That would be Dredd on the second,Fredd.
Also please don't spam this seriousspamthread.
Remember without threads like this that can be added to with mindless one word answers,we would never have the privilege of enjoying such eloquence as this......
or this
and I say the World would be a far poorer place for it.
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I could create a worse thread but it would involve dion's participation and I don't think that even to prove a point,anybody wants that.
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Hmmmm.... we both keep harkening back to a time gone by, when actors had to you know, act in a movie. I have always enjoyed the suspense 'horror' movies far more than the toby gruntsplatter slashfests which seem to infest the screen these days. The original Wicker Man, Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist still reign as some of the greatest of all times along with Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. The slow building of a feeling that all is not right, and the dawning of dread in the actors, building to a crescendo is what made a great suspense film. These days unfortunately the plot is too often telegraphed early on in the script, leaving little surprise or suspense to be had. To compensate for hiring monkeys as writers, the studios seem to counterbalance these inane scripts with ever more gory deaths and higher body counts, transposing true horror for splatter, and cinema is the poorer for it.
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Honest point here, but I strongly suspect movies are being made for those with short attention spans/ADHD. I seem to suffer from this more than you and Idol. There are only so many pre-80's movies I can sit through. Those tend to be the well-known greats, usually with more flow to them.
Most of the older shows require a bit of a connoisseur's taste. An educated palate regarding scene, lighting, mood, etc. Not a criticism, but an observation. If one does not know of the detailed work that went into a movie, they are not likely to recognize the finer details as they roll past. We are suffering from a lot of mega-budget fast food, being served up to an audience of ugly Americans.
That said, we do still get some amazing films, but they require effort on both the consuming and production ends of things.
No,you are just a mouth-breathing spastic,spastic.
Watch some of the "old" Hammer or Universal monster movies which while no one could possibly consider to be "Classics" still are infinitely more atmospheric,not to mention just plain fun then the insulting shit they are putting out nowadays.
Also name three "amazing" wide release movies made in the last 2 years and win a cigar or something.
Geez even the ones nominated for Oscars only achieve that status because they're serious "message" or foreign movies and the Hollywood types who need to think of themselves as being liberal( and not the coke snorting heathens they actually are ) feel they have to vote for them.
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I'll step back from the standard of "amazing", but have made an attempt here to list movies from 2012- that made some sort of emotional connection with me:
The Conjuring
Walter Mitty
Prisoners
All is Lost
The Way, Way Back
Moonrise Kingdom (points subtracted for the unnecessary arrow through the puppy )
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Looper
Cabin in the Woods
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Came close to putting Her on the list as well.
Also:
12 Years a Slave (Which shows how it is worse to be a free man, then spend 12 years as a slave, than it is to be a slave your entire life )
The Hunt
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