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Water - Deepa Mehta

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it's a deleted scene in the movie, but it's on the DVD and in the original book, but High Fidelity has a bit where John Cusack's character, who owns a record shop, goes to a womans house to buy some vinyls. The woman has EVERYTHING. Every expensive record you would want, it's there.

Woman offers to sell it to him for $50, the lot of them. He says no, he has his morals. Woman is selling her husbands collection to get back at him for running away with their daughters friend to Hawaii. It's a great scene, since the buyer is asking for high prices, the seller is insisting low money.

Quotes: (Warning: offensive language.)

Rob: Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

Rob: Charlie, you fucking bitch. Let's work it out.

Rob: It made sense to pool our collective loathing for the opposite sex, and while we were at it, you get to share a bed with somebody at the same time. We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26, and we were of that disposition.

Barry: Don't tell anyone you don't own "Blonde on Blonde". It's gonna be okay.

[Rob has just placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a top five list]
Barry: Oh, that's not obvious enough Rob. How about the Beatles? Or fucking... fucking Beethoven? Side one, Track one of the Fifth Symphony... How can someone with no interest in music own a record store?

For anyone wondering, "Barry" is [played by] Jack Black.

I liked west world, didn't care a lot for spartacus but never watched it in it's entirety.

I am a fan of speghetti westerns with eastwood,  movies by the Koen brothers, Aliens, Snatch, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Striking Tiger/Hidden Dragon and a few of their ilk, Young Frankenstein (the only Mel Brooks movie I ever liked), and more than likely the upcoming Star Trek movie.

Just because my favorite movie of all time is an epic doesn't mean I am stuck in that genre or era.

I would say V for Vendetta as my favorite. THX 1138, The Professional, Ronin, and Blade Runner are some other movies that are in my favorite list.

Cult classic, I concur.

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Most of the other Dick movies were kind of disappointing. I like Total Recall for what it is, but it wasn't really awe aspiring. I wished they didn't try a different twist in Minority Report and would of stuck more with the intentional twist in the original, but I'm glad Blade Runner didn't stay with the original. I did like Screamers and A Scanner Darkly quite a bit but they still don't rise to the level of Blade Runner. Next was boring. Paycheck and Imposter were based off his stories but I haven't seen either one or hear any good comments about either one.