10

[amuse]

which movies, books, or gymnasts :D - had to include them - would you give a perfect score to? it seems very elusive, as it should be (see movie thread, for examples).

all of a sudden i find myself racking my brain and nothing falling out. oops! will have to consider this more carefully.

the lotr books come to mind...
*pauses to ruminate.

[mono]

A few books that come to mind immediately:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Complete Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë


Some movies:

Amelie
Pulp Fiction
Meet Joe Black
Run Lola Run
Silence of the Lambs

[Jester]

Ocean's Eleven (can't help it, love brad pitt in that movie)
Braveheart
LOTR movies... I liked the Hobbit better
Gladiator

Books:
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Micheals
Grapes of Wrath and The Pearl by John Steinback

Thats all that comes to mind right now.... give me a while

[Jester]

just remembered, life as a house falls in teh ten catagory (actually i classify it as an eleven or twelve)

[Scheherazade]

Very difficult...

Books:
To Kill A Mockingbird
Flowers for Algernon
The Trial
Catch 22
The Plague
Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Flies

Movies:
The Sting
American Beauty
Usual Suspect
Singing in the Rain
Dead Poets' Society
A Beautiful Mind
Fantasia
Piano


how about music??
Bolero
Scheherazade
Claire de Lune
The Phantom of the Opera
Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Somewhere Beyond the Sea/Fly Me to the Moon

[simon]

The ultimate number ten, the only thing I can htink of that deserves it:
The Fire of Origins, by some unpronouncable African name.

[mono]

how about music??
Bolero
Scheherazade
Claire de Lune
Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Somewhere Beyond the Sea/Fly Me to the Moon

Good idea! I can only name composers, though, instead of only songs, out of such a love for these particular people: Edvard Grieg, Frederic Chopin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, and Vivaldi.

Another '10' book I forgot to include: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Movies: Band of Brothers, Braveheart.

Books: fight club, one flew over the cukoo's nest, all the king's men

computer games: half life. mmm...half life...

people: me. oh yeah, i'm perfect, i'm THE ONE, screw you NEO I'M THE ONE! YOU CANT STOP CALLING YOURSELF THE ONE ANY DAY NOW BECAUSE IN THE MINDS OF ANYONE WHOS EVER SEEN THE SEQUELS, YOU'LL NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT NUMBER A GAZZILLION. *ahem*... we all can see how perfect i am...
















... or.... not.

[Isagel]

This is hard.

For collections of shortstories I can´t decide on Ursula K Le Guin "The compass rose" and a book by Capote. In sweden it´s called Music for chameleonts.

Music - even harder ! Clair de lune, by Debussy (like Scheherazade), Ode to Joy by Beethoven or Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday? And of course "I can´t get no satisfaction", by Rolling Stones. I´m abit addicted to that song right now.

Graphic novels - Cages by Dave McKean or Signal to noice by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman.

Poetry- The wasteland by TS Eliot, Grapefruit by Yoko Ono (well perhaps not really poetry, but I´m not sure what else to call it)

[Jay]

You really ned to ask for the bestes band? ;) *thinks very hard* hmmm... what about Nightwish? :)
As I've read so few books I can't say. Not a gymnastics fan either so... no one here as well... as far as ovies are concerned... I have no idea. What a boring post.
*edit* forgot to rate :p
I'm giving Nightwish 13 out of 10 :angel:

[subterranean]

Movies: Band of Brothers, Braveheart.

Books: fight club, one flew over the cukoo's nest, all the king's men

computer games: half life. mmm...half life...

people: me. oh yeah, i'm perfect, i'm THE ONE, screw you NEO I'M THE ONE! YOU CANT STOP CALLING YOURSELF THE ONE ANY DAY NOW BECAUSE IN THE MINDS OF ANYONE WHOS EVER SEEN THE SEQUELS, YOU'LL NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT NUMBER A GAZZILLION. *ahem*... we all can see how perfect i am...


Fool I love Fight CLub as well.. Where have you been anyway?

Movies: Seven, Fight Club, Amelie, People vs Larry Flint, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, American Beauty, Silence of The Lamb, Natural Born Killer.

