Favorite movies...

Omdat ik gevraagd werd wat mijn favoriete films waren, en het er nogal veel waren waar ik uit moest kiezen aangezien ik meer als 800 films heb.. ga ik een lijstje maken met random wat films die leuk mooi zijn of whatever. Ze zijn in niet chronologische volgorde. Ik heb er echt ook zoveel.. dat ik gewoon n paar kies.

Eindelijk had ik hem dan in huis via E-bay! :) Bubble Boy heb ik jaren geleden voor het eerst gezien, en ik heb bijna aan een stuk dubbel gelegen. Jake Gyllenhaal (die later ook mijn film hart zou stelen in Donnie Darko) speelt hier echt een goede rol in. Ik was dan ook al sinds ik hem heb gezien op zoek naar een DVD hiervan, maar in Nederland hebben ze die volgens mij nooit verkocht. Wel hadden ze de versie van John Travolta, maar die vind ik niet zo. Via e-bay heb ik hem 3 weken geleden dan eindelijk in huis gekregen, wel zonder Nederlandse ondertiteling, maar dat mag de pret niet drukken. :)

"Bubble Boy" is a comedy about a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom. When he finds out that the woman he has loved since childhood is about to be married at Niagara Falls, he builds a portable bubble suit and ventures into the outside world to win her affections.

 Trailer: Bubble Boy Trailer 1

In deze film heeft Johnny Depp definitief mijn hart gestolen. Ik weet niet meer wanneer ik deze film voor het eerst gezien heb, omdat ik deze film praktisch grijs gedraaid heb. Het is zo'n mooie, vrolijke en toch verdrietige film. Hartverwarmend, en echt verbluffende performances van Dicaprio en Depp! I totally love this movie! 

What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. (Autism) It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. 

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Ik heb altijd al een vreemde fascinatie voor de doodstraf gehad, voor zover ik me kan herinneren.En ik ben tegen de doodstraf, en deze film laat prima zien waarom ik dat ben. Leuk detail: Ik heb mijn eerste ratje naar het muisje Mr. Jingles van Dell vernoemd. 

In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) begins to cry while watching the movie Top Hat. His elderly friend, Elaine, shows concern for him and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of when he was a corrections officer in charge of Death Row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul (Tom Hanks) works in is called the "Green Mile" by the guards because the condemned prisoners walking to their execution are said to be walking "the last mile"; here, it is a stretch of faded lime green linoleum to the electric chair.

One day, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a 7 foot 7 inch, 515 pound African-American man convicted of raping and killing two young white girls arrives on death row. Coffey demonstrates all the characteristics of being 'developmentally challenged': keeping to himself, fearing darkness, and being moved to tears on occasion. Soon enough, John reveals extraordinary powers by healing Paul's urinary tract infection and resurrecting a mouse. Later, he would heal the terminally-ill wife of Warden Hal Moores (James Cromwell), who suffered from a large brain tumor. When John is asked to explain his power, he merely says that he "took it back."

At the same time, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison), a sadistic and unpopular guard, starts work. He "knows people, big people" (he is the nephew of the governor's wife), in effect preventing Paul or anybody else from doing anything significant to curb his behavior. Percy recognizes that the other officers greatly dislike him and uses that to demand managing the next execution. After that, he promises, he will have himself transferred to an administrative post at Briar Ridge Mental Hospital and Paul will never hear from him again. An agreement is made, but Percy then deliberately sabotages the execution. Instead of wetting the sponge, used to conduct electricity and make executions quick and effective, he leaves it dry, causing inmate Eduard "Del" Delacroix's (Michael Jeter) execution to be botched.

Shortly before Del's execution, a violent prisoner named William "Wild Bill" Wharton (Sam Rockwell) arrives, due to be executed for multiple murders committed during a robbery. At one point he seizes John's arm and John psychically senses that Wharton is the true killer of the two girls, the crime for which John was convicted and sentenced to death. John "takes back" the sickness in Hal's wife and regurgitates it into Percy, who then shoots Wharton to death and falls into a permanent catatonic state. Percy is then housed in the Briar Ridge Mental Hospital. In the wake of these events, Paul interrogates John, who says he "punished them bad men" and offers to show Paul what he saw. John takes Paul's hand stating that he has to give Paul "a part of himself" in order to see and imparts the visions of what he saw, of what really happened to the girls.

Paul asks John what he should do, if he should open the door and let John walk away, but John tells him that he is ready to die because here there is too much pain in the world, which he is aware of and sensitive to, stating that he is "rightly tired of the pain" and is ready to rest. When John is put in the electric chair, he asks Paul not to put the traditional black hood over his head because he is afraid of the dark. Paul agrees and after Paul shakes his hand, John is executed.

As Paul finishes his story, he notes that he requested a transfer to a youth detention center, where he spent the remainder of his career. Elaine questions his statement that he had a fully-grown son at the time and Paul explains that he was 44 years old at the time of John's execution and that he is now 108 and still in excellent health. This is apparently a side effect of John giving a "part of himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's mouse resurrected by John, is also still alive — but Paul believes his outliving all of his relatives and friends to be a punishment from God for having John executed. Paul explains he has deep thoughts about how "we each owe a death; there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long." Paul is left wondering, if Mr. Jingles has remained alive for all of this time being but a mouse, how long will it be before his own death?"

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Ik ook van jou. Mijn film. Nou ja, niet mijn film als in dat ik hem heb geregisseerd maar meer als mijn film die bij mij hoort. Als ik mensen uit moet leggen wat Borderline is, dan verwijs ik ze meestal naar deze film. Reza (Angela Schijf) laat zien wat er voor een groot deel in mijn hoofd omgaat (behalve dan het dreigen met zelfmoord, en de chantage.) De strijd van beide partijen is pijnlijk zichtbaar. En zeker nu Antonie Kamerling dood is, is dit ook enigsinds n waargebeurd verhaal, omdat de zoektocht naar Reza's geluk voor mij ook belangrijk is in deze film. Prachtige verfilming van een nog harder en heftiger boek van Giphart. Vooral de soundtrack van de film kan me aan het huilen maken. 

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While camping in France, Dutch friends Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He tells her the story and we see it in flashbacks: Reza explodes into his boring life, she's unpredictable, their relationship becomes intense. She moves in with him, pushes him to write instead of studying law, then jealousy and fits of bizarre self-destruction become part of her quixotic moods. How does Eric's story end?

Dit was het wel even. 

ps.. jouw lievelingsfilms?