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Good and/or Indie films.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i came into this thread to recommend Primer, which i just recommended to Kieffer in his thread, only to find KvP had beaten me to it.
get Primer. it is an awesome movie.
Be My Head:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 16 Jul 2009, 15:05 ---If you ever need to put them to sleep, try Stalker, Solaris, or just about anything Tarkovsky made.
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Very true this. I found 2001 A Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon more action packed than Solaris.
To be fair though, Solaris didn't make me want to gouge my eyes out waiting for the movie to be over; unlike "Synecdoche, New York".
I second the recommendation of Memento, that was really good.
Dimmukane:
No, for sleep, watch Satantango.
Nodaisho:
So if I found it fascinating, but would likely fall asleep if I watched it when I was the least bit tired, what does that make me?
I've actually only seen parts of it, I can't find a video store near me that carries the damn thing.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: allison on 16 Jul 2009, 11:26 ---FUCK THAT SHIT
I watched that in my film class and it was ridiculous. My prof said it is the seminal work that the industry associates with Toronto (that being where it is filmed/set).
Universal scored the rights this year to remake it. Oh that will be a trainwreck.
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Look on the bright side, at least there is absolutely no chance it will be worse than Cronenberg's original. The only film he's ever made I feel I could genuinely recommend to someone is A History Of Violence, which manages to actually be significantly better than the comic it's based on. I'd hoped that meant he was finally turning into the good director he'd sometimes threatened to be but then he made Eastern Promises, possibly the worst film of his career (and when we're talking about the man who made Existenz, that's saying something).
--- Quote from: Jeans on 16 Jul 2009, 16:45 ---Stalker is basically the litmus test of whether or not you are a good or a bad person
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This is enormous amounts of correct.
It's OK to potentially fall asleep in a Tarkovsky film if you're just a very sleepy person, but it is still a warning sign that underneath everything you might be a serial killer or something. You might want to look into that.
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