Your top 5 ("Three sir!") 3 movies

[Schneibster]

post-modernist professors on acid talking about Dr. Seuss

[Kr]

In no particular order,

All The President's Men
Blade Runner (Final Cut)
Apocalypse Now (Original Cut)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Doomsday (2008)
This could be my news Favourite film ...

If you are going to have a city full of post apocalyptic carnage done with style and a sense of humour Set it in Glasgow
There is even a cameo by a can of Tenants
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzOohF1D ... re=related[/youtube]

Thanks for reminding me of that one. I wanted to rewatch it.

[tattuchu]

Charlotte's Web.
James and the Giant Peach
and
Tron.

I love James and the Giant Peach! I've got a 12" figure of the grasshopper character standing, very smartly dressed, on my shelf. I just wish Andy Partridge had done the soundtrack (as was considered) instead of Randy Newman. Newman very nearly ruined the film.

[hadespussercats]

Picture!




I just watched the youtube videos on the set design for The Shining and I must say I felt like listening to post-modernist professors on acid talking about Dr. Seuss. There are infinitely many more mundane reasons for a set design and filming sequence to come out the way they did in The Shining, from ease of camera placement, camera path (for real intentional design on this, see the extras for Kurosawa's Rashomon about how they filmed the woodcutter's walk in the forest), Kubrick's avowed intention to make the hotel seem massive (more doors!), and simple set construction realities (constructing a borked but filmable set is loads cheaper than attempting to approach realism). The analysts' belief is that the symbolic and spooky effect was the only possible reason for that set design and that's just bollocks. I'll bet if you watched enough 50s and 60s television, you'd find plenty of 'spooky' anomalies there too. Genius? Maybe genius for getting a movie out under budget, instead of bleeding red until your backers mothball your film while a competitor steals your ideas and gets theirs out on time and under budget.

Was Kubrick a genius? Yeah, I'd say so. Was this set design an intentional act of genius? Likely not.

But if you start out with the assumption that everything Kubrick did was genius, you'll find plenty of confirmation, even in his mistakes.

Art is accident. A lot of the time, anyway!

Borked is a great word! I need to go look it up.

[hadespussercats]

@Tattuchu-- I can't stand Randy Newman's music.