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Ewar Woowar, I'm gonna start you off with my favorite movie - 2001. Stroszek was magnificent. Despite being made by a German there's something purely American in it that you can only get from few filmmakers. I absolutely love the driving sequences which feel ethereal and majestic. And oh man the ending is something all on it's own. I'd rank it just behind Aguirre for Herzog's best narrative film (and probably third overall behind Aguirre and Little Dieter Needs to Fly). Bruno S. was amazing, and I need to track down more of his films. Of the Herzog sets I own I still need to watch The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Cobra Verde, and My Best Fiend. But I think I may prioritize Kaspar Hauser just to see more of Bruno. My List: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - I should probably go for a classic western given the discussion, but I'm gonna go with a different John Ford film. (Added 3/15/2013) Gone With the Wind (1939) - I always forget about this one for some reason. Also it's four hours long. (Added 5/25/2013) My Darling Clementine (1946) - Trying to see more John Ford. (Added 6/20/2013) Barry Lyndon (1975) - A Kubrick I haven't seen. I also own it and need to chip away at that pile of unwatched DVDs faster. (Added 6/25/2013) Faust (1926) - I'm going to keep a slot for silent films on my list, and Murnau has been one of my favorite silent directors making two of my favorites (The Last Laugh and Sunrise). This one looks good and eerie. (Added 6/26/2013) The Goddess (1934) - I've been watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey and it does a good job at bringing light to some foreign classics that have been almost entirely ignored by the West. I've never seen a Chinese film from this era and it apparently has some early naturalistic film acting. (Added 7/3/2013) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean made three films and I've seen exactly none of them. (Added 7/10/2013) Frankenstein (1931) - I need to see more of the Universal monster movies. I really like The Wolfman although Dracula kind of bored me. And then once I see this I can finally get to Bride and Son of Frankenstein! (Added 7/25/2013) Midnight Cowboy (1969) - I hear Bob Balaban goes down on Jon Voight in this. That's all I really know. (Added 7/26/2013) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) - I was at a Q&A with Edgar Wright last night and somebody asked him for film recommendations. This was his go-to. So why not? (Added 7/29/2013) Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Godzilla; Big Trouble In Little China; Y Tu Mamá También; Marathon Man; Hunger; A Woman Is A Woman; Black Narcissus; A Hard Day's Night; Scarface; Le Doulos; On The Waterfront; Rocky; 3 Women; Airplane!; Duck Soup; Clash of the Titans; Singin' In The Rain; The Cow; Straw Dogs; Stop Making Sense; Bad Timing; Once Upon A Time In America; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Robocop; Shane; WALL·E; The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin; The Man Who Fell To Earth; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Divorce Italian Style; Some Like It Hot; To Kill A Mockingbird; An American Werewolf In London; Buffalo '66; Lawrence Of Arabia; Manhattan; Cul-De-Sac; The Birth of a Nation; Braveheart; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Malcolm X; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Le Samouraï; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marat/Sade; His Girl Friday; A Woman Under the Influence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Rio Bravo; Triumph of the Will; Titanic; Strike; The General; Jules et Jim; Tokyo Story; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia; L'Age D'or; Stroszek (TOTAL: 63)
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TrixRabbi, you're off to watch Riki-Oh: The Legend of Ricky. There will be blood. Buckets of blood. Aguirre, The Wrath of God is a beautiful movie about a megalomaniac. Herzog's nature shots are especially gorgeous, and Kinski's performance as Aguirre is frighteningly unhinged, to the point that the few moments when he stares right out of the screen were incredibly unnerving. The progression of Aguirre's consolidation of power and the spread of madness through the party's slowly dwindling numbers is enthralling to watch. I'm not sure why, but I was really affected by both Inez's silent disappearance into the woods, and the horse staring at the raft from the shore. The way more and more comedy works its way into the film was pretty great too. "These long arrows are becoming fashionable" might be my favorite line from the movie. - RandallODim's Wall of Shame: The Rules of the Game (1939) - Wikipedia says it's a comedy about the French upper-class just before World War II. Sounds interesting. Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964) - Blind bought the Criterion. Looks like it's gonna be beautiful, but don't know anything else other than monkey in a space suit. 8½ (1963) - Let's keep the Fellini train going with a movie about making a movie, shall we? Stagecoach (1939) – Not sure I've watched a John Ford film before, and it's a faux pas to start with The Searchers, so Stagecoach it is! Sunrise (1927) - It's the last thing in the TSPDT Top 10 that I haven't seen and that isn't on my list, and I dug Nosferatu, so let's do it! (It's nothing like Nosferatu is it) The Bicycle Thief (1948) - Another that I know for a fact I've been told I need to see, but just haven't yet. World On A Wire (1973) - I got the Bluray during a Criterion sale, might as well actually watch it! Pierrot le Fou (1965) - I watched Breathless and wasn't entirely blown away, so I'm interested to see if another Godard will click with me. Some Like It Hot (1959) - I think I've only seen one film with Marilyn Monroe, and I've enjoyed the Wilder films I've watched, so this seems like a solid choice. Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Herzog and Kinski Do South America, Part 2 RandallODim's Shame Was Reduced By 13: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sanjuro, La Strada, The Seventh Seal, Solaris, The Godfather Part II, The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, Tokyo Story, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sunset Boulevard, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
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RandallODim go with Stagecoach. Because it's awesome. ____________________________ I finished Gone With the Wind last night. Overall it's not a bad movie, but I can't say I fell in love with it or anything. It's obviously essential viewing though. First things first, it seems that almost every time this movie gets added to someone's list the run time is a factor. I'm guilty of this as well, as a 4 hour movie is a pretty big commitment. I can honestly say that aside from having to switch DVDs, this did not feel like a 4 hour movie. The pacing is good, and not too many scenes overstay their welcome. It's a lenghty movie for sure, but it doesn't feel excessively so. The story is quite good, as it's a dysfunctional love story set across one of the most important events in American history. It actually covers a longer period than I thought. I thought it was limited to the Civil War, but it also went into the Restoration era. I was quite surprised by this. I liked the costume and set design. There was an air of authenticity to this depiction of the southern aristocracy. There were beautiful sets and dresses, and a good use of color as well. The acting from our two leads was good. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable were both very convincing in their roles. The main thing I didn't like was the depiction of slavery in this. The black characters in this were almost all stereotypes, and it really hurt the overall film. I realize that they were minor characters, but these depictions wouldn't fly today. The South itself was almost too romanticized as well, and it really did seem to make the South look too good at times. Interesting enough though, the prologue compares the South to medieval times. Medieval times are also romanticized as well, so this may be subtle satire that I wasn't quite picking up on. Overall it is a classic with memorable lines and scenes, and it should be viewed by everyone. If movie canon is an onion, this movie is part of the peel. ____________________________ The List of Shame 1. Lolita: I've seen almost all of Kubrick's offerings, but I have not yet seen this teen sex romp. 2. Gaslight: This is one of the more famous noirs, so I feel I need to see it. 3. Ocean's Eleven (1960): I've seen the remake a bunch of times - let's see how the original one is. 4. Cinema Paradiso: I should probably see the movie the forums are named after. 5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang: I don't know much about this one aside from the fact that the protagonist is a fugitive. From a chain gang. 6. The Bicycle Thief: I've had 2 bicycles stolen from me in the past. I need to find out what makes these thieves tick. 7. The 400 Blows: I've seen this pop up a few times in this thread, and I feel I should give it a watch. 8. The Crow: I used to have the soundtrack to this, but I've never watched it. It's been right at the front of my instant watch queue for a year now, but I just can't bother to watch it. 9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture: I have watched the following Star Treks: The new one and it's sequel, an episode of the original where Kirk fights some lizard guy on a mountain, and a TNG episode where Picard becomes a Borg. I guess it's time to watch the original movie. 10. Con Air : It's Nic Cage on a plane. This is essential. Perma-shame: Once Upon a Time in America Un-shamed in 2013: The Grapes of Wrath, Yojimbo, The Sixth Sense, Forbidden Planet, Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, It Happened one Night, Donnie Brasco, Fargo, Enter the Dragon, The Big Sleep, Adam's Rib, Animal House, Quiz Show, The Man with the Golden Arm, Strangers on a Train, Singin' in the Rain, The Philadelphia Story, The Time Machine, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, The Seven Year Itch, The Deer Hunter, City Lights, The Prestige, Five Easy Pieces, Some Like it Hot, Snatch, True Lies, The Seventh Seal, Amelie, The Magnificent Ambersons, Escape from New York, Witness for the Prosecution, Life is Beautiful, Brazil, Clash of the Titans, Gone With the Wind
