which of these is your favorite
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Pulp Fiction by a smidge over Goodfellas. In order as follows
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
The Big Lebowski
Office Space
Fargo
Casino
Boogie Nights
Requiem for a Dream
American History X
Idiocracy
I just cant get into the big lebowski. prob bottom 3 from that list for me. maybe above AHX and Idocracy, but down there.
Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, and Casino were a pretty easy top 3 for me. Followed closely by Fargo and Office Space
If we're talking about which will I watch when I come across it when it's on TV it's office space
Even though the consultants were a little too close to reality, Office Space would be my favorite followed by American History X, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski.
I don't think Ive seen Requiem for a Dream, is that the one with Corey Feldman dancing around a gymnasium?
I tried voting with my peen but it selected them all
It is, and I don't have any opinions (good or bad) of anyone who likes the movie. I just think it's slow paced, boring, and not really as funny as people say.
It's quotable.. but thats about it for me.
Pulp Fiction - great flick
Goodfellas - seen once
The Big Lebowski - never seen
Office Space - chosen as favorite of the poll
Fargo - meh
Casino - good flick
Boogie Nights - meh
Requiem for a Dream - good flick
American History X - 2nd favorite on the list
Idiocracy - only the intro is worth watching (and it's true)
First time I watched it I thought it was stupid.
Now I absolutely love it.
Maybe give it another try.
I've tried a few times. Even high with friends. It's excrutiating.First time I watched it I thought it was stupid.
Now I absolutely love it.
Maybe give it another try.
Goodfellas is my favorite movie ever, and I while it's certainly subjective, I think it's the greatest movie of all time.
To me it's the best of cinema, in terms of compelling storytelling, amazing performances, artistic cinematography, brilliant dialogue, and overall highly entertaining. I am as big a movie snob as anyone, but I truly do believe that film should be entertaining. While that means different things to different people, Goodfellas is pretty much a 10/10 on the scale of entertainment, as well as being incredibly artfully done.
However...the one thing that Goodfellas doesn't do, which great cinema can and arguably should, is emotionally move the viewer. I love it more than any other film, and even I can't make a solid case for it being emotionally moving. It is a cynical film.
Which leads me to another film. The 2002 Brazilian drama City of God. City of God is pretty much everything Goodfellas is, plus it's emotionally involving/moving, and even has a social conscience, if you think that is valuable in film (I think it has a place, while not being a necessity).
I happen to have caught a screening of City of God last week at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, and had been anticipating it for a while, so I'd been thinking about it. It has always been one of my very favorite films, but I've been reckoning with the the premise "Goodfellas is the greatest film of all time, and City of God is better than Goodfellas." Seeing it again on the big screen did not disabuse me of that idea.
Can I say that City of God is the greatest movie of all time? It's widely beloved, but it seems absurd...but I'm not sure it is. I'm not sure that I wouldn't currently consider City of God the greatest movie I've ever seen.
To me it's the best of cinema, in terms of compelling storytelling, amazing performances, artistic cinematography, brilliant dialogue, and overall highly entertaining. I am as big a movie snob as anyone, but I truly do believe that film should be entertaining. While that means different things to different people, Goodfellas is pretty much a 10/10 on the scale of entertainment, as well as being incredibly artfully done.
However...the one thing that Goodfellas doesn't do, which great cinema can and arguably should, is emotionally move the viewer. I love it more than any other film, and even I can't make a solid case for it being emotionally moving. It is a cynical film.
Which leads me to another film. The 2002 Brazilian drama City of God. City of God is pretty much everything Goodfellas is, plus it's emotionally involving/moving, and even has a social conscience, if you think that is valuable in film (I think it has a place, while not being a necessity).
I happen to have caught a screening of City of God last week at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, and had been anticipating it for a while, so I'd been thinking about it. It has always been one of my very favorite films, but I've been reckoning with the the premise "Goodfellas is the greatest film of all time, and City of God is better than Goodfellas." Seeing it again on the big screen did not disabuse me of that idea.
Can I say that City of God is the greatest movie of all time? It's widely beloved, but it seems absurd...but I'm not sure it is. I'm not sure that I wouldn't currently consider City of God the greatest movie I've ever seen.
That's a good list. To me, Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas are the standard. After that, it's a tossup between Fargo, Casino and Office Space. I gave Fargo a slight nod.
That's too bad man. I'm with Hawk Machine. The first time I watched it, I didn't like it. Then I watched it again, and again, and again. The Coen Brothers just don't miss. I think I could have used more Jeff Bridges/Philip Seymour Hoffman doing movies together. Their interactions in Big Lebowski were gold.
Did...did you just "meh" Fargo and Boogie Nights? What else is meh to you? The Godfather? No Country for Old Men?? Heat!?!?
I turned City of God on one time and almost shut it off within the first 2 minutes because of subtitles. Thank the Gods I stuck with it because that movie is incredible on so many different levels. It just grabs a hold of you and doesn't let go.
Godfather - great
NCfOM - meh
Heat - great
Talladega Nights - Great
Step Brothers - Meh
makes zero sense
Oh and my two favorite movies are Gladiator and Shawshank.
Godfather - great
NCfOM - meh
Heat - great
Talladega Nights - Great
Step Brothers - Meh
makes zero sense
Not at all. Both are amazing, I just prefer the other ahead of them. I could easily throw Fargo in the top 3, but the others are just so rewatchable. It's like all star voting, everyone complains on who didn't make it, but can never agree who they should replace.
It's the context of the scene that makes it so funny.
Walter is this unhinged man child who's entire personality is based off of his time in Vietnam. Walter is also the kind of person who very well could be making up the kind of action he was actually seeing in Vietnam. There is a very real chance he's more traumatized from his wife divorcing him (who he converted to Judaism for) than any kind of trauma he may or may not have experienced in Vietnam. This is the exact kind of person who would pull a pistol in a bowling alley on a guy who stepped over the line during a "league game".
You just don't get it, man
did you just mansplain the big lebowski to me?It's the context of the scene that makes it so funny.
Walter is this unhinged man child who's entire personality is based off of his time in Vietnam. Walter is also the kind of person who very well could be making up the kind of action he was actually seeing in Vietnam. There is a very real chance he's more traumatized from his wife divorcing him (who he converted to Judaism for) than any kind of trauma he may or may not have experienced in Vietnam. This is the exact kind of person who would pull a pistol in a bowling alley on a guy who stepped over the line during a "league game".
You just don't get it, man
I had the same reaction. First time I thought "what's the big deal." Now I just love it.First time I watched it I thought it was stupid.
Now I absolutely love it.
Maybe give it another try.
Goodfellas
Office Space
As noted above, City of God is a great flick. Top 5 of all time.
Missing from the list are:
Almost Famous - great music, rock and roll, youth, nostalgia, PSH, Tiny Dancer scene
Godfather II - backstory, family, the rise of America, crime, power, corrupting power
Midnight Run - *the* buddy comedy, DeNiro, Grodin, Kotto, Farina, Joe P, Ashton - the perfect cast
Serrano’s got the disks!
Office Space
As noted above, City of God is a great flick. Top 5 of all time.
Missing from the list are:
Almost Famous - great music, rock and roll, youth, nostalgia, PSH, Tiny Dancer scene
Godfather II - backstory, family, the rise of America, crime, power, corrupting power
Midnight Run - *the* buddy comedy, DeNiro, Grodin, Kotto, Farina, Joe P, Ashton - the perfect cast
Serrano’s got the disks!
