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Why are none of you mentioning Seraphim Falls?
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Why are none of you mentioning Seraphim Falls?
Even though I'm huge fan of Michael Mann, I have yet to check The Insider. I guess I'll give it a watch. Collateral is the first of his I saw, and was my favorite for a long time. Heat is his best IMO.Solo said:
On a related note, I thought Public Enemies was a good flick. Nowhere near his best, but a good film none the less.
Fallout-NL
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Solo said:
Ah fair enough.
What about Yuma though? Personally I felt the whole thing just got totally ridiculous near the end.
I think it would've worked better if I'd read the comic beforehand. Felt more like a companion piece: scenes from the comic played out to fitting songs, like a longwinded montage. Many of the characters felt shallow, but I understand how the whole idea and focus on philosophy would've been really cool to see in a comic when it was released. And just when the movie had felt overly long for a while, they played All Along the Watchtower. I got chills! That song is so awesome. Anyway, was an ok movie, made me want to read the comic.
3/5
Collateral may be leaner and more focused than Heat but it's also more shallow and it completelly falls apart in the third act.Solo said:
I agree that The Aviator is a better movie than Gangs of NY but I really don't understand directors like Spielberg and Scorcese. They are at the point of their careers where they have almost complete freedom to do what the hell they want and still they do uninspired remakes (The War of the Worlds and The Departed) and films that don't even sound good on paper (The Terminal and Shutter Island). They should learn from Malick and Kubrick: take your time with your projects and make every film count.Solo said:
I really find films like Gangs of NY very fascinating. Films like Hopper's The Last Movie, Mann's Ali, DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth and Romero's Land of the Dead - big ambitious movie's from great directors that just don't work. The kind of movies that usually have a few really great ideas or scenes but don't work as a whole.
I don't think those are especially personal films except maybe King Kong but that really isn't a bad film.Scullibundo said:
Lucky Forward
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I was just reading this review of Amelia at msnbc...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33435499/ns/entertainment-movies/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33435499/ns/entertainment-movies/
That's hard to believe for a major motion picture in this day and age.
Anasui Kishibe
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Solo said:
I agree about MV, disagree about Collateral. It's got way more flaws than Heat. I understand if its your personal taste though
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
I attend film festivals and I live in Austin Texas which is home to the coolest movie theater chain in the world (The Alamo Drafthouse). For cash I make art and I am a lab rat which gives plenty of time to catch up on films. There are like thousands of films released per year so I try to do my best to watch as much as I can. I like to think that watching cinema to be an education process.
I rewatched Where the Wild Things Are which I originally only gave 3 stars but now I am pushing it to 4. I think I found its clairity with the 2nd viewing and I much better understood the theme of it. The score got better with the 2nd viewing even though Funeral by the Arcade Fire might have been a more epic score for the film. Something still tells me though that Dave Eggers' novelization could still be more profound though.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
swoon said:
:lol
Jeff Albertson
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FINALLY got around to watching this:
So fucking awesome, I love when you finally see a classic film and you recognise where a load of parodies have come from, I remembered 3 or 4 episodes of the Simpsons that have referenced it
So fucking awesome, I love when you finally see a classic film and you recognise where a load of parodies have come from, I remembered 3 or 4 episodes of the Simpsons that have referenced it
I just watched Palo Alto CA on Netflix. It's totally a ripoff of American Graffiti, exceept updated for the 21st century. It also stars Autum Reeser, who played Taylor Townshed during the last two season of The OC in a great performance. I also found I could connect easier to the characters in this film as opposed to the ones in American Graffiti. Great film, I'd reccomend it.
I saw A Serious Man just a while ago, very interesting movie. It's full of dark humor and rather open-ended, par for a Cohen Bros film.
You're talking about when
You're talking about when
He gets a call about the X-Rays? I thought that was a just ending. It drove home the point that there's no rhyme or reason behind bad things happening to you. The guy does good, bad things happen. The guy does bad, bad things still happen.
