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2019-09-12, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
I have so many favorite movies, its so hard to pick only one.
Instead, I'll mention that my favorite movies always include good characterization. And that I tend to go for animated movie a bit more then real life people.
I think instead of picking " my favorite movie", I'll go with the one I would suggest to anyone to watch:
Coraline
Yes, even childrens should be allowed to watch this I believe. This is a wonderful piece of art, interesting characters and really creative.
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2019-09-13, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
As a kid, it was Hoodwinked!, no question. A surprisingly complex plot for a kid's movie, catchy songs, a couple of fun action sequences, and plenty of jokes that still make me laugh to this day made a perfect recipe for ten-year-old me. We used to watch it yearly as a family and enjoyed it every time, and both me and my parents still quote it now and again.
Nowadays I'd have to say Moonstruck, which is ironic considering it's so far out of my normal sci-fi/fantasy wheelhouse. But it's extremely well paced (until the end, at least), has an impeccably strong sense of place and tone, and does a really good job of distributing dramatic weight among its cast, which is a feat just about every other modern ensemble film I've watched struggle with in a mighty way. Just... top-grade filmmaking across the board. Helps that it's super quotable, too.
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2019-09-13, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
Goodfellas.
Also, love anime, yet never cared for any of the movies (...which i've always found strange).
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2019-09-14, 03:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
I'll have to second the Blues Brothers. Hilarious, endlessly quotable, almost singlehandedly responsible for reviving the popularity of the Blues, and even the 'making of' documentary is funny (as an example, when they got Cab Calloway into the studio to record his track of 'Minnie the Moocher', he apparently went in, delivered a middling performance, and when he came out, he was like "So how was that?" and the producers were going "Er... it was kinda okay, but... you're Cab Calloway, man, it should be GREAT!" At which point Cab gives them a look, goes "Well why didn't you TELL me you wanted great?", stomps back into the studio, and proceeds to absolutely kill it.) One of the only movies I can watch over and over.
... and now I've got "She Caught the Katie" stuck in my head, heh. Great driving music, that.
I'm sure it's been suggested to you in the past, but on the offchance that it hasn't, have you tried Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli body of work? It's some impressive cinema (with incredible soundtracks)- some standouts would be Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind, and Ponyo on the Cliff (yes, those are just the standouts. Hayao Miyazaki has been a busy boy).
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2019-09-14, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
Watched Princess Mononoke and it felt really flat to me.
i think the most positive reaction i've ever had to one was with Patema Inverted.
I actually went through a phase where i tried getting into them
perfect blue
the girl who leapt through time
akira
the garden of words
they all usually look nice but that's just about it.
(I'm not counting movies that have tv series btw.)
I just don't think the movie format suits anime that well. (visuals aside...)
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2019-09-14, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
Ghibli's Castle in the Sky has a damned good shot at the "single favorite movie" for me, really.
Also, ellenate, you seen The Iron Giant? Not anime, but animated, and another of the contenders for the top spot in my list.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-09-14, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
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2019-09-14, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-14, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-14, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dungeons and Dragons The Movie.
It was robbed at the Oscars.
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2019-09-14, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-14, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-15, 03:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
The Hindsight Awards, results: See the best movies of 1999!
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2019-09-16, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Asterix and Obelix against Caesar.
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2019-09-16, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
I don’t really have a favorite so much as a core group of movies.
Godfather Part 2
The Lord of the Rings, but mostly Two Towers
The Dark Knight
Duck Soup
Arsenic and Old Lace
Die Hard
Jurassic Park
Captain America: Winter Soldier
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Ran
Pulp Fiction
I think I watch these movies every couple of years. Which is interesting to me, since there are movies that on an initial watching I would rate my enjoyment higher than some of the above listed, but I never feel the need to go back and rewatch.
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2019-09-18, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
And also I once loved "Aliens" a lot. Specifically the second part, not whole series.
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2019-09-18, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
If you know where my avatar pic is from, you know my answer.
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2019-09-18, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-18, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
Warriors & Wuxia: A community world-building project focused on low-magic wuxia/kung-fu action using ToB.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
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2019-09-18, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
They get chased off into the sea by the Red Bull, to be kept forever under King Haggard's watchful eye, yet even that will not fulfil the need within his soul.
SpoilerI also love The Last Unicorn. The book is amazing too; way more complex, but the film is an excellent adaptation
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2019-09-18, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What Is Your Absolute Single Favorite Movie?
Flipped for me. I wasn't a big fan of infinity war. Endgame just felt like a better film. I could care about the characters, and the choices made by them made more sense to me. Infinity war felt like a bunch of action setpieces with little emotion connecting them.