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Wall Street (1987)

Great show. 8/10

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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

"Only God forgives"

I know some people say that the movie "drive" is style over substance but this one surely beats it on that count. It looks amazing but it really doesn't deliver. For me anyway. Gosling was ok but the movie itself never really gets you going enough. 5.5/10

Being John Malkovich is one of those pretentious movies that tries to say "Hey, look how smart I am!", when in reality it is nothing more than an average film.

Not at all. It's a wonderful dark comedy and the so called 'weirdness' makes perfect sense and raises some very interesting existential ideas.
The ending scene is also one of the most horrifying scenes ever.

I still think it's Kaufman's best film.

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Sounds like you watched The Matrix

The first Matrix was at least a fun action movie. Now the SEQUELS... yeah that description is dead on.

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At least Matrix was cool and entertaining, unlike Malkovich.

The Matrix is too self-serious for me to enjoy it. Both films are pretty volatile, one of them is indulgent and self aware, the other is boring and unaware of its lack of substance.

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I loved the movie, but this was spot-on my girlfriend's reaction when we first saw it (at a film festival celebrating the work of ISU alumni).

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it's a Wonderful Life. I've always loved this movie, but this time I spotted a pretty critical timeline error: the dance scene takes place in 1928 (at Harry's graduation), but four years later (after Harry graduates from college), the stock market collapses (resulting in the run in the building and loan). All the same, it still holds up. 8.5/10

Casino Royale. It's still my favorite Bond movie that's still as fantastic as ever. 10/10

Goldfinger. It's still my favorite classic Bond movie (and was my perennial pre-Craig favorite). It's still as fantastic as ever,e ven if it's now been booted to my third favorite of the franchise. 9/10

I don't think the stock market crash has anything to do with It's a Wonderful Life. The B&L is in trouble because Uncle Billy misplaced the deposit money.

I think he is talking about earlier when George and Mary use their money for the honeymoon to give out the account holders during the bank run. But even then it was not due to the Bank Collapse it was the B&L's loan being called by the bank.

It's fine if you hate a little existentialism in your comedy, but you're in the minority there. Exactly how was it so pretentious? There was nothing about it that was outwardly projecting a philosophy or singular process of thinking, but you seem somewhat offended by its existence.

My happiness at your enjoyment of Quills is now gone.

What you just watched was one of the most interesting and original movies I've ever seen.

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And I am very glad you liked it. I myself was less amused. I know it is one of your all time favs, but I did not like it. Which saddens me since I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

At least I had a better time with Quills then SC, and I even gave it a higher rating then JayDee.
Got to give me that!

Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)

I freakin' love gangster flicks. I'd never seen Miller's Crossing before and I thought it was fantastic.

. Really good film. Bergman's films all deal with extremely heavy,existential themes and they are rather cold.They are excellent films, but ones that take some warming up to. The same applies to this one.

I am not offended by its existence. But it's just a pretentious film, like the two other Kaufman films I've seen (Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine). As one person on criticker said, "Although he's grown as a writer, Kaufman's script carries this irritating underlying current of distress and self-centeredness that's quite tiresome". Couldn't have said it better myself. Nothing is special about his scripts, or his films. They're not that weird either. Original? Yes, but that doesn't make them good.