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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: Favorite cult movies... |
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Thought I'd make a thread about what our favorite cult/not quite mainstream movies are so we can share those great finds.
I think my two favorite cult movies have to be Dark City and Donnie Darko (for DD, I recommend the new edition - much less confusing the first time.)
Dark City was written and directed by Alex Proyas who also did The Crow which was another dark and disturbing movie with a great tragic love story. Dark City is a dystopian movie about a very disturbing "world." It brings up questions of reality, objective and subjective, the human soul or spirit, and whether there is a core to us that transcends our memories. Are we more DNA or are we more created by our experiences and our decisions in life...
Roger Ebert taught a course on it at UCLA a few years ago. If you've never seen it, you're missing out. Got rent it.
I'll post about Donnie Darko after this thread gets rolling. |
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K, I absolutely love Donnie Darko. It is definitely one of my favorite movies, if not definitively my favourite. I do prefer the Director's Cut, and I want that edition for Xmas seeing as how I own the regular version. But I've just about fallen in love with that movie, and I think that Richard Kelly is quite an amazing scriptwriter and director, especially at his young age.
I do enjoy re-watching the movie over and over because you pick up on things that you may not have noticed in your previous viewings, and it is that search for what you missed that adds to the vieiwing pleasure. The plotlines are so intricate and intertwined with each other that it is very difficult to understand the film without watching it a few more times.
But to end this post, I just have to mention again how great this film was for me, because it takes all these disconnected elements of sci-fi, teenage angst, young love, freedom of speech and expression, etc. and melds them in a way that creates a poetic atmosphere. Plain & simple, I love Donnie Darko.
Hey, BA, maybe we should watch DD in class sometime  |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Oh, other favourite "cult" or indie films that I enjoy:
Junebug, Everything is Illuminated, & Half Nelson,
and other less mainstream films that I am awaiting to see on DVD when I can get my hands on them are:
Chumscrubber & Hard Candy
If anyone has seen or heard of any of those films, continue on with the thread please  cuz so far...I haven't met anyone whose heard of em  |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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I agree completely about Donnie Darko. It is very complex and very layered. The first time I watched it, my husband and I tried to read the book by Grandma Death on the tv screen - not an easy thing to do. Then I looked it up and found it online and it, along with the new cut, illuminate a lot of the movies's ideas. Still, any time you deal with time travel, there will be paradoxes that cannot be completely explained.
I have seen Hard Candy. It was a very disturbing movie; a very cool and unique perspective on child molestation but a little heavy handed in some parts. Be prepared for some really shocking scenes if you watch it. (You can rent it at either Blockbuster or at Rogers)
I haven't heard of the others you mentioned. Are they all out on DVD? Which would you recommend I see first if you had to pick one.
I love this thread!!!
My favourite Donnie Darko quote:
Gretchen: Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something |
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I love this thread too!
Yeah, I watched the Director's Cut before the original version, and at first, I didn't fully understand the significance of the pages being show between scenes. However, I did what you did and did a little digging on the internet, and was able to read those pages without straining my eyes at the TV screen.
When I went to Blockbuster a couple weeks ago, they were out of Hard Candy, which upset me, but I'll be checking again in a bit, because ever since the movie came out I've been wanting to see it. Thing is, it's hard when I've got little free time. I think it's a shame though, that there aren't too many opportunities to watch smaller films round this area; if you really want to see a film, you've got to travel all the way to Vancouver. XP
I also love that quote from Donnie Darko, by the way. Gretchen and Donnie's relationship is so sweet yet ... I dunno...strange? There's just something about it that makes me aww and laugh at the same time. Also, that whole explanation Donnie gives his friends about the origins of the Smurfs makes me laugh every time.
My favourite DD quote: A storm is coming, Frank says
A storm that will swallow the children
And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain
I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps
And send the monsters back to the underground
I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them
Except for me
Because I am Donnie Darko.
The poem that Donnie reads in his English class...it just reminds me of the Pied Piper in some weird way |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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That is such a great moment. His poem is foreshadowing, reveals his true nature, and makes him even more of an outsider and I think heroes are often outsiders since, as Claire describes herself, they are "freaks." Different than others. Not in a bad way at all; anyone who knows me knows that the greatest compliment you can give me is to tell me that I'm really really weird.
You so have to watch Dark City!!! |
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i like any movie by Bruce Campbell like Evil Dead 1 & 2 and army of Darkness, also movies by Kevin Smith their are not as underground as before but i still love them
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| vivalapwned wrote: |
| i like any movie by Bruce Campbell like Evil Dead 1 & 2 and army of Darkness, also movies by Kevin Smith their are as underground as before but i still love them |
I love the Evil Dead trilogy. And Bruce Campbell is one of my fav. actors. Ash is the epitome of a hero for me. He's just a guy who finds himself in a whole lot of trouble and he steps up and prevails. He's a little dim, a lot arrogant, but that's what makes him so appealing.
I also love Sam Raimi's movies but am still bitter that there was a possiblity of a fourth movie...and then he got Spiderman and poof....no more Evil Dead movies.
Have you seen Bruce's amazing series, The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr? I have it on DVD. It was co-created by Carlton Cuse, the guy who stepped in and reshaped Lost in season 2 when Abrams left to do movies. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| another awsome Bruce Campbell movie is Bubba Ho-tep it is hilarious if you havent seen it check it out |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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I bought Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
I'll look for Dark City next time I go to Blockbuster  |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| Anonymous wrote: |
I bought Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
I'll look for Dark City next time I go to Blockbuster |
Very very cool. The pages they show in the director's cut are from Roberta Sparrow's book on time travel. In the original version, they didn't have those and it was very confusing until you read her book either online or off the dvd.
And who is this? Did someone forget to sign in again? |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| Anonymous wrote: |
I bought Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
I'll look for Dark City next time I go to Blockbuster |
Very very cool. The pages they show in the director's cut are from Roberta Sparrow's book on time travel. In the original version, they didn't have those and it was very confusing until you read her book either online or off the dvd.
And who is this? Did someone forget to sign in again? |
Pretty sure that was melas_chole? |
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| Yeah, that was me . Right on *imaginethat! |
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| ahaha, I realize it makes me look like a stalker. I think you told me though, or it was in your msn name? |
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Ahha, I believe I did tell you...and it was, at one point, in my MSN sn.
But hey, we're close like that  lol. |
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