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First time I'm contributing to this thread. This is the first time I've seen a movie and wanted to recommend it this much. But since hundreds of threads were already made..

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Was GAF right? Absolutely.
 
Crank 2 High Voltage

I really loved the first one, but they went a little overboard on this one.
It throws way to much weird stuff at you with annoying camera tricks.
Not fun to watch at all.

4/10

Eden Lake

Blind buy for me cause people recommended it in the 'Just watch it' thread.
They were right, just an awesome thrilling movie.

8/10
 
msdstc said:
Watched The Wrestler last night, and wow Mickey Rourke really lived up to the hype. There were some weird moments with the camera work, but overall very good movie all around. Definitely one of the more depressing movies I've seen in years. It also adds a whole level of respect to the world of wrestling.
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I too watched this last night, really liked it. Especially as it's the reality of a lot of the wrestlers from the WWF I used to love as a kid. Like shit, you watch the doco? King Kong Bundy is on those cheap ass circuits... Also in the crowd for one of the fights in the movie.
 
Rewatched a few films over the weekend:

The Fifth Element - A fun sci-fi films. Sometimes a little too cheasy and the acting can be annoying at times, but overall it is fun and I'm glad I own it on blu.

Watchmen DC - Picked up the br recently and finally put aside the 3+ hours to watch it. I have to say I liked it as much if not more on the second viewing (despite the first being only 6 months ago). It has also a v. nice transfer and a nice visual style.
 
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Finally saw the Director's Cut; yeah, it's as awesome as everyone around here says. I actually enjoyed the original, though obviously found it a bit shallow, but fleshed out this is a pretty incredible film. With the complete picture of the story (which the addition of a few scenes changes pretty drastically, much more than I imagined), it becomes as haunting as a whole as only the cinematography and moments of it were in the theatrical cut.
The Crusades. Man. What a fucked up piece of humanity.
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Watched the DC a month or so ago. Enjoyable but I thought it was really overrated. The main character was boring as hell, badly acted and totally one-dimensional, and it was one of those weird mixes of having a really long runtime mixed with what felt like rushed pacing. The story and the settings never really felt as fleshed out as I'd like. On a scale of 0 to Braveheart, I give it about a 6.
 
POWERSPHERE said:
I too watched this last night, really liked it. Especially as it's the reality of a lot of the wrestlers from the WWF I used to love as a kid. Like shit, you watch the doco? King Kong Bundy is on those cheap ass circuits... Also in the crowd for one of the fights in the movie.
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Yeah it's pretty depressing to see. The movie portrays it really great too. I also love how personal a performance this was for Rourke. The ram's entrance music was Sweet Child O' Mine, similar to Rourke in real life as a boxer.
 
The Castle of Cagliostro - 9.0/10 - The animation was, of course, pretty dated but don't let that deter you from checking this one out. The story was cool and the movie had just the right mix of humour and action, so it never took itself too seriously, but at the same time never got to a point where it was goofy. I'm a big Miyazaki fan and I'm sorry I waited as long as I did to see this one.
 
I watched The Terminal yesterday. Say what you want about the typical Spielberg kitsch you only get from his movies but I loved it! Uplifiting movie with an interesting story, I also had good laughs. :)
 
Saw Jennifer's Body. Commercial was very misleading

It was basically just a coming of age film that happened to have some supernatural elements. They could have replaced Megan Fox with anybody and left out the special effects. Would have resulted in the same :lol
 
500 Days of Summer - great. So far my movie of the year. I am glad it finished the way it did, I would have been way too upset otherwise.

JGL dresses pretty damn well in this too.
 
flsh said:
First time I'm contributing to this thread. This is the first time I've seen a movie and wanted to recommend it this much.
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what a typo :P

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Enjoyed it much more than the first time I saw it.
Some beautiful shots and the dream scenes are awesome.
 
A Fistful of Dollars - Outside of some beautiful cinematography, I was pretty damned bored. I enjoyed Once Upon a Time in the West a thousand times more.

Adaptation - I liked it a lot more than Being John Malkovich, which I thought was fairly pointless, so that's a plus. Cage was great, for once this decade.
 
