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Rififi (1955)
i've already seen Asphalt Jungle and Bob le Flambeur and Cercle Rouge so i mostly knew what to expect. this was solid throughout and the heist scene is probably the best of the bunch. and now i know where Ocean's Eleven got its Clooney/Roberts/Garcia romantic subplot from.
Man, you just mentioned three perfect movies in relation to another perfect movie. How did you learn yo craft?
 
afternoon delight said:
Man, you just mentioned three perfect movies in relation to another perfect movie. How did you learn yo craft?
well i suppose i did it by watching a lot of perfect movies. it wasnt easy to slog through some of em but i prevailed in the end. still waiting for a paycheck tho...
 
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3/5

Pretty forgettable, but it was "too well made" given the type of film that it is for me to give it a lower score. So many times I thought the actors/actresses were going to break and delve directly into 'student film zone' but they didn't, I'll give em that. Not that they were good, just a lot better than I thought they would be.

With that said, I still sorta felt it was pointless. I can't get over the "I will factor in deducible permutations to calculate the factorable numerical blah blah blah" crap, never been able to overlook it in movies and probably never will. Such a cop out, I like riddles in films that the audience can actually understand.

Will watch Pi soon, will see how that goes. I tend to see them mentioned together quite a bit, same with Primer which I did enjoy a lot.
 
Liara T'Soni said:
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Will watch Pi soon, will see how that goes. I tend to see them mentioned together quite a bit, same with Primer which I did enjoy a lot.

Pi doesn't really have all that much in common with Cube. Its much more a character piece than it is... well, whatever Cube is.
 
Nappuccino said:
Pi doesn't really have all that much in common with Cube. Its much more a character piece than it is... well, whatever Cube is.

Yeah I don't really expect them to be all that similar (No more than Primer is to Cube) outside of "low budget b-movie" vibes.

I just hear these types of movies mentioned in the same circles/in reference to one another a lot, and when that happens, I tend to group them together on my netflix.
 
I had the good fortune of seeing a few movies that have attained perfection. After a number of viewings I have come to realize they are without serious flaw.

Fiddle On The Roof - I love this movie. It's my favorite musical and the songs tie together seemlessly. EDIT: Forgot the snippets of Tradition running through the film appreciation.
The wedding scene is the best I've ever seen and covers the whole sprectrum of emotion from happiness to tragedy- just perfect.
John Williams scores is one of his best if not his most iconic
Topol is phenomenal. Amazing that this was the peak of his career and he winds up in Flash Gordon where I barely realized it was him (Liked that movie too for entirely different reasons)

Iron Giant - Brad Bird is a genius and if he had done more stuff he would be in the top as one of my favorite directors. The guy knows how to pace a story to get us to care about the charcters, then also delivers on the action and humor too. In a few short seconds, he can explain the tone of a scene and prepare us for future significance, such as Giant seeing the hunter's gun and nearly going balllistic.

Please don't suck MI4!

Now one that is far from perfect but more enjoyable than I thought was The Taking of Pelham 123. Travolta is zany great and Washington is subdued great and they both make a movie that is largely implausible and predictable. My love/hate relationship with Tony Scott continues.
 
Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans
WTF...that was awesome and equally fucked up...if bugs bunny was a cocaine hittin dirty cop slowly losing his mind
 
nyprimus2 said:

I really liked it. It kept me thinking about my own life as a college student and the types of big life decisions I will start having to make soon throughout the entire film. Now I've seen this and I've seen Juno a few times, so I think I'm going to watch [B]Thank You for Smoking[/B] tomorrow night.[/QUOTE]
Easily the best of the three!
 
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What the fuck did I just watch? The description made it sound like it was a revenge flick... no, it's not. It was really well made with great special effects, and you feel for the main character (who isn't the main character you actually think it is at the start) so i'd still recommend it, but the plot takes an interesting turn that isn't expected. Might be one of those love it or hate it things.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
But thats kind of the point.
The women is crazy so logic really doesn't fit. She imagines shit left and right.

