:21 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 February 2009 06:35 (sixteen years ago)

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