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Post by Lump on Dec 13, 2010 21:07:51 GMT -8
OH, AND THIS SHOULD APPEAL TO EVERYONE RIGHT?!: HIGH FIDELITY! (my second favorite movie behind Life Aquatic, then Wet Hot American Summer is right behind that)
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Post by wolfhat on Dec 13, 2010 22:22:17 GMT -8
Lumpy, if you're a Buscemi fan, you have to check out Boardwalk Empire if you haven't already. It's amazing.
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Post by Lump on Dec 13, 2010 22:40:07 GMT -8
I KNOW! Everyone's telling me I need to see it. I'll make it a point to. This not-getting-HBO-for-free-anymore is killing me.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Dec 14, 2010 8:42:02 GMT -8
I love Wes Anderson so much, but I never loved Life Aquatic honestly. That movie fell apart in the third act worse than any movie I can think of right now.
I've seen The Big Lebowksi probably 250 times; there was a period of about four months one time where I watched it every single night (I did the same thing with Barton Fink at another time in my life). Certainly my favorite Coen Brothers film is Miller's Crossing, though.
Recently loved Jeunet's Micmacs a Tire Larigot; very close in tone to Amelie without being as precious. Coming in January, I'm very VERY excited about the new Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Belleville) film 'The Illusionist'.
Oh and Crispin Glover is coming back to Portland to screen the first two films of his trilogy, 'What is It?' and 'IT IS FINE! Everything is Fine.' in late January as well. I've seen 'What Is It?' twice now, but I want to see it again and I NEED to see 'IT IS FINE!' again.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 14, 2010 9:48:27 GMT -8
For Wes it's Fantastic Mr. Fox (love the other's, but this is the best!) For Lynch, Inland Empire and Elephant Man The Coens I really like, but more as a body of work. I seem to always watch two or three(four) at a time.
The last DVD I bought was Enchanted cuz it's the greatest.
Also to the guy who is "anticipating" the new Gasper Noe film, I commend your stomach. "I Stand a Alone" nearly wrecked me in glued to the floor fetal position kinda way. "Irreversible" actually has some merit and falls on the sword of "if your gonna make a very two dimensional film that only poses two very dimensional questions", make it fucking visceral. A really great french movie that also involves much walking around the streets of Paris is La Haine (plus I'd marry Vincent Cassel in a second even if his movies tend to suck and he comes off as a supreme asshole)
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 14, 2010 9:55:13 GMT -8
Here's a great line I read somewhere for your next movie discussion at your say, staff x-mas party or mediocre house party your friend drags you to. "Napoleon Dynamite is Rushmore for assholes"
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Post by Horned Gramma on Dec 14, 2010 10:07:03 GMT -8
I loved Napoleon Dynamite when it came out; for one thing, it is filmed and set in the town of Preston, Idaho which is where my great grandfather lived and where I would spend summers as a kid. It was written and directed by a pair of Mormon siblings, and my take on the film is that, like 'Rubin and Ed', it is a metaphor for being a non-Mormon in a town whose population is mostly Mormon. That's a notion that is close to my heart.
Without that insight, though, and really anymore even with it, that movie is pretty terrible.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 14, 2010 10:53:43 GMT -8
^^^
I was actually going to make the comment that I thought is was just a good movie related one-liner. I too grew up in very small town (in Canada though) and thought that the details (and some mannerisms) were absolutely bang on. The problem I have with the film is that it has a character, who I am sure if you came from a small town, we all grew up with, but instead of giving any insight they just have him turn into a ball of gimmicks by the second half. The other problem is the way the general audience received the film. I really think there are few people who actually got the movie. The message wasn't that "nerds are cool", or "gosh" is fun to say, or that "ligers" are bad ass. Fuck people sometimes.
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Post by bradberad12 on Dec 14, 2010 12:07:54 GMT -8
I probably shouldn't post in here, because I may get laughed at or e-insulted until I'm red in the face, but I love underdog movies.
Shawshank Redemption, Rudy, Payback, 300, etc...Of course, I am the complete opposite of a movie buff, so take it easy on me.
Apparently, I also like movies that TBS plays on rotation each Sunday.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Dec 14, 2010 12:09:42 GMT -8
I already copped to enjoying 'Marmaduke'. I think you're safe.
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Post by wolfhat on Dec 14, 2010 14:12:13 GMT -8
I love underdog movies. Shawshank Redemption This is a great film, no shame in admitting you like it. I think Tim Robbins is a great actor. Check him out in Arlington Road and The Hudsucker Proxy if you get the chance. The latter is a Coen Bros. film that is often overlooked and definitely worth watching.
