Stolen from...pretty much half my active dw flist? :P

[lunesque]

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. The Fall
4. Mickey's Christmas Carol
5. Company (Raul Esparza, 2006)
6. Phantom of the Opera (1989, IDEK)
7. Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors
8. Sucker Punch
9. Love Actually
10. While You Were Sleeping

Comments

[kate]

OMG I was thinking about putting Stranger than Fiction! But my wife doesn't like it, so we've never bought it, and I've only seen it once. It's stuck with me, though, which is something most movies don't do unless I play them over and over again like my favorites.

What's The Fall?

[lunesque]

I love love love Stranger Than Fiction--and I'm not really a Will Ferrell person.

But aaaaah, you've asked the magic question.

The Fall. It's a Lee Pace movie from 2006, and I'm filled with so much love for it that it's hard to be succinct. Basically, a little girl and an injured movie stuntman become friends in a hospital, and the stuntman tells the little girl a story.

That story is filtered visually, to the viewer, through her imagination, and it's just a beautiful movie. You definitely need to put it on the list of things to watch. LOL

Man. Now I want to watch it again. ^^;

[kate]

Oh, that reminds me of Big Fish with Ewan MacGregor. Except his dad was telling the story to Ewan. It's a neat concept - I'll put it on my list!

[lunesque]

I remember that movie. :D There are some differences, of course, but it's the same basic frame. ♥

[kate]

I love that frame! Will definitely have to see it.

[dungeonmarm]

Do it. I don't think I love it as much as she does, but if I was asked for my top 10 most beautiful movies, it would DEFINITELY make the cut.

[kate]

Oh - what else would make that cut? Because right now the only ones I can think of are Hero and... maybe 47 Ronin, I remember it being pretty but it's been a while and we didn't buy the DVD.

Oh wait, there's a dance movie too, that I can't remember, and another one that's a horror movie but with really great images. Will have to look those up.

[dungeonmarm]

/o\

OMG I don't even know. Um. Well, Pan's Labyrinth comes to mind, as does The King's Speech. I might try to sneak the TV show Hannibal in even though it's not a movie.

IDK. I'll think about it.

[dungeonmarm]

Okay. Here's my top ten most beautiful movies.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
3. The Fall (2006)
4. The King's Speech (2010)
5. Life of Pi (2012)
6. O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
7. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
8. The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
9. What Dreams May Come (1998)
10. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

I gave The Thief and the Cobbler its official release date, but that's bullshit. Production began in 1964 (yes, SIXTY-FOUR) but Warner Brothers fucked over the filmmaker and finished it without his involvement, releasing it as The Princess and the Cobbler in '93. Another filmmaker made an unofficial version which is the one everyone should watch. It's called "The Recobbled Cut" and was released in 2006.

I just literally can't handle that movie. He did that all BY HAND. It took him twenty-eight years to animate.

[kate]

OHhhhh, this is so interesting! The horror movie I was trying to think of was The Cell, and I think the dance movie might have been Black Swan, but I swear it was earlier than that, and I can only remember one dance, so it was probably not a keeper anyway. What Dreams May Come, yessssssssssss. And Pan's Labyrinth, too.

I can see why you picked The King's Speech, Life of Pi, and O Brother Where Art Thou? but they're... hm. They don't touch me the way my other movies do. I have an appreciation of their beauty, but it's not a personal one (Mozart's music is like this for me).

[lunesque]

Jumping in to say OMG The Cell. Just the costume design alone was amazing.

[dungeonmarm]

The Cell was made by the same team that did The Fall.

[lunesque]

Obviously, I appreciate their aesthetic. ^_^

[dungeonmarm]

I don't think I've seen The Cell, is that something we should do?

[lunesque]

OMG yes. I don't think it's that great of a movie? But it's gorgeous. I could have sworn we saw it together, but I'm def up for a rewatch.

[kate]

It is definitely gorgeous! And the plot is... interesting? And has similarities to The Fall too, doesn't it? Obviously there's a running theme.

[lunesque]

I also have a big narrative kink for serial killers. So.

[kate]

Really! I had no idea! Do you watch Criminal Minds, then? Or is that akin to asking a very bad question?

[lunesque]

There are no bad questions. :P

I don't watch Criminal Minds, although I have considered starting from season 1 and doing a marathon occasionally. Of course, then I realize that my basic resting form right now is slug, and I don't know if I have enough attention span to watch the whole series.

I probably do know more about serial killers than the average person, though. ^^;

[dungeonmarm]

There's no probably to it. I think that *I* know more about serial killers than average, and you know WAY more than I do.

There are people who don't know who Ted Bundy is. I mean really.

[lunesque]

Are you for real? Because that's basic.

[dungeonmarm]

Exactly. Those people know less than average, I think. People who know names like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer are average.

People who know the details about Albert Fish's victims? People who know on which night Jack the Ripper's double event occurred?

Way more than fucking average.

[lunesque]

But--but-- ALBERT FISH.

[dungeonmarm]

<3

[kate]

If you do a rewatch, we should have a party on chat, because I would so watch that again!

[dungeonmarm]

This is an excellent idea.

[kate]

\o/

[lunesque]

That would be super fun!

[kate]

<33333333

[kate]

Ooooh, that means The Fall is now DEFINITELY on my list. Have to look up what the else these folks have done.

Also - the dance movie I was thinking of was The Company, with Neve Campbell.

[dungeonmarm]

You cruelly neglect to mention how profoundly SAD it is.

[lunesque]

Oh, that's true. Definitely sad.

[out_there]

Given 2 and 8, I'm now looking askance at you. I do judge people on movie choices, I have to say.

[lunesque]

Pan's Labyrinth pinged me because I think it's a beautiful movie (I mean, come on, the creature design!) and it appeals to the part of me that's always liked fairy tales.

Sucker Punch, on the other hand, I love completely and unironically. I am unashamed!

[out_there]

Pan's Labyrinth was beautiful, but also intensely creepy. It freaked me out. I mean, I remember watching it and thinking it was a really well done movie, but I have no plans on ever watching it again.

I am unashamed!

*sniggers* Sucker Punch was... well. I didn't realise I had a limit on the amount of fanservice in a show, but Sucker Punch proved me wrong. (Plus, creepy-sad ending. I really like happy endings to my stories.)

[lunesque]

Ah. Yeah, I can understand. I love happy endings, but for some reason a lot of the movies that stick with me are the ones that are sad or creepy or unexpected.