Movies I really like.

In no particular order.

I'm publishing this to share the movies I like.
I prefer not discussing about things I like just because.
So here's a list of movies I really, really like. I will tell you what's it about, I will tell you about my favourite scenes in it.

The Fall 

by Tarsem Singh.

I'm so in love with this movieeee my gosssh. Just finished this the other day and there's just too much to say about this movie, I can't even start. The storyline, the characters, the lines, the visuals... The most impressive thing about this film is the visuals -absolutely stunning, each scene. 

1. I love and appreciate is the fact that there's nothing digitally enhanced or manipulated in this movie (except to clean up modern stuff around). This movie is technically beautiful.

2. I also absolutely love the fact that Tarsem took, what, two decades to perfect this masterpiece. What I like more than art that I like is the artist behind it. Imagine the heart poured out to make this piece, ugh.
As much as I love the story, the storyteller is always more interesting. 

I really like this scene a LOT. This is when the heroes wrapped the Masked Bandit's dead brother in a plain white sheet held by this ridiculously high pillars. Breathtaking I tell you. Oh, yes that's blood.

This scene I like the MOST. The scene where the masked bandit marries the princess but was ultimately betrayed by the priest. But that's not the point. The point is, this scene was so stunning and beautiful, it literally takes one's breath away. This isn't the best screen capture of the scene but everything about it from the Sufis whirling around in slow motion to the costumes everyone was wearing and those chimes in the wind, the words -almost flawless.

And I really like the blue city scene! It's incrediblee.

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

by Michel Gondry.

I just love 'em tragic, thought-provoking movies. Michel Gondry is a great director and writer. He also did Science of Sleep, which I like also :D Because I just love the French so much. And the movie was really nice. 

1. But I like Eternal Sunshine because I don't like easy stuff. I also don't like chick-flicks.

2. I like how Michel Gondry is so brilliant and could come up with such a trippy storyline. I like very much the fact that Clementine's hair colour changes. It's like Lola from Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer and Ramona from Scott Pilgrim :D

I like the part near the end where Joel just runs around crazy chasing for more time with Clementine and the scenes keep changing and they were just running and running and running until they were laying on the ice on their backs. 

Breakfast At Tiffany's

by Blake Edwards

I will always root for the printed rather than the filmed. Breakfast at Tiffany's is no exception. Although there are many, many differences between the book by Truman Capote and the film, I still like the book more. I think it's because when one reads, one tends to be bounded by nothing but their imagination and what are films but just another's creation? Means also that I'm just biased :P

1. Mm I like the fact that the ending is different from the book. I don't like happy endings but in this case, my gosh, the book made me so sad, I'm glad that the movie had a happy ending :')

2. AUDREY HEPBURNNN. And her sophisticated style.

Hmm I like the whole movie, there's no scene I like in particular. Something about Holly that makes me like everything and every scene in this movie. Oh, well I do like the party scenes. I like how everyone just crams into her small white apartment and talks and smokes - dayum can Audrey smoke or whaat.

Paris, Je'Taime

by various brilliant directors.

I think this is what intensified my love for Paris about give or take, a couple of years ago. Oh, how I adore Pariiiiiiis <3! This movie is a compilation of short films in separate districts or arrondissements of Paris. Every short film was beauuutiful in its own ways.

Even though there's like, eighteen short movies, they were really memorable. I still can remember a few of them. My favourite would be Le Marais by Gus Van Sant, I think because Gaspard Ulliel was in it :P One of the first ones I watched was Bastille by Isabel Coixet and 14e arrondissement by Alexander Payne, these were the ones that stuck with me for a long time and no doubt it got me thinking about some things. Quais de Seine by Paul Mayeda Berges and Gurinder Chadha was interesting and it made kind of opened a part of my little mind when I saw it. Quartier des Enfants Rouges by Olivier Assayas remained to be my favourite one for a loooong time when I saw this movie, I found it somehow amusing. Also Faubourg Saint-Denis by Tom Tykwer who directed Run Lola Run and also will be directing Cloud Atlas (!!!), which is going to be epic. Like The Fountain. And I haven't even watch the Fountain yet :P

This movie introduced me to a lot of really artsy fartsy directors and they really showed the beauty of the story, the character, the place in such little time. I was impressed.

