Movie Tab II

[LordSlaytan]

The other movie tab was getting so large that many dial-up members were complaining that they quit frequenting the thread due to the length it took to load. So I'm making this new one and closing the old.

Post away!

[SamsoniteDelilah]

I just watched X-Men 2 and Spellbound (1945 - Hitchcock).

[Tazz]

Last Movie Tab got 8,000 replies...

[HellboyUnleashed]

That is a lot of replies. the last movie i watched was King Arthur(directors cut). one of the best movies I own in my opinion

[Mark]

Take the Money and Run - (d. W. Allen, 1969)

The Seventh Seal - (d. I. Bergman, 1957)

Braveheart - (d. M. Gibson, 1995)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (d. S. Spielberg, 1977)

Jaws - (d. S. Spielberg, 1975)

Show Boat - (d. G. Sidney, 1951)

Scarlet Letter - (d. F. Lang, 1945)

All Quiet on the Western Front - (d. L. Milestone, 1930)

Pooh's Heffalump Movie - (d. F. Nissen, 2005)

Ray - (d. T. Hackford, 2004)

Shark Tale - (d. B. Bergeon, V. Jenson, R. Letterman, 2004)

King Arthur - (d. A. Fuqua, 2004)

Misery - (d. R. Reiner, 1990)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - (d. S. Norrington, 2003)

Stargate - (d. R. Emmerich, 1994)

[LordSlaytan]

All Quiet on the Western Front - (d. L. Milestone, 1930)I'm listening, bro. What did you think?

[John McClane]

Pulp Fiction

[jrs]

I'm bringing the last one I saw over to here....



The Notebook
2004 - Nick Cassavetes
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[AboveTheClouds]

Office Space.

[OG-]

You've killed my legacy!!!!!!!!!!!!


KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkeypunch]

Mystery Men - Why wasn't this film more famous? It's so hilarious!

"We are number one. All others are number two, or lower." :rotfl:

[linespalsy]

Yeah, Mystery Men was really good, I likes it.

The last movie I saw was Sideways, which I already commented on in the appropriate thread. ***/4

[projectMayhem]

Super Troopers - One of my favorite comedies.

The Motorcycle Diaries - Wonderful, and one of the most beautiful movies I've seen in a long time.

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War - Brutal war movie. The two main characters are damn near unrecognizable from themselves at the beginning, which just shows how much war can change someone.

Get Shorty - This movie's a lot of fun, and I hope Be Cool will be as well.

[SpoOkY]

I just saw Walking Tall (2004), pretty much a clone movie (same as many) with tons of senseless violence that gets ignored by all the characters because of this notion that "violence for justice" is always justified even if you kill people :p . Well it wasn't so bad but don't worry if you never see it. :up:1/2 out of 5.

[Caitlyn]

Ever After (1998)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)

[Sedai]

I'll post my last entry from the old tab :)

Twin Peaks : Pilot
Twin Peaks : Episode one
Mulholland Drive (multiple times)

[Tacitus]

Shattered Glass (2003, Billy Ray) - surprisingly good (for me, as I hadn't heard of it, or the source material and it looked like a standard DTV release) Based-On-A-True-Story tail of a young journalist who cooked most of his stories.

Think All The President's Men crossed with The French Lieutenant's Woman (trust me) and you're half way there... ;)

[Sinny McGuffins]

Rashomon
1950 - Akira Kurosawa
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Mulholland Drive
2001 - David Lynch
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[The Taxi Driver]

Raging bull because i just got the SE DVD and i still love it.

[Escape]

Bourne Supremacy. First time since i saw it in theatre.

[John McClane]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade-Boy, this one never gets old.

[Ezikiel]

Bed and Board
1970 - François Truffaut
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[ash_is_the_gal]

My Cousin Vinny 5/5

[John McClane]

My Cousin Vinny 5/5
Oh boy, I need to watch that it's been a while since I've seen it.

[LordSlaytan]

My Cousin Vinny 5/5Cool...I still can't believe you had never seen that one before.

[ash_is_the_gal]

Cool...I still can't believe you had never seen that one before.

yeah yeah :blush:

it was great by the way! it had some great dialouge

[Monkeypunch]

The Aviator - Two thumbs way up. Should win Best Picture and Best Director, in my opinion. a great mix of spectacle and human drama made by someone who clearly loves everything about making movies. Cate Blanchet (spelling?) was my favourite part of the movie.

[AboveTheClouds]

Detriot Rock City..

[nebbit]

Million Dollor Baby : first time: :up:

Vanity Fair : First time: :up:

Super Troopers : First and last time: :down:

The Zookeeper : First time: :up:

Killing Me Softly : first time: :down:

Monsieur Ibrahim : First time: :up:

Bloom: first time: :up:

The Village first time: :up:



:D :D :D :D :D

[Sinny McGuffins]

Flushed
2004 - Matthew Clayfield
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[chicagofrog]

the Sixth Day, 2000, Arnie at his best (("less worst"?????????))
(well okay, twas on TV, no time to rent a dvd, so..)

[The Silver Bullet]

So I'm making this new one and closing the old.
I seriously think that's the most tragic thing to happen to MoFo ever.

I'm not kidding. Re-open it. One page of Movie Tab is no different in size to one page of Movie Tab II. You're not downloading the whole thread everytime you visit on page of it.

Flushed
2004 - Matthew Clayfield
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Wow. You did like it, huh?

[Sinny McGuffins]

Mean Streets
1973 - Martin Scorsese
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Wow. You did like it, huh?It took me two viewings to really appreciate it. But yeah, I loved it. Nice little movie you made there, Matt.

[Pyro Tramp]

Sexy Beast (Jonathon Glazer, 2000)
4/5
Nice little film, Kingsley and Winstone are superb

[undercoverlover]

Ocean's 11- i just cant help myself, its a sickness

[Piddzilla]

Miller's Crossing (1990) - 4/5.

[Garrett]

Donnie Brasco
1997 - Mike Newell
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The Killing Fields
1984 - Roland Joffé
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[Caitlyn]

The Last Waltz (1979)
Uncle Buck (1989)

[Holden Pike]

I'm not yet mid-way through the Portland International Film Festival, but I've already seen nine movies since Friday. I'll be seeing the Iranian film Turtles Can Fly tonight. Last night in addition to Шиzа (Schizo), which is a Kazakhstan/Russia production, I also saw the German flick The Edukators.


These are the best I've seen so far...

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Buffalo Boy - Mua len Trau (Minh Nguyen-Vô, Vietnam)
Set in 1940s Vietnam, a fifteen year-old-boy must take his family's two water buffalo to higher ground after the season's rains completely flood the lowlands where they live and rot all the grasses. He hooks up with some herders who are basically a traveling gang of miscreants who drink and gamble and rape their way across the countryside with a few dozen buffalo in tow. The boy also learns old dark secrets from his father's past. Buffalo Boy is a coming-of-age story and a terribly fascinating look at purely agrarian Vietnam removed from the political struggles with the French occupiers or of course any of the later wartime era that has become familiar territory in film the past twenty-five years. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Yves Cape, most of the narrative takes place on plains flooded as far as they eye can see - shot on location in the Ca Mau provine. Amazingly, this is director Nguyen-Vô's debut effort, and all but one of the actors in the film have never worked in front of a camera before. Ambitious and beautiful.

