(May 31, 2010 at 6:15 pm)Saerules Wrote: A Muppet's Christmas Carol. While I like lots of movies... I'd have to say this is my favorite one.

There goes Mr. Humbug, there goes Mr. Grim,
If there were a prize for being mean,
The winner would be him...

'There were' in your stanza above should be 'they gave'. I've watched that movie so many times I know every song except the one sung by the woman in scrooge's past (Belle), as I didn't like hearing it as a small child, and would skip right over it to the more upbeat songs. ^_^

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ

And because I've a whim, I'm going to post another song from the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpb9EbmvM...re=related

But I didn't limit myself to one more! ^_^ This one has a little lead up, but you probably won't mind that if you were interested in watching in the first place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_8kmOmx...re=related

What can I say? I'm a sucker for upbeat whimsical happiness ^_^

I just saw "Black Dynamite".

As far as comedies go, this ranks high on my list.

My all-time favourite is "Eyes wide shut". The other movies by Kubrick are great as well.

Another great director was Fritz Lang - "Metropolis" and "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" are way ahead of their time and the concepts covered by these films are timeless and have been adapted by numberless others.

(although I found it extremely boring and even fell asleep when I watched it for the first time - maybe I was too young by then).

(June 5, 2010 at 6:39 am)Atheist_named_Christian Wrote: My all-time favourite is "Eyes wide shut". The other movies by Kubrick are great as well.

Another great director was Fritz Lang - "Metropolis" and "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" are way ahead of their time and the concepts covered by these films are timeless and have been adapted by numberless others.

(although I found it extremely boring and even fell asleep when I watched it for the first time - maybe I was too young by then).

Lang and Kubrick are two favorites of mine as well, admittedly, I much preferred Kubrick's works from Lolita to Shining, although, to be fair, it's probably because I saw them first and haven't let EWS have a chance to grow on me to the same extent as, say A Clockwork Orange, which I would consider one of my top favorite films.

As for Lang, Have you seen The Big Heat or M? I'm willing to believe that they're both better than Testament. And, if only because of the fact that Metropolis has, until recently, been only available in bastardized versions, I'd probably even be willing to bet that they're even better than Metropolis, especially M, especially in the days where Nancy Grace has a high-rated show that consists of her inadvertently proving Nietzsche's point that "he who fights monsters often becomes one himself," which is a huge theme of that movie.

Two other filmmakers I LOVE are Luis Bunuel and Sergio Leone. Granted, Leone's films are much easier to acquire than the Bunuel, for obvious reasons, and almost all of his movies are bona fide classics, although, I would recommend, if possible, that if you try to get any of the Man With No Name trilogy on DVD, shell out for the two-disc sets. They're much more complete, especially on The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

Bunuel, on the other hand, has a body of work that seems to operate on the principle of the MindFeck. His is a world where a party cannot leave their host's parlor despite it clearly being an open room until they repeat their actions on the day of their entrapment, or, on the other hand, cannot sit down to have a meal without the forces of the universe trying to distract them and keep them from breaking bread.

(June 5, 2010 at 2:28 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

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(June 5, 2010 at 6:39 am)Atheist_named_Christian Wrote: My all-time favourite is "Eyes wide shut". The other movies by Kubrick are great as well.

Another great director was Fritz Lang - "Metropolis" and "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" are way ahead of their time and the concepts covered by these films are timeless and have been adapted by numberless others.

(although I found it extremely boring and even fell asleep when I watched it for the first time - maybe I was too young by then).

Lang and Kubrick are two favorites of mine as well, admittedly, I much preferred Kubrick's works from Lolita to Shining, although, to be fair, it's probably because I saw them first and haven't let EWS have a chance to grow on me to the same extent as, say A Clockwork Orange, which I would consider one of my top favorite films.

As for Lang, Have you seen The Big Heat or M? I'm willing to believe that they're both better than Testament. And, if only because of the fact that Metropolis has, until recently, been only available in bastardized versions, I'd probably even be willing to bet that they're even better than Metropolis, especially M, especially in the days where Nancy Grace has a high-rated show that consists of her inadvertently proving Nietzsche's point that "he who fights monsters often becomes one himself," which is a huge theme of that movie.

Two other filmmakers I LOVE are Luis Bunuel and Sergio Leone. Granted, Leone's films are much easier to acquire than the Bunuel, for obvious reasons, and almost all of his movies are bona fide classics, although, I would recommend, if possible, that if you try to get any of the Man With No Name trilogy on DVD, shell out for the two-disc sets. They're much more complete, especially on The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

Bunuel, on the other hand, has a body of work that seems to operate on the principle of the MindFeck. His is a world where a party cannot leave their host's parlor despite it clearly being an open room until they repeat their actions on the day of their entrapment, or, on the other hand, cannot sit down to have a meal without the forces of the universe trying to distract them and keep them from breaking bread.

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M is a wonderful movie and, I agree, better than Metropolis (which is also very good).

Bunuel is one of my favourite directors. I love all of the Bunuel movies that I've seen, which is quite a few though be no means all of them (his Mexican period movies are hard to see). 'The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie', 'The Milky Way', 'The Exterminating Angel' and 'That Obscure Object of Desire' are the ones that stick in my mind the most.

Although Bunuel was apparently not an atheist, you wouldn't know it from his movies. His work is a sustained attack on the catholic church, and to a degree on christianity as a whole (see particularly 'The Milky Way').

(June 7, 2010 at 5:33 pm)Caecilian Wrote: Although Bunuel was apparently not an atheist, you wouldn't know it from his movies. His work is a sustained attack on the catholic church, and to a degree on christianity as a whole (see particularly 'The Milky Way').

Yes, the criticism of religion in Milky Way is certainly marked, but I doubt it's any more brutal an attack than Viridiana, which was condemned by the Vatican itself, although Milky Way is certainly more cerebral.

Viridiana is a direct and sustained attack on the catholic church. The Milky Way, dealing as it does with the often bizarre 'heresies' of early christianity, is both more cerebral and more general (protestants should find it uncomfortable viewing too).

You know, Shawshank Redemption is a movie that has just really stuck with me since I first saw it.

Pulp fiction, Kill Bill (1 obviously) scarface, Apocalypto