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CopywrightMMXI, go watch Star Trek: the Motion Picture. It's kind of the opposite of the Abrams movies. No Country for Old Men: I wasn't used to the idea of a western set in the 80s, but I got used to it (until the inevitable Coen Brothers plot breakdown / anticlimax). This was a fairly bleak movie about the unpredictability of life and death. Josh Brolin stumbles across a drug deal gone bad, steals a bag of money from the carnage, and starts getting hunted down. Javier Bardem plays a creepy as gently caress hitman thing called Anton, who tries to operate under higher principles that mostly express themselves as "kill literally everyone who inconveniences me." He gets to have a little speech about principles and rules, and how if they land you in a bad situation, they must be bad rules, but given the constant random deaths of major characters, and the theme that such things can't really be foreseen or predicted, it doesn't come across quite as not-insane as he probably meant. The cinematography was great. I've really come to love movies with long lingering shots, where they take their time to add to the atmosphere and tension. The tendency for long stretches without dialog and the lack of exposition lines whenever something odd happens are also big points in its favor. There was so much unnecessary stuff that got stripped out of this movie (those, plus background music in a lot of places you'd normally expect), and it contributes so much to the essentials of what's going on without distraction. Overall it was a kind of movie I didn't think they made anymore, and it's nice to see it come back, even as a Coen homage/pastiche/whatever it is they do. _________________________ My Shame List, in order of length of time on the list: 1) The Exorcist: Catching up on classic horror. 2) Stagecoach: I've never seen a "classic" western. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance doesn't count. 3) Unbreakable: A few of my friends have called this the best superhero movie ever made. Let's see if they're right! 4) Triumph of the Will: Super influential Nazi propaganda? Seems like I should watch this just to keep an eye out for people using its techniques. 5) Forbidden Planet: A Sci-fi adaptation of Shakespeare? Sounds fun. 6) Ed Wood: I love Plan 9 from Outer Space, so let's see how a movie about the director is. 7) Koyaanisqatsi: Pretty! 8) Man with a Movie Camera: Soviet film! That's really all I know. 9) The Graduate: Know the meme, see the movie! 10) Dog Day Afternoon: (new) I liked Network and 12 Angry Men, so let's see more Lumet. De-Shamed (27) [Top 5 in bold]: The Thing, Casino Royale, Blue Velvet, Metropolis, Unforgiven, The Rock, Jurassic Park, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Shining, Videodrome, Inglourious Basterds, Battleship Potemkin, Con Air, Mulholland Dr., The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Taxi Driver, Prometheus, Pan's Labyrinth, 8 1/2, Casino, Starship Troopers, The Big Lebowski, Nosferatu, Oldboy, 12 Angry Men, Drive, No Country for Old Men
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Nolanar, watch The Exorcist. Riki-Oh was a fun change-up from what I usually have on this list. Plenty of blood and insanity and more than a few times you can see the strings. It's up there with Cool Hand Luke for best Christ-Allegory Prison-Movie. I wish I had more to say about this, but it really just sort of speaks for itself. My List: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - I should probably go for a classic western given the discussion, but I'm gonna go with a different John Ford film. (Added 3/15/2013) Gone With the Wind (1939) - I always forget about this one for some reason. Also it's four hours long. (Added 5/25/2013) My Darling Clementine (1946) - Trying to see more John Ford. (Added 6/20/2013) Barry Lyndon (1975) - A Kubrick I haven't seen. I also own it and need to chip away at that pile of unwatched DVDs faster. (Added 6/25/2013) Faust (1926) - I'm going to keep a slot for silent films on my list, and Murnau has been one of my favorite silent directors making two of my favorites (The Last Laugh and Sunrise). This one looks good and eerie. (Added 6/26/2013) The Goddess (1934) - I've been watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey and it does a good job at bringing light to some foreign classics that have been almost entirely ignored by the West. I've never seen a Chinese film from this era and it apparently has some early naturalistic film acting. (Added 7/3/2013) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean made three films and I've seen exactly none of them. (Added 7/10/2013) Frankenstein (1931) - I need to see more of the Universal monster movies. I really like The Wolfman although Dracula kind of bored me. And then once I see this I can finally get to Bride and Son of Frankenstein! (Added 7/25/2013) Midnight Cowboy (1969) - I hear Bob Balaban goes down on Jon Voight in this. That's all I really know. (Added 7/26/2013) The Lady Eve (1941) - I picked up the book "Cinematic Mythmaking" by Irving Singer because it looked really good. However, the essays in it tend to focus on single films and this is one of them. I'd like to go through a few of them before I crack into the book. (Added 7/31/2013) Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Godzilla; Big Trouble In Little China; Y Tu Mamá También; Marathon Man; Hunger; A Woman Is A Woman; Black Narcissus; A Hard Day's Night; Scarface; Le Doulos; On The Waterfront; Rocky; 3 Women; Airplane!; Duck Soup; Clash of the Titans; Singin' In The Rain; The Cow; Straw Dogs; Stop Making Sense; Bad Timing; Once Upon A Time In America; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Robocop; Shane; WALL·E; The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin; The Man Who Fell To Earth; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Divorce Italian Style; Some Like It Hot; To Kill A Mockingbird; An American Werewolf In London; Buffalo '66; Lawrence Of Arabia; Manhattan; Cul-De-Sac; The Birth of a Nation; Braveheart; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Malcolm X; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Le Samouraï; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marat/Sade; His Girl Friday; A Woman Under the Influence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Rio Bravo; Triumph of the Will; Titanic; Strike; The General; Jules et Jim; Tokyo Story; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia; L'Âge d'Or; Stroszek; Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (TOTAL: 64) TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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Jul 31, 2013 23:20
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TrixRabbi posted:Nolanar, watch The Exorcist. Any recommendations on theatrical cut (121 min) vs. extended director's cut (132 min)?
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Jul 31, 2013 23:37
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Nolanar posted:Any recommendations on theatrical cut (121 min) vs. extended director's cut (132 min)? Theatrical should be fine. It's the only one I've seen.
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TrixRabbi, you get to watch Faust because that's a cool name for a movie. Enter The Dragon was a movie about Bruce Lee kicking rear end and taking names. There were some other people who kicked rear end and even some who took names, but none with as much style or skill as Bruce Lee. That said, the other characters' actin was better than I expected and the fight scenes were pretty cool and felt a lot more like real martial arts than what you get in most modern movies. The villain had a cool gimmick and the whole plot worked pretty well, and Bruce used his few non-rear end-kicking lines to communicate some neat philosophical ideas behind the rear end-kicking. The List of Shame: Doctor Zhivago: Let's keep this guy's movies coming. The Dawn Patrol: A movie about fighter pilots in WWI, seems cool to me. Cool Hand Luke: A cool dude with a good, if expensive, brand of food. Tokyo Story: A classic I've never gotten around to seeing. The American Astronaut: Goons in the "I saw a film" thread seem to like this one. Gates of Heaven: I heard this was (one of?) Roger Ebert's favorite movies about mortality. R.I.P. big guy  .Lost in Translation: I should see more films with Bill Murray, and other goons in this thread seemed to enjoy it. A Fistful of Dollars: Completing the Trilogy! The Act of Killing: It looks like a very interesting documentary, in case you want me to watch something emotionally charged. Rubber: This is a movie about a tire with psychic powers or something. It's supposed to be interesting. De-shamed(16): The Thin Red Line(8/10), Casablanca(9/10), Lawrence of Arabia(9.5/10), For a Few Dollars More(7.5/10), Goodfellas (4/10), The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (7.5/10), Stalker (8/10), Battleship Potemkin (6/10), Starship Troopers (6.5/10), Blade Runner (7.5/10), The Godfather: Part II (9/10), Se7en (7/10), The Boondock Saints (2.5/10), Space Mutiny(MST3k) (8/10), The Bridge on the River Kwai (8.5/10), Enter The Dragon (7.5/10)
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Ixtlilton, watch Rubber because I want to hear about it. I was just looking for this thread! Now that I'm mooching off a friend's Netflix I should get less lazy and start actually watching movies regularly. The list: 1. Rosemary's Baby - I really liked Chinatown and would like to see more 70s Polanski. 2. Midnight Cowboy - Apparently a New York classic, something about gigalos? 3. The Bicycle Thief - I'll be completely honest; I tried to watch this once and got bored and wandered off. Stupid low attention span...  4. The Parallax View - I like 70s movies and conspiracies; how could I go wrong? 5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - This is supposed to be really good, but also depressing. It sounds really interesting though (and has my crush of the moment Mark Ruffalo). 6. Upstream Color - I missed this in theaters! I'm kind of afraid I won't "get" it, but I've heard so many good things about it that I really shouldn't care. 7. Valhalla Rising - Another one I missed in theaters, and I've wanted to watch more Refn. 8. The Brother From Another Planet - I remember a professor mentioning this in college and I really like the premise. 9.Zodiac - I've wanted to see this since it came out and it's finally on instant! (also, Ruffalo) 10. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - I've heard really good things about this and I should probably actually watch documentaries.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - This is supposed to be really good, but also depressing. It sounds really interesting though (and has my crush of the moment Mark Ruffalo). Welcome back to the thread after a long hiatus. From Russia with Love - This was a pretty good sequel. Through two films Bond has survived an amazing amount of deadly encounters already. For most of the film he's oblivious to his main nemesis (Grant) who is played by a younger Robert Shaw. He makes mistakes and is lucky to survive. I wondered why Grant kept allowing Bond to survive until he says himself that he wants to humiliate Bond by releasing a sex tape. 2013 Bond may have preferred that. The one thing that annoyed me a little were some of the scenes that were noticeably sped up. Side notes: -There's a pretty blatant ad for the film "Call Me Bwana" -Pretty good scene showing grenades being launched from a rifle. -Austin Powers is beginning to make more sense. Also watched: Star Trek: The Motion Picture - This was kind of a dud in some respects. Maybe my expectations were too high but I've been more enthralled and excited by plenty of the TV series episodes (seems like the standard to compare it to). Some of the scenes seemed to be emulating Star Wars. The old Enterprise crew slowly reassembles during the first half of the film. Kirk displaces the newer Captain (Decker) pretty early on as they begin the journey to intercept the unknown giant alien ship that threatens Earth. There's a scene involving a wormhole that comes across a little too funny. When the Enterprise goes into warp speed it gives off a very 70s rainbow disco vibe that I don't recall seeing in the TV show. Spock eventually comes aboard and fixes all the ships problems in a few hours. He comes across as a genius compared to the rest of the crew. V'Ger is the lonely alien machine of logic that is currently undergoing some kind of childhood existential crisis. The revelation near the end that V'Ger is actually an upgraded and modified Voyager probe was kind of clever and unexpected and redeems the film somewhat. It allows for some contemplation afterwards. Academy Award for Best Picture (82/85 completed): 1933 Cavalcade - Some call this the worst Best Picture winner. A 6.2 rating on IMDb kind of backs that up. 5/4/13 Procrastination (60 completed): #58 Yankee Doodle Dandy - Been recommended in the past. 6/12/13 #60 Giant - Something about Texas. 6/19/13 #63 The Rock - Keep forgetting to watch this one. I remember it being popular at its release. 7/5/13 #64 Lost Highway - I haven't seen a Lynch film in a while. 7/5/13 #65 Inland Empire - Lynch is probably the most enigmatically enchanting director out there for me right now. 7/6/13 #66 Apollo 13 - A coworker once spoke highly of this one. And I heard it was better than Apollo 18. 7/19/13 #67 Red Angel - Don't know much about this. 7/19/13 James Herbert Bond versus James Tiberius Kirk: new Goldfinger - Many consider this the best Bond film. 8/1/13 new Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - I've heard this is the best of the series. I also know that Kirk screams "KHAN!" but I don't know why. 8/1/13
