Your Top 5 GOAT Films?

[minute bull]

Never a bad idea.

This is what DEADPOOL2 should have been.

 

[Hotora86]

6. Pans Labyrinth
7. Let the Right One In
8. Kids
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Stalker

You have both Solaris and Stalker in your top 10, which is impressive of itself - but tell me, have you read the BOOKS?

 

[Sir Galahad]

Not a fan of The American? always seemed rather similar to Drive in some respects to me.

Clooney's best days have come and gone.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

You have both Solaris and Stalker in your top 10, which is impressive of itself - but tell me, have you read the BOOKS?

Not read either but isn't Stalker actually based on an early version of the film screenplay?

To make the opposite recommendation if you enjoy the more abstract parts of those films give The Mirror a watch, you could probably argue the most ambitious film ever made, at least that I'v seen.

 

[Hotora86]

Not read either but isn't Stalker actually based on an early version of the film screenplay?

To make the opposite recommendation if you enjoy the more abstract parts of those films give The Mirror a watch, you could probably argue the most ambitious film ever made, at least that I'v seen.

Stalker and everything related to him (movies, games etc.) is based on a classic Strugatski brothers' novel "Roadside Picnic":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

The film "Stalker" indeed differs greatly from the novel itself but the screenplay was also written by the Strugatsky brothers. I do recommend reading the original novel. The film works pretty well on its own but the novel is a marvel.

Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Stalker and everything related to him (movies, games etc.) is based on a classic Strugatski brothers' novel "Roadside Picnic":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

The film "Stalker" indeed differs greatly from the novel itself but the screenplay was also written by the Strugatsky brothers. I do recommend reading the original novel. The film works pretty well on its own but the novel is a marvel.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Looking at it they released there own book of the same name based on the early screen play, I'll definitely have to seek out the original. A lot of what makes that film what it is though very clearly comes down to Tarkovsky and again I'v say if you look the bits like the lengthy takes across the pools of water give The Mirror a try.

 

[scorpipede]

1. Evil Dead 2
2. Evil Dead 2
3. Evil Dead 2
4. Evil Dead 2
5. Some other one...nah just kidding! Evil Dead 2!!!!!

 

[Hotora86]

Looking at it they released there own book of the same name based on the early screen play, I'll definitely have to seek out the original. A lot of what makes that film what it is though very clearly comes down to Tarkovsky and again I'v say if you look the bits like the lengthy takes across the pools of water give The Mirror a try.

I do agree, Tarkovsky did his own thing and did it amazingly well in Stalker. But Solaris... frankly I did NOT like his take on it. I watched it after I had read the book and was very annoyed by the changes he made to the book. So was Lem himself. It was neither fully Lem nor fully Tarkovsky IMHO, just a weird compromise that didn't fit with either. And both got angry with one another after the film came out. Even called each other fools and shit.

To be fair, I don't think a good adaptation of Lem is even possible, since there is so much atmosphere, tension and feeling described by the narrator that is virtually impossible to do on film. For some other early works (adventures of Ijon Tichy), I can't even imagine reading a translation since the original is so wordplay-heavy.

Lem is just amazing, must have been a fucking alien. Or a committee of people, like Philip K. Dick used to think LOL.

http://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

Winter Soldier
Dumb and Dumber
Spy Game
Heartbreak Ridge
Major League

 

[JAEGERX]

THIS IS EASY BOYS, look at these

-- Braveheart

-- Fight Club

-- They Live

-- The Fountain

-- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

 

[Bacco]

1. The Gladiator
2. Army of Darkness
3. Conan
4. Indiana Jones Temple of Doom
5. Braveheart

Once Dracula of BS used to have a place there, but it gets worse every time i see it lol

 

[minute bull]

Once Dracula of BS used to have a place there, but it gets worse every time i see it lol

Hopkins and Oldman hated Coppola. Nearly got into a fight. Said the man couldn't direct.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Hopkins and Oldman hated Coppola. Nearly got into a fight. Said the man couldn't direct.

He was clearly past his best by that point, I'm guessing many would say that the effort to release Apoc Now seemed to drain him.

 

[Deleted member 391673]

 

[gatchaman]

Man, I guess right now

1. Ran
2. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
3. Army of Shadows
4. The Wages of Fear
5. Chungking Express

Thanks for your recommendations. I watch movies only sporadically (I just got around to watching the Godfather movies in the past year), but my wife really likes movies.

I watched Chungking Express, playing on youtube, with her last night because it was short enough to watch before bedtime. The movie reminded me of watching In the Mood for Love (not surprising with the same writer and director) in a theater in Toronto because someone told me the movie was reminiscent of my love life in the late 90s early 00s. Chungking Express took me back to my love life in the mid 90s.

Thanks again for the recommendations. I will eventually watch your entire list. Chungking Express was worth it just to see Faye Wong casting those sidelong glances at that cop, what a babe.

 

[Sir Galahad]

THIS IS EASY BOYS, look at these

-- Braveheart

-- Fight Club

-- They Live

-- The Fountain

-- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Braveheart and The Fountain are both amazing films.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Commando
Terminator 2
Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Drunken Master 2

 

[the ambush]

The Empire Strikes Back
Jaws
Terminator 2
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[Hollywood Jack]

Casino
Leon: The Professional
Full Metal Jacket
Boogie Nights
Drive*

*Honestly, there are a TON of movies I could put in the 5th spot, but I'll go with Drive because it was the last great movie I saw and it's fresh in my mind

 

[Blue_Lou]

“Too much movie make your heart weak” - Khabib Nurmagomedov