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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: lar20] 2
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The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick. He is a genius who makes a movie about once every 20 years. It's about our WWII invasion of Guadalcanal. There were alot of good actors: Jim kalziel, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, John Travolta and John Cuesac among others. Parts of the movie are intense warfare, while other parts are beautiful and incredibly slow moving. Malick's movies have been described as looking at a beautiful painting. I couldn't rate it. It would depend on the person and their mood.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: Psychsense]
#23455112 - 07/19/16 06:19 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Jacket. 8 out of 10. But pretty fucking cool.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: lavod]
#23477660 - 07/26/16 04:44 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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demiu5 said: i was pretty impressed with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's "Being Frank" episode from Season 11.
Me too. That one was hilarious!
Raging Bull(1980)
Are you kidding me? That's supposed to be one ov the greatest movies ov all time? I thought it sucked. Even as far as boxing movies are concerned, the original Rocky was infinitely better. Not to hate on anyone involved, but it just did'nt do it for me. I mean, Scorsese is no Jarman or Kusturica but he's a really good director IMO. Everything else i've seen ov his like the gangster flicks and the wolf of wall street i really enjoyed. But this? Sorry. Respect, but cant get on with it at all. Easy acting, fake choreography, and just plain stupid.
I'm sorry, are you really going to compare Rocky to Raging Bull. I know some of the social parts of Raging Bull are uncomfortable to watch, because I guess Jake LaMotta was kind of a dick. Non fiction movies are different than fiction movies. But Rocky is like a cartoon or comic book turned into a good movie. Raging Bull was the best movie of the decade. Scorcese likes to use Rock and Roll soundtracks but in this movie he used "serious" music, I don't know if it was classical or just orchestral, but the scenes when DeNiro is just dancing around the ring, every time I've seen it, the word that always comes into my mind is "majestic". Also the supporting cast of Raging Bull was far superior, but I will say that the late actor who played Rocky's trainer "mick" was very cool.
Like I said I don't think the movies can be compared, but I will give Stallone credit on creating this and launching his long career with this.
An interesting comparison is that Rocky and Jake LaMotta had the exact same strategy. Let the other guy beat you up until he's fatigued and then make your comeback. But Jake was fighting Floyd Patterson, and Rocky was fighting Apollo Creed, Mr T and that Russian but they were all comic book characters.
I know this is all subjective, but to say that the guy who is at least tied for the greatest director of the generation, doing what was at least tied for his greatest movie, and you are calling it "Easy acting, fake choreography. and just plain stupid", blows my mind when you are comparing him to a 3rd rate actor and director. Did you know that Stallone took almost no money to be in "Copland" so he could finally be in a movie with good actors like DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta, and the chick from Raging Bull. Like I said it's all subjective, no offense.
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Brian Jones said: Like I said it's all subjective
It's really not. Good narrative, Good and realistic characters, lack of cliches and triteness, etc. are all objective qualities that can be done better in one movie than another. It's been a long time since I saw Raging Bull and I haven't seen Rocky, but I'd be willing to bet all those things are done better in Raging Bull.
Yeah I was just trying to be polite. But there is a lot of subjectivity. I almost always hate special effects, because it seems to be an excuse for a lack of acting and writing. IDK, I'm an old guy who's behind the times, but the whole idea of basing movies on comic books, video games or my generation TV shows is idiotic. Creativity is almost gone, and a lot of the best older actors just do shit now, and a lot of the younger ones, I don't think have any idea of how to do anything but shit. There are exceptions, but they're rare.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: lavod]
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lavod said: I appreciate your response, Brian Jones. That was well structured and respectful. I have to stick with my opinion that Raging Bull is a piece ov shit though. A co-worker agreed so i'm not alone. I was'nt impressed by any element ov it at all. Sorry.
The last movie i saw was Promise Me This(Zavet). The subtitling was terrible but it's no matter. Emir Kusturica's work is all fantastic. I'm in love with his style.
OK cool. I like debating with a good member. I know I have thought other movies that others thought good, they thought were a piece of shit too. Have a good day dude.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: Jufin]
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I think there were 2 on your list that I didn't know, but you mentioned great movies.
"Let me in", was that the Swedish original or the American? I can't remember, there was Let me in, and Let the right one in. Kind of like Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
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I love Sully, and it's mainly a true story. I guess Clint (and the writer) overplayed the extent that the NTSB was going after the pilots.
The image of everyone standing on the wings of the jet was impressive.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
#24951455 - 01/29/18 02:16 AM (6 years, 9 hours ago) |
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Get Out 9/10
It starts out as a film about race, reminiscent of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), then it gets weird. It is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele who got very good critical reviews while grossing a quarter billion dollars from a $4.5 million budget.
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Brian Jones said: Get Out 9/10
It starts out as a film about race, reminiscent of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), then it gets weird. It is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele who got very good critical reviews while grossing a quarter billion dollars from a $4.5 million budget.
I haven't seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner but will add it to the list now. While watching Get Out I was getting a big The Stepford Wives (1975) vibe.
