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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 30, 2006 15:10:03 GMT -5
I've got to ask this, although it's a very open question- what is your favourite film of all time?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:13:30 GMT -5
Oh JEEZ. THAT IS TOUGH...hmm...
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:17:18 GMT -5
You mean other than Monster's Inc.? ^_^
Heh, by far I'd have to say Apocalypse Now, the original, not the redux.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:24:45 GMT -5
^_^
OH! Seen that!
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 30, 2006 15:25:13 GMT -5
New versions of old films are rarely better than the originals, except for big budget ones like King Kong, and even those are not guarenteed to be better.
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:26:33 GMT -5
Yeah I know, very true. ^_^
What did you think Sean?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:29:40 GMT -5
^_^
King Kong was a bit disappointing.
Interesting indeed it was ^_^
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:31:37 GMT -5
<nods>
yeah, so many good metaphors in it.
They all say Citizen Kane is the best movie of all time, and while it's VERY good, I like the Shawshank Redemption better, I don't know, Shawshank is probably my all time fav, right above Apocalypse Now.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:33:19 GMT -5
^_^
Kong?
I actually have Citizen Kane a few feet from me but I have no idea what it's about.
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:34:29 GMT -5
King Kong, the remake.
Yeah it's pretty much Orson Welles portraying William Randolph Hurst's life. He did it as an attack mostly on Hurst.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:36:08 GMT -5
King Kong, the latest one, WAS NOT a King Kong.
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:52:47 GMT -5
Heheheh ^_^
You know, the owner of that newspaper conglomerate. Can't remember which one but he was a wealthy jerk who cared only for himself. Welles wanted to portray that, and Hurst was quite enraged with the movie.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:53:34 GMT -5
I mean...he wasn't THAT BIG.
*scratches head* OH no...I'm LEARNING....
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 30, 2006 15:57:53 GMT -5
He wasn't that big in the original either.
Hah! Yeah, the New York Journal or something. Well anyways, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, pretty much a Hearst rip off who does what he wants and is almost a playboy in essence, selfish, uncaring, the BIG plot twist of the movie is what he means when he utters his last words...."Rosebud." The whole movie is spent with a reporter interviewing his friends, trying to figure out what Rosebud means, it's told through flashbacks and such.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 30, 2006 15:59:13 GMT -5
Well actually. He took over like the entire top of the Empire State Building...
Rosebud is....cognition....his sled when he was a kid?
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