Favorite movie/book

[wannabe]

What is your favorite movie, book, t.v show, cartoon?

I want to get to know people a little better. Do you like National Geographic shows? Do you like Cooking shows? Whatever, I just want to know (no favorite guitars or anything, just books, movies and stuff like that).

My favorite movies are: The War At Home, and Contact.

My favorite t.v. shows are: The Croc Hunter, and Whose line is it anyway?

Favorite book: The Beach by Alex Garland

[Freezer666]

the movie would have to be...Leon(the professional)
for the serie, family guy i guess, but there are so many good ones:P
and for the book its anything by anne rice, especially her vampire chronicles and the mayfair witches

[MetalPoldi]

movies: Dogma, four rooms, one flew over the cuckoo´s nest, pulp fiction, clerks, the black hole and many more

t.v.shows: simpsons, futurama, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko´s modern life, many more cartoons and mny science-shows

books: Die Räuber from Goethe (i think), lord of the rings, hitchhiker through the galaxy (correct translation?) from Douglas Adams, although i read mostly magazines

[memnoch]

Movies:
-Gandhi
-Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series)
-The Legend of 1900

Tv Shows:
-Simpsons
-Dexter's Laboratory

Books:
-Memnoch the Devil

[MetalPoldi]

Originally posted by memnoch

-Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series)


Did you undertstand that? I just saw two or so of the whole series and i understood really nothing.

[Freezer666]

i think cowboy bebop is much better than evangelion really:P even though its not the same kind of anime...still kicks ass

[memnoch]

Originally posted by MetalPoldi


Did you undertstand that? I just saw two or so of the whole series and i understood really nothing.

I watched the whole series and i'm still mind-fucked. It's really hard to grasp the first time around. I'm gonna have to re-watch the entire thing maybe 1-2 more times before i really understand it all.

But it's really worth watching......it's fucking brilliant. This destroys any live-action movie i've ever seen.....it's probably my favorite movie/serie of all time. I order you to watch it all!:smash:

[HELLBLASTER-666]

Movies:
-2001 A Space Odyssey(the BEST!!!)
-Fight Club
-The Matrix
-Seven
-Full Metal Jacket
-Clockwork Orange and about 20 more(BTW can someone explain to me
what is happening in David Lynch's "The lost Highway"?I saw it 2 days
ago and couldn't understand a thing!)

Books:
-Baudolino by Umberto Ecco
-Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

[Euronymous]

Favorite Movie(s):
-American History X
-Gattaca
-Requiem For a Dream
-Zombie Holocaust
-Aliens Trilogy

Favorite Book(s):
-Johnny Got His Gun
-Lords of Chaos (The rise of underground satanic black metal)
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

T.V. Show(s):
-Jackass
-Any metal shows

Cartoon:
-Powerpuff Girls
-(you may not remember, but:) Pirates of Dark Water
-Courage the Cowardly Dog
-EXO Squad

[PST 88]

I'll just do one for each right now, but chances are that if you asked me again later today, these'd be different.

Movie: The Usual Suspects

Book: Catch-22

Tv show: The Simpsons

Cartoon: Space Ghost: Coast to Coast

[Freezer666]

oooo yeah johnny got his gun kicks ass:)
anyone seen the movie? couldnt find it anywhere:(

[Katham]

Favorite movie: the jesus (not sure about the english name, but it's a lifestory of some punks. goes through the late 70's and the 80's and somewhat the early 90's)
Favorite book: call me a conformist! LORD OF THE RINGS HA-HA-HA!!! :homer:
Favorite t.v. show: news (ummm... yeah...)
Favorite cartoon: simpsons

[Euronymous]

Katham you may be thinking of "Salt Lake City Punk", it's a movie about these punks around the 70's and 80's, at the end the main character's friend dies, maybe that's it.

[Katham]

Nope, I'm pretty sure, it wasn't that one...

It was in the UK, and none of Steve's friends died during the film.

