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AlternativeUlster said:
Haha, I just got banned.
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Yeah, I know, I wasn't sure why.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is sooooo good. I'm not sure whether to include in my top 10 this year, since it's technically 2007, but since I didn't see it in time for it to my list last year I might as well.
 
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I don't want to give a long review, so I'll just say that it is an awesome, awesome movie that is very funny, very emotional, oddly real and overall fantastic.

Would reccomend to anyone, undoubtedly the best movie of 2006.
 
I saw Hard Candy last night. Holy crap is that film an uncomfortable watch. I really don't like Ellen Page, which made it especially bad :lol

I still recommend adding it to your rental queue or watching it if it's on TV, though. It's pretty intense and really challenges your instincts about who you should root for the whole way through.
 
Ford Prefect said:
Yeah, I know, I wasn't sure why.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is sooooo good. I'm not sure whether to include in my top 10 this year, since it's technically 2007, but since I didn't see it in time for it to my list last year I might as well.
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I made a snide joke in the Home thread about the Ps3 failures about the new Team Ico game going to magically suck just for being on the system. I didn't know what I was banned for until I finally got unbanned since my ban thing said You are banned for this reason and it was a link to the forum and I was like, "How can I see what I was banned for when I am banned from reading the forum?" Bleh.
 
Yeah, I was in debate about 4 Months too. I decided that since it didn't open in the States even limited until late January, I was ok. That is also why I have Tell No One on my list despite it technically being a 2006 film.
 
'Yeah... yum yum... yeah... nice girl... nice girl, very charming girl... I talked with her... yeah. But you, you just let her walk out right out with the three stooges. And you know why? 'cause you're a big fat pussy. Well. I gotta go. Good day pussycake.'
 
AlternativeUlster said:
I made a snide joke in the Home thread about the Ps3 failures about the new Team Ico game going to magically suck just for being on the system. I didn't know what I was banned for until I finally got unbanned since my ban thing said You are banned for this reason and it was a link to the forum and I was like, "How can I see what I was banned for when I am banned from reading the forum?" Bleh.
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Reading that post about Team Ico, that is ridiculous you would get a month-long ban just for that. So glad I never go over to the gaming side anymore :lol

AlternativeUlster said:
Yeah, I was in debate about 4 Months too. I decided that since it didn't open in the States even limited until late January, I was ok. That is also why I have Tell No One on my list despite it technically being a 2006 film.
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Oh, if it didn't hit the States 'til '08 then it's definitely good for the '08 list IMO.

Tell No One was pretty great, too. When he biffs it during the chase scene it's fucking nuts.
 
Saw "let the right one in" this weekend and was really disappointed. It really made me wish I wasn't swedish, it is a good movie I think but the acting was just horrendous...
 
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One of my favorite korean movies of all time. Not only is the cast superb and story is amazing. Really great movie.
 
Ford Prefect said:
Reading that post about Team Ico, that is ridiculous you would get a month-long ban just for that. So glad I never go over to the gaming side anymore :lol

Oh, if it didn't hit the States 'til '08 then it's definitely good for the '08 list IMO.

Tell No One was pretty great, too. When he biffs it during the chase scene it's fucking nuts.
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Yeah, you should make a top 10. I want to see your list, Cosmic Bus', and Dr. Strangelove's.
 
Navajo Joe:

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Another spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci. Really a revenge picture. It stars a very young, agile (yet still balding) Burt Reynolds as "Joe" a native hell-bent on murdering a gang of white men scalping innocent Indian women and children. The movie isn't as good as Django -- and that's saying a lot. Because Django wasn't all that great. But Corbucci does do good endings. There's another graveyard showdown and this one and its nice and violent and satisfying. The build up isn't terrible either -- Joe is fairly agile and really stabby. Lots of daggers in the guy. And of course there's the smoldering Italian love interest played by Nicholetta Machiavelli -- a real looker.

