y_feldblum Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Where d comes between am and af. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
order Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 I don't use words like "a" and "the," but hey, whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_feldblum Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 True. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIRCE Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 C.A. Thanks for explaining. Maybe I'll give it another watch! B.F. likes it because it's dark and intense, also for the symbolism and excellent cinamatography. He thought the sequence was really neato (he also likes Pulp Fiction, which I think sucks for some of the same reasons). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concerto of Atlantis Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Yeah well, I'm not going to defend Pulp Fiction. It sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 On the surface, yes. But I found it to be an inspiring movie because essentially it was about a group of young sisters who would rather die than 'live' under the oppressive conditions posed on them by their parents. Their suicides at the end were actually pro-life, because they acknowledged that living life without freedom corrupts the idea of life. It was also beautifully shot with a great soundtrack. I thought the movie was ultimately defeatist. The girls’ parents were not so horrible to justify suicide, which indicates that the real reason for the suicides was that girls did not see any value in living. Really, if everyone with overbearing parents killed himself, the population of the world would be decimated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_feldblum Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 The parents dedicated themselves to destroying systematically everything the girls valued. They succeeded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invictus Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Braveheart, Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings and Black Hawk Down are a few that spring to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amorparatodavida Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 I've loved Donnie Darko for such a long time. I know it's stupid, but I love the soundtrack and the way the movie flows. Plus Jake Gyllenhal knows how to act. And there's nothing quite like a bunny from the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socionomer Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Has anyone seen the 1996 movie "Dead Man" with Johnny Depp? It was not objectivist, nor can I say I liked it. I'm still not sure what to make of it and would like someone else's opinion as to the philosophy, if any, reflected in it. My guess would be existentialism because I get a similar feeling from reading Sartre's novel "The Age of Reason" (which I've gotten only 1/3 of the way through and don't have any interest in finishing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSabbath Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Who here is looking forward to Troy? There is also a movie coming up about Alexander the great which unfortunately is made by Oliver Stone but that's another story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invictus Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Who here is looking forward to Troy?Me. I've been waiting for a modern interpretation of the Trojan War for ages. There is also a movie coming up about Alexander the great which unfortunately is made by Oliver Stone but that's another story. Baz Luhrmann had plans to make a movie about the same man but it was axed in favour of Stone's. Disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apprentice Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Baz Luhrmann had plans to make a movie about the same man but it was axed in favour of Stone's. Disappointing. That's too bad--I'd have liked to have seen that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invictus Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 At least it will be interesting to see how Stone goes about turning Alexander into a left-wing hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invictus Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Peter Jackson is planning a re-make of King Kong. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2905249.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Halley Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Peter Jackson is planning a re-make of King Kong. yes... Jack Black, of all people, is set to play a lead role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invictus Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 I'd prefer it if he just made The Hobbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AutoJC Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 In no particular order: The 39 Steps The Search The Fountainhead, especially Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey's portrayals From Here to Eternity I Confess Casablanca The Maltese Falcon Red River Young Frankenstein 2001- a Space Odyssey Mystic River Play Misty for Me The Unforgiven Whale Rider The Graduate Blazing Saddles Freud Rain Man Life is Beautiful I promise to revisit this as more names come to mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondigitalia Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 The Nightmare Before Christmas The English Patient Being John Malkovich Adaptation American Beauty Edward Scissorhands The Virgin Suicides Donnie Darko Shawshank Redemption Dangerous Liaisons Remains of the Day Fight Club The House of Yes Best in Show Quills and many more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
always_learning Posted April 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 dondigitalia, Why did you like Fight Club? I know it displays mans fight with a split personality, and he wins, but it was just too dark and too anti commercialism for me. I left the movie feeling disgusted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Halley Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 dondigitalia has strange tastes for someone in an Objectivist Forum... he picks four of the strangest movies I have ever seen in: Being John Malkovich Edward Scissorhands Fight Club Best in Show I direct you all to his post in the favorite music thread. He picks Erik Satie (Ogives, is possibly the worst serious music peice I have ever heard) as one of his favorite classical composers, and also makes reference to Bjork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AutoJC Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 I'd like to add Secondhand Lions and Chocolate to the list. However, I think the Fountainhead movie was an embarrassment to the book. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I never felt the slightest empathy for the characters. The We The Living movie was fantastic on the other hand. There was a movie on We The Living? How is it I missed it? That was one of my favorite books! I wonder out loud if it's on DVD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Hawk Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 You've never seen We the Living? You're in for a treat when you do. It's outstanding. It was made in Italy when Mussolini was in power, before WWII if I remember correctly. It follows the novel very closely, because they didn't have a screenplay---they worked directly from the novel. It was discovered by Ayn Rand's attorney, I believe, and was then acquired by them and eventually released in a shortened version--the original was actually two movies. I think they were called Noi Vivi and Adio, Kira. Kira Argounova is played by Alida Valli, a beautiful Italian actress who later had a few roles in Hollywood. Leo is played by Rossano Brazzi, who later appeared in South Pacific. I have it in VHS, two tapes totalling almost 3 hours in length. I don't know if it's available on DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSabbath Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Fight Club My brother-in-law and a guy at my work recommend Fight Club. When it was on UK tv a while ago, the tv guide said it is about a young man driven mad by consumer society and I refuse point blank to watch it. The maker should have his head punched in by Lennox lewis and then deposited safely to North Korea where there will be no consumer society to drive him mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondigitalia Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 dondigitalia, Why did you like Fight Club? I know it displays mans fight with a split personality, and he wins, but it was just too dark and too anti commercialism for me. I left the movie feeling disgusted. I liked fight club b/c all 3 of the lead performances were superb. In fact, in my experience, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter have consistently given good perfomances in just about everything I've seen. Granted, the movie does have a strong anti-commercialism theme, with which, I disagree. Although I'm certain this this is in contradiciton to the filmaker's intended message, my private interpretation of the Pitt/Norton character's (I haven't seen it in several years, so the character's name escapes me) self-destruction at the end as symbolic of the destruction any society will undergo that rejects capitalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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