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

what a gigantic mess of a movie. holy fuck. the writing, the acting, the dialogue, the editing, the cg - everything is just all over the place... and everything is so chaotic and unfocused.

the "plot" unfolds very clumsily, there's little nuance or subtlety in the exposition. it feels like neither gilliam nor mckeown really knew what the hell they wanted when they started on the script. they keep writing themselves into corners and despite the anarchic and brisk pace, every so often scenes will just trickle away or descend into complete goofiness until a new plot device or deus ex machina is introduced that finally moves the story forward. you just get the feeling that they pretty much "made it up as they went along".

goofy also describes most of the acting and dialogue rather well. i don't understand why it was necessary to encourage these actors (ledger, depp, law, farrell especially) to so much cartoony overacting, such silly performances. some of the juvenile exchanges between characters are just stupid and cringeworthy.

the imaginarium itself (aka cg) is definitely colorful and creative, but also excessive, inconsistent, lifeless, kitschy and - yes - often ugly. gilliam was on stage after the credits rolled, talking about the changes they had to make to the production after ledger's death, among them the complete move to cg for the imaginarium (the initial plan had been to stick to models/props for most of the scenes inside the mirror). there are some early scenes with models and, boy, they look so much more interesting, so much better than all of the half-baked digital composites. shame.

another disappointment was the music. the danna brothers (whom i ADORE) have been hit or miss over the past decade. and sadly this one's another miss. it's just as messy and erratic as the rest of the movie.

all in all the highlight of the evening was definitely gilliam's presence and on-stage appearance. he's a very charming and smart guy and had some very interesting things to say. i hope he gets help from someone else than mckeown on his next script, who clearly (and expectedly) was not able to contain gilliam's tendency for excessive and over the top storytelling.
 
Dan said:
A Fistful of Dollars - Outside of some beautiful cinematography, I was pretty damned bored. I enjoyed Once Upon a Time in the West a thousand times more.
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Have you see Yojimbo, by any chance? I really enjoyed comparing the two when I watched A Fistful of Dollars. But I agree on the cinematography for sure. Also, I loved the music. I was whistling the main theme for days.
 
Narnia: Prince Caspian. It was cool, I'll probably forget much of the story after a while but I can't say I wasn't entertained! Some effects were really cool...The riverman looked awesome!
 
harSon said:
You can tell it's written by Alex Garland though, considering the
third arc turns to shit like everything else he has written.
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The book is actually good, unlike the film which leaves out the best character and has a wtf ending.
 
Zozobra said:
Chinatown - 9.5/10 - This was a great movie, very well paced, and an interesting story. And my god, this was beautifully filmed - The lighting and composition of the scenes couldn't have been better in my opinion.

This was my first Polanski film, and I was very impressed. I went out and picked up the Pianist on my way to work this morning. Are there any other must-see movies of his that anyone else recommends?
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Most people will cite Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby to watch next, but if you get the chance, check out the last of his "apartment trilogy": The Tenant. Seldom spoken about, but it is by far my favorite Polanski film. And definitely his creepiest.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Bridge to Terabithia Ok, I love this movie. I only watched it because it got decent reviews and I'm not adverse to the odd kid's film, so long as it's well written, but I didn't really expect to like it that much. Then again, I thought I knew what it was about roughly, I was completely wrong. I think it's great that
they didn't actually find a way to some fantasy land as I thought they would, and it was all just their innocence and their imagination, I think that's a great move when so many movies are just going for actual fantasy elements at the moment. And it broke my heart when that thing happened...man, I'm being careful in a spoiler here, but I really don't want to ruin it for anyone. You know what I'm talking about if you've seen it.
I think every child just before that age where they become arrogant little shits should watch it and hopefully some will keep it with them, as should every adult to remember what it was like being a kid. Occasionally the dialogue was a bit off for some of the characters given the age they were supposed to be, in particular that red headed bully, but he was a minor character so who cares?
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Quoted from page 1 because I watched that as well. I totally agree with everything, I never expected a pretty unknown children's film to be so good. The acting wasn't anything special in most parts and the writing can be a bit strange but this movie spoke straight to me because those kids were actually experiencing things I did in my childhood. That doesn't mean I had
hallucinations
but the pure naive sense of adventure portrayed here is something that many children seem to forget when they get older. This movie really took me back when me and my cousins built little houses in the woods where we used to hide and do all kinds of cool stuff...It's sad to know that many youngsters of the new generations will never experience this, only growing up with videogames and all that stuff. If I had children I would let them watch it for sure. Oh, and that
"thing" that happened..yeah, very sad :(
 
The Brothers Bloom was pretty fucking GREAT - and I hated Rian Johnson's first movie, Brick. This one wasnt built on a gimmick, had a really unique flavour to it, took some refreshing turns, and was just a lot of fun. This is also about the third different movie that I fell in love with Rachel Weisz while watching.
 
