Movie Tab II

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
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Well while I obviously love it a lot more than you do still pleased that you seemed to rather enjoy it.

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What don't you guys like about Klute?

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"Puns are the highest form of literature." -Alfred Hitchcock

Been a long time:

Go (1999, Liman): . Sure, it's a blatant Pulp Fiction ripoff, but this has a good script and it's great fun to watch.

The East (2013, Batmanglij):
New World (2013, Hoon-Jung Park): +. The premise is far from unique, but really good acting and fine pacing. Koreans are just about the best out there in terms of crime films and thrillers nowadays.
Flashpoint (2007, Yip): +
The Crow (1994, Proyas): . This hasn't aged well. It hinges on pop culture references, that have gone from badass to angry emo.

Con Air (Simon West, 1997) +
Mind-blowing. Life-changing. Transcendent.
Obvious. Intelligence-insulting. Awful.

Every objective bone in my body is telling me to give this a , but I just enjoyed it so damn much. It is, by far, the best so-bad-it's-good movie I have ever seen, so much so that it seems almost cleverly designed to be so, even though much of the hilarity stems from its self-seriousness. It's a perfect storm of bad acting, with the exception of Buscemi, who's decent (Cage and his character are gloriously terrible in every feasible way... the pure awkwardness of that final scene - yikes), a script chock-full of shockingly cheesy one-liners ("Cy---onara!" is a personal fav) and leave-disbelief-at-the-door action, with "How Do I Live" adding the cherry on top of the sh*t sundae. Superb.


Fun fact: "How Do I Live" was nominated for both the Academy Award AND the Razzie for Original Song in 1998. Says it all, really. The film won the Razzie for "Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property".

Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
Liked it without loving it, not particularly inspired but the dialogue is sharp and the performances are all great, and the characters are honest and interesting. The main love triangle plot feels a little clichéd by now but it's never fake and the film has enough otherwise to keep you interested.

Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) -
I won't pretend I fully understood this but there's a unifying theme here that won't become apparent until I see it again, if then. The 11th segment especially resounded with me.

Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989) -
Comes off as somewhat paint-by-numbers and sentimental at times, but the characters and their journeys are interesting and the film itself very nice to look at, as well as entertaining from start to finish. A story about racial prejudice and tolerance that has been covered many times, yes, but the characters and themes here are compelling - Broderick and Washington's in particular.

After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985) -
A criminally underrated Marty flick in which he channels his technical wizardry into creating a bizarre, nightmarish and compelling world full of wonderful imagery, allegory and paranoia, and a twisted story that is constantly surprising and darkly comic. Will be on my 80s list.

Die Hard 2 +

Girls Will Be Girls

Clay Pigeons

Identity

Far and Away

Creepshow II -

Saved! +

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

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Was that the first time you had seen Con Air Skepsis? Glad you loved it so much, it really is such a great bad film. It's over the top and ridiculous but doesn't try to be anything less!

After Hours I watched and give pretty much the same rating too, great film. Glory I have recorded for the 80s list (did you record and watch this as you are in the UK?) and Vivre sa Vie is one of a handful of Godard films I have ready to watch too, so a good and interesting set there

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Tonight (UK channels), Universal had Psycho on, Channel 5 had Unforgiven and E4 had Borat, so I watched as much of all three that I could! Three of my very favourite films that all get easy ratings

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Lake Mungo (Anderson, 2008)



Australian mockumentary about the death of a young girl that drowned in late 2005 in Ararat. Pretty effective, and fairly interesting throughout. Good, not great. I liked the way it was put together, though.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

(Michel Gondry, 2004)

Good to see I'm not the only one who didn't love it.

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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.

ditto

Me three.

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5-time MoFo Award winner.

i'm on board with that one too.

been a while. . .

REWATCH Private Benjamin Goldie Hawn and Eileen Breenan. Breenan was great to watch in this.

REWATCH The Outlaw Josey Wales Must be rated as the "most spitting by a leading actor" including what, and who, he spits at lol

The Assassination Bureau Limited (British) + campy, silly, far-fetched but damn entertaining with Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg (from the Avengers TV series) and Telly Savalas


REWATCH Desperado Antonio Badass and Salma Hayek have fantastic chemistry in this sequel to El Mariachi (sp?)


There are others but for the life of me I cannot think of them

The Sword of Doom (Okamoto, 1966)
Hospital (Wiseman, 1970)
Exotica (Egoyan, 1994) *
Anguish (Luna, 1987)
Pain & Gain (Bay, 2013) *
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Megan is Missing (Goi, 2011) (avoid!)
Papillon (Schaffner, 1973) *
When the Wind Blows (Murakami, 1986)
Stoker (Park, 2013)
Galaxy Quest (Parisot, 1999)
Elysium (Blomkamp, 2013)

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^ I remember reading somewhere that Megan is Missing features real pictures from the incident

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