The 12th Hall of Fame

Amélie herself. It's been too long to remember the specifics of why, but I remember finding her both irritating and creepy.

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Hopefully i don't get a power outage but yeah i really don't like Amelie either. There's plenty of films i don't like that i still understand why they are acclaimed and popular; really don't get it with Amelie though

I've never seen Amelie, but I would guess that some of it's appeal comes from the cover art. Even without Googling it, I remembered the cover and that it looks interesting to me.

But I wonder if I would like it?

I think you would like it, could be wrong though. I wasn't really talking about why any individual likes it; i mean it's not a bad film. I'm more confused at how it's so acclaimed and seems to be broadly popular. Alot of critics have it as one of the best of the 2000's and i don't know if it's just my experience but along with Oldboy, City of God and Pan's Labyrinth it seems to be one of a few foreign language 2000's films that a large amount of people have seen and liked. Would have thought it would be more obscure than it is basically, and don't really understand why it's not.

I didn't care for Amelie either

hahahaha. This Hall of Fame is the one place on the internet that doesn't like Amelie.

Daniel M hated it, too. I haven't seen it since I was 16 but I loved it at the time, it's the only movie to give me genuine shivers of happiness. So my first inclination is to deem you all soulless bastards.

There's a reason he keeps getting nominated as Smartest MoFo.

Fool.

Sean, Usual Suspect, Holden Pike and Sedai gave high ratings to Amelie in the Reviews...Like 5/5 to 4/5

Sedai liked it so much he reviewed it twice....ahh the perks of being a mod

Holden had it in his top ten of the 2000's list. I remember because i've read that list alot for recs. Those fools aren't in this cool Anti-Amelie HOF tho

Ha



I've really got to see that movie now!

I think it will be too quirky for you Citizen. Give it a go though, it's pretty great.

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Ya never know I do like the cover art.

I picked up Swiss Army Man yesterday at the library. I've heard that one is pretty far out there too. I'll review it when I watch it, maybe I'll like it.

Must have been close to 15 years since I saw Amelié, but I remember being somewhere between indifferent and somewhat amused. I was 10 at the time, so I might not have picked up everything. Might actually be time for a rewatch...but after the sci-fi 100, this hof and the uni/hammer hof.

Also, Miss Vicky, fun that you found something you liked with City of lost children. Too bad you don't think it worth a rewatch . Might not be neccesary for you, but for the rest of you, have it in mind for the Sci-fi top 100 (if you haven't sent in a list allready).

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Why not just kill them? I'll do it! I'll run up to Paris - bam, bam, bam, bam. I'm back before week's end. We spend the treasure. How is this a bad plan?

haven't seen Amelia and continually remain on the fence about seeing it and after reading how everyone felt. . . here I sit, still. . . lol


and with City of Lost Children, it would have been a serious contender for my list for Sci-Fi, but, sadly, I was disgustingly early with submitting my list.

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I'm looking forward to watching City of Lost Children, I heard someone say it's like a Terry Gilliam film. I have 4 more to watch.

You should've waited until the last minute, like some of us.

Well, I'm only close to the deadline because I've been rewatching a lot of old favourites to determine an order I know I'll be happy with. A couple of rewatches even knocked films off my list altogether, and I've watched a couple of films for the first time for it as well...though none of them ultimately ended up making the cut.

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This was a rewatch, I first watched this film 2,3 years ago, it was a suggestion from a friend. I remember hating this film, not finding it funny nor meaningful. After the rewatch I'd say that my appreciation of the film didn't change, but I can see its merits, only, it's probably the movie that is the most opposite from my taste, I don't care for the characters, they actually annoy a lot, I still didn't laugh once, it was actually quite painful to watch. I rarely like movies about drug or alcool addiction simply because it's a subject that doesn't interest me, maybe because I just always disliked them, the effect they have on people and that I find that philosophy, introspection, meditation are better ways to cope with life's problem then to drink it up or to use any sort of drugs, this might affect the empathy I felt for the characters.

However, I can separate my personal appreciation of a film and it's general quality, I know that my personal vision of drugs or alcool is not pertinent to judge a films quality. I think it's a very good film, meaningful for a lot of people probably. I liked some of the editing, I liked the narration, it's a quality film. However, one I just can't enjoy because I hate the characters, the universe, the subject matter.

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Normally, that's EXACTLY what I do, I think this is the first time I sent one in within the first week or two lol

I was going to wait for the last minute to send in my Sci Fi list, then I chickened out! I thought for sure I could forget. I had to cut a lot of good films from my list, hopefully other people have them on theirs.