The Edukators - Die Fetten Jahre sind Vorbei (Hans Weingartner, Germany)
Sort of a mix between Fight Club, Panic Room and "The Ransom of Red Chief", done as essentially a comedy and with some strong social commentary too. Three young German twentysomethings take their hate of class inequity to a strange battlefield: they break into the estates of millionares when they aren't home and rearrange their furniture with acts of minor non-permanent vandalism leaving messages that money is evil and their riegns of comfort and decadence are coming to an end. They don't steal anything, other than the wealthy homeowners' sense of security and, they hope, cause them to reevaluate their morality. Trouble comes when they pick a target with a personal connection who they kidnap when he unexpectedly walks in on them. Funny, smart and compelling.

Cold Light - Kaldaljós (Hilmar Oddsson, Iceland)
A quiet and detached man, probably forty-years-old, in contemporary urban Iceland joins an art night-class at a local university. We learn he has been drawing since he was a young boy, when he lived with his sister, mother and fisherman father in a small, secluded fishing village in the mountains. Through flashbacks we see he believes he possesses a sort of clairvoyance through his art, and that he had predicted pain and tragedy explains why he is so cold and distant as an adult. But he falls in love with his art teacher, and through that relationship he reexamines events from his childhood and hopefully starts to come back to life. Gorgeous wintery Icelandic setting, mixed with a bit of magical realism and a probing character study.

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Millions and Dear Frankie are both sweet and well-made Brit flicks but a little too slight to be really great, The Ballad of Jack & Rose has some great performances but suffers from an unfocused narrative and Schizo while good but far from spectacular if nothing else it is a very interesting look at the societal margins inside Kazakhstan. Mercano the Martian, a cartoon from Argentina, was the only real waste of time thus far. Only internet quality at best, it's not terribly funny and it awkwardly attempts to graft social commentary into the nonsense. It does have a decnet punchline, but not really worth the ride to get there.

As for The Merchant of Venice, it's one of Billy Shakespeare's most problematic plays...and the movie is no different. Pretty faithful adaptation by Michael Radford (Il Postino), but while lovely to look at ultimately this one leaves me cold. Pacino is not the problem however. Al of course is an actor who goes over-the-top more often than not (unfortunately), but here he is quite controlled and actually manages to bring a good deal of humanity to the character of Shylock - which isn't always easy when you look at the way Shakespeare wrote the role. Jeremy Irons is fine as Antonio, but I continue to have a problem with Joseph Finnes. I just don't buy him as a credible screen presence. The shifting tones of the play/film are awkward to me, the perfect example being the dramatic hearing where Shylock wants his pound of flesh but Portia turns up disguised as a man as the scholar who settles the matter. There's too much comedy mixed in with what I think is hard to take as anything but tragedy. But that's the real problem of this play and makes it difficult to determine what Shakespeare was trying to say about Jews, if much of anything at all other than using them as stereotypes. That problem will continue to hang over the play, no matter who adapts the movie from it.


ANYway, those three films I highlighted are all very much worth seeing.

[ash_is_the_gal]

Hocus Pocus 3/5

[John McClane]

Homeless to Harvard: The Liza Mira Story-Watched it in Health class. It was pretty good.

[Golgot]

Ahhhh. A thread my doddering dial-up can deal with? Perfick :)

Old Boy 4/5 - Without doubt the best revenge film i've seen in a long long while. Takes the genre to its most tortured extreme, but does it with style, and some deeply-gouged traces of human grace too.

Kontroll 3/5 - Hungarian ticket collectors staying fairly-genial amongst the violent strife of their life. Curious characters, a long-hard crawl to self-redemption, a girl in a bear costume, and some non-Hollywoody ambiguity too. It's society shaken up in a bottle (and left to fester), but it's fun ;).

[Golgot]

Sweet synopsiseses sir Hold-your-horses :)

There's too much comedy mixed in with what I think is hard to take as anything but tragedy. But that's the real problem of this play and makes it difficult to determine what Shakespeare was trying to say about Jews, if much of anything at all other than using them as stereotypes.

I always reckoned Shakey was trying a form of sucker-punch move with Merchant. i.e. on the surface he sells Shylock as the stereotypical money-grabbing Jew, but throughout the play Shylock's actions contradict that same stereotype. He's primed to be a money-grabber, but portrayed as an angry human man, to whom gold means nothing compared to that which he holds most dear.

I doubt it was successful at converting anyone away from their stoked-up hate, but i reckon he was doing the slippery-fish trick of speaking to those who saw through the anti-Jew myth, while the others rolled on with their scapegoat-hate intact (with perhaps the odd 'hey, why didn't he ask for a pound of gold mesh?' - before they got back to... 'but, hey, that girl in man's dress eh?')

Thank you for your attention ;)

[Garrett]

Stranger Than Paradise
1983 - Jim Jarmusch
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Mystery Train
1989 - Jim Jarmusch
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The Quiet American
2002 - Phillip Noyce
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[Mark]

Modern Times - (d. C. Chaplin, 1936)

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Modern Times - (d. C. Chaplin, 1936)
Awesome movie. I don't think Mr. C' gets enough recognition for his contribution to film. Booya.


Alien: Resurrection :sleep:
The director, I don't remember his name, usually writes his stuff. He usually makes interesting movies too. Needless to say, he didn't do either with this film.

Single White Female :bashful:
I'm sorry to say, but I liked this movie. The boobies weren't outright tasteless so the girlfriend wasn't all like, "Oh my god, you perve! I'm outty 5000. L-7 LOSER!" It didn't go anything like that. It was good times. Some minor parellel action mixed with a little psychotic action, it was coo'.

(I've decided not to include my entertainment/technique ish'. You're welcome. Who am I to decide what's good and what's not? Maybe you'll find the faces more apealing.)

[chicagofrog]

The Camomile Lawn, GB 1992, in Cornwall, i love Cornwall, not England, or should i say Kernow? (plus Tara!)

[Caitlyn]

Mighty Joe Young (1949) 5/5

[undercoverlover]

Quest for justice - pretty decent channel 5 movie, Jane Seymour in America's racist South running a newspaper and trying to get the truth out there

Interview with a vampire - better every time i see it, which is like every week

[Caitlyn]

America's racist South


:rolleyes:

[Holden Pike]

:rolleyes:

Well, what she meant more specifically is the movie (based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning writer Hazel Brannon Smith) it is set in the segregated Mississippi of the 1950s. But it was most definitely the racistist she was up against, so not sure what your eye-rolling is for exactly.

How DARE somebody suggest the South has a history plagued with violent and very open racism. :rolleyes:

[Caitlyn]

Well, what she meant more specifically is the movie (based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning writer Hazel Brannon Smith) it is set in the segregated Mississippi of the 1950s. But it was most definitely the racistist she was up against, so not sure what your eye-rolling is for exactly.

How DARE somebody suggest the South has a history plagued with violent and very open racism. :rolleyes:


I am well aware of what the movie is about… and exactly who Hazel Brannon Smith was. I am also aware that the south has a history plagued by violence and open racism… but the south is not the only place racism existed/exists and not everyone in the south was/is a racist… which is what her statement "America's racist South" implied… and what I took exception to.