Given the events that actually happen in the movie, it still doesn't make sense, though. For example...

  • That scene in the beginning with the serial killer guy giving himself a blowjob with a severed head... I guess that was all in her imagination?
  • Her friend drove them to her family's place... where did the rusty old truck come from?
  • While she was in the back seat with her tied-up friend, who drove the truck?
  • At the gas station she tells the clerk to call the cops and then hides... the clerk then has a conversation with who? I doubt she told the guy to call the cops, ducked behind some chips, then came back out and asked for booze and sunglasses.
  • While she was chasing the truck in another car after the gas station shenanigans, who was driving the truck?
It boggles my mind how illogical it all is.
 
Rei_Toei said:
Haute Tension is only worth your while if you haven't seen the other excellent French horror movies of late, such as Martyrs, Inside, and, to a lesser extent, Ils, Frontiers and La Horde.
Inside is so-so. Has a great ending scene, but lacks horror (or tension)...
Frontieres is the only one i enjoyed. Ils should be avoided because imo it's a stupid movie, with a stupid script and no scare factor.
I have yet to see Martyrs (torture porn right? in that case, not my style) and La Horde
 
shuyin_ said:
Inside is so-so. Has a great ending scene, but lacks horror (or tension)...
Frontieres is the only one i enjoyed. Ils should be avoided because imo it's a stupid movie, with a stupid script and no scare factor.
I have yet to see Martyrs (torture porn right? in that case, not my style) and La Horde

Inside lacks horror? Dude, did we watch the same movie or have a very different definition of horror. I guess the latter :). I thought it was pretty brutal. At the time I was wachting Ils I was told it was based on a true story but that turned out to be a kinda dubious claim.

Martyrs is more then torture porn but it has it's fair share of violence geared towards that genre, yes. La Horde is pretty low-budget and the CG is spotty and definitely not a decent replacement for the real stuff, but I like how it starts out all serious and kinda turns into a ridiculous mess in the end.
 
Cage double biller;

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I have never seen a Wonderful life but I thought there was some parallels with another Cage film; the Weatherman. Certainly a little fluffy at times but sort of expected with the genre. Somewhat surprised Ratner helmed this also.

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After hearing good things about this and being a Cage and Herzog fan, I finally tracked this down. I actually thought from what I read Cage would be chewing more of the scenery but it's a odd yet often funny portrayl of a man dealing with his addictions and demons.
 
well i suppose i did it by watching a lot of perfect movies. it wasnt easy to slog through some of em but i prevailed in the end. still waiting for a paycheck tho...
Have a question for you. How do Le Doulos and Le Deuxième Souffle stand in comparison to Melville's other work and the genre in particular? I love noir and haven't had the time to watch these. It's Melville so I assume it's good, but I want to know if it's Le Samourai/Army of Shadows good.

Inside is so-so. Has a great ending scene, but lacks horror (or tension)...
Someone else thinks so! Every single person I hear mention this thinks it's terrifying and tense, when I just could not stop wishing for a scene that didn't involve a dark cream-colored room where people make stupid decisions and nothing happens. The last twenty minutes might make up for it.... Until the
past connection
reveal. At which point I tried to forget how many minutes I had wasted.

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I found a copy of The Savages for two dollars and decided to blind-buy it based on the cast, and I wasn't even close to disappointed. In fact, I was surprised about how extremely well done it was. Be warned though, it's not the comedy they advertise whatsoever. It's definitely written by hyper-literate white people and I had no reference at all for the many authors and terms they bring up. BUT. It's inevitably realistic and depressing with glimmers of humanity and warmth. Focuses much more on siblings in crisis and life's disappointments in general, combined with the weird shit that makes family family.

