• Brazil -- This Gilliam's best. • The Matrix -- Definitely a good pick. • The Fifth Element -- Horrible Dreck. Willis is awful. • Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan -- The best Star Trek movie of the lot. Not necessarily a must see movie compared to other movies, however. • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home -- Second best Star Trek movie, but if you're not a fan of the series don't bother. • Serenity -- I don't know anything about this at all. • Dark City -- Visually compelling, smart, unique film that misses being good enough to be actually memorable. • 12 Monkeys -- Not nearly as difficult a movie as people seem to think. It is actually very straight forward. It's not even as hard as Back to the Future 2 plot point wise. Truly good. Memorable. Best Gilliam after Brazil. • Shaun of the Dead -- A fun zombie parody that made me curious enough to watch the original 1979 Dawn of the Dead which is a friggin masterpiece! • Darkman -- Haven't seen it. • Army of Darkness -- Saw it. Laughed. But really, who cares? • War Games -- More of a nostalgia movie for middle aged Gen Xers than anything. • Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- I own this movie on DVD. • Office Space -- I own this too. • Repo Man -- I should own this one.
How are these GEEK movies. What the fuck does that word mean, exactly?
I'm with you on Brazil. I love Gilliam's stuff but that's the apex. Have you seen La Jetee, the film that 12 Monkeys was based on? I think it does just as much or more, and far more succintly. I think it's like 12 minutes long?
Hm. I don't see a non-import version available. Beware, too, of a version with English narration. The original is a French film, entirely in stills, with narration (and subtitles). It's very subtle and even more devastating. (And apparently 28 minutes long, not 12.) But no Brad Pitt :-)
How is Holy Grail a geek movie? Are you kidding me?? Utter half a syllable of any line at a convention, and you'll get 50 people completing the rest of the movie's dialog from that point forward and giggling like ninnies (me included). It's THE Geek Check flick.
But Brazil doesn't belong on this list. Mundane's embrace it too readily. :)
(Well, OK, apparently Gilliam was reading No One Writes to the Colonel when he was shooting the vulcan stuff, but no reason that was in the movie. Kind of like the watermelon in Buckaroo Banzai...)
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Date: 2007-02-08 06:35 pm (UTC)• Brazil -- This Gilliam's best.
• The Matrix -- Definitely a good pick.
• The Fifth Element -- Horrible Dreck. Willis is awful.
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan -- The best Star Trek movie of the lot. Not necessarily a must see movie compared to other movies, however.
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home -- Second best Star Trek movie, but if you're not a fan of the series don't bother.
• Serenity -- I don't know anything about this at all.
• Dark City -- Visually compelling, smart, unique film that misses being good enough to be actually memorable.
• 12 Monkeys -- Not nearly as difficult a movie as people seem to think. It is actually very straight forward. It's not even as hard as Back to the Future 2 plot point wise. Truly good. Memorable. Best Gilliam after Brazil.
• Shaun of the Dead -- A fun zombie parody that made me curious enough to watch the original 1979 Dawn of the Dead which is a friggin masterpiece!
• Darkman -- Haven't seen it.
• Army of Darkness -- Saw it. Laughed. But really, who cares?
• War Games -- More of a nostalgia movie for middle aged Gen Xers than anything.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- I own this movie on DVD.
• Office Space -- I own this too.
• Repo Man -- I should own this one.
How are these GEEK movies. What the fuck does that word mean, exactly?
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Date: 2007-02-08 06:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-08 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-08 07:02 pm (UTC)But Brazil doesn't belong on this list. Mundane's embrace it too readily. :)
Now, Munchausen...?
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Date: 2007-02-08 07:16 pm (UTC)Munchausen is not my favorite.
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Date: 2007-02-08 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-08 07:44 pm (UTC)(Well, OK, apparently Gilliam was reading No One Writes to the Colonel when he was shooting the vulcan stuff, but no reason that was in the movie. Kind of like the watermelon in Buckaroo Banzai...)
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Date: 2007-02-08 09:29 pm (UTC)