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Zogo posted:
Here's Lynch at his Lynchiest! I wanted to enjoy Mon Oncle more than I did. Don't get me wrong, it had moments. Some nice, clever touches and several individual scenes are really quite funny. The dinner party especially, and mostly everything to do with the "modern" house. The commentary on status and technology isn't new, but it's handled well and humourously. Too many scenes are bland with little punch, though. It kept pulling me back in before I became too disinterested, and the good certainly outweighs the bad. In fact, I probably wouldn't call any of it [i]bad[/b], just kind of dull. When the gags fall flat, it kind of kills an entire scene. It's not nearly as tight as Holiday. One thing I really do enjoy is that so many scenes put the least important thing in the front and center of the frame while the chaos and the jokes of the scene unfold behind it. It's really well done in many places. It's a movie I like thinking about more than I enjoyed watching, if that makes sense. LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Pandora's Box (1928) - Know next to nothing about it except a former co-worker was enamored by it. 1930s - A Night at the Opera (1935) - I really didn't like Duck Soup all that much so I've been wary of the Marx Brothers. Figured I should give them a second go. 1940s - Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Later Chaplin, I've heard mixed things. 1950s - Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Wajda has been on my radar for a while now. Time to pull the trigger. 1960s - Kwaidan (1964) - Japanese horror anthology time! 1970s - The Passenger (1975) - Antonioni is one of those auteurs I've been meaning to catch up with. I've seen Blow Up and...nothing else. 1980s - The Natural (1984) - It's baseball season! I've seen many of the big baseball movies but not this one. 1990s - Europa (1991) - Lars von Trier is a fascinating filmmaker and I would like to see more of his earlier work. I've caught Anti-Christ, Melancholia and Dogville but his only pre-2000 work I've seen is The Kingdom. 2000 and up - Howl's Moving Castle (2004) - I love Miyazaki and I've been told this is pretty good. Bonus/Random - Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa film with a story I've been fascinated by but never watched. SHAME BE GONE:Wild Strawberries, Sunset Blvd., The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Man in Havana, Breathless, Phenomena, Withnail & I, 12 Angry Men, The Cranes Are Flying, Fitzcarraldo, Amadeus, Paths of Glory, Blow Out, Cronos, Hausu, City Lights, Easy Rider, The Lives of Others, Salo, In the Bedroom, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cars, Brand Upon the Brain!, The Great Dictator, Double Indemnity, Point Blank, Cool Hand Luke, 127 Hours, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, A Woman is a Woman, Life of Brian, Last Picture Show, The Company of Wolves, Tree of Life, Life is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Cinema Paradiso, Some Like it Hot, Shotgun Stories, Singin' in the Rain, Precious, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Rules of the Game, Frost/Nixon, All About Eve, Bronson, The Searchers, Bicycle Thieves, American Graffiti, A Christmas Story, The Phantom Carriage, The Changeling, Repulsion, Kagemusha, Irreversible, The Virgin Spring, The Red Shoes, Deconstructing Harry, Metropolis, Che, The Island of Lost Souls, Revanche, Black Moon, Stalker, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Apartment, All About My Mother, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, This is Spinal Tap, On the Waterfront, Grave of the Fireflies, Rebecca, The Sweet Hereafter, Peeping Tom, Drunken Angel, Duck Soup, Key Largo, Witness for the Prosecution, The Lady From Shanghai, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, Safety Last!, King Kong, Anatomy of a Murder, In a Lonely Place, Safe, Bad Day at Black Rock, The General, The Magnificent Ambersons, Five Easy Pieces, Porco Rosso, Mystery Train, Rififi, The King of Comedy, The Straight Story, The Kid, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carlos, Onibaba, It Happened One Night, Sherlock Jr., Lone Star, Foreign Correspondent, The Last Detail, Young Mr. Lincoln, Rope, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The Man Who Laughs, Husbands and Wives, Reds, Sweet Smell of Success, Shadow of a Doubt, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The African Queen, The Lower Depths, Frankenstein, Broadcast News, La Strada, The Last Laugh, Stagecoach, Alexander Nevsky, Don't Look Now, Fish Tank, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Days of Heaven, The Killer, Nosferatu, The Naked Kiss, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Jules et Jim, Mon Oncle (TOTAL: 136)
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Oh, watch Howl's Moving Castle! It's beautiful and lovely. Tokyo Story. Yet another movie that makes me feel like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQGM5qcNm8 Again, I’m sure there’s a lot of important stuff here, but drat did I probably miss a ton of it. To my credit, I found it HUGELY distracting how the actors spoke a lot of their lines directly into the camera. It broke down a lot of the intimacy that the film was going for. I liked that the story was minimal and that, clearly, what was most important were some of the subtle and unspoken things, but I missed out on a lot of that. I think there are very obvious flaws or problems with the film, but if you can overlook them, there’s a very nice experience to be had in watching it. I couldn’t though. The acting in general wasn’t terribly strong and the aforementioned talking into the cameras threw me for quite the loop. Oh well. 7/10 New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. *NEW*Anchorman *NEW* - I really don't care for Will Ferrel outside of a few of his exceptional things (Robert Goulet, Celebrity Jeopardy) but I know this is supposed to be pretty great and I guess I'd like to see the second in theaters. May as well get this one out of the way. 3. The Thing - All I know is that it's John Carpenter and that it's a lot of fun. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. Kelly's Heroes - This is a movie I am almost SURE I will love. Old school war films are pretty much my favorite... I don't know why or how I missed this, please pick it for me! 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 69 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10 Chili fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Chili, watch yourself some Kelly's Heroes. Babby's First List of Shame Lawrence of Arabia - I am so woefully ignorant of what this movie is about, I can't even give a reason why I haven't seen it. The Manchurian Candidate - Have not seen either, so if this is picked please specify which one would be better. I tend to like political thrillers, so it seems weird that I haven't seen one of the defining films in the genre. The Italian Job - Strictly referring to the original, though I haven't seen the remake either. I'm not a big car person, but Michael Caine probably makes this worthwhile. Airplane! - Probably the one I'm most emabarrased to admit I haven't seen. Only reason I can think of as to why I haven't seen it is because I probably know half of it already due to pop-culture references. Cool Hand Luke - Paul Newman's an actor that's never disappointed me as far as I can remember, Strother Martin was one of the times best villian actors, and for some reason I've never seen this movie. L.A. Confidential - I played L.A. Hoire, which was heavily inspired by this movie. Being John Malkovich - Something about the premise just didn't interest me when it came out, and the only time I seem to remember this film exists is when I see John Malkovich in a movie. No Country For Old Men - I actually have the Blu-Ray, but it's still in its original packaging. All I've seen of this movie is one scene in a desert, and the pacing kinda scared me. I Heart Huckabees - From what I hear, it's a good movie. However, I distinctly remember the more hipster-ish of my friends raving about it, which kinda put me off. Despicable Me - I have to constantly admit I've never seen it to my friends now that the sequel is out now. Nothing against animated movies, though usually their type of humour isn't my thing. Infidel Castro fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Infidel Castro posted:L.A. Confidential - I played L.A. Hoire, which was heavily inspired by this movie. Start here. Lost Highway - I didn't get too much from this one. Bill Pullman plays an annoying saxophone and is being stalked by someone who is recording him and his wife. It wasn't hard to follow the basic story (although characters and details are muddled at times). -There's plenty of sex scenes in between all the dialogue. -The Rammstein and Trent Reznor music feels out of place. -Robert Blake plays a strange character. Robert Blake's Piers Morgan interview was a good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEZFmWR2R20 Blake's real life took a turn towards the film plot. Academy Award for Best Picture (82/85 completed): 1933 Cavalcade - Some call this the worst Best Picture winner. A 6.2 rating on IMDb kind of backs that up. 5/4/13 new 1929 The Broadway Melody - Even though the Academy Awards are maligned for various reasons I'm glad I'm nearing the end. 8/3/13 Procrastination (60 completed): #58 Yankee Doodle Dandy - Been recommended in the past. 6/12/13 #60 Giant - Something about Texas. 6/19/13 #63 The Rock - Keep forgetting to watch this one. I remember it being popular at its release. 7/5/13 #65 Inland Empire - Lynch is probably the most enigmatically enchanting director out there for me right now. 7/6/13 #66 Apollo 13 - A coworker once spoke highly of this one. And I heard it was better than Apollo 18. 