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IggyStooge
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1. MY TOP 5 FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME :
(currently)
#1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
#2. Clerks (Smith)
#3. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (Leone)
#4. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
#5. Duel (Spielburg)
Extremely nice films [cool] -
Five Easy Pieces
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
About Schmidt
Die Hard
Midnight Express
The Shining
Midnight Cowboy
Pulp Fiction
World's Greatest Dad
The Wizard Of Oz
The Deer Hunter
Stand By Me
Forrest Gump
The Elephant Man
Titanic
Runaway Train
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I often think the strength of a great band is how good their weaker albums are.
Top 10 All Time Favorite Albums:
1. Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw4d65OSs0k
2. The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRkJzVQBP0
3. The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRP4qo137I
4. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxA6dHJrE0
5. The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HGEruzivRE
6. The Who - The Who Sell Out (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSa8Whfp9A
7. Alice Cooper - Pretties for You (1969)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-iR7rhG1k
8. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B201O63uqhk
9. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF7VoVkSpY
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZ_TgE3x_A
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Favorite bands:
[colorful][colorful][colorful] PINK FLOYD [colorful][colorful][colorful]
All-time favorite band
Favorite albums: "The Division Bell", "Wish You Were Here", "Atom Heart Mother".
The Stooges [explode][angry]
Well it's 1969 ok, all across the U.S.A.
Favorite album: "The Stooges".
Alice Cooper[spider]
Favorite album: "Pretties For You".
Some other artists I really enjoy listening to/as well as my favorite album by them:
The Beatles (Abbey Road)
The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
The Doors (The Doors
The Who (The Who Sell Out
The Rolling Stones (Their Satanic Majesties Request)
The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground)
The Ramones (Ramones
The Raconteurs (Broken Boy Soldier)
Kaleidoscope (Tangerine Dream)
King Crimson (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Blue Cheer (Vincebus Eruptum)
MC5 (Kick Out The Jams)
Cream (Diserali Gears)
Black Sabbath (Paranoid)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven)
Explosions In The Sky (The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place)
A Silver Mt. Zion (He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced lenard skynard)
Syd Barrett (The Madcap Laughs)
Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention (Freak Out!)
Aerosmith (Aerosmith)
Uriah Heep (Sweet Freedom)
Brian Eno (Music For Airports)
Yoko Ono (Fly)
U2
Deep Purple (Fireball)
Guns N' Roses
(GN'R Lies)
Genesis
(Trespass)
Mike Oldfield
(Tubular Bells)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
(The Roaring Silence)
Favorite Videogames: [4eyes]
I have been into videogames a lot recently, and so I decided to make a short list of some of my all time favorites and some I currently playing.
Recently Played:) "Metal Gear Solid 4"
ALL TIME FAVORITE VIDEOGAMES:
(in no particular order)
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Silent Hill series (especially the original "Silent Hill") [hairrise]
I love basically all of R*'s, or else Rockstar's games including:
The Warriors
Red Dead Redemption
GTA series
L.A. Noire
Max Payne 3
Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Fallout: New Vegas
Dead Space
Hitman series
Fox Hunt (a rare PS1 game that I like)
Vigilante 8
Syphon Filter series
Those are some of my basic favorites that i've played, and I still like to play. I am not into fantasy or sci-fi types of games that much. I like to keep the games realistic somewhat.
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Reviews
Killing Mr. Griffin (1997)
For me, the book is much better, but the film version isn't too bad.
I read the book a while back, (a few months ago), and I thought it was pretty fantastic the way author Lois Duncan created such vivid characters for a high school story.
As for this TV-film version, it was interesting to see what the characters might look like, but overall to me I didn't enjoy as well as the book of course. But I did enjoy it at least seeing it on film and how some things are different than the book.
To this day, its nothing really special, but I only watched it once, and its really nothing to watch a second time. Because as for a TV-film, you don't expect much.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Terrible humor and too much action.
I had no interest in seeing this film at all, and I figured that it would suck, and yes it did A LOT! I was forced to see this in class and I could not stand its pathetic humor. The main character's mother is obviously stupid, and has no control. Why would a hot girl wanna hang out with a guy that talks to a robot car? It would be better if an 8 year old was trying to save the world than a college student.
My point is that I cannot believe everyone liked this film and i'm the only one that didn't in my class. The film really distracted me by so much action and the camera moving so fast, that its less enjoyable when you are trying to figure out what is going on. It certainly shows what a complete waste of idiotic acting, over-the-top special effects, and comedy being involved, when a serious situation is occurring like, the world is gonna be taken over by other robots? I would not to ever see this film again.
The Elephant Man (1980)
A Biography Masterpiece!
After David Lynch's 1977 bizarre flick "Eraserhead", he was asked to direct a film adaption of the true story based on John Merrick. "The Elephant Man" is a film where emotions and the human spirit really show. A film about the development of humans. Just because people are deformed, does not mean they are useless, or a waste. In this story, its about an Englishman who was born differently than everyone else. Now what I admired about this film is how its acting is done by John Hurt as John Merrick (Elephant Man). Such a disgrace a man like him must have lived through.
If anyone has a heart for films and loves teary-eyed films, this is probably for you. Its much different than most of David Lynch's films, but it shall be remembered for its beauty and sadness that John Merrick must have felt. He admired art, he loved plays, and he wanted to sleep in a bed like a human.....and thats exactly what he did.
