Movie Tab II

REWATCH LA Confidential Loved the movie from the first time at the theater, even higher praise for the book and the series it came from
"Some guys get the world. Others; ex-whores and a trip to Arizona."

Love Crazy (1947)?? William Powell and Myrna Loy. A team who did very well with the Thin Man movies, continues their usual casually elegant aplomb when, to avoid divorce, hubby claims insanity.

REWATCH Army of Darkness




"This. . . is. . . my BOOM stick!"

Contempt is probably my favourite JLG film.

Surprised you didn't like A City of Sadness that much.

Your Friends and Neighbors is a similar theme, belonging to the genre I call psychosuburbia. It's not a perfect film- like Happiness, the pace is a little slow- but it's much shorter and sharper with the lines. Happiness does have some sharp lines but they're kind of buried under the sort of pit of grimness.

Roger Ebert described Your Friends and Neighbors as "the kind of date movie that wants to make you go home alone" and it's true but only because it's so spot on about the negative aspects of relationships.

Your Friends and Neighbors also has a great comic/chilling scene (2.26 to 8.29):

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You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never. (The Red Shoes, 1948)

Dawn of the Dead (1978): +
The Fly (1986): -
Heat (1995):
Platoon (1986): -
Battle Royale (2000):
Five Fingers (2006): -
Tokyo Gore Police (2008): +
Smiley (2012):
Deep Red (1975):
The Incredibles (2004):
The Elephant Man (1980):
Candyman (1992): +

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I'm watching it one of the following days for sure. I very much appreciate your recommendation.

Faust
City Lights
Sherlock, Jr.
Intolerance
Safety Last
Watching a lot of silent films lately

Really low for Safety Last.

No, your rating for Team America: World Police was really low. That's a high rating for a silent comedy.

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It's more of a comedy thriller, will.

The Wedding Singer - Remember when Adam Sandler was actually funny and even a little bit charming? Remember when Drew Barrymore was actually in movies? Yeah, this was a great little bit of fluff, lots of 1980's jokes and a fun Billy Idol cameo. It seems to me that both of the best Adam Sandler films had Drew Barrymore in them, so they should REALLY make more, maybe it will get him out of his unfunny "Jack and Jill/That's My Boy/Grown Ups" rut..

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Mark: Could you expand on Envelope and The House is Black, please.

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Good to see you watching animations for the tournament Mark. From what I have seen so far I give the same ratings for Memento Mori (difficult to rate), Harvie Krumpet, Presto and King-Size Canary, however I rate La Jetéé much higher.

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Lately you've been watching a lot of great shorts, mark. + for that.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

It's for this tournament: http://www.movieforums.com/community...ad.php?t=32142

Take a look and vote, you'll like it

I know about it, but I'm too lazy to watch these nominated shorts. I watched Sherlock Jr. instead. It's short - about 40 minutes.

Sherlock Jr. is great. The only Keaton film I've truly liked so far. Why not vote on the ones you have seen though, Minio?

For donnie:

I'll admit that I'm too tough on The House in Black, but to quote the film, "Alas, my wounds have numbed my spirit." It's tough for me to watch it in my post-stroke life. I'm much better off than these people but my right arm is still mostly unusable and it's difficult to walk even with the walker. I also have sore skin from rubbing against the bed I sit/lay on, so I do relate to those shown in the film. The fact that there is an overriding prayer is also tugging at my conscience since I've periodically wished I were dead - not only to put me out of my "misery" but to provide my family with some much-needed cash from my life insurance. All this has probably skewed my viewing, thinking and feeling of the film, but I do feel that it's easy to overrate something like this just because of the subject matter. If I don't think it's great cinema then I must be a bad person. I will say I'm raising my rating but it won't be that much higher; at least I don't think so. It's still hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

I'll talk about Envelope later, but that rating stands.

Sorry to hear Mark, but I do think it's great cinema, while I didn't find The Red Balloon touching at all, so I guess I'm the bad guy. I thought Envelope was the best, but Spacey did two more short films with that company, if you'd like to check them out. They're both less professional but more comedic.