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Please learn to use the quote function and stop yelling movie titles at us.

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Much quieter, Sexy. Thanks...

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-Daniel, There Will Be Blood

The Shining (1980) rewatch -

Kubrick at the top of his game. It has some of the best camerawork I've ever seen in film, and although I don't find it very scary, it's still quite unsettling and I think it's an incredibly well made film.


After Hours (1985) -

Just finished it, and wow. It's more than a great movie. So bizarre, so dark, so tense, yet funny in an odd way, and entertaining in an even more weird way. It's so brilliant I can't stop thinking about it. A criminally underrated Scorsese masterpiece.


Before Midnight (2013) -

The hotel scene was truly exhausting, and I sometimes can't stand Delpy's character. I don't know why, something about her just annoys me. Hawke, on the other hand, was quite likable, although I found him a little annoying in the first film. But it was in the second installment, Before Sunset, where both characters shined, and it's one of the reasons why I think it's the best of the trilogy.


This Is the End (2013) -

Didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. There's nothing special about it, and I don't think it has any rewatch value, but it's quite funny nonetheless. Michael Cera is the sh*t.

Machete - Unlike everyone else, naturally, this wasn't the fake trailer that grabbed me from Grindhouse, so I really didn't care when it was announced/made/released or since. However, it was on tonight and I felt like giving it a chance, so I did. It's OK. It's actually a little better than I thought it'd be, sadly that's not saying a great deal. My problem with it is the same problem I have with most/all the neo-exploitation films made since Grindhouse's release, they don't feel like exploitation films. Make no mistake, this is one, but it still doesn't have that 'feel'. There's too many "woah, cool!" moments and it often veers into parody or spoof, as was the case by the end of Machete. I also have a problem with CGI blood and this film was bathed in it. I'd much rather see an obviously fake hand covered in bright red paint lying on the ground, than a CGI effect.

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Not a film I've seen but on the weekend I am going to the BFI London Film Festival and I am seeing a film called Youth, should be interesting. A dark comedy/moral type film about two boys who kidnap someone for money, well that's what I remember about it, we'll see

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And this is why i want to wait before sending in my 80's list, to find something i missed during the eighties and since that could, very well make my list. Watched the trailer on youtube and with several actors/ess i really like so...

As for me,

The Lodger (1944) + Just outside White Chapel during the Jack the Ripper murders, a family takes in a polite lodger with very odd hours, played by Laird Cregar. Also starring Merle Oberon and George Sanders. Great pacing and very well done.


The Chaser (Korean) + An ex-cop, now a pimp, believing his missing girls have been sold, goes a-hunting only to find a serial killer. Tense, violent, visceral and, like Korea is so excellent at doing, there is a mixture of humor and tragedy that is truly touching and effective.



REWATCH Kung Fu Panda (Dreamworks) Now, I'm pretty luke warm when it comes to Jack Black, but, with this (and the sequel) I love watching them for soooo many reasons. Everything works on this from the talents behind the voices, the action sequences, the comedic work, the story writing, et al



The Foxes of Harrow (1946) Rex Harrison playing the gentleman rogue to the obstinate southern belle, Maureen O'Hara, in old new orleans.

^^ rep for Kung Fu Panda and especially The Chaser, outstanding film.

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Hobo With A Shotgun ++ I was left confused about how I feel about Hobo and I think it's because the film itself is confused. It simply doesn't know what it is or wants to be. With the exception of the soundtrack, which I thought worked really well, everything else pretty much fell between the same two stools as Machete and the other neo grindhouse films I've seen. However, it picks up points for using real effects, some wonderfully overly complex and inventive contraptions for killing people and, on occasion, finding the right balance and being truly entertaining. I'll watch this again, if only to see whether it works as a flat out comedy. I don't think it will, because I don't think it is one, but it's the only way I can see me enjoying it more.

Suspiria (Argento, 1977)



What a trip. I have been meaning to get to this for ages, and I finally got around to seeing it. Definitely a product of its time; a 1st gen Final Girl flick with heavy psychedelic overtones. A bunch of sort of disparate and cheap parts combine into something that is rough around the edges, but it works! Seems pretty groundbreaking, and the gore was probably considered over-the-top at the time of the films release, although it will seem fairly tame to those weened on torture-porn garbage like the Saw series. This film is on a different level than chaff like that, and is worth a watch, for sure. Pretty sure D lynch drew heavily from this film in some of his work.

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I've been watching a bunch of new films lately,I think there's about 2 or 3 more films and I'll post them all here.Unless someone has something more to offer from the 2012/2013

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Suspect's Reviews

Someone's not really getting the point...

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Mubi

Mansome (Spurlock, 2012) -
Old School (Phillips, 2003) -
Foxy Brown (Hill, 1974)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999)





The Ice Harvest (Ramis, 2005) +
America's Sweethearts (Roth, 2001) +
The Raven (McTeigue, 2012) +



Rush (Howard, 2013) +
Runaway Jury (Fleder, 2003)
Casualties Of War (DePalma, 1989)

Care to elaborate, genius?

I didn't elaborate last night because of schoolwork. Are you a guy, or a girl? I think there's probably a big correlation with how people feel about the characters in the third one especially and their gender. Why is it important to the film if the characters are likable? These movies, while playing on your desires for romantic closure and fulfillment, aren't interested in creating characters that we'll love. The first film is about all of the hopes and fears of young people, the second is about that terrible feeling that all of the hopes are gone and the fears realized, and the third is coming to grips with the idea that maybe it's not escapavle. The characters obviously talk like movie characters in the first two films. The third film, however, breaks this in its second half, and they begin to talk like real, troubled people. The film invites us to dislike the actions and words of characters that we used to be able to justify. They argue like a real married couple, with heaping amounts of passive aggressiveness and pinpoint accuracy. I don't like either characters in the hotel room, just like I hate myself when I'm arguing with someone important, and I think that's the point. I don't know who would watch the film and think that both characters were likable throughout.

I'm a guy. And please quote the part where I said it was important for the characters to be likable. You didn't have to explain the movies to me because I've seen them. I know perfectly well what the first two films are about, just like I know what the third is about. Delpy's character still annoys me in the third film. Hawke's annoys me in the first. What's wrong with that? Am I still missing the point? If disliking one character in a movie means missing the point of the whole movie (or a trilogy in this case), well then... I don't know what to say. Just lol.