[kj] OT: going to the movies

[Jiri]

Interesting...yes, I suppose with so many involved in a film, there 
always will be disappointing bits in even your favorite film.

The Thin Red Line is a perfect experience for me, though. Not a 
hero-based war film, but rather a "killing joke" sort of war film. (in 
the sense of Jaz's old quote: "Imagine a soldier in  the trenches in WW 
1. He's just been told to run over and gain, say another 15ft of land 
and he knows he's going to die, and he  suddenly thinks that there's 
some fat cunt back in Westminster  controlling his life, and he feels a 
bit of a mug. That feeling is the killing joke. You can apply the 
killing joke to everything." 
http://www.radcyberzine.com/text/non-rad/kj.81.int.html). The Thin Red 
Line captures all the absurdity of being a form of life, in the middle 
of beautiful nature, while being a disposable cog in a war machine. The 
film of course bored all my friends to tears, but I could watch it again 
and again.

I could also watch  Monty Python films or, sadly, "Fletch" over and over 
again...


fatpotanga wrote:

>Well, it's all a matter of opinion but yes, to my mind there are some movies
>that are perfect & other I never tire of watching.
>Up there for me are:
>Some Like it Hot
>Walkabout
>Mediterraneo
>Drowning by Numbers
>Singing in the Rain
>Usual Suspects
>The original Star Wars
>Leon
>T2
>Performance
>Love and Death
>The remake of Oceans 11 is seamless
>The Life of Brian
>Time Bandits & pretty much any Terry Gilliam film
>Actually I have hundreds....
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>>--- Jerry Butson <jerrybutson at dtsonline.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>I'm interested in your opinions: does anyone feel any movie is
>>>perfect? Can such a huge number of people make a film that,
>>>over 1½ or 2 hours, never gets boring or ridiculous, has
>>>nothing crap about it?
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