Mazaev said: Rambo 2 Testosterone dose. :P haha As for me, I just re-watched Carandiru. |
| Goosebumps. Well, definitely not Jack Black's best performance, neither the movie was definitely the best, but I liked it. Those tiny nuances, references from every book of the series, and a comparison with King... Then the multi-layered visual gag, when Stine goes to the screenplay of "The Shining" to write the story. Otherwise, it was a bit too rushed for 90 minutes. |
| Blazing Saddles (1974) A good meta comedy. Although it wasn't nearly as funny as I though it would be. Still an enjoyable one though. The ABCs of Death (2012) Some of the stories seemed better than the sequel, but most of them were not in english, and without subs it was hard to understand the stories. It was fine I guess. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) Not funny, but I guess it was an ok ending for the series. Great cameo though. Not gonna spoil it. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015) I found the first Human Centipede fine and the second one good. This was just a joke. Annoying perfomances from anyone exept Eric Roberts. That guy acts in shitty movies and can still put some class into them. Also not grosser than the second one, as the director claims. The Green Inferno (2013) After the dissapinted gore in Human Centipede III, I wanted to see another gorefest. Also my friend told me to see this. It was fine I guess. Typical Eli Roth stuff I guess. Way better than H.C. III. Aftershock (2012) Once you see one gore movie, you got to see another. And Eli Roth of course. It was fine. Better than Green Inferno in my opinion. It was a good premise. Skyfall (2012) Good movie, but still I find Casino Royale the better movie. It was enjoyable. Back to the Future (1985) I have never seen this trilogy, but I got to say. It was soooo much fun. I had a great time watching this. Very entertaining. Back to the Future Part II (1989) Again great movie, very enjoyable, but I am a bigger fan of the first one. The first one was simpler, but this did things bigger. Which some of you might like, but I can't forget the chill feel the first one gave me. Back to the Future Part III (1990) Before I watched this I already knew that it would take place in the West, which I found odd. But when I started watching the movies I saw how they were building it up. It was entertaining but still my least favourite. Although a very fine movie. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) God this was funny. Am I pretentious to say that? I don't care. Some of the jokes weren't that funny, but some of them were amazing. The whole sketch with the coconuts, can't forget it. The General (1926) It was a very good movie with a good plot. It really amazes me that I found entertainment in such old movies. |
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| The General is mint. You can find the whole thing on YouTube. :p |
| A Clockwork Orange. I can see the filmmaking techniques that Kubrick was developing at the time, very progressive compared to contemporaries in 1971 (also quality of the film itself) but given how commonly used these are today, I really didn't see anything special about them (other than it was probably the first instance of several of those camera/framing/compositions). Interesting how the master gets overlooked for his students sometimes. |
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| I watched Where the Sidewalk Ends recently, which is directed by Otto Preminger, the director of one of my favorite movies, Anatomy of a Murder. Unfortunately this one stars Dana Andrews, who I think might be the most boring actor of 1950s Hollywood. Preminger has a really good sense of when to move the camera and where to put his actors, but Andrews makes it really hard to get into it. |
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| Utamaro and his five women. Somehow I was enchanted by that film and ended up giving it a 9. I think it's the first fine feature from Mizoguchi, because I have seen some of the early works dated pre WWII and was not impressed. I did not enjoy this film for like an hour into it, but then I stopped trying to dislike the other guy (he is really an ass) and then it dawned on me that this film is a reflection of a mini society, it's one of the realistic ones, but not that sad like Ozu's melodramas, or so I think, although it's understandable that some will disagree and claim this is the saddest film ever. On a sidenote, no one makes finer films about geisha than him. I saw The Killing Field the night earlier. I remember my law professor telling me that it was the saddest film ever. Perhaps he'd change his mind after seeing The Act of Killing. Personally I think Indochine is the saddest film ever, but it properly has more to do with my sense of nationalism. |
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CandleJakk007 said: Law abiding citizen That was an awesome movie, mate. :D I didn't expect Gerard Butler to be so good at playing the bad guy. |
