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General => General Forum => Topic started by: Spymon on June 03, 2004, 10:26:44 pm
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I rented Goodbye Lenin yesterday, a truly fantastic German film about the fall of the Berlin wall. Very funny, very sad and doesn't hide from the politics. It also feels like a very personal film. Definitely worth watching.
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they translated it into english? I wanted to watch it with my girlfriend but she doesnt know german... :-/
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I'd been looking to see it for a while. It was always on in Paris, but having minimal skills in both French and German it was a no no. Then I just popped into my local and crappy Blockbuster video and there it was nicely subbed into English.
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cool, i heard it was good.
now the question is if the german dvd will have english subs :x
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i watched Army of Darkness recently. Now, ok, ok, its a crap film but hilarious. and a well made crap film. its worth a looksee if you havent already.
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I got Minority Report and Gangs of New York on DVD today. Nice and cheap and good.
I might rent Swimming Pool at the weekend, I'll let the two people who post here know if it was any good.
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Army of darkness a crap movie?! :o
heathen! it's a great movie!
today i watched shaft. the remake that is. it was funny :D
good: the big lebowsky (with a pitcher of white russian), american history x, three kings, life of brian, run lola run, american beauty, pulp fiction
there's more but I forget...
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all B movies fall under the "crap" category. its not a dis tot he movie itself, as i am a HUGE crap movie fan. try watching Top Secret sometime.
i loved American History X, but never got why Pulp Fiction was so popular. (look i took time to capitalize today!)
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Well pulp fiction is popular because it's a classic. and funny to boot.
another (crap if it's cryptic. good if it's me) movie was from dusk till dawn.
oh, forgot fight club
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Pulp Fiction is great, shame about the rest of Tarantino's movies. Not that they are unexpectedly good though.
Almost all the Coen brothers movies are unexpectedly good.
Soderbergh's version of Solaris was unexpectedly good.
Plus anything by Spike Jonze and his wife Sofia Coppola. Adaptaion was criminally underated and I'm looking forward to catching Lost in Translation again.
I would also mention Wong Kar Wai films but then you know they'll be good before you even see them.
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I did enjoy adaptation! And I will have to go see lost in translation at some point. another noteworthy director is stanley kubrik. a clockwork orange anybody? :D
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I have the little kubrick box set. Not sure if he's a true cinematic genius though as much as I enjoy his films. Goodbye Lenin had a lot of kubrick references in. Dr. Strangelove is probably one of my favourite films that Kubrick did. It's just too funny.
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Dr. Strangelove is genius. I mean a guy riding a freaking bomb wearing a cowboy hat? It was histerical. And I love my english teacher for watching it in class :D
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Hmmm... one of my favorite movies has to be Boodock Saints... if you havn't seen it, rent it... if you cant find it in the rental place... go BUY it... I can garauntee you will like it if you like Action/Comedy. It has a few good stars, and is well directed. If you liked Pulp Fiction, or Resevior Dogs, I can almost (for a fact), know you will like this movie.
Its about two Irish Brothers that go on a mafia killing spree. They are cleaning up the streets of South Boston... its SWEET. (Oh yeah It also remided me of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for some reason)
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Haha!!
I knew a french girl who LOVED that movie. She made me watch it with her. I have to admit that it is very good. Danzig was right with his suggestion, if you like those kind of movies, you will love the Boondock Saints.
Another movie that I did not expect to like but really fell in love with was Spy Games. I went to see it in the theater on a whim (I didn't even read a single review about it) and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a strange film because it's essentially 2 hours of background info building up for 5 minutes of movie. :)
-Tofu
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It seems that 2046 will be out this year for real unless its genius director decides to edit the film into a totally new one. For now you can view clips thanks to this Dutch website. http://www.cinema.nl/cinema/persons/index.jsp?persons=6162498
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last night my friends went to the theatre and saw The Saddest Music in the World. its has isabella rosselini (!!!) and its such a bizarre movie and funny and visually i thought it was great. but very bizarre. go check it out!
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I saw Woman under the Influence. Such an amazing film. Some people just have true talent when it comes to making movies.
