Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Horror.
Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Horror.
Movies that give you fewer obvious pieces of the plot so you have to put more of it together yourself. Syrianna or the constant gardner are two recent favorites.
No Country For Old Men: My ex-girlfriend hates it, while I believe it is nigh unto objectively perfect in every way. (That's not the reason for the "ex-" prefix, by the way. I'm not THAT much of a nerd.)
Author David Foster Wallace said in an interview that he didn't know a single female who liked Unforgiven. And friends have expressed surprise when I told them I knew a girl who liked Arrested Development.
"We are symbols and inhabit symbols; workmen, work, and tools, words and things, birth and death, all are emblems; but we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts." - Emerson, "The Poet" (Essays, Second Series)
I believe the last movie my wife and I watched at a theater together, and agreed on, was "Roxanne" with Steve Martin.
IIRC that was in the late '80's.
In Christ,
-- Rev
To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper. Daniel Webster, 4th of July, 1800, Oration at Hanover, N.H.
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