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froody1911:
So I got this idea yesterday. I love watching famous classic films or those with a reputation for being something special. I often find myself critiquing and analyzing them mentally in my free time, so I thought I could make a thread for it.

I propose to pick random films I have watched, give a brief introduction, review them and recommend (or not recommend) them, and also write up a theme/plot analysis where applicable.

I won't be able to do this too often, so other people can also join in with their reviews. While I don't ask you to have a serious writing style, it would be nice if you take your reviewing itself somewhat seriously.

Note: NOT ANIME FILMS.

If you're not interested in reviewing, you could read pick up some good films from here. It's a common complaint I hear that there aren't enough films that are good and interesting, or that the themes in English films are too repetitive. The problem is that the better films are usually old or obscure, or both. I can expose you to at least the ones that I have seen, or that I want to see.

So what do you think, is this thread a good idea?

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2001 A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Bullitt
Casablanca
Children of Men
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Dark City
District 9
Dog Day Afternoon
Dollars Trilogy
Donnie Darko
Eraserhead
Fargo
Fight Club
Full Metal Jacket
Gandhi
Gattaca
Guns of Navarone
Hurt Locker
Lawrence of Arabia
Mad Max Trilogy
Minority Report
Moon
No Country for Old Men
North by Northwest
Once Upon a Time in the West
Pan's Labyrinth
Primer
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
Scarface
Seven Samurai
Shoot Em Up
Shutter Island
Source Code
Stalker
Strange Days
The Artist
The Crow
The French Connection I & II
The Godfather Trilogy
The Great Escape
The Killing
The Maltese Falcon
The Man from Earth
The Shining
The Third Man
THX 1138
True Grit
Un Chien Andalou
Vertigo
Zombieland

Completed Reviews

Fargo (reviewed by Soryon)
Taxi Driver (with analysis)
Brazil (with analysis)
Sucker Punch (reviewed by Kyrdua)

kitamesume:
if its not anime films then the options to pick from just got so tiny all of the sudden... though not a bad thread.

Edit: one film i find still lingering on my thoughts for more than a decade is "Mouse Hunt (1997)", the comedy it packs isn't lacking and its not boring either, one problem though the ending was kinda dry.

PS: you outa add in a spoiler warning on the thread title, as this whole thread is a potential spoiler fest.

froody1911:
Of course, analysis sections will be spoilered.
I remember Mouse Hunt. It was the second English film I watched in the theater. I found it funny at the time (I was 4 or 5, watched it again a couple of years later), but it wasn't anything special, was it?

TiYlER:
I think this thread would be a good idea. If you want a good comedy,Splitting Heirs was hilarious from what I remember.

kitamesume:
@froody

yea it isnt anything special, its just enjoyable. though it still lingers in my head after decades have passed... it rarely happens for me =P

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