godthedog

this is exactly how i want to go. on the tail end of a VERY good run, a pretty full (though not overly long) life, still able to work, until the end comes more-or-less suddenly and painlessly.

wow...that's seriously something i would've written at 12 if i sat down and imagined myself to be a rock star and wrote it all down. this explains so much about you.

i like the spareness of that poster too--no colors, all the negative space. sums up the movie very well.

Pinocchio i swear to god, when i signed up for the draft this was the first movie i thought of putting on. kids' movies, especially animation, can get away with doing all sorts of weird narrative shifts and taking you all sorts of wonderful places that grown-up movies just cannot do, and this is the very best of them. there's something very basic and pure about getting to watch this. it packs an amazing amount of wonder and variation into 93 or so minutes. still well-put-together enough for me to recall those feelings of total immersion and awe in movies i used to get when i was a kid, and it's still alarmingly scary. the only real weakness is that pinocchio doesn't have much of a personality (a chief problem for disney protagonists in general), but the number of frightening situations he's put into more than makes up for that.

i'm 30something pages into cormac mcarthy's 'blood meridian'. it's...okayish. it's strange.

cowboy is totally winning this thing.

Thank You For Smoking is ten types of awesome. i'd say more like "ten types of pretty good."

you little shit. i was hoping to have the first cartoon pick.

zooey deschanel is a pretty awful actress in general. but i could swim forever in the deep opaque blueness of those eyes.

'final fantasy: the spirits within' is one of the worst movies i've ever seen.

looks like p.g.o.a.t.'s time has elapsed so i'll go ahead and pick... Bonnie and Clyde almost impossible to describe the exact way that this movie's great and why it holds up so well, but it does.

so you admit it's a made-up term that simplifies his position, and then criticize the position for being too simple.

^very nice choice.

what does "post-racial" mean exactly? when has obama (or anyone from his campaign) called himself this? worst offense of the yarn-spinning ad: he's wearing a flag pin.

your avatar and my avatar make a strange kind of sense when they're on the screen together.

"golden slumbers" actually. i think the only reason people started liking this thread is the possibility that someone else would guess their favorite beatles song, giving them attention and validating their existence. i'd be happy to guess people's favorites if they gave some hints; i really don't care enough about anyone on this board to have formed an idea of what their "personality" is, so i can't make guesses based on that. i have a good handle on the personality of maybe 6 people here, and that's entirely by accident.

that's pretty hot, i think. pj harvey should've done a photo like that ten years ago.

no, but you're on the right track. it's mccartney being treacly, with strings beefing it up. and let it be known that when i first took the time to really listen to the lyrics of "eleanor rigby," i cried like a little girl. i must've listened to it 3 or 4 times in a row.

Agreed, though Aguirre, Wrath of God is my fave Herzog movie. Also, Fellini's Satyricon deserves more love. i think 'aguirre' wins the "best herzog movie" contest by default, just because it's the only one i've ever seen that doesn't have any pacing problems or weird stumblings. he's sort of like godard...very good at particular things he wants to do, but can really only tell a good story by accident. if it weren't for the rats and the general insanity of the town square, 'nosferatu' would not be a very good movie. i haven't seen 'satyricon', but i'm not a fan of fellini's style in general. i just have a hard time caring about it.

i think lynch has enough movies that could reasonably be considered his "best" for everyone to be happy. i mean, i like 'mulholland drive' a lot, but i won't lose any sleep over not being able to pick it. that "llorando" theater scene is priceless though. one of those gorgeous moments that can only happen once, because you're not expecting it at all. i recently saw the 52-second short he made with the old lumiere camera some years back...he should try to shoot more stuff with that camera, because the flickery archaic look just made everything that much creepier.

'chasing amy' is difficult to watch?

herzog's 'nosferatu' is a fucking beautiful movie. those rats...

YES. it sounds like they had more fun and more confidence doing some of those covers than their own material in the early days, cause the infectious energy just bleeds out of it. especially on the vocals. i can't not love "long tall sally" and "please mister postman." it's weird that i had to grow up a little bit to appreciate the tracks that were the least cerebral and were just the beatles being a great fucking band. i have 2 favorites, but i'm keeping them a secret.

mole going all "surprise, motherfuckers" and busting out the legitimately great movie on us. who saw that coming.

...are you serious? that's the worst of the whole "paul mccartney does melodramatic orchestral arrangements" genre. that's like picking "old brown shoe" as your favorite harrison song.