posted July 18, 2019 10:46 AM            

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Originally posted by mercmercy99:
It sure is. So are the other movies I listed...

And I'd also like to give an honorable mention to Nightmare Before Christmas. All the Henry Selick features are good (I liked Monkeybone as a kid lol).

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disagree on the other ones lol not my thing

never saw monkeybone, if i was going to add another movie to my list i'd say welcome to the dollhouse it's a great coming of age black comedy

i was lucky enough to see pan's labyrinth in a theatre on opening day before anyone really knew it was violent at all or what to expect, it was an interesting surprise

saw it on a whim because the fountain wasn't playing, and thank ******* christ because the fountain is garbage

posted July 18, 2019 01:13 PM            

In no specific order:

1.Lorenzo's oil- Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte are phenomenal. Just phenomenal. And the movie leaves me in tears all the time.

2.Eyes wide open- An outstanding film exploring an attraction between one Orthodox Jewish man and a lone drifter.

3.The Lion in Winter-Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn and a young Anthony Hopkins are all so fantastic in this dramatic comedy of a King(O'Toole) who just goes bonkers and a queen (Hepburn) who wants to usurp him.

4.East palace, West Palace-Haunting movie set in Beijing about an officer who's arrest and subsequent escorting of a cross dressing prostitute to prison, evolves from repulsion to attraction.

5. Boys Don't Cry- I cried and cried and cried. Hillary Swank is underrated but so superb. This boy definitely cried

posted July 19, 2019 12:27 AM            

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Originally posted by Dumuzi:
disagree on the other ones lol not my thing

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It's gonna bother me if I don't tell you WHY those movies are great; please don't take it as me inciting confrontation lol.

Addams Family Values is great because nearly every line of that movie is quotable. Joan Cusack is fabulous as Debbie. They cast Carol Kane as Grandmama, and that was correct. Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston's chemistry together was out of this world. Christina Ricci. Christine Baranski.

Mrs. Doubtfire is great because I laugh and feel emotions when I watch it which is good for me. Robin Williams was a legend. It was also my first introduction to drag which I love.

Romy and Michelle holds a special place in my heart because it was on a VHS tape my mom's friend made for her that I would watch all the time. It had Austin Powers and Liar Liar on it as well. There was also this Sylvester Stallone movie on it as well, but I would always rewind the tape before it came on. It's some dumb movie where he's trapped in a tunnel and yells a lot, I guess? Anyway, I like the simple message of Romy and Michelle which is to stop giving a "flying f#ck" about what people you don't care about think of you and just have fun with people you do care about.

WWDITS is just a fun, silly concept. The actors do a good job at playing their characters, and I love character driven movies.

posted July 19, 2019 12:45 AM            

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Originally posted by mercmercy99:
It's gonna bother me if I don't tell you WHY those movies are great; please don't take it as me inciting confrontation lol.

Addams Family Values is great because nearly every line of that movie is quotable. Joan Cusack is fabulous as Debbie. They cast Carol Kane as Grandmama, and that was correct. Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston's chemistry together was out of this world. Christina Ricci. Christine Baranski.

Mrs. Doubtfire is great because I laugh and feel emotions when I watch it which is good for me. Robin Williams was a legend. It was also my first introduction to drag which I love.

Romy and Michelle holds a special place in my heart because it was on a VHS tape my mom's friend made for her that I would watch all the time. It had Austin Powers and Liar Liar on it as well. There was also this Sylvester Stallone movie on it as well, but I would always rewind the tape before it came on. It's some dumb movie where he's trapped in a tunnel and yells a lot, I guess? Anyway, I like the simple message of Romy and Michelle which is to stop giving a "flying f#ck" about what people you don't care about think of you and just have fun with people you do care about.

WWDITS is just a fun, silly concept. The actors do a good job at playing their characters, and I love character driven movies.

I just really love campy movies. I love movies with memorable one-liners. I love movies that have a memorable "aesthetic".

