Alright, here's my list of the ten best movies based of folklore and, of course, I sneak a few ties in to add more. Enjoy!
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Just to add to the discussion, I wanted to lay out some movie recommendations for those seeking stories of folklore brought to the big screen. With so many possibilities, the lines became blurred again. In order to give a more broad view to movies basked on folklore, I ended up making regional and legend groupings.
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Dark City is an immensely challenging film to watch and "read," so to speak. Its ideas, implications, and revelations dealing with mortality, the human soul, reality, memories, and the parallels to Christ within a science fiction setting are so big that they are daunting to buy into (and a slow start with a lot of unanswered questions doesn't help).
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In honor of Disney/Pixar's Brave coming out this weekend, highlighting a blazing redhead heroine, I felt obliged to make a list of the top movie redheads. As a "ginger" myself, the subject is close to my heart.
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Cop Land completely has a western's tone and style coupled with modern grit of crooked cops and hard-asses pouring snake oil and slithering through clouds of cigarette smoke. The ending shootout simulating Freddy's deafness is one of the smoothest action sequences ever done.
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Prometheus is absolutely the necessary cleansing we needed for this franchise and who better to accomplish that than the man who started it. We can't quite call this a reboot or a prequel for sure just yet, but let's just say the right seeds have been planted for a bold, new direction.
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Set in Los Angeles in the year 2019 and loosely based on the thematic elements of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, director Ridley Scott molded Blade Runner into essentially a noir gumshoe flick that just happens to take place in a dystopian sci-fi future.
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In a summer blockbuster, entertainment value is commonly given more emphasis than cohesive story flow and Men in Black 3 lives up to that formula.
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Almost Famous slipped through my filter back in 2000. I never saw it until this film club and I'm disappointed that I missed it then. It was engaging, well-written, and almost existential with its love and appreciation for the ending era of post-Woodstock rock n' roll before the days of disco took over. I was impressed by its huge doses of heart from the many characters.
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Take This Waltz is being called brave, funny, sexy, delicate, honest, erotic, and moving. Let me just say, it is all of those things and more.
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Matching the dozen flowers that better be on your mothers' desk or kitchen table this weekend, here are the twelve best movie mothers and their life lessons. Pick one of these movies up this weekend and make room for some of that quality time. You and your mom will appreciate it.
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The movie, whether your are a fan of the comics and previous movies or not, is infectious summer blockbuster fun. Those going in casual may just come out a fan. The Avengers delivers the comic book action, beefy heroics, impressive special effects, and 3D spectacle as advertised. When put up against the previous movie greats of the genre, The Avengers might just chisel out its own spot on the Mount Rushmore of comic book movies
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