[ash_is_the_gal]

I am well aware of what the movie is about… and exactly who Hazel Brannon Smith was. I am also aware that the south has a history plagued by violence and open racism… but the south is not the only place racism existed/exists and not everyone in the south was/is a racist… which is what her statement "America's racist South" implied… and what I took exception to.

i think its safe to say, when someone generalizes, such as saying "America's racist south" , they don't literally mean every single person in the entire south is a downright racist. Everyone knows there are exceptions to the rule, but im pretty sure everyone around here knows, without you having to specify that she didn't mean ALL. i don't think we should all have to specify our little generalzations just so certain people can feel better. :)

[ash_is_the_gal]

Total Recall 4/5

[John McClane]

Zulu-:up:

[OG-]

Modern Times

[ash_is_the_gal]

Fear 3.5/5

[Golgot]

Bubba Ho-Tep 3/5
Not as good as the Evil Dead series maybe, and a little bit stilted despite its levity, but about as much fun as pecker-cancer and soul-death can be.

[undercoverlover]

I am well aware of what the movie is about… and exactly who Hazel Brannon Smith was. I am also aware that the south has a history plagued by violence and open racism… but the south is not the only place racism existed/exists and not everyone in the south was/is a racist… which is what her statement "America's racist South" implied… and what I took exception to.

The film was set in America, the south of it no less, and at the time it was racist. If you knew full well what the movie was about what was the problem exactly?

[Holden Pike]

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The Man Who Copied - O Homem Que Copiava (Jorge Furtado, Brazil)
A heist movie about a day-dreaming comic artist barely scraping by with the minimum wage he earns making photocopies in a small store who yearns to turn his obsession with the girl next door into a romance, this fantastic flick is a must-see. It is funny, it is charming, and it is exhilerating filmmaking. If Pedro Almodóvar were Brazilian and made a cross between Rear Window, Say Anything..., Fresh and Nine Queens it would come out as The Man Who Copied. I'd go into more detail, but it's just best to figure it all out as it's unfolding. I can't wait to see this one again. What a ride.
GRADE: A-






Oh, and on top of it being a great movie, The Man Who Copied is also a great introduction to the
stunning beauty that is Luana Piovani. My god...

http://www.luanapiovani.blogger.com.br/copiava2.jpg (http://www.napazzz.blogger.com.br/Luana%20Piovani%2007.jpg)

[blibblobblib]

All Quiet on the Western Front - (d. L. Milestone, 1930)
Recently read the book this film was adapted from, absoloulty incredible read, so awful and so touching, i recommend it to everyone as it has this amazing humility and voice that speaks so honestly about the whole War thing...and its still just as applicable to my generation as it was to my grandfathers. Great read.

oh and film i last watched? Waynes World 2 :D

[Ezikiel]

Scenes from a Marriage
1973 - Ingmar Bergman
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Se7en
1995 - David Fincher
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 - Woody Allen
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[Garrett]

Devils on the Doorstep
2000 - Jiang Wen
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002 - Guy Maddin
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Bukowski: Born into This
2003 - John Dullaghan
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The Ladykillers
2004 - Coen Brothers
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Barton Fink
1991 - Coen Brothers
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[Eyes]

Saw

[Strummer521]

Constantine, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Being John Malkovich

[ash_is_the_gal]

Tombstone 4/5
Beaches 5/5

[Mark]

All Quiet on the Western Front

Recently read the book this film was adapted from, absoloulty incredible read...

I'm listening bro, what did you think?

I read the book a few years back, and I have to say, I was both amazed and disturbed. The portion particularly in which the soldier is stuck in the fox hole with the dying enemy blew me away. I remember it lasting for several pages. I'm afraid the movie didn't do this scene justice. Sorry, Brian. I know you like this movie, but I should have watched it before I read the book. I probably would have like it more in that case.

[Mark]

The Swimmer - (d. F. Perry, 1968)

Raging Bull - (d. M. Scorsese, 1980)

[SpoOkY]

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (2004). This was suprisingly very good watching considering I wasn't really a fan of them, it's more a documentary of how the band breaks apart and reforms. There's something insanely cool about seeing the behind the scenes look at these rock legends, right to the nitty gritty of alcoholism and betrayal :up:

It's probably been done before but was refreshingly unique for me 4/5.

[Tacitus]

Man On Fire (2004, Tony Scott)

2.5/5

Solid revenge flick (almost) ruined by Little Bro Tony's flashy direction, and the feeling that he's watched Big Bro Ridley's Gladiator and Hannibal one too many times...

Denzel saves this, for me.

[Naisy]

I cant believe you guys closed (locked) the old Movie Tab
There's no real difference in loading times, trust me (im a cursed dial-up), it's still one page at a time and a true mofo can put up with it! damn shame to lose the original, that being said and I doubt you'll change it back....

Meet the Fockers
Team America
Blade: Trinity
and next week
Yu-Gi-Oh The Movie

[blibblobblib]

I read the book a few years back, and I have to say, I was both amazed and disturbed. The portion particularly in which the soldier is stuck in the fox hole with the dying enemy blew me away. I remember it lasting for several pages.I totally agree, that scene summed up the whole theme of the book and highlighted the most poingnant part for me. I actually found that part really emotional, as Paul looks into the enemy soldiers eyes and sees the true fear that his causing him, its awful. I'm gonna make sure i watch the film, but from what ive heard it wont live up to it, but ill give it a shot.

[Sinny McGuffins]

Scandal
1950 - Akira Kurosawa
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Eyes Wide Shut
1999 - Stanley Kubrick
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[Lance McCool]

Batman - 4/5
Aliens - 4.5/5

[Sedai]

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (2004). This was suprisingly very good watching considering I wasn't really a fan of them, it's more a documentary of how the band breaks apart and reforms. There's something insanely cool about seeing the behind the scenes look at these rock legends, right to the nitty gritty of alcoholism and betrayal :up:

It's probably been done before but was refreshingly unique for me 4/5.

Hmmm, I just watched this, and I have to say it was almost unbearable, and any respect I had left for the band is now gone. James Hetfield is without a doubt the biggest crybaby whine-ass I have ever seen, and Lars Ulrich is in close second. Whine, cry, piss about, whine, cry.... what a waste of time. So....

Some Kind of Monster 0_5


On a better note I also watched....

Raging Bull 5

The best period piece I have ever seen, period. My girlfriend and I just couldn't get over how this film seems to have been made in the period it depicts. Every character was perfect, piece of clothing, every car, and the production design...just incredible.

One of the best films ever made.

[undercoverlover]

Mean Girls - i thought this was pretty decent, not as funny as anticipated but it did ok, i expect big things from Rachel McAdams, super bitch supremo in this movie

[Sinny McGuffins]

Raging Bull 5

The best period piece I have ever seen, period. My girlfriend and I just couldn't get over how this film seems to have been made in the period it depicts. Every character was perfect, piece of clothing, every car, and the production design...just incredible.I love Raging Bull, it's one of my favorites of all time. Was this your first viewing?

[Eyes]

Taxi

[Piddzilla]

Hmmm, I just watched this, and I have to say it was almost unbearable, and any respect I had left for the band is now gone. James Hetfield is without a doubt the biggest crybaby whine-ass I have ever seen, and Lars Ulrich is in close second. Whine, cry, piss about, whine, cry.... what a waste of time. So....

Some Kind of Monster 0_5




Let me see if I get this right... You didn't like the film because it made Metallica look bad?

[Strummer521]

Eulogy, an independent film with Ray Romano in it. That fact alone made this movie very intriguing to me. But it turned out not to have much to offer. I love Ray's show but hopefully when it is over he will not resign himself to being in a slew of mediocore movies (welcome to mooseport).