| @Keyburd- You could skip Mad Max 1... it's not really post apocalyptic- it's just kind of a low budget revenge movie. Mad Max 2 is great though. I finished Kingpin this morning. I give it a 6/10. Woody Harrelson was good in it (he's not really too bad in anything I've seen- liked him best in NBK though), but Randy Quaid gets annoying pretty quick. Maybe he should have stuck to SNL... just too goofy for me. Also, I think Bill Murray has managed to make a career of being a bad bad actor... I've heard his style described as campy, but I just cannot find him funny in anything I've ever seen. Seems liked Kingpin kind of popularized, or at least got the more recent trend of adult/stoner comedy sports movies like Dodgeball/Blades of Glory started. |
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| The gift. |
| The Good Dinosaur was the last I saw in theaters, and The Princess Bride just now at home. I liked the former, but it's not one of Pixar's best, that's for sure. I think the best it's got going for it, honestly, are the beautiful visuals. (Enjoyed the movie better than Brave, however.) The latter's one of my favorite non-animated movies, right there with It Happened One Night and Dragonheart (hey, they share the same love of witty dialogue, and it's just not because Sean Connery as a dragon's great). |
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| The last movie I watched was Perfect Blue, which I still consider to be Satoshi Kon's greatest work. It was only my second time seeing it, after having seen it many years ago, but it's still just as incredible now as it was back then. The last movie I saw in theaters was... Aloha, which wasn't very good... but I was on a date and the only other thing the theater was playing at the time that looked decent was Jurassic World... but I was saving that for me & my best friend to go see. Next movie I'm planning on seeing in the theater: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, naturally. |
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vigorousjammer said: The last movie I saw in theaters was... Aloha, which wasn't very good... but I was on a date and the only other thing the theater was playing at the time that looked decent was Jurassic World... but I was saving that for me & my best friend to go see. Next movie I'm planning on seeing in the theater: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, naturally. I have some serious doubts about Aloha. Even IMDB gave it an average rating. Not to mention I literally hate Bradley Cooper (more specifically his acting abilities) and even my "love" for Emma Stone can't erase that. :-( As for the Star Wars... I think that nearly everyone is eager to watch that movie. ;-) |
AADMC said: vigorousjammer said: The last movie I saw in theaters was... Aloha, which wasn't very good... but I was on a date and the only other thing the theater was playing at the time that looked decent was Jurassic World... but I was saving that for me & my best friend to go see. Next movie I'm planning on seeing in the theater: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, naturally. I have some serious doubts about Aloha. Even IMDB gave it an average rating. Not to mention I literally hate Bradley Cooper (more specifically his acting abilities) and even my "love" for Emma Stone can't erase that. :-( Yeah, I really just saw Aloha on a whim, the only thing I knew about it before going in was just the title. I'm also not really a Bradley Cooper fan... he just seems so bored in every role that I've seen him in. |
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| Ant Man. Not bad, exceeded my expectations to be honest. Found myself laughing for real, several times while watching it. One of the things that I think made this movie good, was unlike other marvel movies, it knows how to juggle comedy and serious moments so well. It also due to the style of story and the nature of the hero. Only marvel movie imo where it doesn't fail in that aspect. Only other marvel that I liked was Avengers age of ultron. |
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tsudecimo said: Ant Man. Not bad, exceeded my expectations to be honest. Found myself laughing for real, several times while watching it. One of the things that I think made this movie good, was unlike other marvel movies, it knows how to juggle comedy and serious moments so well. It also due to the style of story and the nature of the hero. Only marvel movie imo where it doesn't fail in that aspect. Only other marvel that I liked was Avengers age of ultron. My thoughts exactly!!! Didn't expect it to be so good. Though after watching HiSHE's video, I was laughing even harder with how they portrayed the movie's flaws. :P |
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| In the last 3 days I've watched: "Avengers: Age of Ultron"; "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."; "Jack Reacher"; "Snow White and the Huntsman"; "The Rainmaker"; "The Pelican Brief". And re-watched: "The Bourne Identity"; "The Bourne Supremacy"; "The Bourne Ultimatum". Yeah... I had a busy weekend. |
