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QUENTIN TARANTINO over 3 years ago

I’m not a big QT fan. Don’t get me wrong, he’s got some pretty decent movies. Reservoir Dogs is a great first film. Jackie Brown and part one of Kill Bill were great. I have allways felf let down by his “Masterpiece” Pulp Ficting. The dialog makes it fun to watch with a group of people. It’s verry quotable. Jackson’s preformance is perfect but the film itself is full of filler. I’m not even going to go into Death Proof beyond saying that it was a perfect copy of those type of movies down to the falts. Now finnaly he’s just doing an outright remake with Inglorios Bastards. He’s a competent direcor with a big head. If anything he was a bad influence on film influencing people to just make “cool” movies that usually pale to his films. Cinematic genius he is not, we should leave that turm to the Ingmar Bergmans of the world.

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Films that are better than the books that they are are based on over 3 years ago

The Outsidders
The Shinning
Fight Club

I found the book for Clockwork Orange Far better than the movie, allthough I loved the film, Burgess may be the greatest writer that ever lived. Eventhough all his books are not good. I’m just talking about writing abillity, I have not found anyone that could equal him. Clockwork Orange the movie is pretty much the same as the book without the perfect ending.

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Films that are better than the books that they are are based on over 3 years ago

The Outsidders
The Shinning
Fight Club

I found the book for Clockwork Orange Far better than the movie, allthough I loved the film, Burgess may be the greatest writer that ever lived. Eventhough all his books are not good. I’m just talking about writing abillity, I have not found anyone that could equal him. Clockwork Orange the movie is pretty much the same as the book without the perfect ending.

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Can we talk about "Magnolia" for a bit? over 3 years ago

I hated Magnolia. I love the rest of the film’s by P. T. Anderson. Punch-Drunk Love and There will be blodd are both Masterpieces. I just don’t see a point to Magnolia.

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Coen!!! over 3 years ago

The Big Lebowski, The man whos wasn’t there. both perfect.

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Coen!!! over 3 years ago

I forgot Oh Brother that films perfect too.

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You put Visitor Q in the DVD player to clear a room. over 3 years ago

I was walking around block buster about six years ago when I came across Audition. I picked it up and a friend of mine that worked there walked up behind me “Kitty, Kitty, Kitty” I was like “What”, “It’s an inside joke”. So I rented that and borrowed a bootleg of ichi the killer from him. I watched them both back to back. I knew I just found something special. I never have liked the J-Pop horror stuff and had no idea this side of cinama existed. So I dove right in. He opened a whole world of diffrent films for me. He does not only do that type of film though but he can afford to putting out 3-5 films a year, you can be diverse and you should be. I here he’s better known outside of Japan, it’s hard to believe that people in his country are not paying attention to someone making such a stur. I love his films, but not all of them. As it should be. I just watched his Django and enjoyed the hell out of it.

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You put Visitor Q in the DVD player to clear a room. over 3 years ago

DOA 2, Gozu, Audition, Ichi, HOK are his best.

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Synecdoche, New York, Brecht and Godard over 3 years ago

I can’t wait to see this but I am not so sure it will be overlooked. I know it probably will not be a mainstream hit but it might make bank, It all depends on how they advertise it.

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Best of Animation over 3 years ago

Waking Life
Scanner Darkly
Mononoke
Akira
Wizards
Beauty and the beast
Howl’s Moving Castle
rescuers and down under
as far as anime series go I would have to say Berserk(Best story ever writen), Nadesico, and Tenchi.

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Best of Animation over 3 years ago

also toy story was pretty epic

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QUENTIN TARANTINO over 3 years ago

I think QT is mainstream. He’s the only “indie” Director most people know. The four most well known directors around are Spielberg, Scorsese, George Lucas, and Quentin Tarantino. Most of the time that the only ones people do know, and Hitchcock.

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What are the best Brian De Palma's films? over 3 years ago

The Untouchables it’s one of my favorite films.

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Is it in his head or has Sam been Big Brothered..? over 3 years ago

I think everything happened untill the point where he got locked up. The film is full of hoplessness. It a world where everone that just does there job, no matter what it is, and not think at all for them selves.. He starts pushing against the system. When he get’s locked up thats when he breaks out in his head. The only place he can be free. The meaning I think Oliver is right, no single person and beat the system. It would have to be a large group effort.

