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:lol: I agree with Little Miss Sunshine! :nod:

ash515 I really appreciated Napoleon Dynamite's type of humor.

mukooh I heard about Wristcutters and it does sound like a different concept! Some critics praised them for trying out something like that. I haven't seen it yet but I plan on looking for the DVD. I'm intrigued by some of the aspects I've read that the movie employs.
 
through out my whole life all i've ever wanted to do was get "off".....which in the past has gotten me into a whole lot of trouble......nowadays i get my thrills in more constructive ways.....through reading books, listening to music, helping other people and watching films......but in regards to films, so much of what i watch is just a rehash of the things that i've seen before.....this is particularly true of most of the films that i see at home....mostly shorts and documentaries that the vast majority of people never see.....so in regards to the films that i've found interesting in the last few years or so, at least in their originality....2 of my favorites are:

'twin falls idaho' which is written, directed and stars the polish brothers in a film about conjoined twins and a "hooker".....it's the first film, by the polish brothers, in a trilogy of films about lonliness in america.....

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and

'wristcutters: a love story"......which is a movie about suicides who wind up in place much worse than the one that they've left.....i believe it's now on dvd.....i was given a copy that i've just re-watched at home recently...

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Napoleon Dynamite (I love this movie, even though some people don't like it.)

Superbad, Knocked Up, Zoolander

Mean Girls (I count it as original since it was based on a nonfiction book that had no narrative.)

Lars and the Real Girl (I loved this movie)

mostly alot of original movies are comedies, I notice
 
:lol: You figured with all the bitching I do around here about remakes and no original ideas in Hollywood, I would have thought of this thread! Two films that immediately come to mind are this years Juno and last years Little Miss Sunshine. I'll elaborate more tomorrow :gone:
 
Nothing new under the sun, huh? That's about right. But every so often comes a movie that challenges the notion that everything worth writing about has already been written.

One movie that quickly comes to mind is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The basic concept is that a man is so tormented by his turbulent relationship with his girlfriend, that he undergoes a treatment to totally erase her from his mind.

I want to be avoid spoilers, so I'll leave it there. But if you've seen the movie, you know the concept is refreshing, the visual representations are incredible and the emotional product just spectacular. The acting is of course praise worthy, and lets us enjoy the story and feel for the characters all the way through.

25th Hour is also fairly original because it deals with a man's (Monty) last 24 hours before going to prison, but it's not about crime. Monty tries to make his last day normal, but as the time comes closer, panic starts closing in. Monty doesn't exactly breakdown into madness, but the regret he feels is almost unbearable, and while he's a criminal that probably deserves going to jail, he's also a human being inches away from his biggest nightmare. This is also one of the first movies, if not the first, to deal with the subject of 9/11.
 
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