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Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 29th, 2011, 8:54 am
by hoppity-kick
rbevanx wrote: Yeah Muholland Drive can be a marmite film but it is worth checking out if anyone else is reading this and the same with Primer. But Primer works with a certain structure like Memento. Memento uses the narrative to get you in the head of someone with no memory and Primer does this with time travel.
Mulholland Dr. is so darn great. It's wickedly horrifying. But I think Memento is far more superior.

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 29th, 2011, 9:08 am
by rbevanx
hoppity-kick wrote:
rbevanx wrote: Yeah Muholland Drive can be a marmite film but it is worth checking out if anyone else is reading this and the same with Primer. But Primer works with a certain structure like Memento. Memento uses the narrative to get you in the head of someone with no memory and Primer does this with time travel.
Mulholland Dr. is so darn great. It's wickedly horrifying. But I think Memento is far more superior.
I agree 100% :) but it deserves to be mentioned alongside Memento with Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Requiem for a Dream, Brick and Oldboy etc

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 29th, 2011, 12:10 pm
by Peace
Primer! Still haven't been able to really figure it out.

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 29th, 2011, 9:30 pm
by hoppity-kick
rbevanx wrote: I agree 100% :) but it deserves to be mentioned alongside Memento with Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Requiem for a Dream, Brick and Oldboy etc
Here is my assesment on the marmite films you wrote down.
MULHOLLAND DR. - love it
FIGHT CLUB - hate it
THE USUAL SUSPECTS - like it (it's not really a marmite film)
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - like it
BRICK - (have't watched it yet)
OLDBOY - 2nd favorite film of all time :D

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 30th, 2011, 5:31 am
by Mr. Caine
hoppity-kick wrote:
rbevanx wrote: I agree 100% :) but it deserves to be mentioned alongside Memento with Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Requiem for a Dream, Brick and Oldboy etc
Here is my assesment on the marmite films you wrote down.
MULHOLLAND DR. - love it
FIGHT CLUB - hate it
THE USUAL SUSPECTS - like it (it's not really a marmite film)
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - like it
BRICK - (have't watched it yet)
OLDBOY - 2nd favorite film of all time :D
How can you hate Fight Club :o :shock: :? :oops: :crazy: :wtf: :problem:

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 30th, 2011, 7:33 am
by Peace
Yeah how can you hate Fight Club? It's so damn funny! lol

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 30th, 2011, 9:05 am
by hoppity-kick
I've been asked by many people why I hate FIGHT CLUB. So it's not new to me :mrgreen:
Don't get me wrong. I really love Fincher. And I perceive Fight Club as a good film. But watching it is just an aching cinematic experience for me.
It was the chaos and the so radical and revolutionary insights on consumerism that really hurts me. And I do think the ending is very pretentious.
Durden is made out of an existential question. Yet he died out of nothing. Where's the insight? the resolution of a film is very integral yet it was overlooked. The whole film had a lot of philosophical narration yet upon arriving in the end, it didn't justify why Durden must die. It was more acceptable if Edward Norton just accepted his identity as Durden
Nevertheless, it was a good film. Perhaps "hate" is a strong word. But I definitely, didn't like it.

Re: Easily, my favourite film of all time

Posted: January 30th, 2011, 10:24 am
by rbevanx
hoppity-kick wrote:I've been asked by many people why I hate FIGHT CLUB. So it's not new to me :mrgreen:
Don't get me wrong. I really love Fincher. And I perceive Fight Club as a good film. But watching it is just an aching cinematic experience for me.
It was the chaos and the so radical and revolutionary insights on consumerism that really hurts me. And I do think the ending is very pretentious.
Durden is made out of an existential question. Yet he died out of nothing. Where's the insight? the resolution of a film is very integral yet it was overlooked. The whole film had a lot of philosophical narration yet upon arriving in the end, it didn't justify why Durden must die. It was more acceptable if Edward Norton just accepted his identity as Durden
Nevertheless, it was a good film. Perhaps "hate" is a strong word. But I definitely, didn't like it.
Fair enough hoppity-kick :) I can see why you didn't like it if you think of it that way but I loved it all the way though.