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Devil

As it turns out, this is actually pretty good. It's tight, gripping horror with a pleasant ending. Shyamaladingdong is not the director though so that probably explains why it's pretty good. Cos in comparison to "The Last Airbender", this one is well-acted and directed.
 
Replicant said:
Devil

As it turns out, this is actually pretty good. It's tight, gripping horror with a pleasant ending. Shyamaladingdong is not the director though so that probably explains why it's pretty good. Cos in comparison to "The Last Airbender", this one is well-acted and directed.
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Every movie is well-acted and directed in comparison to The Last Airbender.


Even Trolls 2.

edit: but i'll admit, DeVil looks interesting enough from the trailer.
 
The New World - Feels sad that I don't have anymore Malik films to watch. (until tree of life at least). Because that was great. At the start i thought the movie would end up being a rather typical white man versus indian story. But thankfully it didn't go to far with that and become something more. The last 30-40 minutes were jawdroppingly beautiful and classic malik imo.;_; on the other hand, i feel if i wasn't familiar with maliks style prior to seeing this, i might have ended up finding it boring. The film is admittedly "slow" but the gorgeous cinematography prevented me from getting bored, honestly. Plus malik has a great habit of doing scenes that I'd find mundane by any other director - in the most beautiful way possible.
 
Malick makes me actually want to seek out a good display for watching movies. I've only seen Days of Heaven out of his movies, and both times I watched it on nicer TVs. I don't have a nice TV or monitor or anything so I don't really want to watch the rest of his filmography right now.
 
Lafiel said:
The New World - Feels sad that I don't have anymore Malik films to watch. (until tree of life at least). Because that was great. At the start i thought the movie would end up being a rather typical white man versus indian story. But thankfully it didn't go to far with that and become something more. The last 30-40 minutes were jawdroppingly beautiful and classic malik imo.;_; on the other hand, i feel if i wasn't familiar with maliks style prior to seeing this, i might have ended up finding it boring. The film is admittedly "slow" but the gorgeous cinematography prevented me from getting bored, honestly. Plus malik has a great habit of doing scenes that I'd find mundane by any other director - in the most beautiful way possible.
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Did you watch the theatrical cut?

If you want more, Malick's Extended Cut is 170+ minutes long.

New World is easily one of my favorite movies of the past decade, I could wallow in it for hours if possible.
 
Movies I've seen in the past few weeks:

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Oddly didn't hate it although I never was a big GI Joe fan as a kid and I started watching it with the attitude that it was going to be over the top anyway. And yeah, it's way over the top. Kinda felt like a really long video game cut scene.

Inception - Like it although I hated that the dream worlds were so....normal. I guess I was expecting the movie to look like the trailer, which apparently was all limbo and when he was trying to recruit Ellen Page (Forgot her name). Kinda deceptive but I liked it nonetheless.

Scott Pilgrim - Oddly, did not like this one. The visuals far outweighed everything else. Very disappointed because I went in thinking I'd like it.

The Count of Monte Cristo - Freaking loved it. It was recommended to me years ago but I only just watched it last week.

Zombieland - Watched it last week too. Liked it.
 
Dead said:
Did you watch the theatrical cut?

If you want more, Malick's Extended Cut is 170+ minutes long.

New World is easily one of my favorite movies of the past decade, I could wallow in it for hours if possible.
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Yeah. I watched the theatrical cut. I looked it up and it seems that the extended cut is only available in the blu-ray. Which thankfully is coming out next month in australia. The film must be amazing to look at in HD. So I'll haft to get it. Shame days of heaven and thin red line don't seem to be released here yet.>_>
 
Cosmic Bus said:
In the meantime, you can always check out some films that share similar tone and themes with Malick's work:

Silent Light
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Funny enough i have this available to pick up at my library. Really looking forward to seeing it in that case.

Will definitely check out the rest, thanks.:D Rabbit-Proof Fence should be relatively easy to get a hold off, considering it comes from my country.
 
Cosmic Bus said:
I blame pot.

Just kidding.



...or am I.
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I think it's refreshing and understandable of him. If nothing else, he could always take the Soderbergh route and do his blockbuster stuff and use that to fund his more independent leaning stuff.
 
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So entertaining.
 
Meliorism said:
I think it's refreshing and understandable of him. If nothing else, he could always take the Soderbergh route and do his blockbuster stuff and use that to fund his more independent leaning stuff.
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That's what I'm hoping, but if that's the case, he must be bankrolling for something big, because he's got more comedy lined up after that medievil one.
 