[Garrett]

That's odd.... the stars that I use to rate my movies aren't even showing up, but when I go to edit the code is still there.
Anyone know why? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

[The Taxi Driver]

Open water
2/5
this movie didnt really do anything for. i wasnt scared or anxious i really just didnt care if the characters lived or not. definitly was expecting more

[Sinny McGuffins]

Thelma & Louise
1991 - Ridley Scott
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Subway Stories: Tales From The Underground
1997 - Too many directors to list
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That's odd.... the stars that I use to rate my movies aren't even showing up, but when I go to edit the code is still there.Yeah, I don't think any images are working in posts at the moment. Well, for some people anyway.

[Sedai]

I love Raging Bull, it's one of my favorites of all time. Was this your first viewing?

Yes. It's funny, as I am a massive Scorsese head, but hadn't seen this simply because I couldn't taint my first viewing of this film with a VCR tape viewing. I HAD to wait until the DVD was available, with the new transfer, in widescreen. I am glad I waited. Scorsese is one of my favorite directors, hands down.

Anyway, for the tab II

Twin Peaks : Pilot (Lynch, 1990) (again, 2nd time this week)

Garden State (Braff, 2004) - Liked this one more than I thought I would. Good job Portman.

Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991)

[Sedai]

Let me see if I get this right... You didn't like the film because it made Metallica look bad?

No becaue I wasted two hors of my life watching two rich rock stars whine. Not what I would consider quality use of time.

[OG-]

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[Garrett]

Yeah, I don't think any images are working in posts at the moment. Well, for some people anyway.

Okay. As long as it isn't just me.

Videodrome
1983 - David Cronenberg
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[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Napolean Dynamite :)

Second time I've seen it and it's still funny. The only thing I didn't like, and have never liked, is when people who've seen it say, "This part's so funny." (insert part) "Did you hear it? HAHAHAHA!" That makes it not funny. Luckly it was still funny though, weird, isn't it?

[Tazz]

Zzat died?

[OG-]

Raging Bull

[Ezikiel]

Love on the Run
1979 - François Truffaut

Baadasssss!
2003 - Mario Van Peebles

The Limey
1999 - Steven Soderbergh

Flirting with Disaster
1996 - David O. Russell

Easy Rider
1969 - Dennis Hopper

[OG-]

The Toolbox Murders (2003)

Piece of poop. This is no such "return to form" for Tobe Hooper. It even raises further question as to whether or not Hooper ever even had a form.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Troy :rolleyes:
What can I say. I think the ligthing was bland and the scenes seemed to rehearsed. That was kind of cool when Brad "Tight Abs" Pitt ran up to the huge d00d and stabbed him in the shoulder. Was kind of like Mr. Abs in Snatch. Hmm. Dang.

[SamsoniteDelilah]

Troy :rolleyes:
What can I say. I think the ligthing was bland and the scenes seemed to rehearsed. That was kind of cool when Brad "Tight Abs" Pitt ran up to the huge d00d and stabbed him in the shoulder. Was kind of like Mr. Abs in Snatch. Hmm. Dang.
I liked that move, too. Too bad about the rest of the 3 hours. :p

I've been on a movie binge, lately...
Napoleon Dynamite
Garden State
The Graduate
The Exorcist 2: Suckville
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Why-Was-This-Film-Made

[ash_is_the_gal]

Thelma & Louise
1991 - Ridley Scott
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/three.gif

did you like it??? :)

[Garrett]

I've been on a movie binge, lately...


I've been on a movie binge since birth. :p

3-Iron
2004 - Kim Ki-duk
(9 out of 10)

[Piddzilla]

No becaue I wasted two hors of my life watching two rich rock stars whine. Not what I would consider quality use of time.

Sounds fun to me! :D Is it possible to find Lars "Napster" Ulrich more annoying? Obviously! Then this film serves a function. ;) I've been wanting to see this one for a while but I haven't yet.

...but I get what you mean, Sed.

[ash_is_the_gal]

No becaue I wasted two hors of my life watching two rich rock stars whine. Not what I would consider quality use of time.

thats rich, coming from you.

[blibblobblib]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Why-Was-This-Film-Made[/i]
Bite thy tongue!

"To get out...you must take...the left tunnel"

[Sedai]

thats rich, coming from you.

Which means? You seem to not like me, and I don't know why.

Anyway:

Joe Satriani : Live in San Francisco

Awesome performance, this man is amazing...

[Caitlyn]

Constantine (2005)
Wimbledon (2005)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
Vanity Fair (2004)
Ned Kelly (2003)
Paradise Road (1997)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

[Sedai]

Constantine (2005)



How was it? :)

[Sinny McGuffins]

did you like it??? :)It was OK, nothing special though. I gave it three stars, but you probably can't see them.

[Caitlyn]

How was it? :)


I enjoyed it… Keanu reminded me of Neo a few times… but, somehow, he seems a little more human in this… Be sure to stay until after the credits roll… there is a little extra... :)

[blibblobblib]

The Hours (2002)
OverBoard (1987)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Closer (2005)

[ash_is_the_gal]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Why-Was-This-Film-Made[/i]

:laugh:

[ash_is_the_gal]

It was OK, nothing special though. I gave it three stars, but you probably can't see them.

no i can't...i can't see anyones stars, and its driving me CRAZY!!! ill never know how to further judge the people on this site due to their ratings on movies!!! :dizzy:

[John McClane]

Dawn of the Dead- This remake wasn't half bad. I'm not that fond of horror films, but the last two I saw were not that bad.

[Escape]

Open Water......disappointed

Papparizzi.........I enjoyed this one.

[Monkeypunch]

Constantine - Pretty cool movie. Good visual effects. Question: why is it that Catholics always save the world in times of biblical crisis? (Dogma, The Exorcist, Constantine...) Why not people of other faiths? are they just slackers or something? When was the last time a protestant or a baptist or a mormon or a jew saved the earth from Satan? Come on, people, get working on that! The Catholics are making us look bad! Nahhhh, I kid. it was a cool movie.

[Ezikiel]

Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 - Ingmar Bergman

[Garrett]

Samaria
2004 - Kim Ki-duk
(10 out of 10)

[jrs]

Saw

[projectMayhem]

Constantine - I loved it. Saw it twice (though this is because I had plans to see it with two different groups and had it sucked I still would have been seing it twice), and actually enjoyed it more the second time. Keanu Reeves is the most un-Keanu in this movie that I've seen him. What I mean is that he drops his confused surfer-guy tone, which usually lurks behind every sentence he speaks, and actually plays this guy like he's been battling demons (both literally and psychologically) for decades.

[chicagofrog]

Mandala, Korea, by Im Kwon-Taek 1982
American Girl 2002, Jena, Jena Jena........

[SamsoniteDelilah]

The Natural was on tv last night. I forgot how much I love that movie.

[OG-]

Constantine
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Dead Will Walk

When Constantine was reading the last rites to Balthazar, did anyone else take it like Keanu was struggling to do Shakespeare. I personally found it pretty funny.

[Ezikiel]

Coffee and Cigarettes
2003 - Jim Jarmusch

[chicagofrog]

Constantine 2005, yes OG, i found that funny too. anyway, i loved it, despite of some weaknesses in dialogs.

[The Taxi Driver]

Boxcar Bertha got it in the scorsese collection and i really enjoyed it. fun to watch with a good ending

[blibblobblib]

Coffee and Cigarettes
2003 - Jim Jarmusch
What was it like Eziky? I planned to get this at the cinema but it vamoosed.