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lol it's cool, it's cute that you feel the need to do that

i think i saw addams family values once when i was a kid and it just didn't really register to me at all same with romy and michelle's high school reunion

i'm not a fan of robin williams, but as far as his movies go i remember thinking world's greatest dad was pretty decent (that's the one where he's a father whose son dies from autoerotic asphyxiation and he covers it up by pretending it's a suicide) but mrs doubtfire is another one of those movies i couldn't really pay attention to

btw i'm pretty sure the movie you're talking about with stallone is daylight, the one in the lincoln tunnel,i mostly remember it because being stuck in that tunnel in traffic irl is ******* garbage and makes me claustrophobic

didn't see that last one so i can't judge it

i have a really **** attention span, and things either catch it or they don't and i can't really predict how that'll go

i've sat through some really terrible movies then couldn't pay attention to ones that were better though

ever hear of/seen the begotten? it's pure ******* garbage, feels like it's a million hours long and it makes you feel like you should die 7 days after watching it (no **** it feels like you're watching that artsy video that killed people in the ring, except longer and it's supposed to be about concepts like death and rebirth etc) and the only sound in the movie is wind and crickets pretty much

i got shitfaced and watched all of that for some reason, but couldn't pay attention to mrs doubtfire which i know is a better movie

if you like movies purely for the visuals watch the original cabinet of dr caligari, it's silent, but the sets and all that are very tim burton (it looks like he pulled his aesthetic from that movie, not a burton fan btw, but i liked ed wood)

a tale of two sisters is another one that i liked visually, though it's a bit slow, the use of color in it is nice

posted July 19, 2019 01:51 AM            

Matilda (1996)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
21 (2008)
Valkyrie(2008)
Money Ball (2011)
Jack Reacher (2012)

A common theme in all six movies is the main character is given some kind of adversity and he/she thinks there way through to even the odds.

My two personal favorites are Money Ball and 21.

Money Ball- a good movie for inspiration to Data Science. Oakland A's can't afford the top players so they use sabermetrics (Sports Statistics) to find undervalued players with mixed success, every baseball team uses it now.

21 -Tells the story of a Math Major at MIT that is unable to afford his tuition so what does he do? Card Count and rip off the casino. Story is fiction but its based on true events of other people put together.

Also..I did like the movie Tyson (1995) which is explores the life of Tyson.

You realize how human Mike Tyson really is and how missed up his development as a person is. The only true person that actually was a true father figure to him, Cus D'amanto suddenly dies and everything goes downhill for him after that.

Reindeer Games (2000). An unrealistic movie but the ending was the best, its Christmas and they pull off a heist of a casino vault.

The main character really didn't have any true interest in robbing the casino and got dragged into it. In the end he's the only one that survives and he ends up stuffing the stolen cash in peoples mail boxes on Christmas morning as a present as he walks down the street, I thought that was a pretty cool ending.

Ironically, I'd do the same...

posted July 19, 2019 07:24 PM            

My mercury doesn't have very many aspects... It's conjunct venus and square jupiter but they are both pretty loose. It's in libra in the 11th house.

I like animated movies mostly! Some of my favorites are:
-Disney's "The Jungle Book"
-"Coraline" (I know everyone likes this one but I do too...too bad all other Laika movies I've seen completely sucked...)
-"Persepolis" (I usually dislike this style of animation but it really works with the themes of the narrative. The English dub is trash though and it's really hard to find this movie online in the French with English subs so I haven't watched it very much...)

If I have to think of the live action movies I liked the best I guess they would probably be:
-"Memories of Murder" (the Bong Joon-Ho movie)
and
-"Nosferatu" (both versions, though I haven't watched the English-language version of the Herzog one which is supposed to be a bit different)
As a P.S. I also really like the movie "Farewell my Concubine" with Leslie Cheung even though the technical aspects aren't my style

posted July 19, 2019 08:19 PM            

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Originally posted by sleepthan:
I'm surprised someone thinks Mercury has to do with movie/media tastes... but I think I can understand it playing a decent part (along with venus and maybe neptune)

My mercury doesn't have very many aspects... It's conjunct venus and square jupiter but they are both pretty loose. It's in libra in the 11th house.