Edit: And the Five Deadly Venoms. Which turned out to be one of the BEST fucking Shaw Brothers flicks I've ever seen. I should have known since it was directed by the same man who did One Armed Swordsman, but either way: my mind was blown.

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Zombie James said:
martyrs

What the fuck did I just watch? The description made it sound like it was a revenge flick... no, it's not. It was really well made with great special effects, and you feel for the main character (who isn't the main character you actually think it is at the start) so i'd still recommend it, but the plot takes an interesting turn that isn't expected. Might be one of those love it or hate it things.

Count me in the hate camp. I didn't like the direction the movie took about 45 minutes in.

I definitely preferred Inside to Martyrs as far as the French horror stuff goes.

I'm trying to watch at least 1 "horror" movie a day for the month and here is my list so far:

10/1 A Tale of Two Sisters
10/2 A Nightmare on Elm Street
10/4 Suspiria
10/4 Taxidermia
10/5 Last House on the Left (1972)
10/6 An American Werewolf in London
10/7 The Devil's Backbone
10/8 Eyes Without a Face
10/9 Begotten
10/10 Martyrs
10/12 Lake Mungo


Lake Mungo was the most recently watched for me and I definitely enjoyed it a lot. I think it's one of the After Dark Horrorfest movies that got released with the latest batch of movies, so I was hesitant to see it. Something about a bunch of movies being thrown out together under one label turns me off, but I went ahead and checked it out due to good word of mouth. It was good stuff.
 
Zombie James said:
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What the fuck did I just watch? The description made it sound like it was a revenge flick... no, it's not. It was really well made with great special effects, and you feel for the main character (who isn't the main character you actually think it is at the start) so i'd still recommend it, but the plot takes an interesting turn that isn't expected. Might be one of those love it or hate it things.
I thought that Martyrs was brilliant.

I liked Inside a lot, as I did High Tension, but Martyrs was on another level to me.

Haven't seen Frontiers yet, maybe I'll watch it tonight. Pretty sure it's on netflix stream and may be in my que.

Meliorism said:
I'm trying to watch at least 1 "horror" movie a day for the month and here is my list so far:

10/1 A Tale of Two Sisters
10/2 A Nightmare on Elm Street
10/4 Suspiria
10/4 Taxidermia
10/5 Last House on the Left (1972)
10/6 An American Werewolf in London
10/7 The Devil's Backbone
10/8 Eyes Without a Face
10/9 Begotten
10/10 Martyrs
10/12 Lake Mungo


Lake Mungo was the most recently watched for me and I definitely enjoyed it a lot. I think it's one of the After Dark Horrorfest movies that got released with the latest batch of movies, so I was hesitant to see it. Something about a bunch of movies being thrown out together under one label turns me off, but I went ahead and checked it out due to good word of mouth. It was good stuff.

You've never seen any of those before this month? What a treat you have for yourself. Lots of great movies in there, and pretty diverse list too!

The After Dark Horrorfest isn't a joke, for real. There is usually at least one or two gems shown.
 
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Good concept ruined by poor direction. I don't mean that the director did a bad job, just that the movie didn't feel like it had anywhere to go after a certain point. There's no real gore or actual horror and the plot is very thin. Decent "let's all feel like shit" ending, although it could have been better if they made any effort in character development.
 
In theatres: Easy A - rather amusing, for what it is. I'd watch it again.
At home: Street Fighter - "I'm going up reeever and I'm going to kick that sonofabitch Bison's ass, so hord..."
and agh! A really old Robert Downy Jr. movie that was cute but not wonderful and now I can't remember the title. He's a reincarnated soul who ends up remeeting his old family. It was weird because he looks so young, but sounds like Iron Man. The juxtapsition made me giggle a little.
 
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The Social Network: I loved it. Fast paced and stylish as hell.

Apocalypse Now: Classic, lol. There are so many iconic scenes. So epic.

