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ScatteredRose -> Views on film (8/13/2010 11:44:25 AM)

I am a big film nut. Granted I haven't seen many of what everyone claims to be "Amazing movies", but I have seen my share that I hold dear to me as particularly great films. I can find a movie many things, but sadly the main thing I have found many recent films to be is just terrible!

I have never in my life walked out on movies, but lately I've been finding myself having the urge.

My Sir and I just got Netflix. Which is great, but the only thing that I find tiresome is when he picks a movie. Don't get me wrong, he has some great tastes, but there are times he wants to watch bad movies for the sake of watching a bad movie and that gets a tad ANNOYING. Not to say that my Sir is annoying. Bad movies are annoying. :3 XD I think he makes me watch them to torture me. Ah Sadism in its many forms...

With that said, what movies have you found to be amazing? Which movies have you found to be terrible?

For me, an ultimate favorite will always be Tim Burton's Batman. Granted yes, it's Tim Burton and we all know everything Burton does is edgey and different, this holds a special place in my heart. I saw this when I was 4 and fell in love with Batman. Another favorite is A Clockwork Orange...Another is Nosferatu.

Least favorite? Anything in a series. I normally like the first TWO sometimes three movies, but when it becomes like 8, I get a little annoyed. Another particular movie I hated was 2012. Anything really "End of the world" ish tends to make me want to scream. It's so stereotypical. It's like today's horror films. No longer psychological thrillers that hold you to the edge of your seat, but buckets of blood and random sex jokes.
:3 that was my rant.



AQuietSimpleMan -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 12:15:03 PM)

Films and Movies..... Sometimes it is all just a matter of taste.

I really happen to like some of what have been considered the worst movies ever.

The Love Guru, got a Razzie as being the worst movie of the year. Sure it was a film based around quick jokes and bad puns, but many people fail to see the really amazing things in this movie.

1) Sir Ben Kingley, takes a role that has him Cross eyes and making fart and piss jokes..... this is a Man who stood before the Queen and was KNIGHTED!!! I laughed just because he was in the movie.

2) How much fun people could make of themselves in this movie. The Black guy who plays Hockey, Justin Timberlake being a Canadian with an Anaconda in his Pants. Sure they were dick jokes but this movie was funny as hell, it was WAY funnier than all the Scary, Suyperhero, Extreme, Date Movie Franchise.

3) Just for this line. "There's a question, If your Uncle Jack helped you off an Elephant, would you help your Uncle Jack off an Elephant? Oh thats funny, even more I have an Uncle Jack and his job is to Masturbate the elephants."

Is this a Film? No. but it certainly wasn't the worst movie made that year.

My Film taste is usually in the Foreign Film Genere. Run Lola Run, Finding Stalin, and many others.

I like Classics, like Cool Hand Luke, Heartbreak Ridge and the like.

I LOVE HUDSON HAWK. It was a movie that half way through decides to stop taking itself seriously and actually adds cartoon sound effects.

I tend to be drawn to movies like Donnie Darko, The Crow, Dark City, Lars and the Real Girl, Confidence, (500) days of summer, and Constantine.

I am all over the place with the movies I like.

I Love movies no one eher heard of. Like Saved, it has Macully Culkin in it and he never once acted like the kid from home alone. It had it's moments and the message was Great.

The point is the Movie you Hate, I may love, Matters of Opinion, especially when it comes to films are usually futile to debate.

For Instance I will NEVER watch Titanic, I got 20 minutes into it and realized that they were trying to turn a serious Tragedy into a Love story and got discusted. Same with Pearl Harbor.

I know many people who think both of these movies are the greatest thing they ever saw.... I see it as no accounting for taste. LOL

See Opinions and a Buck fifty can get you coffee at McDonalds.

QSM



ScatteredRose -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 12:21:24 PM)

I can agree with loving movies people hate. Don Bluth is a prime example. His later works kind of fell short in comparison to his older stuff. But I loved Anastasia. Granted yes it is TOTALLY inaccurate to the true tragedy of the Romanov family but, it was still a good film.

I personally didn't like Titanic. I'm not one for romances. I did however think that Avatar, was MUCH better than Titanic. Better love story anyway. Beautiful animation :)



hlen5 -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 12:25:50 PM)

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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan

I LOVE HUDSON HAWK. It was a movie that half way through decides to stop taking itself seriously and actually adds cartoon sound effects.




