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| <span style=survivorninja | Nov 9 2010, 04:22 PM Post #81 |
First Lady Of GTS
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Srsly DGT..The Village is one of your honorable mentions? LAME. |
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| <span style=survivorninja | Nov 9 2010, 04:25 PM Post #82 |
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First Lady Of GTS
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^ Glad to see I'm not alone in these thoughts having read your thread now. <3 |
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| <span style=Dictatorship | Nov 9 2010, 04:31 PM Post #83 |
Created the abomination that was Lucunt.
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SAW ftw! 
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1st GTS Awards Best Rivalry: Black House vs. All (BB Pentagon) Best Alliance: Jungle Fever (BB Pentagon) Best Individual Game: Alton (BB Pentagon) 2nd GTS Awards Worst Strategic Decision: Candice nominating/evicting Yul (Vertigo 2) Best Eviction: Candice (Vertigo 2) Best Villain: Luce (BB Cupid) Best Winner: Luna (Harry Potter) Best Individual Game: Luna (Harry Potter) ~ repeat win
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| <span style=Mister Plum | Nov 9 2010, 04:52 PM Post #84 |
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I don't understand how people can watch The Hurt Locker without sleeping during any parts of the film. 
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| <span style=Rudy | Nov 9 2010, 05:04 PM Post #85 |
Sorry for being so awesome
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I didn't like the Hurt Locker either. The Village was all kinds of awesome. 
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| <span style=SurvivorFan GP | Nov 9 2010, 05:21 PM Post #86 |
Not the brightest crayon in the box
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I'm probably one of the few people that hasn't seen Wall-E  Both Kill Bill Vol 1/2 are awesome. I kinda prefer the 2nd because I feel like as someone said earlier there's more "substance"/story in it instead of Uma Thurman opening a can of whop-ass for an hour straight.  All of these movies seem so complex and Oscar-y  I don't have the attention span to "get" those kind of movies, lol. @_@I didn't enjoy the LOTR movies very much either, but then again haven't read the books. |
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| <span style=island sun | Nov 9 2010, 05:26 PM Post #87 |
Dracotrix <3
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WTF I found someone else who hasn't seen it?
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| <span style=Destinys Champion | Nov 9 2010, 05:32 PM Post #88 |
Hibernating
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Seriously. I was so bored and half-asleep until they first got attacked. I can usually appreciate the more serious Oscar-type movies, but this one I just didn't get. <_< |
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PaShun [The Nightclub] ~ 1st Alpha [Codename: Marathon] ~ 1st CPR Test Dummy [Colosseum 7] ~ 2nd Talim [Omni 2: The Soul Arena] ~ 5th Joe Jonas [SYBBM] ~ 9th B.B. Hood [Superheroes] ~ 9th Stephenie [CR's Faves] ~ 11th Storm [Omni: Genosha] ~ 12th (Quit) Wakka [Final Fantasy] ~ 14th Tanya, Champion of Mortal Kombat '& Goddess of All Realms [TF:LL] ~ 1st Dewgong [Pokémon Mini II] ~ 1st Wobbuffet [Pokémon Mini] ~ 5th Kimberly [Mini Shit I Like] ~ 6th Jerri [EDP: HvV 2] ~ 10th | |
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| <span style=makcrabs | Nov 9 2010, 06:01 PM Post #89 |
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Mean Girls for the unexpected win? Orphan and Jennifer's Body need to be near the top too. |
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| Thailandsurvivor | Nov 9 2010, 07:08 PM Post #90 |
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I watched The Hurt Locker on a plane and didn't fall asleep. I thought it was awesome.
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| Thailandsurvivor | Nov 9 2010, 07:10 PM Post #91 |
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How can anyone dislike Oceans 11? 
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| <span style=Mister Plum | Nov 9 2010, 07:51 PM Post #92 |
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I didn't even finish it because it bored me to sleep. Even English Patient is better than this. ...and yes, as SFGP said, this list could be filled with Oscar worthy films, hope not. School of Rock, Meet the Fockers/Parents and White Chicks are hella good. 
