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I'm suprised nobody has mentioned Amores Perros.

I have a soft spot for interconnected story lines.

The movie is almost entirely a Mexican Pulp Fiction but it does a good job and is damn hard to stop watching.

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I'm suprised nobody has mentioned Amores Perros.

I have a soft spot for interconnected story lines.

The movie is almost entirely a Mexican Pulp Fiction but it does a good job and is damn hard to stop watching.

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I considered it briefly but it didn't get past the first cut!

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5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003, Peter Jackson

Fifty years from now I fully expect these three films (and you can't really separate them) to be recognized as classics, on par with The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca. They are that good. Jackson and Company created magic, pure and simple. If you really want to see what all the fuss is about, get the three extended version DVDs - you'll actually love that there's even MORE of these films than you thought! The casting was perfect, the special effects revolutionary, and the story was and still is, magic.

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Nice level.

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instead of snideness, how about posting your own choices or why you disagree with mine? And if you can't do that, post a pic of your hot wife in something skimpy.

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I was just kidding. Sorry.

I really did hate those films though. 74 hours of go here, meet these people, fight that monster, crying repressed hobit homosexuality, go there, meet those people, fight this monster, crying repressed hobit homosexuality, etc.

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Many folks feel the same about the movies... and the books.

My favorite critique on the books was "I don't feel like wading through four pages describing [censored] grassy knolls."

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I'm suprised nobody has mentioned Amores Perros.

I have a soft spot for interconnected story lines.

The movie is almost entirely a Mexican Pulp Fiction but it does a good job and is damn hard to stop watching.

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This is a good movie to mention. I don't like the comparison to Pulp Fiction that much, since I feel the characters in Amores Perros have more depth and I also think that Amores Perros actually deals with interesting themes. Pulp Fiction is much more about being cool and flashy, while Amores Perros uses time tricks like Pulp Fiction but in a tighter story with actual characters exploring a theme.

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I love Lost in Translation and find the LOTR flicks a hoax. Often terrifically, epicly flaccid, I can see these easily being surpassed in the future. I feel these are very much a wonder of their time, not of all time. These will last until someone comes up with the money to do them again. And that money will be less and less as technology advances. I don't think I've been more disappointed in films in the last 20 years than these, besides any Matrix but the first. I find it hard to imagine that these movies would be more well regarded if their author weren't so subject to cult-like worship and if the technology and scope of the flicks weren't so compelling at the time of their production. I'm confident time will bear me out that the direction in these films was unexceptional and the raves for them were very firmly fixed in their time.

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4. Sex and Lucia, Julio Medam, 2001

Forget the fact that star Paz Vega is absolutely luminous (and often naked) in this gem of a Spanish film, Sex and Lucia is a pure masterpiece of high-definition digital video-making. If you have any doubts that HD is the future of film making, just take a look at this gloriously beautiful film. It's that good. Medam has a novelist's way of spinning a yarn: we go back and forth in time, following "real" characters and "fictional" ones without knowing which is which...it's sexy, romantic and funny...what more could you want from a movie?



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Sex and Lucia was pretty. Otherwise an utter disappointment. I'm confident this will appear on virtually nobody's list of bests, if not now, then almost immediately.

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Capote and Brokeback Mountain were both incredible IMO and belong in the list.

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The Lives of Others is definitely worthy of a spot on the list as well. It does such a great great job with pacing which is refreshing to see in today's hollywood of bang bang bang bang nonstop action.

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I love Lost in Translation and find the LOTR flicks a hoax. Often terrifically, epicly flaccid, I can see these easily being surpassed in the future. I feel these are very much a wonder of their time, not of all time. These will last until someone comes up with the money to do them again. And that money will be less and less as technology advances. I don't think I've been more disappointed in films in the last 20 years than these, besides any Matrix but the first. I find it hard to imagine that these movies would be more well regarded if their author weren't so subject to cult-like worship and if the technology and scope of the flicks weren't so compelling at the time of their production. I'm confident time will bear me out that the direction in these films was unexceptional and the raves for them were very firmly fixed in their time.

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i'm not sure that i totally agree with this, but i can definitely see where Blarg is coming from. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up with a legacy like Ben-Hur--amazing for the time, but not good enough to survive the test of time all that well