I Heart Huckabees: Too weird for it's own good. When I read the brief plot summary that said something about existential detectives, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, and the rest of the cast I got excited. I don't know what I expected but it was too oddball for me.

Play It Again, Sam: Instant classic. Manhattan, Annie Hall, and this are alike in that they follow Woody Allen in the dating world and you have his unique Jewish, neurotic self with witty funnier, and smarter then anyone else one liners, yet all three are unique on their own with the personification of Bogart in his head in this one, different breaking the 4th wall techniques in Annie Hall, and the gorgeous cinematography of Manhattan.

Crimes and Misdemeanors: I liked this in its own regard but in too many ways it's not a Woody Allen film to me. And I understand the contrast of comedy to tragedy but too much was left unexplained or unexplored in Allen's screen time. The ratio of screen time of Landau's storyline to Allen's was like 60:40 or 70:30. It wasn't even explained why Woody Allen's character stopped sleeping with his wife and I just felt like having Mia Farrow's character end up with the Mash guy at the end was a little cheap. I definitely liked Landau's storyline and thought it was good, compelling film but I watch Woody Allen movies for Woody's relationships, humor, memorable situations, and unique style.
 
The Hot Spot : I watched this on HBO and it was decent...I think if it was a hit,then Jennifer Connelly's skinny dipping scene would be just as iconic as Phoebe Cates in Fast Times At Ridgemont High

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Apocalyse Now (1979) Only ever watched Redux before, this version is better. Fuck you french plantations scene.

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels (1998)- good movie. The scene when they initially stole the money was pretty sweet

Die Another Day (2002)- nice popcorn flick, didn't give a shit about the plot
 
afternoon delight said:
Have a question for you. How do Le Doulos and Le Deuxième Souffle stand in comparison to Melville's other work and the genre in particular? I love noir and haven't had the time to watch these. It's Melville so I assume it's good, but I want to know if it's Le Samourai/Army of Shadows good.

I know you didn't ask me, but I think Le Doulos is really great. the opening scene is stunningly beautiful. the writing is top notch and the relationship between the two main characters is fascinating.

Le Deuxieme Souffle is OK. not his best work - and certainly not the the best story Joe Giovanni gave us.

I'd recommend Le Doulos and Un Flic if you want to watch more Melville.

You'd also like Le Trou (Becker) Classe tous risques (Sautet) and maybe La Balance (Swaim)
 
La Belle Et La Bête: This was nice, total freak out at the end though. Cool effects.

Chunking Express: Very sweet. Thought the second story was 10x better than the first, the girl/boy was adorable.

Melly Chlistmas Mr. Roarance: Liked it a lot. Great music. Blu-Ray looked amazing (very similar to In The Realm Of The Senses)

Paper Moon: First time I saw this, it's already in the top 10 of all time.
 
swoon said:
I know you didn't ask me, but I think Le Doulos is really great. the opening scene is stunningly beautiful. the writing is top notch and the relationship between the two main characters is fascinating.

Le Deuxieme Souffle is OK. not his best work - and certainly not the the best story Joe Giovanni gave us.

I'd recommend Le Doulos and Un Flic if you want to watch more Melville.

You'd also like Le Trou (Becker) Classe tous risques (Sautet) and maybe La Balance (Swaim)
Out of all of the Melville I've seen, Le Doulos is probably my absolute favorite, while Le Deuxieme Souffle is my least favorite. It isn't bad by any means though.
 
I watched Gone With the Wind last night, again for my 1939 class. I'll get into it deeper when I get home, but I honestly could do without the entire first half.
 
Borgnine said:
La Belle Et La Bête: This was nice, total freak out at the end though. Cool effects.
I saw this a couple months ago. Great movie, amazing effects, makeup, costumes. The look of the beast is just perfect. I want a poster of him. Maybe I should just paint him
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I saw The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) after seeing it recommended in the old movies thread. I noticed a few minutes in that I'd actually seen large parts of the movie on tv years and years ago. Good movie, great performances from both leads.. and the doctor. And everyone. It was hilarious though, in the end.. well if you've seen the movie, the part with the black man. When the main character becomes a 'mench', a human being, he gives a poor black man his hat. A man who is in two short short scenes just so he can be given a hat.