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what is it about?
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It's about a woman who has a mental illness and the effect it has on her family, and the things that trigger off her breakdown and the results it causes.
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saw zatoichi the other day. it was pretty entertaining :D
I mean a blind old man who kills people with a blade hidden inside his cane? that's COOL
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woa..blind man goes on a rampage...that IS cool
spymon's movie sounds good.
this thread should be called "crypticgimp, kabbage and spymon's chat" as we are the only ones talking. special guests are those we chimed in as well.
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Yes, Kitano is always great. zatoichi was fun, saw that a few months back with some rather yucky subs on it.
I still need to see Dolls.
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i just watched dry wood fierce fire and that was a funny movie.
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look cryptic, I added the "real" topic :D
just showed full metal jacket to my gf, that's another good movie (has it been mentioned already) by kubrik.
another movie i enjoyed recently was "the stepford wives" (even though it was a little inconsistent...)
haven't really laughed that hard in a movie theatre for a while... of course that was shrek 2.
if you guys havent seen battle royal you should see it. it's got that japanese girl in it that plays the crazy "spiky metal ball at the end of a chain" weapon wielding subordinate of lucy liu in kill bill.
and yes, i wrote the above to hurt your eyes. :P
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full metal jacket was definitely a good one...
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I saw Battle Royale ages ago. It was even on TV here a while back.
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hum this afternoon i saw Twisted (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/twisted/)
it's really nice , and i win against my brother to find the culprit [smiley=distovei.gif]
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Pulp Fiction - definatly a classic! I still laugh and have seen it a million times
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I saw Dolls, possibly one of the best films of recent times.
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Anybody see the city of lost children?
Interesting movie.
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I did enjoy adaptation! And I will have to go see lost in translation at some point. another noteworthy director is stanley kubrik. a clockwork orange anybody? :D
You should check out "Eternal Sunshine (of a spottless mind)", the next film from Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malcovich)...
Anybody see the city of lost children?
Interesting movie.
I have seen it... It's has a dark gritty feel, but the story is more lighthearted... It's a good film...
One of my favorite movies of all time is "Jacobs Ladder"... Just a briliant concept IMO...
;)
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City of Lost Children is interesting. Like Amelie and Delicatessen the guy who makes these films, Jeunet (excuse spelling) is amazing at creating worlds but it seems that with the exception of Amelie he wasn't amazing at filling them.
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Equilibrium and Boondock Saints great movies
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city of lost children was good..funny in a dark sort of way but at times i was yawning as it seemed to bre slow.
i recently saw snatch. funny and i think filmed very well.
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" i recently saw snatch. funny and i think filmed very well."
Guy Ritchie should be shot. No debate.
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ahaha he's married to madonna right?
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Indeed he is. ::)
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gotcha..i dont like that guy (ahahaha pun) but it was a brad pitt movie!
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/me dies at the joke and quickly sends Mr. Pitt into a large cave and seals the entrance shut thus protecting future generations from evil... :-X
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noooo..braaaadd! and you were so sexy in fight club! *seals self in cave with brad pitt*
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[smiley=meganne.gif]
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A recent movie for me I had hopes for, was Shawn of the Dead. After all I always wondered why zombies who walk so slow and can be killed by blunt trauma to the head would be so scary to people. Zombie comedies are not my usual cup of tea, but it was a decent turn considering recent zombie movies.
For one of my all time favorite movies I walked into knowing nothing about Dark City. It was pushing the animation and ideas of the time.
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this i sorta related to this but only because it has to do with a movie. saw delovely..it was terrible. the only good bit was elvis costello, robbie williams and surprisingly, sheryl crow doing numbers in the film
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has anyone seen "Love me if you dare"? it looked interesting.
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Spirited Away was on sale so I got that today.
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Just watched "A Midsummer Night's Rave" Thus a hash of the bard's tale in a 2000 something rave. It was cute.
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roman holiday baby ciao
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roman holiday baby ciao
Great movie. I also love My Fair Lady.
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thats good too...
