Obsessive-Compulsive AT the Movies

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The Swinging Alties! (That’s 00’s) - Really unsure about a couple of the 2001 entries… I’ve seen them, and they’re on the IMDB top 250 now, but I don’t recall if they were there when the list started. At least two of them were, though.

Almost Famous (2000)
Amores Perros (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Memento (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Snatch. (2000)
Traffic (2000)
You Can Count on Me (2000)
Amelie (2001)
Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Monsters, Inc (2001)
Mullholland Dr. (2001)
Shrek (2001)

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To add to your list of movies from the '20s to watch, I’d suggest DeMille’s “The King of Kings”, which I saw last night. I’m not Christian, or a big fan of Jesus movies, but that was far and away one of the best Jesus movies I’ve seen. The Last Supper scene by itself makes the movie worth watching.

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I will … I’m a big fan of DeMille’s early stuff anyway. ‘The Sign of the Cross’ is one of my favorite 30’s films.

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Oh god, and let us not forget the infamous battle scene on the ice. It is a masterful piece of filmmaking.

Interesting/sad aside. You wanna hear a definitive case of theft of theme on a wholesale level? Listen to the music composed by Sergei Prokofiev that is played during that ice battle sequence.

Then listen to the main title theme composed by John Williams for the movie Jaws

Um. We’re not talking homage. We’re talking note for note theft. Yes I know it was in the public domain by the time Williams stole it.

Still. I mean, c’mon. For shame.

Cartooniverse

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I like this thread, because it makes me feel like I’m not as behind in my own required-movie-watching as I’ve always thought. (I’ve seen most of the ones mentioned here).

A couple things:

  1. It should be the “awesome” 80’s.
  2. You can have a list with Yojimbo unless you also see Sanjuro. It’s not as good as Yojimbo (except for the final scene, which ROCKS), but it’s a matching set.
  3. Hi, Opal

A film course is going to give you exposure to a lot of movies, but unfortunately it can also suck the joy out of them. I’m speaking as a former cinema studies major, here. The good is that I never would’ve seen 8 1/2 or Written in the Wind or Le Week-end or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (really!) without the class; the bad is that I had to see a lot of stuff that didn’t do anything for me, and then write papers about it.

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Sanjuro wasn’t on any of the lists from which I compiled mine, but I made it a point to see it after watching Yojimbo. Those two are probably my favorite Kurosawa films of the ones I’ve seen.

And I’m living proof you don’t need a film class to see things like 8 1/2 … just a mild case of OCD. :wink:

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I found John Woo’s The Killer at a local videostore… and apparently, I had a free rental there that I wasn’t aware of! It’s a perfect coincidence.

So now, my ‘A’ list has only one movie that I cannot currently get at without buying a used copy - Marx Bros.’ Monkey Business.