can we just have a totally unpretentious thread about LOVING MOVIES?

[cricket]

i ask only because i worry that people (sadly, myself included from time to time) have a hard time admitting that they love Mean Girls AND La Dolce Vita. i mean, at least, i have a hard time with it. people want you to be one way or the other: you have this really discerning taste or your opinions are crap. i think that so often, there's this really real medium between the two, and that in that area are people who really just love to have a story told to them through this really unique medium, and i think there's something to that...

so if this thread has to have something for people to respond to specifically, what are two seemingly unrelated and supposedly un-connectable films that you love?

[rozalia qual]

I don't watch very many movies but I too liked Mean Girls haha I watched it twice...

Usual Suspects and tends to be my favorite movie, I'd consider that unconnectable with Mean Girls as mentioned above.

Thhe movies I really like are really random compared to one another. Schindler's List, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Shop Of Horrors, Harold & Kumar and Requiem For A Dream don't exactly compliment each other well...

[orchestral]

i can. my favourite movie is ferris bueller.
people who don't understand that movie, or it's placement as my #1, have serious questions to ask themselves regarding elitism

[historygravity]

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned Herzog and Russ Meyer in the same thread. So, I dig.

Not long ago my best friend and I watched Ferris Beueller with her neices and were totaly bummed out that they didn't get it. Especially since it was made with some of our friends or schoolmates as extras in my best friend's area.

[kesh]

ferris, russ meyer and others have all become acceptable over time. you have to like the crap that's out right now + fassbinder.

i'm downloading ishtar at the moment. can it be as bad as it's reputation or did it get a reassessment?