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Scullibundo said:
Snowman, how we going on your attempt to watch Catch Me If You Can and rewatch Munich, and SPR?

In the mean time I will throw in one of my favourite films that if you haven't seen I'm absolutely positive you will adore. I've mentioned the film time and time again in these threads to no response. It is absolutely one of the best love letters to film and film history you will ever see.

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You can get it very cheap of amazon, though I should warn you that some dvds don't do the subtitles (I've had to use VLC every time I've watched it over the years to enable subs).
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i'm not sure why you love munich so much. it kept hammering at the ''we're just as bad as them!'' point. perhaps it would've worked better if spielberg had just ''picked'' a side. i'm sure we can decide for ourselves what we think of the israelis and what is right or wrong.

it's hard to go back to saving private ryan for me. i absolutely loved it when i first saw it, but i did a recent rewatch and i'm pretty sure there's a lot of stuff that shouldn't even be in there. what purpose do the opening and ending scene serve? couldn't that just be shown in the wwii timeline, that ryan was so thankful? the most pointless scene of them all, though, is the one with the typewriter finding out that three of the ryan brothers have been killed and everything that happens afterwards (<3 bryan cranston, though). this takes up a full eight minutes or so. why not just reduce it to hanks receiving a telegraph in which he and his men are told they have to save ryan? that would've been simpler and to the point.

also, i did a thin red line (my favorite war film together with apocalypse now) rewatch last night and i found the battle for guadalcanal to be better than anything in ryan. there's this, and i'm quoting ebert here, wonderful sense of geography. the japanese are somewhere on the top of the hill, but no one really knows where. it takes up the middle portion of the film and it really is quite something.

catch me if you can is great stuff, though.
 
I've just listened to someone watching Love Actually in the next room.

Rarely does a film beat the viewer so fucking hard with its soundtrack.
 
I saw Munich last night. What an uneven script. The ending wasn't earned. Bana's performance got worse as the movie progressed. It felt rushed at the end. Dialogue was great but the script or plot was uneven. It was beautifully shot but a very uneven movie. I was very disappointed.

Also saw half of too big to fail and it was terrible.
 
bud said:
i'm not sure why you love munich so much. it kept hammering at the ''we're just as bad as them!'' point. perhaps it would've worked better if spielberg had just ''picked'' a side. i'm sure we can decide for ourselves what we think of the israelis and what is right or wrong.

it's hard to go back to saving private ryan for me. i absolutely loved it when i first saw it, but i did a recent rewatch and i'm pretty sure there's a lot of stuff that shouldn't even be in there. what purpose do the opening and ending scene serve? couldn't that just be shown in the wwii timeline, that ryan was so thankful? the most pointless scene of them all, though, is the one with the typewriter finding out that three of the ryan brothers have been killed and everything that happens afterwards (<3 bryan cranston, though). this takes up a full eight minutes or so. why not just reduce it to hanks receiving a telegraph in which he and his men are told they have to save ryan? that would've been simpler and to the point.

also, i did a thin red line (my favorite war film together with apocalypse now) rewatch last night and i found the battle for guadalcanal to be better than anything in ryan. there's this, and i'm quoting ebert here, wonderful sense of geography. the japanese are somewhere on the top of the hill, but no one really knows where. it takes up the middle portion of the film and it really is quite something.

catch me if you can is great stuff, though.
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I've always agreed about the bookends to Saving Private Ryan. They're completely unnecessary and do nothing but weaken the film. That said, everything contained within those ugly borders is excellent. And there is no way TTRL's battle on the hills is even half as affecting or visceral as the beach landing in SPR.

My favourite moment in SPR though is when they're in the church and Giovanni Ribisi's character tells the story about his relationship with his mother. It was one of the great human moments that remind me why I love Spielberg so much. Just like the father/son table scene in Jaws.

