Bitchin' 'bout media
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tripperfunsterUgh. My husband is watching Storage Wars. The show seriously makes me puke in my mouth. So many of the reality shows have shitty, manufactured pressure/fights/angst, but this one really takes the cake. I just can't watch the fake fighting and fake pissing wars they all have. Not to mention that the storage units are clearly stacked. I get agitated and need to leave the room. *flails*
He knows it's all fake too, of course, but it doesn't bother him like it does me.
Is there a reality show that you like? I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Survivor, but lost interest after a while. I do enjoy a lot of the real estate/fixer up shows like Love it or List It or International House Hunters. Also things like Myth Busters and Border Wars, but they are way less 'fake' than many of the other shows.
As for other media:
I watched (most of) Fight Club today. I turned it off, because I just really hate watching people be shitty to each other. It was neat, and clever and pretty original, but it got darker than I was ready to watch. I really felt like I should see it, because I see it referenced everywhere, but I didn't enjoy it like I'd hoped. And honestly, I'm surprised something that bizarre was that popular.
I also would like to see Trainspotting. Yeah, I know, it's not exactly rainbows and unicorns either, but I feel like it's something I missed, yanno?
Any other thoughts on movies that really should be seen? Not a list of your fav movies, but movies that were defining? I recently watched Love, Actually, which I think would be on that list.
I would say Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Sixth Sense, Shawshank Redemption, Groundhog Day are a few others I'd say are 'defining' movies. edited to add: Field of Dreams, Thelma and Louise, Silence of the Lambs, The Lion King. Princess Bride, Blade Runner, 70's run Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones.
I'd love your recommendations of films I should see, or ones you think are defining like these. There are lots of movies on my 'to see' list, but I'm thinking slightly older, classic ones.
Also: I saw The Judge last night w/ Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall. Wow, really good, but also a bit hard to watch. I know that having a complicated relationship with my father doesn't exactly make me a special snowflake, but I thought they did a really good job of showing it.
He knows it's all fake too, of course, but it doesn't bother him like it does me.
Is there a reality show that you like? I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Survivor, but lost interest after a while. I do enjoy a lot of the real estate/fixer up shows like Love it or List It or International House Hunters. Also things like Myth Busters and Border Wars, but they are way less 'fake' than many of the other shows.
As for other media:
I watched (most of) Fight Club today. I turned it off, because I just really hate watching people be shitty to each other. It was neat, and clever and pretty original, but it got darker than I was ready to watch. I really felt like I should see it, because I see it referenced everywhere, but I didn't enjoy it like I'd hoped. And honestly, I'm surprised something that bizarre was that popular.
I also would like to see Trainspotting. Yeah, I know, it's not exactly rainbows and unicorns either, but I feel like it's something I missed, yanno?
Any other thoughts on movies that really should be seen? Not a list of your fav movies, but movies that were defining? I recently watched Love, Actually, which I think would be on that list.
I would say Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Sixth Sense, Shawshank Redemption, Groundhog Day are a few others I'd say are 'defining' movies. edited to add: Field of Dreams, Thelma and Louise, Silence of the Lambs, The Lion King. Princess Bride, Blade Runner, 70's run Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones.
I'd love your recommendations of films I should see, or ones you think are defining like these. There are lots of movies on my 'to see' list, but I'm thinking slightly older, classic ones.
Also: I saw The Judge last night w/ Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall. Wow, really good, but also a bit hard to watch. I know that having a complicated relationship with my father doesn't exactly make me a special snowflake, but I thought they did a really good job of showing it.
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Date: 2015-01-09 06:30 am (UTC)I read your post again-- ah, you mean defining films, films that really have moved me, well here are my all time favorites:
1. "M". Starring Peter Lorre
2. "From Here To Eternity"
3. "Psycho"
4. "Moon"
5. "The Shining"
6. "I confess"
7. "The Empire Strikes Back"
8. "Blade Runner"
9. "Alien"
10. "Withnail and I"
11. "Goldfinger"
12. "Austin Powers" (actually the whole trilogy)
13. "Fear In the Night" starring DeForest Kelley
14. "The Birds"
15. "There Will Be Blood"
16. "A Clockwork Orange"
17. "It's a Wonderful Life"
18. "Star Trek II TWOK"
ETA: some more...
19. "The Bicycle Thief"
18. "Bande a Part"
19. "The Graduate"
20. "Bonnie And Clyde"
21. "Bugsy Malone"
22. "Sunset Boulevard"
23. "Mommie Dearest"
24. "The Poseidon Adventure"
25. "The Black Hole"
26. "Breathless"
That's about as many as I can think of, offhand.
As far as reality TV, I like watching "Hoarders" (all the past episodes) and "Cheaters", LOL that they run on the local station over here, and I like watching old eps of "Cops".
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Date: 2015-01-09 07:06 pm (UTC)Ever see Room 237? it's a really interesting documentary about the Shining and its cult following. It's on netflix insta view.
I love the first Austin Powers movie.
The Birds should have gone with the original ending but some studio big shot wouldn't let Hitchcock use it. :(
I liked the Graduate a lot when I first saw it but now that I'm older the stalkery stuff puts me off.
I love Sunset Boulevard and Breathless.
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Date: 2015-01-16 04:52 am (UTC)I saw the 'making of the shining' shot by Vivian Kubrick. I love the haunting waltz at the end by Wendy Carlos.
What was the original ending of the birds? I didn't know there was one. Neat!
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Date: 2015-01-16 03:57 pm (UTC)The original ending of The Birds: after they drive away, they get to San Fran. And it's empty.
And there are birds all over the bridge.