LLaMa-Tech
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I actually enjoyed this, only a little bit though.
and
I am SO angry I didn't go see it in 3D when it was in theatres. This movie was pretty darn good. Great cast.
AlternativeUlster
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I have only seen two movies the past couple of days (out of five):
Orphan - * 1/2 (sorry Bus, sure the twist was alright but I was expecting Sleepaway Camp huge. Like some minor touches like when the deaf girl takes off her hearing aid, the sound dissolves and the score comes up.)
Night of the Comet - *** 1/2 (Finally got to see this camp zombie classic. Much funnier than Zombieland in my opinion and is too much fun to miss. Saw it on a 35mm print that ended up breaking but was quickly fixed. MGM did a DVD release of it maybe a couple of years back. You should watch this.).
Orphan - * 1/2 (sorry Bus, sure the twist was alright but I was expecting Sleepaway Camp huge. Like some minor touches like when the deaf girl takes off her hearing aid, the sound dissolves and the score comes up.)
Night of the Comet - *** 1/2 (Finally got to see this camp zombie classic. Much funnier than Zombieland in my opinion and is too much fun to miss. Saw it on a 35mm print that ended up breaking but was quickly fixed. MGM did a DVD release of it maybe a couple of years back. You should watch this.).
roosters93
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Love Exposure - The 237 minute length turns some people off but it is worth it and so engrossing you hardly even notice. After the first viewing I'd probably give it 10/10
Saw a lot of movies this past week. Some of them I have more to say about than others but I tried to include something about each. I've tried to keep spoilers out though a short description of each one.
Thor At the Bus Stop - The movie is as awesome as the title. It's a very low budget indie film about Thor waiting for the bus and the various people he comes across. 8/10
Youth In Revolt - The Michael Cera playing Michael Cera playing Michael Cera film. An absolutely hilarious film from beginning to end. I only wish the trailer hadn't given away one of the funnier scenes late into the movie. 9/10
An Education - An inexperienced teenage girl starts dating a man quite a bit older than her. The story itself isn't exactly unique but the actors and characters are what elevates an otherwise ordinary plot. Alfred Molina is especially perfect as the dad and Carey Mulligan does a great job as the lead. Gaf will probably hate her though since she's dating Shia LaBeouf. 8/10
Calvin Marshall - Calvin's dream is to play in the majors. All he has to do is make his community college baseball team. The movie was pretty funny although Steve Zahn really is the one who carries it. The title character does have his moments. 7/10
Serious Moonlight - Cheryll Hines' directorial debut from the writer behind Waitress. I really wasn't a fan of Waitress and I felt pretty much the same way about this film. It had some humorous moments but I just don't think I like Shelly's dialogue. The lines often feel extremely forced to me. 5/10
Tobruk - This Czech film is an adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage. A book that I read when I was younger but pretty much don't remember a single thing about. The film takes place in Africa during WWII. I'm not always a fan of war films but this is one of the better ones I've seen. 8/10
Happy Ending - A woman who loves horror movies and hates romantic comedies finds her life following a cliche romcom plot. A really cute and funny movie that makes fun of the romcom cliches while at the same time paying respect to them. 9/10 May be my favorite movie from the entire week despite a few missing english subs.