As for Munich, I don't think it kept hammering the 'we're just as bad as them!' point. It had characters that operated as counterpoints to the issues as hand, putting good arguments and moral conundrums on either side. I think the easy way out would have been to pick a side and many people expected Spielberg to pick a side. The film is great on many levels. It is easily the best spy thriller of the last decade and the best 70s period piece. It is imo Spielberg's most beautifully constructed film - aesthetically speaking, whilst showing incredible moments of restraint from him. The characters are all fleshed out wonderfully and it has my favourite performance from Geoffrey Rush ever. A
 
Scullibundo said:
As for Munich, I don't think it kept hammering the 'we're just as bad as them!' point. It had characters that operated as counterpoints to the issues as hand, putting good arguments and moral conundrums on either side. I think the easy way out would have been to pick a side and many people expected Spielberg to pick a side. The film is great on many levels. It is easily the best spy thriller of the last decade and the best 70s period piece. It is imo Spielberg's most beautifully constructed film - aesthetically speaking, whilst showing incredible moments of restraint from him. The characters are all fleshed out wonderfully and it has my favourite performance from Geoffrey Rush ever. A
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Agreed 100%
 
I just want to say that Tarkovsky is the most boring, pretentious director in the history of film. It took me 5 separate sittings to finish Solaris and like 3 or 4 for Andrei Rublev.
 
Drive Angry - William Fichtner. Amazing.
The truck scene had me laughing like mad.
His expressions and gestures just add to it all. So ridiculous yet so awesome. It would have been really bad without him. He made the movie worthwhile.

Constantine - Started strong, then fizzled out. I liked the tone and atmosphere the most. Keanu has always been one of my favourite actors, even though he's not a great actor, simply because I grew up watching films of his like Bill & Ted, Speed and The Matrix.

Battle: Los Angeles - So conflicted. It was okay. I've been waiting for a big budget alien invasion movie for a long time, but I was still disappointed with this. The trailer for the movie was much better. Also, I hate shaky cameras.
 
The White Ribbon - I remembered I have a DVD of this so I figure I watch this -- what I find interesting is the film sets it up to have a lot happen but then it doesn't. The open-ended nature leaves room for interpretation
there could be any number of people who caused the events of the film -- even the narrator himself. I'm inclined to think it's the pastor because he's tired of punishing his own children cruelly, so he punishes other people's children. Yet the narrator's line of questioning had me almost wondering if he were going to confess his involvement to two of the pastor's children. But who knows.
I'm not sure I'm exactly well-versed in films as some of you are but there were elements of Kurosawa (the feudal way of life for the village, loyalty to a master in this case a Baron) and Hitchcock (the foreboding sense of gloom, mysterious happenings).
 
Bowflex said:
I just want to say that Tarkovsky is the most boring, pretentious director in the history of film. It took me 5 separate sittings to finish Solaris and like 3 or 4 for Andrei Rublev.
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Sorry to hear that. Good news for you is that they make meds for people with ADHD now. Should invest in some.



;P
 
King of Kong

Really good! I thoght the film was great, even though you could guess what was going to happen.
Although, how much of it was real? I mean the score that billy posted from the video was super dodgy, and the fact that they just take his word for it when he can't back it up in person? Fucking circle jerkers. He was hilarious to watch though, I don't know how much was for show.

4/5
 
Apdiddy said:
The White Ribbon - I remembered I have a DVD of this so I figure I watch this -- what I find interesting is the film sets it up to have a lot happen but then it doesn't. The open-ended nature leaves room for interpretation
there could be any number of people who caused the events of the film -- even the narrator himself. I'm inclined to think it's the pastor because he's tired of punishing his own children cruelly, so he punishes other people's children. Yet the narrator's line of questioning had me almost wondering if he were going to confess his involvement to two of the pastor's children. But who knows.
I'm not sure I'm exactly well-versed in films as some of you are but there were elements of Kurosawa (the feudal way of life for the village, loyalty to a master in this case a Baron) and Hitchcock (the foreboding sense of gloom, mysterious happenings).
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I don't know how much the rest of you know about Haneke (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of his cinema. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by just revealing the culprit. If you screw the audience in an European movie, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

Anyway it was pretty clear to me when I watched it that it was
the children. Although as often in Haneke's films, there is room for interpretation and the main point is not the whodunnit anyway.
 
CaptYamato said:
Sorry to hear that. Good news for you is that they make meds for people with ADHD now. Should invest in some.



