kerrick
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Oct 13, 2006 9:49:30 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Oct 13, 2006 9:49:30 GMT -5
There's probably already a thread, but I got through 5 of like 16 pages of topics searching for it and gave up. So, anyone seen any good movies lately? I saw "The Departed" last weekend. Dang, it was pretty cool. I thought it was really well done and while it was quite long, it didn't seem so. The acting was good and there was a pretty interesting twist to it. Other than new movies, what's your favorites? Here's mine (no particular order):
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore Bottlerocket 28 Days Later The Boondock Saints
-Kerrick
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Oct 13, 2006 12:38:44 GMT -5
Post by SethFWF on Oct 13, 2006 12:38:44 GMT -5
The Departed does look very good, will wait for DVD though...don't get to the theater much anymore. Trying to remember what we've seen recently that was really good, Silent Hill, Inside Man, V for Vendetta are coming to mind. Got the new X-Men movie, but I bought the trilogy for my kid's b-day which is tomorrow...so we still haven't seen it. Some of my favorites.... The Patriot(Mel Gibson), maybe my favorite war movie of all time. Cold Mountain was good too for the epic old war style. Wrong Turn was a great horror movie IMO. All the Tarantino movies, and most R. Rodriquez flicks too...like Desperado. A lot of people don't like it, but I thought it was great. Final Destinations are all good... The History of Violence, excellent. Of course all of the Star Wars flicks, yes even the new ones were good IMO. Lord of the Rings trilogy. Meet the Parents/Fockers. Usual Suspects. Fargo. As far as older ones, I still love the Back to the Future trilogy. Most of the Rocky movies having grown up on them. Still can't pass Rocky 3 while channel surfing without stopping. There's just too many!
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Oct 13, 2006 17:47:00 GMT -5
Post by BenMech on Oct 13, 2006 17:47:00 GMT -5
I'll have an answer later
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kerrick
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Oct 15, 2006 19:23:10 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Oct 15, 2006 19:23:10 GMT -5
Alright Seth! Seems like we have fairly similar tastes actually. I love Robert Rodriguez movies. My favorites are "From Dusk till Dawn," "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," and "Desperado." Although I've never been a huge fan of Tarantino, I do respect his stuff. "Fargo" is great too. The Coen brothers are some of my favorite movie maker fellas, right up there with Wes Anderson. My favorites of theirs are "Raising Arizona," "The Ladykillers," and "O Brother, Where art Thou?" but "Fargo" is mighty good as well. I also love old Steve McQueen movies like "The Getaway," "Bullit," and of course "The Great Escape." Then the Dirty Harry and Mad Max series I also like. Dang, I could go on for quite a while... -Kerrick
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Post by chimaera on Mar 9, 2007 5:47:28 GMT -5
The Departed made me sick. Great actors, no story. And that fucking macho attitude was fresh for about ten minutes then it just made me ill. The last hour of the film i saw made me seriously ill. Did i see the w h o l e thing? Does Dalai Lama listen to Decide?
Blood Diamond. I´m a fan of DiCaprio (Aviator is a pretty good film) but give me a break, what the hell is that director trying to tell me? Should i feel guilt? Sympathy? Oh, please, i felt sick. And that pathetic "love-story" made me laugh out loud. Did i watch the whole damn thing. Will Dalai Lama buy the new Legion of the Damned cd?
Hard Candy. Has its director actually watched this thing? It was interesting for a while than it got stupidiously repetetive. Did i watch..." Does Dalai Lama,..." blah blah blah, i could go on, but the bottom line is quite obvious.
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Post by chimaera on Mar 9, 2007 8:39:22 GMT -5
Not that i´m worried about credability, (the sooner i loose it the better) but i don´t want to be associated with nonsense like Deceide. Hardly worth spelling correct. I find Toto (specially mid 80s) more powerful.
No i´d recommend Hubi Meisel for Lama. Kailash is pretty good, and he does remind me of Neil Tennant in Pet Shop Boys! I certainly didn´t expect that.
