Dorkman wrote:

Synecdoche is one of the worst movies ever and if you liked it I will fight you.

EDIT: Except Eddie. Eddie can like it if he wants.

Pick a weapon.

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Synecdoche is one of the worst movies ever and if you liked it I will fight you.

EDIT: Except Eddie. Eddie can like it if he wants.

We must not fight each other.  Synechdoche is the real threat.

I really need to catch up on pre-90s Scorcese, as well as Herzog's back catalogue (Still only seen Bad Lieutenant  )

I've concluded that I enjoy Herzog the person(ality) more than his films. The only part of Bad Lieutenant that I liked was the behind the scenes part where Herzog said (approximately) "My only condition on doing the film was that there be iguanas", which explains the out-of-left-field iguanas. I couldn't watch the entire film itself. My favourite parts of Rescue Dawn were the behind the scenes where Herzog and Bale out-crazy each other. Encounters at the End of the World was...weird but mostly amusing. Incident a Loch Ness was hilarious.

Vertigo wins, because Kim Novak as a blonde is all kinds of devestating.

Rear Window has Grace Kelly, your argument is invalid. Seriously though, there are so many great Hitchcock movies to choose from, Vertigo just isn't my favourite of them by a long shot. That's not to say it's not a great film. I just enjoy watching something like Rear Window a lot more, or especially Rope, which is my personal favourite of his.

The problem I remember with Citizen Kane was that its main character had little to no redeeming qualities, which subsequently makes it hard to care about him or what rosebud means. Also, I'm sorry to say, I didn't like Orson Welles' performance that much. He's just not a very good actor (and neither was the actress playing his wife).

redxavier wrote:

Vertigo is pretty great but it's not even Hitchcock's best (and neither is Notorious).

Well, looks like there's a-gonna be all kinds of fightin' here today....

Vertigo wins, because Kim Novak as a blonde is all kinds of devestating.

He mentioned La Strada in that list as well, and that's another one I'd probably put on a list of 'greatest films of all time (that I've seen)'. Doesn't hurt that it's also the movie that got me 'into' movies.

However, Aside from those, I'd probably put mostly modern films on my list, cause I'm young and a lot of old movies are like torture to me. If it's pre 1960's, then it's gotta be fucking La Strada or Kane or 7 Samurai or cut from that sort of cloth to keep me interested.

But Citizen Kane is amazing, and I want you to fucking acknowledge it!
(yeah, I know that's the wrong scene. I couldn't find the proper car shot...)

(We've got 'im where we want him now, boys...)