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Post by Lump on Dec 14, 2010 17:27:06 GMT -8
Napoleon Dynamite has made me assume that Idaho is beautiful. Is this accurate?
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Post by know ID yuh on Dec 14, 2010 18:15:37 GMT -8
Hello everyone, just stopping in to say hi, and make my one appearance in this thread.
I used to enjoy movies, action, comedy, horrors, weird stuff, foreign stuff, independent stuff, the usual. Then I had an experience that forever changed my opinion on movie watching.
I had just graduated college, so I was used to having a lot of free time on my hands. Then I was unemployed for a couple months, and had even more free time. Then I started working a normal 9-5 type job, and my free time was extremely limited, comparatively speaking. This is when I watched AI.
Regardless of you opinion of the movie, I didn't like it. If it was a 90 minute movie, big deal. AI felt like I started watching it right when I got off work, and had to stay up late to finish it. "What a waste of time," I kept thinking.
So now I find other ways to waste my free time, and most of them don't involve sitting in one spot for six hours. I still try to keep up with the hot comedy everyone is talking about, so I've seen Super Bad and the Hangover. But if you made a list of the top 50 films of the last 10 years, and removed all the silly humor, I can guarantee I've seen less than three of the remaining 50.
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Post by Pea on Dec 14, 2010 18:28:21 GMT -8
You should watch The Road. You will feel really warm and happy afterward
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Post by Drew on Dec 14, 2010 18:30:12 GMT -8
Hello everyone, just stopping in to say hi, and make my one appearance in this thread. I used to enjoy movies, action, comedy, horrors, weird stuff, foreign stuff, independent stuff, the usual. Then I had an experience that forever changed my opinion on movie watching. I had just graduated college, so I was used to having a lot of free time on my hands. Then I was unemployed for a couple months, and had even more free time. Then I started working a normal 9-5 type job, and my free time was extremely limited, comparatively speaking. This is when I watched AI. Regardless of you opinion of the movie, I didn't like it. If it was a 90 minute movie, big deal. AI felt like I started watching it right when I got off work, and had to stay up late to finish it. "What a waste of time," I kept thinking. So now I find other ways to waste my free time, and most of them don't involve sitting in one spot for six hours. I still try to keep up with the hot comedy everyone is talking about, so I've seen Super Bad and the Hangover. But if you made a list of the top 50 films of the last 10 years, and removed all the silly humor, I can guarantee I've seen less than three of the remaining 50. Wow, that's epic. Steven Spielberg's shitty interpretation of what would have been a Stanley Koubrick classic made you stop watching movies. It didn't make you stop watching Spielberg movies, or Sci Fi movies, but almost all movies completely. That's powerful
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Post by emptyfox on Dec 14, 2010 18:41:21 GMT -8
and this is why I never watched AI.
Also Stanley Kubrick is my fav director of all time...
Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange stand out most for me...
I really love the Coen Brothers work as I'm sure most everyone here does.
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Post by ComesWithASword on Dec 14, 2010 18:56:09 GMT -8
AI is fucking great because Spielberg tried to make the ending all sappy and emotional, but instead it turned out super weird and awesome.
Shitty interpretation my ass. Kubrick was pushing the pinocchio angle.
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Post by Drew on Dec 14, 2010 20:33:11 GMT -8
I actually kind of dug AI. But I've almost never disliked a science fiction movie. Battlefield Earth? Bring it on.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Dec 15, 2010 8:07:05 GMT -8
Seriously fuck A.I. If that film had ended when Haley Joel Osment fell off of that building -- if the final shot had been him falling -- it might have been a good film.
Fucking Spielberg ends every single fucking movie with those damn big-eyed aliens, though. They're represented in every single movie he's done since like Jurassic Park -- even Catch Me If You Can. I'd have preferred 'Crystal Skull' to have ended by Harrison Ford getting his nards nibbled off by pygmys than have to see those idiotic aliens again.
Seriously though, to go off movies entirely because of that? Are you sure you were watching A.I. and not some porno/snuff film parody of A.I.? (I know it's hard to tell).
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Post by ComesWithASword on Dec 15, 2010 13:32:12 GMT -8
^^Label that shit with spoilers yo.
(spoilers ahead)
THEY WERE ROBOTS. NOT FUCKING ALIENS. The most advanced (evolved, if you will) form of technology, and the last remaining form of intelligence, seeking out their origins so to better understand their existence, just as humans did.
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