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RE: Views on film - 8/14/2010 6:24:04 AM   
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No Outlaw Josey Wales?

No Fargo?

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RE: Views on film - 8/14/2010 8:08:14 AM   
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No Godfather?

No Outlaw Josey Wales?

No Fargo?
I finally got around to seeing The Godfather and enjoyed Apocalypse Now so much more.


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RE: Views on film - 8/14/2010 10:33:37 AM   
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No Godfather?

No Outlaw Josey Wales?

No Fargo?
I finally got around to seeing The Godfather and enjoyed Apocalypse Now so much more.




I liked "The Godfather", but (and don't take me wrong on this) the sequels utterly sucked IMHO, there was no need.  Just as the original "Jurassic Park" is a great stand alone movie with suckee sequels so is "The Godfather".  "Apocalypse Now" was a brilliant adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness". 


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RE: Views on film - 8/14/2010 10:43:22 AM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/14/2010 3:54:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Worst big name movie that comes to mind: Titanic.

Other particularly bad movies:
The Patriot
Almost everything with Mel Gibson, except for Lethal Weapon
The Village
The 6th Sense
Reservoir Dogs (sorry, just TOO gory)
Troy
Alexander
Frankenstein (1994)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

On the other hand, suprisingly GOOD bad movies (for watching something that you KNOW is Bad)
a lot of old sci fi (ex. Soylent Green)
Jaws
Ghostbusters
a lot of porn (ex. Gatorbait)
a lot of cheap horror films (ex. Evil dead)
foreign films

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RE: Views on film - 8/15/2010 1:39:03 AM   
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Worst big name movie that comes to mind: Titanic.

Other particularly bad movies:
The Patriot
Almost everything with Mel Gibson, except for Lethal Weapon
The Village
The 6th Sense
Reservoir Dogs (sorry, just TOO gory)
Troy
Alexander
Frankenstein (1994)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

On the other hand, suprisingly GOOD bad movies (for watching something that you KNOW is Bad)
a lot of old sci fi (ex. Soylent Green)
Jaws
Ghostbusters
a lot of porn (ex. Gatorbait)
a lot of cheap horror films (ex. Evil dead)
foreign films

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Just because Reservoir Dogs has a lot of gore doesn't make it a bad film.It's definably Quentin's best film to date with Jackie Brown being his second best film.

Pretty sure, the Evil Dead series has a lot more gore then Reservoir Dogs. 


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RE: Views on film - 8/15/2010 1:48:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: etFilii

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

No Godfather?

No Outlaw Josey Wales?

No Fargo?
I finally got around to seeing The Godfather and enjoyed Apocalypse Now so much more.




I liked "The Godfather", but (and don't take me wrong on this) the sequels utterly sucked IMHO, there was no need.  Just as the original "Jurassic Park" is a great stand alone movie with suckee sequels so is "The Godfather".  "Apocalypse Now" was a brilliant adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness". 


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If the topic of Apocalypse Now is ever broached, it has to be mentioned just how severely Marlon Brando fucked that movie up.

It's still unquestionably a classic and amongst my favorites, but having read the original script and knowing what had to be changed due to Brando being a fat fuck and impossible to work with at that point... I'm left bitter because what could have been incredibly, incredibly special was lost.

The direction and visuals within the movie are still amazing and almost unbelievable given that they weren't in a studio but rather on a river in the Philippines.

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RE: Views on film - 8/15/2010 2:00:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: gungadin09

Worst big name movie that comes to mind: Titanic.

Other particularly bad movies:
The Patriot
Almost everything with Mel Gibson, except for Lethal Weapon
The Village
The 6th Sense
Reservoir Dogs (sorry, just TOO gory)
Troy
Alexander
Frankenstein (1994)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

On the other hand, suprisingly GOOD bad movies (for watching something that you KNOW is Bad)
a lot of old sci fi (ex. Soylent Green)
Jaws
Ghostbusters
a lot of porn (ex. Gatorbait)
a lot of cheap horror films (ex. Evil dead)
foreign films

pam



I liked the Sixth Sense a lot.  Unbreakable wasn't bad.  Everything that Shmyalan (sp?) has done since then has been crap. 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was horrible.  I heard that Howard the Duck was horrible too, but since nobody saw it... Let's Do It Again was pretty bad.  Epic Movie was a mess.  Big Trouble in Little China was so bad it was good.