Soundtrack's by Ennio Morricone, but credited to his stage name Leo Nichols. A portion of the soundtrack (the bits that don't have people singing "NAVAJO JOE!") was used in Kill Bill. According to Wikipedia Reynolds thought he was starring in a Leone flick, but got the "wrong Sergio." It was too late to pull out so he did the picture.

I'm sure there's a decent DVD of this out now, but if you're curious it's streaming on Netflix.
 
After much hype by friends, I'm finally gonna get to watch Shawshank Redemption via Netflix today. Let's see how this movie bolds!
 
Flynn said:
Soundtrack's by Ennio Morricone, but credited to his stage name Leo Nichols. A portion of the soundtrack (the bits that don't have people singing "NAVAJO JOE!") was used in Kill Bill. According to Wikipedia Reynolds thought he was starring in a Leone flick, but got the "wrong Sergio." It was too late to pull out so he did the picture.
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Yup, Clint Eastwood recommended that he work with 'Sergio' and Burt Reynolds figured he was talking about Sergio Leone :P
 
I was in a sci-fi mood so I went with these two.

Doomsday
Rhona Mitra wasn't bad as a female Snake Plisskin, I thought she was okay until the end. Was also nice to see Siddig in another role, albeit a small one, and Malcolm McDowell do another turn as Dr. Soren...err...a scientist. The rest of the movie nosedives nearly half an hour after start, though. Take the crazy plague from 28 Days, replace Manhattan with Scotland in Escape from New York, sprinkle in a little Mad Max, and then stir the kind of attention to detail that Battlefield Earth is known for and you'll have this movie. At least the bad guys are somewhat smarter here. And I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that a car sitting in a cargo container stored in a cave somewhere for nearly thirty years would work perfectly. Cannibals and castles sounded like a good idea at the time.

+ interesting start
+ some nice set pieces
+ buckets of gore
+ lots of action
- equipment impervious to time
- oddball story loopholes
- feudal bizarro land
- dumbass ending

Babylon AD
I've read the reviews so I shouldn't have expected too much out of this film, but I did hope it might be fun in a sort of popcorn crunching sort of way. Vin Diesel and cyberpunk could have worked...the possibility was there. But the neat concepts that it barely touches on with submarine smugglers, lead lined bullet trains traveling through bomb craters, and injected passports are mired in a story that makes as much sense as thousand year old Harriers jump jets that can fly. On another level, it was almost as if I were watching Freejack's bastard child. But if felt as if it were spliced together in ten different ways. You could fly the awesomeness of Total Recall through the loopholes in the story and it still wouldn't help salvage the lapses in logic that help explain why director Mathieu Kassovitz had hated his own film. Michelle Yeoh was criminally wasted. Hans Zimmer helped with the soundtrack which had some good moments. Not a fan of the RZA's opening track.

+ neat cyberpunkish setting
+ some cool visual shots and gritty sets
+ great as background noise if you need something on while working
- CG effects were somewhat obvious
- Michelle Yeoh severely underused
- story may make sense if drunk
- climax making me wish I had stopped an hour earlier
 
Was flipping through the channels late last night (around 12:30am) and ended up watching Guyver: Dark Hero on one of the Cinemax channels. I actually own the dvd, but decided to watch it for the hell of it since it was on.

Cheesy rubber monster suits, lots of over-the-top wirework, gratuitous blood, and David Hayter showing signs of being Solid Snake here and there. Such an awesome and cheesy popcorn flick - God I love this movie. :D

Was definitely in the mood to watch Kamen Masked Rider and Power Rangers afterwards.
 
Auron_Kale said:
Was flipping through the channels late last night (around 12:30am) and ended up watching Guyver: Dark Hero on one of the Cinemax channels. I actually own the dvd, but decided to watch it for the hell of it since it was on.

Cheesy rubber monster suits, lots of over-the-top wirework, gratuitous blood, and David Hayter showing signs of being Solid Snake here and there. Such an awesome and cheesy popcorn flick - God I love this movie. :D

Was definitely in the mood to watch Kamen Masked Rider and Power Rangers afterwards.
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Go and watch GARO now! Greatest tokusatsu television series ever made!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GARO
 
Kastro said:
I laughed more during Gran Torino.
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Gran Torino did have a lot of great moments.