;P
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Hey I can watch the most plodding of films as long as they have substance. I'm not a guns and tits guy. Look at my top 30 films a few pages back.
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Just terrible. If they removed all the padding (e.g. the Spaniards - what is their role?) then it would be like 20 minutes long.
 
Bowflex said:
I just want to say that Tarkovsky is the most boring, pretentious director in the history of film. It took me 5 separate sittings to finish Solaris and like 3 or 4 for Andrei Rublev.
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How is he pretentious?
 
BaronLundi said:
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Haneke (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of his cinema. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by just revealing the culprit. If you screw the audience in an European movie, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

Anyway it was pretty clear to me when I watched it that it was
the children. Although as often in Haneke's films, there is room for interpretation and the main point is not the whodunnit anyway.
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Regarding The White Ribbon:

I also thought it was the children. I feel like Haneke never gives children a pass in his movies, so I wouldn't put it past him. I am also not familiar with the dates, but I thought that by having the kids take part in such horrific acts that it was some kind of reference to the origins of ... THAT generation of Germans, but I guess there are douche bags in all generations.
 
Bowflex said:
I just want to say that Tarkovsky is the most boring, pretentious director in the history of film. It took me 5 separate sittings to finish Solaris and like 3 or 4 for Andrei Rublev.
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At least he's not Brett Ratner.
 
I'm going to check out the later Harry Potter movies soon.

I watched the first few movies when I was still young. I think the only one I would call good is Prisoner of Azkaban. Although, the earlier ones did do a great job of adapting Harry Potter and bringing it to life (I wonder what my opinion of those would be now that I'm no longer 12).

I saw a trailer for Deathly Hallows Part 2 and feel like catching up. Thought the fourth and fifth movies were crap though. Been a few years now. I've got the sixth and Deathly Hallows Part 1 waiting.

Also, something I forgot for my last post:

Tangled - Great movie. I was really impressed. Likeable characters with some great scenes.
The Lantern scene is magnificent. I was surprised to see it since this is an event that I love watching in real life. A nice surprise.
 
_Isaac said:
Regarding The White Ribbon:

I also thought it was the children. I feel like Haneke never gives children a pass in his movies, so I wouldn't put it past him. I am also not familiar with the dates, but I thought that by having the kids take part in such horrific acts that it was some kind of reference to the origins of ... THAT generation of Germans, but I guess there are douche bags in all generations.
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My feelings exactly.

Maybe I shouldn't try gaming sides jokes around these parts :)
 
Bowflex said:
Hey I can watch the most plodding of films as long as they have substance. I'm not a guns and tits guy. Look at my top 30 films a few pages back.
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Ok, you say they lack substance; how does that make him pretentious?
 
CaptYamato said:
Ok, you say they lack substance; how does that make him pretentious?
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I would have to rewatch some of his films since its been awhile to explain this to you, but when I was going through my Tarkovsky marathon that was one very noticeable quality to his work.

Edit: a few things off the top of my head....how he embellishes his films with subtle symbolism and psychology (Solaris in particular) and uses them as the main mechanism for the narrative instead of creating a diverse mix of subtleties and easily digestable themes. He's too minimal for his own good. His dialogue (at least in the films I've seen) is ambiguous and nebulous in a way that's detrimental to his films. Maybe I still need to watch Stalker, but from the 3 films of his that I've seen, I found them highly pretentious
 
Kam said:
Also, something I forgot for my last post:

Tangled - Great movie. I was really impressed. Likeable characters with some great scenes.
The Lantern scene is magnificent. I was surprised to see it since this is an event that I love watching in real life. A nice surprise.
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Hold up.
You mean there's a kingdom out there with a missing princess that sends out thousands of lanterns every year on her birthday?
 
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Never saw the original but this was... a weird movie. It had a lot of cliches and the ending was so bad and predictable. Fairly gory and a lot of situations reminded me of Saw (and Darren Lynn Bousman directed Saw II - IV). So yeah, not good. I think it hasn't come out in the US yet but I don't expect this to be a hit. Brianna Evigan is in this movie and I thought she was Jersey Shore's Jwow until I read the cast credits online. They look so much alike.