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kerrick
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Mar 10, 2007 12:29:22 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Mar 10, 2007 12:29:22 GMT -5
The Departed made me sick. Great actors, no story. And that fucking macho attitude was fresh for about ten minutes then it just made me ill. The last hour of the film i saw made me seriously ill. Did i see the w h o l e thing? Does Dalai Lama listen to Decide? Blood Diamond. I´m a fan of DiCaprio (Aviator is a pretty good film) but give me a break, what the hell is that director trying to tell me? Should i feel guilt? Sympathy? Oh, please, i felt sick. And that pathetic "love-story" made me laugh out loud. Did i watch the whole damn thing. Will Dalai Lama buy the new Legion of the Damned cd? Hard Candy. Has its director actually watched this thing? It was interesting for a while than it got stupidiously repetetive. Did i watch..." Does Dalai Lama,..." blah blah blah, i could go on, but the bottom line is quite obvious. I really liked "The Departed." For me it's one of those movies that I really enjoyed watching, but will have no urge to watch again anytime soon, mainly due to its length. "Blood Diamond" on the other hand I didn't like much at all. I found it so derivative and typical. Generally speaking, even if everything about a movie is well done but it's predictable, I won't enjoy it. "BD" was an alright movie by typical standards, but it's been done so many times before, except instead of diamonds in Africa it's something else. Oh well. But I have tickets to go see "300" on the Imax today! So excited. -Kerrick
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Mar 12, 2007 0:13:12 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Mar 12, 2007 0:13:12 GMT -5
Oh dang, "300" was pretty awesome. It should appeal to pretty much everyone male. The movie is basically one giant, epic, battle. I enjoyed it, as did everyone I went to see it with. Go watch it!
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Mar 12, 2007 13:27:02 GMT -5
Post by chimaera on Mar 12, 2007 13:27:02 GMT -5
Agree about Bloody Diamond, it has been made many times before with better results. Art that doesn´t move me doesn´t exist. That director screams and shouts about his political agenda, but he hasn´t got the tools to make people care.
I think the Departed was a poor re-make of LA. Confidential. Which was decent but also very, very long.
Films in general are too long, Open Water was, what, 1.20 and worked really well, Reign in Blood is, what, 28 minutes and wouldn´t be so classic if it was 45 minutes.
Then again Master of Puppets is a masterpiece and, what, 53 minutes. The two first LotR-movies also work really well even though they are long.
Bottomline:there are always exceptional exceptions.
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Mar 12, 2007 17:58:39 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Mar 12, 2007 17:58:39 GMT -5
There's definitely many exceptions. There's plenty of really good movies that are really long like "Apacolypse Now," "The Godfather," "Black Hawk Down," etc. etc. Although being long doesn't make them a good movie, contrary to what Hollywood seems to think. I am going to disagree with you on "Open Water." I did not like that movie at all. Though it was fairly suspensful and I guess well done, but I just did not care for it.
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Mar 13, 2007 8:18:29 GMT -5
Post by chimaera on Mar 13, 2007 8:18:29 GMT -5
Eh, are you´re talking about Dangerous Water, the pre-teen movie. Did i watch it, the whole thing? Actually i did, don´t know why, i guess it was really bad in a relaxing way. It did know how awful it was and so i didn´t really bother.
Open Water is on my top-five list of the ´00s. Minimalistic, un-predictable, beautiful, intimite, moving, threatening. Everything was for real, and based upon a true story and the actors did a hell of a job. Look at their eyes. They had _real_ fear in their eyes.
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Mar 13, 2007 10:24:19 GMT -5
Post by BenMech on Mar 13, 2007 10:24:19 GMT -5
He means the film with the male and female couple adrift, lost at sea with surrounding sharks. The movie ends when the . . .
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Mar 13, 2007 11:35:51 GMT -5
Post by kerrick on Mar 13, 2007 11:35:51 GMT -5
^ yup
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Mar 13, 2007 17:16:52 GMT -5
Post by Shark Black on Mar 13, 2007 17:16:52 GMT -5
Anybody see The Number 23? I thought it was awesome!
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Mar 14, 2007 10:31:09 GMT -5
Post by chimaera on Mar 14, 2007 10:31:09 GMT -5
I´ve seen a short-review of that film -
A gimmick movie that's light on details and heavy on overwrought style, "The Number 23" is a psychological thriller guaranteed to tick off anyone whose IQ is over the threshold of the title number. It's a film that somehow makes its preposterous construct into a dull slog, enlivened only by the occasional appearance of a bulldog possessing the most menacing stare this side of Dirty Harry.
Sounds like The Departed meets Ace Ventura.
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