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    Posted: February 06 2004 at 04:15

Favourites?

I must admit to being a bit of a fanboy for "The Lord of the Rings". I first read that book 25 years ago (and pretty regularly ever since) and remember at the time daydreaming about what a great movie it would make. The really nice thing is, they did.

Other than that my tastes in movies tend to the older ones: "To Kill a Mockingbird" is probably my favourite of all time.

Currently I'm trying to see the collected works of Ron Jeremy, but that will take a while: I'm not as young as I used to be...



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ya i like lotr 2, but they kinda overplayed the last one. i mean, it was good, but not that good. the second was the best
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LOTR 1-2-3 : Fantastic. Stunning. Brilliant.

others:

Blade Runner

Casablanca

Butch Cassidy a/t Sundance Kid

Vanishing Point

The Searchers

Big Trouble In Little China

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Exorcist

just for a start.
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Dune........

Conan

The Crow

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the Fifth Element

The Terminator series.
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The Big Lebowski is my favoriter movie!
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Well, a bit of variety in taste here...

Just a couple worth mentioning...

> American Beauty - favourite movie since it came out... a real masterpiece...

> Almost Famous - fictional tale about 70s rock band... director former writer for Rolling Stone...

> The Truman Show - well directed and casting of jim carrey in a non-idiotic role... The interesting music also helps make this movie...
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Hi:

I'm new around here. I work choosing films in a spanish pay tv channel, so movies are a main part of my life. My faves:

1.- The Lord of the Rings: The Bakshi one.... nooo! Just joking! . Seriously, the three of them were all I ever wanted to see in the cinema. A great soundtrack by Howard Shore, by the way

2.- Local Hero: I love this movie to the point of going to the village where it was filmed. Great soundtrack by Mark Knopfler, by the way.

3.- Star Wars (A New Hope): I guess it was the film that made me love movies. John Williams defined movie music in the soundtrack, by the way.

4.- Back to the Future: That's what I call a tight screenplay. Great main theme by Alan Silvestri, by the way.

5.- The Apartment: Bitersweetness redefined. Not a very memorable soundtrack, though.

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Another thing I remembered: What about a "Prog and movies connection trivia"? Some stuff:

1.- "Dune", when it was a project directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, it was going to have a soundtrack by Pink Floyd, Magma and one Canterbury band (Matching Mole maybe?) Each one was related to the music of the main planets of the film.

2.- Some prog artist that have made soundtracks: Vangelis (as everybody knows), Emerson, Goblin, Wakeman, Tony Banks, Oldfield... (I guess Phil Collins doesn't qualify )

3.- Mike Oldfield didn't know his music had been used in 'The Exorcist' until he saw the movie in a cinema. At least, this is what he tells.

4.- Rick Wakeman perfomed the role of 'Thor' in 'Liztomania'!

5.- When Wakeman made the soundtrack for the slasher film 'The Burning', he was offered a share in the profits instead of money. He chose the cash. A wrong decission, because the film was a success and made its producer, Harvey Weinstein a rich man: now he is the head of Miramax Studio.

Any other piece of trivia?

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PS: By the way: I always thought Andrew Latimer could make very good soundtracks if given the chance
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Allan Holdsworth gets a credit for some music on the movie "Speed" however, it never made it to the film or the soundtrack, Hollywood Cretins!!!!!!!!
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Hi:

Didn't know about that 'Speed' fact. But talking about Hollywood action films, I forgot that Trevor Rabin is now firmly stablished as a soundtrack composer, mainly involved with Jerry Bruckheimer productions. Not the most likely prog related musician I could think for soundtrack work...

Another fact: In to more or less recent Hollywood movies, they talk about Jethro Tull. One was 'Beautiful Girls'. The other one was 'Armagedon', where they even talk about the usual topic that "Jethro Tull" is the name of the band, not Anderson's.

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Anyone ever see 'Eraserhead'? I love 'Brazil' too. DeNiro makes a great renegade air conditioning repairman.
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Originally posted by Alexander Alexander wrote:

The Big Lebowski is my favoriter movie!

i love this film !!!

my favourites are :

1- all david lynch films : Mulholland dr., lost highway,dune,...

2-brothers coen films : fargo, the man who wasn't there , the big lebowski...

3-quentin tarantino 's Pulp fiction and Kill Bill vol.1

4-there's too much films i like to talk about !!!!! ...

maybe another time ..i'm too tired now to write them down

 


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Hey:

I see most of the people really like cinema. I like to think prog music is very narrative, and, being a movie buff,  that's the key element that drove me to it. I just love songs telling stories, concent albums and even music structured as a narration.

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Originally posted by Paco Fox Paco Fox wrote:

I just love songs telling stories, concent albums and even music structured as a narration.

i like it too .For example songs like 2112 by Rush , or ...cygnusX-1....are my fovourites ones !!!!!! Or scenes from a memory by Dream Theater...


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I've never listened to 2112 (yes, I have some homework to do!). But, is it true that is more or less the same concept as the new Queen stage musical?

 
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Movies
1. Pulp Fiction
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Blade Runner

for starters
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My film tastes depend on my mood at the time, but these following choices (in no real order) I can always go back to....

1 - Anything by the Coen Brothers (espec. Fargo, Millers Crossing)
2 - All 3 LOTR films (and they said it couldn't be done!)
3 - The Big Blue (stunning, just stunning)
4 - Dogma (hysterically funny & thought provoking at the same time)
5 - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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Escape from New York

The Exorcist

The Thing (1982)

Road Warrior

The Ninth Configuration

The Thin Blue Line

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

(gee, wonder what age group I'm in?)

 
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I love all of the Monty Python movies (Holy Grail, Life Of Brian, Meaning Of Life) and I think 'Brazil' is a great movie too (made by one of the Python boys). More recent movies I loved were 'Amélie' (French) and 'Ghost World'
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Python's funny as hell, I love British comedy in general...although not movies, 'Bottom' and 'Fawlty Towers' are hysterical, worth picking up on dvd if you like Brit humor.
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