You've got to be kidding!!

I LOVE BLAST FROM THE PAST( Although being sequestered in a fallout shelter for 35 years is unneccessary to produce a perfect gentleman)!!



AQuietSimpleMan -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 12:41:30 PM)


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ORIGINAL: hlen5

quote:

ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan

I LOVE HUDSON HAWK. It was a movie that half way through decides to stop taking itself seriously and actually adds cartoon sound effects.




You've got to be kidding!!

I LOVE BLAST FROM THE PAST( Although being sequestered in a fallout shelter for 35 years is unneccessary to produce a perfect gentleman)!!



And you're giving me crap????

QSM



nephandi -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:07:32 PM)

Greetings

I love movies. I actually liked 2012, it was a bit slow at times and had it's problems but the effects where amazing. My favorite five movies are The Matriz (the first in the series) Practical Magic, Dracula (1992 Coppola), The Craft and Men in Black but there is so much good movies it very hard to choose. I do not really have a least favorite movie, there is allot of movies I have seen that I have not liked but I do not think it is necessarily fair to call the movies I have not liked bad just because they where not to my tastes. I am a rather forgiving movie watcher, I will generally like anything fantasy, science fiction or horror.

I wish you well



Jeffff -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:09:10 PM)

I just saw " Inception"

Over rated.



LaTigresse -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:14:16 PM)

I love movies!!!



TheRaptorJesus -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:14:38 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

I just saw " Inception"

Over rated.

I will snap your oversized nose off you furry little sack of shit.

PS, 2012 was surprisingly decent given its premise, but had one of the most hilariously bad moments of cinema EVER...




SPOILER!@!*********** 6 billion people are dead including most of the survivors families... but when everyone realizes John Cusack is still alive, they all jump for joy and celebrate? Way to suspend my disbelief. ******* SPOILERZ



hlen5 -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:15:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan


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ORIGINAL: hlen5

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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan

I LOVE HUDSON HAWK. It was a movie that half way through decides to stop taking itself seriously and actually adds cartoon sound effects.




You've got to be kidding!!

I LOVE BLAST FROM THE PAST( Although being sequestered in a fallout shelter for 35 years is unneccessary to produce a perfect gentleman)!!



And you're giving me crap????

QSM

Just my way of saying "To each their own"!![:D][;)]



dreamofthemoon -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:43:25 PM)

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I love movies!!!

Seconded! [:D]



ScatteredRose -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 1:47:59 PM)

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ORIGINAL: TheRaptorJesus


PS, 2012 was surprisingly decent given its premise, but had one of the most hilariously bad moments of cinema EVER...




SPOILER!@!*********** 6 billion people are dead including most of the survivors families... but when everyone realizes John Cusack is still alive, they all jump for joy and celebrate? Way to suspend my disbelief. ******* SPOILERZ


IUHSOFHODF THANK YOU.

God that was my issue with 2012. My other issue was like everyone in the movie was all "D:!" because they thought he died. But stereotypical disaster movies say the guy that is normally divorced trying to save his kids and his ex wife always lives because he learns that his family is more important than anything else so he lives to become the better "dad".

.___. this is why nobody should watch serious movies with me. I can pick them apart.

Also, from what I've heard of Inception, I'm gonna wait on it.



soul2share -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 3:32:41 PM)

One of my all time favorite movies is The Exorcist.  Special effects have made movie companies lazy.....it's the one movie that I can't watch by myself, in the dark or all at one time.  Mainly because I can't say it's just a computer!

I also like the Exorcism of Emily Rose for the same reason......while they did use some CGI, the effects done by the woman who played Emily Rose actually did most of those contortionist moves, and the whole scene in the barn.  Those scenes terrified me.

I too am all over the place with the movies I like.....not too much slasher horror now as I did when I was younger.....now I prefer and actual scary plot.  I love most any vampire or werewolf movie....Blood & Chocolate is a good one, I found it on DVD, don't remember seeing anything for it in the movie theaters.

I also like old musicals.....especially Fred and Ginger, and Gene Kelly.  Bob Hope, Danny Kaye.....they are all fun.




pogo4pres -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 4:09:29 PM)

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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan


quote:

ORIGINAL: hlen5

quote:

ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan

I LOVE HUDSON HAWK. It was a movie that half way through decides to stop taking itself seriously and actually adds cartoon sound effects.




