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Jan-20-11
 | | chancho: No mention of Marlon Brando's the Wild One? (well, except for me.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047677/ |
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Jan-20-11
 | | Fusilli: <JB> I am refraining from watching the youtube video bc I might just watch the whole movie... But I will need cc, I'm sure. I have to say I am addicted to closed caption. My English is pretty good, but recordings are not the same as listening to people live, so I sometimes miss words. And if it is slang, or with accents I am not used to, I may miss a bunch. Apocalypse Now had no cc on Netflix... what I missed was just small bits and pieces, nothing essential, nothing Martin Sheen or Marlon Brando said, but a good portion of what Robert Duvall said... I still knew what was going on, though, but had to back up a couple of times. Bottom line, if cc is available I set it just in case... but then if it is on it's impossible not to look at it! |
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| Jan-20-11 | | crawfb5: <<Crawf> Great list! But a horror movie on the number 1 spot? That is remarkable, unless they are not necessarily sorted by any meaningful criteria...> ??? <Citizen Kane> was #1 on the original 1997 list. To what movie are you referring? It is interesting to see how perceptions of some films change over time. For example, both <Casablanca> and <It's a Wonderful Life> have grown into "classic" status over the years. |
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Jan-20-11
| | Fusilli: <crawf> huh?? What happened? I'm going insane! I swear, I mean I totally swear, that the first time I clicked on the link you gave the number 1 movie was <Halloween>. I remember that I even clicked on the link to the movie, which led me to the Halloween entry in Wikipedia... but my browser's history does not confirm this! And I positively remember No. 2 through 5 were the same as when I clicked now. My conclusion is that someone edited the number 1 movie from <Citizen Kane> to <Halloween> and someone else edited it back to the original, which can happen on Wikipedia... or I am going insane. |
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Jan-20-11
| | Fusilli: Aha! I'm not going insane! If you click on the "View History" tab of that 100-movie list page, you will see the most recent edit: <23:47, 20 January 2011 Bovineboy2008 (talk | contribs) m (16,237 bytes) (Reverted 6 edits by 75.88.176.157 (talk) identified as vandalism to last revision by 173.55.249.206. (TW)) (undo)> So, Bovineboy2008 reverted six edits identified as vandalism! One of which, of course, was the substitution of <Halloween> for <Citizen Kane> These Wikipedia watchdogs are good! Go Bovineboy! |
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| Jan-21-11 | | crawfb5: <M> I see. Gotta love that revisionist history. Btw, this doesn't really mean you're not going insane... |
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| Jan-21-11 | | izimbra: <For now, I am trying to watch pre-1980 movies that made history.> That's a big bucket with different ways of defining it, including - 'influential with later filmakers', 'popular with audiences', 'widely talked about for many years' (you'd be surprised at movies like Pink Flamingoes that few saw or liked by which enter many conversations), 'commercially successful' (and therefore influential with studios), and 'loved by critics'. Another example - I don't see any Walt Disney cartoons in your list, but they were very popular and very influential commercially. Not only modern computer generated stuff like Shrek, but other movies with actors, like Enchanted, are clearly Disney legacy. |
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Jan-21-11
| | Fusilli: <Izimbra> True... let's say that I am just trying to earn more movie literacy. So, criteria such as popular culture references to movies of the past or frequency with which they are brought up would be about right for me. Also, I am curious to see how tastes have changed over time. Last night I watched <Buth Cassidy and the Sundance Kid>. It was all right to me. A good movie. But I suspect I would have liked it better when it came out. I think scripts are a little more realistic today. For example, <Butch Cassidy> has the following: 1) One of the members of the gang is, quite surprisingly, a very good reader! He gets out a newspaper clip and reads quickly and without stumbling, like a college graduate would read today. And this while his speech is, appropriately, rural low-class consistent with what you would expect from a gunman. 2) The Sundance Kid's girlfriend is a beautiful single 26-year old woman who lives in her own house and is a school teacher. That woman would have been long attached, and would not hook up with a gunman. At some point she describes her situation as being at the bottom of the pile, or something like that. For a young woman in late 19th century to be a school teacher and apparently owning her own house was surely not at all like being at the bottom of the pile. I think writers (and the public) were not sensitive to those "details" at the time this movie was released. I think of things like these as unthinkable in a modern movie. BTW, <Crawf>'s list included Disney's <Fantasia> (1940). |
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Jan-21-11
| | Fusilli: <C> My wife agrees with you! |
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| Jan-21-11 | | crawfb5: <BTW, <Crawf>'s list included Disney's <Fantasia> (1940).> As well as <Snow White and the Seven Dwarves> (1937). |
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| Jan-21-11 | | dakgootje: I've seen both!