Then last night I watched Lars and the Real Girl with a friend. A very sweet movie. I cried at least 4 times! :D Good performance by Ryan Gosling (so fucking charming). A feel-good film about acceptance. Accept, accept, accept.

Next up is, Heaven Can Wait (1943)
 
AcridMeat said:
I watched Gone With the Wind last night, again for my 1939 class. I'll get into it deeper when I get home, but I honestly could do without the entire first half.

Film school? What other 1939 movies have you seen so far?
 
The movies I've seen in the past 2, 3 weeks ...

A Little Princess (1995) 7
Alfonso Cuarón's first Hollywood production. Very nice set design and costumes, the story rolls along nicely till the end where it becomes too cliched with a rainstorm, thunderclaps and a few narrow escapes from the police. I've got fond memories of the Shirley Temple version but this one pulled the heart strings, too (but not as deftly as Shirley did)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 8
Capracorn! Jean Arthur! If I were a Marxist theorist, I'd have a field day with this movie since it's full of hidden criticisms of capitalist America. If you're a good person who wants to spend his fortune to help his fellow man, you're gonna be locked up and declared insane.

The Rescuers (1977) 6
Weak animated cartoon from a period when Disney was down in the dumps. The best thing about is the animation of the villainess, a few nice scenes with the two crocodiles but as a whole it's not funny, not exciting and the visuals are nothing special.

Agora (2009) 10
A brilliant movie. The best movie I've seen this year. Absolutely astounding visuals, riveting story about a female scientist in third century Alexandria when various religious factions battle it out and the winner of this struggle goes on to violently douse the flame of knowledge and tolerance.

Personal Property (1937) 7
Yet another movie that shows its stage play origins far too clearly, but it is saved by its many witticisms. Whenever I see a picture of Jean Harlow, I wonder why 1930 audiences considered her a stage beauty, but she does have charm and she's a lof of fun when she and Robert Taylor are fencing with words.

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 8
Bette Davis plays the supporting role to Monty Woolley in a witty, sometimes even farcical stageplay.

What's Up, Doc? (1972) 6
Seventies screwball comedy featuring Ryan O'Neall and Barbra Streisand. It's Peter Bogdanovich's homage to screwball comedies from the thirties and forties. The movie has a few very funny set pieces but also too many unfunny slapstick routines that bring the final score down.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 9
The movie is 82 years old, looks wonderful in HD and still is very, very funny. The final 20 minutes are incredible. A true classic.

Splice (2009) 7

Robin Hood (2010) 8
This is how you re imagine a story that has been told far too many times. I could have done without Peter Pan's Lost Boys taking on the French army, but everything was else was great. Excellent cinematography too.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) 7
The only Astaire/Rogers movie I hadn't seen. The first part of the movie is a lot of fun, but it starts to sag towards the end when the Castles tour Europe and Astaire's character joins the military. Just like with every other Astaire/Rogers vehicle, you watch 'and enjoy them because of the dancing.

The Quick and the Dead (1995) 7
Over the top western by Sam Raimi featuring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Russel Crowe before he was famous and Leonardo DiCaprio just after he hit puberty. It's a tall tale with a lot of humor.

Desk Set (1957) 7
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did many movies together. In this fifties comedy they play opposites. Hepburn is the head of a research department, Tracy the business man who'll install the mainframe computer than will automate their work and get rid of all the jobs in that department. The movie feels like a stage play because 80% of the movie takes place in the same space but the whole thing is still a lot of fun because the strength of the movie are the dialogs.

