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Neptune Hm... That was harder than I thought it would be. I'm not a movie person. XD

1) Spirited Away - It's just cool. Really, you have to see it once. (I thought the dub was nice enough.)

2) Ringu - One of the most well-known Japanese horror movies, of course. But it's neat.

3) The Lion King - It's my favorite Disney movie, and thus wins a spot on my list.

4) Lord of the Rings trilogy - I thought the books were better, but I adore the movie anyway.

5) March of the Penguins - Penguins win at life.

6) The Nightmare Before Christmas - Skeletons and rag dolls and singing, oh my!

7) Finding Nemo - It's really cute. Look at the cute little fishies!

8) Fantasia 2000 - There are flying whales. That's just awesome.

9) My Neighbor Totoro - It's sort of for kids, but it's also one of those all ages things. And there is a Catbus.

10) The Polar Express - Best Christmas movie ever. It just IS.
Posted at 2006-03-24 21:42:10
Freya_Crescent_II I really liked the Polar Express (The hobo was great LOL)
And the Nightmare Before Christmas is excellent
Posted at 2006-03-24 23:02:31
screamingferret The Polar Express is on my list of things to see, as is the penguins thing. Oooh, and on the subject of good kid's films - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is fantastic. Jim Carrey is brilliant in it, and the sets and costumes are gorgeous.

And yeah, A Nightmare Before Christmas is probably one of the best Burton films out there. One of these days, I'm going to have to get around to renting The Corpse Bride. There's just no way it can be bad.
Posted at 2006-03-25 11:32:48
Neptune I liked Corpse Bride, although it was a bit too short for me. The character didn't seem to be fleshed-out enough... Maybe it was just me, though.
Posted at 2006-03-25 17:32:18
sparky_lurkdragon I'm more of a reader and much more of a gamer than a movie-watcher... I don't think I HAVE a top ten movie list. Just a bunch of 'ooo, movie, story, yay' things floating around.

But I do have a favorite film, and it's "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron". It's not perfect, and in fact has several small continuity and factual problems (besides the sapient horses with eyebrows), but I love it so much that I can let those things slide. A Western story from the perspective of a wild horse! What's not to love? And oh, the music...
Posted at 2006-03-25 17:44:39
screamingferret My friends tell me that it is good, but the songs are lacking that catchiness that Nightmare had.

Have you ever seen the 'Vincent' short? I love it, although it really has convinced me that Tim Burton is a couple of planks short of a shed... ;)
Posted at 2006-03-25 17:47:55
DarkRealm 1. Queen of the Damned
2. Batman Begins
3. Interview with the Vampire
4. Underworld
5. Underworld Evolutions
6. The Matrix Trilogy
7. LOTR Trilogy
8. Spiderman
9. Spiderman 2
10. The Blade Trilogy (I'm warning you... blade 1 is the best, and blade 3 was the worst... although it was ok)
Posted at 2006-03-27 20:58:57
Brideofbillie SAW
SAW uncut
SAW 2
SAW 3
Silence
Posted at 2006-04-04 22:15:18
Brideofbillie House of Wax is pretty hot too
Posted at 2006-04-05 21:14:55
Nightspore 1. Rubin and Ed
The funniest movie you've never heard of. Ed, a sad-sack participant in a pyramid scam, is looking for someone, ANYONE, to go to a seminar. Rubin, an autistic recluse, has kept his beloved dead cat Simon in the freezer for years because he's waiting to find the perfect place to bury him. When they meet up, Ed plans on tricking Rubin into going to the seminar, and Rubin hijacks Ed's car to drive out to the Utah desert and find a final resting place for Simon. Obviously, things begin to go wrong almost at once . . .

2. The Forbidden Zone
Absolutely insane - a young woman falls into a portal to the 6th dimension . . . forget it, nothing about this movie makes sense. Made on a budget of about $500, shot entirely in a garage, and starring a large cast of friends, neighbors and relatives. So why watch it? If you like "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or any film with Danny Elfman's music, this is your chance to see his very first film (the director is his older brother, Richard). Even better, he stars as Satan, sings jazz, does a little dance, gropes a topless girl and cuts off a guy's head! Wow!

3. What Is It?
Not really fair, since the only way you can see it is by going to Crispin Glover's Big Slide Show (he's currently touring). If you do get a chance, though, it's mind-blowing in the extreme. It manages to upend or ignore just about every cinematic convention and yet still be engaging and deeply moving. Probably the most sheerly original movie I've ever seen.

4. Box of Moonlight
One of those movies I like because it's purely happiness-making without being sappy. Another buddy movie, like Rubin & Ed. In this case, a tightass, joyless electrical engineer stops to help a stranded motorist - an eccentric, childlike free spirit who happens to be very, very lonely. Mad antics ensue.

5. Ginger Snaps
Think of it as a darker, distaff "Teen Wolf", but with one of the smartest scripts a horror movie was ever blessed with. Bee and Ginger, two death-obsessed teens, are so close they're practically conjoined twins, until Ginger gets her period and is almost simultaneously attacked by a werewolf. Now Ginger's changing in more ways than one . . .

6. Dead Man
I keep hoping people will watch this because it stars Johnny Depp, but there are other charms as well. A grim, black-humored take on the Old West with an amazing cast and a deviously brilliant script.

7. Grizzly Man
A new addition to my list of essentials. Werner Herzog is a great director no matter which movie you're discussing, and his theme of Man vs Nature is crstallized in this, about a damaged man who elects himself protector of a group of grizzlies, ends up anthropomizing them shamelessly, and is eventually killed and eaten by one of the bears.

8. Willard (2003)
It's a shame horror movies never get Oscars, because Crispin Glover's performance as a man so desperatly lonely he has only a rat for a friend deserved one (and yah, I'm a fan). His Willard is so raw he's almost painful to watch.

9. Catnapped!
This is the anime to show people who think they hate anime, and also the closest thing you can get to an acid trip without actually taking LSD. A boy and his sister are kidnapped by cat people and turned into cats, themselves, because an evil witch who can turn people into balloons with a touch is using their monstrously mutated former pet dog to terrorize the citizenry . . . eventually, it all makes sense and even has a very heartrending plot twist, but damn is it crazy. The design looks like a hybrid between anime and the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine".

10. Re-Animator
Probably my favorite horror movie of all time, slightly edging out Evil Dead 2. Herbert West, a pocket-sized mad scientist, takes over the life of an easygoing fellow medical student and blackmails him into helping raise the dead with his re-animation serum. Unfortunatly, the "re-agent" isn't perfect yet and the subjects tend to come back as violently insane zombies, but West is working on that little problem . . . wicked black humor and an excellent script, characters with suprising depth, gung-ho if low budget special effects, and of course, the infamous scene where the obligatory blonde girlfriend get raped by a zombie's decapitated head . . .
Posted at 2006-04-17 07:48:09

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