I agree about Buffy. 

Almost anything with Dudley Moore is bad, although he does well.  Anything with Ben Affleck is bad because of him.  Likewise Chevy Chase.

Not all foreign film is good.  I saw Mama Turns 100, a Mexican movie, and after it, my ex wife and I just turned to each other and asked "What the hell was THAT?"

Some cool little known movies:Iron and Silk, and Black Orpheus.  Dark Star.  Mystery Men.





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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 10:09:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Another movie type that I forgot to mention that has started getting on my nerves has been the "Parody" genre. You know the one.

Where there's several different movies just based on parodying other movies. They were funny at Scary Movie 1 & 2. But past that, it started getting old along with having the same joke, same punchline and ending up just being cutesy quick potty humor.

You know what movie I thought was going to be bad but ended up being really good? One Hour Photo. I never expected Robin Williams play a stalker so well.

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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 6:30:10 PM   
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Terrible bad movie: Pirates of the Caribbean
Fantastic bad movie: Orgazmo

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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 6:31:37 PM   
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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 9:15:14 PM   
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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...



Oh, my God, are you seeing one of my ex-subs?

Yes, I indulged him, I could have said, NO. (Well, I did, occasionally - there's amusingly bad, and then there's depressingly abysmal.) But then, I would have missed...hmmm
I'm rethinking it.

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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 11:35:42 PM   
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#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


This is wrong, Fight Club should be #1!

I also loved Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street!  It was 100% gorgeous eye candy in every frame! 






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RE: Views on film - 8/16/2010 11:44:09 PM   
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a Mexican movie,


Good Mexican movies:

Amor es Perros
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Volver
Habla con Ella
Tie Me Up!  Tie Me Down!

Just about anything from Pedro Almodovar



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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 4:45:32 AM   
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#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


This is wrong, Fight Club should be #1!

I also loved Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street!  It was 100% gorgeous eye candy in every frame! 





No way.The Good The Bad and The Ugly will never leave my number one spot.It's the hands down the greatest movie of all time.

I haven't enjoyed Depp in recent films lately.My favorite role of his was Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.Can't wait to see The Rum Dairy


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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 10:06:49 PM   
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Can't wait to see The Rum Dairy


Me neither!  I haven't even heard of it, I'm going to have to look it up!

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly might be a good flick, but I just don't care for westerns that much unless it's something based on fact like Billy the Kid or whoever it was Brad Pitt played recently.  See?  That's how good those kind of films stick with me.  Oh, yeah, it was Jesse James. 


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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 10:59:30 PM   
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Can't wait to see The Rum Dairy


Me neither!  I haven't even heard of it, I'm going to have to look it up!

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly might be a good flick, but I just don't care for westerns that much unless it's something based on fact like Billy the Kid or whoever it was Brad Pitt played recently.  See?  That's how good those kind of films stick with me.  Oh, yeah, it was Jesse James. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/ - based off another Thompson novel, should be very interesting.

I have a new updated top ten list with a lot of films that I forgot about the first time:
#10.The Silence of the Lambs
#9.Network
#8.Apocalypse Now
#7.Blue Velvet
#6.Vertigo
#5.Taxi Driver
#4.2001: A Space Odyssey
#3.Blade Runner
#2.Trainspotting
#1.The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Runner's up: Mulholland Dr., The Conversation, Magnolia, Snatch, The Graduate, Heat, Donnie Darko, Fargo, No Country For Old Men and L.A Confidential.


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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:20:54 PM   
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My faves, haven't seen them mentioned.
 
1. Aria
2. Withnail and I
3. Baraka
4. Koyaanisqatsi
5  The Exorcist (mentioned)
 
I tend to like non storyliners, films of images and visual narrative. Exception being The Exorcist - very underrated, remembered for headspinning etc but so evocatively eerie at the time.
 

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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:25:00 PM   
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I tend to like non storyliners, films of images and visual narrative.


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RE: Views on film - 8/17/2010 11:42:03 PM   
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I just saw " Inception"

Over rated.


I was thinking of going tomorrow, I love movies like that usually

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