I like animated movies mostly! Some of my favorites are:
-Disney's "The Jungle Book"
-"Coraline" (I know everyone likes this one but I do too...too bad all other Laika movies I've seen completely sucked...)
-"Persepolis" (I usually dislike this style of animation but it really works with the themes of the narrative. The English dub is trash though and it's really hard to find this movie online in the French with English subs so I haven't watched it very much...)

If I have to think of the live action movies I liked the best I guess they would probably be:
-"Memories of Murder" (the Bong Joon-Ho movie)
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-"Nosferatu" (both versions, though I haven't watched the English-language version of the Herzog one which is supposed to be a bit different)
As a P.S. I also really like the movie "Farewell my Concubine" with Leslie Cheung even though the technical aspects aren't my style

Also I find it weird that so many people like the movie Matilda... I think the cinematography is charming but other than that it is one of my least favorite movies ever (along with most other Roald Dahl adaptations).
This seems like the moral of every single Roald Dahl book-based movie:
"All people are either perfect angels or evil monsters. Everyone who is mean to you or gets in your way does it because they are an evil monster who must be punished and not because they are a complex human being who has emotions."
He must've been a really close-minded guy or something...

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since you like nosferatu and animation, you should check out cat soup it's a silent animated movie about a cat that goes to the underworld to get its siblings soul back

kakurenbo was good too, animation and silent again, but about kids playing hide and seek in an abandoned city with demons

posted July 19, 2019 08:23 PM            

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Originally posted by Dumuzi:
lol it's cool, it's cute that you feel the need to do that

i think i saw addams family values once when i was a kid and it just didn't really register to me at all same with romy and michelle's high school reunion

i'm not a fan of robin williams, but as far as his movies go i remember thinking world's greatest dad was pretty decent (that's the one where he's a father whose son dies from autoerotic asphyxiation and he covers it up by pretending it's a suicide) but mrs doubtfire is another one of those movies i couldn't really pay attention to

btw i'm pretty sure the movie you're talking about with stallone is daylight, the one in the lincoln tunnel,i mostly remember it because being stuck in that tunnel in traffic irl is ******* garbage and makes me claustrophobic

didn't see that last one so i can't judge it

i have a really **** attention span, and things either catch it or they don't and i can't really predict how that'll go

i've sat through some really terrible movies then couldn't pay attention to ones that were better though

ever hear of/seen the begotten? it's pure ******* garbage, feels like it's a million hours long and it makes you feel like you should die 7 days after watching it (no **** it feels like you're watching that artsy video that killed people in the ring, except longer and it's supposed to be about concepts like death and rebirth etc) and the only sound in the movie is wind and crickets pretty much

i got shitfaced and watched all of that for some reason, but couldn't pay attention to mrs doubtfire which i know is a better movie

if you like movies purely for the visuals watch the original cabinet of dr caligari, it's silent, but the sets and all that are very tim burton (it looks like he pulled his aesthetic from that movie, not a burton fan btw, but i liked ed wood)

a tale of two sisters is another one that i liked visually, though it's a bit slow, the use of color in it is nice

oldboy is good visually but the end is garbage and as far as the vengeance trilogy goes sympathy for mr vengeance is so much better

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I appreciate the recommendations.

I care about visuals but I feel like that differs from aesthetics. I don't like "forced" aesthetics. Any movie where the director is clearly trying to make artistic choices but just comes across pretentious is not for me.

Guillermo del Toro has his aesthetic, and it feels genuine. Like, he owns it basically. Tarantino is another with a certain aesthetic, but his is unique. I like his movies a lot, but he teeters on that line of pretentiousness for me. But that in and of itself is like his aesthetic? Which is why I like his movies. (But the Hateful Eight? Channing Tater, the way he was delivering his lines. It's like you can see it in his eyes that his thought process was, "This is how people talk in a Quentin Tarantino movie.")

Another one of my all time favorite movies is Little Miss Sunshine, but it was like a part of that indie movie aesthetic back in the 00s that seemed too forced. I still love it despite that though.

One of my favorite foreign films is an Italian movie called I'm Not Scared, and every shot in that movie looks like it could be a painting in a museum. Its aesthetic is very Italian countryside. Very bright and picturesque. I guess that's not really an aesthetic lol, but I just wanted to mention the visuals of that movie. SO good.