Books: Catch 22, Animal Farm

Bands: Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Led Z, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths

Actors/Actresses: Jude Law, Woody H, Sean Penn, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey, Merly Streep, Hilarry Swank

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Copolla, Spielberg, David Finscher

Ok stop..I'm tired ;)















... or.... not.[/QUOTE]

[Hippolyta]

hmm well I can't name any books as I have read so many in my lifetime that I have forgotten the names. Quite funny actually is the reason I became interested in books. but that is not the subject.
One of my favourite movies since I was a tiny baby is Willow.

[Stanislaw]

Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy quadrilogy all the way!!!!!

Movies: umm... John wayne movies!!

Games: Phantom fighter for the original nintendo (back when games had poor graphics but awesome stories)

[atiguhya padma]

Films: Memento, Donnie Darko, Drowning by Numbers, Fargo, Aguirre Wrath of God, The Idiots, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Magnolia, The Piano Teacher, Dog Days, Together, 101 Reykjavik, there are just so many good films!!!

Plays: Festen, Copenhagen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Death of a Salesman, Waiting for Godot.

Books: Atomised by Michel Houllebecq; House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski; Wide Open by Nicola Barker; Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker; Wasp Factory and Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks; Lanark by Alasdair Gray; Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon; The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan; Last Orders and Waterland by Graham Swift; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and a host of others..

[baddad]

[QUOTE=amuse]

..... racking my brain and nothing falling out. oops! ....

QUOTE]

This quote sounds quite painful.

Myself? I only have to gently rap upon my skull to discover the same.....

Movie: 10 points, The world according to Garp.

Book: 10 points: Eden Express......Mark Vonnegut ( Kurt's son)

Song: 10 points, Stormy Monday.....B.B. King.

Actually, any song by the great blues artists, young or old. Ya Gotta' love the blues.......

[mono]

With this thread brought back to life, I reflected a bit on more '10' books; I know not why I forgot about them.

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The poetry of all of the following poets: Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Stafford, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Petrarch, Petronius, T.S. Eliot, and Rumi.
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism in Ordinary Experiences by James Carse

[Scheherazade]

Actually, any song by the great blues artists, young or old. Ya Gotta' love the blues.......

Agreed! :nod:

[amuse]

a friend and i saw the film version of Phantom of the Opera today. i give it 6 stars. it was out of this world; there was just so, so much that i found riveting. awesome. it may have just replaced Singing in the Rain as my all-time favorite musical.

i was really happy to see that Andrew Lloyd Webber was responsible for the screenplay and production, as well.

[OceanSoul]

Book: My Brother Sam Is Dead, and Bloodly Country! (very good books baced around the Revolutionary War)...shoot I cant remember who they are by! Dagum..sry.

[EAP]

Books: The Silmarillion by Professor Tolkien. The only book/movie which I like to go through multiple times.

Movies: Casablanca. It's just one hell of a tale.

[subterranean]

.... Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and a host of others..


I also find Jude very "entertaining".

[imthefoolonthehill]

all the kings men gets a perfect 10

[mono]

***bump***

Most recently, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

[GruesomeBugman]

Some movies:

Amelie
Pulp Fiction
Meet Joe Black
Run Lola Run
Silence of the Lambs

silence of the lambs?! :goof: disappointing, as far as I'm concerned.

I'd give a perfect ten to the movie "Manhunter" came out in 1985, was the origional hannibal lecktor movie(based off the novel, of course) and it was amazing.

my favorite movie =) I have the movie in my closet, and the soundtrack in my CD case. I recommend anyone who's a fan of the red dragon novel to watch the movie, you will not be disappointed.

[ihrocks]

The only "10" that immediately leaps to mind is Donovan McNabb! :lol:

[mono]

silence of the lambs?! :goof: disappointing, as far as I'm concerned.
Unfortunately, I saw the film before reading the novel, years later. I loved the novel far more, but, still, nothing seems to dominate Anthony Hopkins. :nod:

I'd give a perfect ten to the movie "Manhunter" came out in 1985, was the origional hannibal lecktor movie(based off the novel, of course) and it was amazing.

my favorite movie =) I have the movie in my closet, and the soundtrack in my CD case. I recommend anyone who's a fan of the red dragon novel to watch the movie, you will not be disappointed.
Manhunter definitely creeped me out - any of those disturbing *skin* films, for a lack of better words, bordering Ed Gein-inspired material :eek:
Red Dragon I enjoyed also, along with its prequel, Hannibal, though it did not seem to flow as nicely without Jodie Foster, but que sera, sera.