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I said, "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
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lol noo dont put that song in my head! some like it hot and so do i
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Cool Hand Luke was a good movie
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i dont think i have seen it..whats it about?
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well the start of the movie has the main character walking down a street with a pipe cutter cutting down all the parking meters till the cops catch him
Then he gets stuck in a texas chain gang, where they do everything they can to crack his spirits.
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sounds..depressing....
has anyone seen the french films red white and blue? or at least it hink those were their names.
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Maybe I like depressing. Seeing how bad someone's life can suck makes mine look more appealing?
Nah, I think I liked it because Paul Newman was kind of funny at the start because he always did something to make his time there worse just because he was bored.
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I just saw (The) 25th hour with Edward Norton. I'm not really sure if I liked it, but it still has me thinking about stuff. If nothing else it was a good movie because it got me to think. (gasp)
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i got castle in the sky lie a yar ago... watched it yesterday XD it wasd pretty good seeing as it was only 10 dollars at some yardsale
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kabbage..thinking? (gasp) one of my favourites is cat on a hot tin roof..another newman classic (and no i liked it for its content not just because paul takes off his shirt and shows his sex bod in it!)
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i just saw wimbledon yesterday. it was actually an unexpectedly good movie. it did a very good job conveying the excitement of the tournament. and it had a cheesy but still appreciable love story :x >_> i'm such a sucker
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It was a good movie. Wimbledon was amazingly good for what it is. I liked the brother who places the bets. But yes it actually made tennis exciting to watch. Which is amazing for me since I hate sports movies usually.
I have to say it has been a dry week other than that for new movies worth watching. for me.
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my friend wants me to watch wimbledon..but i still need to recover from seeing that guy's ass in a knight's tale...no good movies tho..fight club did come on tv but my mom didnt want to watch it as she "didnt get it"
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I watched Dogville the other night, that was an interesting film. It's narrated like a children's tale and is set in a small American town that resembles a theatre stage. It seems to be all about America and slaves and capitalism and is rather odd indeed.
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wow..i just re watched the gods must be crazy..i still crack up at that movie
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The Thing (1982 version by wes craven) is a great movie. I had forgotten about it till http://www.userfriendly.org started doing a side story about it. Still has great effects for a movie that aged. Sorta like blade runners backgrounds still look better than most CG backgrounds today.
I kind of like the orginial as well, but this is definately the better movie to watch all the way through. The 50s version was a movie so lame it has to be a classic.
You know like attack of the how ever many foot Amazon woman. etc.
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the blob is my favourite horror film of all. its so lame but hey it has its own theme song!
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The blob was great. Horrid but great. In that same time frame I always get a kick out of "The day the earth stood still" I wish they would make a new version but use the correct story where GORT is the master and Klatu was his servent.
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the body snatchers......in 3D
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I watched Tokyo Godfathers. That was an interesting take on feel good christmas movies.
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Buster keaton's "One Week" I never get tired of his antics though.
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I haven't seen it this week or anything, but has anyone watched the preview for Spanglish which is an Adam Sandler movie? I never really thought of him trying to move into drama comedy.... I guess punch drunk love got him pushed in that direction?
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I watched Tokyo Godfathers. That was an interesting take on feel good christmas movies.
I just saw that the other day. I loved it!
Next up is Millenium Actress.
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I'm sitting here watching "the substitute' and you know, for an old movie its pretty good. I love the yo-yo scene...
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The big hit - It was way more fun than most action movies and honestly Lou Diamond was great in it. "Who could be that stupid?" as he said himself. I found it to be just as lame a story as the previews would lead you to believe, but all the people in it were so cartoonish they they were likeable and enjoyable to watch.
Much better than I thought it would be.
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I watched this movie called "Smile" yesterday. Heres the IMDB summary.
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ever showing her face, but her friendship with Katie helps her start to see life in a new way.
I was quite surprised at how good it was and the fact that I'd never heard of it before. I think its one of the most realistic views I've ever seen of life in China portrayed in a movie. I started watching it expecting to hate it, but it turned out to be quite good actually. Kind of like one of those low budget films that comes out of nowhere from the Sundance film festival and ends up being unexpectedly good.