7/19/13 #67 Red Angel - Don't know much about this. 7/19/13 James Herbert Bond versus James Tiberius Kirk: Goldfinger - Many consider this the best Bond film. 8/1/13 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - I've heard this is the best of the series. I also know that Kirk screams "KHAN!" but I don't know why. 8/1/13 Zogo fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Watch Goldfinger, while I don't necessarily think it's the best Bond film, it's definitely in the discussion for it. Well, I was certainly not expecting Kelly’s Heroes to be nearly as much of a thinker as it was. Among the old school WWII films that I love are The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and The Guns of Navarone. Now, all of these movies do have their characters with grey morality, but what really seems to separate them from Kelly’s Heroes is that the main drive behind the platoon in this film is greed, as well as independence. The film opens with the platoon taking fire from their own side due to incompetence and ignorance, we later learn that the eponymous, Kelly was once a lieutenant, and a good one (which is important) who has been since demoted to a private when he was blamed for something that he wasn't responsible for. After finding out there’s a way to make some personal profit from this war Kelly rallies a platoon that doesn't seem to care about the overarching motives of the war. Now, it’s game on. In a rather pivotal scene where the platoon convinces a sergeant to join them, it’s made pretty clear that the platoon may be even more interested in doing something for themselves as opposed to being ordered around. From here on out, everyone who dies, and many do (on both sides), are dying for personal reasons. War takes on a very new face in this film. Though it’s billed as one, it’s hard to watch Kelly’s Heroes as a comedy. It’s hard to laugh at almost anything in it. There are abundantly talented comedic forces in this film; Don Rickles, Carol O’Connor, and Donald Sutherland all take turns stealing their respective scenes and deliver their lines flawlessly. But I didn't laugh once. I noted the absurdity, I allowed myself a resigned chuckle here and there, but overall, this just wasn't a good backdrop for humor. I’m OK with that, because it did make me think a lot about what I find funny. Context is everything and in the coming days I’m going to reflect a lot on what I just watched. This was an important film for me, not a perfect one, but it struck a strong chord and will leave me with lots to ponder over. 8/10 New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. Anchorman - I really don't care for Will Ferrel outside of a few of his exceptional things (Robert Goulet, Celebrity Jeopardy) but I know this is supposed to be pretty great and I guess I'd like to see the second in theaters. May as well get this one out of the way. 3. The Thing - All I know is that it's John Carpenter and that it's a lot of fun. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. *NEW* Lost In Translation *NEW* - It's been far too long since I've seen a fresh film with Bill Murray. 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 70 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10
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Chili you should watch The Thing. It's possibly Carpenter's finest. ____________________________________________ I watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture this morning. I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan out there. I have limited exposure to the original series, and I've seen the Abrams movies but I'm not blown away by those. Regardless, Star Trek is a pretty important part of pop culture, so I know who the main characters are. Watching this movie I realized I really didn't know much more than that. Overall, I'd rate this picture as average, or slightly below average. For a franchise that's one of the pillars of modern science fiction it seemed to borrow too much from it's contemporaries. A few scenes really reminded me of 2001 for example. Also, I thought the enterprise outfits were supposed to be colorful? Red shirts and what not? Instead everyone was dressed like an extra from Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. I guess it did look more naval though, and I've seen it mentioned before that Star Trek is essentially a naval story set in space. There were a lot of long tracking shots as well that despite being pretty felt unnecessary as well. It would show something beautiful in space, then cut to a reaction shot of one of the crew. The audience is the ones who should be awed by this, not the crew. These shots were amazing looking. The story was okay. There was an unknown space threat, but the real story was the power struggle for control of the Enterprise between Kirk and Decker. It followed all the basic beats, but that was fine. This was the first Star Trek product in 10 years at the time, so there was no need to shake anything up too much. Overall this was much different than the modern Star Trek. I think the Abrams Trek rely too much on action sequences, but they do have a youthful exuberance that I prefer. I need to go a bit further into my original Star Trek to see what I prefer. ____________________________________________ The List of Shame 1. Lolita: I've seen almost all of Kubrick's offerings, but I have not yet seen this teen sex romp. 2. Gaslight: This is one of the more famous noirs, so I feel I need to see it. 3. Ocean's Eleven (1960): I've seen the remake a bunch of times - let's see how the original one is. 4. Cinema Paradiso: I should probably see the movie the forums are named after. 5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang: I don't know much about this one aside from the fact that the protagonist is a fugitive. From a chain gang. 6. The Bicycle Thief: I've had 2 bicycles stolen from me in the past. I need to find out what makes these thieves tick. 7. The 400 Blows: I've seen this pop up a few times in this thread, and I feel I should give it a watch. 8. The Crow: I used to have the soundtrack to this, but I've never watched it. It's been right at the front of my instant watch queue for a year now, but I just can't bother to watch it. 9. Con Air : It's Nic Cage on a plane. This is essential. 10. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan: Everybody I know says this is the best one, so I should check it out. Is there an episode of Star Trek that I need to watch before seeing this? Perma-shame: Once Upon a Time in America - Copy obtained, will review along with next pick. Un-shamed in 2013: The Grapes of Wrath, Yojimbo, The Sixth Sense, Forbidden Planet, Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, It Happened one Night, Donnie Brasco, Fargo, Enter the Dragon, The Big Sleep, Adam's Rib, Animal House, Quiz Show, The Man with the Golden Arm, Strangers on a Train, Singin' in the Rain, The Philadelphia Story, The Time Machine, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, The Seven Year Itch, The Deer Hunter, City Lights, The Prestige, Five Easy Pieces, Some Like it Hot, Snatch, True Lies, The Seventh Seal, Amelie, The Magnificent Ambersons, Escape from New York, Witness for the Prosecution, Life is Beautiful, Brazil, Clash of the Titans, Gone With the Wind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Chili posted:There are abundantly talented comedic forces in this film; Don Rickles, Carol O’Connor, and Donald Sutherland all take turns stealing their respective scenes and deliver their lines flawlessly. I think Kelly's Heroes was the first DVD I bought and I still like it. I don't think I laugh at it too much really either but it's still funny at times. Maj. Gen. Colt and his perpetual confusion being the main source. I love the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqSiLL8U3vo CopywrightMMXI posted:There were a lot of long tracking shots as well that despite being pretty felt unnecessary as well. It would show something beautiful in space, then cut to a reaction shot of one of the crew. The audience is the ones who should be awed by this, not the crew. These shots were amazing looking. I thought the same thing as they kept showing different angles of the Enterprise as Kirk laid his eyes on it for the first time in a few years. It felt like ten minutes of Kirk staring at a shiny new car. Other critics have said it's like watching the crew watch TV.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:6. The Bicycle Thief: I've had 2 bicycles stolen from me in the past. I need to find out what makes these thieves tick. I've had one bicycle stolen. Goldfinger - On 8/1 the vast majority of Bond films were put on Netflix instant so I got to this one fast. This is one of those films that I feel I've seen before due to the fact I've heard so much about it from so many people. I still remember my 7th grade social studies teacher talking about this one. The film starts off with Bond blowing up a drug laboratory in terroristic fashion. Bond then snogs a few women and then eventually meets up with Goldfinger and defeats him in a game of golf by stealing Goldfinger's ball. While the story is the most intriguing of all the films so far (Fort Knox plot) it did feel silly at many points: Oddjob's flying hat, car ejection seats, Bond throwing gold bars at Oddjob and Auric's gold gun etc. Academy Award for Best Picture (82/85 completed): 1933 Cavalcade - Some call this the worst Best Picture winner. A 6.2 rating on IMDb kind of backs that up. 5/4/13 1929 The Broadway Melody - Even though the Academy Awards are maligned for various reasons I'm glad I'm nearing the end. 8/3/13 Procrastination (60 completed): #58 Yankee Doodle Dandy - Been recommended in the past. 6/12/13 #60 Giant - Something about Texas. 6/19/13 #63 The Rock - Keep forgetting to watch this one. I remember it being popular at its release. 7/5/13 #65 Inland Empire - Lynch is probably the most enigmatically enchanting director out there for me right now. 7/6/13 #66 Apollo 13 - A coworker once spoke highly of this one. And I heard it was better than Apollo 18. 7/19/13 #67 Red Angel - Don't know much about this. 7/19/13 new #68 Breakfast at Tiffany's - Never piqued my interest but it's on tons of lists. 8/5/13 James Herbert Bond versus James Tiberius Kirk: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - I've heard this is the best of the series. I also know that Kirk screams "KHAN!" but I don't know why. 8/1/13
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Go with Inland Empire, seems like you're most excited for it. The Thing was great. Just a whole lot of fun from beginning to end. It kept me guessing, it looked really awesome (Practical>CGI), and it was very well done. Not much else to say really, it was a solid film and I'm looking forward to watching it again some day. It's definitely the kind of movie I'm going to try to get people to watch. 8.5/10 Horror movies seem to be the big surprise for me for this thread. New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. Anchorman - I really don't care for Will Ferrel outside of a few of his exceptional things (Robert Goulet, Celebrity Jeopardy) but I know this is supposed to be pretty great and I guess I'd like to see the second in theaters. May as well get this one out of the way. 3. *NEW* Dear Zachary *NEW* - I've heard this will make me cry, that's all I know. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. Lost In Translation - It's been far too long since I've seen a fresh film with Bill Murray. 