You've got to be kidding!!

I LOVE BLAST FROM THE PAST( Although being sequestered in a fallout shelter for 35 years is unneccessary to produce a perfect gentleman)!!



And you're giving me crap????

QSM


My two favorite movies ever?  "Casablanca" and "The Princess Bride", not a single day in my life goes by where I do not run across the opportunity to quote one, or most likely both.    On the other hand there are bad films then there are BAD FILMS, the first is a category that includes such guilty pleasures as "Little Nicky" and yes the aforementioned "Hudson Hawk".  The second category BAD FILMS  to me include movies you should be ashamed of having paid to see, movies like : "Exit to Eden" and the biggest bomb ever dropped "Howard the Duck" .  To this day I am ashamed to admit I paid in the theater to see Howard the Duck (a matinee, but still no excuse) and I actually paid to rent Exit to Eden.


"Rolling in 3-2-1...ACTION!!"
Some Knucklehead in NJ



DomImus -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 7:27:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: pogo4pres
My two favorite movies ever?  "Casablanca" and "The Princess Bride", not a single day in my life goes by where I do not run across the opportunity to quote one, or most likely both.


I'm a quoter, too. The most quotable movie of all time is "Arthur". The original with Dudley Moore and John Gielgud, not that slop remake they are making. We have three starting college this month so "Animal House" has been in heavy quoting rotation.

"I, state your name..."





Jeffff -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 8:41:58 PM)


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ORIGINAL: TheRaptorJesus


quote:

ORIGINAL: Jeffff

I just saw " Inception"

Over rated.

I will snap your oversized nose off you furry little sack of shit.

PS, 2012 was surprisingly decent given its premise, but had one of the most hilariously bad moments of cinema EVER...




SPOILER!@!*********** 6 billion people are dead including most of the survivors families... but when everyone realizes John Cusack is still alive, they all jump for joy and celebrate? Way to suspend my disbelief. ******* SPOILERZ


It was no "Momento"



Arpig -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 9:44:09 PM)

Ahhhhh movies, I love em

Amazing movies, there are so many...Aleksandr Nevsky by Eisenstein (and Battleship Potemkin); Nosferatu (and a film with Richard Dreyfuss about fiming Nosferatu very dark and fun); I find I like nearly everything Clint Eastwood directs, especially Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino; The Incredible Lightness of Being; Breaker Morant; Oh! What a Lovely War; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Private Life of Henry VIII (the one with Charles Laughton; Twelve Angry Men; Letters from Iwo Jima; Hell in the Pacific (highly recomended); Swimming to Cambodia.....well I could go on and on



Arpig -> RE: Views on film (8/13/2010 9:48:54 PM)

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One of my all time favorite movies is The Exorcist.
I got kicked out of the theatre...for laughing to much....one of the funniest and cheesiest films ever



hlen5 -> RE: Views on film (8/14/2010 12:26:45 AM)


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ORIGINAL: pogo4pres
My two favorite movies ever?  "Casablanca" and "The Princess Bride"........................



I Love The Princess Bride!!!! The book was great too!!

My favorite movie to quote is Monty Python's Holy Grail - "Run away! Run away"!!



etFilii -> RE: Views on film (8/14/2010 3:51:47 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff


quote:

ORIGINAL: TheRaptorJesus


quote:

ORIGINAL: Jeffff

I just saw " Inception"

Over rated.

I will snap your oversized nose off you furry little sack of shit.

PS, 2012 was surprisingly decent given its premise, but had one of the most hilariously bad moments of cinema EVER...




SPOILER!@!*********** 6 billion people are dead including most of the survivors families... but when everyone realizes John Cusack is still alive, they all jump for joy and celebrate? Way to suspend my disbelief. ******* SPOILERZ


It was no "Momento"
Memento, You mean?
Memento and Inception are two WAY different type of movies.Inception didn't blow me away but it was still a great flick with good acting and interesting storyline.

My current top ten favorite films stands at this:
#10.The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
#9.Children Of Men
#8.A Clockwork Orange
#7.Snatch
#6.Fight Club
#5.OldBoy
#4.Alien
#3.Psycho
#2. Leon
#1.The Good, The Bad and The Ugly



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