Addams Family Values has an obvious aesthetic, but it doesn't feel forced to me. Barry Sonnenfeld does a good job of making those characters campier. He's another one who has an aesthetic.

posted July 19, 2019 09:00 PM            

If I HAD to pick five top ones (my classics I guess):
1. Interview with a Vampire
2. Little Women (1994)
3. Wrist Cutters
4. The Skin I Live In
5. Rusalka (Russian movie)

The first one my crazy ass eldest sister watched with me when I was only four years old (she owned a video shop back then). I was scared but at the same so damn fascinated, this was exactly how little Scorpio me wanted to live hahaha!
The second I love because it's almost identical to how I grew up, one of them even has my name Susan Sarandon is practically my mom and even the story with the neighbour boy is the same to my upbringing. Also, I was totally obsessed with Kirsten Dunst as a kid. So much love!
The third is such a cute, different lovestory! <3 Not the stereotypical chick flick..
The fourth a completely ****** -up master piece. I don't know any person who would want so watch this movie with me or make it through the end ;D
Fifth, again a super cute but this time unfortunately tragic love story!

posted July 19, 2019 09:51 PM            

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Originally posted by mercmercy99:
I appreciate the recommendations.

I care about visuals but I feel like that differs from aesthetics. I don't like "forced" aesthetics. Any movie where the director is clearly trying to make artistic choices but just comes across pretentious is not for me.

Guillermo del Toro has his aesthetic, and it feels genuine. Like, he owns it basically. Tarantino is another with a certain aesthetic, but his is unique. I like his movies a lot, but he teeters on that line of pretentiousness for me. But that in and of itself is like his aesthetic? Which is why I like his movies. (But the Hateful Eight? Channing Tater, the way he was delivering his lines. It's like you can see it in his eyes that his thought process was, "This is how people talk in a Quentin Tarantino movie.")

Another one of my all time favorite movies is Little Miss Sunshine, but it was like a part of that indie movie aesthetic back in the 00s that seemed too forced. I still love it despite that though.

One of my favorite foreign films is an Italian movie called I'm Not Scared, and every shot in that movie looks like it could be a painting in a museum. Its aesthetic is very Italian countryside. Very bright and picturesque. I guess that's not really an aesthetic lol, but I just wanted to mention the visuals of that movie. SO good.

Addams Family Values has an obvious aesthetic, but it doesn't feel forced to me. Barry Sonnenfeld does a good job of making those characters campier. He's another one who has an aesthetic.

I'm tired of the word aesthetic so I'll stop now before I incoherently ramble even more. But yeah, I get that thing about the attention span. I'm getting more and more like that as I get older. I don't think I could rewatch a movie like I constantly rewatched Mrs. Doubtfire when I was a kid.

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i get you, i don't care for it when it's pretentious either i like it when it's art and there's a difference

i feel the same way about tarantino there's movies of his i really ******* like and then other ones where it's just complete garbage that falls flat imo (hateful eight being one of the ones i really ******* hated) the music choices in his movies are always on point though

if you've heard of the sound defects listening to the iron horse album makes you feel like you're in a tarantino movie, it's got that sound to it that automatically makes you think of him

and del toro yeah same thing he has that continued aesthetic through his movies even ones like hellboy have it

which makes sense tarantino's stuff all takes place in this one universe he's created and del toro sees his movies all like that too (though in the case of the devil's backbone and pan's labyrinth that's actually true)

the movies i mentioned aren't pretentious stylistically they're just good (well i can't quite call oldboy good, the end was just retarded imo) but i get you, i think aronofsky can go into that territory (i did like requiem for a dream even though it makes me sick to watch now because it gives me flashbacks of both heroin and brooklyn at the same time)

i liked little miss sunshine, and if you liked that you'd like welcome to the dollhouse for sure it's got a similar feel to it actually

i'll have to check out i'm not scared, it sounds interesting visually and sometimes that helps me pay attention (i'm almost positive i have add because i can't recreationally enjoy uppers and spent my whole childhood getting kicked out of class for not being able to pay attention among other things)

for me i'm lucky if i can watch a movie through the whole way once nevermind repeatedly, full metal jacket is actually my favorite movie in spite of not being even kubrick's best because it holds my attention no matter how many times i've seen it and that's very rare for me

posted July 25, 2019 12:44 AM            

I was like 6-7 yo when I saw "Chucky" and then "Village of the damned".

