In the Company of Men is certainly a critique on the impersonal and cynical business ethics in modern American companies of varied sorts, and the way cold ethics affect our relationships both inside and outside the workplace. The film is about two men displaying obvious and modern symptoms of male stuntedness in the face of womens social standings rising in the workplace, and the leveling of the sexual playing field festering a vindictivness in them toward the opposite sex. The film delivers this message in the form of male frusteration acted out as extreme male chauvinism toward the opposite sex. This is portayed when the men target the percieved sexual desperation of the deaf woman, to swoon and then dump her as a cruel joke (a symbol of their own social/business/sexual desperation and lack of control in their own lives). In the end, we see one man as the embodiment of the cold and sterile ethics, a dual man with dual lives; he is practically our American Psycho, short of outright murder. The other man is left hollow and guilt-ridden in the wake of the realized cruelty of his own actions, and the distortion of his own ethical paradigm. The message the film promotes is that the former kind of person can somehow find success in the world, precisely because he lacks emotion and caring, while the latter won’t be as successful because he cannot transition his apathy in the workplace into the realm of real life relationships. It works as satire because the films concisely points out just how fucked up it all is.
Too many great moments to list them all. Five awesome moments are
1. When the visitor comes to Nikki’s house and they talk over coffee in INLAND EMPIRE
2. Decribing his dream at Winkies in Mulholland Drive
3. Entire sequence at the hollywood studio, particularly when Betty and Adam lock eyes with each other with the audition song going on in the background; Mulholland Drive
4. “I still know how to make you laugh”, Lost Highway
5. “This Magic Moment”, Lost Highway
6. “TELL ME YOU”RE GOING TO GET A MANUEL". Road rage, Lost Highway
Its a neat film that is mostly bland with some quirks that make it seem somewhat relevant, but it’s really about pretty much nothing. Nolan’s best film is The Dark Knight by far, (and only really good one, I think) and that could be in spite of his excesses as a filmmaker.
1. Barry Lyndon
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Shining
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. The Killing
6. Paths of Glory
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. A Clockwork Orange
The Shining is my favourite of the horror genre (from what I’ve seen), and one of my favourite films period, but to call it a horror film is to simplify it’s purpose.
I forgot Otto Preminger’s Angel Face, which is a film I love. Please count it among my four other films listed. I’m surprised it has so few votes, but then again maybe I’m not so surprised.
I found The Shining to be terrifying, just not in a normal way you’d expect from a typical horror film. Of all the films listed in this thread (The Thing, The Fly, Halloween, Jaws etc), I don’t think any come close to being as great as The Shining.
A Man Escaped
Distant Voices, Still Lives
2001: A Space Odyssey
INLAND EMPIRE
Diamond Earrings…
The Party
Rio Bravo
Eyes Wide Shut
8 1/2
The Wrong Man
Blade Runner
The Wizard of Oz
Wild Strawberries
I contemplated Kiss Me Deadly, but I don’t really think it’s sci-fi. I’d put it closer to Dr. Strangelove, on a thematic level, or some other similar films. I’m not sure these kinds of films qualify as sci-fi, but maybe they do in some ways.
Breathless
M
Mulholland Dr.
The Ghost Writer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ace in the Hole
Bonnie and Clyde
Wild Strawberries
Z
Dr. Strangelove
The Conversation
Goodfellas
Meet Me in St. Louis
Casablanca
Down By Law
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rio Bravo
The Third Man
La Strada
Passing Fancy
City Lights
Ideal Films for Discussion over 1 year ago
In the Company of Men is certainly a critique on the impersonal and cynical business ethics in modern American companies of varied sorts, and the way cold ethics affect our relationships both inside and outside the workplace. The film is about two men displaying obvious and modern symptoms of male stuntedness in the face of womens social standings rising in the workplace, and the leveling of the sexual playing field festering a vindictivness in them toward the opposite sex. The film delivers this message in the form of male frusteration acted out as extreme male chauvinism toward the opposite sex. This is portayed when the men target the percieved sexual desperation of the deaf woman, to swoon and then dump her as a cruel joke (a symbol of their own social/business/sexual desperation and lack of control in their own lives). In the end, we see one man as the embodiment of the cold and sterile ethics, a dual man with dual lives; he is practically our American Psycho, short of outright murder. The other man is left hollow and guilt-ridden in the wake of the realized cruelty of his own actions, and the distortion of his own ethical paradigm. The message the film promotes is that the former kind of person can somehow find success in the world, precisely because he lacks emotion and caring, while the latter won’t be as successful because he cannot transition his apathy in the workplace into the realm of real life relationships. It works as satire because the films concisely points out just how fucked up it all is.
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Can You Name a Movie Like..? over 1 year ago
I’ve seen only one Jarmusch film, Down By Law; it seems to fit your criteria pretty well, if you haven’t seen it yet.
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top 10 films made since your birth over 1 year ago
Since 1987…there are lots of films I have not seen.
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
4. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
5. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
6. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
7. Calender (Atom Egoyan, 1993)
8. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2008)
9. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
10. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
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Favorite Moment In A David Lynch Movie over 1 year ago
Too many great moments to list them all. Five awesome moments are
1. When the visitor comes to Nikki’s house and they talk over coffee in INLAND EMPIRE
2. Decribing his dream at Winkies in Mulholland Drive
3. Entire sequence at the hollywood studio, particularly when Betty and Adam lock eyes with each other with the audition song going on in the background; Mulholland Drive
4. “I still know how to make you laugh”, Lost Highway
5. “This Magic Moment”, Lost Highway
6. “TELL ME YOU”RE GOING TO GET A MANUEL". Road rage, Lost Highway
and so many more…
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Following (1998)--Christopher Nolan's Best Film? over 1 year ago
Its a neat film that is mostly bland with some quirks that make it seem somewhat relevant, but it’s really about pretty much nothing. Nolan’s best film is The Dark Knight by far, (and only really good one, I think) and that could be in spite of his excesses as a filmmaker.