Observe and Report, which I wrote about in the official thread. Just ridiculously dark and depressing, had some funny moments. Overall a very strange movie.
 
For some reason I never saw this Park Chan-Wook film, so I checked it out. As expected, it was great.
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Certainly not among my favorite Agento's, but it was decent.
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Country for old Men. ...Maybe I haven't watched followed the story closely enough but the ending was damn unsatisfying. Later today I'll have time to think about it, I must have missed something.
 
Coraline

Holy fucking shit I was not prepared for this.
Incredible animation, characters, voicework, and a level of creepy I rarely see.
Best thing I've seen in a while.
 
DieNgamers said:
Country for old Men. ...Maybe I haven't watched followed the story closely enough but the ending was damn unsatisfying. Later today I'll have time to think about it, I must have missed something.
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I loved the ending. I think it's the first movie I've seen in which
the bad guy lives and the good guy dies
. That was actually pretty original
 
Solo said:
The Brothers Bloom was pretty fucking GREAT - and I hated Rian Johnson's first movie, Brick. This one wasnt built on a gimmick, had a really unique flavour to it, took some refreshing turns, and was just a lot of fun. This is also about the third different movie that I fell in love with Rachel Weisz while watching.
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I saw this recently and didn't really like it at all. Hard to explain why, but the best I can put it is that it felt very hollow to me.

Also saw District 9 recently, which I thought was really fucking good. I can't believe that this is Sharlto Copley's first acting and he improv'd all his lines, that's pretty astounding.
 
Anasui Kishibe said:
I loved the ending. I think it's the first movie I've seen in which
the bad guy lives and the good guy dies
. That was actually pretty original
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Wait, what?
He died?
Man, I was on the toilet just in the wrong moment, I guess. :lol

Edit after skipping through the movie and watching the missed scenes: Man, you were right. I missed more than I thought, even before that. I guess I'll watch the whole thing again in a week. the movie was very well done and a bit uneasy to watch. You really feel with the characters. I don't think there was any weak one.
 
Films I saw at the two film festivals I attended this autumn (in chronological order).

Espoo Ciné International Film Festival:
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Michael Haneke: Das weiße Band - Pretty good but maybe not good enough to win the Palme d'Or (though they say it was a bad year at Cannes). Cache was better. 8/10
Jonathan Auf Der Heide: Van Diemen's Land - An Australian cannibal film. Based on a true story. Not very good. 5/10
Ole Christian Madsen: Flammen & Citronen - A film about a Danish resistance group during the WWII. Great perfomances by both leads (especially Mads Mikkelsen). Overall a pretty good film. 8/10
Duncan Jones: Moon - A good sci-fi film but after comparisons with Solaris and 2001 I expected more. 8/10

Helsinki International Film Festival:

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Ashutosh Gowariker: Jodhaa Akbar - A pretty standard Bollywood epic. Not bad. 7/10
Chan-wook Park: Thirst - A disappointment. Too long and kinda unoriginal. Still an above average vampire film. 6/10
Takashi Miike: Yatterman - A brilliant anime adaptation by Takashi Miike. Everyone who liked Speed Racer should watch this film. Trailer link 8/10
Götz Spielmann: Revanche - A great film about revenge and remorse. It deserved its Oscar nomination. 8/10
Jean-François Richet: Mesrine: Part 1 - Killer Instinct & Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 - A two part crime epic based on the life Jacques Mesrine the one-time public enemy number 1 of France. The first film is basically a string of great action set pieces. The second film is not as action packed but focuses more on the psychological side of Mesrine character. Vincent Cassel gives the best performance of his life as Mesrine. For both of the films: 8/10
Aleksey Balabanov: Morphia - A tale about a doctor who becomes addicted to morpine in post-Bolshevik revolution Russia. A really beautifully shot film that stays with you a long time after you leave the cinema. 8/10
Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker - One of the best films I have seen this year. Jeremy Renner should get an Oscar nomination for this. 9/10
Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York - A big disappointment. The first Kaufman film I didn't like. The film just was too full of random weirdness (the burning house for example) that take away from the main story (or the main weirdness). The film is also about 20 minutes too long. 5/10
Brillante Mendoza: Kinatay - A film about a young police student who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd and witnesses an act of violence. Roger Ebert called this the worst film of the history of Cannes. Still Mendoza walked away with the best director award. A really dark film to the point where you don't actually know what you're looking at (this may be partly because of the copy shown). The film is also way too long. Still there is something really effective and disturbing about the film. 6/10
John Woo: Red Cliff parts I & II - Again a two parter. Roughly, the first part is about what lead to the battle of Red Cliff and the second about the battle itself. The film is a true return to form for John Woo and is absolutely beautiful to look at. As a whole: 8/10
Lone Scherfig: An Education - A great coming-of-age film. The story is not very original but the film is saved by the actors (I predict 3 actor nominations for this at this year's Oscars) and a tight script by Nick Hornby. 8/10
 
