what are some good movies to watch

[Artemis]

The movie is 2 Guns...

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.

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.

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....

[IdolEyes787]

I find that acceptable if he also dies in the course of smirking.

[justlooking]

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.

[IdolEyes787]

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.
In short, even "great" isn't so great anymore.

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.

I belong to the most prestigious trackers.

The ones that except you to wear pants when you use them.

[mjmacky]

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.

[Alien5]

Also many of the great writers are Dead.

[megabyteme]

I belong to the most prestigious trackers

Seems they are not as discerning as one would expect.

Also many of the great writers are Dead.

[IdolEyes787]

Also many of the great writers are Dead.

Most of the bad ones too but it doesn't seem to help.

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).

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.

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.

[mjmacky]

Most of the bad ones too but it doesn't seem to help.

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).

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.

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.

[IdolEyes787]

Mentalness comes in quite a variety of of styles. I'm a mental who prefers Anderson mental over Gaga commercialism.

Two sides of the same coin.At some point someone encouraged when they should have discouraged.

Look,being mental and pretentious "artsy" is fine if it doesn't overshadow the gist of what you are doing and in all above cases it does.