Movie Thread

[zitothebrave]

Donnie Darko is an overrated POS

Discuss

[Metaphysicist]

I can't believe they made a sequel. I just... why?

[Julio3000]

I'm aware that it happened, but not really prepared to acknowledge it.

[zitothebrave]

I can't believe they made a sequel. I just... why?

I can't believe they made the first one. It's such an overrated POS

[DaneHill]

How dare you diss Jake, sir. How dare you.

[The Chosen One]

Zito, I have to be honest with you... that lowercase spelling of your name is really aggravating me. Throwing off my ki.

[DaneHill]

The Impossible - If you haven't seen it yet, add it to your must-see list. Naomi Watts. Ewan McGregor. Based on true story from the Boxing Day tsunami. Gut-wrenching stuff.

[Gary82]

Donnie Darko is an overrated POS

Discuss

It really was. That was a big hit when I was in college, and I just got sick of hearing people talk about it. Another one that I just didn't care for was Being John Malkovich.

[DjGrizz]

Just watched the original Evil Dead for the first time. Scotty is such a flamboyant sob

[Krgrecw]

Bad Grandpa

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/0...andpa-trailer/

the scene starting at 1:40 is hilarious

[The Chosen One]

Bad Grandpa

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/0...andpa-trailer/

the scene starting at 1:40 is hilarious

Has plenty of potential.

[The Chosen One]

Continuing my criterion craze, bought 8 more yesterday.

Ordered
Belle De Jour
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Still Walking

and picked up 5 japanese titles in-store
Branded to Kill
High and Low
Harakiri
Kagemusha
Kuroneko

[jpx7]

Continuing my criterion craze, bought 8 more yesterday.

Ordered
Belle De Jour
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Still Walking

and picked up 5 japanese titles in-store
Branded to Kill
High and Low
Harakiri
Kagemusha
Kuroneko

Nice. Belle du Jour's been near the top of my most-wanted list for a while; Catherine Deneuve is awesome. I saw Au revoir les enfants at the cinema about nine months ago; it's breathtaking in a similar fashion as Melville's Army of Shadows (another auteur adapting his own personal experiences under Nazi occupation into a filmic narrative), and I think you'll enjoy it; Louis Malle is just generally an outstanding director. Branded to Kill is great and if you like it you should definitely add Pale Flower to your collection, which is another bad-ass yakuza film to emerge from the Japanese Nouvelle Vague.

Looks like a solid haul overall. I went ahead and ordered Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave and Closely Watched Trains yesterday.

[jpx7]

Here's a cool list of the films Stanley Kubrick considered the top-ten of all-time circa 1963:

1. I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini, 1953)
2. Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
3. Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston, 1948)
5. City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
6. Henry V (dir. Laurence Olivier, 1944)
7. La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
8. The Bank Dick (dir. Edward F. Cline, 1940)
9. Roxie Hart (dir. William A. Wellman, 1942)
10. Hell's Angels (dir. Howard Hughes, 1930)

I can't help noting that I was aggressively pimpimg I vitelloni earlier in this very thread.

And, just for fun, here's a link to an amazing series of photographs of Chicago that Stanley Kubrick took for Look magazine back in 1949, with this being one of the more iconic examples:

[Krgrecw]

I never watched Reservior Dogs and iFinally got around to watching it a year ago and I thought it was awful. Seemed dated and no real action or violence.

[BRule]

If you're watching Reservior dogs for violence and action....you're doing it wrong.

[zitothebrave]

If you're watching Reservior dogs for violence and action....you're doing it wrong.

This the film is dated because the style has been copied several times since by many directors. But its a great example of great story telling and character interaction.

[bravesnumberone]

If you've got about three hours of time, Once Upon a Time in the West is worth a watch.

I like The Godfather movies. Don't know if they're the best of all time, but the first and second are excellent.

[jpx7]

If you've got about three hours of time, Once Upon a Time in the West is worth a watch.

This. I'm inclined to say it may be the best opening ten-minutes or so of any film; just a masterful introductory sequence.

Plus: Claudia Cardinale.

(Not to mention Henry Fonda's somewhat daring decision to dive into a villain's role — especially considering similar stars like John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart were not really comfortable taking the cool-but-villainous roles they were offered later in their careers.)

[Krgrecw]

Disney acquired the rights to future Indiana Jones films.


Reboot like Star Trek or have Indy pass the torch in an upcoming movie? Hope Shia lebouf wont be involved