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 71 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10 Chili fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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Chili, you get Lost in Translation. I liked Faust, although not as much as I was hoping to. It's opening and ending are phenomenal, and it really is a technical and visual marvel. I can appreciate and understand it's importance. However, about halfway through it begins to drag and I found myself getting incredibly bored up until the end of the second act. But the moments that stand out are stellar. I kind of feel the same way about Nosferatu. My List: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - I should probably go for a classic western given the discussion, but I'm gonna go with a different John Ford film. (Added 3/15/2013) Gone With the Wind (1939) - I always forget about this one for some reason. Also it's four hours long. (Added 5/25/2013) My Darling Clementine (1946) - Trying to see more John Ford. (Added 6/20/2013) Barry Lyndon (1975) - A Kubrick I haven't seen. I also own it and need to chip away at that pile of unwatched DVDs faster. (Added 6/25/2013) The Goddess (1934) - I've been watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey and it does a good job at bringing light to some foreign classics that have been almost entirely ignored by the West. I've never seen a Chinese film from this era and it apparently has some early naturalistic film acting. (Added 7/3/2013) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean made three films and I've seen exactly none of them. (Added 7/10/2013) Frankenstein (1931) - I need to see more of the Universal monster movies. I really like The Wolfman although Dracula kind of bored me. And then once I see this I can finally get to Bride and Son of Frankenstein! (Added 7/25/2013) Midnight Cowboy (1969) - I hear Bob Balaban goes down on Jon Voight in this. That's all I really know. (Added 7/26/2013) The Lady Eve (1941) - I picked up the book "Cinematic Mythmaking" by Irving Singer because it looked really good. However, the essays in it tend to focus on single films and this is one of them. I'd like to go through a few of them before I crack into the book. (Added 7/31/2013) Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Alright, which one of you fuckers is going to make me watch this? (Added 8/6/2013) Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Godzilla; Big Trouble In Little China; Y Tu Mamá También; Marathon Man; Hunger; A Woman Is A Woman; Black Narcissus; A Hard Day's Night; Scarface; Le Doulos; On The Waterfront; Rocky; 3 Women; Airplane!; Duck Soup; Clash of the Titans; Singin' In The Rain; The Cow; Straw Dogs; Stop Making Sense; Bad Timing; Once Upon A Time In America; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Robocop; Shane; WALL·E; The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin; The Man Who Fell To Earth; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Divorce Italian Style; Some Like It Hot; To Kill A Mockingbird; An American Werewolf In London; Buffalo '66; Lawrence Of Arabia; Manhattan; Cul-De-Sac; The Birth of a Nation; Braveheart; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Malcolm X; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Le Samouraï; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marat/Sade; His Girl Friday; A Woman Under the Influence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Rio Bravo; Triumph of the Will; Titanic; Strike; The General; Jules et Jim; Tokyo Story; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia; L'Âge d'Or; Stroszek; Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky; Faust (TOTAL: 65)
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I'll be that guy. Man, was Howl's Moving Castle ever fun. It's captivating from the beginning and despite some clunky exposition where simple images would have done the trick, it is just as affecting as the majority of Miyazaki's ouevre. Sophie is a fantastic lead character and her situation carries the flick. The movie is beautiful, both visually and audibly. The character design is fascinating and akin to the widest array seen in the best Final Fantasy games. Exceptionally well realized. A shrug of an ending doesn't really hurt an otherwise incredible movie. LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Pandora's Box (1928) - Know next to nothing about it except a former co-worker was enamored by it. 1930s - A Night at the Opera (1935) - I really didn't like Duck Soup all that much so I've been wary of the Marx Brothers. Figured I should give them a second go. 1940s - Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Later Chaplin, I've heard mixed things. 1950s - Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Wajda has been on my radar for a while now. Time to pull the trigger. 1960s - Kwaidan (1964) - Japanese horror anthology time! 1970s - The Passenger (1975) - Antonioni is one of those auteurs I've been meaning to catch up with. I've seen Blow Up and...nothing else. 1980s - The Natural (1984) - It's baseball season! I've seen many of the big baseball movies but not this one. 1990s - Europa (1991) - Lars von Trier is a fascinating filmmaker and I would like to see more of his earlier work. I've caught Anti-Christ, Melancholia and Dogville but his only pre-2000 work I've seen is The Kingdom. 2000 and up - Y tu Mambia Tambien (2001) - Children of Men is one of my favourites of the last decade. Time for more Cuaron Bonus/Random - Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa film with a story I've been fascinated by but never watched. SHAME BE GONE:Wild Strawberries, Sunset Blvd., The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Man in Havana, Breathless, Phenomena, Withnail & I, 12 Angry Men, The Cranes Are Flying, Fitzcarraldo, Amadeus, Paths of Glory, Blow Out, Cronos, Hausu, City Lights, Easy Rider, The Lives of Others, Salo, In the Bedroom, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cars, Brand Upon the Brain!, The Great Dictator, Double Indemnity, Point Blank, Cool Hand Luke, 127 Hours, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, A Woman is a Woman, Life of Brian, Last Picture Show, The Company of Wolves, Tree of Life, Life is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Cinema Paradiso, Some Like it Hot, Shotgun Stories, Singin' in the Rain, Precious, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Rules of the Game, Frost/Nixon, All About Eve, Bronson, The Searchers, Bicycle Thieves, American Graffiti, A Christmas Story, The Phantom Carriage, The Changeling, Repulsion, Kagemusha, Irreversible, The Virgin Spring, The Red Shoes, Deconstructing Harry, Metropolis, Che, The Island of Lost Souls, Revanche, Black Moon, Stalker, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Apartment, All About My Mother, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, This is Spinal Tap, On the Waterfront, Grave of the Fireflies, Rebecca, The Sweet Hereafter, Peeping Tom, Drunken Angel, Duck Soup, Key Largo, Witness for the Prosecution, The Lady From Shanghai, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, Safety Last!, King Kong, Anatomy of a Murder, In a Lonely Place, Safe, Bad Day at Black Rock, The General, The Magnificent Ambersons, Five Easy Pieces, Porco Rosso, Mystery Train, Rififi, The King of Comedy, The Straight Story, The Kid, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carlos, Onibaba, It Happened One Night, Sherlock Jr., Lone Star, Foreign Correspondent, The Last Detail, Young Mr. Lincoln, Rope, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The Man Who Laughs, Husbands and Wives, Reds, Sweet Smell of Success, Shadow of a Doubt, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The African Queen, The Lower Depths, Frankenstein, Broadcast News, La Strada, The Last Laugh, Stagecoach, Alexander Nevsky, Don't Look Now, Fish Tank, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Days of Heaven, The Killer, Nosferatu, The Naked Kiss, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Jules et Jim, Mon Oncle, Howl's Moving Castle (TOTAL: 137)
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Time for more Cuaron indeed - enjoy it! Well, it's been about a month and a half but I finally watched High & Low. I was on a 90s kick for a bit and got a couple others out of the way from my list: The Sweet Hereafter This was a beautifully structured movie. The different tenses going back & forth were seamless and I never felt lost or confused. The organic way that all these aspects play out immerses you into the story, and merging past/present/future with all of this going on really made for an engaging experience. There's brilliant acting throughout, but especially from Ian Holm & Bruce Greenwood. Greenwood is one worth seeking out, most notably under Egoyan's direction. I still think I liked Exotica more, but maybe this needs time to sink in. This film left me both a little cold, and a bit stunned, as it all seemed to end a tad too abruptly. Overall I did like it, but maybe it just deserves to be seen more than once. Princess Mononoke What else is there to say - stunning visuals are the standout with a fantastic and imaginative story to boot. A must see that ranks right up there for me with Spirited Away & My Neighbour Totoro! High and Low Seven Samurai & Rashomon have been my only Kurosawa experiences until now, and this far and away is the best of the three. It totally hooked me from beginning to end, managing to be a very entertaining & well-scripted police procedural with great complexity from all characters and only getting better as the film went on. This is certainly up there with the best films I've watched thanks to this thread. Incredible movie. LIST Le Doulos **new** (2013.08.06) - I've only watched Le Samourai which I loved.... I must consume more Melville. The King of Comedy **new** (2013.08.06) - should've watched this long ago.. De Niro + Scorsese Lone Star **new** (2013.08.06) - heard plenty of great things, love Chris Cooper & loved his work in Sayles' earlier film Matewan. The Magnificient Ambersons (2013.05.04) - I claim to be a big Welles fan yet have not watched his follow up to Citizen Kane. The Music Room (2013.01.29) - my Satyajit Ray cherry is still intact. The Passion of Joan of Arc (2013.05.20) - one of those must-see classics I just haven't got around to. The Sting (2013.02.19) - I get told often to watch this. I want to get told once more. The Taste of Cherry (2013.05.04) - loved Close-up & Certified Copy. I want more! The Wages of Fear (2013.05.11) - my friend won't stop bugging me that I have yet to see this. He means well. Witness For The Prosecution (2013.06.02) - this list, and my life, always could use more Wilder. De-shamed: Aliens (4.5/5), The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/5), La Dolce Vita (4/5), The Hustler (5/5), Blue Velvet (4.5/5), Close-Up (4.5/5), The Lady Vanishes (4.5/5), Grave of the Fireflies (5/5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3.5/5), Oldboy (4.5/5), Gattaca (3.5/5), Children of Men (5/5), The Great Dictator (4.5/5), Diabolique (4.5/5), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (3.5/5), Rashomon (4.5/5), Singin' in the Rain (5/5), Le Samourai (5/5), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (5/5), Battleship Potemkin (4/5), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3.5/5), Network (5/5), Once Upon A Time In The West (5/5), Sleeper (2.5/5), Y Tu Mama Tambien (4.5/5), Lawrence of Arabia (3.5/5), Amadeus (4/5), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4.5/5), The Postman Always Rings Twice (3.5/5), Ben-Hur (4.5/5), Bug (4/5), All The President's Men (4.5/5), Through a Glass Darkly (4/5), The Leopard (2/5), The Aviator (4.5/5), Duck Soup (4/5), The Good The Bad & The Ugly (5/5), Werckmeister Harmonies (4/5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4.5/5), To Kill A Mockingbird (2.5/5), Brazil (2.5/5), M (5/5), The Sweet Hereafter (4/5), Princess Mononoke (5/5), High and Low (5/5), [Total:45]