The only thing I was liked about this was
the survivors. I didn't expect so many, specially since the slutty one made it. I thought she was going to die first lol
 
Bowflex said:
I would have to rewatch some of his films since its been awhile to explain this to you, but when I was going through my Tarkovsky marathon that was one very noticeable quality to his work.

Edit: a few things off the top of my head....how he embellishes his films with subtle symbolism and psychology (Solaris in particular) and uses them as the main mechanism for the narrative instead of creating a diverse mix of subtleties and easily digestable themes. He's too minimal for his own good. His dialogue (at least in the films I've seen) is ambiguous and nebulous in a way that's detrimental to his films. Maybe I still need to watch Stalker, but from the 3 films of his that I've seen, I found them highly pretentious
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It sounds like you don't like him because you have to think. That isn't pretentious.
 
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I originally watched this movie for the lulz. It's a cliched heist movie. T.I. and Idris Elba are the only reasons to even sit through it. Chris Brown threw a chair out a window, too, which cracked me up.
 
SaintZ said:
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Never saw the original but this was... a weird movie. It had a lot of cliches and the ending was so bad and predictable. Fairly gory and a lot of situations reminded me of Saw (and Darren Lynn Bousman directed Saw II - IV). So yeah, not good. I think it hasn't come out in the US yet but I don't expect this to be a hit. Brianna Evigan is in this movie and I thought she was Jersey Shore's Jwow until I read the cast credits online. They look so much alike.

The only thing I was liked about this was
the survivors. I didn't expect so many, specially since the slutty one made it. I thought she was going to die first lol
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Saw this back in September. I thought it was quite good.
 
_Isaac said:
Hold up.
You mean there's a kingdom out there with a missing princess that sends out thousands of lanterns every year on her birthday?
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Haha. Nah, there's no such thing as that. There is a lantern festival however. Some people write down wishes or hopes on the lanterns too. It's a Chinese tradition and is done in a few other countries. Quite amazing. I think that's what influenced Tangled. At least, it's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that scene.
 
Fight Club twice earlier tonight: 1st on BR, then on the big screen

First time watching it, and I gotta say it was alright. I don't think it was Fincher's best work and I just found it to be average at best
 
lazybones18 said:
Fight Club twice earlier tonight: 1st on BR, then on the big screen

First time watching it, and I gotta say it was alright. I don't think it was Fincher's best work and I just found it to be average at best
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Quickly tell me what you consider to be good movies if Fight Club is - at its best, average.
 
Never Back Down. Better then expected. Some fighting scene are really well shot. Plus, I feared it would be more teenagish ala American Pie or something. Of course, it's full of cliche, predectible plot twist and dull characters, but it was more entertaining and overall better than I thought it would
 
lazybones18 said:
Fight Club twice earlier tonight: 1st on BR, then on the big screen

First time watching it, and I gotta say it was alright. I don't think it was Fincher's best work and I just found it to be average at best
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Hmmm.
 
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Rewatched this again a few days ago, it's probably been years since my last viewing. Still one of my favourite movies, never fails to inspire awe and tears.
 
Discotheque said:
I like Seven, Zodiac, The Game and Social Network more than Fight Club.
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Same (except for The Game which I didn't care for).

And Fight club really does nothing for me. On top of that <hipster mode on> it ruined the Pixies </hipster mode off> :)
 
Taken

Ugh...just got done watching this and wanted to express my disgust. All of the characters are phony and bland. They don't seem realistic in any way...just generic Hollywood characters.

Also, the action is flmed horriibly, making it very hard to follow. The quick cuts and extremely unsteady camera nearly made me nauseas.

I seem to recall hearing a lot of people say they liked this movie when it was released. It just amazes me how easily entertained some people are. This movie was a waste of my time.
 
ArachosiA 78 said:
Taken

Ugh...just got done watching this and wanted to express my disgust. All of the characters are phony and bland. They don't seem realistic in any way...just generic Hollywood characters.

Also, the action is flmed horriibly, making it very hard to follow. The quick cuts and extremely unsteady camera nearly made me nauseas.

I seem to recall hearing a lot of people say they liked this movie when it was released. It just amazes me how easily entertained some people are. This movie was a waste of my time.
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I thought it was pretty bad as well. It had some seriously badass scenes but it tried to take itself way too seriously.
 
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