[Euronymous]

crap. but anywho, SLC Punk is a kool movie too.

[MetalPoldi]

Originally posted by memnoch

I order you to watch it all!:smash:

SIR, YES, SIR!!!!!!!!:D

@HELLBLASTER-666
Fight Club: heard nothing about this movie, thought it was a fight movie, saw it and then this fucking schizophrenia comes out. So it sucked. If i had known this before, perhaps i would have liked it.

@Euronymous
Gattaca is great. Nice view of the future for biological researches.

[wannabe]

Originally posted by Euronymous


Favorite Book(s):
-Johnny Got His Gun



Fuckin' book owns, dude.

[Euronymous]

ah yeah yeah

[wannabe]

A continuation to my list::

Book: A light in August (William Faulkner)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

Poem: Ozzyandias (Percy Blythe Shelley)
Dulce et Decorum est (Robert Owen)

Movie: Blues Brothers, Animal House, The French Connection, Cool Hand Luke, Unforgiven, and Dances with Wolves.




Gald to see what you guys are into...besides music..it's a good change of pace. I actually know you guys are real now, hehe.

[memnoch]

Oh we're real alright........MUHAHAHAHA?!?!

[PST 88]

I like Johnny Got his Gun, but I gotta say I dont really like the lack of flow from the story to the socio-political rant. But that's just me.

And MetalPoldi, you didnt like Fight Club cause it surprised you? Shit, dude, that's why I did like it! I didnt see it for a long time cause it looked like a stupid movie, then finally I saw it and noticed that it was, you know, a little deeper than some pointless violence. Plus it showed a cool display of how Nietzche could be turned into Hitler.

And, finally, wannabe, Faulkner rules.

[memnoch]

You mean, Fight Club was based on imagery??

[wannabe]

Originally posted by PST 88
I like Johnny Got his Gun, but I gotta say I dont really like the lack of flow from the story to the socio-political rant. But that's just me.

And MetalPoldi, you didnt like Fight Club cause it surprised you? Shit, dude, that's why I did like it! I didnt see it for a long time cause it looked like a stupid movie, then finally I saw it and noticed that it was, you know, a little deeper than some pointless violence. Plus it showed a cool display of how Nietzche could be turned into Hitler.

And, finally, wannabe, Faulkner rules.

Yeah, there are a lot of breaks in the book that aren't easy to follow. The flowage isn't too good throghout parts of it.

I hated Fight Club. I think it's an idiotic, pointless, violent-tinged saga in which angst filled teens find some temporary relation with their ever-flowing testosterone and breif misanthropic pangs of the world. I saw no major breakthrough of a point at all. I saw at sheer violence which enthralls angry people and young 'ens.

I hope in the brevity of my statement, I have offended no one...

[memnoch]

It's not that great of a movie.

[powersofterror]

man....im surprized only one person (wannabe) has said a
movie with clint eastwood,
the unforgiven(and of course animal house is cool)
i like the dirty harry series, the lethal weapon
series, and the alien series, i can't think of any other
movie series...........

my favorite t.v. shows are: Simpsons, Drew Carey Show,
Whose LIne Is It Anyway, King Of The Hill, CSI, Married
With Children, and Third Rock From The Sun

the only books i can think of are:
Jarrassic Park, The Lost World, Meg, Raptor Red, The
Exorcist, Garfield, every Goosebumps and a few R.L. Stein's,
and sometimes the backs of cereal boxes

Hey, wait a minute.........i'm a regular jackass:bawling:

[MetalPoldi]

Originally posted by PST 88
And MetalPoldi, you didnt like Fight Club cause it surprised you? Shit, dude, that's why I did like it! I didnt see it for a long time cause it looked like a stupid movie, then finally I saw it and noticed that it was, you know, a little deeper than some pointless violence. Plus it showed a cool display of how Nietzche could be turned into Hitler.