The Hard Way (1943) 8
If this movie had starred Bette Davis with William Wyler directing it would have been remembered as a minor classic from Hollywood's Golden Age. But Wyler wasn't available and it starred Ida Lupino instead.

Get Him to the Greek (2010) 8
Laughed out loud funny many times. I've got to see Russell Brand's standup routine now.
 
I think Russell Brand is one of the worst standup comedians I've ever heard. He's neck and neck with Carlos Mencia and Larry the Cable Guy. Although, I am glad there is someone else who found Splice entertaining :lol
 
Splice was too damn weird for me. And I knew how it was going to end. No less disturbing.

Get Him to the Greek. I must have missed the funny. A couple of moments that I laughed to myself, but no real laugh out loud moments. I know a lot of people find the character Aldous Snow hilarious, but he doesn't really do anything for me. The character was a lot funnier I thought in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I think he works better in small doses. And I can't stand Jonah Hill. He's just not funny. At least in this film he wasn't playing the same cocky douchebag he's played in every other movie I've seen him in.
 
afternoon delight said:
Have a question for you. How do Le Doulos and Le Deuxième Souffle stand in comparison to Melville's other work and the genre in particular? I love noir and haven't had the time to watch these. It's Melville so I assume it's good, but I want to know if it's Le Samourai/Army of Shadows good.
i am glad others have been kind enough to answer this q because i have not seen either of these :)
 
Watched Red Beard. What a movie! It was just over 3 hours long, and I never once lost interest. Some real emotional moments in the movie as well. I was slightly confused about the Dr. Amano plotline, so I will have to read up on that later. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.
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I am in the process of watching

Eye for an Eye - moody-looking Korean action flick.
Cromwell - Richard Harris and Alec Guinness.
Che, Pt. 1.
 
nyprimus2 said:
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Play It Again, Sam: Instant classic. Manhattan, Annie Hall, and this are alike in that they follow Woody Allen in the dating world and you have his unique Jewish, neurotic self with witty funnier, and smarter then anyone else one liners, yet all three are unique on their own with the personification of Bogart in his head in this one, different breaking the 4th wall techniques in Annie Hall, and the gorgeous cinematography of Manhattan.

Crimes and Misdemeanors: I liked this in its own regard but in too many ways it's not a Woody Allen film to me. And I understand the contrast of comedy to tragedy but too much was left unexplained or unexplored in Allen's screen time. The ratio of screen time of Landau's storyline to Allen's was like 60:40 or 70:30. It wasn't even explained why Woody Allen's character stopped sleeping with his wife and I just felt like having Mia Farrow's character end up with the Mash guy at the end was a little cheap. I definitely liked Landau's storyline and thought it was good, compelling film but I watch Woody Allen movies for Woody's relationships, humor, memorable situations, and unique style.

You know Play It Again Sam wasn't directed by Woody Allen right? It was one of Allen's plays that got adapted on film by some other guy for Woody Allen was a hot ticket in the early days of his career and Allen wanted to work on Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex but people wanted to see more of Woody Allen. He does break the fourth wall a lot in his plays I noticed.

I am curious to know but have you only seen Manhattan or Annie Hall from Woody Allen? I am only assuming that for you don't see Crimes and Misdemeanors to be a Woody Allen work then you would not count about 70 percent of his filmography not to be Woody Allen. The reasoning why Landau is given more screen time can be accounted by just looking at the title of the film, "Crimes and Misdemeanors." Crimes can be things that haunt you for the rest of your life and misdemeanors are usually forgotten about.
 
CaptYamato said:
Well let me know what you think. I'm still trying to find it...

Reporting back at 44 minute mark.

It's good. Nothing mind-boggling, but I'm interested.

Incidentally, there is a testicle-chilling sound-effect at about the 42 minute mark. I will say no more.
 
sefskillz said:
armond white loves it

I liked it but it seemed really really rushed and I was hoping the action would be a little better.

I liked the costumes a lot though they were awesome outfits.
 
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