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| I thought Ant Man was OK, but I thoroughly hated Age of Ultron. The conflict was completely pulled out of nothing, as was the resolution. They shafted the only characters that could have potentially been interesting in favor of trying to make Hawkeye interesting in the cheapest and most ineffective way possible. Then they have the gall to set the end credits to slow pans over marble statues of the Avengers. They're just capitalizing on Roger Ebert's claim that superheroes are modern Olympian gods in the most cynical, laziest way possible. The last movie I watched was Early Summer. Excellent use of foreground and composition to demonstrate concepts of memory, power between and within generations, and the inevitable progression of time. It tries to reach an understanding of all these things within the context of family, and like Ozu's other post-war films the impact of the war is present but not heavily focused on. I might say it's my favorite Ozu so far, and I can see how he was an influence on Claire Denis in this film's obsession with the relationship between memory and objects. |
PopkaNov 29, 2015 10:05 PM
| I've watched a few movies over the past week that I've been meaning to watch, and I finally got a bit of time off. Two of the standouts were: "The Battle of Algiers" and "Mother Kusters goes to Heaven" The Battle of Algiers is dare I say the best movie about terrorism and the politics behind terrorism that I have ever had the pleasure to witness. It's incredibly realistic, objective and empathetic on its subject matter. Detailing the reasons why terrorist activity is carried out in the first place and how terrorism is ineffective as a liberating form of political force, as it plays into the hands of the state or rulers of a colonial state (France in this particular case) to justify the implementation of an agenda prepared long in advance, to justify pursuing interests in the reason on the basis of protecting people from terrorism - therefore impinging on people's democratic rights in the process. I'd highly recommend it to all that haven't seen it. "Mother Kusters goes to Heaven" is a tricky one, nevertheless has very important subject matter, it is a scathing criticism of the German "stalinist" communist party and the capitalist state's exploitation of a situation where a man who murdered his boss and committed suicide after being notified that him and his colleagues will be retrenched - and these political groups attitude towards it. It is a bit cynical but raises very turbulent questions. |
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Popka said: I thought Ant Man was OK, but I thoroughly hated Age of Ultron. The conflict was completely pulled out of nothing, as was the resolution. They shafted the only characters that could have potentially been interesting in favor of trying to make Hawkeye interesting in the cheapest and most ineffective way possible. Then they have the gall to set the end credits to slow pans over marble statues of the Avengers. They're just capitalizing on Roger Ebert's claim that superheroes are modern Olympian gods in the most cynical, laziest way possible. and What did you think of the marvel movies prior to it? I don't think Age of Ultron is great on it's own, but compared the previous Avenger movie and the other marvel movies I thought it was pretty good in comparison. My biggest gripe with the marvel movies before Ultron, was that they are never really serious. They never had a real conflict or a good sense of danger or despair. They half ass the serious moments with the fun moments (Guardians of the Galaxy being the worst offender here). They were some quips and humor in Ultron as well but for the most part it had a different tone than the previous movie. I liked seeing inner struggle between the avenger (I really liked Thor chocking Stark for example, and seeing the avengers scattered, alienated and weak). Sure they Hawkeye family out of nowhere was cliche but the good thing about Hawkeye in this movie is that he was able to hold the avengers back together, sorta reminding them what's on stake and what they fight for. In terms of action, I thought the first avenger was a snooze fest. But I like most of the action here, particular Iron man vs Hulk, and the inclusion of Quick Silver. Ultron might not that solid of a villain but I thought he was more menacing than Loki, who just seems like he is not really into whatever his convoluted plan was and his inferiority to Thor. Ultron was an evil version of Stark, but what I liked about his personality was the misanthropy theme (always liked them). And he had a great voice. I'm actually surprised that Age of Ultron (Ant man too) seem to be receiving more flack than the previous marvel movies, when the first avenger had nothing but the hype of the actual avengers being in it (one of the most boring movies I've ever watched tbh). It seems like the novelty of superhero movies are starting to wear off (not referring to you specifically, mind you, since you seem to have your own reasons to dislike Ultron) |
