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** And the sequel is oodles of fun too. One thing that makes these films so good is their cheerful down-to-earthiness -- who says you have to be [[Darker and Edgier]] to be realistic and serious-minded? From Pepper Potts discovering the icky downside of changing Tony's arc reactor to his bantering with his robot helpers, from his appearance before the Senate subcommittee hitting YouTube to the weaselly antics of Justin Hammer, from an inspired take on [[Mr. Alt Disney]] to a doughnut binge, the films are as memorable for their small moments as their crash-and-bash action.
** Agreed, it always saddens me when people bash the sequel. I love it inordinately for paying so much attention to its source material. Watching it captures everything I love about reading a comic and I consider it the most comic-booky film I've ever seen. The cast are all excellent and it embraces the inherent silliness of the comic medium without also abandoning realism. You think synthesisng a new element in your basement is impossible? Not to Tony Stark.
* There's a film in [[Useful Notes/Germany|German]] set before the fall of the Berlin Wall called ''[[The Lives of Others]]''. It was good. It was very good. A strict Stasi officer bugging an artist's home slowly warms and becomes an actual human being. What a [[Bittersweet Ending]].
** Apparently, the guy who played the Stasi officer [[Real Life Writes the Plot|lived a lot of it]].
** Good? Very good? It's a frigging ''masterpiece'', one of the best films I've ever seen. Making an article for it right now.
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** River Tam's fight scenes in that movie need special mention for being simultaneously beautiful, elegant, graceful, and incredibly badass. You can really see the dance training in there, and it's awesome.
* I can't ever recall being more emotionally involved in a movie than I was when I first saw ''[[Into the Wild]]''. Just the whole thing is fantastic on so many levels ''and'' they managed to make a true story so cathartic and so meaningful ''and'' they hardly could have picked a better story to do it with. Bravo.
* ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]''. Possibly [[Tim Burton]]'s greatest work. About [[Ed Wood (Creatorcreator)|one of the worst directors ever]]. But made using such love and admiration for the [[So Bad It's Good]] quality of them. Martin Landau as [[Bela Lugosi]] is fantastic, with everything from him getting mad at a fan and delivering the super hammy lines to when he checks himself into rehab.
* Both ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' seems to be rather obvious choices, but there is a reason they are among the Top #250 of IMDB, ''[[The Godfather]]'' being second. It is just THAT good.
** Not just on IMDB. Both the American Film Institute and the magazine ''Sight & Sound'' rated it second (after [[Citizen Kane]]). When {{[[User|Gabel]] I}} saw it the first time, I was stunned. After seeing the film, I just felt amazed by it.
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