Post subject: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:09 am
Pralines and Dick
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I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:17 am
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Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:42 am
Pralines and Dick
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Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
I had The Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list. I can't not watch that movie. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made but goddamn is it fun to watch.
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:45 am
a joke
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Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
I had The Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list. I can't not watch that movie. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made but goddamn is it fun to watch.
This is probably the gayest post you've ever made.
Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:47 am
Pralines and Dick
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Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
I had The Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list. I can't not watch that movie. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made but goddamn is it fun to watch.
This is probably the gayest post you've ever made.
I had The Princess Bride on my list too.
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:48 am
a joke
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Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
I had The Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list. I can't not watch that movie. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made but goddamn is it fun to watch.
This is probably the gayest post you've ever made.
I had The Princess Bride on my list too.
eh, thats not gay. It just means you overvalue nostalgia.
Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:52 am
Pralines and Dick
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Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
Skitch Patterson wrote:
Beef wrote:
I went with movies I love to watch. The ones I own on DVD and go back to time and time again, or the ones that when I'm randomly flicking through channels and stumble across I find myself watching through to completion even if it means staying up late when I'm tired or forgetting to do that thing I had planned.
So how did you choose your list?
Thats what I did. Just movies that i genuinely enjoyed, even if they aren't great films. For example, my number 10 was Gremlins 2 (which is somewhat underrated in that it is a brilliant spoof of itself) because it is just silly and It makes me laugh every time i watch it. My number 2 was "That Thing You Do!" because i just love that movie immensely, despite the vitriol theplatypus has for the song.
I had The Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list. I can't not watch that movie. I don't think it's the greatest movie ever made but goddamn is it fun to watch.
This is probably the gayest post you've ever made.
I had The Princess Bride on my list too.
eh, thats not gay. It just means you overvalue nostalgia.
Your face overvalues nostalgia!
True story: the first time I saw The Princess Bride was about 5 years ago. I never saw it as a kid.
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:56 am
AnalLog
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Basically picked ten movies that have stuck with me the most after watching them, even if I've only seen them once. While I've seen the majority 2+ times, I've only seen the two Tarkovsky movies once (though gone back and watched certain scenes from them a lot) but I probably think about one of them every single day. So I guess mine was a "most powerful" list.
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:09 am
Pralines and Dick
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Orpheus wrote:
Basically picked ten movies that have stuck with me the most after watching them, even if I've only seen them once. While I've seen the majority 2+ times, I've only seen the two Tarkovsky movies once (though gone back and watched certain scenes from them a lot) but I probably think about one of them every single day. So I guess mine was a "most powerful" list.
I like that.
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Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:12 am
Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Orph's is a really good point. To me, a favorite movie is one that hits me really hard when I first watch it, fascinates me for days afterward, and sticks with me forever. Also, it's one where I don't feel the time clicking by at all. My list was my ten favorites, ten movies that I'd eagerly recommend to someone else.
Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:43 am
Supersonic
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I kind of went with a combo. My first pick is a movie I've watched about 9000 times, and could never tire of - I started watching it when I was an ickle girl. Most of the rest are based on impact, or how many times I could watch them and still enjoy it. Like A Charlie Brown Christmas. It's just cute and great. Although I cut a few movies I really liked to include it and The American President (Which I included because it's my chick flick type film. It's my Pretty Woman or Dirty Dancing, or whatever, you know?).
1. The Sound of Music 2. Schindler's List 3. The Dark Knight 4. Fight Club 5. Memento 6. A Charlie Brown Christmas 7. The Departed 8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 9. Gran Torino 10. The American President
Post subject: Re: How did you choose your Top 10 list?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:00 am
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Escape from new york Beetlejuice Weird science Breakfast club Xmen 2 Superman 2 Spiderman Stone cold The gods must be crazy Fast times at ridgemont high
i went with movies i can watch over and over and over at any given moment
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