April 08, 2012
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Spirited Away
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year old girl wanders into a magical world where a witch rules--and those who disobey her are turned into animals. When her parents are turned into pigs, the girl must find a way to help them return to their human form.
Evangelion
In the wake of a global cataclysm, the fate of the world lies with a 14-year old boy and his ability to pilot the Evangelion -- a fighting machine designed by his father -- against a merciless army of alien invaders known as Angels.
Kill Bill
A pregnant assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle. But she survives and sets out to kill all those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
Michael Clayton
A law firm brings in its best "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. Dramatic thriller.
Shame
Thirtysomething New Yorker Brandon is outwardly reserved, but inside is seething with an overwhelming sexual addiction. When his tempestuous and much-loved younger sister invades his life, he struggles to escape his self-destructive behavior.
Primer
Quite by accident, an engineer and his friends build a machine that can transport the user back in time. But their discovery comes with an ominous caveat: at the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface.
Fargo
Police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- is hot on the trail of a Minneapolis car dealer conspiring with two kidnappers to snatch his wife so he can pocket part of the hefty ransom.
The Big Lebowski
The ultimate slacker gets involved in a gargantuan mess of events when he's mistaken for another man named Lebowski, whose wife has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.
Raising Arizona
An ex-con and his ex-cop wife are devastated when they learn they can’t have children. So they decide to “borrow” one of a furniture magnate’s new quintuplets.
A Serious Man
Black comedy about a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. He seeks the answers from three rabbis.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Being John Malkovich
When a puppeteer discovers a portal into John Malkovich's brain, he decides to sell 15-minute excursions into the esteemed actor's mind. But soon, Craig's wife becomes obsessed with the experience.
Rounders
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks and a crazy Russian.
The Matrix
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Children of Men
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Moon
As he nears the end of a lonely three-year stint on a moon base, an, astronaut begins to hear and see strange things. It's not long before he suspects that his employer has other plans for him.
2001 A Space Odyssey
While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, two astronauts battle their ship's intelligent computer.
Big Fish
A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life.
Amelie
An innocent and naive girl in Paris decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
Memento
A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
Inception
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date.
Star Wars
A spirited farm boy joins rebel forces to save a princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.
No Country for Old Men
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
Pan’s Labyrinth
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution.
The Shining
An aspiring novelist accepts a position as the off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie hotel so he can write undisturbed. But the ominous hotel begins to wield its sinister power.
Edward Scissorhands
An inventor dies before developing hands for his creation, a boy named who has scissors for hands. The boy lives a monastic existence until an Avon lady adopts him and takes him to live in the pastel paradise of suburbia.
Bad Santa
Two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus and his elf and travel across the country to major malls, using the good will people have toward Santa to rob the mall stores blind. But an introverted 8-year-old boy reminds them of the true meaning of Christmas.
Tropic Thunder
Combat film satire that tracks a group of actors who are forced to become real-life soldiers when they're abandoned in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Dr Strangelove
When a fanatical U.S. general launches an air strike against the Soviets, they raise the stakes by threatening to unleash a "doomsday device," setting the stage for Armageddon in this black comedy.
Finding Nemo
An overprotective fish searches for his missing son, who’s been scooped up by a scuba diver and dumped in a dentist’s aquarium. He must travel the entire ocean with an amnesiatic fish to find him.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Terrified sisters try to exorcise their home of two dark forces -- their evil stepmother and a vengeful entity.
Old Boy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years -- and no one to hold accountable for his suffering -- a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors, relying on assistance from a friendly waitress.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
The perfect crime goes horribly wrong for two brothers when they botch a robbery of their parents' jewelry store in this wrenching drama.
Slumdog Millionaire
After coming within one question of winning it all on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," an 18-year-old Mumbai "slumdog" is arrested on suspicion that he cheated his way to the top.
The Usual Suspects
When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix with an underworld kingpin.
Shadow of a Doubt
A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
Gattaca
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Saboteur
When an aircraft plant worker is wrongly accused of sabotage and murder, he embarks on a cross-country chase for the actual culprit.
Kung Fu Panda
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts.
Midnight in Paris
A Hollywood screenwriter and his wife travel to Paris, where they question the kind of life they want to live. But one night at midnight he time travels and meets the Lost Generation.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
Attack the Block
A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
Shaun of the Dead
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The Host
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
The Orphanage
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
The Sixth Sense
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
The Royal Tenenbaums
An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when the patriarch announces he has a terminal illness.
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year old girl wanders into a magical world where a witch rules--and those who disobey her are turned into animals. When her parents are turned into pigs, the girl must find a way to help them return to their human form.
