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Is Pulp Fiction the greatest film ever?

Cunning Linguist said:
You know little about my taste in movies. I've seen seven on your top # list. Most I liked though Rashomon never did it for me.
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I saw your comedy list, and I didn't feel you'd like Primer, which I personally hated.

Edit: i.e. because I liked most of the comedies on your list.
 
fishonjazz said:
Pineapple express was definitely a good one.
What did you think of This Is The End?.... I loved it. Topic Thunder too
Danny Mcbride is one of my favorites
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Tropic Thunder is a brilliant comedy. Probably one of the best comedies of all time up there with Super Troopers. The Jerk is on that list too, imho.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Watching #1 now because of how strongly you feel about it.
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What'd ya think? Not the easiest movie to grasp on the first watch. There's more paradoxes, loopholes, loose ends, events without explanation, chronologies that don't seem to fit, Than any movie you can find. Really, it's to be watched a few times.

I think it makes Back to the Future look like the Teletubbies.

Once you start to really piece it together though, It's a masterpiece. Its totally the type of movie that people write off as boring, yet they probably don't really understand the concepts involved with all the timelines and possible outcomes involved.

Shane Carruth who wrote, directed, edited the movie, composed the score, and starred in it is a genius.

Awards/Nominations;
2004 Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize

2004 Sundance Film Festival: Alfred P. Sloan Prize (for a film dealing with science and technology)

2004 Nantucket Film Festival: Best Writer/Director

2004 Gotham Awards Nomination: Best Feature

2005 London International Festival of Science Fiction: Best Feature

2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Feature

2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Director

2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best First Screenplay

2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Debut Performance (David Sullivan)
 
fishonjazz said:
Pretty good list though I think fsm sucked...... Still love it though because mila kunis is my favorite hottie of all time and she never looked better than in that movie


Also if you have not seen Spy yet, check it out

Edit: super troopers should be on every top ten comedy list no matter what
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FSM is so rewatchable. So many great characters in there. The British dude, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, and one of my faves, Billy Baldwin.
 
Pulp Fiction is definitely one of the best films from the 90's.


Here's one of my favorite's from the 90's and its French(Starring 'the fox' from oceans 12). - La Haine


Another low-budget GEM;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5TaO6qTBU
 
Siro said:
I saw your comedy list, and I didn't feel you'd like Primer, which I personally hated.

Edit: i.e. because I liked most of the comedies on your list.
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Did you just see Primer just once?? I've never shown it to anyone that's understood what's going on in the first viewing. There's really a lot of minute details that will leave you thinking "oh, ****"

E.G.
When Abe and Aaron first both go thru the machine. Abe gets out of the machine, but Aaron doesn't. Abe looks at his watch, walks around the other machine to see if Aaron has come out yet, but nothing is there, then like a minute later, Aaron comes out and Abe tells him "You got out too early."

If Abe came out first, then Aaron, how is it that Aaron got out "early" if Abe came out first?


Figure that out, and after each watch the movie will start coming together. It's truly a great movie.
 
PointGod_AlecBurks said:
Did you just see Primer just once?? I've never shown it to anyone that's understood what's going on in the first viewing. There's really a lot of minute details that will leave you thinking "oh, ****"

E.G.
When Abe and Aaron first both go thru the machine. Abe gets out of the machine, but Aaron doesn't. Abe looks at his watch, walks around the other machine to see if Aaron has come out yet, but nothing is there, then like a minute later, Aaron comes out and Abe tells him "You got out too early."

If Abe came out first, then Aaron, how is it that Aaron got out "early" if Abe came out first?


Figure that out, and after each watch the movie will start coming together. It's truly a great movie.
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Yeah, I didn't understand what's going on. Maybe I'll watch it again, but I just don't feel it's worth investing multiple viewings just to be able to understand the story. :)
 
PGAB-

Ever seen Timecrimes, aka Los cronocrímenes? It's a Spanish movie. I think they were rumored years ago to be making an American version, with Eric Bana I want to say...never came to be though.
 
Cy said:
The Dude is pretty much the most likable character in movie history.
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His rug really tied the room together.

I love the part when he is driving his crappy car and listening to CCR and pounding the roof of the car along with the beat and drops his roach. Cracks me up.

I thought that Walter stole the movie though. John Goodman killed it
 
Gameface said:
Tropic Thunder is a brilliant comedy. Probably one of the best comedies of all time up there with Super Troopers. The Jerk is on that list too, imho.
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Ah yes, the jerk. Wonderful. My dad's favorite of all time so of course I love it.

If that movie came out today I wonder how much racism backlash it would get
 
Probably wrong thread but I started watching true detective season one again cause my wife hadn't seen it.

So ****ing Good
 
Which pairing has the most on-screen chemistry for you guys?



Ryan Gossling and Carey Mulligans in Drive for me are right up there of a more recent ones...
 
Rust and Marty
ONE LOVE said:
Which pairing has the most on-screen chemistry for you guys?



Ryan Gossling and Carey Mulligans in Drive for me are right up there of a more recent ones...
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I think The Dark Knight has to be on my top ten
 
The Dude, Walter, and Donny all had very good chemistry
 
Ryan gosling and Rachel mcadams had good chemistry

Matt Damon and robin Williams in good will hunting
 
Any Adams seems to always have good chemistry with her leading men. American hustle, the fighter, etc
 
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