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I'm gonna tell you to go watch The Sting once more. It's really fun. On paper, I shouldn't have loved or even really liked Lost In Translation. It was fantastic. I can see how this would be a polarizing film, and would certainly be boring to some, but it really connected with me. It's hard to mention just how salient Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson's performances were to the success of the film, but needless to say, they killed it. The film was incredibly uneventful, rather hopeless at times, and even had some downright depressing pockets. But the moments between Bob Harris and Charlotte countered them all so perfectly. I also really love that both of the characters are in this weird "I don't know what I want" phase but one is on the way up and the other on the way down. I'll stop talking about this, it feels like pointless babble and gushing. 9.5/10 Edit: I'd also like to add that I just read Roger Ebert's review of the film found here http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-lost-in-translation-2003, and he put down the words that I wished I could about this film. I hate that he's dead. New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. Anchorman - I really don't care for Will Ferrel outside of a few of his exceptional things (Robert Goulet, Celebrity Jeopardy) but I know this is supposed to be pretty great and I guess I'd like to see the second in theaters. May as well get this one out of the way. 3. Dear Zachary - I've heard this will make me cry, that's all I know. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. *NEW* Mulholland Drive *NEW* - Yeah, I got over 70 films into this game and haven't even touched perhaps the most shameful of admissions... I have yet to see anything by David Lynch. In my defense I get weirded out easily and am guessing that's gonna be the case with some, if not most, of his stuff. 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 72 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10 Chili fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Chili, you get to watch Anchorman. It's a fun movie, and if you don't enjoy it I will be very sad. Rubber was not the kind of movie I was expecting it to be. Sure, it had the tire, and the tire definitely had some psychic powers, but I expected it to get some real characterization and to actually interact with the town or something and for us to see the world and the people through its eyes or something. Instead we get a movie that explicitly says it's about things happening for "no reason". The examples it uses as things in great movies that happen for no reason aren't even good examples either, and pouring your glass of water out at the end of your little introductory speech to emphasize your point doesn't have no reason, it's emphasizing your point! To get into the actual plot the tire murders everyone in the town for no discernible reason as part of some show put on for a group of people who are poisoned so they don't have to keep putting on the show and can go home, except one guy doesn't eat the poisoned food and demands they keep going until after the tire kills the whole town finally the guy comes down to comment on the movie to them and gets killed by the tire himself. Really. The tire waking up and getting the hang of movie and learning its powers was cool, but I was just annoyed by the rest of the movie. I didn't hate it, it didn't make me feel uncomfortable or think about anything, I was just annoyed by it. The audience was annoying, the smug meta-ness of the movie was annoying, and the acting was just all-around bad. I guess it also doesn't help that I dislike horror in general, I don't even like The Thing, but I really didn't like this movie and whatever they were trying to say about the viewing experience of movies or whatever it was was stupid. If you're going to do something and expect us to suspend our disbelief it you have to make it fit in a narrative and the world you create and do something cool with it or you're just wasting me time. A bad movie. The List of Shame: Doctor Zhivago: Let's keep this guy's movies coming. The Dawn Patrol: A movie about fighter pilots in WWI, seems cool to me. Cool Hand Luke: A cool dude with a good, if expensive, brand of food. Tokyo Story: A classic I've never gotten around to seeing. The American Astronaut: Goons in the "I saw a film" thread seem to like this one. Gates of Heaven: I heard this was (one of?) Roger Ebert's favorite movies about mortality. R.I.P. big guy .Lost in Translation: I should see more films with Bill Murray, and other goons in this thread seemed to enjoy it. A Fistful of Dollars: Completing the Trilogy! The Act of Killing: It looks like a very interesting documentary, in case you want me to watch something emotionally charged. The Pianist: I haven't seen this movie and it was used as an example of something that had no reason for it in a movie. Help me prove Rubber wrong! De-shamed(17): The Thin Red Line(8/10), Casablanca(9/10), Lawrence of Arabia(9.5/10), For a Few Dollars More(7.5/10), Goodfellas (4/10), The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (7.5/10), Stalker (8/10), Battleship Potemkin (6/10), Starship Troopers (6.5/10), Blade Runner (7.5/10), The Godfather: Part II (9/10), Se7en (7/10), The Boondock Saints (2.5/10), Space Mutiny(MST3k) (8/10), The Bridge on the River Kwai (8.5/10), Enter The Dragon (7.5/10), Rubber(1.5/10)
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It’s a toss up between Cool Hand Luke and Lost in Translation, they’re both fantastic but since I just enjoyed it, and would like to hear your take on it, go with the latter. Plus, it’s been on your list since you started up. Have fun. Anchroman: Meh. I really just don’t find Will Ferrel funny. All of his scenes without his surrounding supporting “news team” just bothered me. Steve Carell remains to be the most talented person in anything he bothers to be in (with maybe exception to Sam Rockwell in The Way Way Back). I don’t know, the movie got a couple of chuckles out of me, but it really just felt pretty dumb most of the time. I equate this a lot with Zoolander, another comedy about a world I don’t care about that everyone seems to love and hates me for not enjoying. 6.5/10 New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. *NEW* Double Indemnity *NEW* - I've heard it's one of Wilder's best. I've liked everything I've seen by him so far. 3. Dear Zachary - I've heard this will make me cry, that's all I know. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. Mulholland Drive *NEW* - Yeah, I got over 70 films into this game and haven't even touched perhaps the most shameful of admissions... I have yet to see anything by David Lynch. In my defense I get weirded out easily and am guessing that's gonna be the case with some, if not most of his stuff. 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 73 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10
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Chili, While I've never seen Mulholland Drive, David Lynch movies are always interesting. See that. Just saw The Godfather Part II. The continuation of the story was great. The comparison between Vito and Michael was interesting. Very enjoyable, but I think I preferred the first part a little more. My List: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The King's Speech - Trying to see more recent movies. The Kid - More Chaplin please. The Adventures of Robin Hood - Never seen an Errol Flynn movie. Horse Feathers - Time for another Marx Brothers movie. Despicable Me - I know Despicable Me 2 is coming out, but I still need to see the original The Bad Sleep Well - Having just seen Kurosawa's version of MacBeth, his version of Hamlet is next. Fiddler on the Roof - I'm going to stick with musicals in this spot. The Invisible Man - Next in my monster movie queue. Rear Window - I think I may have seen this when I was a kid, but I really don't remember it. Movies Seen: Seven Samurai, Dune, Singin' in the Rain, Animal Crackers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Amadeus, Double Indemnity, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 12 Angry Men, Ed Wood, Sunset Boulevard, The Dark Knight, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Brazil, Rashomon, Yojimbo, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, M, Duck Soup, The Princess and the Frog, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, Dracula, It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, Ikiru, High and Low, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Kagemusha, Best In Show, Modern Times, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Red Beard, Monty Python's The Life of Brian, Cars, Cool Hand Luke, The Public Enemy, Time Bandits, Adaptation, The Producers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gone With The Wind, My Fair Lady, City Lights, A Christmas Carol(1951), Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, West Side Story, Caddyshack, My Neighbor Totoro, Throne of Blood, The Phantom of the Opera, Yellow Submarine, Little Caesar, The Third Man, The Godfather, Persepolis, The Godfather Part II
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Dmitri Russkie posted:Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Been on your list almost a year. Inland Empire - This was another crazy, multilayered trip into confusion, madness, Hollywood and acting that will mess with most viewers heads. This is one of the hardest to define and categorize that I've seen through the thread. I can say "Lynch film" and that conveys some concepts. I liked it more than Lost Highway at least (which was severely damaged by its score IMO). I think it could've been trimmed and made a little tighter and I didn't understand why we kept seeing those Polish scenes but otherwise it was memorable. Some segments did appear to use a lower quality camera of some sort. My favorite recurring scenes involved those of those strange rabbit people. I haven't seen anything like them before. There are so many different effects being used in this one. As I was watching the story unfold I kept thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world%27s_a_stage By the time the credits appear with a lumberjack sawing a log while people sing and dance I was confounded. I've barely touched on the plot but Laura Dern being stabbed with a screwdriver and vomiting blood onto a Hollywood Walk of Fame star as Terry Crews looks on won't be easy to forget. Academy Award for Best Picture (82/85 completed): 1933 Cavalcade - Some call this the worst Best Picture winner. A 6.2 rating on IMDb kind of backs that up. 5/4/13 1929 The Broadway Melody - Even though the Academy Awards are maligned for various reasons I'm glad I'm nearing the end. 8/3/13 Procrastination (62 completed): #58 Yankee Doodle Dandy - Been recommended in the past. 6/12/13 #60 Giant - Something about Texas. 6/19/13 #63 The Rock - Keep forgetting to watch this one. I remember it being popular at its release. 7/5/13 #66 Apollo 13 - A coworker once spoke highly of this one. And I heard it was better than Apollo 18. 7/19/13 #67 Red Angel - Don't know much about this. 7/19/13 #68 Breakfast at Tiffany's - Never piqued my interest but it's on tons of lists. 8/5/13 new #69 Breathless - Ranked very high on the TSPDT list. 8/9/13 James Herbert Bond versus James Tiberius Kirk: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - I've heard this is the best of the series. I also know that Kirk screams "KHAN!" but I don't know why. 8/1/13