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| Out of the other marvel movies I only liked Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. With Guardians I didn't care if it was serious because that was the only Marvel movie I'd say was primarily a comedy (though it's true that it doesn't help it to be linked to all these other movies which are not comedies). You have a good point about Hawkeye reminding the Avengers what they fight for, but I thought it was a horrible way to do it because Hawkeye's family never said or actively did anything and it didn't change Hawkeye's character at all. They could have given that time to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to the same effect. I liked Loki better than Ultron because he dealt with all the Avengers individually, and he knew exactly what to say to each one to mess with them. He characterized the Avengers. I don't like plain misanthropy in villains because it means nothing to me, and he didn't strike me as an evil version of Stark because I felt like they totally made up that part of Stark's character without establishing it in previous movies. I didn't like seeing the Avengers scattered and weak either because approximately the same thing happened in the first one after the death of Coulson (same with the Hulk's rampage). I do agree that some of these movies could stand to be more serious, though I would say Winter Soldier was much better at that than Age of Ultron. Based on what I've read from other people about it, part of the flak it gets from some probably is happening because people are getting tired of superhero movies. I'm not sure what the next trend will be, but it looks like it might be pointless sequels/remakes of old movies. |
| I just followed someone on LB who has Early Summer as one of his favourite films, and I see another person I followed and now you all gave it perfect scores, so now I'm really itching to see it. |
| If you liked Late Spring (and if I remember correctly, you did), you'll probably like Early Summer. I've also seen people who weren't very into Ozu who really loved Early Summer. |
| "Good Night, and Good Luck." It reminded me how much I love black and white movies. |
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| Mongol - I was expecting a lot from this film cause of it's 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I ended up being disappointed. This film seems like a b-movie to me. Lots of flaws execution wise, some of the scenes seems silly and lots of loose ends. It just felt rushed and unpolished, it's visually stunning though. I mean to put it simply, It's like eating a salad without a dressing. |
| The last film I watched was Creed. It was amazing, both as a standalone and as a Rocky continuation (I'm a longtime Rocky fan). Michael B. Jordan needed this comeback after the awful Fantastic Four, and Stallone gives a darn good performance himself. It also manages to contain similar themes from the original, while adding its own style to it, making it feel like a homage without being a lazy rip-off. |
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malvarez1 said: The last film I watched was Creed. It was amazing, both as a standalone and as a Rocky continuation (I'm a longtime Rocky fan). Michael B. Jordan needed this comeback after the awful Fantastic Four, and Stallone gives a darn good performance himself. It also manages to contain similar themes from the original, while adding its own style to it, making it feel like a homage without being a lazy rip-off. The way you put it I think I'll give it a shot after all. ;-) I did enjoy the first two movies of Rocky but the others not to much. Thus I had some doubts for this one. :S |
| Dogville, it's long but god its good. Von Trier's best work in my eyes. Nicole Kidman's dedication to her role was amazing. |
| Straight Outta Compton - One of the best movies of 2015 imo. It's a bit long but it has enough going on to keep me glued on my seat. Pretty entertaining biopic, I enjoyed it as much as films like Mad Max: Fury Road etc. |
Terminalposture said: Dogville, it's long but god its good. Von Trier's best work in my eyes. Nicole Kidman's dedication to her role was amazing. Squirtroll said: Straight Outta Compton - One of the best movies of 2015 imo. It's a bit long but it has enough going on to keep me glued on my seat. Pretty entertaining biopic, I enjoyed it as much as films like Mad Max: Fury Road etc. truisms said: red desert by antonioni All great choices. I've seen Breaking the Waves, Dogville and parts of Dancers in the Dark, and man, the first two were some audacious and staggering pieces of cinema, awesome. Straight Outta Compton was a really good biopic on the other hand, one of my faves so far from this year. Lastly, Red Desert is my 2nd fave Antonioni film from the 4 I've seen (the main Monica Vitti quadrilogy), while it doesn't possess the warmth of L'avventura (my #1 from Antonioni) and is still a bit defeatist in its ending like La Notte and L'eclisse, I like how Antonioni says there's still some solace and beauty to be found in the industrial world, it's just a tough world to deal with. |
