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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
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my ballot:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Raging Bull
3. The Virgin Spring
4. Cinema Paradiso
5. The Godfather
6. Gaslight
7. Angel Face
8. Return to Paradise
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
At least a picture of my film ended up in a more...

At least a picture of my film ended up in a more correct spot.

ed's editing fingers are faster than my reply fingers
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Some spoilers The Virgin Spring The...

Some spoilers

The Virgin Spring

The most obvious thing that comes from Bergman films is that they are going to be beautiful and they are also going to be intense. They are going to be deep and...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
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I am going to get to Virgin Spring soon and write up a little bit about it. However, I don't plan on writing up anything else about my nom. I've written some about it in here already and responded to...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Cinema Paradiso The main criticism that gets...

Cinema Paradiso

The main criticism that gets tossed around at this film has to do with sentimentality, but personally I'm not so cynical that I can't enjoy something this warm. Especially...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Gaslight For a long period of time during my...

Gaslight

For a long period of time during my viewing of this film, I was seriously struggling to get through it. I wasn't sure what to make of that feeling because there was nothing technically...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
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I'll have more thoughts later, but my initial reaction to Gaslight is that it's probably the best torture porn film I've ever seen.
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Raging Bull is only technically a sports film, I...

Raging Bull is only technically a sports film, I suppose. It doesn't feel like any other in that the actual result of the fights are less important than what they stand for. You aren't watching to...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Return to Paradise Vince Vaughn catches flak...

Return to Paradise

Vince Vaughn catches flak for not being a very good actor, and when he talks in this film, it's not great (not terrible either, more just okay at best), but I think he did a...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Man, those were the best parts of the movie....

Man, those were the best parts of the movie. Different strokes for different folks and all that, but to me the editing and movements and things like blood splatter and sound and something like how...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
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ahwell it's pretty crazy to me that you give it the full popcorns but didn't like the boxing scenes. What about them did you not like?
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Pulp Fiction An early favorite of mine and...

Pulp Fiction

An early favorite of mine and important in the trajectory of film watching habits, Pulp Fiction will always hold a special, little place in my chubby, little heart. It's the film that...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Tombstone I read through all of the...

Tombstone

I read through all of the write-ups for this one right after I watched it to see where I fall in with everybody else, and I think neiba and I are probably the closest on this one. This...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Open Range Most of the dialogue in this...

Open Range


Most of the dialogue in this film is either not very good or too on-the-nose. I can't necessarily put my finger on it, but it feels like people just saying words and not people...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
The Godfather The Godfather gets touted...

The Godfather


The Godfather gets touted as the greatest movie of all-time a lot. I don't think that's true, and I don't think it gets close to a whole bunch of my favorite movies. That's not the...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
It's fair that you want a movie to make you give...

It's fair that you want a movie to make you give a damn, I get it, I do too. I can't speak for how much Raging Bull engaged you, but personally, I was invested the whole time. As far as the montage...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
Re: The 19th Hall of Fame

I nominated Raging Bull mostly because I recently rewatched it and it was on my mind. I wrote a couple notes to myself about it on Notepad, but it wasn't really anything too substantial. I'll just...
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The 19th Hall of Fame
Posted By jiraffejustin
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I think I'll join this one