| Okay okay, I admit I have a tendency to be very *specific* about what I want. A good movie is one of them. Really fine, great movies.
My favs tend to be those that make your heart expand! Or leave a lump in your throat... I'll be frank, I have an overappreciation of the bizarre and an underappreciation of plot. I'm confused by juxtapositions and things I don't understand (about people, not about computers Ray!) so those tend to intrigue me more (just like food). But my taste has often been denigrated (here, in Westwood specifically but not so much among my other friends who, alas!, are farther away) to the category of "snobby" and on more than one occasion, I feel awkward selecting movies because I get so much flack for my taste.
So here is a list below of three categories: want to see, have seen and can watch a billion times, and am a little interested, but it's not imperative. Are you interested in any that are below? Let's coordinate!
Warning: I don't like chatter during my movies. Since most of my movies are nuance-driven not plot-driven, chatting can ruin it for me. I'm sorry. (actually, NOT SORRY, you're ruining *my* movie). Quiet expressions of approval/disapproval are okay though (silent claps, sighs, snorts). Some movies are drivel, and need chatter to be gotten through-- but those movies require half a brain (or none). Usually, my movie picks aren't from that category.
So now that you must think I'm a B*tch with a Capital T... (remember, I am 24 after all, and know what I want and don't want).
Haven't seen, would like to: The Virgin Suicides, Clerks, Midnight Cowboy, Vertigo, Rear Window, Raging Bull, Godfather, Gandhi, Citizen Kane, the Apartment, North by Northwest, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Taxi Driver, LA Confidential, Sunshine, the Pianist, Requiem for a Dream, The Red Violin, Doctor Strangelove, Training Day, Days of Wine and Roses, Naughty Marietta, I Was a Male War Bride, The Way We Were, the Kurosawa film that Star Wars is based on, Coyote Ugly.
I've seen, but can watch over and over and over again: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Like Water for Chocolate, Lost in Translation, Seven Samurai, Bonnie and Clyde, Ran, Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Delicatassen, Gone With the Wind, Now Voyager, American Beauty, Fight Club, The Piano, Amadeus, Life is Beautiful, King of Masks, An Affair to Remember, Guess Who is Coming to Dinner
Eh, can be convined: The Motown documentary, The Hours, "10", Jerry Maguire
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