| "Run All Night" and "Syriana". |
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| Tokyo Drifter: Second Seijun Suzuki movie. He's really good, like Nicholas Winding Refn but with a better handle on how images work in contrast with each other rather than just the composition of individual images. His style is the point of the movie; the narrative provides context so that he can coherently put his films together in a way that's striking, but shouldn't actually make visual sense. |
AngelsArcanum said: Lastly, Red Desert is my 2nd fave Antonioni film from the 4 I've seen (the main Monica Vitti quadrilogy), while it doesn't possess the warmth of L'avventura (my #1 from Antonioni) and is still a bit defeatist in its ending like La Notte and L'eclisse, I like how Antonioni says there's still some solace and beauty to be found in the industrial world, it's just a tough world to deal with. I liked red desert a lot and probably give it an 8/10. the coloring and scene composition is soooooo beautiful on a level beyond anything i'd seen. you can tell dude was filming in black and white just recently prior from how heavily he uses grey and because he treats color like a luxury with huge blatant thematic resonance. it's almost cheesy but it works because his shot composition is so perfect. that being said the dialogue sucks (in the subsets i've used), some of the scenes are weak, and vitti overacts the illness imo. she's a beautiful presence and a great actor but there are some moments there that do not work |
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| American History X. Was undeniably moving. I loved the fact that they use B&W effect to separate the flashbacks and the current ones. I'm not american but then again, the film was incredible and most definitely not boring t watch. It was intense. There are scenes in which I can't help but debate with the characters (lol). I still don't kinda get the part why the black kid shoot Danny :/ Like, what exactly was his reason? I might have just missed it so is there anyone who would explain? Thanks :D |
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| "Charlie Wilson's War" The character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman was cool. I mean... If I had met this guy in real life I would probably hate him but in the movie he was really fun to watch. |
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| Watched City of God last night.... 5/10. For a movie ranked #21 on IMDb... I guess my expectations were too high. Predictable story, uninteresting characters, and just generally hoodasses being hoodasses. The way it was shot was sucky too, in that it flip flopped from trying to be this sort of "spying on these characters" and tons of shaky cam (real lyfe footage, yo!), to having very composed and obviously set up shots. There were a lot of errors too. One thing I always catch in movies is when revolvers are used: I always count how many shots they take, and at least 5 or 6 times that I saw (quit counting because they obviously didn't care) they fired more than 6 times. Tacking on some ridiculous plot conveniences also did nothing to help my opinion of it. They obviously edited some scenes from earlier in the movie to make work in these convenient ways (the little kid in the bank). It was like some youtube kids trying to make a Tarantino movie, except in a Tarantino, all the little pieces would have been in the scene already, and you just didn't notice them at the time until the film draws attention to them. It did for me, in making me care even less about going to Rio, what Black Hawk Down did for me with Mogadishu/Bakaara. |
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| Kiarostami's close-up, nice colour palette and good directing |
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| This is a copy n paste from the other thread, but whatevs. Drive(2011) 2011 is the weakest year of the decade so far when it comes to movies, but holy shit did it have some good ones. The character study, the action, the atmosphere, the style.. not to mention, damn does LA look beautiful. I'm trying to think of some flaws for this movie.. Fuck it, 10/10. Plus, the soundtrack is amazing. |
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LeviAck said: This is a copy n paste from the other thread, but whatevs. Drive(2011) 2011 is the weakest year of the decade so far when it comes to movies, but holy shit did it have some good ones. The character study, the action, the atmosphere, the style.. not to mention, damn does LA look beautiful. I'm trying to think of some flaws for this movie.. Fuck it, 10/10. Plus, the soundtrack is amazing. Yeeeah now we're talking |
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