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Is it in his head or has Sam been Big Brothered..? over 3 years ago

I think everything happened untill the point where he got locked up. The film is full of hoplessness. It a world where everone that just does there job, no matter what it is, and not think at all for them selves.. He starts pushing against the system. When he get’s locked up thats when he breaks out in his head. The only place he can be free. The meaning I think Oliver is right, no single person and beat the system. It would have to be a large group effort.

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Disturbing Movies that You Love... over 3 years ago

Gozu
Ichi the killer
Audtion
Happiness
Storytelling
A Clockwork Orange
Eraserhead
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Suicide Club
Strange Circus
Funny Games
Dancer in the Dark
Straw Dogs
Dead or Alive 2
Battle Royale
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Tideland
Cannibal Holocaust
Requiem for a Dream
Zombie
The Beyond

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TOP BERGMAN over 3 years ago

1)Shame
2)The Seventh Seal
3)The Virgin Spring
4)Hour of the Wolf
5)The Serpent’s Egg

Thats my top five. There are a lot of his films I have yet to see. Thats the best out of the 10v or so I have seen.

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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? over 3 years ago

The Royal Tenenbaums. It was not untill I picked up the Seventh Seal that really understood what it was. I think thats the greatest thing a flim could achieve is a criterion release.

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Favorite score? over 3 years ago

I’m just going to put a list of films. The scores.
Punch-Drunk Love
Amelie
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
There Will Be Blood
The Fountain
Lady in the Water
GoldenEye
Dawn of the Dead
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Once Upon a Time in the West
Millennium Actress
Paprika
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Almost Famous
Elizabethtown
The Devil’s Rejects
Psycho
Black Snake Moan
Suspiria
The Boondock Saints
Children of Men
The Transformers – The Movie (Animated)
Fight Club
Snatch.
Army of Darkness
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Sorry for the lenth list. Anyways my two favorite composers are Susumu Hirasawa and Ennio Morricone.

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Top 10 Greatest vs. Top 10 Favorite over 3 years ago

TOP 10 GREATEST FILMS
Shame
Citizen Kane
Brazil
Psycho
Seventh Seal
Punch-Drunk Love
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Outsiders
Adaptation

TOP 10 FAVORITE
Army of Darkness
The Shawshank Redemption
Punch-Drunk Love
Dawn of the Dead
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Big Lebowski
Almost Famous
The Outsiders
Waking Life
Shame

I had 3 that crossed too, maybe your on to something. I don’t know if that is a good list or not. This was very hard and my list might would have been very different tomorrow even for the greatest films.

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

Film that a lot of people just don’t like but you love them.

Punch-Drunk Love
Lady in the Water.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

I think all three are the Directors best work. Most of the tiime people either say that it’s the directors worst effort or is just plane bad. Post up what you want but no talking bad, this is a safe place for your dirty little secrets where all films are excepted and equal.

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New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago

Hello
I’m Derek Wilkerson I am from eastern North Carolina and in my free time I make my own films. They have all been shorts but oneday soon I will branch out and do a feature. I went to film school and am back in school for teaching history.

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

I love the movies Scorched, The big empty, and Committed. There funny and very entertaining, nothing more but still.

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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago

This is kinda a parallel to my other post. “Films you love but most people hate”. Just post up the movies that you really really do not like that others just seem to love. Magnolia, Rushmore (I love both PT and Wes Anderson), Inland Empire(I love lynch but this seemed to miss it’s mark.) Never Back Down. I don’t know how many have seen this but my brother and his friends are all about this film and this is the most predictable movie I have ever seen, The fight scenes are pretty good but thats it. Cabin Fever.

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

I want to add Evil Cult and Ozark Savage. Sure they suck but that can be a lot of fun.

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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago

I second 21 Grams.

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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago

I like the first matrix but I hate the other two. Also the matrix brought in the whole slomotion fight thing and I wish that whould just go away. It was cool for just like that one movie.

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

yea The man who wasn’t there is great. people I know will not watch it because it’s B&W and thats Bull.

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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago

Army of Darkness is the best movie ever.

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