1. I love the fact that it wasn't much about Paris, it was more about Parisians in Paris and people in Paris. How Paris is just this magical place where all sorts of people reside. It's very personal.

2. It's a French movie about Paris, need I say more?

500 Days of Summer

by Marc Webb.

Too over-rated to say anything about it. But I really like it because it's tragic. Well, not really but it is. I absolutely loathe it when people say that they like this movie and that they could relate to being Summer/Tom or being in that situation and all. End of story.

1. I find this movie hilariousss.

2. Not to mention the awesome soundtrack (!!). 

Oh, I like both these scenes very much; the expectation/reality and the near ending. I think I like the near ending the most. I like... closure?! Ironic! Haha.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
by Edgar Wright



Remember when hipsters were all over this?! And Where The Wild Things Are? Gosh. I haven't watch the latter. Anyway, I like Michael Cera! He's so awkward and awkward. 
1. Michael Cera.
2. Beck and Metric.
3. Hipster.








Mean Girls
by Mark Waters.



Ooooh. All time favourite. Don't need no reasons, yaw.

The whole movie was my favourite scene. I mostly liked the dialogues -hiiilarity.












The Pianist
by Roman Polanski.



A masterpiece. This is a really good film. Adrien Brody was a really good actor. Is. Was. I don't know, he started acting in one of those action blockbuster movie. Didn't even watch that but this one he was really good.
Once upon a time when I was little I saw this movie and it left a deep impression on me even though I didn't know what was going on. The past few years I managed to somehow cross paths with this movie and I was all, "I remember this! Oh, that's actually what was happening." I like that feeling. Like how when I am with like Stepmom, which unfortunately didn't it to this list but is credited anyway for being there just like how old artists get awards just because they've been there all this while even though the newcomers are more deserving of it. Not to say they're completely useless. Okay, back to the Pianist.

This movie is so tragic it's hard to find a scene that I like. Like 'em all, haha. But this scene in particular I brought it with me for years, from the time when I didn't know what this movie was called and what it was about. It was when Szpilman and his family was just waiting with the others to get transported. He sits down with his brother and his brother reads an excerpt of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. I forgot how long he quoted but these lines I remember perfectly of him reciting;

If you prick us, do we not bleed?If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

I also like this scene where Szpilman plays for this German officer who found him hiding out in a building.












Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.



I don't really like watching cartoons and animations but this is an exception! I absolutely adoreeeee this movie! The most funniest thing I've seen in years. 

I like how almost ALL the characters are soooo awkward and adorable like me! I find the dialogues to be the most hilarious thing ever but the last time when I re-watched it, it was just plain random. Still, randomness is amusing to me.

HAHA, I like how Flint goes around rushing here and there stating verbs like, "typing.. waiting.. mixing.." He's so enthusiastic about everything, it's shoo entertaining. Gosh, if ever I find a real-life Flint Lockwood, I'd be so stitched up, blablablablablablabla.














Moulin Rouge
by Baz Luhrmann.



Really like the randomness of this movie! Gosh and music, of course.
Apparently Luhrmann was inspired by a play he saw in India. Totally explains the randomity of this film. 
I like the scene when the unconscious Argentinean (AHHAHA) sang Roxanne. 

Alsooo I like the randomness when they were trying to explain Spectacular Spectacular to the Duke.

So delighting, it will run for 50 years!

Might have more but term's getting hectic. Besides, this post is a product of me stress relieving during term one's exam times. 

Now that term one is over and term two has started, this post shall be published.


Reader, note that this post is created for no reason but to give credit to films that inspire me. Pay no attention to things such as the use of my language or the way I come off of this post. End.