Other People's Favorite Movies That You Haven't Seen

[Kirk482002]

Without a doubt, the best laugh I ever got from a sci-fi film I owe to the 3-minute trailer for Kevin Costner's The Postman. I never saw the movie. If the whole thing was as funny as the preview, I couldn't take that much entertainment all at once.

You should rent it.

I did a few weeks ago and I'm still waiting for it to end...

 

[rgraham666]

Spirited Away was a very cool movie. Strange, but very cool.

Another one by the same director that was good was Princess Mononoke.

 

[SeaCat]

JOY! I understood that, even though I never saw the second one. Perhaps my fears of intellectual non-congruence at the movie level can be overcome!

Still, I don't quite grasp the whole martial arts on guy-wires thing.

I think it dates to an incident when I was in second grade, and a friend's father told me about "sky hooks". He thought it was hilarious. Fuckhead.

There used to eb an agent retrieval system which used a baloon, a long thick rope, and a bunny suit with a built in harness. A plane would catch the rope, which was attached to the baloon at one end and a person wearing the bunny suit at the other. I believe it was called Sky Hook as well. Maybe this was what he was talking about?

Cat

 

[shereads]

I did a few weeks ago and I'm still waiting for it to end...

I'll bet it takes a takes a long time to deliver the mail in the post-apocalyptic future.

Teehee.

I wonder what kind of monkey Kevin Costner uses to randomly select movie projects?
I heard he used a ring-tailed lemur, but that's probably apocryphal. For big-budget films like Water World, I think it's fair to assume the decision was made by a fully evolved monkey, like a howler or a macacque.

 

[Huckleman2000]

There used to eb an agent retrieval system which used a baloon, a long thick rope, and a bunny suit with a built in harness. A plane would catch the rope, which was attached to the baloon at one end and a person wearing the bunny suit at the other. I believe it was called Sky Hook as well. Maybe this was what he was talking about?

Cat

No. He was just bullshitting me about how you suspend things in mid-air.

I do remember what you're talking about, though. I think it was used at the end of a James Bond movie once. The plane had a huge rake-like thing on the front of it.

 

[Dar~]

They're what you send the new guy on the job to ask the boss for.

Like when they tell new Airmen to go ask support for the keys to the F-16.

 

[jfinn]

My best friend wants me to watch Sling Blade. I'm not going to do it. I'm sure it was wonderful, but I have no desire to see it. And you couldn't pay me to sit through Forest Gump, again.

I'm with you on Gump. I only saw it because a friend cornered me in the video store and insisted I had to see it. The whole way through it all I wanted to do was slap Tom Hanks and tell him to talk right. I also thought the Zelig (another movie I hated) way of fitting him into actual news of the day was just too precious.

Other movies I was bullied into seeing by people whose opinions I used to value include The Matrix, Braveheart, The Red Shoes and A Boy and His Dog. There are no doubt more, but I've blocked them out of my mind.

Jayne

 

[Whisky7up]

There's Something About Mary - haven't seen it, probably never will. I don't care how much my friends say they liked it, or how it's 'not what I think' and really funny.

I may be missing something here....but you 'don't care' for your friends' opinions?

 

[CharleyH]

I wonder what kind of monkey Kevin Costner uses to randomly select movie projects?

I heard it was MJ's

 

[Kassiana]

Hm. In this many replies, I haven't noticed anyone yet pointing out that the poll question asks if we "will the documentary, American Movie."

Personally, I wouldn't leave the documentary American Movie anything in my will. I presume it was supposed to be "will see" the documentary, though there are many other exciting things one could do instead, like "will buy," "will beat," "will have sex with," American Movie.

As to whether or not I will see it, dunno. If it looks interesting and is where I can see/acquire it without much cost to me, maybe. I do not at the moment intend to hit others with the movie or have sex with the movie.

Hm. Bake cookies on it? 1001 uses!

 

[JamesSD]

Finally Saw American Movie

Trust me: Move it up to #3. It's a quirky, funny, painfully honest and utterly charming study of creativity, and how it can burn bright even in the face of relentless evidence that nothing good will come of it. American Movie is a low-budget documentary movie about about the making of an even lower-budget horror movie, by a slacker dude who has a lot of confidence and imagination, no discipline, no taste, no money, and a 6-year-old daughter who recites lines from Apolalypse Now and thinks they're funny. ("The horror...The horror")

It's so entertaining, it's over too soon.

You should definitely see American Movie. I still don't want to see Magnolia.

I agree with that majority of your assessment. I'd throw in "moderately depressing". At times it felt like watching a train wreck. The raw reality was painful but I couldn't tear my eyes away.

Is it ironic that the documentary about Mark Borchardt is far better than anything he's likely to make?

 

[shereads]

All my guy friends used to bug me to watch this movie and I never would. Last week when I was sick, I finally watched it and it was indeed brilliant. Martin Sheen was kind of hot back then!

Area Girlfriend Has Finally Seen Apocalypse Now?

Someone should notify The Onion. This merits a follow-up story.

 

[shereads]

I may be missing something here....but you 'don't care' for your friends' opinions?

I can't speak for LJ, but if I took my friends' opinions seriously, my movie experience would be limited to chick flicks and Orlando Bloom. (And that's just my male friends.)



Edited to add: Oh, and The Matrix. Let us not forget The Matrix, "the best movie ever made," according to movie buff "R," who is 35 or 14, depending on what day it is. God love him, if I left it up to R, I'd have seen all 12 of the Matrix movies and I'd be a tower sniper by now. Poor R would have been my first victim. I'd have lost a dear friend because I valued his opinion.



He was right about The Matrix being "empowering to women," though. The six minutes I watched empowered me to turn it off and watch King of the Hill.

 

[shereads]

I agree with that majority of your assessment. I'd throw in "moderately depressing". At times it felt like watching a train wreck. The raw reality was painful but I couldn't tear my eyes away.

Is it ironic that the documentary about Mark Borchardt is far better than anything he's likely to make?

You are my new hero: the other person who's seen American Movie! That makes three of us.



Talk about raw pain: the scene with the breakaway cabinet that wouldn't, made me hurt. The life of a professional actor in Wisconsin is not as glamourous as you'd think.

But it worked out well for Mark. Thanks to American Movie, he's sold some copies of his own movie. His best friend has a CD for sale at their website, with the best album title ever:

"Songs That I Know"

 

[shereads]

There used to eb an agent retrieval system which used a baloon, a long thick rope, and a bunny suit with a built in harness.

I'm so relieved. I thought that fantasy was mine alone.

If someone's actually done it, maybe it's not as twisted as I thought. Were there any arrests or injuries?