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I assume the idea is to hopefully garner as many different opinions as possible or else we can petition to have the thread title changed to "What are some good movies to watch starring Carrie Henn or Harold Russell".Quote:
Originally Posted by slemosokick
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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I can see how you relate- except the teacher and husband part. :idunno:Quote:
Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
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Happened to see Adam's Apples (2005), which is a Danish movie, last night on NutFlicks. Certainly worth the watch- even for those who do not typically like subtitles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/
Centered on The Book of Job, the show deals with life's challenges and ultimately Who is responsible. Yes, it is religious in nature, but does not leave the viewer left feeling like they have just been beaten over the head with the bible.
Give it a watch, or let your heathen soul burn eternally- see if I care. :snooty:
"You never fail until you stop trying"Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
- Albert Einstei
When I see threads like this, with a completely random smiley attached to the title, I'm always wondering if it's a subtle hint that the maker of the thread is really doing it for shits and giggles, trying to catch as many inane bittard comments as possible, or something.
Or it might just be someone really thick.
Not one joke about this? :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by ionamartin123
Sons, I am disappoint :no:
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And no, no, there are no good movies to watch any more. Sorry.
I thought it might be an actual porno as clearly no one here has either a sense of humour or an imagination.:)
Sorry I misspoke.
OlegL has a sense of imagination as he's always fantasizing about actually having sex while sitting alone in his room, wanking to online porn.:)
I hear that The Rocky Horror Picture Show has a young Susan Saradon in nothing but her bra and panties so no one is ever going to be able to convince me that it isn't a good movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snee
Also The Way Way Back is pretty good if you overlook the fact that Steve Carell is in it.
Well, yes, ok. It is a pretty good movie. I've just watched it, the UK version with the alternative black-and-white intro, and will probably watch the US version before long, for the sake of completeness, and also because I really like the songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
The BluRay I picked up came with options to select version and alternative openings, which I think is pretty neat.
Everybody forgets about this little gem: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
That line is going to come back to haunt you (occasionally) and I just saw one that qualifies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snee\
Not one joke about this?Quote:
Originally Posted by ionamartin123
OK If you insist..... Sorest Rump is a better parody :yup:
And no, no, there are no good movies to watch any more. Sorry.
It's a no pretence balls out action movie, but there is enough of a plot and a surprising twist for it to be genuinely entertaining.
The movie is 2 Guns and it stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg opposite each other, and the presence and vibe between the actors strong, it reminded me of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Heat, I also enjoyed Edward James Olmos as a baddie, he seemed to revel in the role as well.
Everybody forgets that "everybody" is all encompassing and therefore invariably wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by KeRuT
When I first saw the trailer I was excited but then I remembered how many "buddy" movies fail horribly to deliver and I've never gotten around to watching it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
They don't smirk,do they?I hate when they smirk.
Not to give too much away but they aren't actually 'buddies' for most of the movie and in fact they dick each other over more than once during the course of the movie, they are more forced together by circumstances and work towards a common goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
When I first saw the trailer I was excited but then I remembered how many "buddy" movies fail horribly to deliver and I've never gotten around to watching it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis
They don't smirk,do they?I hate when they smirk.
Although you are more bleakly unforgiving than I of modern script writing/acting, this was a cut above the usual schlock, it delivered a believable suspense, and characters you genuinely empathised with.
Being Mark Wahlberg though of course he smirks....
I find that acceptable if he also dies in the course of smirking.:)
I belong to the most prestigious trackers, scan 5 Usenet search engines simultaneously, browse file lockers effortlessly, use translators to peruse the world, have access to 200,000 movies online. Oh ya, back to the topic, I haven't found one I could call good. Still looking though. ;)
To be serious, part of the problem is that most of the good stuff in "old" ( "old" being when they used to actually write dialogue and characters )movies has now been redone so many times that what was once original,is now seen as cliche.Quote:
Originally Posted by justlooking
In short, even "great" isn't so great anymore.:mellow:
That and I just did a quick search for "Best Adventure/Action movie ever" and seems that my worst fears are true and the internet is now run by 12 years that think The Mummy remake qualifies as great cinema so lots of luck of ever getting suggests on what might be good to watch.
So basically fuck everyone and your Goddamn computers but especially Mary.
The ones that except you to wear pants when you use them.Quote:
Originally Posted by justlooking
It's so cliché to rag on how movies these days are no good. We don't need 5-10 amazing works of cinema per year.
The films that have made it into my vault this past couple years are Win Win, True Grit, Goon, Moonrise Kingdom (I can't think of the others). These movies to me were great on a level that I didn't have to place them against a backdrop of garbage to make that claim. Granted, some of these are just the next in queue from Pez directors, but I've been burned plenty in the past trusting laurels.
Also, the weight of creative and original works has shifted to television, so it's not as one sided as it used to be.