Floored - Documentary about the Chicago trading floors. It was quite eye opening for me as I never really understood how this system went about. The documentary does a pretty good job of showing both the highs and the lows of the job and focuses a lot on how technology has changed the game. 7/10
Little Fish Strange Pond - Probably my least favorite film from this week. It felt a bit like an attempt at a David Lynch movie that fell really short. A pretty overacted movie that doesn't help when a main character (purposely) has a bad English accent the entire film. 4/10
Passenger Side - Two brothers drive around all day. It was an interesting film with an ending you could see a mile away. 6/10
The Scenesters - The best thing to call this movie is a film noir mockumentary. A film director takes up a job videotaping crime scenes as evidence for the police department as a serial killer starts knocking young women off. The other movie I had on the schedule turned out to be a 20 min cab ride out of the way so we went with this one. I honestly thought I was going to hate the movie based on the original description but loved it. The film is done in a pretty creative way even if the plot itself isn't very involved. And there's a HUGE nerd "easter egg" where I was the only one in the theater laughing. 8/10
Tenure - This was a last minute film we went to see after another one looked like we wouldn't get in. I'm kind of glad it worked out that was as this was another film I ended up really enjoying. This follows an English professor at a small college as he attempts to get tenure. David Koechner is especially wonderful in his role. The only thing is that Luke Wilson's character is maybe a little too similar to his one from Old School which may just be in part due to Wilson basically playing the same guy every film. 8/10
The Dungeon Masters - We didn't see this as part of the festival but bad weather had us looking for something to do. It's a decent documentary that I think has some major flaws. The three people they followed around were basically all extreme examples of people who play tabletop roleplaying games like D&D. It seemed like someone unfamiliar with this stuff would leave having an even worse opinion of people who partake in this stuff. I feel that they needed at least some focus on people who live perfectly normal lives outside of the games. The only one who had a "decent" life outside of it was a complete asshole who had some major physiological problems. All that would have been nice was 5 minutes worth of interviews with random people who didn't center their lives so much around the games. Personally, I've never played a TTRPG but I have lots of friends from college who did it quite a bit and I've seen those far too obsessed with the games but I've also seen those who treat it just like they would any videogame that they do one night a week and that's it. 6/10
Thor At the Bus Stop - The movie is as awesome as the title. It's a very low budget indie film about Thor waiting for the bus and the various people he comes across. 8/10
Youth In Revolt - The Michael Cera playing Michael Cera playing Michael Cera film. An absolutely hilarious film from beginning to end. I only wish the trailer hadn't given away one of the funnier scenes late into the movie. 9/10
An Education - An inexperienced teenage girl starts dating a man quite a bit older than her. The story itself isn't exactly unique but the actors and characters are what elevates an otherwise ordinary plot. Alfred Molina is especially perfect as the dad and Carey Mulligan does a great job as the lead. Gaf will probably hate her though since she's dating Shia LaBeouf. 8/10
Calvin Marshall - Calvin's dream is to play in the majors. All he has to do is make his community college baseball team. The movie was pretty funny although Steve Zahn really is the one who carries it. The title character does have his moments. 7/10
Serious Moonlight - Cheryll Hines' directorial debut from the writer behind Waitress. I really wasn't a fan of Waitress and I felt pretty much the same way about this film. It had some humorous moments but I just don't think I like Shelly's dialogue. The lines often feel extremely forced to me. 5/10
Tobruk - This Czech film is an adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage. A book that I read when I was younger but pretty much don't remember a single thing about. The film takes place in Africa during WWII. I'm not always a fan of war films but this is one of the better ones I've seen. 8/10
Happy Ending - A woman who loves horror movies and hates romantic comedies finds her life following a cliche romcom plot. A really cute and funny movie that makes fun of the romcom cliches while at the same time paying respect to them. 9/10 May be my favorite movie from the entire week despite a few missing english subs.