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Zogo posted:#63 The Rock - Keep forgetting to watch this one. I remember it being popular at its release. 7/5/13 EDIT: 2 people posted in front of Chili before I finished my post.. Zogo, watch The Rock, as I don't believe I've seen this movie in the Shame thread before. Interesting. Enjoy! The Sting I can finally lift this big weight off my shoulders!!! So this movie can be summed up in one word: fun. It's ridiculously entertaining! From the fun ragtime piano score, to the great performances from Robert Redford, Paul Newman & Robert Shaw, to the wonderful screenplay, this has lived up to my insanely high expectations after everyone has told me to watch this thing! This screenplay is unbelievable, ranking up there with Network, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Chinatown and Casablanca. It moves at a rapid pace, and the film assists the viewer with title cards as each new phase in the story begins. Whether they were necessary is up to you, but they were quick, stylish, and a fun excuse to play some more ragtime. Certain elements of the film were predictable, but is that really a bad thing? The payoff was expected but the journey there was fantastic, so I'll let it slide. It may be due to all the films influenced by this since it's release! I'll just note that Paul Newman's 'poker scene' is one for the ages, and that's what I'll remember most. It was so hilarious to watch, perfectly written, and I'd expect it would be easy to follow for someone who's never heard of poker before. This crime caper deserves all the love it's received, and now I get why I was told over and over to watch it. Don't wait as long as I did - see it ASAP. LIST Le Doulos (2013.08.06) - I've only watched Le Samourai which I loved.... I must consume more Melville. The King of Comedy (2013.08.06) - should've watched this long ago.. De Niro + Scorsese Lone Star (2013.08.06) - heard plenty of great things, love Chris Cooper & loved his work in Sayles' earlier film Matewan. The Magnificient Ambersons (2013.05.04) - I claim to be a big Welles fan yet have not watched his follow up to Citizen Kane. The Music Room (2013.01.29) - my Satyajit Ray cherry is still intact. The Passion of Joan of Arc (2013.05.20) - one of those must-see classics I just haven't got around to. The Spirit of the Beehive **new** (2013.08.08) - I've consistently heard great things about this one.. know nothing other than that. The Taste of Cherry (2013.05.04) - loved Close-up & Certified Copy. I want more! The Wages of Fear (2013.05.11) - my friend won't stop bugging me that I have yet to see this. He means well. Witness For The Prosecution (2013.06.02) - this list, and my life, always could use more Wilder. De-shamed: Aliens (4.5/5), The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/5), La Dolce Vita (4/5), The Hustler (5/5), Blue Velvet (4.5/5), Close-Up (4.5/5), The Lady Vanishes (4.5/5), Grave of the Fireflies (5/5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3.5/5), Oldboy (4.5/5), Gattaca (3.5/5), Children of Men (5/5), The Great Dictator (4.5/5), Diabolique (4.5/5), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (3.5/5), Rashomon (4.5/5), Singin' in the Rain (5/5), Le Samourai (5/5), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (5/5), Battleship Potemkin (4/5), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3.5/5), Network (5/5), Once Upon A Time In The West (5/5), Sleeper (2.5/5), Y Tu Mama Tambien (4.5/5), Lawrence of Arabia (3.5/5), Amadeus (4/5), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4.5/5), The Postman Always Rings Twice (3.5/5), Ben-Hur (4.5/5), Bug (4/5), All The President's Men (4.5/5), Through a Glass Darkly (4/5), The Leopard (2/5), The Aviator (4.5/5), Duck Soup (4/5), The Good The Bad & The Ugly (5/5), Werckmeister Harmonies (4/5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4.5/5), To Kill A Mockingbird (2.5/5), Brazil (2.5/5), M (5/5), The Sweet Hereafter (4/5), Princess Mononoke (5/5), High and Low (5/5), The Sting (5/5), [Total:46] friendo55 fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Friendo, watch The King of Comedy. Salo is a deeply unpleasant movie. However, it was not as unwatchable as I had expected it to be. In all honesty, much of it just seems very fake, which lessens the blow. I find Cannibal Holocaust to be a much more cringe-inducing film. One of my biggest complaints about Salo is that it's just kind of boring and repetitive in places. Senora Maggi's speeches were interminable, always going on and on about something that's supposed to be depraved and shocking but is really just kind of obnoxious. Then one of the tormentors gets aroused, leaves the room and does something weird. Then random acts of violence and humiliation. Repeat. I do appreciate what Pasolini was going for. It actually does work as an indictment of fascism, and what's tragic is real life under fascism was much, much worse than what's depicted here. This is only my second Pasolini film, after Oedipus Rex (which I hated). In addition, there's some moments of real impact beyond just being shocking. Some wonderful shots here and there, and Morricone's score is excellent as always. Although one last complaint that I never see brought up with this film - it's strangely homophobic. Homosexuality/bisexuality seems to be associated with the tormentors as a form of perversion. At one point they even crossdress. Then there's the scene with the boy prisoner who seems to be into the tormentor when they kiss. I think we later see him in the final storytelling scene, spared from the torture in the yard. So by being gay he joins the fascists. My List: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - I should probably go for a classic western given the discussion, but I'm gonna go with a different John Ford film. (Added 3/15/2013) Gone With the Wind (1939) - I always forget about this one for some reason. Also it's four hours long. (Added 5/25/2013) My Darling Clementine (1946) - Trying to see more John Ford. (Added 6/20/2013) Barry Lyndon (1975) - A Kubrick I haven't seen. I also own it and need to chip away at that pile of unwatched DVDs faster. (Added 6/25/2013) The Goddess (1934) - I've been watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey and it does a good job at bringing light to some foreign classics that have been almost entirely ignored by the West. I've never seen a Chinese film from this era and it apparently has some early naturalistic film acting. (Added 7/3/2013) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean made three films and I've seen exactly none of them. (Added 7/10/2013) Frankenstein (1931) - I need to see more of the Universal monster movies. I really like The Wolfman although Dracula kind of bored me. And then once I see this I can finally get to Bride and Son of Frankenstein! (Added 7/25/2013) Midnight Cowboy (1969) - I hear Bob Balaban goes down on Jon Voight in this. That's all I really know. (Added 7/26/2013) The Lady Eve (1941) - I picked up the book "Cinematic Mythmaking" by Irving Singer because it looked really good. However, the essays in it tend to focus on single films and this is one of them. I'd like to go through a few of them before I crack into the book. (Added 7/31/2013) Hoop Dreams (1994) - Important documentary I haven't seen. (Added 8/9/2013) Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Godzilla; Big Trouble In Little China; Y Tu Mamá También; Marathon Man; Hunger; A Woman Is A Woman; Black Narcissus; A Hard Day's Night; Scarface; Le Doulos; On The Waterfront; Rocky; 3 Women; Airplane!; Duck Soup; Clash of the Titans; Singin' In The Rain; The Cow; Straw Dogs; Stop Making Sense; Bad Timing; Once Upon A Time In America; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Robocop; Shane; WALL·E; The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin; The Man Who Fell To Earth; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Divorce Italian Style; Some Like It Hot; To Kill A Mockingbird; An American Werewolf In London; Buffalo '66; Lawrence Of Arabia; Manhattan; Cul-De-Sac; The Birth of a Nation; Braveheart; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Malcolm X; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Le Samouraï; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marat/Sade; His Girl Friday; A Woman Under the Influence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Rio Bravo; Triumph of the Will; Titanic; Strike; The General; Jules et Jim; Tokyo Story; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia; L'Âge d'Or; Stroszek; Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky; Faust; Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (TOTAL: 66)
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Watch Gone With the Wind . Throne of Blood was great and I don't think I have much to say about it. I have a sinking suspicious I would've enjoyed it more if Macbeth hadn't been one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, or if it hadn't been a Shakespeare play in the first place, because it's always hard to watch adaptations of Shakespeare without feeling sad about missing out on Shakespeare's language. 1) His Girl Friday (1940) - Is this anything my like My Man Godfrey? 2) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 3) Tokyo Story (1953) - I'm guessing this is set in Tokyo. 4) Zulu (1964) - Is this movie hella racist? 5) Stalker (1979) - As of adding this entry I have two Tarkovsky movies on the list. Endless shame etc. 6) Body Heat (1981) - I want to see some Lawrence Kasdan that isn't Lucas-related. 7) Hard Eight (1996) - This thread gave me There Will Be Blood, which I enjoyed, so I think I'll be going through Paul Thomas Anderson chronologically, because I haven't see any of his other movies. 8) Amores Perros (2000) - When I was in college, one of my roommates watched this with some friends of ours. I was nearby but not paying attention (I had headphones on) but afterwards I caught their reaction - our friends sounded uncomfortable by what they had just seen, and my roommate thought it was pretty good. My roommate has good taste and likes weird stuff, and these friends are ones that don't really go for the more out-there stuff, so on the off chance I dislike this at least it will potentially be interesting. 9) Almost Famous (2000) - I think this is about teenagers or something. 10) Waltz with Bashir (2008) - I've heard good stuff. Deshamed: In a Lonely Place (98), The Seventh Seal (97), Full Metal Jacket (96), Last Year at Marienbad (95), Seven Samurai (95), Heathers (94), Lawrence of Arabia (93), There Will Be Blood (93), The Brothers Bloom (92), Aguirre: The Wrath of God (92), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (92), Sweet Smell of Success (91), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (91), Nostalghia (91), Play Time (91), Schindler's List (91), The Long Goodbye (91), Blue Velvet (90), Out of the Past (90), Once Upon a Time in the West (90), 8 1/2 (89), City of God (89), Badlands (89), Das Boot (88), Videodrome (88), The Exterminating Angel (87), 99 River Street (87), Cool Hand Luke (87), Goodfellas (87), M (86), Throne of Blood (86), High Fidelity (86), A History of Violence (86), The Maltese Falcon (85), Rififi (84), Midnight Cowboy (84), Crimes and Misdemeanors (84), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (84), Touch of Evil (83), The Social Network (83), The Last King of Scotland (82), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (82), City Lights (82), Slacker (82), Vertigo (81), North by Northwest (81), Breakfast at Tiffany's (81), Unforgiven (81), The Man Who Fell to Earth (79), Raising Arizona (77), The Lady Vanishes (72), Boyz n the Hood (76), The 400 Blows (72), The Man Who Knew Too Much (60)
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Tycho, you get His Girl Friday It took me two sittings to get through A Woman Under the Influence. Not that it was boring, but it was so overwhelming a couple of times that I had to put it aside. Is it possible that a film is too realistic? It knocked me around. The acting was fantastic and it almost felt claustrophobic at times. A gantastic film, but I can imagine it's going to be hard to revisit. 1) The Magnificent Seven- I know this is an iconic western, but is it a great one? 2) Carlos- everyone I know who has seen this raves about it 3) The Earrings of Madame De..- this comes highly recommended 4) Five Easy Pieces- another important 70s film I've yet to see 5) Rope- working on my Hitchcock 6) To Live and in in L.A.- this seems right up my alley 7) Stalag 17- I love all the Wilder I've seen so far 8) The Wolf Man- more Universal monsters 9) Cabaret- after All That Jazz, I want to explore other Fosse musicals 10) Go West- I will not rest until I've seen every Buster Keaton New List of Unshamed: The Invisible Man; Paris, Texas; Dr Strangelove, Ran, Stripes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Throne of Blood, Touch of Evil, Blow Out, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Sound of Music, The Apartment, The Rules of the Game, The Last Picture Show, Bicycle Thieves, Manhattan, The Conversation, All That Jazz, Two Lane Blacktop, The Deer Hunter, Island of Lost Souls, Tokyo Story, Nashville, A Woman Under the Influence
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Fun fact: A Woman Under The Influence was originally going to be a stage play, but Gena Rowlands balked at the idea of playing such an emotionally stressful role every night that they just made a movie instead.