"excuse me sir, i need a haircut if you ain't too busy, you old Italian son of a bitch prick barber..Boy, does my ass hurt from all the guys on my construction job."
 
It was quite great, actually.

I found Pineapple Express to be a letdown. Not up to par with 40 YOV, Superbad or even Knocked Up.
 
i think i liked it better than all three of those, to be honest. i liked all those movies, of course, but pineapple express just connected with me, even though i'm not into drug culture or typically find it funny in the least. there are just so many hilarious seemingly throwaway lines that are layered in there, and each time i watch it i just find myself dying laughing at something different.
 
i maybe in the minority but i found slumdog millionaire, the wrestler, and even benjamin button to be all overrated. that said, i found myself enjoying pineapple express and bangkok dangerous way more than i tought i would.
 
benjamin button was overrated critically. i think it had a lot of great things going for it, and some very special moments, but was perhaps 40% failure. a lot of that has to do with its length (too long), and the fact that it bears far too many similarities to forrest gump (no surprise).

what worked? blanchett. my god, seriously, i was in love with daisy this whole movie. and the effects i thought were spectacular, particularly old-man-button, young button (early 20s), and young daisy (18-25). i forgot it was blanchett. i forgot that she is getting old. i also think some of the more touching moments were more genuine and earned than in gump.
 
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Thought it lost it at the beginning and the end, but it really picked up when
McLovin' went for the booze
. I could relate to Evan and McLovin'. Amazing that the writers wrote it when they were just 13-15!
 
Egg Shen said:
I was in a sci-fi mood so I went with these two.

Doomsday
Rhona Mitra wasn't bad as a female Snake Plisskin, I thought she was okay until the end. Was also nice to see Siddig in another role, albeit a small one, and Malcolm McDowell do another turn as Dr. Soren...err...a scientist. The rest of the movie nosedives nearly half an hour after start, though. Take the crazy plague from 28 Days, replace Manhattan with Scotland in Escape from New York, sprinkle in a little Mad Max, and then stir the kind of attention to detail that Battlefield Earth is known for and you'll have this movie. At least the bad guys are somewhat smarter here. And I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that a car sitting in a cargo container stored in a cave somewhere for nearly thirty years would work perfectly. Cannibals and castles sounded like a good idea at the time.

+ interesting start
+ some nice set pieces
+ buckets of gore
+ lots of action
- equipment impervious to time
- oddball story loopholes
- feudal bizarro land
- dumbass ending

Babylon AD
I've read the reviews so I shouldn't have expected too much out of this film, but I did hope it might be fun in a sort of popcorn crunching sort of way. Vin Diesel and cyberpunk could have worked...the possibility was there. But the neat concepts that it barely touches on with submarine smugglers, lead lined bullet trains traveling through bomb craters, and injected passports are mired in a story that makes as much sense as thousand year old Harriers jump jets that can fly. On another level, it was almost as if I were watching Freejack's bastard child. But if felt as if it were spliced together in ten different ways. You could fly the awesomeness of Total Recall through the loopholes in the story and it still wouldn't help salvage the lapses in logic that help explain why director Mathieu Kassovitz had hated his own film. Michelle Yeoh was criminally wasted. Hans Zimmer helped with the soundtrack which had some good moments. Not a fan of the RZA's opening track.