I felt like I could climax when I saw the doll becoming alive with that evil grin, secretely trying to kill people.

I begged my mom to let me see it and she probably sensed that I truly wasn't scared of it let alone that it was the first time I was interested in seeing smth. At the age of 12-13 I started watching regularly horror movies the creepy ones (not the ones where you see blood and details of the killing, they make me sick to my stomach).

I love the ones with kids and dolls because of the contrast, you know children and dolls are so innocent/pure looking which makes it creepier.

A few that come to mind:

The Visit
Dead Silence
Case 39
Sinister
Insidious
Silent Hill
Robert the doll
Haunting in Connecticut
An American haunting
Run

Mercury in Cancer my other two friends have Mercury in Cancer too.
I believe it's our Pluto square Venus & Mars though because we all enjoy horror movies.

I like mystery, sci fi and then action movies but I won't ever choose to see anything else than horror movies (hoping I will get scared to death). I don't get easily scared.

I've seen very few movies other than horror ones that I liked but it's because it happened to be on tv and somebody else was watching them or a friend insisted to watch for us to watch it together. Even the ones I liked a lot I felt unsatisfied, like I wasted my time. After a good horror movie I feel deeply satisfied and refreshed.

posted July 25, 2019 05:51 AM            

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Originally posted by Dumuzi:
i get you, i don't care for it when it's pretentious either i like it when it's art and there's a difference

i feel the same way about tarantino there's movies of his i really ******* like and then other ones where it's just complete garbage that falls flat imo (hateful eight being one of the ones i really ******* hated) the music choices in his movies are always on point though

if you've heard of the sound defects listening to the iron horse album makes you feel like you're in a tarantino movie, it's got that sound to it that automatically makes you think of him

and del toro yeah same thing he has that continued aesthetic through his movies even ones like hellboy have it

which makes sense tarantino's stuff all takes place in this one universe he's created and del toro sees his movies all like that too (though in the case of the devil's backbone and pan's labyrinth that's actually true)

the movies i mentioned aren't pretentious stylistically they're just good (well i can't quite call oldboy good, the end was just retarded imo) but i get you, i think aronofsky can go into that territory (i did like requiem for a dream even though it makes me sick to watch now because it gives me flashbacks of both heroin and brooklyn at the same time)

i liked little miss sunshine, and if you liked that you'd like welcome to the dollhouse for sure it's got a similar feel to it actually

i'll have to check out i'm not scared, it sounds interesting visually and sometimes that helps me pay attention (i'm almost positive i have add because i can't recreationally enjoy uppers and spent my whole childhood getting kicked out of class for not being able to pay attention among other things)

for me i'm lucky if i can watch a movie through the whole way once nevermind repeatedly, full metal jacket is actually my favorite movie in spite of not being even kubrick's best because it holds my attention no matter how many times i've seen it and that's very rare for me

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Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorites as well. It was my uncle's favorite movie. He was a Vietnam War vet. I have fond memories of us watching it and the Matrix back to back for some reason.

Requiem for a Dream, I saw it once and never again lol. The dread and despair that movie conjures up in you is so intense. I remember I tried to watch something upbeat and comical afterwards (I think it was a Chappelle's Show rerun lol), but it couldn't shake off that depressing feeling. It took a full night of sleep to do the trick.

Welcome to the Dollhouse, I saw that when I was a kid and maybe again when I was older. I'll go back to it because I remember it being weird lol. When I think of what I remember, it reminds me of Ghost World for some reason.

And yeah, Tarantino's music choices are fantastic. I may have burned a few CDs with songs from Kill Bill 1 and 2 on them back in the day.

posted July 25, 2019 06:40 AM            

Love me if you dare

Many Almodovar movies (Live Flesh, Bad Education, Tie me up tie me down, verything about my mother...)

All Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies