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Akash wrote:Titanic, and Romeo and Juliet. Oh and The Beach.
Titanic and Romeo & Juliet are a couple of guilty pleasures of mine too, but more so because I'm a straight male.
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All Things Fair was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film of 1995, but lost to Antonia's Line. Bo Widerberg's son Johan, who starred in it, is very hot.



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Titanic, and Romeo and Juliet. Oh and The Beach.

Ok, Leo basically.

Note: Brown kids go through that phase (usually in high school) where blond and blue eyed is the most beautiful thing we've ever seen. Thankfully some of us grow out of it.




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Let´s go to the thread point. Idon´t know if this is an excellent movie. What I know is the deep impact that I received after watching it.
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I love a swedish movie directed by Bo Widerberg: All Things Fair. By the way, I hardly recommend it. The film provoked me all kind of feelings. I found it attractive to death. I think this is true art when some director manages succesfully to establish so intense communication with the audience.
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Cool World (1992): Directed by Ralph Bakshi / Starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt

This is probably the lowest rated movie I actually enjoy watching despite the horrible acting and poorly executed premise. The real novelty here is Bakshi's trademark animation and crude humor, not so much anything else. It was originally pitched to be an animated horror movie about an animator that has an illiegitimate half-human/half-cartoon daughter who attempts to kill him for making her what she is. That's obviously not what it turned out to be; the producer scrapped the idea and had it rewritten. It doesn't amount to his work from the 70's, but it's my guilty pleasure nonetheless.
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Oh, man, The Pirate Movie (1982): a pop music update of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Ken Annakin (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines); a hopelessly silly film that was barely released; Christopher Atkins proves that he has no acting (or singing) ability whatsover (but he's nice to look at in his skimpy outfits), while Kristy McNichol throws herself into her role with joyful abandon; some Gilbert & Sullivan songs are reworked with modern lyrics ("The Modern Major General's Song" references the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and S&M!), while the new songs range from blandly pleasant ballads to delightfully awful up-temp numbers ("Pumpin' & Blowin'" works in a variety of sexual innuendos, while "Happy Ending" skewers all those showstopping finales). One probably has to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy it, but I love it!
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Talk about the films that you love despite rampant critical abuse and a general feeling of "why would you like something like that?". It should be a movie that you love in spite of your normal tastes but wouldn't be considered good by any traditional empirical measures. You just love it even though the rest of the world probably hates it.
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