From time to time, we like take a break from technology news to query our readers to find out details about our community. Previously, we asked you to show us your desktop. This time, we ask "What's your favorite movie?" Is it sci-fi or comedy? Action or maybe drama? Share your favorites so we can check them out! I'll start: while I'm tempted to say The Red Violin, I'm not sure there's a better screenplay than The Usual Suspects. 
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Member since:2006-03-15
The attack begins 46:00 into the film, "well thought out", nicely done, and even timely given that the premise was Iran-centric ! It seems that a lot of real war footage was mixed in, the attack-scenes have that sense of being real rather than special-effects-y, scary indeed.
Member since:2006-03-15
Searching the Google Video on (( "RAPE OF NANKING" )) finds the full version, the 1:17 "English Language Edition" with the plain red-on-black slide on the left.
I just skipped through the dead-body-footage, the REALLY scary part was the summary lessons, beginning at about 1:13, e.g. at 1:13:53
"The Nanjing Massacre is a lie made up by the Chinese" -- Ishihara Shintaro, Japanese Cabinet Minister, 1990.
followed by a few more similar slides from contemporary Japan.
and at 1:14:40 "Those Who Deny the Past...And Those Who Do Not Learn From the Past...Are Condemned to Repeat the Past and Suffer the Consequences"
THANKS for pointing me to that "Threads" documentary, it was following links from that that I stumbled over Nanking. The most dreadful word I remember from the "Threads" documentary was "Escalate" - in the USA "War in Iraq" seems to always mean relatively light-duty-stuff, from a historical perspective, a few IED's, a few more doors kicked down, a few more suicide bombs. Worth revisting these documentaries on those HUGE weapons available on such short notice...
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2005-07-06
I've too many to list but quite a few have been listed already.
Anything by Kubric or Gilliam, I also like a lot of Ridley Scott's work (Alien, Blade Runner) and Spielberg's. Sam Mendes has only done a few so far but they're all good, the photography in his films is excellent.
Some not mentioned:
Last of the Mohicans
The Killing Fields
Solaris (later version)
Contact
Threads ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488&q=thre... )
If you want to see something different: "Pi" and "Man bites dog".
If you want a laugh: Amelie, The Blues Brothers, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Little Shop of Horrors, ("You’ll be a dentist. You have a talent for causing things pain").
Edited 2007-04-29 15:36