[Ezikiel]

What was it like Eziky? I planned to get this at the cinema but it vamoosed.
I must say I liked it quite a bit, though I do admit some segments in the film didn't work, at all. But of course all the rest of the segments cover up for it, especially the Cate Blanchett one, which for itself you should see the movie, brilliant performance. So, I do recommend seeing it, but don't expect nothing too great, just a fun, good film.

[Garrett]

Stalag 17
1953 - Billy Wilder
(10 out of 10)

Holes
2003 - Andrew Davis
(7.5 out of 10)

[blibblobblib]

I must say I liked it quite a bit, though I do admit some segments in the film didn't work, at all. But of course all the rest of the segments cover up for it, especially the Cate Blanchett one, which for itself you should see the movie, brilliant performance. So, I do recommend seeing it, but don't expect nothing too great, just a fun, good film.
Thanx Zikey, been wanting to see this since i saw the trailer, are the actors in it playing themselves or characters?

[Lance McCool]

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 - Francis Ford Coppola)
SEVEN out of TEN

[Ezikiel]

Are the actors in it playing themselves or characters?
They play themselves with the exception of Cate Blanchett who plays herself and her cousin.

[Monkeypunch]

I must say I liked it quite a bit, though I do admit some segments in the film didn't work, at all. But of course all the rest of the segments cover up for it, especially the Cate Blanchett one, which for itself you should see the movie, brilliant performance. So, I do recommend seeing it, but don't expect nothing too great, just a fun, good film.

I liked some of it. Being a big fan of the White Stripes, I saw it for their appearance, and that tesla coil thing was pretty loopy. :laugh:

Today I saw Phantom of the Opera. I dunno, I wish it had been better, cause I really wanted to like it. It was just not good enough, though.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

From Justin to Kelly :indifferent:
What the f_ck?

8 Mile :rolleyes:
Rabbit's mom's hot. Even if she was a crack head.

[Ezikiel]

Naked
1993 - Mike Leigh

Stranger than Paradise
1983 - Jim Jarmusch

[jrs]

The Forgotten - Extended Editon w/ Alternate Ending

[OG-]

Was that as bad of an experience as I imagine it was?

If I could, I'd smite everyone involved with the production of that movie.

[jrs]

It wasn't a bad picture in the theater, and the extended version with alternate ending made it even more exciting. :cool:

[Garrett]

Stranger than Paradise
1983 - Jim Jarmusch

What did you think?

Kung Fu Hustle
2004 - Stephen Chow
(8.5 out of 10)

[undercoverlover]

Drop Dead Gorgeous - i cant help but watch this film over and over again, its not a real laugh out loud comedy but it gave me a giggle or two. Kirstie Alley, back in the good ol days

[Tazz]

I ♥ Huckabees (d. David O. Russell, 2004)
Saw (d. James Wan, 2004)

[projectMayhem]

I Heart Huckabees - Far stranger than I imagined it would have been. Very, very funny though. Wahlberg had some of the best lines in the movie.

Donnie Darko - Hadn't seen it in a while, and my roommate hadn't seen it at all so I decided we needed to watch it. Still a fun movie to watch.

[The Taxi Driver]

White Heat - my only regret was that i havent seen this film sooner it was so great

[Ezikiel]

The Motorcycle Diaries
2004 - Walter Salles


What did you think?
I thought it was wonderful, from Jarmusch's subtleness of the characters and plot to his great long-takes per scene. Perhaps the characters aren't great, but I found them very likable. Great film.

[ash_is_the_gal]

Sideways (this movie never gets old) 5/5

[LordSlaytan]

White Heat - my only regret was that i havent seen this film sooner it was so greatGood for you, man. Cagney at his friggin' brilliant best.

[Sedai]

Blade Runner

I can recite this entire film in my sleep now.

[Caitlyn]

Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Van Helsing (2004)
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

[LordSlaytan]

She's alive!!!

[Caitlyn]

She's alive!!!


Was there ever a doubt... :D

[OG-]

Dog Soldiers

Eh, I wasn't that impressed. I probably would have thought it was the greatest movie ever 5 years ago.

The Fog

Man I love John Carpenter. If anyone ever knocked on my door with the knock from the Fog, I'd **** myself.

[Garrett]

The Jackal
1997 - Michael Caton-Jones
(5 out of 10)

Runaway Jury
2003 - Gary Fleder
(7 out of 10)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 - Niels Mueller
(7.5 out of 10)

Papillon
1973 - Franklin J. Schaffner
(9 out of 10)

Fail-Safe
1964 - Sidney Lumet
(8 out of 10)

I also watched Friday The 13th for the first time in a couple of years... I nearly fell asleep.

[ash_is_the_gal]

The Client 3.5/5
Kill Bill Volume 1 5/5

[blibblobblib]

Dog Soldiers

Eh, I wasn't that impressed. I probably would have thought it was the greatest movie ever 5 years ago.
This has a massive cult following over here in the UK, i for one agree with you tho, just didnt like it. Boring, Cliche, unfunny and a little depressing.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

After Hours :yup:
I liked this movie a lot, especially the use of metaphors and recurring themes/topics.

The Haunting :rolleyes: :laugh:
What a waste of film. Overly dramatic, no style, and no sense of timing. It made me laugh a few times though - not that you were supposed to.

[Holden Pike]

The Haunting :rolleyes: :laugh:
What a waste of film. Overly dramatic, no style, and no sense of timing. It made me laugh a few times though - not that you were supposed to.

The 1963 Robert Wise original with Julie Harris, or the forgettable '99 remake by Jan de Bont with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lili Taylor?

[Escape]

The 1963 Robert Wise original with Julie Harris, or the forgettable '99 remake by Jan de Bont with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lili Taylor?Why, is the '63 version worth checking out?

[OG-]

Finally saw the Aviator. I'll take Martin Scorsese for the win.

[Escape]

Finally saw the Aviator. I'll take Martin Scorsese for the win.Rumour has it million dollar baby will win because it is a more heart felt story. That's what i heard yesterday anyways.

[Holden Pike]

Why, is the '63 version worth checking out?

Yes, very much so.

[Escape]

Yes, very much so.Then i guess i'll just have to do that now won't i. ;)

[Sedai]

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

Quickly becoming one of my favorite noirs....

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

The 1963 Robert Wise original with Julie Harris, or the forgettable '99 remake by Jan de Bont with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lili Taylor?
The forgettable remake with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Why wouldn't that ghost lady try to take over Mrs. Zeta's body? Instead it goes for the girl that's half retarded. What a dumby'.

[undercoverlover]

Awakenings - Robert DiNero and Robin Williams, Rob espescially good in this as a man who suffered from sleeping sickness and lost 30 years of his life because of it

[SamsoniteDelilah]

Why, is the '63 version worth checking out?
The '63 is SO MUCH BETTER than the cheese-fest that is the remake that they should not have been allowed to use the same name. Watch the '63. It's wonderful creepiliciousness.



Yesterday: The Wire (tv series on DVD) first three episodes. Great tv. And Gattaca - gorgeous visuals, decent story... not sure how but it seems to not quite cohese.

Today: Stoked: The Rise And Fall Of Gator - documentary about a skater who lost his marbles.

[Garrett]

Today: Stoked: The Rise And Fall Of Gator - documentary about a skater who lost his marbles.

My uncle lost one of his marbles in a knife fight in '63.

[blibblobblib]

Awakenings - Robert DiNero and Robin Williams, Rob espescially good in this as a man who suffered from sleeping sickness and lost 30 years of his life because of it
Which Rob? ;)

Watched The Stand today, cheesier than i remember it but still a great story.