+ neat cyberpunkish setting
+ some cool visual shots and gritty sets
+ great as background noise if you need something on while working
- CG effects were somewhat obvious
- Michelle Yeoh severely underused
- story may make sense if drunk
- climax making me wish I had stopped an hour earlier
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I'm not watching Babylon AD untill the director's cut is out. Fox cut alot :
USA:90 min | France:101 min | 161 min (Director's Cut)
 
Fxp said:
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Fantastic movie, quite disturbing, though. Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman are great!
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Considering she waited 15 years to do something after Boxing Helena, I was sort of expecting something... stranger. Still, not a bad little movie.

beelzebozo said:
holy shit. the last five minutes of this are the best thing to happen to vampire movies in years.
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And the other 110 minutes weren't?
 
beelzebozo said:
ha, they are! but man, that shot near the end. . . :o

incredible. my mouth was agape
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Heh, you're referring to the pool or... ? I think my favorite scene was when Eli visits her surrogate father at the hospital during the night.
 
the pool scene. definitely. but i also liked when she shows oskar what happens when he doesn't invite her in. hell, there was a ton of the movie that was just excellent and creepy and great.
 
MMaRsu said:
I'm not watching Babylon AD untill the director's cut is out. Fox cut alot :
USA:90 min | France:101 min | 161 min (Director's Cut)
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Wow:lol Nearing half the movie. But I don't even think that is going to save it. I heard its another director who doesn't ever want to work with Fox again because it was interfered with that badly. Was knocking it even before it came out.:lol
 
Caché - holy FUCK Michael Haneke is becoming one of my favorite directors. I mean, the level of control he has over every technical aspect of this movie. Not a single dull second in the entire 2 hour film, and it's got some of the longest, strangest takes I've seen in contemporary cinema (for example, the frustratingly oblique closing shot
...until I watched the special features and realized that there WAS actually something going on... and that that something was ENTIRELY SINISTER
). I am dreadfully in love with his style, and found myself much more moved than I was by Funny Games (which I still loved). Christ, I hope his back catalogue is as good as this, so that I have hours of soul-crushing, pessimistic delight ahead of me...

beelzebozo said:
the pool scene. definitely. but i also liked when she shows oskar what happens when he doesn't invite her in. hell, there was a ton of the movie that was just excellent and creepy and great.
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I want someone else to not like this movie so I won't be so alone... so very alone...

Christ, even the whole Criterion Forum loves the shit out of it.
 
Saw Species the other night via Netflix streaming. LOL. The kid at the end - munching the rat - had me laughing pretty hard. Exploitative pulp crap otherwise - Forest as the "empath" was hysterical - but fun.
 
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Saw it on monday night and it was a fairly fantastic experience.
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Animation Looks pretty corner cutting, but I am downloading now.

Anyways heres my list:

Schindlers List - This should be shown at school instead of reading out of a textbook. What a movie

Aliens HD - Never saw it as a child, and am glad I didn't. Visuals are important and it looks great.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - I am going to watch it in the morning.

Grosse Pointe Blank - Same as Good, Bad, Ugly

I am really interested in seeing Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father
 
Ford Prefect said:
Christ, I hope his back catalogue is as good as this, so that I have hours of soul-crushing, pessimistic delight ahead of me...

I want someone else to not like [Let the Right One In] so I won't be so alone... so very alone... Christ, even the whole Criterion Forum loves the shit out of it.
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Haneke's other films should mostly be to your liking; I know some consider him to be a borderline hack, and I can almost see where that comes from, but provided you register on or around the same wavelength as his work, there are hours of wonderful discomfort ahead.

And are you referrring to the .com or .org Criterion forum? Presumably the latter; I've found it to be nearly indespensible for when I want to read up on a particular film or just discover something completely new to me, but man, is it ever imposing to post there. The scholarly, encyclopedic knowledge of many of the longtime members makes me feel flat-out stupid most of the time.
 
Watched Children of Men and Eastern Promises last night.

Have the dvd of Children of Men, but watched it because it was on tv and it was even better the second time around.

Eastern Promises was really good as well and the fight in the bath house was kinda hard to watch because of the sheer brutality of the fight, especially the
knife getting stabbed in that one guy's eye.
 
Ford Prefect said:
I want someone else to not like this movie so I won't be so alone... so very alone...

Christ, even the whole Criterion Forum loves the shit out of it.
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i didn't like it at all. and liked it even less when i saw it the second time.
 
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