Movies that make you feel "hip" because you like them.

The coolest movie ever is Le Cercle Rouge. A french heist film with keepin'-it-cool characters? My god, it's like this thread was made for it.

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My god, I'm going to do this someday. Once I get enough Ginsberg to last me a poetry reading.

So then explain why. that's what I'm asking. If you love it so much then why not defend it?

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Hi, The Godfather genuinely is my fave ever movie and yet people always tell me I only like it because it is deemed a cult classic...fact is I just love the movie!

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This thread isn't really about favorite movies though. And as famous and highly critically respected as it is (considered possibly the best of all time) it hardly qualifies as a cult classic.

I need no film to make me feel "hip," it comes to me naturally, much like fashion style and masculinity.

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I'm better liked than you here.

Woah...what's that about Henry?

Oh, he knows what he did.

allegro non troppo....
start the revolution without me

I take it it's personal and the rest of us can't know as well...

This makes me sad. Boo-hoo sad. I’m not kidding.

I’m glad you’ve seen it, lover…and Honey (why do I feel like I’m flirty as hell today?), The Godfather is most definitely not a cult classic. It is a bona-fide classic…straight up…no mixing, blending, or stirring.

What are you missing? One of the very best adaptations ever made of an Elmore Leonard novel. That’s what. If that’s not enough, get this…Barry Sonnenfeld directed it. Okay, he’s not that heralded of a director, but he’s an amazing cinematographer and that lends to his directing…at least with Get Shorty it does. If that’s still not enough, it’s arguably John Travolta’s greatest performance…and there’s Hackman, Lindo, Russo, Farina, et cetera. It’s an all around sleek, hip, cool, and especially…smart comedy drama. Oh yeah…Travolta’s character has one of the coolest names ever: Chili Palmer.



I’ll admit this…you have my favorite avatar.

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I've never really felt "hip" for this being my favorite movie, but I might as well - nobody's seen it. Granted, that's not true, but I don't recall mentioning this film to anyone and they automatically go, "Oh yeah! I've seen that." Some people have said they avoided it because they don't like Meryl Streep or Nicholas Cage. Before I first saw the movie, my brother-in-law was like, "Oh, I hate Meryl Streep. I'll only like this movie if she shows her boobs in it." Well, he saw it with me, and lo and behold, you see Meryl naked in the film - on a porn site! That was so funny.

I recently went apartment hunting. Two that I looked at had movie theatres in their clubhouse - the kind where you watch DVDs in a threare-like room. Both had Adaptation available in the DVD library. I was all excited about the chance of watching it again on a theatre screen (I won't, though, I didn't choose either apartment complex). But this one Miss Priss who showed us around was like, "Oh, I missed that film" when I mentioned it to her.

Charlie Kaufman is IN these days for those who appreciate good films, but I think it's mostly because of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - which I can't get into. Don't try and be all sappy with me, saying that the message of the film is so correct - we must cherish all of our memories, even those with exes. Puhlease! I think the memory loss surgical procedure for your past relationships is genius. The point of the film should be SCIENTISTS SHOULD MAKE THAT A REALITY. Anyways, getting back on topic, Adaptation, I think, is overlooked. I rarely hear anyone mention it on the forum. Holden Pike has hailed it as perfect in every way, but that's it.

I also cannot find the freaking soundtrack to it anywhere! I know it's online, I know I can order it, but I was hoping to find it somewhere at a store - just for the thrill of going out and buying something. I've seen it at Barnes & Noble before, but I didn't buy it at the time. Now, I know that if I ever do see it in a store, I must purchase it. But really, I was at Barnes & Noble last night - back at the soundtracks again - no Adaptation - they have everything else in the world, but no Adaptation. Why? I know it can't be because people are always buying the new copy when it arrives. Unless there's a "Buy All The Adaptation Soundtracks When They're Put Out On The Shelf Before Sexy Celebrity Comes And Sees It" cult out there. If that is the case, Tammy Faye Messner better talk. I know she'd be in it, cancer and all. I've been trying to rob her of her makeup collection for years - she's got so much of it and she's never wanted to lend me any. Damn that woman! Damn all of those who don't see Adaptation!

It seems my history with Nlkead has already shown itself. Please, allow me to give my side of the story, before he uses his propaghanda against me.

I first met him back at Mardis Gras three years ago. He was wearing a red floral necklace and utop his head sat a "Will Flash for Beer" baseball hat. I observed at first from a distance; he flouted all normal societal standards of utter moral degradation, and seemed bent on causing a social uprising, rather than just having a drunken stupor. I gently fingered my drink and turned back to my company, already discussing the merits of objectivism in a realistic setting. Three hours later, taken in by red wine and the gentle caresses of debauchery, I was casually dancing naked underneath a margarita-colored sky, accepting that my future chances with dignity had all but disappeared. It was then that he approached me; somewhere, between the double tequilas and sweet socialist manifestos he kept feeding me, I ended up in his arms. We made love 3... no 4... no 19 times, under the moonlight and on top of a pile of vomit so vile that I passed out from the smell. When I awoke, I found that next to me, in place of the once nubile and confused young man, there sat a simple turtle with an engraving carved on to its shell; et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.

what the hell dude....

I think the Kaufman revolution began with Being John Malkovich instead of Adaptation…not that that really matters.

I’ve liked Adaptation since opening day, though I was disappointed with it at first. I always understood that the third act drives Kaufman’s message home, but I wished he could’ve done it without sacrificing the dignity of the characters and the film itself. After about the third viewing, I began to feel differently about the third act. It quit being brilliant, but annoying, and changed to straight out brilliant.

I think I saw it differently because I watched it with a ‘standard Hollywood fare’ type of movie lover. It was really interesting to watch her different reactions as the story progressed. She started out wary, but within only a short span of time, it was easy to see she was enchanted. By the time the third act came along, her emotions were running the gamut. I could see it written on her face; the ‘letdown’. She, along with me at first, hated the way the film seemed to cop out during that tragic last chapter. The film went from quirky and original, to just another run of the mill film made by any old hack who needed beer money. But see…here’s the thing. After that happened…her taste in film changed dramatically. It was almost like she took a class that showed her what bland writing was all about and how to avoid it. Awhile later, she watched Adaptation again, and fell in love with it like it was her very first time.

There is no cheapening of the film during the last act…the last act is what secures its masterpiece status. You’re not alone, Sexy.





Dude, you're on a role.

Personally, I was never disappointed with it. Definitely not after the first viewing. I mean, it was one of those movies where I didn't even check my watch to see what time it was. As I remember it, I was totally with Adaptation from beginning to end. And this was AMAZING, you know why? I went into Adaptation knowing not a damn thing about it. I hadn't even seen one picture for it, besides the poster. I hadn't seen a trailer or a TV spot. I hadn't even seen all of Being John Malkovich - so, I didn't know who Charlie Kaufman was. I knew the guy who did BJM did Adaptation. I knew it was about a screenwriter. I've always wanted to be a screenwriter, so that's why I went to see it, but that's not why I really love the film. It just... really moved me. It was all of the stuff about finding passion and Darwinism and knowing that you are what you love, not what loves you. It hit me deep. And when something happened to a certain character at the end of the film, and someone started singing "Happy Together" to that person... oh my god. Anyway, the point is, I was never disappointed with the movie. Nuff said.

::throws roses::

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Team America comes to mind because it is one of the very few recent movies I'VE SEEN and thus everybody can identify with it. I also nominate This Is Spinal Tap because I'm probably the only person in my class at school who's seen it, yet it's a huge cult hit.

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One of the few recent movies? There have been hundreds of movies released this year meaning they were recent...thus your post makes no sense.