Floored - Documentary about the Chicago trading floors. It was quite eye opening for me as I never really understood how this system went about. The documentary does a pretty good job of showing both the highs and the lows of the job and focuses a lot on how technology has changed the game. 7/10
Little Fish Strange Pond - Probably my least favorite film from this week. It felt a bit like an attempt at a David Lynch movie that fell really short. A pretty overacted movie that doesn't help when a main character (purposely) has a bad English accent the entire film. 4/10
Passenger Side - Two brothers drive around all day. It was an interesting film with an ending you could see a mile away. 6/10
The Scenesters - The best thing to call this movie is a film noir mockumentary. A film director takes up a job videotaping crime scenes as evidence for the police department as a serial killer starts knocking young women off. The other movie I had on the schedule turned out to be a 20 min cab ride out of the way so we went with this one. I honestly thought I was going to hate the movie based on the original description but loved it. The film is done in a pretty creative way even if the plot itself isn't very involved. And there's a HUGE nerd "easter egg" where I was the only one in the theater laughing. 8/10
Tenure - This was a last minute film we went to see after another one looked like we wouldn't get in. I'm kind of glad it worked out that was as this was another film I ended up really enjoying. This follows an English professor at a small college as he attempts to get tenure. David Koechner is especially wonderful in his role. The only thing is that Luke Wilson's character is maybe a little too similar to his one from Old School which may just be in part due to Wilson basically playing the same guy every film. 8/10
The Dungeon Masters - We didn't see this as part of the festival but bad weather had us looking for something to do. It's a decent documentary that I think has some major flaws. The three people they followed around were basically all extreme examples of people who play tabletop roleplaying games like D&D. It seemed like someone unfamiliar with this stuff would leave having an even worse opinion of people who partake in this stuff. I feel that they needed at least some focus on people who live perfectly normal lives outside of the games. The only one who had a "decent" life outside of it was a complete asshole who had some major physiological problems. All that would have been nice was 5 minutes worth of interviews with random people who didn't center their lives so much around the games. Personally, I've never played a TTRPG but I have lots of friends from college who did it quite a bit and I've seen those far too obsessed with the games but I've also seen those who treat it just like they would any videogame that they do one night a week and that's it. 6/10
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Did you go to a film festival Ceres?
Rahxephon91
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Went and saw Evangelion 1.0 at The Music Box in Chicago. Was pretty cool. English dub was pretty good.
The Good the Bad and the Weird: It's certainly not in the same league as its inspiration but it is still pretty darn entertaining. Cinematography was amazing, which wasn't surprising considering it was coming from the man who directed A Bittersweet Life. The set pieces were great and the action scenes were very well done. Kang-ho Song definitely stole the show, his character was simply awesome. 8.5/10
Schindler's List: Can't believe I'd never seen this film, I've had it TIVO'd in HD for months now and decided to give it a go. It's essential viewing as far as I'm concerned, easily one of the best movies ever made. Everything about it was perfect, about the only problem I had was the hard to watch subject matter. Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of Amon Goeth was chilling, one of the most horrific antagonists in cinematic history, which is amazing when you consider the fact that this is a true story. 10/10
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Not the biggest fan of Chan-wook Park, I've seen and enjoyed Oldboy and JSA but I always found his praise to be undeserved. My opinions haven't really changed. The movie had brilliant cinematography, it looked fucking gorgeous, but the story and plot progression were really disjointed. I did like the lead actress' (Geum-ja Lee) performance, probably the best thing in the movie besides the way the film looked visually. 7/10
The Pit and the Pendulum: Absolutely adore Vincent Price and Edgar Allen Poe so I pretty confident that I'd enjoy the film. Pretty over the top and play like, which is a common criticism of films from that era, but it was quite good regardless. Vincent Price was amazing as usual. 8/10
Schindler's List: Can't believe I'd never seen this film, I've had it TIVO'd in HD for months now and decided to give it a go. It's essential viewing as far as I'm concerned, easily one of the best movies ever made. Everything about it was perfect, about the only problem I had was the hard to watch subject matter. Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of Amon Goeth was chilling, one of the most horrific antagonists in cinematic history, which is amazing when you consider the fact that this is a true story. 10/10
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Not the biggest fan of Chan-wook Park, I've seen and enjoyed Oldboy and JSA but I always found his praise to be undeserved. My opinions haven't really changed. The movie had brilliant cinematography, it looked fucking gorgeous, but the story and plot progression were really disjointed. I did like the lead actress' (Geum-ja Lee) performance, probably the best thing in the movie besides the way the film looked visually. 7/10
The Pit and the Pendulum: Absolutely adore Vincent Price and Edgar Allen Poe so I pretty confident that I'd enjoy the film. Pretty over the top and play like, which is a common criticism of films from that era, but it was quite good regardless. Vincent Price was amazing as usual. 8/10
AlternativeUlster
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Ceres said:
I skipped out this year for Fantastic Fest really burnt me out for a month. Also everything is coming in the next couple of months so I am not really worried about not missing out on something great.
