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Hi I'm Nik, here you'll find my random musings as well as the interesting things I find in my wanderings of the internet. I'm a self confessed cinephile and video game obsessive, with a mild addiction to Lost.
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Day 30 of 30 Days of Movies
Your favorite ever movie
I can’t do it, you can’t make me do it, there’s no way I can name just one movie to be my favorite of all time, in fact I don’t think any cinéphile could if you really pushed them. I’m bending the rules one last time, the above gallery is a selection of my favorite films, this list isn’t definitive though I’d be here all day if I had to list all of my favorite movies.
It’s been awesome doing this list and reading others, I’ve realized I’ve got a lot of films that I still need to see and a bunch more films that I need to rewatch.
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Day 29 of 30 Days of Movies
A movie from your childhood
I felt really old when Chris put Toy Story down as a movie from his childhood, my movie from my childhood is one a little bit older than that. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial is the earliest film I can remember watching, mostly because my parents remind me fairly regularly that I spent the latter part of the film of in tears.
Now when I watch it, I don’t sit their in tears I sit there admiring the child-like wonder of it all and remembering that Spielberg truly is a master of his craft.
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Day 28 of 30 Days of Movies
Favorite film by your favorite director
Rian Johnsons directorial debut Brick blew my mind the first time I saw it and it still continues to blow my mind today, it’s one of the few films that I can watch on a regular basis and marvel at its artistic craftsmanship. The film features fantastic performances from everyone but it’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt who really gets to shine, completely shaking off any memory you had of him from 3rd Rock from the Sun and becoming the brilliant actor we all know today.
Brick is one of the few films I’ll defend to the death because it’s one of the few films I can’t work out why people don’t like.
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Day 27 of 30 Days of Movies
A movie you wished you’d seen at the cinema
I really wished this one wasn’t such an easy pick but unfortunately it was. When I was younger my parents took me to the cinema and asked me what I wanted watch, being a young naive gamer I asked my parents to take me to see Super Mario Bros. The other choice I had and the one I should have made was Jurassic Park.
Seriously what hell was I thinking! I would have loved to have seen this on the big screen for the first time, the dinosaurs, the pacing and the music are all phenomenal and to have seen them for the first time on VHS was doing this film a disservice. If I ever get the chance to see this on the big screen I’ll jump at it.
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Day 26 of 30 Days of Movies
A movie you love that everyone else hates
There has never been a film that all of my friends have hated and I’ve loved until Cloverfield, sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that likes it. How can you not like this film? The phenomenal trailer, the minimal marketing and the exceptional viral marketing scheme that took place online. Not to mention the fact that you didn’t know exactly what ‘Clover’ was going to look until you actually sat down in the theater.
Sure this film has it’s plot holes (how did the tape last for so long, not to mention lasting a huge explosion) but Abrams reinvented the monster movie in a way nobody has equaled since.
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I want this framed and on my wall.
It shall be purchased, along with the first one.
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