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| <span style=recyclehumans | Nov 9 2010, 08:42 PM Post #93 |
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This first entry was written on the plane back to LA, and I just landed and my headache is huge enough to not give a shit about proofreading. <3 What will it be? #10. UNBREAKABLE  2000 written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn and Spencer Treat Clark Few directors working today are as divisive as M. Night Shyamalan. His earliest mainstream work, THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE, are more or less regarded as quality films. Starting with SIGNS, he began what would be described by many as a very large decline into the territory of garbage filmmaking. THE LAST AIRBENDER and LADY IN THE WATER are both wildly atrocious films, THE HAPPENING is tolerable at best even in its strongest moments, and SIGNS and THE VILLAGE are both liked by some and hated by others. In my mind, I alternate often between THE SIXTH SENSE, THE VILLAGE and UNBREAKABLE as my favorite Shyamalan film. There are elements from each film that I adore with passion. THE SIXTH SENSE, for me, has the finest performances (and the single most wonderful scene from a film in the 1990s, which is Cole telling Lynn his secret in the car). THE VILLAGE is Shyamalan's most relevant film, as well as his most successful manipulation of his audience. (THE VILLAGE is a tragic romantic drama. Believing it to be a horror or suspense film in any way tends to be the first mistake of most people, but this is very much a fault of the film's marketing.) UNBREAKABLE? I feel like it's Shyamalan's most successful film when looking at it from all angles. It's his cleanest and most original and unique script, delivered with strong performances and exemplary technical craft (most especially James Newton Howard's subtle, exploratory and resonant score and Eduardo Serra's brilliant cinematography). While far from being a perfect film (alol no such thing exists), it is a film that manages to enthrall me every time I watch it. Knowing the story and where it goes is irrelevant. The film's power lies beyond the simple mechanics of hitting narrative points. David Dunn is a man who doesn't get sick. Doesn't get hurt. Never has been able to. Aside from having a fear of water like any good potential hero (after almost drowning when he was younger), he has lived his entire life being virtually unbreakable. Even a vicious car crash in his past resulted in him walking away unscathed. He even has an uncanny knack to feel the thoughts of others, either by touch or being close by, when those people are feeling something strongly. Within the first five minutes of meeting him, he becomes the sole survivor of an horrific train crash just outside Philadelphia. All other passengers die… and David walks away from the crash without a scratch on his body. He returns to his home and fails at trying to come to grips with what's happened to him. Compounding his internal struggle is his separation from his wife Audrey and his son Joseph. Whatever their marital issues are, they're severe enough that Audrey has moved into another part of their house and David is planning to move to New York very soon. Joseph loves his father and wants desperately to be connected with him, but the end of the marriage is not making anything easy. David is not only unable to come to grips with just what it might be that's happened to him, but he feels isolated and removed from his family, the people he should be able to open up to the most. It's at that moment Elijah Price comes into the picture. He sought out David after the accident and realized David was exactly the person he's been searching for. Elijah is a comic book aficionado, has been since he was a child (as the comics were the only way his mother could coax him into the real world), and realized his physical condition, like any good comic, must have an opposite. Someone in the world must be a mirror image of what Elijah is, and Elijah wants nothing more than to find his "bizarro world" companion. David is unbreakable. Elijah is in every way fragile. He was born with a bone disease that renders him vulnerable to breaks and fractures in even the most gentle of conditions. He was born with his arms and legs broken. He cannot play sports, have fun with kids on the playground, have an active life… it's all a world he will never know. He walks with a glass cane ("They call me Mr. Glass.") to cushion his steps while he walks. His car's interior is outfitted with thick, protective rubber. To Elijah, he is the antithesis of David in pure comic book fashion. Elijah is (literally) the black to David's white. The only problem… is that David doesn't believe a word Elijah says about who he really is. Elijah sets out to prove it to David. Show him what his true nature is and discover what he is capable of and the goodness he can create from his "superhero" strength. But David is far from a superhero. He is anything but. He works a menial security job for UPenn's stadium and has no external life beyond his fractured family. And this is where the elegant power of UNBREAKABLE really starts to shine. Without grand flourishes or overt dramatics, David begins his journey to find within himself just what kind of power he's externally capable of. But in order to do that, he needs to find within himself the internal strength to even be able to recognize who he is in the first place. What he wants. What he's missing. And he knows, deep down, that he does not want his life to be without his family. No growth can happen unless it comes from within, and David's journey is twofold. He cannot face what he's made of without internal strength, and he has no internal strength without his family in his life -- in a way, Audrey and Joseph are what really allow David to discover his true nature. The film's balance of his discovery of his powers and the rebuilding of his home are completely in sync and done with grace and beauty. But it's not so easy. David doubts what Elijah claims him to be. He's convinced himself that he's a weak man. And his son will have none of that kind of thinking. Jospeh sees his father as a hero -- don't all boys who love their fathers? And it pains Joseph to see his father be weak, because he knows it's that weakness that may be what makes his father leave. He believes it in his core that his father is a superhero. He has to. He needs to. And he refuses to let his father tell him that he can't be a superhero for him. Joseph is even willing to take David's gun and come within seconds of gunning him down just to prove that he won't get hurt -- in front of Audrey. ("I'll only shoot him once…") Like THE SIXTH SENSE, there is a centerpiece scene (for me) in this film, and it's the standoff in the kitchen between a father and his boy, a boy so close to losing his father he is willing to shoot his father to keep him around. It's the kind of scene that, when you get to it after an hour of becoming involved with these characters, is both deeply unsettling and profoundly understandable. And like most of the film (to its most sublime credit), the scene is done almost completely in one