Evangelion
In the wake of a global cataclysm, the fate of the world lies with a 14-year old boy and his ability to pilot the Evangelion -- a fighting machine designed by his father -- against a merciless army of alien invaders known as Angels.
Kill Bill
A pregnant assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle. But she survives and sets out to kill all those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
Michael Clayton
A law firm brings in its best "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. Dramatic thriller.
Shame
Thirtysomething New Yorker Brandon is outwardly reserved, but inside is seething with an overwhelming sexual addiction. When his tempestuous and much-loved younger sister invades his life, he struggles to escape his self-destructive behavior.
Primer
Quite by accident, an engineer and his friends build a machine that can transport the user back in time. But their discovery comes with an ominous caveat: at the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface.
Fargo
Police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- is hot on the trail of a Minneapolis car dealer conspiring with two kidnappers to snatch his wife so he can pocket part of the hefty ransom.
The Big Lebowski
The ultimate slacker gets involved in a gargantuan mess of events when he's mistaken for another man named Lebowski, whose wife has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.
Raising Arizona
An ex-con and his ex-cop wife are devastated when they learn they can’t have children. So they decide to “borrow” one of a furniture magnate’s new quintuplets.
A Serious Man
Black comedy about a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. He seeks the answers from three rabbis.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Being John Malkovich
When a puppeteer discovers a portal into John Malkovich's brain, he decides to sell 15-minute excursions into the esteemed actor's mind. But soon, Craig's wife becomes obsessed with the experience.
Rounders
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks and a crazy Russian.
The Matrix
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Children of Men
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Moon
As he nears the end of a lonely three-year stint on a moon base, an, astronaut begins to hear and see strange things. It's not long before he suspects that his employer has other plans for him.
2001 A Space Odyssey
While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, two astronauts battle their ship's intelligent computer.
Big Fish
A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life.
Amelie
An innocent and naive girl in Paris decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
Memento
A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
Inception
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date.
Star Wars
A spirited farm boy joins rebel forces to save a princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.
No Country for Old Men
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
Pan’s Labyrinth
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution.
The Shining
An aspiring novelist accepts a position as the off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie hotel so he can write undisturbed. But the ominous hotel begins to wield its sinister power.
Edward Scissorhands
An inventor dies before developing hands for his creation, a boy named who has scissors for hands. The boy lives a monastic existence until an Avon lady adopts him and takes him to live in the pastel paradise of suburbia.
Bad Santa
Two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus and his elf and travel across the country to major malls, using the good will people have toward Santa to rob the mall stores blind. But an introverted 8-year-old boy reminds them of the true meaning of Christmas.
Tropic Thunder
Combat film satire that tracks a group of actors who are forced to become real-life soldiers when they're abandoned in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Dr Strangelove
When a fanatical U.S. general launches an air strike against the Soviets, they raise the stakes by threatening to unleash a "doomsday device," setting the stage for Armageddon in this black comedy.
Finding Nemo
An overprotective fish searches for his missing son, who’s been scooped up by a scuba diver and dumped in a dentist’s aquarium. He must travel the entire ocean with an amnesiatic fish to find him.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Terrified sisters try to exorcise their home of two dark forces -- their evil stepmother and a vengeful entity.
Old Boy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years -- and no one to hold accountable for his suffering -- a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors, relying on assistance from a friendly waitress.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
The perfect crime goes horribly wrong for two brothers when they botch a robbery of their parents' jewelry store in this wrenching drama.
Slumdog Millionaire
After coming within one question of winning it all on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?," an 18-year-old Mumbai "slumdog" is arrested on suspicion that he cheated his way to the top.
The Usual Suspects
When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix with an underworld kingpin.
Shadow of a Doubt
A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
Gattaca
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Saboteur
When an aircraft plant worker is wrongly accused of sabotage and murder, he embarks on a cross-country chase for the actual culprit.
Kung Fu Panda
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts.
Midnight in Paris
A Hollywood screenwriter and his wife travel to Paris, where they question the kind of life they want to live. But one night at midnight he time travels and meets the Lost Generation.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
Attack the Block
A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
Shaun of the Dead
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The Host
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
The Orphanage
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
The Sixth Sense
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
The Royal Tenenbaums
An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when the patriarch announces he has a terminal illness.
2 Comments:
FenderJaguar posted on April 09, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Have you seen all these movies? Or just a fan of the logjams?
KRANTZ posted on April 09, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Seen them all, made a big list of movies I like and pulled these out of it
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