[LordSlaytan]

The Empire Strikes Back **** (http://videodetective.com/choosespeed.asp?BrowserSupportActiveX=true&ActiveXPlayerInstalled=true&PublishedId=2846&List=935223&Customerid=97135)
1980. Director: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, and James Earl Jones.
“Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”


Men With Guns **** (http://videodetective.com/choosespeed.asp?BrowserSupportActiveX=true&ActiveXPlayerInstalled=true&PublishedId=903432&List=114784|320396|158438|750051|761725&Customerid=97135)
1997. Director: John Sayles. Cast: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González, Tania Cruz, Damián Alcázar, Kathryn Grody, and Mandy Patinkin.
"Nobody refuses the men with guns."

Henry Fool *** (http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/henryfool/stillsclipspics/clips/trailer.html)
1997. Director: Hal Hartley. Cast: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, and Maria Porter.
"Look, Simon, I made love to your mother about half an hour ago, and I'm beginning to think it wasn't such a good idea. I think it's making Fay jealous."

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? *** (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078488/)
1978. Director: Ted Kotcheff. Cast: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Philippe Noiret.
"Stop! The bomb is a bomb!"

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Ben-Hur :mad:
Some ass decided it would be cool to scrath the DVD. I made it 18 minutes into the movie and through 80+ freezes and skips. I can't take it anymore. I was likin' it too. DANG!

[LordSlaytan]

You haven't seen it before?

Damn...that's too bad.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

You haven't seen it before?

Damn...that's too bad.
I'm beginning to think it's my DVD player. For one, I just found out it (the DVD player) changes widescreen to fullscreen automatically, which pisses me off somethin' fierce. And second, it's really sensitive to scratches. I put in The Godfather and dealt with the same freeze/skip bullsh_t. I'm going to watch it upstairs where I was able to watch....

.... The Godfather :king:
This movie's the bomb diggady'. Choice of lens paired with some killer blocking, mucho' bueno' music score, excellent plot, and acting are all something to admire.

[chicagofrog]

A Beautiful mind, 2001, quite good. i used not to like that Russell, but after all...

[Sedai]

The Village (2004, Shyamalan)


Damn, almost forgot.

Piledriver (fellow MoFo) stopped over yesterday for some gaming, and we segued into film afterwards. He hadn't seen After Hours, so I just had to expose him to it. One of the best comedies ever made, IMO.


After Hours (1985, Scorsese)

[OG-]

Full Metal Jacket

Oh, Kubrick, thine are the glory...

[chicagofrog]

Shelter Island, with Patsy Kentsit, nothing particular, plus i suspect she's got a body double in the "interesting" scenes..........

[Sedai]

Cape Fear (1991, Scorsese)

[chicagofrog]

another good one, Sedai! (i should stop writing Scorsese with a /c/ in the middle though, looks bad being a fan and all...)

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Bringing Out the Dead :)
Not one of my favorites but it's interesting.

[Sedai]

Bringing Out the Dead :)
Not one of my favorites but it's interesting.

Not one of my favorites either, but I really like the style. One of my least favorite Marty films, but still really good :)

[Caitlyn]

The Haunting - same one as Pimp and about the only thing nice I can say about it is that I like Liam's voice and the house was cool…

Apocalypse Now (1979) - I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor.

[Sedai]

Heya Cait you went over 5k posts! ;) Congrats :)

[Caitlyn]

Heya Cait you went over 5k posts! ;) Congrats :)


Gracias… :)


Which version of Cape Fear is your favorite? I really like both of them but tend to lean more toward Scorsese's....

[Sedai]

Scorsese's for sure, as I just really like DeNiro's sort of over-the-top handling of Max...

[Ezikiel]

Rain Man
1988 - Barry Levinson

Million Dollar Baby
2004 - Clint Eastwood

Tokyo Drifter
1966 - Seijun Suzuki

[projectMayhem]

It Happened One Night - I can't believe this film was made in just four weeks (or so says Frank Capra, Jr. on the DVD). Gable and Colbert are wonderful together, and Gable especially is very funny.

The Last Laugh - Great expressionist piece. The ending could have felt corny, but ended up not.

[Garrett]

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 - Paul Schrader
http://www.red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/three-half.gif
Half star added for cinematography.

The French Connection
1971 - William Friedkin
http://www.red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/four.gif

[Ezikiel]

Salvatore Giuliano
1962 - Francesco Rosi

The Player
1992 - Robert Altman

[SpoOkY]

I watched The Beach (2000) again today at a friends place and I'd forgotten how much I liked it. It has a raw attitude to it and gets really intense in places which makes it quite unique from your everyday movie, plus the idea of the movie is just so interesting to me. I'd give it :up::up::up:/5

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Lawrence of Arabia :king:
The movement within the frames, the landscape, the story development, I think everything about this movie is top notch.

"My fear is my own concern."

[undercoverlover]

Stripes - bill murray cracks me up every time

[Ezikiel]

Incident at Loch Ness
2004 - Zak Penn

[ash_is_the_gal]

Rosemary's Baby - 3.5/5

[blibblobblib]

Beauty and the Beast :love:

[Strummer521]

Be Cool It was pretty disappointing.

[Sedai]

Collateral - Decent

3

[undercoverlover]

In good company - i came away thinking 'topher grace is great' and 'scarlett johansson sucks ass'. She just lazied her way through this one and she was boring. Her character wasnt the least bit likeable either. Yay for Marg Helgenberger, i like her in CSI and i think she should do more films

[Caitlyn]

Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
Pale Rider (1985)

[Sinny McGuffins]

The quote below is an old post from the first Moive Tab...

the italian job--the smarmy remake, first rule of remake: don't name characters on the film its based on then MENTION THE FILM IT'S BASED ON! this bugged the crap out of me the fact that the character Charlie Croaker-a character name from the first italian proceeded to mention the film the italian job argh.I just watched that bit on T.V., and remembered your post.

By saying, "It'll be just like the Italian job", wasn't he referring to the job they did earlier on in the film, in Italy?

[Garrett]

Spider
2002 - David Cronenberg
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/three-half.gif

[Lance McCool]

I saw Be Cool last night, and I gotta say, it was pretty bad :( . I've always loved Elmore Leonard, but this movie was a horrible adaption of his novel and nowhere near as good as Get Shorty. They heavily toned it down with the PG:13 rating... I just couldn't get into it. Travolta was mighty cool, though :cool: .

[ash_is_the_gal]

I saw Be Cool last night, and I gotta say, it was pretty bad :( . I've always loved Elmore Leonard, but this movie was a horrible adaption of his novel and nowhere near as good as Get Shorty. They heavily toned it down with the PG:13 rating... I just couldn't get into it. Travolta was mighty cool, though :cool: .

i got so pissed when i watched the trailor for this movie and saw Uma and John dancing, ala Pulp Fiction . what a ripoff :mad: i refuse to see this movie.

[undercoverlover]

The quote below is an old post from the first Moive Tab...

I just watched that bit on T.V., and remembered your post.

By saying, "It'll be just like the Italian job", wasn't he referring to the job they did earlier on in the film, in Italy?


good point, but how was the job they were about to do like the last one? And even so they still reference the film and they themselves are named after the characters

[Garrett]

Midnight Cowboy
1969 - John Schlesinger
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/five.gif
Easily one of my top 50.