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It starts out as a film about race, reminiscent of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), then it gets weird. It is the directorial debut of Jordan Peele who got very good critical reviews while grossing a quarter billion dollars from a $4.5 million budget.
I haven't seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner but will add it to the list now. While watching Get Out I was getting a big The Stepford Wives (1975) vibe.
Was it the blacks who came to dinner? I think get out was horrible for race relations in America, especially due to the timing of its release
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was about a woman bringing her fiance (Sidney Poitier) to meet her parents (Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn). It was a controversial movie at the time, because of the rarity of interracial relationships, and many states still outlawed interracial marriage.
I saw the Stepford Wives and can see the connection with the characters who seem zoned out or robotic.
The director of Get Out changed the ending because he thought it might not be the best idea in the current political climate. The original ending was supposed to be what most viewers expected to happen. I thought the ending he used was clever.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: ChRnZN]
#24958559 - 01/31/18 11:13 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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ChRnZN said: Léon: the Professional 8/10
What a film. It tackled so many controversies I doubt I could name them all, but I will try... Sex with minors (in NYC), love and minors, excessive gore in film, the dangers of women / girls in the life of men (maybe this is just me being a misogynist, but I feel like without Matilda's presence, Léon wouldn't have ended up where he ended up), how adults should deal with the rebellious nature of children, the morality (or rather the lack thereof) of revengeful acts, the effects of immigration (you get people like Léon), murdering children below the age of 5, criminal codes of behavior, legitimizing the humanity of hardened killers... i could go on.
At no point in this film was I bored. There was always something going on - something to make me paranoid about what would happen next. It was definitely a very sad movie, but there was a single strand of hope left in the final scene, although I am not very confident about what would happen next. In fact, the ending might be my least favorite part of the movie, but it's a tragedy so who could blame me? And that plastic plant. I feel like I am missing some symbolism here... As if it represented the plastic nature of life, if you will forgive the apparent oxymoron, the inability of people to be swayed out of thinking one way or grouping themselves with certain individuals that implies upholding a moral code. I have no idea. That came straight out of my ass. But it is how I perceived the movie. Most of the action took place because of the predetermined code of conduct decided upon by criminal organizations and legal organizations (police, for example) that invariably wind up in each others business. That's not to say each character did not have his or her own thoughts and desires, but I do think that each of them acted in such a way that it was apparent that they held themselves responsible to a higher power - that power being the organization or boss they worked for. That's also not to say that each character is not flawed, because they are. That's what makes the movie so relatable even though I may never hold a gun in my life. I feel like entire volumes could be written on each character because their personalities are that palpable in this film. Maybe it's just me. This might seem overly unintuitive because I've been reading a lot of Jung and Bible commentaries lately.
Also Natalie Portman at 12 years old and the meaning of the end/turn of the century in 1994.
The plant was not plastic. It was real. I thought the symbolism of Matilda replanting it was to establish some roots in the life of a girl who was now an orphan (although she couldn't stand anyone in her family except her little brother), by establishing a living bond with Leon, who was now dead.
I don't remember anything about sex with minors. Matilda had a girlish crush on Leon, but he wouldn't act on it because, while he killed people for money, he was in other ways a moral person.
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#24965956 - 02/04/18 01:27 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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A lot of movies and TV shows are "referencing" Altered States lately, most recently Stranger Things.
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Interesting. There is a cool part in True Detective where Cohle says something like "Certain cultural anthropologists think religion is a language virus, rewiring pathways in the brain, dulling critical thinking". I think there is definitely a lot of this going on with those who have drank the Trump kool aid.
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8/10
Delightful movie; I like Barry Sonnenfeld's directing a lot. Raul Julia is absolutely amazing as Gomez, he was a special actor. Anjelica Huston is also quite good as Morticia. Well done and a lot of fun.
I wish Raul Julia had lived longer.
My favorite line in this movie is when Christina Ricci asks whether the cookies are made out of real girl scouts.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: cez]
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Three Billbords has some of my favorite actors. It was nice to see Sam Rockwell get some recognition.
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Barbara Hershey lobbied hard with Scorsese for years to get this movie made. She was afraid that by time the funding finally came through she would be too old to play Mary Magdalene.
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Split
8/10
This a psychological drama written and directed by M Night Shyamalan starring James McAvoy, about three teenage girls who are kidnapped by one or more strange dudes.
This is a spoiler alert.
Like Tom Hardy in Legend, Split is a pretty good film which is carried by it's star playing multiple roles in a tour de force performance.
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I'm not a fan of Tom Clancy, but the movies made from his books are OK. I recently saw The Sum of all Fears and it was very watchable.
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But it beat Goodfellas for the Oscar, so I always (irrationally) hold that against Dances With Squirrels.
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1: 7.5/10
2: 6.5/10
3: 7.5/10
I've been in a silly mood lately.
You gotta like Heather Graham.
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10/10
Since we are including television...I am watching The Peaky Blinders and it as good a crime drama as any I've seen including True Detective Season 1, The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad. It is deliciously stylistic and the soundtrack is killer.
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