Not that anyone cares, but I completely reversed my opinion on Caché today. Magnificent. And it's all because I found a new reading of it:

So, the film ends with Majid's son and Pierrot talking at the school. Most of people I watched it with thought this meant the two were somehow complicit in the delivery of the videos. I read into it another way. The fact that they were being surveilled in that conversation eliminates them from being the watcher. Meaning, we don't actually get a plot resolution. We intentionally have no idea who is watching Georges. And that makes his descent into madness and his psychological break so satisfying, because it takes it from a story of revenge and turns it into a commentary on voyeurism in this day and age. It draws you out of the story within and makes it so that the unseen camera is the cause of all of the conflict. To me, that tied back into the political themes of French-Algerian relations to say that media representation causes or perpetuates a lot of conflict in our world today, and that conflict cannot be traced back to one person. Rather, it's the medium itself that's causing conflict.
I'm sure thousands have had these thoughts before me, but whatever. I was the only one who thought this way in my class.
 
Shogun Assassin
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One of the best saturday morning movies ever made.

Winter's Bone - Engaging from the first ten minutes. Wouldn't want to ruin the plot, but it feels incredibly real. Slow burner that defines itself with great characters and situations. Also, great cinematography.

O Brother Where Art Thou! - I don't know why I don't own this film. Absolutely, positively entertaining in every aspect. Every. :lol
 
Cosmic Bus said:
That's what I'm hoping, but if that's the case, he must be bankrolling for something big, because he's got more comedy lined up after that medievil one.
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i still hope he does susperia and sets in the nc mountains. amer didnt quite capture what i think a new giallo could be.

dgg upcoming projects look so bad. i blame bust-ass and pot
 
I agree with Icarus about Paris, Texas; when I saw how much love the film got from the folks in this thread, I was super excited to watch it, but I was extremely underwhelmed by the whole thing. The only thing from it that sticks in my mind is the monologue.
 
Black Swan : Movie of the year for me. I thought Inception was gonna be my movie of the year, but damn this was something really special.
 
The American

To be frank with you, I would regard this movie as more of an ''Art'' than a ''Movie'' if that make sense. The movie must be the best Cinematography movie I ever seen. Some shot was really beautiful (especially with Clooney sitting on the bar and you see him on the left hand side while the other half is empty) and the driving scene was really quite exquisite.
George Clooneys acting was quite good, if not over acted as he felt paranoid all the time. This is strengthen by the scenes where nothing happens except him going around the town, which kind of trying to give the atmosphere more tension, which kind of becomes boring past half way through
However, as a movie, it was lacking. The plot never went far, and the characters were silly. The last 15 minutes was of most stupid thing that could happen
how can Clooney trust his ‘’friend’’ so much. And why would his friend kill that lady assassin?
a bit dissapointing, but some of those scene were just great to watch.
 
faridmon said:
The American

To be frank with you, I would regard this movie as more of an ''Art'' than a ''Movie'' if that make sense. The movie must be the best Cinematography movie I ever seen. Some shot was really beautiful (especially with Clooney sitting on the bar and you see him on the left hand side while the other half is empty) and the driving scene was really quite exquisite.
George Clooneys acting was quite good, if not over acted as he felt paranoid all the time. This is strengthen by the scenes where nothing happens except him going around the town, which kind of trying to give the atmosphere more tension, which kind of becomes boring past half way through
However, as a movie, it was lacking. The plot never went far, and the characters were silly. The last 15 minutes was of most stupid thing that could happen
how can Clooney trust his ‘’friend’’ so much. And why would his friend kill that lady assassin?
a bit dissapointing, but some of those scene were just great to watch.
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Jack (George Clooney) rigged Mathilde's (lady assassin) gun because he had grown suspicious of her. Pavel (the older man that Jack stayed in contact with) wants Jack dead because Jack wants to be rid of the business he's been in, and Pavel doesn't like that.

I actually really liked the movie. Comparisons to Le samourai are apt, yet those same people are ready to decry The American because it doesn't live up to Samourai. But when you've set the bar so high to begin with, it seems a tad difficult to live up to such a standard.
 
Kraftwerk said:
Black Swan : Movie of the year for me. I thought Inception was gonna be my movie of the year, but damn this was something really special.
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Not going to elaborate but this is far and away my favorite movie of the year. Unless something comes out between now and end of december to change my mind (doubtful) then aronosky has done it again. Better luck next year Nolan (I still love ya.)
 
Kraftwerk said:
Black Swan : Movie of the year for me. I thought Inception was gonna be my movie of the year, but damn this was something really special.
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I'm with you, still I don't want to lock it down yet because I'm expecting a lot from True Grit.
 
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Really liked it. The characters and their interactions with eachother felt really genuine and real + some of the awkward moments were good for a few laughs. Don't expect a comedy, it's a drama movie.
 
HiResDes said:
Would it be accurate to compare Cyrus to say a character study like Greenberg?
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Kinda

I didn't like Greenberg (partially because I dislike Ben Stiller) and found the move to be rather boring. in Greenberg the main character was the one who was messed up, in Cyrus it's Jonah Hill's character who is messed up so you still get more "heart" from the scenes with John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei, they had good chemistry.
 
