At least it looks cool. You have to watch it more than once or read the graphic novels to understand some parts, but it has an awesome blend of action, humor and love. Basically, the Matrix, but with pop culture references.

i guess i just liked the comic word when sombody got hit

Only 3 people taking part?

Come on make this survey count :P

Godfather
Gladiator
叶问 (Ip Man in English: I'm fairly sure the Chinese spoke Chinese)
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (and other Eastwood Westerns)
The Dark Knight
Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
The Lion in Winter
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Amorres Perros
Desperado
All Cold on the Western Front
Bloodsport

6. Fearless
5. Damage
4. The Ninth Gate
3. Kill Bill vol.1
2. American beauty
1. Scent of a woman

6 movies is a really random number... Most people would need >20 I think to list their favourites.

GMontag has leading!

i recently saw american beauty and it wasn't great. i also disliked six feet under (same screenwriter) and stopped watching it about halfway through the series.

it's like richard yates but clichéd and unrealistic. and the boy's film of a plastic bag floating around in the wind made me laugh out loud.

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1. aguirre: the wrath of god.

2. wild strawberries (2nd: winter light, 3rd:persona, 4th:the silence, 5th:the one where death plays chess or whatever, 6th:summer interlude, 7th:sawdust and tinsel.)

3. my neighbour totoro/grave of the fireflies/only yesterday. they're all so dissimilar.

4. monkey business (could easily be duck soup (but i find the musical interludes to be a nice respite), night at the opera, animal crackers. possibly cocoanuts if there wasnt such bad sound quality on the one i heard. also could have been woody allen's bananas, or perhaps sleeper. but i prefer annie hall to those.)

5. monsters inc. (though it could be finding nemo, up or toy story 1 or 2)

6. i dont fucking know, the cabinet of dr caligari or something.

sorry chinatown, sorry kubrick, sorry orson welles, sorry scorsese, sorry hitchcock, sorry ozu, sorry rashomon. probably shouldnt have chosen kids films as 2 of my top 6.

i had to look up so many of those titles, i have a terrible memory.

1) Avengers
2) Skyfall
3) Dark Knight
4) Elf (it is christmas after all)
5) Matrix
6) StarWars IV

change 6 to the third man (noir runners-up: big sleep, brighton rock.)

the monologue on the ferris wheel is so great.

Paul,
ted,
slumdog millionaire,
Lion king

x did you understand the philosophical concept of American Beauty?

I think that such a commercial application of the modernized Heidegger's theories is simply wonderful.

Anyway I might had overexstimated it because those theories were precisely the same that my philosophical root had brought to me, and upon wich I would still agree if I would be agnostic again.

So if -as I think- you have watched it paying attention, why didn't you like it?

1) Did you disagree with the philosophy of it?

or

2) Didn't you like something technical of the movie itself (Screenplay, actors, photography, eccetera.)

Since you seem a culturally valid guy, I am very interested in reading your answer=)

It is funny how many theories you could put into this movie. I would not go for Heidegger, primarily because most of his works are borderline impossible to interpret (Heidegger's language is impossible to decipher without a decent background in philosophy), so you'd have to tell us which specific dissertation/theory you have in mind. I always thought of American Beauty as modern reflection on philosophy of esthetics wrapped in a critique of modern model of family/social life.

1)Equilibrium
2)District 9
3)The Departed
4)Ben Hur
5)Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
6)I can't choose a movie for 6

Actually number 6 should be the Island.

(Don't look at the link or at the post at all, if you don't want to see American Beauty ruined before of having seen it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGiI-MuTWf0

I just pick up one of my favourite scene of the movie in order to make you see my point.

About Heidegger of course his theories are too various and too difficult to understand for how he wrote them that probably that mention needs to be specificated:

(I know that it is absolutely incomplete, but right now I don't have the time to summarize properly all his thinking)

1) The fact that nothing is objectively right or wrong leads to a world in wich humans are gods (Nietzche's theory that Heidegger has made perfect)

2) Not only super humans can give Sense and Significance to things and to their lifes, but this process is made by every person, even if they don't know it.

3) But with the aknowledge of it, tasting the Happiness is truly possible, because we realize that every istant of our life is incredibly important, because whatever we will do, it will have Sense and Significance.

When he died he realizes and makes explicit this very last concept.

By the way this idea is far too complex to explain it in English so I don't think of being able to give further explanations of it:(

Jaws.
and then Im stuck,

That interpretation is definitely going very far... In my opinion the ending monologue has nothing in common with ideas of Nietzsche, a far more suitable interpretation would be either pantheism or a counter of modern philosophy of esthetics, which most of the time leaves little room for the concept of beauty itself (it is especially easy to see from 2:07 to 2:46). In any case what we do now is only our own interpretation, since I read a few interviews with the writer, I know he never consciously intended to implement specific philosophical theories into it.

The first 2 points are only introductions that Heidegger made in order to lead to the 3 conclusion, that once again it is the same things that he affirms in the monologue.
That kind of esthetics it is something that trascend only esthetics, and touches the whole concept of life itself.
I don't doubt that the director didn't want to put those philosophical contents referred to the Heidegger's thought (since Heidegger is basically unknown) but in the end it is what he did.

Space Balls, and then I'm stuck.

stopped reading at 'mounty python' and 'marcs brothers'