Lists, people.

[BIG H]

Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.

Mate, what possible redeeming feature did you see in 'Lost in Translation'?

That film was awful!!

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.

Mate, what possible redeeming feature did you see in 'Lost in Translation'?

That film was awful!!

Bill Murray/Stip club/Peaches
Whiskey ad.
erm.

[Nameless]

Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.

Mate, what possible redeeming feature did you see in 'Lost in Translation'?

That film was awful!!

Bill Murray/Stip club/Peaches
Whiskey ad.
erm.

And Santori is a damn good whiskey. I still prefer Talisker, however

[OumaFan]

Lost in Translation I could watch pretty much over and over. Well that's an exaggeration but it was awesome.

Arcade Fire-Funeral
Pheonix-Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix
The Strokes-Is this It & Room on Fire
Radiohead-In Rainbows: bad decade for them but I liked this album
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
The Libertines: Up the Bracket
Elliot Smith: From a Basement on the Hill
Whiskeytown: Pneumonia

Meh, I'm not really happy with that list even though I like every album, I feel like I'm forgetting some stuff.

[OumaFan]

Books are most difficult for me to place in a context of time, I went to my room to get out a book I really loved that I thought was for sure only a few years old and it was written in 1996. So I don't know if I'll be making that list today, would have to think about it.

[CFH]

I'm tempted to make a "worst posters on Saddo's" list, but that would be very un-Mod like of me. Oh the heavy burden of responsibility .

[OumaFan]

great minds and all that, I was thinking of a worst poster list but decided it wouldn't seem sporting. By all means if anyone wants to start one off....

[amat]

So wait, only since 2000? That's a shame because I just saw Miller's Crossing and that was EXCELLENT, but I'm pretty sure it came out in the mid 90's. At first I thought this thread was about ICB's posting habits. Oh well. I'll start with movies and then albums. Well I won't do albums but I'm just letting you know I'm not doing books. Like OumaFan said, to hard to place in the context of time. I'm almost done with Under The Dome though next is The Stand. Gone Baby Gone was OK, I didn't like it all that much.

City of God/City of Men
The Departed
Eastern Promises
Children Of Men
Knocked Up
Lord Of the Rings all of them
The Prestige
Flags of Our Fathers
Sin City
Catch Me If You Can
There Will Be Blood

Man I can go on forever and forever about just my favormite DiCaprio and Matt Damon movies. A lot of people called them overrated a while back and a lot of those people were DEAD WRONG, for my money they are two of the best actors in movie history and I'd love for some people to argue otherwise. Over the course of this post I have downed 2 beers and I think I am temporarily drunk.

[CFH]

Lost in Translation I could watch pretty much over and over. Well that's an exaggeration but it was awesome.

Arcade Fire-Funeral
Pheonix-Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix
The Strokes-Is this It & Room on Fire
Radiohead-In Rainbows: bad decade for them but I liked this album
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
The Libertines: Up the Bracket
Elliot Smith: From a Basement on the Hill
Whiskeytown: Pneumonia

Meh, I'm not really happy with that list even though I like every album, I feel like I'm forgetting some stuff.

I'm assuming that's a list of the best albums of the decade? I'll make my own as soon as I'm done this goddamn essay.

[OumaFan]

Yes just the decade, definitely not ever. I'm not sure any of those would make a top ten ever list. Some of them definitely wouldn't. I think if I had to make a list from each decade back to like the 60's the 90's would win out for me. Possibly something to do with me growing up during that decade but still I think it would win out.

[OumaFan]

Well the 80's would be good too actually.

[Gandalf]

Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.

Mate, what possible redeeming feature did you see in 'Lost in Translation'?

That film was awful!!

I think it's a really good film. It has Japan and it has Bill Murray, and with those two together and some quality cinematography and music thrown in you are already on the way to creating something interesting. There are some funny Murray moments, but it also captures the disconnection and ennui you can feel living in a strange place where you don't really speak the language and where the culture is somewhat alien. It's a film with moments in it that I really relate to. I think the Scarlett Johannson character was a little too cliche for my liking, but I think Murray puts in a really brilliant performance. It's a film where nothing much really happens, but that's kind of the point.

[BIG H]

I was a bit harsh. The film does have 2 redeeming features

[Nameless]

Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.

Mate, what possible redeeming feature did you see in 'Lost in Translation'?

That film was awful!!

I think it's a really good film. It has Japan and it has Bill Murray, and with those two together and some quality cinematography and music thrown in you are already on the way to creating something interesting. There are some funny Murray moments, but it also captures the disconnection and ennui you can feel living in a strange place where you don't really speak the language and where the culture is somewhat alien. It's a film with moments in it that I really relate to. I think the Scarlett Johannson character was a little too cliche for my liking, but I think Murray puts in a really brilliant performance. It's a film where nothing much really happens, but that's kind of the point.

I quite liked it as well, and I loved how it did depict the boredom of couple"s life after a few years if you can't renew nothing in your relation. The carpet samplers were just a statement about it hehe. As for Scarlett, in that movie,, I kind of saw a young Murray in it, like she's starting on a very bad note her relation with her newly fiance and feels the same boredom as Murray except way earlier in her life.