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Top 10 Films of 2010? over 1 year ago
I have a lot of films to see. My favourite’s thus far are:
1. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and The Social Network
2. Greenberg
3. Toy Story 3 and The Ghost Writer
4. True Grit and Winter’s Bone
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Scenes of Singing in Non-Musical Films about 1 year ago
Distant Voices, Still Lives (has a lot of singing)
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Kubrick's Best Film... about 1 year ago
1. Barry Lyndon
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Shining
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. The Killing
6. Paths of Glory
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. A Clockwork Orange
Amazing filmmaker.
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Metropolis or Blade Runner. about 1 year ago
Both equally, but if I was only allowed to see one I would see Metropolis.
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1953 Poll about 1 year ago
1. Diamond Earrings… (M. Ophuls) (2 Votes)
2. The Band Wagon (V.Minnelli)
3. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (R.Rowland)
4. M. Hulot’s Holiday (J. Tati)
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Trying to decide which film to watch tonight about 1 year ago
I agree with Miasma, I usually let chronology decide for me.
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IS THE SHINING THE GREATEST HORROR FILM EVER MADE? about 1 year ago
The Shining is my favourite of the horror genre (from what I’ve seen), and one of my favourite films period, but to call it a horror film is to simplify it’s purpose.
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1953 Poll about 1 year ago
@ elvis is king, I’m sure Rear Window is 1954.
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1953 Poll about 1 year ago
I forgot Otto Preminger’s Angel Face, which is a film I love. Please count it among my four other films listed. I’m surprised it has so few votes, but then again maybe I’m not so surprised.
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1953 Poll about 1 year ago
@ Harry, I’m sure The Bad and the Beautiful is 1952,
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IS THE SHINING THE GREATEST HORROR FILM EVER MADE? about 1 year ago
I found The Shining to be terrifying, just not in a normal way you’d expect from a typical horror film. Of all the films listed in this thread (The Thing, The Fly, Halloween, Jaws etc), I don’t think any come close to being as great as The Shining.
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What is the most inspirational film you ever watched? about 1 year ago
A Man Escaped
Distant Voices, Still Lives
2001: A Space Odyssey
INLAND EMPIRE
Diamond Earrings…
The Party
Rio Bravo
Eyes Wide Shut
8 1/2
The Wrong Man
Blade Runner
The Wizard of Oz
Wild Strawberries
These all inspired me in some way or another.
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SCIENCE-FICTION AS A GENRE - WHICH ARE THE BEST FILMS AND WHY? about 1 year ago
^LOVE Videodrome, one of my favourite sci-fi films.
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SCIENCE-FICTION AS A GENRE - WHICH ARE THE BEST FILMS AND WHY? about 1 year ago
My five fav’s would be:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
3. Blade Runner
4. Metropolis (Lang)
5. E.T: The Extra Terrestrial.
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Most Prized Criterion in Your Collection? about 1 year ago
I don’t have many, but I guess I prize the Rossellini War Trilogy and my copy of Ace in the Hole more than the rest.
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SCIENCE-FICTION AS A GENRE - WHICH ARE THE BEST FILMS AND WHY? about 1 year ago
@Nada
I contemplated Kiss Me Deadly, but I don’t really think it’s sci-fi. I’d put it closer to Dr. Strangelove, on a thematic level, or some other similar films. I’m not sure these kinds of films qualify as sci-fi, but maybe they do in some ways.
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Describe your 'love life' with a movie title! about 1 year ago
They Were Expendable.
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Describe your 'love life' with a movie title! about 1 year ago
Home Alone
Sweet Smell of Success
To Have and Have Not
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Describe your 'love life' with a movie title! about 1 year ago
Swing Time
The Thing From Another World
Onibaba (Demon Woman)
The Way We Were
I think I’m done….
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Perfect Movie Endings about 1 year ago
Breathless
M
Mulholland Dr.
The Ghost Writer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ace in the Hole
Bonnie and Clyde
Wild Strawberries
Z
Dr. Strangelove
The Conversation
Goodfellas
Meet Me in St. Louis
Casablanca
Down By Law
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Rio Bravo
The Third Man
La Strada
Passing Fancy
City Lights
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Do you collect things other than films? about 1 year ago
I collect…things. And when I go on trips I buy cool things. But you can never be sure what it is, and it wouldn’t fit in a single category.
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One film you love and will love for the rest of your life? just one film, no cheating, treat it like a marriage! about 1 year ago
The Leopard (Visconti)
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Your favorite title sequence about 1 year ago
I came here to mention Kiss Me Deadly.
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Your Favorite Westerns or The Best Westerns Made about 1 year ago
My five Favourites of the genre are;
1. Rio Bravo
2. The General
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. No Country For Old Men
5. The Searchers
I’ve yet to see many highly regarded Westerns. I watched The Tall T today and enjoyed it very much.
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Perfect Movie Endings about 1 year ago
The ending to Notorious could be my favourite Hitchcock ending. Rear Window is still my all time Hitchcock favourite though.
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