Best Canadian Movie??

[cheebus420]

well this will be a hard category ... because there simply isn't a lot of Canadian Movies.

but I'll post my top five:

1) Fubar
2) ExiZtenZ
3) Canadian Bacon
4) Spider
5) Hard Core Logo


what do you think?

[juice]

- long life, happiness and prosperity
- the corporation
-anne of green gables

.....i can't think of any more at the moment.

[Hot Karl]

isn't that movie about the world ending canadian? where it gets brighter and brighter the closer it gets to ending.

that was cool

[Jrock]

1. - Canadian Bacon
2. - The Corperation
3. - Spider
4. - Men With Brooms
5. - FUBAR

[cheebus420]

need to watch the corporation, seems to be the big favorite. Looks amazing, just can never find the time...

[-ff-]

Originally posted by Hot Karl
isn't that movie about the world ending canadian? where it gets brighter and brighter the closer it gets to ending.

that was cool

its called Last Night, directed and starred in by THE MAN Don McKellar.

Some favorites in no particular order:

-Last Night
-32 Short Films about Glen Gould
-WayDownTown (this movie is a fucking laugh riot)
-Naked Lunch (and most cronenberg, actually - maybe not Crash)
-the Corporation
-Maelstrom
-Quest for Fire (the best cave man movie I have ever seen)
-Highway 61 and Hardcore Logo (I havent seen the other Bruce McDonald one)

I reccomend checking out some movies by any of these canadian Directors, too - Gary Burns, Bruce McDonald, Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg... Maybe Atom Egoyan, but I personally hate his movies.

There are a ton of excellent movies out of Quebec as well, but most of them are too depressing for my liking =P

[mapleleaf4ever]

Cube! You should all watch Cube... quite the interesting movie. If you can find it. lol

[Antenna_Boy]

CANADIAN BACON BABY!!!!!!! :smoke1:

[Jrock]

I've seen Cube.. it's kinda wierd. Guess I should have watched it on Mush.. that would have been messed!

-jay :209:

[Scarface]

The original trailer park boys movie that served as a promo for the show.

The one where julian had the black corvette.

Fubar.

The rest of it is all abstract for the sake of being weird Atom Egoyan garbage.

Yeah , cube was a decent movie. Good concept, but the acting and set was garbage. Col when the guy gets sliced into little pieces though.

[ebbomega]

Wow. Trailer Park Boys and Fubar. Who'da thunk it?

Men With Brooms
Speed Zone
The Log Driver's Waltz (short)
Porky's

Oh, and for everybody saying Canadian Bacon, go get your facts straight. That movie was made by an American and American production companies. It happened to star Canadians but so did Star Trek.

[jim]

I'd have to say:

men with brooms
way downtown
strange brew
black robe
never cry wolf

[Grapes]

waydowntown
Last Night
The Corporation
Hard Core Logo

All mentioned already, but damned if I don't love them all.

[-ff-]

^

You've got Great taste in movies dave, I must say!

[gslse]

Wondering if the two-hour series premier of 'Trailer Park Boys' qualifys. If so, that's my pick. If not, then 'First Blood' because they filmed it @ Hope, BC.



"Smokes, let's go!" - Ricky (to Cory and Trevor)
"Aaaaarrrrggghhhh!" - Rambo

[vesperstina]

smoke signals
curtis' charm
the red violin

documenaries:
kahnesetake - 240 years of resistance
Gwishalaayt - The Spirit Wraps Around You

[vesperstina]

Originally posted by juicE:
- long life, happiness and prosperity
- the corporation
-anne of green gables

.....i can't think of any more at the moment.

yeah i 'just eat spaghetti, with uncle vinny'...

i can't remember the name of that film, but it was fucked up.

[cheebus420]

Originally posted by ebbomega
Wow. Trailer Park Boys and Fubar. Who'da thunk it?

Men With Brooms
Speed Zone
The Log Driver's Waltz (short)
Porky's

Oh, and for everybody saying Canadian Bacon, go get your facts straight. That movie was made by an American and American production companies. It happened to star Canadians but so did Star Trek.

well aslong as you want to have your facts straight , it was written and directed by Michael Moore. However it was sponsored entirely by the canadian government , also was filmed entirely in canada, and did have a canadian cast. The NFB ( national film board of canada ) have a rating system to dictate how "canadian" a film is, granting points to each member of the production being canadian and it's merit to canadian culture, and it has been rated that Canadian Bacon is indeed considered a "canadian" film.

[cinist]

Little Criminals (sikest movie ever, it's about east van kids who can't get in trouble with the law because they are eleven years old. they steal cars, burn houses, b&e's , smoke pot , drop acid ect. interesting movie for sure)
Dance me outside

[Grapes]

Oh yah.. stina is right, smoke signals was very good.

[prodigyson]

waydowntown
cube
hard core logo
and....ginger snaps... :soak:

[cheebus420]

hehe ginger snaps, I forgot that was canadian.

honestly no one mentions eXistenZ , was I the only one who thought that movie was so cool? The ending blew me away.

[ebbomega]

^^ I haven't seen it yet, but when it came out everybody was all "It's like the Matrix but better".

Oh, and another vote for Hard Core Logo. How could I forget it?

[juice]

-margaret's museum
-atanarjuat : the fast runner (it wasn't *that* great, but i loved the cinematography)

there was a tour featuring canadian films that passed by this side of canada a short while ago, 'moving pictures.' tickets were sold out by the time i found out about it though =( i picked up a program, and the selection looks impressive.

for the tour dates and info if anyone's interested (i don't see why u wouldn't, canadians films are great), go to www.movingpictures.ca

[juice]

Originally posted by vesperstina


yeah i 'just eat spaghetti, with uncle vinny'...

i can't remember the name of that film, but it was fucked up.

i vaguely recall something like that......did we see that together ??

re: smoke signals......i think i'm still the only person i know that didn't enjoy the film as much as others =P granted, i was already half asleep when i started watching it. i guess i should give it a second chance.......i remember the radio guy though..haha.........and "frybread power !!"