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While I'm personally not the most avid film fan, I have a large appreciation for the flicks hiding out there that don't classify as what I call "glurge". Glurge is what it sounds like: something that a lot of people could play with, but actually doesn't offer anything significant. In film, glurge would be Twilight.

Not that I'm trying to sound pretentious about my tastes, but I know that some of us like to browse the Entertainment Discussion and that we definitely don't like Twilight. So we must all have something nice to share with each other, right?

So, my questions to you: What are your favorite films and why? What sort of audience would you recommend those films to? Would you like to say anything about your film? (You can answer all or just one. It doesn't matter.)

I like a variety of cinematic experiences, I particularly enjoy action films that can pull off a good story. In that respect, I like Street Kings and Lucky Number Slevin, two great action/thriller/crime films that don't over do the gunplay too much.

That is one thing I hate in any film, when they just throw in a hand full of slow motion gunfights and explosions and call it a "masterpiece" I find that insulting. Take for instance, Wanted, probably one of the most ridiculous films Ive ever seen. I actually saw a person ask on yahoo answers "Is it really possible to curve a bullet like in "Wanted"? " A film that breeds that kind of stupidity has no place in my world.

I also hate all these new "horror" films that have been coming out recently. I like a good horror film you see, I love to be scared, but I hate all these disgusting films like Saw ( 3 onwards, one and , too and extent, two were very good) that are filled with gratuitous gore and are not even the least bit scary. Gory does not equate to scary, thats just a plain misconception.

I enjoyed the ORIGINAL Ring films, the Japanese versions, they were scary, not because of the use of special effects or gore, but because of camera angles, the interplay between light and shadow, and the story. It all amounted to create a sense that something was about to lurch out of the shadows at any minute and drag you off.

I also hate films that are just plain stupid, like ROBO GEISHA. Look it up on youtube, you'll laugh, but you'll also die a little inside when you realise that this is the direction film could be taking.

......anyway, to conclude this excessive rant, I'd like to say that I also enjoyed the Curious Tale of Benjamin Button. I wouldn't normally go to see that kind of film, but I have to say it left me extremely impressed.

I would be a little wary of Lucky Number Slevin, some of its content is a little odd, but the story, though complex, is the true driving force behind the film. The odd content includes using guns to shoot holes in walls and other such "questionable" instances of cinematic licence, if such a thing even exists.

However, I strongly recommend Street Kings, its very violent and gritty, but the violence is not glamorised, rather revealed to be a very ugly thing indeed, nor is it a prevalent force in the film, again, story takes the reigns, a dark thrilling experience supported by an excellent performances from the whole cast, particularly Forest Whittaker and Keanu Reeves.

Just about any film with an excess of imagination is going to keep me enthralled. This can include anything, from Romance (Eternal Sunshine fo the Spotless Mind, my personal favorite,) to horror (A Tale of Two Sisters is an excellent example,) and an abundance of sci-fi and fantasy. Also just anything that is well-crafted. I have a list of my picks for the 200 best films in my journal (or in Entertainment discusion,) so I'll just recommned that instead of listing dozens...

I have been more about TV shows of late than of movies.

Such as Doctor Who.
I'm not really sure why, I suppose it's the witty intelligent humor that goes along with it.
I like a good debating controversy, even if it is over nothing. Couldn't you apply:

He's like fire and ice and rage, he's like the night, like the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe.

Could not such a phrase be applied to someone (or something) like a god?
*grins*

I may be religious, but I must admit, I can relate more to a lonely 900 year old that everyone seems to enjoy leaving alone...than doctrinations.

:/ but that is just me.

I am a great lover of the magic of the silver screen. But I'd prefer the classics of yesterday, as opposed to the steaming pile of canine fecal matter that the movie industry has become as of late. My favorite movie? Dracula. Great film. Installed my love of vampires. It was one of the scariest films I've ever seen (While in my childhood), and it came out in the 30's, which proves ONCE AGAIN that movies don't need a big budget or fancy effects to make it great.

It's a shame to see vampires decline the way they have. Putting out books and films like Twilight is just sad.

Amelie
Phonebooth
Kill Bill Trilogy
NBK
Edward Scissorhands
Alien (favorite Alien movie, almost all)
Lion King
Wall-E
Moulin Rouge
Silence of the Lambs
Ringu
Pineapple Express
Catch 22 (though I didnt think they did the book much justice, however it seems a book that would be hard to do justice to in film)
Mr.Brooks (especially cause Dane Cook dies in it)
Sweeney Todd
Breakfast on Pluto
Red Eye



Just to name a few, I'm sure I'm forgetting many.