A Night of Great Cinema

[hellfire1]

Originally Posted by joshaube

I loved 2005's Crash, it's one of my favourites. A film where the entire runtime is packed with pure adrenaline (I'm not talking intense action, just a great surge of emotional feelings. Another example would be the "you can't possibly know everyone in this file" scene in Erin Brockovich. Or the gunned-down Pedophile scene in Running Scared (I was SO glad someone finally just shot the fuck out of a villain rather then walking away and saying "Oh, I'm the better person.") I haven't seen Cronenberg's, nor really have any desire to do so.

I'll check out True Romance.
(I bought it to complete my Tarantino collection.)

American Beauty is definitely going to be one of the three.

My friends have been wanting to see Inland Empire since I listed it as one of my favourites on Facebook (LULZ!1!one!) but I'm not sure they'll dig it.

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I don't have a Best Buy where I am. Futureshop, yes, but no Best Buy. The last time I saw it for sale, it was listed as being 35.99 (I believe... either way, it was just under 40$) and I'm not so eager to pay that much for a DVD of a film I've yet to see. (( And know I can get far cheaper. ))

I found the new Crash cliched and contrived, but ah well... to each his own.

Loved that scene in Running Scared.

Don't blame you for not wanting to see Cronenberg's Crash, though... like I said, I've seen it twice and still have no idea what to make of it.

[joshaube]

It's not that I think it will be horrible, or anything. Simply that I haven't looked into it much, and of the stuff I have seen, none of it really caught my attention. Just one of those films I instinctually look past.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Clockwork Orange
Requiem For A Dream
Rear Window

Best three ya got on your list.

Although I'd prefer Donnie Darko or American Beauty over Rear Window.

[Disease]

Originally Posted by hellfire1

Have you seen Amorres Perros ? That one depressed me to no end.

Crash (Cronenberg's, not the other crappy one)... I still don't know what to make of this one after all this time.

I think you should pick up a copy of the H.G Ballard novel it was based on... it will make more sense then, though it's not a light read.;)

[hellfire1]

Originally Posted by Disease

I think you should pick up a copy of the H.G Ballard novel it was based on... it will make more sense then, though it's not a light read.;)

Have always wanted to. What did you think of it ?

And it's not that I didn't get the movie, it's just that I have no idea what I feel about it !

[joshaube]

I have seen Amores Perros, if I haven't yet posted that. :p

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by GorePhobia

The new crash was amazing.

I hated it - crap film

[hellfire1]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

I hated it - crap film

Amen to that... and thank you.

[Roderick Usher]

And I loved Cronenberg's Crash even though it does sort of wallow in a sea of retarded sexuality, I thought is was really, really funny and the ultimate melding of man and machine, which is such a common theme in Cronenberg's flicks.

[Disease]

Originally Posted by hellfire1

Have always wanted to. What did you think of it ?

And it's not that I didn't get the movie, it's just that I have no idea what I feel about it !

I think it is perverted Genius ...... You simply must read it.....

It has a lot more depth than the movie and even more graphic.