fini Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Ray, Speaking of Murnau, have you ever seen "Sunrise?" One of my all-time favorites. Definitely worth the trouble to look it up. http://www.sloppyfilms.com/murnau/sunrise.htm fini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 DEEP THROAT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 "Brazil" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruinsrme Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Blazing Saddles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 First guilty pleasures, now we have a most original survey. Believe or NOT Roger Ebert had a list of the most significant movies of all time. I like Rays list above NOT merely the movies he likes, but the ones that were significant. I have to add Schindlers List and Apocalypse Now. I think Blade Runner was a precursor to the science fiction genre that followed. Also add cult classics as Rocky Horror Picture Show and Bud Corts Harold and Maude movie with the Cat Stevens music. I think Titanic, like it or NOT, was also significant, if only for the ¼ scale aquatic film studio in Mexico where they filmed the recently released Master and Commander. Citizen Kane has to be on this list. Historic autobiography of a mega-manic by a mega-maniacas drama. China Syndrome, because it changed the way we think of nuclear power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Pecker by John Waters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluless Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Debbie Does Godzilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 ---------------- On 11/18/2003 8:44:59 PM cluless wrote: Debbie Does Godzilla ---------------- Yeah, there were some monster sex scenes in that one! fini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 DEEP THROAT Yeah, that was one horny flick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Webmaster Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 ---------------- On 11/16/2003 3:33:56 PM m00n wrote: I think I have to add Star Wars. It really is a great story even if you think the last two movies are weak.---------------- The only problem I have with this is that Star Wars is about 80% ripped off of Frank Herbert's Dune series (the first three books mostly). When I first read those books, I couldn't believe how many similarities there were. Anakin = Paul. Both have children that are twins, a boy and a girl and even though both were supposed to be the "one", it was their male child that turned out to actually be the real "one". The only difference there is that Paul didn't go bad like Anakin. Also, Pauls finds out that his grandfather is his enemy, the Baron Harkonnen where Lukes finds out that his father is his enemy, Vader. You also have the desert worlds (arrakis = tatooine) with strange native people (fremen = tusken raiders). In the Dune world, you have the Bene Gesserit which are essentially the same thing as Jedi. The only difference is that they are all female until Paul is born, but Paul, like Anakin, is the most powerful of them all. There are so many other similarities too. I once read somehwere that Lucas wanted to make a Dune movie but that at the time, the special effects he needed to pull it off didn't exist so he started working on his story for Star Wars instead. I lost a little respect for Lucas and the Star Wars movies after reading the Dune books and seeing how much of the story he "borrowed" to create the basic story of Star Wars. Read the books if you haven't already (although sorry that I've given much of the plot away). I think they may be the best SciFi book series ever, with the exception of some of the books that Frank's son wrote with Kevin J. Anderson. Sorry for the rant. Here's something I just came across that I hadn't seen before (http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/dune.html): When Frank Herbert saw Star Wars for the first time he felt angry. Herbert believed that George Lucas had borrowed so many ideas from Dune that film studios would no longer be interested in a Dune movie. Herbert described sixteen points the stories have in common. "The chances of that happening by coincidence," he said, "Is greater than the number of stars in the universe." He and other science fiction authors who felt Lucas had borrowed too heavily from them formed the unofficial We're Too Big to Sue George Lucas Society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frzninvt Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Strange that no one has mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark and subsequent releases or was it not an original idea. Hmmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblue Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 I'd have to TOTALLY disagree with the Matrix Trilogy. Everything in those movies is BORROWED. Almost all of the imagery and even quite a few scenes are lifted directly from Ghost in the Shell. And as for the concept....Lifted from Dark City. Anyway, I do vote for Memento, Fight Club, Vertigo (a pioneer). Ghost in the Shell, Light Years, and Fantastic Planet are some original Animated films. Also: City of the Lost Children Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( or anything else by Gilliam) Amelie Waking Life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKuziel Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 How about Blade Runner with Harrison Ford or Silent Running with Bruce Dern And let us not forget Joe's Apartment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygmn Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 2001: A space Odyessey Animal House Blade Runner All is Quiet on Western Front Das Boot Toy Story THX1138 Jaws North By Northwest Sixth Sense The Godfather 1, 2 & 3 Casablanca Pulp fiction pyscho Taxi Driver Alien To name a few....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 ---------------- On 11/16/2003 11:21:18 PM DeanG wrote: Gary, I read The Dark Tower series too. Who do you picture playing the part of the Gunslinger? ---------------- Dean, Who would you have play the part of Roland? I can only think of a 40 year old Clint Eastwood. Nobody today seems right. Eddie could be played by the guy who plays Christopher on The Sporanos. The kid from The Sixth Sense could be Jake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluless Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 ---------------- On 11/20/2003 10:53:59 AM dblue wrote: Also: City of the Lost Children Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( or anything else by Gilliam) Amelie Waking Life ---------------- Wow - DBlue - this is probably the first time that I have ever seen you so far off base. The "Concept" of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has nothing to do with this guy named Gilliam. The "Concept" of Gonzo Journalism belongs only to Hunter S. Thompson and the delineation of fact versus fiction in any of his writings is still open to debate. Two different versions of the movie were made and neither really capture the real tone or grit of the book. To list this among "Concept Movies" is to relegate it's brillance to Hollywood spoor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev313 Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 My Neighbor Totoro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPyro Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 How about.... The Legend of 1900 Stigmata They could have borrowed from other films, but I don't know which.... -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 And what about Pulp Fiction:Quinton Tarantino Still insane and amazing, from video store clerk to killer director!!! SRM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblue Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 Cluless, I was thinking more along the lines of the way in which is was filmed (very original). Being a huge Gilliam and Hunter Thompson fan, I got carried away on my tirade and forgot that this was a thread concerning original movie CONCEPTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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