Troll 2's the only film on my list!!zedz wrote: so don't miss out and forever regret the absence of Troll 2!
" He was one of us... and you killed him! Now it's your turn! "
Troll 2's the only film on my list!!zedz wrote: so don't miss out and forever regret the absence of Troll 2!
Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.Michael wrote:How did I forget Showgirls?! That has to be in my top 5, no question about it.
If I'd had room, my Verhoeven vote would've gone to Starship Troopers. Winking/wanking value aside, Showgirls is still pretty awful.GringoTex wrote:Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.Michael wrote:How did I forget Showgirls?! That has to be in my top 5, no question about it.
There is still time, fellas!!!!GringoTex wrote:Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.Michael wrote:How did I forget Showgirls?! That has to be in my top 5, no question about it.
that was one of my 'bubbling unders' (no pun intended!) 8-)GringoTex wrote:Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.Michael wrote:How did I forget Showgirls?! That has to be in my top 5, no question about it.
Same here - along with Starship Troopers. It's hard to know quite how to take Showgirls (hmmm.... that could be better phrased...), but I suspect it shouldn't be taken as seriously as many of its harsher critics have done. At least, I hope not.Yojimbo wrote:that was one of my 'bubbling unders' (no pun intended!)GringoTex wrote:Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.Michael wrote:How did I forget Showgirls?! That has to be in my top 5, no question about it.
I ended up dropping Showgirls for Starship Troopers but similarly found it strangely compelling/hilarious! Perhaps it is difficult to get a handle on because the tacky, tawdry, overblown world is treated seriously as something that the characters aspire to in order to provide fame and seems to be all they dream of that gives their lives meaning (though it is perhaps easier to understand in the age of reality TV). Yet at the same time the film seems to constantly be showing the lie to their shallow dreams even while none of the characters actually seem to notice the sham world they are in (sort of like the Scarface remake, now I come to think of it. And like that film once you claw your way to the top job where is there left to go but down?)Dr Amicus wrote:Same here - along with Starship Troopers. It's hard to know quite how to take Showgirls (hmmm.... that could be better phrased...), but I suspect it shouldn't be taken as seriously as many of its harsher critics have done. At least, I hope not.Yojimbo wrote:that was one of my 'bubbling unders' (no pun intended!)GringoTex wrote: Crap I forgot Showgirls, too.
I adore Fire Walk With Me and consider it possibly Lynch's finest feature but I still passed it over in favor of the Twin Peaks pilot. They are almost opposite experiences and mood ultimately determines which I prefer. FWWM is Lynch's purest vision of personal holocaust rendered as mythic cataclysm. It also salvages the mythology of the series which had begun to curdle and turn into fan boy dross (though Lynch's final TV episode also goes a ways toward remedying that). Having said all that, I also dearly love the pilot (and that includes the "closed" European ending) for, as I say, virtually opposite reasons. Its immersion is less experiential and more atmospheric; a perfectly realized and precise ambiance. Beyond that, whenever I rewatch the series, and I have done so many times, I always linger over that first two hours as it establishes a set of options for the series to pursue from which the series necessarily had to select and diverge. Of course I love the series but that pilot is Lynch in absolute tonal control; as has been said before, perhaps because of TV's restrictions he had to be more attentive to nuance than ever and it helped him, I think. Certainly the muted, sorrowful tone of the pilot was never to be again; it gradually eased off and slipped into a more extravagant gear. Even Ron Garcia's gorgeous highly burnished cinematography in the pilot is of a different caliber than his return work in FWWM; not better, just different, appropriate for the tone of this piece. I often wonder what the series would have been like had it somehow managed to maintain that refined, stately and elegiac quality throughout. Probably even less popular than it ultimately became.roujin wrote:I've seen a lot of lists with Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and count me confused. I just don't get that film. Parts of it are extremely harrowing and painful but it's such a slug to get thru it for me. Partly because Sheryl Lee's performance consists of basically bugging out her eyes when she's in a frenzy. It's my least favorite Lynch.
I still haven't gotten around to watching it, but then again I was only recently able to get the DVD, for a decent price.Michael wrote:Great defense of Twin Peaks, John Cope. I often parade around saying Mulholland Dr or Inland Empire is Lynch's magnus opus but that damn thing called Twin Peaks always picking at me from the behind. I have to say that of all Lynch films, Twin Peaks is at Lynch's most emotionally ravishing AND wrenching. I guess lost high school girls in the woods make more sorrow than lost actresses in the movie industry. Bob is the scariest Lynch character period.
All will be revealed soon enough (you've all got about another 18 hours to get your lists in, with the time differences), but I suspect that this will be a fascinating entrail-reading exercise in terms of canon formation / maintenance.John Cope wrote:I am especially interested in the fact that Egoyan's Exotica appears to be moving ahead of The Sweet Hereafter, which I doubt would have occurred eight or nine years ago.
That's getting on for a serious statistical sample of what I am guessing are entirely male DVD geeks.zedz wrote:This looks like it will be the hugest vote yet, with 50 lists or more received...