It´s a great movie in psychological point of view, but if you just want to see a lame violent movie, it´s annoying!!!
For this "Nietzsche-Hitler-relationship": I think i have to see it again. I just saw it once with the attitude:" Wooah, just a violent movie, where Brat Pitt gets his guts kicked out!!!"

[PST 88]

memnoch, I'm saying it's based on idealogy, and how someone might take idealogy a little too far. It starts out with just Tyler and the unnamed narrator living life in this certain way, but it develops so that they end up putting this way of life on a large group of fanatical followers who try and force their ideas on the world. The Nietzche/Hitler relationship is just a "for instance".

wannabe, you do realize all the characters in that movie were in their 20's, right? I mean, would you call Meat Loaf a teenager?

[HELLBLASTER-666]

The people in Fight Club are not teens,they are the losers of life.
You know,the everyday people who have done nothing
special with their lifes and do insignificant jobs,but
with Fight club can do something that counts,like destroy
all credit card accounts so noone ows to banks.It's not
just another movie that people fight!It has many meanings!
Almost in every scene you can find one(like when "they"
are driving a car and Tyler tells him to let go of the wheel)
Anyway,I think it's a great movie(the director is also great-also
did Seven-)

[MetalPoldi]

Didn´t he do "Matrix" and "Panic Room" as well. Isn´t he called Fincher. Last Saturday we had a poll about top20 movies. All my friends are cineasts and i was buried with many names.. So i don´t know exactly.

[PST 88]

He did panic room, but not matrix.

[MetalPoldi]

Thanks.
He did one other good movie execpt of Panic Room, Fight Club, Seven. There must be one or two others. He did just do four or five movies, i was told.

[HELLBLASTER-666]

He also did The Game(with Michael Douglas I think).
His movies are kind of pessimistic and all the
scenery is decadent.

[wannabe]

Originally posted by PST 88
memnoch, I'm saying it's based on idealogy, and how someone might take idealogy a little too far. It starts out with just Tyler and the unnamed narrator living life in this certain way, but it develops so that they end up putting this way of life on a large group of fanatical followers who try and force their ideas on the world. The Nietzche/Hitler relationship is just a "for instance".

I think not. I think if it's anything, it's being fanatical about reality. He (well, in his mind) took fighting to the extremes and made a club of actually, realistically, beating the shit out of each other. It's more of an "escape from every day monotonous shit" movie. But he was a damn shcitzo so we don't know if all of that fighting actually took place...that's why it's fucked up, and I don't like it.

Originally posted by PST 88 wannabe, you do realize all the characters in that movie were in their 20's, right? I mean, would you call Meat Loaf a teenager? [/B]

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[PST 88]

You called em teenagers dude, I only responded.

And, as for your interpretation, remember how, eventually, they start doing terrorist shit? That's what I was talking about. It's not just Fight Club, it becomes Project Mayhem. It looks like you're focusing mostly on the actual fight part and not paying attention to the rest of the movie.

Also, scizophrenia is slightly different from split personality disorder, and since he has the later and not the former, you can deduce that it's not that he made it up, just he saw some of it happening differently. Late in the movie they show him realizing that he had seen something differently than it had actually happened, not exactly the act of someone suffering from scizophrenia. You seem to be confusing it's ending with the one from American Psyco...

[wannabe]

Originally posted by PST 88
You called em teenagers dude, I only responded.

The people who like the movie... :smash:....and angry people.. :p

Originally posted by PST 88 And, as for your interpretation, remember how, eventually, they start doing terrorist shit? That's what I was talking about. It's not just Fight Club, it becomes Project Mayhem. It looks like you're focusing mostly on the actual fight part and not paying attention to the rest of the movie.

Also, scizophrenia is slightly different from split personality disorder, and since he has the later and not the former, you can deduce that it's not that he made it up, just he saw some of it happening differently. Late in the movie they show him realizing that he had seen something differently than it had actually happened, not exactly the act of someone suffering from scizophrenia. You seem to be confusing it's ending with the one from American Psyco...

