Thread: movies, movies, movies

Originally Posted by fuego

I think the single movie I've watched the most or parts of it several times is the original The Matrix. Just has some cool stuff in it. I never saw it at the movies, just on TV. So every time I see it's on I may watch it. Shawshank Redemption also. Never saw it on the movies, just TV. I wish I could go back to the first time I ever saw it and experience the 'surprise' again. That doesn't happen in movies too much like that. I'm just not someone to watch a movie over and over.

By the way femme, was it you we were trying to get to watch Shawhank because you never had?

I like the original "Matrix" as well. The followups tried too hard to be cool. The original movie has a longing for truth, for an escape from the bondage of this world, for making a decision to do something entirely new and different.

Originally Posted by krystian

The Christmas classics:

Its a Wonderful Life

Miracle of 34th Street

White Christmas

One of Frank Capra's lesser-known films is one of my favorites: Meet John Doe, with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a fictitious column about someone named "John Doe," who is distraught at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires a ballplayer-turned-hobo (Gary Cooper) to pose as John Doe. In a series of radio addresses written by a publisher with fascist leanings, Doe captures the public's imagination. When he finally realizes he has been used, Doe comes to his senses and becomes the man he never knew he could be.

Originally Posted by fuego

I think the single movie I've watched the most or parts of it several times is the original The Matrix. Just has some cool stuff in it. I never saw it at the movies, just on TV. So every time I see it's on I may watch it. Shawshank Redemption also. Never saw it on the movies, just TV. I wish I could go back to the first time I ever saw it and experience the 'surprise' again. That doesn't happen in movies too much like that. I'm just not someone to watch a movie over and over.

By the way femme, was it you we were trying to get to watch Shawhank because you never had?

I also liked The Matrix a lot. The idea that we could be living under an illusion, and that many would prefer the illusion over reality - I found that very interesting.

But I didn't like the sequels.