Media Whore: The Ongoing Chronicles.

[xyzzysqrl]

Remember when I did a "filler" post, with more content than some of my real entries nowadays, back in 2004 about movies I advise you watch if you, personally, are me? That's back at here if you missed it.

Let's have a sequel to that!

FIVE MORE MOVIES YOU SHOULD WATCH IF YOU SUDDENLY BECOME ME.

A LIST.

BY ME.

OF MOVIES.

LINKS PROVIDED FOR THE OBSCURE ONES.

AHEM.

5. PDQ Bach's "The Abduction of Figaro". - Look, we already broke the catagories. Not strictly a movie, this is in fact an opera. A completely ridiculous parody opera. Look For: The legendary Dance of Seven Pails and the SINGLE BEST PIRATE EVER, who hijacks a dying man's sickbed and sails it right out of the bedroom and off to Cuba, this one's pretty much a classic around here.

4. The Mummy. At once the most generic and the best action movie around. A blend of goof-ass comedy, action, and genuine creepy horror, this movie does manage to be better than the two sequels and really set the tone for what I look for in an action movie, in spite of grabbing the Indiana Jones schtick and -sprinting- with it. Look For: The best one-handed chair-flinging takedown ever, gratuitous CGI, and bringing sexy back to librarians, not that they lost it in the first place.

3. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. A Man of Science and his clingy wife visit the mountains. A Rival Man of Science unleashes the EVIL of a psychic skeleton. Meanwhile, two lost aliens crash-land their UFO and make a dancing girl out of local wildlife. What the hell does any of this have to do with each other? EVERYTHING. Watch For: The Seductive Animala Dance, MEN OF SCIENCE being SCIENCEY, the most awkward dinner conversation known to mankind.

2. Zero Effect. The world's smartest man is a shut-in. His lawyer does the field work. THEY FIGHT CRIME. Watch For: Ben Stiller in a role where he's not a grating asshole. Bill Pullman in a role where he IS a grating asshole. This is a film from the MIRROR UNIVERSE.

1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. SEE a film Robin Williams wouldn't admit to being in! Thrill to the world's fastest man! BEHOLD stage effects wrapping around to become reality, then wrapping BACK around to become stage effects again! Really, this movie shouldn't be as unknown as it is. I'd like to see something else like this out there, come to think of it...

Comments

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Heh. Following the link to the 2004 list (partly due to a recent purchase of mine being on there--Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within), I realized something. While TSW in and of itself isn't a *bad* sci-fi film...it'd isn't really Final Fantasy at all. Among other things, it's *all* science, not the magic and magic-tech mix of FF. What it *is*, though, is a ringer for Xenosaga--I'm wondering which came out first, offhand...

[bossgoji.livejournal.com]

Answer to which came out first: Xenogears, which Xenosaga is ostensibly the prequel to. In any case they're all by Square, so.

[bossgoji.livejournal.com]

YES for Baron Munchausen. And I really want to see the PDQ Bach thing.

[hat-of-nikitich.livejournal.com]

So, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is one of my visual favorites of all time! (This is probably really unsurprising, actually.)

But, I really have to see The Abduction of Figaro. I mean, really.

Also, did I ever tell you about The Happiness of the Katakuris? Or was it you that told me?

[hat-of-nikitich.livejournal.com]

Also: MirrorMask might fill a Baron Munchausen-esque space for you!

[xyzzysqrl]

I think we discovered it roughly at the same time. I still have not seen that, actually! No Netflix anymore. I should FIND a way to see it.

I read the novel of Mirrormask, and it did not endow me with mirrors or a mask any great desire to see the movie. Still, it is Something. Someone else advised I watch Big Fish.

[hat-of-nikitich.livejournal.com]

I never read the novel, but I thought the movie was very visually unique! Although, looking back, the "adolescence be hard times, yo" theme/metaphor was pretty overpowering.

[foxish.livejournal.com]

Baron Munchhausen is one of Terry Gilliam's finest works, really. It's simply epic in its...epicness. It actually plays as a trilogy of sorts, too--it is the "doddering, delusional fool" phase of a "growing up" arc, following after Time Bandits (naive youth ending) and Brazil (adulthood and being ground by the gears).

...I should really watch Brazil.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Allow me to second the Baron Munchausen vote.

Though, Robin Williams wouldn't put his name on it because he did the movie as a favor to Terry Gilliam, and didn't want the movie to be "ROBIN WILLIAMS in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". He'd been burned a few times by agreeing to be in a film and then having the studio overstate his screentime in order to cash in.

[xyzzysqrl]

I recall vigorous bitching about Disney's Aladdin by Robin, yes.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to pick up Figaro at some point - sounds quite irresistible. ^_^

Do consider seeing Mirrormask - it's a fantastically visually lush production.

One you might enjoy (or, not =:) - Survive Style 5+. Quite a strange Japanese production, with a few parallel storylines, which all tie into each other, connected by Vinnie Jones as a hitman, who likes to ask people, "What's your function in life?"

And I thoroughly loved The Fountain. (Probably a good one to watch in HD, if possible)

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I hated the Fountain. I thought it was an overwrought, poorly written, horribly pretentious piece of cinema. Which is odd, because I really enjoyed The Prestige, which was by the same director but works much MUCH better.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Further reading shows I was mistaken, The Fountain was directed by Darren Aronofsky, and The Prestige was done by Christopher Nolan. Which relieves me because I have really enjoyed other of Nolan's movies.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Linking back to that other post of yours makes me want to explain to people why Final Fantasy: TSW was a Final Fantasy movie, and berate them for missing the connecting feature of every Final Fantasy game that also connected TSW, despite them all taking place on different worlds with different history and different characters and levels of technology.

I haven't done that in a while. ^.^;;



I liked The Mummy. The Mummy 2 was kinda iffy but it was okay. I'm looking forward to The Mummy 3 because they fight the terracotta army, which was my only requirement for that movie to be good.


That lost skeleton movie sounds really cool. ^.^

[relee.livejournal.com]

P.S. Incidentally have you ever seen the Muppets Treasure Island?

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

"How DARE you put the Black Spot on a page of the Most Holy Bible!"

Maan. If there's anything Tim Curry can do, it's chew scenery.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Chew Scenery? What does that mean?

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I believe this page sums it up
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LargeHam
And also this is good too:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimCurry

Basically, it means that you turn in a performance that's so over-the-top that it might not technically be good (maybe), but it's so clear that the actor enjoyed the role so much that you can't help enjoy it too.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Oh! Okay. Yeah that's one of my favorite things about Tim Curry. <3

He always seems like he's having a lot of fun.