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
First off holy fucking shit is Scarlet Johansson hot.
Second off wow do I want to go and visit Tokyo, Japan.
Anyway I found this film to be pretty underwhelming. Didn't really see what made it so amazing.
Overall it was above average but definitely not "film of the year" as many people praise it to be.
The first 30 minutes of this movie was pretty good.
But the rest :lol! Seriously I couldn't finish it it was so horrible.
Overall it was :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol !
Fallout-NL
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Flying_Phoenix said:
Shame, it is amazing though.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
harSon said:
It's Spielberg's masterpiece and in my opinion the most important film ever made. I've written an essay on its significance as a document which promoted widespread remembrance. It really is amazing what that film achieved.
Expendable.
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watch Whatever Works. meh. Vicky Cristina Barcelona was so good and this was disappointing.
bumbillbee
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Flying_Phoenix said:
The first 30 minutes of this movie was pretty good.
But the rest :lol! Seriously I couldn't finish it it was so horrible.
Overall it was :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol !
It is :lol , but god I love this movie. Watch it with the commentary, it's mind-blowing. And finish the movie. And watch The Holy Mountain, which is even more awesome and :lol .
Flying_Phoenix
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suEcide said:
Where do I even begin? If you really want me true I'll try to explain it, but there's so much I need to explain I don't even know how to.
Expendable.
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TheChaos said:
He is most definitely talking about
the Tornado
My vote for best final shot of the year.
I was actually under-hyped because of all the hype, but it was actually much better and creepier than I expected.
The drag scene scared the shit out of me.
I didn't know it was possible to mess up a robot war terminator movie with Christian Bale, but I was proven wrong.
My Halloween tradition. Favorite horror movie ever, right next to Evil Dead 2. This year I watched the bluray and it was, of course, awesome.
AlternativeUlster said:
Yeah, we made AFF part of a vacation as we're from NY. Had an airline voucher expiring in the middle of November so were looking for something to do. AFF just happened to be an ideal location and time. My husband can't take vacation time from like January-August which elimated a lot of festivals and we wanted to go somewhere warm so Toronto FF was out of the question (and is driving distance for us anyway). We liked Austin so much that it's become part of the short list of cities we're looking to move to.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Ceres said:
If you do, let me know. I will show you around town.
I just watched this last night:
Pretty great film all through out. Would give **** out of *****. Ending isn't as shocking as Fat Girl's but still elevates the film to near classic level. I think Michael Haneke might have taken some elements from this film and used it for The Piano Teacher which I think is one of the finest films of this decade. I need to watch more Catherine Breillat films, that is for sure.
Choke on the Magic
Banned
Paranormal Activity- Pretty creepy. Well put together for the budget they used.
Zombieland- If you haven't seen it you should. As a zombie film it's okay, as a comedy it's pretty funny, but what makes this movie awesome is the cameo
which in my opinion is the best cameo of all time.
Dante 01- French Sci Fi horror. It was okay.
Pandorum- I can't say enough good things about this movie. Whether you like scifi, horror, or both this movie is great. GO SEE THIS MOVIE! Should be in the dollar theatres now.
Unforgiven- Unforgivenly awesome still.
Zombieland- If you haven't seen it you should. As a zombie film it's okay, as a comedy it's pretty funny, but what makes this movie awesome is the cameo
Bill Murray
Dante 01- French Sci Fi horror. It was okay.
Pandorum- I can't say enough good things about this movie. Whether you like scifi, horror, or both this movie is great. GO SEE THIS MOVIE! Should be in the dollar theatres now.
Unforgiven- Unforgivenly awesome still.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Brick (2005)- Really had no idea what it would be about other than being mentioned many times in the "netflix dope movie recommendation" thread. I guess you could consider it a detective movie with teenagers. At first I was kind of put off by the quirky dialogue. After a while I started to really enjoy it because of its awesome cinematography and pacing. Kind of surprised I hadn't heard of it until a week ago as its totally my kind of movie. It really was a lot of fun to watch.