Of the few pre-1980 films I've seen, it includes a lot of Disney-classics :P |
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Jan-22-11
| | Fusilli: Just finished watching Hitchcock's <North by Northwest>. With this, I can check 36 out of the 100 movies in the list that <Crawfb5> linked to. (That is counting a few that I saw a long time ago and I remember nothing of today.) 65 to go! |
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| Jan-22-11 | | Jim Bartle: Looked at the list of 100 movies, which is surprisingly mainstream. I guess it's best movies in English (or silent). I've seen all but 13. But how did "Easy Rider" sneak in there? And "Dances with Wolves"? |
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Jan-22-11
| | Fusilli: Just saw <No Country for Old Men> which, sadly, is not on the list. Been watching a lot of movies, lately!
I should be playing <Guess the Move> instead! |
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| Jan-23-11 | | crawfb5: <M> <No Country for Old Men> (2007) is too recent for the original list (1997), or even for the update (2007). It is quite a movie, and gave me some interesting ideas about the use of spare change... |
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Jan-23-11
| | Fusilli: <No Country for Old Men> I think this was the most tense-filled scene in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhXJ...
Just memorable.
The comments that follow the youtube post, sadly, show how irredeemably stupid so many people are. It's depressing to even look at them, but who can resist? Now I feel a bit stupid myself for having wasted 10 minutes of my life reading a bunch of them... |
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| Jan-24-11 | | dakgootje: Right, I just random-GTM'd into
E NAJER vs P Ponkratov, 2010 1-0
35 moves w/ ending • played: 3 • par score: 58
Too long since I had played a GTM! :P
Will keep you posted for my final score [if I manage to finish this evening] |
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| Jan-24-11 | | dakgootje: early update: how bad can you start?
The first moves Najer played I did not want to play, because of Ponk's exact responses. As black I would've had full points, now I'm still at 0 :P |
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| Jan-24-11 | | dakgootje: Well, that went pretty bad
E Najer vs P Ponkratov, 2010.
YOU ARE PLAYING THE ROLE OF NAJER.
Your score: 62 (par = 61)
Guess that's what you get when you miss the first 10 point or so. And play the rest fairly mediocre as well. |
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| Jan-24-11 | | crawfb5: <dak> Don't feel bad. I only scored 69. The par is now 62. |
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| Jan-24-11 | | izimbra: I've lost track of whether the interest is just supposed to be American films. Which was sort of the criteria for the link from <crawfb5>. There is, of course, a different, global list which allows Renoir, Kurosawa, Bergman, etc., etc. Among U.S. made films, I think <Touch of Evil> should definitely be on the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWtA...
Also, for a 1980 classic, I'd add <Ordinary People>. |
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| Jan-25-11 | | dakgootje: <Don't feel bad. I only scored 69. The par is now 62.> I'm sorry Big Tuna - that does not help much :(
Did you mess up the opening as well? Actually near the end I thought I saw a brilliant move. It wasn't. |
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Jan-25-11
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <dakgootje> I also only got a 69, so it's not as if everyone and their uncle is scoring 8x. I guess you did okay outside the opening ;-) |
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| Jan-25-11 | | dakgootje: Fair enough, the max-score was only 84 because there were 28 guessable moves. Perhaps the par was simply fairly high already.
It would be good scoring a max-score wouldn't it?!
Alright, new 2011-resolution: score at least 90% of the possible points in a game with 25 guessable moves or more. |
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| Jan-25-11 | | crawfb5: <It would be good scoring a max-score wouldn't it?!> Then clearly the plan is to get one of your own games into the database and then have it made into a GTM game... |
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