Great Movies?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Perhaps the longest box office run in all of Hollywood, probably still showing at a theatre somewhere, some 30 odd years after it was filmed.

Should anyone feel the need to know...Riff Raff

BTW, I just learned that a remake is in the works. I don't see how it could be improved on...
 
juantoo3 said:
I saw 2001 long before Star Wars. I read the book, I read the sequel, I read the book about the making of the movie. I didn't get to read the third (final?) book of the series (2050?). I'd love it if it were remade with modern effects, although I think the title would have to change. For its time, the effects were groundbreaking, and far more involved than any greenscreen computer generated stuff.

The use of Classical music to watch a waltz between two spacecraft...brilliant and genius.

But by far the most compelling and thought provoking is the beginning, where Kubrick and Clark let us glimpse the dawning of humanity.
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Yes 2001 remains a classic film. :)

True fans (hehe) referred to the sequel as Ten Past Eight. Sums it up, I think.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Koyaanisqatsi, but one must admit it is an acquired taste, kinda like foreign films with subtitles, or galleries of abstract art.

The other two I have not heard of.
 
Snoopy said:
True fans (hehe) referred to the sequel as Ten Past Eight. Sums it up, I think.
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Are you referring to 2010? I hadn't heard it called that before.

In fairness, I don't think it came in the least bit close to the artistry that was 2001. Having said that, I enjoyed it because I am a fan of Roy Scheider (The 7-Ups, The French Connection, Sorceror among many others). I learned he recently passed away.
 
juantoo3 said:
I thoroughly enjoyed Koyaanisqatsi, but one must admit it is an acquired taste, kinda like foreign films with subtitles, or galleries of abstract art.

The other two I have not heard of.
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The other qatsi is part of the trilogy. The third I've not seen, and it got mixed reviews. Baraka is directed by the cinematographer of the qatsi films, in the same vein. Yes I can see they're an acquired taste.

Don't get me on to foreign films!!!

OK too late...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. :)

Hero. :)

House of Flying Daggers. :)

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My wife and I are currently watching Dances With Wolves in installments. I'd never seen this movie before now, but was intrigued when I read that it was filmed primarily in the Lakota language with subtitles. I like that about it, and that it doesn't shirk away from portraying the violent aspects of indigenous hunter-gatherer living.
 
Pathless said:
My wife and I are currently watching Dances With Wolves in installments. I'd never seen this movie before now, but was intrigued when I read that it was filmed primarily in the Lakota language with subtitles. I like that about it, and that it doesn't shirk away from portraying the violent aspects of indigenous hunter-gatherer living.
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This is incentive to maybe give this one a whirl...I haven't seen it before, and have been passing on it, seems I always found something more appealing.

Is Graham Greene in it?
 
juantoo3 said:
This is incentive to maybe give this one a whirl...I haven't seen it before, and have been passing on it, seems I always found something more appealing.

Is Graham Greene in it?
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Yeah, I think Graham Greene is in it. I remember seeing that name at the opening credits and thinking, "Isn't he dead?" But I knew it must be a different Graham Greene than who I was thinking of, since that guy is not an actor.

We finished Dances With Wolves last night. It made us sad. It is a great movie, though.
 
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