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After much internal debate, I've finished my top twenty movie list. In order of preference, even. The up-to-date list is here (cool site, by the by) but if you're too lazy to click through:

1. Magnolia
2. Days of Being Wild
3. Brazil
4. Casablanca
5. City of God
6. Bullet in the Head
7. Miller's Crossing
8. Crash
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's
10. Ronin
11. Blue Velvet
12. Goodfellas
13. The General
14. Dead Man
15. Full Metal Jacket
16. The Incredibles
17. Taxi Driver
18. Peking Opera Blues
19. Glengarry Glen Ross
20. The Grifters

Yeah, I like genre movies. Possibly I like guy movies too; be your own judge. Yes, Miller's Crossing is the best Coen Brothers movie. I don't know if Days of Being Wild is the best Wong Kar Wai movie, but it's the best one I've seen -- I understand that In the Mood for Love may supercede it when I finally see that, though. Crash is the best Cronenberg movie because it's the best cast he's ever had, although Videodrome is a very close #2.

There are indeed a lot of movies I haven't seen.

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I say "Well, I think I'm going to see Constantine after all." And you say, "What? That's stupid. Keanu, and Los Angeles instead of London, and dude." And I say, "Well."

Then the New York Times says, "How difficult is it to play a mythic figure like Gabriel as opposed to, say, a soccer mom?" And Tilda Swinton says "They're exactly the same, because no one you play is 'real.' Every character is a construct, even if you're playing a suburban mother. You're looking for a construct in the way you look and talk, and you have either the mythic information about Gabriel, or what we know about suburban mothers, and then you just try to make it real. It's exactly the same. So, you start with what we know about Gabriel as God's messenger."

The picture looks something like this:

It goes a long way to unconvince me from taking a pass.

(You could also read Kip on the matter, who says basically the same thing, which is not surprising since I stole it all from him anyhow.)