Also many of the great writers are Dead.
Seems they are not as discerning as one would expect. :idunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by justlooking
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Originally Posted by Alien5
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Most of the bad ones too but it doesn't seem to help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien5
Using the extremely loose definition of Art as "some form of media that emotionally moves you", both Wes Anderson movies and Lady Gaga videos qualify as Art since their mentalness and pretense move me to vomit.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky
Also Bill Murray should have done the World a favour and stayed funny and not put out shit like The Razor's Edge and Broken Flowers.
PS I also hate Jim Jarmusch,another pretentious weirdo.
PPS Terrence Malick likewise.Die,Die your fucking fruitcakes*.
*Festival,seasonal reference.:)
Mentalness comes in quite a variety of of styles. I'm a mental who prefers Anderson mental over Gaga commercialism. I don't really know who the other people are, and I still won't know at the conclusion of this post since I already have enough to Google tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Most of the bad ones too but it doesn't seem to help.
Using the extremely loose definition of Art as "some form of media that emotionally moves you", both Wes Anderson movies and Lady Gaga videos qualify as Art since their mentalness and pretense move me to vomit.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky
Also Bill Murray should have done the World a favour and stayed funny and not put out shit like The Razor's Edge and Broken Flowers.
PS I also hate Jim Jarmusch,another pretentious weirdo.
PPS Terrence Malick likewise.Die,Die your fucking fruitcakes*.
*Festival,seasonal reference.:)
Two sides of the same coin.At some point someone encouraged when they should have discouraged.Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky
Look,beingmental and pretentious"artsy" is fine if it doesn't overshadow the gist of what you are doing and in all above cases it does.
Who hurt you?Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Two sides of the same coin.At some point someone encouraged when they should have discouraged.Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmacky
Look,beingmental and pretentious"artsy" is fine if it doesn't overshadow the gist of what you are doing and in all above cases it does.
Thanatomorphose and Contracted
I'll rate both movies 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqtOlOEdsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwljAciwqlo
{sigh} :helpsmili
watch english movies..
Rush (2013)
Found I could not care who won the races, when/if characters were facing troubles, or even if/how/when one/both died at the end. Didn't stick around to find out even...Quote:
Originally Posted by dion09529
"Lone Survivor"
(...gets a very good nod here. 'nuff said.) :alien:
enjoyed this movie, definitely need to watchQuote:
Originally Posted by dion09529
Maybe there was another Now You See Me because the one I watched was basically shite.Quote:
Originally Posted by manchito
Seriously, if you can give me one reason why the film is good I will be truly amazed.
On the other hand I can easily give you several why it was shite.
Boring and stupid.No real character development or exposition. Rambling scenes.Didn't really makea lot ofany sense.
If you are going to make a movie about the wonders of magic and then just "cheat" everything with a bunch of special effects it sort of defeats the purpose.:mellow:
I'll give you that it was better than The Incredible Burt Wonderstone but then again, what isn't?
Wow they look good nice one mateQuote:
Originally Posted by dion09529
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Originally Posted by Stehle
listening to the audio version ofreading the book I felt somewhat let down by the ending.It was a little bit convenient and contrived, especially considering most of the things leading up to it were more grounded in fact.
Also I can't believe people comparing, in terms of visceral realism, the battle scene to the opening one in Saving Private Ryan.
Personally I'm glad they don't equate ,as up to that point Lone Survivor had done a good job of making you care for the characters and dulling the carnage to give each a (slightly) gentler and in a couple cases, heroic death lessened the blow a bit even if possibly at the same time also lessening the overall impact of the movie.
One thing that bothered me though and I couldn't stop thinking about,was how identical the music was in this to another one of Berg's movies, The Kingdom.
Try as I might not to,every time the music played I was thinking "Kingdom" and not about what was happening onscreen.:mellow:
I'd recommend checking out some of the directors that are often listed on 'best directors' lists. In particular Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, and Stanley Kubrick. Those are 4 filmographies definitely worth getting into, and each one of them was very different from one another so you can find one to appeal to your specific tastes.
I take it that you like to be confused and depressed a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by scopedog
Yep, that is my forte actually. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Lone Survivor was good; been told I should read the book.
I'd recommend the movie Ravenous for having the best darn soundtrack ever made. Its just so fitting and unique, it actually adds to the film and sort of makes it this bizarre black comedy horror of sorts. Definitely one of my favorites, but its not for everyone. While some see a creative and amazing film, others see an average B horror. Obviously I'm in the former category.
Mr. Nobody
Captain Phillips
good movie i thought
I drug my feet a bit before watching Walter Mitty since I don't particularly like the over-the-top characters from Ben Stiller. This actually won me over in the first 20 minutes.
Anyone seen "The Family" with Robert De Niro? That was pretty awesome. It was funny, there was action, just pretty satisfying all around.