Lol. Don't spout the psuedo psycological teen bullshit...It's same thing for all practical purposes. Any way you look at it, he made the whole thing up in his head. If all the fighting did happen, he imagined somone else (Tyler) started it and countered upon its success. Project Mayem is still just a violent excuse at an attempt to show upscale boredom with monotony. "Reality's a bitch, look what can happen". Poorly chosen way of showing this point, imo. 'Cuase you, a teen (violent boy...j/k), loves it and starts to find some way of arguing good meaning out of it...

Ok, well maybe you really do see something. It's cool. But this will go nowhere. you will say something else trying to sound smart, and then I will counter trying to be smarter (which won't be hard...;)), etc etc etc......so it will be over now I guess.

[MetalPoldi]

Originally posted by PST 88
You seem to be confusing it's ending with the one from American Psyco...

What happened in "American Psycho"? I saw it at a sneak preview and i hated it. But my damn problem is, that i´ve forgotten the whole plot. Thta´s what happens mostly when i watch movies.:rolleyes:

[PST 88]

So, what you're saying, wannabe, is that Marxism was born out people saying "reality's a bitch, look what could happen"? Interesting. Anyway, you're still ignoring the part where he sees what really happened, like when he sees some of the earlier scenes as they actually were(fighting himself, that he was the one making speaches, etc.), which means he didnt make it up. Once more, I invite you to discover the differences between scizophrenia and split personality disorder, cause you still dont seem to get them. And read the fuckin book. Fight Club, that is. It is a novel, too, you know, and, if you havent noticed, many novels cant run merely on violence, and this one is no exception. Read it and tell me there's no good theme.

And MetalPoldi, the thing about the ending of American Psycho is, it leaves you room for interpretation. Most people who hate it dont notice this. Did Pat really kill all those people, or is it just his imagination? That's where the movie is, it's not just a dumb slasher flick. There's no reason for it to be.

[slayme_returns]

Wannabe's polishing the brass on the Titanic and its all goin down.



I love how these Favorite/best of/worst of threads start off on target and after a few posts actually turn into a discussion. God Bless America!! Woo hooo!!!


I'm not gonna get thick into the argument here but I did want to step in and put a word in of agreement with PST88/Jackson/Cousin It/Bateman's Bitch. Fight Club is everything and nothing at the same time, definately thought provoking and does in fact contain a central running theme....

[slayme_returns]

By the way, that was my generic opinion, thank you.

[slayme_returns]

*el bumpo.

[mrweijia]

Originally posted by Freezer666
the movie would have to be...Leon(the professional)
for the serie, family guy i guess, but there are so many good ones:P
and for the book its anything by anne rice, especially her vampire chronicles and the mayfair witches

i just finished the mayfair witches series and it was great, i'd reccomend it to anyone

les miserables by victor hugo is a great book. well written
also the count of monte cristo, full of revenge, sabotage etc..

as for movies, i dotn remember many of the ones i;ve seen but i really liked "the road to perdition"

[º¿º]

movies: south park, bevis and butthead....and porn n chicken...and that movie dead poets society is pretty cool too

tv shows: simpsons, bevis and butthead(i wish they were still on), south park, and whos line is it anyways

Book: Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger

[Freezer666]

here's a nice classic: The Professional
(starring jean reno and nathalie portman when she was 12:P

[metal=life]

Originally posted by º¿º
movies: south park, bevis and butthead....and porn n chicken...and that movie dead poets society is pretty cool too

tv shows: simpsons, bevis and butthead(i wish they were still on), south park, and whos line is it anyways

Book: Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger


i have almost every bevis n butthead show recorded on tape....i love that show!
my favorite book is Lords Of Chaos i guess

[warnerve92]

Movie: Star Wars series(cant seperate those movies)

TV show: Seinfeld(its the most funny thing ive ever seen)

Books: Im really ashamed of the fact that ive never really finished a book. For some reason i cant...

