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Okay, so I was bored and thought I'd list various movies in my collection. See how many of them you've seen and which ones are your favs. Some are fairly obscure, some are more well known. Discuss any of them, and more importantly they're possible Terra-related topics.

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter (first four films)
The Princess Bride
Clue
Whale Rider
Hunt For Red October
Batman
Batman Begins
The Fifth Element
Dune
Ma Vie En Rose
Wizards
Field of Dreams
Girl, Interrupted
Ghost World
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Big Trouble In Little China
Excalibur
Memoirs of a Geisha
Airplane
Radioland Murders
Nottingham Hill
Moulin Rouge
The Wicker Man
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
Aeon Flux (animated series)
Donnie Darko
The Lost Boys
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Pianist
Amelie

I've seen:

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter (first four films)
The Princess Bride
Whale Rider
Hunt For Red October
Batman
Batman Begins
Field of Dreams
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Pianist
Amelie

I've heard the album Hedwig and the Angry Inch by...White Stripes I believe.

I was disappointed by Lord of the Rings. Having read the books, I was surprised at how disrespectful of J.R.R. Tolkien they could be. They took out important scenes. Most people say this is because it would have made the movie unreasonably long. However, they added easily and hour of their own made up scenes in each movie (excluding the first one). An example? In the book, they never fought the warg-riders. They mentioned that they had to be careful and avoid them, but they never actually met them. Frodo and Sam never went to that ruined city (it's name escapes my mind for the moment) and found that Ring Wraith on the dragon thingie. The books hardly mentioned Aragorn's relationship with Arowyn, yet they spent a good 45 minutes describing it in the second one. I hated Orlando Bloom's part. They just kep flashing him and showing him off. In the book, Legolas hardly even talks. He's not really a main character and one of the least important of the fellowship. And he does NOT take out and Oliphant. Although I'm glad that they mentioned the contest between Gimli and Legolas in the amount of orcs they killed. But all in all, they sucked. Stupid Hollywood...
The first Matrix was good. Excellent concept and special effects. The last two were just squeezing out money with Hollywood action. The ending of the last one was stupid. Need I say more?
I hated Harry Potter. Has anyone noticed that Harry has blue eyes in the movies? In the book, J.K. Rowling explicitly describes his emerald green eyes, the only way people can tell he's his mother's son also. Funny thing is, the actor actually has brown eyes, but he wears blue contacts. rofl They just can't get it right, can they?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is overrated in my opinion. I wasn't really impressed.
Whale Rider was a beautiful story. I was forced to watch it with my parents but I loved it.

Princess Bride is the best there. I'll explain why later. I gtg now.

Ok I'm back. Princess Bride is the best because:
A. The book itself is a wonderful story
B. It involves intrigue, love, and duels
C. It has more than one bad guy, and there are grey areas (bad guys who turn out to be good)
D. It involves revenge. I don't know why, but a story that involves revenge always gets me more excited about it.
E. It's hilarious. Gotta love the miracle maker (played by none other than Billy Crystal).

All in all, it's up there with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, maybe, just maybe, even better.

The Pianist was beautiful. It was a WW2 story that makes you cry because it was based on the experiences of real people, and you tell yourself how could someone go through all this and still be sane? The last scene where the soldier enters the house and watches the main character play is just... cry

Amelie was awesome. The British are known for their humor, but I think the French have them beat in this respect. It was odd, but funny nonetheless. Definitely worth watching.

I'm not a huge baseball fan, but Field of Dreams was still fairly good. Although I'm still not quite sure what its message was...

I just took a course on China, so I think I'll rewatch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and see if I pick up anything new.

No, Hedwig and the Angry Inch the album is from the movie, unless the White Stripes re-used the name. The music is by Stephen Trask, who in the movie plays Skszp. Most of the vocals are traditionally known as being done by John Cameron Mitchell, though with the various productions of Hedwig there have been several performers who have played her part, including a woman.

Well you have to remember that movie versions of books are never the same, nor can they be as complete or full. In fact movies by definition should NOT be like the book. Otherwise you'd have no reason to go see it would you? I like the job that they did with it.

Indeed they left out many good scenes. They completely neglected Glorfindel, who was actually the one who rode swiftly across the plains (over several days not just minutes/hours like Arwyn) to save Frodo. Also Tom Bombadil was completely left out. My biggest disappointment was not having Hobbiton under seige at the end, but that wouldn't fit with the New Zealand ideal of happiness in your remote home nor would it fit with Hollywood's general idea of how a plotline should develop. If it was closer to the book, it would not have sold as well to the general public, who overall has little interest in comparisons of the book and the movie, like us more enthusiastic fans have.

Nope, hehe. The Wachowski brothers don't know how to write dialog. The dialog from the Matrix movies alone kept me from seeing V for Vendetta in the theaters.

It's nice Chinese pulp historical fiction. Understanding Chinese culture, their concepts of pulp fiction, and their past help to appreciate it better.

I chanced upon it on PBS and loved it dearly. Then I rented it and watched it 11 times in a week. I do that with certain movies sometimes. Hedwig I saw 28 times in the first month I had it, and Donnie Darko 13 times in a week. Eventually though I get tired and watch the movies as much as any other.

I'm waiting for them to make perdurabo: the aleister crowley story in the u.s. domokun

The Princess Bride has everything- true love, adventure , comedy- what more can you ask for? "Inconcevable!"