My Favorite Movies

its a waste of my time to tell you why i gave it a 5... it is not the greatest movie ever...it is the most amazing greatest film you will ever appreciate...give me someone who can take all that hospital scene without cuting and i may change my mind....until then...nothing else.

surrealism to the broadest extent of the term. amazing. period.

it doesn't take any knowledge in rocket science or nuclear equation to realize that this film holds the most copied soundtrack in the entire history of cinema...
HAL gave me the feel of 1984's big brother "I'm watching you"... probably the most unique narration to a film EVER!... the visuals were so cool the last thing that came to my mind was "1968"... the ending was the most amazing ending i've ever seen to any film....and the beginning, was just as incredible....

dystopian, theatrical, dramatic, funny, brilliantly shot, perfectly narrated, Kubrickly up-lifting and heart-breaking, incredibly performed... instant classic. period.

wonderful ending that in the simplicity of its essence projects the reality of life and the mechanical continuity of society and the world.

the most brilliant work of foreground/background interaction i've ever seen in film...
a boy wandering around the hallways of a vast, vacuous hotel as a silent shadow...
...ticking clock...very dark and sensual..yet human in its own nature...
...ticking clock...stuffed with beautiful shots throughout the whole thing...
...ticking clock...a masterfully done never-ending climatic conversation/confessions with the guy popping up to give this already beautiful take an incredibly attractive touch...

...clock ticking... definitely my favorite shot was Esther playing the radio with johan and anna in the background like being overseen by the former one and then the concierge arrives to add another layer to this unique work of cinematography with the bed frame making up for the foreground...

absolutely and perfectly amazing...Bergman rules...period.

epic, dark, magic and amazing.

this is definitely an example of an extraordinary plot blended with amazing direction and great cinematography. an all time classic. period.

epic film. fierce cinematography. amazing performances. period.

beautiful film, great remembrance scenes, amazing performances. period.

wonderful ending...
from neo-realism to surrealism Fellini is always able to pull an amazing piece of art and leave in the viewer an impressive and indescribable mark...
this was such a Fellinisque circus not even 8 1/2 could be compared... but rather than a mirror to his celebrating theatrical endings this film (which is an earlier work to the latter successes) takes on a different course with a very different ending...

the cinematography was just amazing...

the performances were as beautiful as the film and all together with this astonishing soundtrack "La Strada" comes to be my favorite Fellini...

i am not ashamed to say that for the first time in my life i felt like tears were going to drip out of my eyes... such a masterpiece of cinema...

if i gave fives it would deffinetly get a 5! you usually get a feeling at the end of movies either of happiness or the opposite...but here is just this weird thing that you can't really describe...

definitely best you'd see from 07. you like day-lewis? well you have seen nothing until you see him here. glorious performances from dano and day-lewis. brilliant cinematography, fierce soundtrack, unique ending. amazing. period.

probably the most amazing Linklater i've ever seen... amazing film... incredible flow and just as simple as greatness itself...

those never ending takes are priceless and add a more intriguing touch to an already incredible film... period.

" ah, the whole purpose of the doomsday machine is lost, if you keep it a secret, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THE WORLD EH!?"

"gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the WAR room!"

"that's private property.....OK, i'm gonna getcha your money, but if you don't get the president on the phone you know what's gonna happen to you?... you're gonna have to answer to the COCA COLA company."

simply amazing... to me even better than Mulholland Dr.... it was just incredible, amazing soundtrack great flow through the story... such an avant-gardist masterpiece... period.

undoubtedly an amazing film. gael is an amazing performer. plots and cinematography are fierce and epic. period.

love gondry's effects. gael is an amazing performer. stephane is just so amazing, his daydreams remind me of myself.

paparazzo and the paparazzi
Marcello
beyond a masterpiece. period

fierce, funny, sad, thrilling, epic, true. Kubrick, period.

great film and plot

best animated film I've seen in my life so far. its unique and magical world is just so amazing it really is.

"Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may."

Narrator: I'll tell you: we'll split up the week, okay? You take lymphoma, and tuberculosis...
Marla Singer: You take tuberculosis. My smoking doesn't go over at all.
Narrator: Okay, good, fine. Testicular cancer should be no contest, I think.
Marla Singer: Well, technically, I have more of a right to be there than you. You still have your balls.
Narrator: You're kidding.
Marla Singer: I don't know... am I?
Narrator: No, no! What do you want?
Marla Singer: I'll take the parasites.
Narrator: You can't have both the parasites, but while you take the blood parasites...
Marla Singer: I want brain parasites.
Narrator: I'll take the blood parasites. But I'm gonna take the organic brain dementia, okay?
Marla Singer: I want that.
Narrator: You can't have the whole brain, that's...
Marla Singer: So far you have four, I only have two!
Narrator: Okay. Take both the parasites. They're yours. Now we both have three...

"Marla, did we do it?"
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this movie was quite amazing those that don't understand it are just dumb. it starts a little confusing but it all ties up at the end. doesn't it? amazing cinematography and if you don't understand it the first time it plays that central scene about 50 times for you to get. doesn't it? period.

every time i watch this film i feel so happy at the end for reasons I'm truly unable to explain...
i think its funny that people call them a dysfunctional family, i also think its pathetic... they are the closest to reality family i've ever seen in a film... you can't take that go back to your old Hollywood/Disney Utopian families...
Paul Dano is just great...

i could continue all night long, this movie is just so AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

with a human plot and a human ending this film stands as a masterpiece of its time and all times narrating the true fates of the common people of its era...
performances were just amazing and that boy was just great...
the ending also incredible...

great cinematography.... amazing performances....

beautiful shot by the bridge...

and yes! that was Meryl Streep in an actual role worth watching!

an incredible work of non-linear art...
a hyper-linked plot that ties up very well at the end...

controversial... theatrical... beautifully shot.... great plot... great closing.... AMAZING OVERALL!!! definitely should watch it!

all the symbolism with the animals... the ashes spread on the bed.... the last supper..... WOW... it may not be yelling it out loud but his surrealism is well disguised here.... watch closely is still holding it's Buñuelist surrealism to it...

Buñuel at his best........after un chien andalou and l'age d'or of course...

just a great picture... one of those incredible high school tales that sticks to your mind forever...

amazing...funny...period.

fierce pic. love the road trip and the plot in general. great. period.

simply amazing...period.

the most amazing thing was the foreground/background interaction, it reminded me of Michelangelo Antonioni. his intense close-ups are priceless. the hand-held cam inspired some incredible feelings... it was also very theatrically sad at times... the opening sequence was actually great and the ending, the ending perfect... there were some editing incoherences, well actually many that got kind of annoying at times, but the storyline, the cinematography, and the performances were so amazing it didn't really matter at the end...
at the beginning the characters felt like they came straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel but it takes a while to realize that they are all very human and they all possess their own struggles and desires to liberate themselves from the chains of their everyday lives...

a filmed circus of memories were thoughts are read and which encompasses all the experiences of one man around all the failures and desires of his life... the desire to be free, to make the real art he hopes for, to be happy with his wife and yet with other women the desire to be able to LOVE... and how he fails are everyone of these...
beautiful opening sequence, amazing ending, touching childhood flashbacks, great daydreams... a character so true we can all identify ourselves with a piece of it...

simply amazing. period.

another great dystopian society. loved it.

all i can say is that this movie was just impressively human...
Bernard's views of unintellectual individuals are just hilarious... a preteen getting drunk and spreading semen all over the place... a teenager plagiarizing music...
both PhD s in literature... always discussing Metamorphosis and this wasn't about the novel itself, they could have used any other novel, it was about the individual "metamorphosis" of every character during the timeline of the film...

just great. period.