[º¿º]

cool metal=life...... do u remember that 1 where beavis wants to get his ear pierced but he's not old enough.....so buthead does it for him with a nail...and accidently pierces the right one and hes fuckin bleeding everywhere...ah that was a classic

[powersofterror]

i like the one where they collect roadkill...

[Darkenelf]

favorite movies:

DEATH MACHINE

BEST IN SHOW

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

OFFICE SPACE

LORD OF THE RINGS

[morbid_death]

favourite movies;

The Caslte (an australian movie, dont think anyone else has heard it)
Gladiator
Matrix
Chopper (again..an aussie movie)


Favourite Books; (currently anyway)

Atheism, The Case Against God (by George H. Smith)
The Satanic Bible (by Anton Szandor LaVey)

i'm also expecting to get soon; Omega Conspiricy: Satan's Last Assault on God's Kingdom.

which i'd say will also join my favourite books.

Apparently 'Behold, A Pale Horse' is also a good read. has anyone read it? i want to get it.

[atifman]

movies:
black knight
the animal
the minority report (even though it didn't involve minorities in any way, if it did, it would've been an excellent movie)

(uh.....i don't really take movies seriously :) )


book:
uhhh......i don't know....maybe Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

[Midnight]

Hmm lets see..

Favorite Anime series/movie: Initial D, Dominion Tank Police, Vampire Hunter D

Favorite TV shows: Simpsons, John Doe, Fraiser, Transformers (sorry I still love them) Beavis and Butthead (I have almost all the episodes also I couldn't live without the heh)

Favorite Movies: Vanillia Sky, High Fideltiy, Pulp Fiction, Most B Movies and Troma movies.. anything by George Romero, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars series ..among a hell of alot more..

Favorite Books: The Dark Tower series and Everything's Eventual by Stephen King..

[Diamond Sword]

Movie: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Book: LOTR Series
TV: South Park
Anime: Cowboy Bebop

:D

[DELETE79]

Most B Movies and Troma movies

HAHA TROMA!!! DID YOU SEE COMBAT SHOCK? THAT MOVIE IS SOOO FUCKED UP
THE ENDING IS GREAT.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIE IS JACOB'S LADDER

BOOK: "IT", ON THE ROAD

CARTOON: I CANT THINK SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE SIMPSONS NOW:homer:

TV: DONT REALLY LISTEN TO TV ALTHOUGHT I WATCH THE SIMPSONS, OSBOURNES
OR WWE (ALTOUGHT THEY PUT ON SOME SHIT SINCE A COUPLE OF MONTH)

[Trendkill_420]

favorite movies:
dazed and confused
half baked
requim for a dream
pi
full metal jacket
clockwork orange
traffic
lord of the rings
the matrix
cheech and chong: up in smoke
apocalypse now
...that's all i can think of right now

favorite tv shows:
I only watch the osbourne's and the simpsons

favorite books:
1984 - george orwell
animal farm - george orwell
helter skelter
the dark tower series - stephan king
black house - stephan king
insomnia - king
dreamcatcher - king
nightmares and dreamscapes - king
that's all i can think of right now.

[The Doctor]

movies: Pulp fiction, resevoir dogs (fucking masterpiece!), seven, fightclub and the horror shit like braindead and stuff.

Series: The simpsons and News radio, thats really funny man:D

Books: Can't remember the tiltle but it was exciting, i can tell you!

[PantericA]

movies - Blow, Fear and Loathing, Resevoir Dogs, Meet the Parents.

t.v. shit - sienfeld, king of the hill, friends, and fraiser.

books - don't have fucking money to be buying books!:cool:

[dimeisgod69]

movies: major payne, orange county (jack black is fuckin money),half baked,and the three amigos
tv: just shoot me, snl and mr. show when it was on
cartoon: thunder cats, king of the hill

[slayme_returns]

Originally posted by dimeisgod69
mr. show when it was on


You, sir, are a good man.

[dimeisgod69]

why thank you, my friend. im gonna go buy the dvd when i get my pay check.