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Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator (navigatorsghost) wrote,
@ 2009-05-06 22:04:00

Current mood:	geeky
Current music:	Koi playing the Advent Children soundtrack
Entry tags:	audience participation, beautiful things, forthcoming attractions, fun, i love the world, links, movies, obsessions

On movies!
Okay! Prompted by rumblings from tribe sternenstaub's general direction, here is a list of Thirteen Films Rath Loves And Will Show At The Slightest Provocation (there are more, but I thought I'd limit myself a little...)

Trick or Treat (being the definition of what one certain strand of the eighties was ALL about, yes. Featuring Sammi Curr, the greatest fictional rock god of all time.)
Streets of Fire (rock opera. Only not. Only gritty and badass and snarky and slashy and amazing. This film makes me want to explode for joy. With added Jim Steinman songs! And Willem Dafoe in black vinyl!)
John Carpenter's Vampires (is sleazy and rough-edged and politically incorrect, violent and sexy and has an old priest, a young priest, a fantastic vampire, and James Woods being utterly brilliant)
Ghosts of Mars (because I want to see it again dammit and nobody ever wants to watch it with me. Primarily a visual-spectacle flick, recommended for anyone who likes glossy-edged, darkish, vaguely incomprehensible SF and anyone with a kink for sharp objects/piercings/body mods/black leather/pain.)
Last Action Hero (anyone who loves the way stories and worlds fit together should see this film. As should anyone who likes their villains intelligent, well dressed and dangerous. Warning: contains Arnold Schwarznegger sending himself up, which is dangerous levels of adorable.)
The Ninth Gate (I normally don't do the Johnny Depp thing, but when he's playing a complete bastard of a book dealer who's chasing down a book co-written by the Devil? Hell yes. Also, Frank Langella does his Bad Guy routine in this to wonderful effect. WIN.)
Batman Forever (because it's so slick and nineties and glossy and ridiculous and eye-candy, and I cannot get enough, ever, of this version of Two-Face and the Riddler - seriously, seeing is believing.)
David Cronenberg's Crash (I love this film and it's a lot more than just the shocker it was made out to be on its release, but just about everyone who has ever reviewed it has managed to make me go "What, no, YOU HAVE NO CLUE" so I always like rewatching it. But it's one that not many people I know have the stomach for, sadly. :/ )
Dracula (the 1979 version, for my money the finest portrayal of the Count ever, courtesy of Frank Langella. Beautifully sensual, ambiguous, subtle, and gorgeously shot, this is a lost classic of the highest order.)
Mortal Kombat (I will not try to be coherent about this film, never going to happen, seriously. Characters/design/fight cinematography/music/EVERYTHING++++++)
Ghost Rider (...obviously.)
Sin City (makes me cry and ache and cheer and gasp out loud every time. Best comic-noir movie ever made except, just possibly, Watchmen.)
The Shadow (most gorgeous America-that-never-was in the universe, Mongol warlords, and Alec Baldwin hamming it up. I love this film not so much for what it straightforwardly is, as for everything I can see just off the edges of the frame.)

If anything on that list sounds like something you want to see/resee/geek about, please leave a comment below and I will see what I can do! :)

Love,
Rath

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	sternenstaub 2009-05-06 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Ghosts of Mars and Crash stand out as ones I've not seen but have a deep and almost clinical need to have in my life. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-06 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	I ♥ you and you and yours must come and watch movies. hugs (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-05-06 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Evil Frank Langella + Johnny Depp + occult activities in a fashion that, I assume from your enjoyment, doesn't mutilate the core concept into oblivion? I'm in. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lookingforsigns 2009-05-06 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Wtf, that was me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-06 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, hello :) And absolutely, yes, the occultica in there is not at all bad. Next time you come over? ^_^ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookingforsigns 2009-05-06 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	Eee, yes please. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	raisedbymoogles 2009-05-06 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	I will sit down and watch anything you care to show me. :D (Eeee, Vampires! I remember that! :D) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	raisedbymoogles 2009-05-06 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Also, Ghosts of Mars and The Shadow sound especially wonderful. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-07 03:19 am UTC (link)
	One day, either I will get back to America or you will get over here, and then, either way, there will be RathandMooglemovienight. nodnods So it is written, so shall it be done. loves upon (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	raisedbymoogles 2009-05-07 08:36 am UTC (link)
	Eeee. ^_^ My favorite kind of things-being-written. hugs! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	koilungfish.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 05:41 am UTC (link)
	It vaguely surprises me how many of these I've seen ... all but three, in fact, and at least half of them before I met you. How odd. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-07 06:14 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's not as though everything on there is obscure. And we are the same age, so we probably both saw some of these when they were at the box office. ;) (Which three haven't you seen, out of curiosity?) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	koilungfish.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 06:33 am UTC (link)
	Actually, I think I saw most of them over a summer when I was at my father's and walked to the video store every day to rent a new movie for exercise. Worked for me. Dracula, Streets of Fire and Crash. Also, gherkins plz? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	koilungfish.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 06:52 am UTC (link)
	... wait, wait, I've just realised. I've got no more cheese, so there's no point bringing me any more gherkins. I'm being daft. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookingforsigns 2009-05-07 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	There is obviously something in this conversation I've missed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-08 04:52 am UTC (link)
	Yes, because it's a trailing-off end of a conversation me and Koi were having in person the day before. Don't worry about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lookingforsigns 2009-05-08 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Heh, I figured. ^_^ It was just such an amusing switch. (Reply to this) (Parent)