Which movie is better, and why?!

I've done one. If no one person is doing this, then I think who names it, should be given a tad bit of time.

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Sorry, I Was Typing Mine When She Posted Hers.

Thanks, hun!

Yeah, I already posted that I was going to. Sure, if no one beat me to it, but like give me some time, dude!

Edit your's out, delete it, and use it next.

Reposting here:

Jennifer 8 (1992)


Andy Garcia ~ Sgt. John Berlin
Lance Henriksen ~ Sgt. Freddy Ross
Uma Thurman ~ Helena Robertson
Graham Beckel ~ John Taylor
Kathy Baker ~ Margie Ross
Kevin Conway ~ Chief Citrine
John Malkovich ~ Agent St. Anne

Dead Again (1991)


Kenneth Branagh ~ Mike Church
Emma Thompson ~ Grace
Andy Garcia ~ Gray Baker
Robin Williams ~ Doctor Cozy Carlisle
Wayne Knight ~ 'Piccolo' Pete Dugan


I love both of these films, and if you haven't seen them, which may be the case more times than not during this set, then I highly recommend them to you.

As far as my vote goes, I choose Dead Again. It is a great suspense thriller, with plenty of story details to keep your attention, non-stop. A fabulous cast, and they all do a wonderful job with their characters.

Jennifer 8 also has a great cast, but it is more of a who done it, suspense thriller. It has nowhere near the twisted story that Dead Again has, but it is still a lot of fun trying to solve the mystery.

Both have a great, surprise ending, but again, Dead Again has much more detail with their's. This makes for a longer, more enjoyable ride getting there. Jennifer 8 has more of a quick, surprise ending. It's a damn good one, though.

I Just Wrote In Huge Letters At The Top, Telling People Not To Do It Until Next Time, Because I Don't Wanna Re-Write That Paragraph. And I Haven't Seen Either Of Yours.

Sadly, I haven't seen Jennifer 8 yet.
I'll be sure and correct that soon.

OK, and that is why I picked these. I think they are great movies, and to make a wild guess, I'd say that only Holden, Mark, and maybe another poster, or two have seen these. 7thson?

Anyway, you all should check them out. I plan on adding them to my list of suggestions for TheUsualSuspect. If I ever get that list done.

Well, Jennifer 8 does have some of the greatest scenes involving flashlights and stairs which I've ever seen. In movies which have come out in the last 13 years or so, I often wonder why anybody lets "flashlight" scenes out to the general public which aren't nearly as good. On the other hand, for all its flaws, Dead Again is a far-more "thought-out" flick and much more of a true film noir. In fact, it's such a "true" film noir that it doesn't worry very much that it actually paints itself silly. It realizes that film noir always has to apologize for itself, at least if a non-noir type of movie watcher is around.

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I love both of these films and one has actually made my top 100. You know me too well Dest'.

My fav' of the two is of course - Dead Again, because it seems to be more "fleshed out" and well it tests the brain a bit more.

Nice choices.

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I haven't seen either of these. And I've got an idea for a movie showdown.

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Thanks, sweetie! I didn't realize that it was in your "Top 100" list. I need to scan the rest of that, soon enough. We seem to have a lot of the same taste in movies.

Great! Let me know what you think of them.

This one's pretty easy for me, it's Jennifer 8, but it wins my vote because of what it doesn't have rather than what it does. As good a film as it was, Dead Again also 'starred' the talents of Emma "Always looks as if she's acting" Thompson and when you put that up against Thurman, Henrikson and Malkovic (all of whom I find eminently watchable) it means that, for me, there's only one winner. But I can see why a good number of people would pick Dead Again over Jennifer 8.

Nice matchups again...

Halloween vs. Psycho

No contest, Psycho wins hands down, both are horror heavyweights but Psycho has so many more dimensions to it, much more entertaining imo.

Departed vs. American Gangster

Departed! Amazing film all around. Scorsese is such a master, Nicholson is so awesome, Dicaprio, Damon, Wahlberg, Sheen, Baldwin...all incredible. Flawless film imo.
Am Gangster...heavily flawed, boring at time, pompous, didn't really like it. Had a handful of excellent scenes, but generally overated.

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You may as well post your's, Movieman88LotsOfNumbers.

p.s. PowderedWawa, you repped me, but you didn't share if you've seen either of them, or not. I'd rather know that. Yep! Yep!

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Oh, no! Blazing Saddles vs. The Villain!

If it's not even slightly confusing, that sorta belies the vaunted realism of the film because those who have been there say combat is totally confusing.

I still don't know who's on first and what's on second, but I quit caring several posts ago, because the movie is just not worth that much effort to begin with. I thought the death of Tom Hank's character had something to do with the tank's machinegunner firing off a belt of ammo in his general direction--enough to have melted the gun barrel in real life. But it's pure hokeum no matter how you slice it--assigning a clerk-typist to an elite combat group; having the German dig his grave and then turning him loose (this was supposed to be the remnants of a Ranger company that had fought from North Africa to France. How many fellow Americans--many of them close friends--killed by Germans do you think they had buried, and how many of the squad do you think could have cut the captive's throat and never lost a minute's sleep?); leaving the cowardly clerk alive on the stairs; shooting one German prisoner and turning 3 more loose (apparently having learned nothing the first time around); a tank concentrating its attack on one wounded man with a pistol; and a Mustang that silently zooms down from nowhere, in the tank's line of sight, and takes it out pointblank with a couple of rockets in an explosion that destroys the tank but doesn't damage the plane or the captain or the other GIs in close proximity to that explosion. Cornier than Kansas in July!

With all that mugging and camera angles, it still looks like it could be the same squarehead to me. But I'll take your word for it.

So the Nazi who leaves the clerk alive just walks away into the sunset alive and happy? And the clerk then goes on to shoot another unarmed German? But what's the point of that? If the clerk he left alive comes back to kill the German who walked away, there's a sense of irony, of destiny, of something out of the ordinary. But for the clerk just to go out and shoot any ol' German in an effort to reclaim his manhood just falls flat. Where's the accomplishment in that, especially when someone else already captured and disarmed the prisoners?

It's already been posted several times a couple of pages back (pages 4 and 5). If you read them, you'll get it. He didn't just shoot "any" German.

I Guess Since The Last One Is Over, I'll Go Ahead And Re-Post Mine.

Both American Gangster and The Departed are vastly overrated films, but I agree with drewmachine about American Gangster being boring at times. The pacing really isn't very good at all and I truly hate the end. I know that, as it's a true story, so they really didn't have anywhere to go with it, but it was so anti-climatic. No matter how much they tried to crank up the suspense and tension, it just wasn't there and watching them try just annoyed me more and more.

The Departed is overrated, it's a fudge of a movie and, were it not for DiCaprio and, susprisingly for me, Walhberg, it wouldn't be as good as it was. That Scorsese got his Oscar for this rather than The Aviator (let alone many of his other films) is one of the biggest travesties in Oscar history and, let's face it, it has plenty of those. All that, and it's not a patch on Infernal Affairs. Still, it's better than American Gangster.