DieNgamers said:
Wait, what?
He died?
Man, I was on the toilet just in the wrong moment, I guess. :lol

Edit after skipping through the movie and watching the missed scenes: Man, you were right. I missed more than I thought, even before that. I guess I'll watch the whole thing again in a week. the movie was very well done and a bit uneasy to watch. You really feel with the characters. I don't think there was any weak one.
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hehe yeah, the Coens know how to develop a character. Maybe and just maybe they were hinting at a sequel with that ending
 
Walk Hard - 4/10

It tries to be funny but it just didnt click with me. I kept wanting it to be over. Some funnyish moments... but I just wasnt laughing.

Sunshine Cleaning - 4/10

Just didnt find it interesting... felt like a bad Little Ms Sunshine

State of Play - 7/10

Kept me interested. Nothing mindblowing but I actually enjoyed watching this one.

Blader5489 said:
I just watched it this afternoon and surprisingly didn't like it at all. :lol

It's kind of odd, but Adventureland just felt completely hollow for me. It wasn't all that funny, it wasn't dramatic, it wasn't interesting, it wasn't engaging, and it wasn't meaningful at all. I wouldn't call it terrible, but it didn't really elicit any kind of emotion from me.
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Forgot about this one.

Ad campaign was totally misleading IMO. Movie isn't what you expect to see at all from seeing the previews.
 
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Javier Bardem is freaky in this and that haircut...
I should get around to reading the book someday and The Road too.

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I caught a glimpse of this on TV a year or two ago and thought it was boring but I was able to watch the whole thing last night on TV and it was interesting. I thought Eric Bana was pretty great and it was good enough to make me want to research Munich 1972, Black September, Operation Wrath of God etc more after the end of the film.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
I find this happening to me with surprising frequency as well. If GAF ever needs a RWDF, I will be there.
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I would also enlist in this defense force, even though I can't imagine it ever being needed.
 
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my 4th or 5th viewing. This movie is probably the 4 principals at the best of their game. Very sly, detestable and gripping. The storyline and acting is nuanced enough to make this endlessly appealing and watchable. Roberts is amazing. They're all amazing in this. Clive Owen's delivery of
now fuck off and die you dirty slag
is just spot on.

Natalie Portman might have stolen the shown with her alice and almost every scene with her in it is amazing. That song they chose "can't take my eyes off of you" is so apt. This might have crawled up my favourites list yet. Everything about closer is perfection. Set/Location/Actors/directing. I can watch this again.

10/10
 
bumbillbee said:
Have you see Yojimbo, by any chance? I really enjoyed comparing the two when I watched A Fistful of Dollars. But I agree on the cinematography for sure. Also, I loved the music. I was whistling the main theme for days.
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No, I haven't. That's among the too many Kurosawa films I still need to see.
 
Anasui Kishibe said:
District 9.

Blu-Ray. Now.
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Do you think this movie is blind-buy worthy? I like sci-fi and couldn't see this in theatres. Renting is expensive around here, and since it is coming out during the holiday season, I may be able to get a deal.
 
Decado said:
Do you think this movie is blind-buy worthy? I like sci-fi and couldn't see this in theatres. Renting is expensive around here, and since it is coming out during the holiday season, I may be able to get a deal.
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it's mindblowing, a really fresh and original sci-fi tale. Style, atmosphere, main character, setting, it's all quality.
 
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