So let's vote on him since he's making a new movie about Pie.
Following what I did with the 007 poll, you can cast up to three votes for three Lee movies. If you can't pick 3, just vote for how many you are willing to vote for just don't exceed 3.
So let's vote on him since he's making a new movie about Pie.
Following what I did with the 007 poll, you can cast up to three votes for three Lee movies. If you can't pick 3, just vote for how many you are willing to vote for just don't exceed 3.
I didn't care for it, but I would be tickled if somebody voted for HULK.
That was easy.
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. The Ice Storm
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Eat Drink Man Woman
5. The Wedding Banquat
I love all these. He's always an intriguing directer with a great evocative sense of period and finely atuned to his characters.
Taking Woodstock is...pretty embarrassing though.
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Lust, Caution
3. The Ice Storm
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Eat Drink Man Woman
All his movies besides the obvious two are
But I'm gonna HATE Life of Pi!
THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
but really, brokeback mountain
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
YOU SEEM TO MOVE UNEASY
Lust, Caution
Brokeback Mountain
The Ice Storm
FYC Oscar consideration, Miss Sally Field, as Mary Todd Lincoln
I was just thinking about Lee's work yesterday. I've never seen a film of his I didn't like, but I could never really warm up to Eat Drink Man Woman or Brokeback Mountain and I haven't seen his less-embraced films (Pushing Hands, Ride with the Devil, Hulk, Taking Woodstock). So this is quite a subjectiv ranking.
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Lust, Caution
3. The Wedding Banquet
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. The Ice Storm
6. Brokeback Mountain
7. Eat Drink Man Woman
I know I've got a big ego, I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though.
I think Sense & Sensibility is really underrated. I'm very, very glad it won that Golden Bear in Berlin despite doing it over a film I love even more, "Dead Man Walking", because it deserved to have some high-profile award (and sorry, Golden Globe is not one). The Age of Innocence aside, which is a different beast and belongs in Scorsese's universe, it really is the best of all those British or faux-British period pieces the 90's were suddenly filled with (probably after the success of A Passage to India). Lee really captures all the biting irony of Austen's stories, making a film that's a really funny (if subtle) satire, but at the same time he never looses sight of the character's humanity and plight and it's also a deeply moving drama. It's both a pitch-perfect portrait of a long-gone time and place, and a timeless comment on the trappings of class differences and societal rules.
To me, it's almost tied with Brokeback as his best.
Crouching Tiger feels a bit less thought-provoking and moving than those two, but it compensates it with that dreamy imagery that's as unforgettable as the other two's emotions and depth.
One of my absolute favorite directors. I chose Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution and the Icestorm but I really like/love most of them, although I've never seen the Hulk. Don't care for superheroes, especially not C-list ones.
No, Zac, I'm going with my Nanny.
Hulk isn't a "C-list" hero. In fact in terms of public recognition, he probably is Marvel's #2 (behind Spider-Man.)Originally Posted by Sliced Peach
That movie splits people. The nerds hate it because there wasn't enough Hulk smashing shit up. But some people found its pseudo-psychology fascinating.
The only thing I remember was naked Hulk fighting in the dark.
I quite enjoyed The Hulk!
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YOU SEEM TO MOVE UNEASY
This reminds me I still have a few Ang Lee blind spots. I still haven't seen The Wedding Banquet or Lust, Caution for example. And I'm sure I've seen Eat Drink Man Woman, but it's a blur now. Anyways, with that out of the way, a top 3 is very easy to come up with, since I love exactly three Ang Lee movies.
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. The Ice Storm
BBM and CTHD take the top two spots.
Then it's a tie among Ice Storm, Eat Men Drink Women, and Lust Caution.
T E A M R I V E T T E
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. The Ice Storm
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Lust, Caution
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6. The Hulk
1. "Brokeback Mountain"
2. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
3. "Lust, Caution"
4. "The Ice Storm"
5. "The Wedding Banquet"
6. "Hulk"
7. "Taking Woodstock"
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION - INOCA 2012
Sense and Sensibility is criminally underrated, and is easily No. 2 behind Brokeback Mountain.
Lee captures the sharp wit, humour and social cruelty of Jane Austin's work. He really deeply UNDERSTANDS his material here. He also manages to keep all those English thespians in check, getting beautifully restrained performances from Thompson and Winslet. Also this film is absolutely beautifully shot throughout.
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. Lust, Caution
6. The Ice Storm
Apparently i've seen Hulk, my siblings are pretty persistent about it, but i don't remember it at all.
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1. The Ice Storm - a towering examination of family
2. Eat Drink Man Woman - just lovely.
3. Brokeback Mountain - he achieved a lot with very little.
4. Sense and Sensibility - which is pretty much the perfect Austen adaptation. Thompson and Lee should work together again.
5. Crouching Tiger - a visual feast but sometimes a tad too hilarious in its Asianness.
6. Hulk - well, yeah but no.
1. The Ice Storm
2. The Wedding Banquet
3. Eat Drink Man Woman
4. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
5. Brokeback Mountain
6. Lost, Caution
7. Pushing Hands
8. Sense and Sensibility
9. Ride with the Devil
10. Hulk
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