<p>american beauty!!! <3
the first time i watched that i was eleven... and was deeply mortified. but it's one of my all time favorites.</p>
<p>you left out crash! [gasps] and forrest gump. another two of my favorites. </p>
<p>now, back to math.</p>
<p>DC...great list, but two problems. Babel and An Inconvenient Truth?? Oh jeez.</p>
<p>First off, Babel was the most convoluted and pretentious mess I've seen at the movies all year. Tries to hard to be artsy and confusing for the sake of being artsy and confusing. Sadly, it's exactly what the critics love. For the record, I thought it was overly sexual also in places it just didn't have to be. Just really not my type of movie, and I love the whole indie/arthouse scene.</p>
<p>And An Inconvenient Truth? Calling it left-wing propaganda would be nothing but a compliment.</p>
<p>However, I do love the rest of your list. =) I just had to voice my opinions on those two! LOL...have you happened to see Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men yet? Those were my two personal favorites of the year. Feel free to shoot them down if you want!</p>
<p>polkahard - not trying to start a debate, but I really don't see how summarizing modern science on climate change is "propaganda".</p>
<p>WHAT ABOUT...</p>
<p>Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein
Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino
Last Emperor, Bertolucci
I am Curious (Yellow), (I forget the swedish guy's name)
Wild Strawberries, (i forget who directed it... But it's one of my favs)
Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone
The Piano, jane campion
Being John malkovich, Spike Jonzze
Life is Beautiful</p>
<p>If I wanted to really make a film canon, half the names I mentioned would not even be up there. But really, I made a list for teenagers.</p>
<p>Battleship Potemkin - Why see Eisenstein when most haven't seen enough of Spike Lee or the Coens? Same with Bergman, Persona is enough for the casual but I would put Fanny and Alexander second.</p>
<p>Being John Malkovich - purely film as art, not literature. And we were doing lists of literature.</p>
<p>Reservoir Dogs - The script pales in comparison to the execution.</p>
<p>Babel - Globalization, ignorance, indifference, futility, I wrote my TASP essay about this one. It is THE film of the year.</p>
<p>Inconvenient Truth - Hard facts</p>
<p>Life Is Beautiful - Better off with De Sica...</p>
<p>lol Dylan la grande illusion...</p>
<p>one day i'm gonna come to french class gnawing on a fresh goat carcass
muahahaha</p>
<p><em>cue akward silence</em></p>
<p>...</p>
<p><em>awkward silence ends</em></p>
<p>hey i created an "oscars" thread for any of u film buffs. btw some really good films to add (we need some humor, guys!):</p>
<p>Little Miss Sunshine<--I am obsessed
Little Children
Christopher Guest movies (except for "For Your Consideration")
Tender Mercies
Rainman
Mostly Marta
All About Eve
Gone with the Wind</p>
<p>to name a few...</p>
<p>p.s. i thought crash and inconvenient truth were both mediocre to bad movies. could not keep my eyes open during "truth." was it just me or was gore using that movie more as a way to promote is political ambitions instead of trying to save the world? crash is so ridiculous. some scenes are really powerful but the movie does not really work together. too many characters. too overdramatized. nuff sed.</p>
<p>Yes, the reason why Babel works and Crash does not is because Babel is ABOUT disconnection. Crash is about similarity. It also fails in its study of race because its plot cannot connect with reality. Babel doesn't need to connect because, as I have said, it is about disconnection in the first place.</p>
<p>And Crash depends on the audience's perception to get its message through. I don't have to sympathize or understand any of the characters.</p>
<p>But Babel depends on the characters' perception. We are forced to see as they do. Like that scene of the Japanese girl in the club. Wonderful.</p>
<p>Humor?
I would say Pulp Fiction, Dr.Strangelove, Woody Allen pictures ("That spider is as big as a buick"), This Is Spinal Tap, and Full Metal Jacket are the funnies movies I can pull from the top of my head.</p>
<p>Both Borat and Little Miss Sunshine were extremely good as well. Oh, don't forget Stranger Than Fiction.</p>
<p>If you guys want to read something thought provoking,</p>
<p>read either 1. Nietzsche's The Gay Science and no gay does not mean homosexual 2. Taylor's Ethics of Autheticity or 3. Bertrand Russell's Treatises</p>
<p>I just can't buy into An Inconvenient Truth. I want to believe it...help save the world, etc. If anyone can post some good websites filled with truthiness, I'd appreciate it.</p>
<p>It's just...when I hear about global warming from a POLITICAL figure...I can't take it seriously, you know?</p>
<p>The most important thing about An Inconvenient Truth is that it fostered AWARENESS, not finality. The facts are for you to decide, for all of us.</p>
<p>whartonhopeful - Nice choices. I actually preferred Adaptation to Being John Malkovich, but then again I'm a sucker for self-referentiality. And Wild Strawberries is Ingmar Bergman.</p>
<p>^hahaha i cant take global warning seriously period</p>
<p>Nate - yeah, Monsieur actually has good taste, non?</p>
<p>Inconvenient Truth blows. Wow like random non sequiturs (basically) about his political past and his ever so exciting life. Oh yeah then did you know there is this thing called global warming......I made a really COOL PowerPoint about it. "Truth"=PowerPoint on steroids </p>
<hr>
<p>We had a haiku thing a few days back.....Expanded.
(IDK the message of this, used it as a school journal entry (i know I'm a boss))</p>
<p>In the end will it be worth it?
Countless Hours
Endless Nights
Sacrificing my so called social life
All for the elusive promise of momentary gain
Call Me a Radical
I got myself into it
5 Essays, 6 Weeks, and 2 Years Later
I still sit here wondering</p>
<p>Will It all be worth it?</p>
<p>When Will the time come
March 1st seems so far away
Will I have to put fresh double As in the grandfather clock
Just so it can go "TOC TIC"
Irregular like my heart beat
I think i'm gonna be sick
My emotions worse than a bad acid trip</p>
<p>But I still ask Will It be Worth It?</p>
<p>Everyone says their essays suck
Yea thats reality
After all you are your own harshest critic
Yea thats a cliche
But it AINT the truth
College Confidential Is
Where all of us are a bunch of *****hes raising the roof
When I say roof I mean level
1600 SATs 5s on the APs...
You call yourself humans?
Oh Im sorry I mean homosapiens
Please forgive me for my incompetence...</p>
<p>Is this a Waste of my time.......</p>
<p>I feel Like a Rebel
But wait yes I am
Only TASS applicant
go by giantredlobster
Get more respect on these boards then I do at the high school
Now Im a common TASPlicant house hold name
Dont call me conceited But you can call me Insane
But Only when I ask</p>
<p>Will It all be worth IT?</p>
<p>The Answer is..........YES...I hope :-P</p>
<p>Its better when I perform it slam style (I <3 poetry slam)</p>
<p>Thats my response to my CC deprive. I hate that my computer broke :-(
On my moms laptop right now( Its covered in purple rhinestones....She says its because she works at Yahoo and their color is purple (sharpies :-P <em>remember like page 50</em>) Likely story)</p>
<p>please stop being pretentious a.sses</p>
<p>lol. If you were refering to me as being confused. Im definitely not</p>
<p>I was just bored and thinking about haikus </p>
<p>So i wrote a poem
It sort of branched from me writing slam. One of this random creative waves.</p>
<p>SO I appologize.....For being s colloquial?</p>
<p>W/e :-P</p>
<p>why the bitterness, wang?</p>
<p>no, i'm fine with most everything on here, i won't point out any names, but a couple of posts are really elitist and offensive on here. and no not you, they're serious posts, for one.</p>