The Eye
2002 - Pang Brothers
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/four.gif

[Holden Pike]

i got so pissed when i watched the trailor for this movie and saw Uma and John dancing, ala Pulp Fiction . what a ripoff :mad: i refuse to see this movie.

THAT is funny!

Tarantino has more references to other movies in his own than just about any filmmaker working today, and none of them is more chock full of nods to other flicks than Pulp Fiction. The dance sequence in Pulp is clearly inspired by and a reference to Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à Part (also the name of Quentin's production company, dig?). But I guess since you've never personally seen Band of Outsiders or Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (the glowing breifcase) or Scorsese's American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (the overdose scene) or any of the other two dozen or so small and major references to films that came before Pulp Fiction, all of those rip-offs don't bother you the way Travolta and Uma dancing together in Be Cool does?

I refuse to see you as someone who knows anything about movies. Go rent Beaches again.
http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/3dlil/puke.gif

[jrs]

Be Cool
2005 - F. Gary Gray
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/five.gif

[Sedai]

Mulholland Drive

Watching this one about once a week now.... We got home from a poker game (10 player game, I ended up splitting for 1st as it got too late) and I found out my friend Pete (Piledriver on MoFo) had been listening to me ramble on for years about Mulholland Drive but had never actually seen the film. It was 2:23am, the perfect time for exposure... ;)

[jrs]

Hannibal
2001 - Ridley Scott
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/three.gif

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Sedai-
I rented Mulholland Drive again, I'll be watching it tonight.

Time Bandits :yawn:
I don't really dig Terry Gilliam's style. The Monty Python shiz' was pretty good but the content matched his, what I would call, imature style of directing. Some cheese ball stuff.

[Sedai]

Sedai-
I rented Mulholland Drive again, I'll be watching it tonight.


Buy it. :)

[blibblobblib]

Mulholland Drive

Watching this one about once a week now.... We got home from a poker game (10 player game, I ended up splitting for 1st as it got too late) and I found out my friend Pete (Piledriver on MoFo) had been listening to me ramble on for years about Mulholland Drive but had never actually seen the film. It was 2:23am, the perfect time for exposure... ;)
Hey Sed, for the last essay of my Uni degree, I've got to write about Post Modernist themes throughout Mulholland Drive. Im quite looking forward to writing it, but im also a bit scared. Ive seen it twice before and loved it, but am a bit aprehensive about analysing it so closely. May call upon your wisdom when the time comes in about two months if thats cool. It's a great film to break down and dissect.

[Sedai]

Hey Sed, for the last essay of my Uni degree, I've got to write about Post Modernist themes throughout Mulholland Drive. Im quite looking forward to writing it, but im also a bit scared. Ive seen it twice before and loved it, but am a bit aprehensive about analysing it so closely. May call upon your wisdom when the time comes in about two months if thats cool. It's a great film to break down and dissect.

Oh, I am always up for talking about Mulholland Drive... :)

[The Taxi Driver]

Day of the Dead = :eek: & :)

Shaun of the dead = :rotfl:

The Public Enemy = :D :D :D :D

[Strummer521]

The Education of Little Tree **
Life of Brian *****

[ash_is_the_gal]

THAT is funny!

Tarantino has more references to other movies in his own than just about any filmmaker working today, and none of them is more chock full of nods to other flicks than Pulp Fiction. The dance sequence in Pulp is clearly inspired by and a reference to Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à Part (also the name of Quentin's production company, dig?). But I guess since you've never personally seen Band of Outsiders or Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (the glowing breifcase) or Scorsese's American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (the overdose scene) or any of the other two dozen or so small and major references to films that came before Pulp Fiction, all of those rip-offs don't bother you the way Travolta and Uma dancing together in Be Cool does?

I refuse to see you as someone who knows anything about movies. Go rent Beaches again.
http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/3dlil/puke.gif

it doesn't bother me in the least how you see me, or refuse to see me, since i have never asked for your opinion or approval. im really happy for you that you know so much about movies, and everything you just babbled at me above - its great you've had the time, and experience. its something i would like to someday do for myself. ive never tried to pretend i know soooo much about movies, or anything LIKE that. and i will quickly admit to you and everyone reading this that i haven't seen very many movies. but, if you had asked me that question even a year ago, you'd realize how much ive grown...since then!

anyway, all of that aside, i DID like beaches and could care less if you thought it was a crappy movie. i guess im so unexperienced as a movie watcher that liking a movie just for the plot was stupid of me, and i should have been watching for many other aspects /sarcasm. ehh, thats what will probably always separate me from people such as yourself. i like to enjoy movies, but i can't have a stick up my ass about it.

however holden, i would always be open to any recommendations you would like to give me about anything movie-wise. im open-minded in that way . oh my gosh! :eek: the girl who was touched by beaches is WILLING learn more?

however, you can continue to think whatever you want of me, if i didn't just change your mind...and i'll forget about it, because im mature like that. :modest:

BTW, in regards to the actual arguement here, i actually WAS aware of Tarantino's use of references to other movies. i really have no problem with this, but what it was really about was recreating the scene with the same exact actors . i think thats silly. didn't we already see these people do this not too long ago?

[ash_is_the_gal]

oh yeah, Hotel Rwanda - 5/5!

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

'Breaker' Morant :yup:
I don't really know what to say other than this movie is good and the shot list must have been ridiculous.

[Ezikiel]

The Dreamers
2003 - Bernardo Bertolucci

A Story of Floating Weeds
1934 - Yasujiro Ozu

[Tacitus]

Run Lola Run (1998, Tom Tykwer) 3.5/5

It's basically Groundhog Day meets Trainspotting and resembles me in my younger days (a flat middle).

on a side note -

Dear Santa,

Can I please have Franke Potente's phone number for Christmas.

If not, world peace and an end to poverty is gonna have to do. :(

[nebbit]

A Life less Ordinary :bored:

Vera Drake first time: :up:

Old Boy first time: :eek: :up:

The Spanish Apartment first time: :up:

Giant :up:

Lolita (Kubrick) :up:

[Tacitus]

A Life less Ordinary :bored:

The first time I watched that I was thinking "What's up with Danny Boyle?" though on repeated viewings I think making the film was a pretty smart move - I'm sure he was inundated with 100s of substandard gritty, urban Hollywood scripts post-Trainspotting and could have quickly become 'genrefied'.

That said, it ain't brilliant but I thought ALLO was watchable enough, though not a patch on Trainspotting or 28 Days Later :)

[chicagofrog]

Shyamalan's The Village, had to see it, but, well...

[blibblobblib]

what did you think frog man?

[chicagofrog]

brilliant pics, i'd be proud were i the director of photography. but twas not Sixth Sense, twas not Unbreakable. Signs had me disappointed already. this one is better i think, but thrill?

[Tacitus]

brilliant pics, i'd be proud were i the director of photography. but twas not Sixth Sense, twas not Unbreakable. Signs had me disappointed already. this one is better i think, but thrill?

I think Shamalamadingdong freed Roger Deakins from the little cupboard under the stairs that The Coens keep him in. The Village looks well but personally I hated it...

[Caitlyn]

Red Dragon (2002)

[Tacitus]

Girl, Interrupted (1999, Jim Mangold). 4/5, excellent movie. :)

[Piddzilla]

Hannibal (2001, Ridley Scott). Not so good movie...
Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes). Very good movie...

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Secretary :skeptical:
Why'd I have the feeling this movie was going to be good? Was it a hit among festivals? Some of it looked pretty. Good color, although it was repetitive. You want to see some crazy color, try some Peter Greenaway (director), more specifically The Cook The Thief The Wife and Her Lover. I'm off track.