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Mistletoe Donkey posted:
I've been meaning to get around to this myself, and I'd like at least one of us to watch it. The King of Comedy I think I just witnessed Robert De Niro's greatest performance as Rupert Pupkin. Everything was perfect & very convincing - his mannerisms, timing, phrasing, etc. I felt the movie did drag a little and get a bit too over the top whenever Sandra Bernhard was on screen, but otherwise a pretty fantastic film! De Niro clearly carries it. LIST Le Doulos (2013.08.06) - I've only watched Le Samourai which I loved.... I must consume more Melville. Lone Star (2013.08.06) - heard plenty of great things, love Chris Cooper & loved his work in Sayles' earlier film Matewan. The Magnificient Ambersons (2013.05.04) - I claim to be a big Welles fan yet have not watched his follow up to Citizen Kane. The Music Room (2013.01.29) - my Satyajit Ray cherry is still intact. The Passion of Joan of Arc (2013.05.20) - one of those must-see classics I just haven't got around to. The Spirit of the Beehive (2013.08.08) - I've consistently heard great things about this one.. know nothing other than that. Stand By Me **new** (2013.08.11) - my one friend loves this movie & keeps insisting I see it, plus I hear lots of comparisons to Mud which I really liked The Taste of Cherry (2013.05.04) - loved Close-up & Certified Copy. I want more! The Wages of Fear (2013.05.11) - my friend won't stop bugging me that I have yet to see this. He means well. Witness For The Prosecution (2013.06.02) - this list, and my life, always could use more Wilder. De-shamed: Aliens (4.5/5), The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/5), La Dolce Vita (4/5), The Hustler (5/5), Blue Velvet (4.5/5), Close-Up (4.5/5), The Lady Vanishes (4.5/5), Grave of the Fireflies (5/5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3.5/5), Oldboy (4.5/5), Gattaca (3.5/5), Children of Men (5/5), The Great Dictator (4.5/5), Diabolique (4.5/5), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (3.5/5), Rashomon (4.5/5), Singin' in the Rain (5/5), Le Samourai (5/5), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (5/5), Battleship Potemkin (4/5), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3.5/5), Network (5/5), Once Upon A Time In The West (5/5), Sleeper (2.5/5), Y Tu Mama Tambien (4.5/5), Lawrence of Arabia (3.5/5), Amadeus (4/5), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4.5/5), The Postman Always Rings Twice (3.5/5), Ben-Hur (4.5/5), Bug (4/5), All The President's Men (4.5/5), Through a Glass Darkly (4/5), The Leopard (2/5), The Aviator (4.5/5), Duck Soup (4/5), The Good The Bad & The Ugly (5/5), Werckmeister Harmonies (4/5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4.5/5), To Kill A Mockingbird (2.5/5), Brazil (2.5/5), M (5/5), The Sweet Hereafter (4/5), Princess Mononoke (5/5), High and Low (5/5), The Sting (5/5), The King of Comedy (4.5/5) [Total:47]
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It's hard to explain my reaction to Mulholland Dr. I understood very little of it, but I did manage to follow it. The intention certainly was not for a clear and concise plot, but rather something that seems to enchant. That worked for me. I will say that until maybe the last 30 minutes or so, I was hanging in there just fine. Then poo poo took a hard right turn and now I'm scratching my head pretty hard. Good movie, definitely piqued my intrigue and now I'm going to go and read some articles and try and figure out what the hell I just watched. My rating of it may very well go up when the happens. 8.5/10 Edit; After a bit of reading... it seems like we really aren't meant to understand much. I'm fine with that. Still pretty drat captivating. New List 1. The Buddy Holly Story - Apparently, Gary Busey believes that the spirit of Buddy Holly possessed him during the filming of this. I'm interested. 2. Double Indemnity - I've heard it's one of Wilder's best. I've liked everything I've seen by him so far. 3. Dear Zachary - I've heard this will make me cry, that's all I know. 4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Nicolas Cage 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. - The General is easily one of the best movies I've gotten out of this thread. More Buster please! 6. Senna - Heard this about some car jesus that everyone in the world reveres outside of the USA. 7. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - The Producers is my favorite comedy of all time, and I haven't seen anything else with Zero Mostel. 8. The Man Who Wasn't There - So I've actually seen this, but I hated it. I saw it when I was 16 though, and I was wrong about most things when I was 16. I only really remember the ending, and something about a piano... Anyway, continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! 9. *NEW* Hidden Fortress *NEW* - Been too long since I've had a Kurosawa on the list. Heard this one was more "fun" than serious, totally fine with that. 10. Rebecca - Time for more Hitchcock! 74 Total De-Shamed Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singing' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10, Mulholland Dr. 8.5/10 Chili fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Aug 12, 2013 10:22
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I think you forgot about one thing! That or it's monday morning and I missed it while I'm half asleep.
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Sorry about that! It was in the post I made but I must have accidentally pasted over it. Anyway, my pick for you is Stand By Me. I usually am not fond of assigning a new movie on a list, but it's the only one on yours I'm familiar with, and it is pretty good.
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Aug 12, 2013 15:46
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I'm actually glad you chose this - the rest of those films are mainly for my own shame, whereas not seeing Stand By Me has given me plenty of grief from just about everyone around me. It's overdue that I force myself now to sit down & see this! Appreciate the quick reply too.
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Chili, enjoy Rebecca. Or don't, your call. Leaving Las Vegas was an intense experience. Ben and Sera both are terribly damaged and I felt their pain. This movie really is the key to the Nic Cage persona. In the beginning, he's bouncing around a bar acting crazy and weird like the stereotypical Cage character, but pretty quickly you realize that it's all an act. He is covering some serious damage. We're not sure what it is, all we know is that his wife left him and that he's an alcoholic. Actually, we don't even know for sure if he's a true alcoholic, or if he just drinks as his preferred method of suicide. I think the reason Cage gets a bad reputation is because he throws himself completely into every role, embodying it with intensity that works for these weird, quirky characters. The problem is people cast him in roles that really call for a more straight, sober performance, and that's just not the kind of actor he is. Here, it works beautifully, and the movie is a simple tragedy. There's not much plot, but there doesn't need to be. It's all about these two characters. The one complaint I might have is that I would have removed the pimp character. Sera's life goes on basically the same before and after his death, so I'm not sure what he adds to the proceedings. The other perspective I have is as a Christian. I know the movie doesn't directly address religion, but I can't help thinking about it, and I see many of the side characters as the worst stereotype of Christians. They are judgmental and pitiless, shunning Ben and Sera in order to protect their own well-ordered world. The innkeepers who throw them out probably identify as Good Christian People, but they are everything Christians should not be. We are supposed to help the poorest, neediest members of society, and it's blatantly clear that Ben and Sera are in depserate need of help. There's a chance Ben could have been saved from self-destruction if anyone had even cared, but aside from Sera everyone just wanted to be rid of him, and they got their wish. Rating: 4/4 83. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang- So, I don't know. This is like - a noir, but not a noir? A parody, kind of but not really? Robert Downey Jr.? I'm confused, but I'm told I'll like it. 84. Lost Weekend- Ben Franklin from 1776 gets really drunk. Sure, why not? 87. Out of Africa- I have seen this once, but all I remember is being really bored. But I was younger then, and my tastes weren't as developed, so I'm willing to give it another try. 90. Wall Street- Greed is good, I guess? I like Michael Douglas, and I don't know who else is in this movie. 91. The Usual Suspects- I already know who Keyser Soze is. I'm afraid that, like a later Shyamalan film, this movie is all about the big twist and falls apart once you know it. 92. The Bourne Identity- Well, any of them, but let's start at the beginning. 93. Patton- On second thought, if I'm going to put a George C. Scott movie on here, it should really be this. 94. The Ten Commandments- Another (pseudo) historical epic. 95. Rain Man- Tom Cruise is an rear end in a top hat who exploits gullible people for money. Also, he was in this movie.  Okay, tell me what I’m watching! 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friendo55 posted:I'm actually glad you chose this - the rest of those films are mainly for my own shame, whereas not seeing Stand By Me has given me plenty of grief from just about everyone around me. It's overdue that I force myself now to sit down & see this! Appreciate the quick reply too. It's not really a "force". Stand By Me is a really easy movie to watch. A lot of the movies I put on my list are groaners for me when I get them, I wouldn't consider Stand By Me to be that at all. It may not be the "best" movie on your list, but it's fun. Pay attention to the story telling scene which has become a cult favorite for a very good reason. And thanks for Rebecca, I was hoping to get that! ^
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