Paranoia Park (2007)- As a big fan of Gus Van Sant (Jerry is one of my favorite films of all time) I was kind of disappointed. It just felt meandering and didn't have any kind of satisfying conclusion. I did like the music though.
Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) (2009)- Really had no clue what it was about upon watching it. It was a really gripping Swedish thriller/mystery, but I kind of thought it could have lost the last 20 mins or so. Essentially it was about this man who has to investigate a missing person case that occurred like 40 years ago. Lots of twists and turns.
Paranoia Park (2007)- As a big fan of Gus Van Sant (Jerry is one of my favorite films of all time) I was kind of disappointed. It just felt meandering and didn't have any kind of satisfying conclusion. I did like the music though.
Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) (2009)- Really had no clue what it was about upon watching it. It was a really gripping Swedish thriller/mystery, but I kind of thought it could have lost the last 20 mins or so. Essentially it was about this man who has to investigate a missing person case that occurred like 40 years ago. Lots of twists and turns.
Uhtred
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I watched The New World over the weekend on blu. If you guys read reviews, it 70% hate. I thought it was a very very good movie. I was never bored, I thought the acting was A+. Anyways if you liked the pacing of The Thin Red Line, check this movie out.
Colin Ferrell and Chrisyian Bale Shine like you have never seen them. Although Bale is only in it for the last hour of a two hour forty min movie. I really enjoyed it, but I think its because I got what the point was.
Colin Ferrell and Chrisyian Bale Shine like you have never seen them. Although Bale is only in it for the last hour of a two hour forty min movie. I really enjoyed it, but I think its because I got what the point was.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
shesha said:
The New World I have noticed is on tons of top 10 of the decade lists. I will probably check it out before the year drops. Tonight I am going to see a 35mm print of Repulsion. Poor Polanski.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
**** out of *****
The last single show went from being a really good film to a great film. Explains everything which I didn't expect it to do.
Continuing my modern Asian film run through, watched The Chaser (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/) and quite enjoyed it. There are some fairly obvious plot holes but everything else is top notch. It's very similar to Memories of Murder, I recommend anyone who liked that film or Korean cinema in general to check it out. 9/10
Will defiantly check it out. Memories of Murder is probably my favorite crime film.harSon said:
Continuing my modern Asian film run through, watched The Chaser (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/) and quite enjoyed it. There are some fairly obvious plot holes but everything else is top notch. It's very similar to Memories of Murder, I recommend anyone who liked that film or Korean cinema in general to check it out. 9/10
Anyone have other good recent Korean film recommendations?
corpserot said:
I just watched The Good The Bad and The Weird, I'd definitely check that out if you haven't seen it.
I plan on watching Madeo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216496/) tomorrow which is directed by Joon-ho Bong, director of Memories of Murder and The Host. I'll let you know if its good.
What movies have you seen?
I haven't seen much outside of the mainstream stuff, basically:
Oldboy
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Host
Memories of Murder
JSA
A Bittersweet Life
The Good The Bad and the Weird
The Chaser
Once Upon a time a Highschool
Friend (Chingoo)
Save the Green Planet
A Tale of Two Sisters
Shiri
I'd recommend all of them except for maybe Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, other people enjoyed it but I found it to be average.
)Treasure of Sierra Madre: Just watched this in my film class, was really surprised at the fact that I really enjoyed it, as most of the stuff we watch in that class is average at best.
Cube: I liked this movie, but felt it kinda lacked in the gore factor. I'm not even a fan of gory movies or anything, but if you're gonna do one you should at least go all the way. Don't want to poo-poo this too much though it was a decent movie with an intresting premise, and leaves me wanting to watch it's sequels (I hear this is a mistake but whatever I'm intrigued.)
Cube: I liked this movie, but felt it kinda lacked in the gore factor. I'm not even a fan of gory movies or anything, but if you're gonna do one you should at least go all the way. Don't want to poo-poo this too much though it was a decent movie with an intresting premise, and leaves me wanting to watch it's sequels (I hear this is a mistake but whatever I'm intrigued.)
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