"The Elephant Man" is a powerful, moving biography on the never forgotten John Merrick.
Take the Money and Run (1969)
So far one of my favorites of Allen's films.
I started watching Allen's films a few months ago starting with "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan". I got to be honest, I didn't enjoy them or quite understand them two as much as this film of his "Take The Money and Run".
Story about a man who does nothing but steal things from stores and purses, or whatever he can get his hands on. He tries to do jobs like delivering things, but he always messes up somehow. After attempting to steal, he goes numerous amount of times to jail, and then tries finding a way out. He meets a girl one day and is soon her boyfriend. A whole lot goes on with such great laughs in the film, its amazing! The film is also told mostly in a documentary of Woody's character Virgil, and it tells itself nicely.
I would recommend this film for anyone trying to get into Woody Allen. This film has such funny gags and jokes.
Eraserhead (1977)
A film that i'll never forget.
Alright, this is for the people interested in seeing "Eraserhead". But for those who just want to read my comment on the film, you may do so. So the beginning of how I found this film was very strange. I kept looking at what films people were talking about all the time. And I knew the director David Lynch at the time, but never seen any of his films. I always kept seeing the cover of "Eraserhead" and hearing the title everywhere it felt like. I was saying to myself, is this film any good? So I decided to check it out and get the DVD.....i've never felt the same since.
This film really changed my ways at looking how directors make these strange, bizarre stories that are surreal. I am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick's films, and I have seen all of his and then "Eraserhead", and I got to say, "Eraserhead" is a bigger step towards figuring out and questioning these movies. "Eraserhead" is perhaps not for everyone, but for people that love to 'think' in these films, (for example: 2001: A Space Odyssey), then this is a good film for you to watch.
There is really no explanation of this film. But so far its basically about a man who lives in an industrial enviorment, is struggling with certain things in his life. His mutant baby, his girlfriend, and a whole mind full of things on his mind. He starts having hallucinations of these bizarre characters, and crazy dreams. However the film is intended to not make perfect sense. It presents a totally different look in movies. It also probably gave some influence for other directors, like Tim Burton, who has made so many off-the-wall characters in his films.
In my opinion, I think this film should be acclaimed as one of the best surreal/horror films in film history. An experience that will leave you stuck there wondering what your thoughts of the story means. And the funny thing is, the director David Lynch doesn't explain what happens in the film, or really anything that makes you guess what its about. So if you think about it, its pretty creepy how the film is left alone by itself, and maybe.....this film has a big significance, that we all can't figure out. I find that simply amazing.
10/10
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Hemingway's classic novella turned into a wonderful film!
I read and seen this film in school, and must say that the story lives up to be a classic book and a classic author, Ernest Hemingway.
The story about an old man living in Cuba dreams about catching the biggest fish he has been wanting to catch his whole life. He was born to fish, and everyone thinks he's crazy. "If only I had the boy" the old man cries in his skiff. A boy lives with the old man on an island and gives good luck for the old man catch big fish.
So he sets out to sea and realizes that he is sacrifacing his life to catch this almighty fish. But as the film goes on, it follows very closely to the book. But I do prefer Ernest's novel than the film. Spencer Tracy gives an amazing performance as the old man in the film. A film that need to be shown by younger audiences around, and it's truly a film about determination, and the value of life.
The ButterCream Gang (1992)
i loved the 'ol buttercream gang.
I grew up with this one when I was about 5 or 6, and I always enjoyed when I was young. So for the first time in about 11 years or so, I have seen it once again.
A lot of people find it too ordinary, or else (i hate to use this word) corny. But it is really nothing like the early 90's kids. I mean these kids seem too normal and younger than they appear in the film. But this film still amazed me. I watched it twice in two days, trust me, I couldn't stand watching it twice like that. However the story is very simple about how a gang that helps people around their community and for their small town. Eventually one of the members moves away to Chicago with a more dangerous gang. He learns their way of violence, and comes back home with a different relationship with his other three members.
It is a very good story, however it is made kind of too normal/ordinary for the early 90's. More like a family drama made for TV. But it has some strange lines once in a while by some of the members that make the film so funny, when it's actually not. I would honestly hang out more with the other gang than the Buttercreamers. But I still felt sorry for the leader of the gang. It has really aged with today's average kids though. If the film were to just be showing in theatres, everyone would leave right away i'm sure.
However a great film, with no great kid actors. I don't think any of them have gone to a huge acting carrer. Still, a nice film.
Platoon (1986)
'The' Vietnam film.
Probably the most beautiful and most touching war film ever made, by the man directing it, Oliver Stone. He is known for his war-type films like 'born on the fourth of july' and 'jfk' and few others. He has made us experience a Vietnam dream with our own eyes.
Starring Charlie Sheen as one of the main characters, has an amazing performance, also starring Tom Berenger and Williem Dafoe. they show amazing performances as the two officers. it has deserved a lot of great respect over the years since '86, and still remains as a classic film. I would say it's better than 'saving private ryan' or 'full metal jacket'. I think this film wins as the most touching war film.
The amazing thing about it is, it's not as much blood in the film as it looks. it does have intense scenes with shooting, but it actually doesn't show the goriest blood ever seen, which i think is good that its not show much. the language in it is the most intense though. All im doing is just telling what is to come in the film. Im sure a lot of people have seen it though. another film i think is very good is "the deer hunter" which is another fantastic Vietnam experience.
Oliver stone has made very great achievements in his films.