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ferris

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Do you have this problem?  

When people find out I'm an aspiring movie nerd invariably the question arises, what is your favorite movie?  I tell them Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the response is always "Oh! you're a sci-fi guy".

Well, no....I explain...I'm a "lone-middle-aged-man-dealing-with-overwhelming-circumstances-in an-obsessive-way" guy

So the thought occured to me, what 5 films would best represent my movie tastes, that one might use to recommend other films to me.

I'm thinking - off the top of my head
(Only two of these are in my top 20)
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Synecdoche NY
There Will Be Blood
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Grizzly Man
Before Sunset
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What does this list say about me?


Worthwhile discussion topic?  

EDIT: Swapped one out after careful consideration
« Last Edit: April 15, 2010, 10:38:28 AM by ferris »
"And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs" - Exodus 8:2 KJV
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Re: Five films that represent your movie tastes
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2010, 10:44:48 AM »
Synecdoche NY - you feel everything is a fractal of something else?
There Will Be Blood - how not to be a dad?
Never Cry Wolf  - nature is awesome...
Grizzly Man - ... but don't CINECAST! with it
Before Sunset -  you have a 'never too late' philsophy

I'm guessing...


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I guess I'm not supposed to say what I think it says about me? But I am constructing the list as exemplar.

12 Angry Men
Children of Men
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Juno
The Seventh Seal

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Re: Five films that represent your movie tastes
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2010, 12:04:17 PM »
Synecdoche NY - you feel everything is a fractal of something else?
There Will Be Blood - how not to be a dad?
Never Cry Wolf  - nature is awesome...
Grizzly Man - ... but don't CINECAST! with it
Before Sunset -  you have a 'never too late' philsophy

I'm guessing...



Sorry I swapped out one of the films on you just before you posted. 

I was looking more for single statements or thematic elements that tie the list together...  I think I already gave mine away with the "singular obsession" thing - even Before Sunset works as the film completely analyzes the thoughts of two characters over the course of a single afternoon. 


Bondo,
I'm struggling with yours a bit because I haven't seen three of the films, but I am sensing a real curiosity you have in societal impacts/pressures on personal human behavior and perhaps a personal conflict within you between the nostalgia of by-gone values and a personal desire to be very open-minded towards different belief systems - You like films that investigate the way people balance their lives and decisions against social norms and values taught from childhood.

I'm way off base aren't I?

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The New World
Forrest Gump
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dumb and Dumber
Slumdog Millionaire
"Time is the speed at which the past decays."

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I guess I'm not supposed to say what I think it says about me? But I am constructing the list as exemplar.

12 Angry Men
Children of Men
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Juno
The Seventh Seal

You like a good philosophical conflict, a good romance every now and again, and chess.

I would suggest Searching for Bobby Fischer
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The New World
Forrest Gump
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dumb and Dumber
Slumdog Millionaire

You feel a bit sheltered in your day-to-day life, too overly worried about consequences for your actions and what the future holds for you.  You love movies that can tap into your strong desire to break out of the bonds of the mundane and discover/experience the world for all it has to offer, and be yourself in the process - consequence be damned!

EDIT: which means you'd probably love films like Pan's Labyrinth and Spirited Away
« Last Edit: April 15, 2010, 12:14:21 PM by ferris »
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My list: (eep!)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Masculin Feminin
The Philadelphia Story
Charade

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Bondo: Philosophical with a punch. Snappy dialogue/filmmaking, but makes you think.

Corndog: Epic storytelling with a fair amount of goofball humor.

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I love reading everyone's interpretations. They sound like horoscopes!

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Before Sunset/Before Sunrise
Once
Chunking Express
12 Angry Men
Inglourious Basterds


Tiny is an 80 year old women trapped in a young woman's body :D

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EDIT: which means you'd probably love films like Pan's Labyrinth and Spirited Away

not love, but like. Though I need to revisit Spirited Away. Good assessment otherwise, though I thought there were one or two other obvious things the list says about me


tiny: I sadly have seen none of them, so I would say it means you live in Montana, a place I have never seen. :P
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