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mitvit  ·  3886 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your five favourite films, and why?

I would go for:

2001: A Space Odyssey / Inception / Good Will Hunting / Fight Club / 12 Angry Men

I like things that are pretty easily watchable but also have something a little deeper going on behind the surface if you want to dig in a bit. It was hard paring out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. I haven't really watched a lot of the classic movies though because I usually feel they're too slow. They feel faster when watching with a group though, so I try to do that every now and then.





thenewgreen  ·  3886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Those are all great films and they are all pretty different from one another. My favorite on your list is 12 Angry Men. We used to have a Hubski Film Club where we would pick a topic and watch a film or two in that genre/topic. We decided to pick the Director Sidney Lumet's first and last film to watch. They were quite different. His first was 12 Angry Men -such a wonderful film. He turns his limitations in to virtues. I think I started sweating during the film because of how convincingly he made it appear that it was scorching hot. -Wonderful work.

We ought to resurrect the Hubski Film Club. I know kleinbl00 has a scifi club going. b_b, you were in on the film club. Those were good times.

kleinbl00  ·  3886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right now we've got an Anime Club. We're gonna have a fiction club and a non-fiction club. I'm firmly of the opinion that there shouldn't be more than one -club at any given time because fatigue sets in. For the next two weeks, it's Anime Club.

Watch Madoka Magica.

Do it.

It's that good.