[chicagofrog]

Saved, 2004, nice movie about the hypocrisy of American puritanism, with Jena Malone

[projectMayhem]

Be Cool - Could have been very good, but ended up being mildly entertaining...at parts. Travolta, Cderic the Entertainer (yes really), The Rock (again, yes really), and Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000) were all good, but really no one else was.

[undercoverlover]

Dodgeball - i just couldnt get over how small ben stiller is. But i did like Christine Taylor in this and id like to see more films from her and i think Justin Long has a good future ahead of him. Nice to see Rip Torn again. Pretty decent movie.

[Lance McCool]

Be Cool
2005 - F. Gary Gray
http://red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/five.gif

Really? What did you think was so great about it? I'd give it a 2 1/2 at best, it definitely wasn't in the same league as Get Shorty.

[undercoverlover]

Get Shorty is absolute legend, i think its fantastic and i was real excited about a sequel but a lot of people have said its a bit rubbish.

Should i see this movie? Yay or nay?

[Lance McCool]

Get Shorty is absolute legend, i think its fantastic and i was real excited about a sequel but a lot of people have said its a bit rubbish.

Should i see this movie? Yay or nay?

I'd say nay, but apparently a lot of people are saying yay...

[Strummer521]

I'd say nay, but apparently a lot of people are saying yay...

I respond with a second nay.

[OG-]

Secrets & Lies

[Strummer521]

Bubba Ho-Tep ***

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Miller's Crossing :yup:
A beautiful movie. I also enjoyed the interview with the DP (special feature).

[blibblobblib]

Miller's Crossing :yup:
A beautiful movie. I also enjoyed the interview with the DP (special feature).
Whats it about? Ive heard of it but never seen it or know anything about it. Its always on offer in my local HMV, special edition, might buy it...but might not. my decision rests on your words pimp boy.

[nebbit]

might buy it...but might not

Buy it, you won't regret it. :yup:

[Tacitus]

Buy it, you won't regret it. :yup:

Seconded. :)

[chicagofrog]

Nightmare/Gawi, Korea 2000, not the best horror, but not bad at all, and if sometimes already seen before, still pretty to watch.

[projectMayhem]

Buy it, you won't regret it. :yup:
Thirded :D

RKO 281 - Interesting if true. Cromwell's and Griffith's relationship could have been handled a little better, but I liked pretty much everything else, except for the pointless use of CG as an establishing shot for Hearst's castle. That was cheap looking and quite ridiculous.

Spellbound - Great Hitchcock. I really liked that Salvadore Dali designed something for this. I adore his work.

Tanner '88 - "Episode 1: The Dark Horse" - Really funny. Does anyone know anything about this project? Did they really have Tanner set up as a presidential candidate, or was this just a TV show? So far my favorite character is the Taggerty reporter character.

[Garrett]

Around The Bend
2004 - Jordan Roberts
http://www.red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/three-half.gif
First memorable Walken performance in a couple of years.

[Sedai]

Whats it about? Ive heard of it but never seen it or know anything about it. Its always on offer in my local HMV, special edition, might buy it...but might not. my decision rests on your words pimp boy.

An incredible film. Buy it immediately. :yup:

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Knockaround Guys :frustrated:
This film had the same feeling of trying to take a poo' before the poo' was actually ready. It tried to hard. Hence, the frustrated face. :)

[Sinny McGuffins]

I just watched two Kurosawa flicks for the first time: Ikiru and Red Beard. Ikiru was great, and - to some extent - so was Red Beard. The reason I'm not totally convinced about Red Beard's "greatness", is its length. It just seemed to drag on, and on and on and on. But I suppose I can't deny it as a beautiful film.


The other films I saw for the first time since I last tabbed: The Two Jakes, Little Big Man, 8 ½, Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow, Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies, Sideways, Alfie (1966), Short Cuts and Hotel Rwanda.

[ash_is_the_gal]

The Fifth Element 4/5

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Whats it about? Ive heard of it but never seen it or know anything about it. Its always on offer in my local HMV, special edition, might buy it...but might not. my decision rests on your words pimp boy.
Like I said, it's a beautiful film. I'm horrible at summaries so I'd suggest the good ol' IMDB.com. As for whether I would buy it, I would. A pimpin' investment.

[Garrett]

Wings Of Desire
1987 - Wim Wenders
http://www.red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/four.gif

Nashville
1975 - Robert Altman
http://www.red-colored.org/lazysod/stars/five.gif

[blibblobblib]

Woah, looks like i will be shunned off of the planet if i dont buy Millers Crossing. As soon as my life is free of the horrors of the final weeks of my degree, it will be mine...oh yes, it will be mine.
Seconded. :)
EDIT: Hey Tacticus, is that legendary Irish playwright and man of oddness Samuel Beckett as your avatar? If so...Why on Earth? I had to write an essay on Endgame once...it wasnt pretty :nope: The whole thing with his parents in dustbins/garbage cans was just a little too much i think...

Oh and if its not my Beckett, please excuse me, i have literature pouring from every oreface of my body at the moment...

[Ezikiel]

Hotel Rwanda
2004 - Terry George

Mulholland Dr.
2001 - David Lynch

[Tacitus]

Woah, looks like i will be shunned off of the planet if i dont buy Millers Crossing.EDIT: Hey Tacticus, is that legendary Irish playwright and man of oddness Samuel Beckett as your avatar? If so...Why on Earth? I had to write an essay on Endgame once...it wasnt pretty :nope: The whole thing with his parents in dustbins/garbage cans was just a little too much i think...

Oh and if its not my Beckett, please excuse me, i have literature pouring from every oreface of my body at the moment...

hehehe, Sammy B it is... and for a few reasons:

1. I think he's a genius and if alive today would have made a fine stand-up comedian. If you step back from his work and turn 30 degrees starboard you might see where I'm coming from.

2. He went to school near where I grew up and I was having a conversation yesterday with someone who's grandad was in the same class.

3. He's got a wonderful face - part priest, part killer, part hawk.

4. He wrote some of my favourite lines in modern theatre - "They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more" and "ESTRAGON: What about hanging ourselves?
VLADIMIR: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
ESTRAGON: (highly excited). An erection!" ;)

[blibblobblib]

hehehe, Sammy B it is... and for a few reasons:

1. I think he's a genius and if alive today would have made a fine stand-up comedian. If you step back from his work and turn 30 degrees starboard you might see where I'm coming from.

2. He went to school near where I grew up and I was having a conversation yesterday with someone who's grandad was in the same class.

3. He's got a wonderful face - part priest, part killer, part hawk.

4. He wrote some of my favourite lines in modern theatre - "They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more" and "ESTRAGON: What about hanging ourselves?
VLADIMIR: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
ESTRAGON: (highly excited). An erection!" ;)I thought as much, good ol Sammy B. I wrote the essay in the first year of my degree, and i got an appalling mark, as little did i know, my lecturer who was marking it has two books published on Sammy B, and there was I blabbing on about how i thought he was weird and depressing. Oh the naivety. I'd let you read my essay but you would proably throw up on it and never speak to me again ;)

[Caitlyn]

Almost An Angel (1990)
Angel Heart (1987)

[ash_is_the_gal]

American Beauty 5/5
I swear, Kevin Spacey is like a breath of fresh air. Am I allowed to have a crush on him? :modest: