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Casino Royale [rewatch] ***** Planet of the Apes original [rewatch] **** |
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stardust - 4/5 (really nice! tempted to give it a 5!) juno - 3/5 (no way as good as people say) |
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Death Proof 5/5 Planet Terror 4/5 Planet Terror isn't bad but Rodriguez will never beat Tarantino. Death Proof is great but everyone hates it. DO YOU???? |
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Washington, You're Fired! 4/5 |
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Fire, Walk With Me * * * * * very sad film. |
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Death at a Funeral - 3/5 harmless little country house comedy with gay midgets and psychedelics |
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hidden - 5/5 the girl from paris - 3.5/5 the marquis of O - 4/5 |
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Three Criterion movies I rented... Sansho the Bailiff - 4/5 The Fallen Idol - 5/5 Sweetie - 4/5 |
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Mike Leigh's Bleak Moments 1971 * * * ½ |
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IDIOCRACY - 4.5/5 |
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Quite fortuitous that this thread was bumped, was just about to go looking for it - thanks marlowe just finished watching "sophie scholl: die letzten Tage". bawled my eyes out so i did. really, very enjoyable. |
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Sogo Ishii - Crazy Thunder Road - 7/10 - strangely enjoyable trash film about Japanese bikers. Slavoj Zizek - Pervert's Guide to the Cinema- 8/10 - He has some good points in the second half and the movie is generally quite enjoyable. |
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watched I'm Not There just now. i like the ambition of this film. the bit with ginsberg was marvelous. hated how rimbaud was portrayed. prior to that, 'Freedom' by Sharunas Bartas. it felt like i was watching Koyaqqwatssi once again (or whateverthefuck that movie is called). also Spiderman 2 yesterday. it was a torture. then Emmanuelle. she's pretty. 2010. it was ok i guess. Carpenter's They Live - ok too. I Am Legend - yuck. Warhol's Heat - the weakest from the trilogy. |
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jesus, that must be one of the worst films ever made! |
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Du rififi chez les hommes - 10 |
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Cloverfield * * * * |
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Scarface - 7/10 |
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C'mon now... which version? |
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Platoon - 4/5 |
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The 170 min. one. Is there a longer one I should watch? It was wrong in the first place to watch it so late in my life after seeing every possible homage and playing GTA: Vice City. I cannot blame this movie for the coutless ripoffs. Hell, I don't even know if there were any, I just felt like I had watched Scarface a hundred times without ever seeing it. It was painfully predictable and I don't mean story-wise - the unbelievable behaviour of Montana, that girl of his and Frank... who tha fuck is responsible for unleashing these cliches upon this innocent world?! Stone or De Palma? I guess Coppola in the first place. It must've been supposed to be over the top like that, but I have always been allergic to cult testosterone blockbusters and this one embodies what I hate in them. And the music... hah! The disco vibe wasn't half bad, but what Moroder did is embarassing, sorry for not getting the nostalghia. Nevertheless, I gave it a 7... that's really not bad. The fact you liked Cloverfield made me want to see it. Now, this last sentence bought me immunity from your criticism regarding my stance on Scarface. |
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I meant there are two separate films :p There's one from 1932 remember :D Cloverfield is a little patchy but I thought it was a very interesting idea - not perfect by any means but I gave it four stars because a) the idea was well executed, b) on the whole it avoided being cheesy for most part c) at times it actually reminded me of mike leigh! |
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haha, i don't remember writing that. was either a pissed joke or typo. wasn't that bad, but wasn't that good either. idiocracy = 2.5/5 |
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Unfotulately, I learned about the existence of Hawks' version yesterday after answering to your comment. |
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Best film in the world is, i'm sure you'll ALL agree, Apocalypse Now. No one fool-ass enough to hate this film. btw manhunter or silence of the lambs (we'll forget all about red dragon) |
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i agree. it's the best film i've ever seen. the redux is of course the definitive version. |
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the redux sucked. Absolute pure bollocks. The original will never be matched by any other war film. Should never have been touched. Silence of the Lambs is a thousands times better than any of the other Hannibal movies. That is all. |
