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[astridv]

Me and the roommates are in need of movie recs for Buffynight. Well, we still call it Buffynight but we ran out of first Angel and then Buffy episodes well over a year ago. Now it's basically Movie Night, on which two of us cook a nice dinner while the other two get a movie. The food is the easy part.

We saw some fantastic movies already (I should really have made notes for a recs list... some of those, like The Prestige, I had no expectations for and was really pleasantly surprised.) I could use some recs, so: What are your, say, three favorite movies? The ones you'd bring on the desert island (if the desert island had electricity)?

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And while I'm here, I'm snagging the Ask Me Anything meme I just saw at kradical:
ask me anything you want in the comments. I shall answer as best as I can though I'll reserve the right to skip questions.

(x-posted to DW and LJ)

Comments

[rheanna]

(1) Where in Germany do you live? (Feel free to skip if you don't want to be too specific in a public post. And, erm, I promise I'm not planning to stalk you or anything. I'm just curious!)

(2) Did you always want to be a professional artist, or did you consider any other careers?

As for movies -- hmmm, I'll have to ponder that. Are there any particular genres (rom com, action, SF, indie etc) that your group particularly enjoys? (I enjoyed The Prestige a lot, as well. I wasn't spoiled for the plot, and thought it had some really nice twists). Or, maybe you could give a couple of examples of things that have gone down well, and we'll try to think of recs in a kind of, "If you liked that, you might like this" way.

[sqweakie]

Movies first: 1. The extended Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The theatrical versions cut out so much that the last movie was so confusing when I watched it. When we finally got the extended version, it was like 'Oh, so that's how they got from X to Y'.

2. Bringing up Baby. It's an old black and white movie with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant that has to one of the top ten funniest movies I have ever seen.

3. Mirror Mask. It came out a couple years ago and was produced with the Jim Henson Muppet Company. It's visually stunning with a unique but beatiful artistic style. It's about a girl who's mother collaspes and is very sick. She goes to sleep the day before her mom's surgery and wakes up in this surreal world that looks like the drawings that cover the wall of her room and she has to find her way out.

Questions: What drew you to drawing in the first place? And, what are your three movies on the desert island?

[whizzy]

Hm, movies.

A Better Tomorrow.

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Hm, movies.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Better_Tomorrow">A Better Tomorrow</a>.
<a href"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelie">Amelie</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F">O Brother, Where Art Thou?</a>
Oh, and I was just thinking about this one. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Bandits">Time Bandits</a>

Those are pretty standard fare, should be easy to find.