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Caesar on 7/6/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Keep an eye out for The Daily Question on Connerwood1998's profile page. He's going to post a new movie question every day. :)

Cleckley on 10/28/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Hey, man. Tnx for the request. I pop into this profile occasionally, but I'm operating under a new profile now, so if you wanna hit me up I'm at 'OneFuckTooMany'

OneFuckTooMany on 11/5/2012 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Haha. Yeah, soon I'll be know simply as 'That guy who loves that Street Fighter movie."

coreyhiscocks on Apr 9 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Thanks! If I had to recommend one, I'd say Pan's Labyrinth is the most likely to work really well for you, based on your top 10. I actually haven't seen The Right Stuff or In the Shadow of the Moon. Jaws was a recent discovery for me - I've got several overlooked classics I've been meaning to get around to - and it held up quite a bit more than expected. Not sure where it landed on the chart, though.

Love to see Fellowship of the Ring on top, too! I prefer it to the other three. Our opinions differ a bit on Platoon and Road to Perdition, but District 9 is very deserving of a high spot in my book as well.

Let me know if you've ever got any recommendations!

I'm always surprised by how diverse the community is on here. Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking?

coreyhiscocks on Apr 11 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I see you checked out Kill List and Four Lions! I'd be real interested to hear your thoughts on them. Kill List is a film I've been unable to shake since I saw it about a year ago... but at the time, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. I've been wanting to revisit it. It lingers in a way that few films, especially few horror films, have ever done.

coreyhiscocks on Apr 11 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I like Shawshank, but don't love it as much as lot of others do. Silence of the Lambs is, of course, a classic. I'm from Dallas, Texas in the US but I live and teach in Moscow. A friend of mine is wanting to go to school at Leeds sometime next year for doctoral work.

Do you like soccer/football? Got a team in the EPL?

coreyhiscocks on Apr 15 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I do follow the EPL as much as possible - big Liverpool fan, although the only EPL team I've ever seen play is Chelsea, who came to Dallas sometime in 2010 or something. Watch games when I'm back in the States, but I've not found a place to watch them online over here and I don't have a TV.

I've not been to St. Petersburg yet, but my wife and I are planning to head out there sometime this summer. Moscow is... well, it's very loud and busy and dirty. I've heard it compared to New York City, which seems to make a lot of sense. We live in one of those massive apartment blocks that looked like it came hurtling out of the sky a couple decades ago. If you've ever seen Attack the Block, it's tantamount to the complex those kids live in.

Technically, I don't each English, but I teach IN English. I teach at an international school - Old and New Testament, Christian Worldview and Pre-Algebra/Algebra I.

Kill List is quite the little oddity. Although I really dug the final act and thought the sound mixing was unparalleled, it did leave me wanting more. The first weird scene in the bathroom made me really uneasy and the tunnel scenes with the cult members were just so scary. The cult angle is, for whatever reason, always gonna creep me out. Ultimately, though, I remember it not because it scared me but because I just didn't know what to do with it.

As for movies that really shook me... The Shining, The Descent, Session 9, Jacob's Ladder, Them, Insidious, [REC] and The Ring have all made the trip back to the bedroom seem longer than it really was. I consider Eyes Wide Shut to be just about the scariest film I've ever seen, but for reasons completely different from the rest of those.

Argo was fantastic. It's been some time since I've been glued to a film the way I was glued to it. I'm a huge fan of Gone Baby Gone and I think Affleck was one of those guys who just took a pounding before he got into directing. It's good to see someone come back from the kinda criticism he caught. The guy seems like he's really enjoying what he does and he seems thankful for it. I've gotta respect that. It helps that I think he's a great director, haha!

coreyhiscocks on Apr 15 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Can't believe I wrote that whole novel and then forgot this...

The other reason I really liked Argo is that I think it nailed the opening riot scene, the tension that comes with working in a place where you don't always feel safe and where if something went wrong, you wouldn't really know what to do or where to go. I'm not comparing Russia to Iran, but it's got its share of scares.

robmoviefilms13 on Apr 29 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Would you say that The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 are companion films or two sides of the same coin? Sort of how The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty are.

TC2012 on Wednesday Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Hey I'm kinda new to this site but I was just browsing random people's charts and noticed that you have Platoon at #4. I also notice that you've recently ranked Born on the Fourth of July. I wanted to ask how would you compare the two films with them both being films by Oliver Stone?

TheEgant on Wednesday Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

I should definitely preface the fact that I just can't seem to get into any kind of anime. I was also bored to tears by Cowboy Bebop. And to be honest...most Mizyaki movies don't strike a cord with me either. Hard to explain I must admit. Couldn't name anything specific about Akira I didn't like...on paper, it sounds like a movie I'd thoroughly enjoy, but it just didn't work for me. Any suggestions on where I should start? Out of all Japanese anime/animation I've seen...probably the only one I think really grabbed me was Grave of the Fireflies.