Pete and I bounce this question around all the time: what existing movie do you wish that you could have written? Generally, I pick "Before Sunset" and Pete picks "Unbreakable," but for the purposes of the question, we'll call those films off limits.
How about you?
In which a group of friends get together and prod each other to refine their craft.
Write monkey, write!
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With "Before Sunset" off limits, I wish I could have written "Adaptation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation.
My runner up movie is "Reservoir Dogs"; Very tough to beat the dialog in this movie. Part of me also really likes "A Few Good Men"... again excellent dialog, but in a much different ( and probably less real ) style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_few_good_men
Requiem For A Dream.
Brick, The Big Lebowski, For A Few Dollars More, Midnight Cowboy, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees.
The first two because they're inventive juxtoposed Film Noirs that I can't get enough of.
For A Few Dollars More -- My favorite western with the two greatest bounty hunter characters ever created.
Eternal Sunshine -- This film -- as well as Adaptation, Being John Malkocvitch by the same writer -- broke many barriers in my head of what paradigms screenplays and films HAD to follow.
I Heart Huckabees -- Existential fucking Detectives.
Oh man Brick! I totally forgot Brick.
I still haven't seen Eternal Sunshine, which makes me sad.
Those are all excellent movies, haha.
We should compile a list from here and hold a marathon at some point. Definitely. (although take mine out, it's too depressing compared to the other movies)
Requiem is a great movie, but yeah, I have no desire to ever watch it again. I think it should be showed to high school health classes as the reason why they shouldn't do hard drugs.
Dode's pie pan grease.
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