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Platoon is better than Apocalypse Now. So if Full Metal Jacket. Hell, I reckon M*A*S*H is better even though it pretends to be about the Korean War. |
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You're wong! All wrong! Aaarrghh |
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Redux is great. Redux is the only version I remember now but the bit with the french lady is great, and i think the end is much longer (best part of the film!!!!!!). Manhunter was before silence of the lambs (i think). Hannibal is actually far too overdramatic played by anthony h. I watched manhunter again and it really is shockingly good. So much more subtlety than silence of the lambs. Red dragon was a really standard remake of manhunter, they gothed everything up and ended up making it very flat. It goes without saying it's not very good but perhaps more accesible for others. The rest..........lets just forget all about them |
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:p |
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PLATOON IS NOT BETTER THAN APOCALYPSE NOW!!! Full metal jacket is really a completely different kind of film(bloody good though innit). No other film captures the essence of human madness, nothing talks the way APOCALYPSE NOW talks. |
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"There are two of you. Don't you see? One that kills and one that loves.." |
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Platoon just feels like a perfectly satisfactory war film. Apocalypse now is about WAR!!! |
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yessss!!! I was going to say that!!! |
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how about thin red line |
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Apocalypse Now is about excess made in the excessive and decadent 70s (one of the reasons the New Hollywood imploded)... it's a great film, but it's certainly not the best film either about a) war b) the human condition c) madness |
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a bit melodramatic. even for a war movie. doesn't hold up on repeated viewings. excellent world war one movie = Kubrick's Paths of Glory |
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Just got that on DVD, looking forward to kicking back and watching it :) Also just got The Red Badge of Courage |
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Noooo!! It's not tru, it's the only film that TRULY about the human condition and war. It's not about vietnam, not about america, not about 'the war'. It's about WAR. Col kurtz and the end of the river is a manifestation of the ultimate in WAR. The whole film is entirely centred on THE HORROR which is not a by product of war but the very heart of WAR. It is a spice, a kind of energy, and for those who were built for war (kurtz), who have no other life but war, they become war. "it hit me like a diamond bullet". Kurtz desribes it as a kind of purity in function combined with committing your soul to the HORROR. Kurtz is the line under the word WAR, the line under the meaning of it, and it's ugly "like slow death and maleria". There is no other film that touches this the way Apocalypse Now does. Full metal jacket is fucking great but it's about something else. Apocalypse now can never be beaten!! so there!!!!! *tired now* |
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well i do like it, it's very poetic and that's what makes it different from other warmovies and gives it its right to exist |
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Well you're very passionate about it, which is great to see. |
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i'm really glad it exists. i used to really love it alot. unfortunately in my case it suffered from overkill. |
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I can't stop loving it. It's got the perfect film formula. Beginning sets tone, river set course, and then the journey. Three hours of progression to the big finnish! |
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I thought Brando was American?! |
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Yup. |
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What is Fullmetal Jacket about. Lets discuss it here marlowe. I've never entirely understood the core of what the film is saying. |
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I'm sorry I was making a joke on "finnish" |
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I read a great analysis of Full Metal Jacket on, of all places, the IMDB.com forums... the user had long detailed posts about most of Kubrick's films. Great stuff. If I can track them down, I'll link them and you can register if you haven't already. |
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found the member, found he has created a Kubrick site: |
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I'm not registered. But tha's OK cos I'm not about to read a whole essay on it. It is a strange film. It's saying more than 'war is....'. It's more about the people ie joker, pile, the drill sergeant i forget his name, ect. That bit with cameramen interviewing soldiers n stuff. It's emphasis is on something other than war somehow. Finnish------i'm a spell tard. I type llike aa spa z |
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