Rewatched

Grindhouse (2007)Directed By Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino

Such a fun, over the top, visceral experience, especially on Blu since the whole theatrical thing is there with the fake trailers intact. The last 25 minutes of Death Proof especially is such a fantastic car chase that's just masterfully shot. I wish the Extended versions of both films were available in this new Collector's Edition through branching, but I still love it either way.
 
Visceir said:
Kinda

I didn't like Greenberg (partially because I dislike Ben Stiller) and found the move to be rather boring. in Greenberg the main character was the one who was messed up, in Cyrus it's Jonah Hill's character who is messed up so you still get more "heart" from the scenes with John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei, they had good chemistry.
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I thought I would really like Greenberg, but I ended up not liking it at all. I didn't think either of the main characters were the least bit likeable. I guess that was sorta the point but I just couldn't identify.
 
Is "Shadows" a good John Cassavetes movie to start with?

It looks like Netflix has most of the stuff he directed on streaming. Gonna watch one tonight.
 
Futureman said:
Is "Shadows" a good John Cassavetes movie to start with?

It looks like Netflix has most of the stuff he directed on streaming. Gonna watch one tonight.
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I'd start with Opening Night or a Woman Under The Influence...
 
Shadows is one of his weaker efforts that I've seen (he hadn't really come into maturity yet at that point), but it's got some really good moments, particularly when the brother
puts the white boyfriend in his place by just reciting to him his list of excuses.
 
I'm seriously going to make it a point to do a Cassavetes marathon as soon as 2011 begins. I'm in watch movies from '10 mode right now.

Probably will do Faces and A Woman Under the Influence first.

I've only seen Shadows and Minnie and Moskowitz so far.
 
It's right that Cyrus and Greenberg are both really character studies, and Greenberg is different in that the leads are the messed up ones. But I still heavily enjoyed both films.
I loved the line in Greenberg: "How longs the flight?" "14 hours" "So that's like...7 movies?"
 
Just saw Revanche, The American, and Contempt (Godard) - all were excellent and I think all have been previously covered in this thread...I don't really have anything new or interesting to add.
 
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Anyone consider making a goal for 2011? I'm considering it, like see 1500 new movies or something
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1500 is way ambitious. I'd say to set your goal at 500 and if you end up making that in April...go for a higher number.
 
jakncoke said:
Anyone consider making a goal for 2011? I'm considering it, like see 1500 new movies or something
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that's like four films a day, man. you'd have to nearly do nothing else but watch films to get to that.
 
Finished watching Predator last night. Such a bad ass movie. I hadn't seen it since I was a little kid.

Get to the choppa!
 
Empty said:
that's like four films a day, man. you'd have to nearly do nothing else but watch films to get to that.
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Well I don't exactly have a life, so it's not that hard. But yeah maybe 1500 would be too high.
 
jakncoke said:
Anyone consider making a goal for 2011? I'm considering it, like see 1500 new movies or something
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I'd like to just see all the movies in my collection I haven't watched yet. But since Ive stopped really buying games, I started buying way more movies.
 
been awhile since I've updated. Watched these in the past week or so for the first time, ordered rank:

The Naked City - 10/10
Three Colors: Rouge - 10/10
An American Werewolf in London - 9/10
All Quiet on the Western Front - 9/10
Festen - 9/10
In The Mood for Love - 9/10
His Girl Friday - 9/10
Fanny och Alexander - 9/10
Le notti di Cabiria - 9/10
Picnic at Hanging Rock - 9/10
Hannah and Her Sisters - 8/10
Tangled - 8/10
The Fighter - 8/10
Dirty Harry - 7/10
Faster - 7/10
Love and Other Drugs - 6/10
Tron: Legacy - 6/10


also officially finished the IMDB Top 250! Except, I just checked today and 3 new films have been added. It's never going to end! :lol
 
Just watched Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy on Bluray over the last few days. I think I actually liked them more watching them more back to back just now more than the first time I saw them. Amazing action scenes, chases, and an engrossing story. The locations the movies went to were an absolute joy to look at as well. For some reason I really didn't like Supremacy that much when I originally saw it, but now I think I might have actually preferred it over Identity.
The last chase in Russia was fucking incredible!

Ultimatum is next up in my Netflix queue which I am really looking forward to watching again. I honesty can't remember a damn thing about it, which is good.
 
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A Dirty Carnival (2006) Directed by Ha Yu: Soooo good, I can't believe I waited this long to watch it. The fight scenes were so realistically sloppy, and the
clube scene at near the end with the strobe lights
was done so well. Good use of music as well. Anyone looking for a good gangster movie should check this out. I wish more of these Korean movies got better US distribution.
 
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