shot. This film exploits the power of the master shot like few modern films have or can. David begins to realize that he cannot hide from his past any longer. He can't deny himself or his strength. He knows there is something more to his life. And in the film's suspenseful climax, he fully opens himself to who he really is and what he can do for the first time. What he was put onto this planet to do. And in a perfect next-day moment with his son, he accepts his purpose. He accepts his strength. And in turn, Elijah is able to accept he was right about David's place in the world… because it allows Elijah to accept his place as a result. The film is criticized for having a "twist" ending that feels tacked on and somewhat incomplete and unearned. I disagree fully. Without giving the entire movie away, I'll leave it at that. In fact, to me, much like THE VILLAGE, I don't see the film as having a twist ending at all. Everything about this movie is there in front of you, waiting to be accepted -- but it's up to you to make the choice to see it and invite it in. The viewer walks in David's shoes from start to finish, and this includes how the film is to be viewed and digested. Shyamalan proved with UNBREAKABLE that he can make a smart, mature film with a damn good story and fantastic characters. To anyone who doubts his skills as a filmmaker, I emphatically point to this as his sharpest and most nuanced effort. It's not a film for everyone's tastes -- but it is a hallmark of filmmaking with much to appreciate. Perhaps THE SIXTH SENSE was a fluke and UNBREAKABLE was an even bigger fluke. It's possible. But I believe the talented storyteller in Shyamalan is still alive, somewhere, and needs to come back out to thrive again before he loses his chances with the world to tell a story anyone would even bother paying attention to from him. And as this is entry #10 of this list, I know that there's a bunch of people thinking "okay, seriously, THIS is one of your top ten of the past decade?" In short -- yes. Film always has been and always will be a very subjective medium for both filmmaker and viewer. We can analyze a movie from top to bottom, breaking down symbolism and meaning and intent and technical craft and the minutiae of performance, but none of that ultimately makes a movie something we cherish and hold dear for ourselves. There's something deeper in a film that compels us to be drawn into it, unlocking some part of ourselves. Granted, incredible craft is like the icing on the most amazing cake when a film that grabs you also happens to be exceptionally well-made. But in the end, it's about what the film says to us, individually, and what it makes us feel about not only ourselves, but the world. So with that, I will answer the obvious question with each list entry… So why THIS movie? We all want to be something more than we are. Smarter. Stronger. Faster. Funnier. Excel at a profession we can't grasp or that now seems unobtainable. Whatever our desire is, we want it. But often, we don't realize what it is we REALLY want. We can't look past ourselves and our own insecurities and hang-ups to see what we're truly capable of. Even our most basic strengths -- the ability to love, to be emotionally free, to be comfortable in our own skin -- tend to be crushed or buried within ourselves, robbing us of our full potential as a person. There's so much a person can do, so much that can be learned and achieved. But our biggest enemy has always been ourselves. We can't realize our full potential because we don't let ourselves realize it. Sometimes, the greatest power a human being can ever hope to have is the ability to stop himself from stopping himself. To me, that's what UNBREAKABLE explores in a very unique way. It's a universal subject, and UNBREAKABLE is hardly the only film to touch on it, but it's certainly one of the most successful. Like any good science fiction or fantasy story, exposing the human condition is most powerfully and effectively done when put into a context we can observe without feeling like we're being forced to examine ourselves. UNBREAKABLE does that in spades by using comics and the nature of a hero to its fullest, juxtaposing the world of fantasy with a parallel struggle in an everyday context. Few films comment on a person's self-worth and how badly it can stunt him like this one. SCORE SAMPLE: "Visions" SCORE SAMPLE: "The Orange Man" |
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| <span style=Josseppe95 | Nov 9 2010, 08:56 PM Post #94 |
[00:18] goohst Jones: ninja is a sex pervert
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Really good choice for number 10. I've always felt kind of drawn to Shyamalan's films because of his whole Philly roots (yay Philly <3), but I really did walk away from watching Unbreakable thinking it was an absolute masterpiece. Like, I thought the Sixth Sense was great and all and it was pretty well made when it came to building up suspense and leaving the audience floored by the ending, but Unbreakable showed an OBVIOUS maturing in Shyamalan's film-making abilities, and I can really appreciate it just for that. Also, who doesn't love a movie about a superhero? 
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| <span style=recyclehumans | Nov 9 2010, 09:28 PM Post #95 |
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And some more Honorable Mentions (and keep in mind, some of the Honorable Mentions were dropped from the list at the last second, while others might've just been a passing thought that lasted just a second)… CHICAGO  ELEPHANT  BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN  JESUS CAMP  SHATTERED GLASS  RABBIT-PROOF FENCE  BEST IN SHOW  LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE  THE BRIDGE  ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND  #9 coming soon. It will most likely be controversial.
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| <span style=spnintendo | Nov 9 2010, 09:29 PM Post #96 |
Purple Domination
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Chicago I'm devastated. |
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| <span style=SurvivorFan GP | Nov 9 2010, 09:31 PM Post #97 |
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IMO Borat wasn't that good or funny...I guess it was funny in a "...did they just GO there?" kind of way. Little Miss Sunshine <3 |
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| <span style=survivorninja | Nov 9 2010, 09:40 PM Post #98 |
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OK...you putting Elephant anywhere near this list is a joke. Your credibility just went out the window.. |
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| <span style=Josseppe95 | Nov 9 2010, 09:42 PM Post #99 |
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Lol Jesus Camp. And Little Miss Sunshine was amazing <3 |
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| <span style=recyclehumans | Nov 9 2010, 09:53 PM Post #100 |
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BOOM! CROASTED.
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Speaks more to your credibility than anything else.
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