[Avalive]

Movies:

Cube
Gattaca
Billy Elliot
Amores Perros
White Oleander

[Bongitybongbong]

Mel Gibson
(Movie) The Patriot
Randy Moss

[Jack_Aubrey]

Far too many to think of. I'm an easy judge I guess.

[GruesomeBugman]

Unfortunately, I saw the film before reading the novel, years later. I loved the novel far more, but, still, nothing seems to dominate Anthony Hopkins. :nod:

Manhunter definitely creeped me out - any of those disturbing *skin* films, for a lack of better words, bordering Ed Gein-inspired material :eek:
Red Dragon I enjoyed also, along with its prequel, Hannibal, though it did not seem to flow as nicely without Jodie Foster, but que sera, sera.

XD the novel was the beginning for me,
But I think you misunderstnad which movie I'm talking about =) manhunter, origionally titled "red dragon" came out in 1986, was the origional hannibal lecktor movie, it was FAR better than the recent series of movies, you should check it out.

[Bongitybongbong]

If You Give A Moose A Muffin

[Pensive]

Books: Bridge to Terabithia
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Pride and Prejudice
Ann of the Green Gables
Heidi
Claudine at ST.Clares
Lord of the flies
Mayor of the Casterbridge
Tess of the D"Urbervilles
edit: Mill on the floss ( I forgot my favourite novel to metion..lol)
Movies: The Exorcist
Peter Pan
Finding Neverland
The ring
Vanity Fair
The Birds
Psyco
Marnie
The Birds

[NNoah3]

You really ned to ask for the bestes band? ;) *thinks very hard* hmmm... what about Nightwish? :)
As I've read so few books I can't say. Not a gymnastics fan either so... no one here as well... as far as ovies are concerned... I have no idea. What a boring post.
*edit* forgot to rate :p
I'm giving Nightwish 13 out of 10 :angel:

I like Nightwish also. Since a friend of mine recommended them to me last year.

Movies:
The Usual Suspect
The Godfather Trilogy
The Sting
Les Miserables (Liam Neeson's version)
Life is Beautiful
Schindler's List
The House of The Spirits
Don Juan De Marco
The Bridges of Madison County

Books:
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Alchemist
Les Miserables
The Richest Man Of Babylon

It was a difficult decision to choose these movies and books since I am an avid reader and I love movies.

As for music, I love listening to music and is more difficult to choose a few of them.

[B-Mental]

I agree with Scher and baddad on the Blues, but some of my favorites

Clarence "Gatesmouth" Brown
R.L. Burnside
John Lee Hooker
James Cotton
John Mayall
Pinetop Perkins
The Blues Brothers
Stevie Ray Vaughn
BB King
Shemekia Copeland
Buckwheat Zydeco
the list goes on

Books
War & Peace - Tolstoy
Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez
Les Miserables - Hugo
...

[Scatterbrain]

Books (or other literary works):

- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Nausea by Sartre
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Three Women by Sylvia Plath

Films:

- A Clockwork Orange
- Trainspotting
- Pulp Fiction
- Amelie

There are sooooo many others, too, of course.

[Themis]

Books that come to mind immediately:

Peace and War by Leo Tolstoy
Dykemaster by Theodor Storm
Camille by Alexandre Dumas
Maigret en meublé by Georges Simenon
Freund Hein by Emil Strauß
The three musketeers by A. Dumas
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Faust by Goethe
The Mountain Forest by Adalbert Stifter
"Leutnant Gustl" by Arthur Schnitzler


Movies -

Vivement Dimanche
Au-revoir les enfants
Tiger and Dragon
The House of Flying Daggers
Amélie
Ocean's Eleven
Don Camillo
Hamlet
Much ado about nothing
Dead poets society
Hero
Sissi