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Yup, that movie was pretty weird.

Yeah, that movie terrified me as well. Really well made though, I'm a bit of a documentary fanatic and this is one my favorites.

I watched this last night:

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Basically it's the story of these two young guys who moved into a shitty apartment in San Francisco, and ended up living next to two insane, abusive, alcoholic men who would were constantly shouting and yelling curses at one another. One of the young guys eventually confronted the neighbors about the noise and was threatened with his life, so he began to record the fighting in case he needed some kind of evidence if any conflict were to arise.

They ended up recording hours and hours of the two men, and soon started distributing the tapes, which became a bit of an underground phenomenon in the Bay Area, and which now has a cult following.

The film brought up a lot of interesting issues for me, involving human nature and the idea of privacy and exploitation. It was an entertaining watch, I give it my stamp of approval.

Also, if anyone ever has any documentary recommendations let me know, I'm always keeping an eye out!

Last time i watched Hit List movie. This is a action movie. I Love the concept of this movie and the acting of all stars of this movie. I have seen this movie 2 times and enjoyed it.

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Collapse *
Capturing the Friedmens
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Inside Job
Burma VJ *
Witch Hunt *
Dear Zachary *
Grizzly Man *
Gasland
Into the Abyss *
Chosin *
Waiting for Superman *
Trouble the Water *
Until the Light Takes Us *

Oh and Man on Wire

The stars mean that they're available on instant netflix.

I think we should have a whole thread devoted to netflix instant.

Awesome, thanks! I've seen a few of these and have been meaning to check out others, altogether solid list. I've been trying to find The Devil and Daniel Johnston for years, no one around here has it and I can't find any good streaming sites to watch it. :(

Dear Zachary is probably the most emotional documentary I have ever seen. I loved it.

Man On A Wire is amazing....i also suggest Up Syndrome....if you have not seen it....everything on that list is very good

I haven't posted in here too much and I'm bored so I'm gunna go through a bunch of movies that I've seen recently...

Have you seen In the Bedroom? It's the only other movie by Todd Field, which I like more than Little Children.

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A classic I had not yet seen. I was inspired by Exoskeletal's very high thoughts and decided to watch it. I agree with Exoskeletal, great movie with so many beautiful shots. Some of the shots just made me wonder how they did it, like when you can see the silhouette of the preacher riding on the hill. The story was engaging, characters were cool .. Classic for a good reason!


Rosemary's Baby (1968)

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This Roman Polanski classic is also one that had been on my to-do list for many years and now I finally got to see it. To those who do not know it, I don't want to tell too much, but it's a thriller/horror/mystery about Rosemary and Guy who move into an apartment complex with a dark history. There, after a particularly disturbing night, Rosemary gets pregnant ..

I absolutely loved it and like with The Night of the Hunter, it's hard to think of ways one could possibly improve on this film. It's exciting, effective, chilling and the performances, particularly by lead actor Mia Farrow, was just brilliant. The only ever so slightly negative feedback I could give is that it may seem slightly comedic towards the end, but that could be explained - at least in part - of how emotionally stumped movie watchers have become since this movie was made.


The Three Musketeers (1973)

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This version is an action/comedy with Charles Heston as Cardinal Richelieu, Christopher Lee as Rochefort, Over Reed as Athos and many other old famous actors in various roles. They're well cast as well.

As far as I know, the story follows Alexandre Dumas quite closely, at least for a movie adaptation. Very roughly; D'Artagnan befriends the three musketeers and they all take on a mission from the queen to help against those who would plot against her. The story is fun, the jokes are good, the pace is good and so on but what I like the most is the authenticity of the film. There's something about the locations, the costumes, the buildings and so on that just seems so genuine. It's a joy to watch.

I've seen this movie and its follow-up The Four Musketeers (think they were filmed back to back) many times before, but it's been years and years now. It was definetly worth re-checking out and I'd recommend it to those who like the musketeers. I have to say it's refreshing to watch an adaptation which is not full of zeppelins, explosions and other silly modern Hollywood things.

Midget and a mini horse! Not even kidding haha.

Oh man, that is so cool :p: That's better than I expected, really!

i'm going to have to look for this one....by chance have you seen Even Dwarfs Started Small by Herzog?....one of my top five films

i went and say In The Bedroom in the theaters only because Sissy Spacek was in it.....i knew nothing at all about the plot.....talk about being destroyed.....this movie seriously crushed my will into little pieces.....again one of my favorite films just not very re-watchable :)

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This may sound like a weird comment to make, but this Korean horror flick suffers from an overabundance of plot. It has some creepy moments but the number of of side stories and flashbacks really derail the movie.

True, it's not often I read that sort of criticism about movies!

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again is my favourite Pink Panther film to date. I think a lot of young people here will find the humour slightly dated, but if you're the sort who likes really silly slapstick, this movie will reduce you to tears.

Peter Sellers plays Jacques Clouseau, a policeman with a very good track record for solving crimes despite his vast incompetence. He has become chief inspector after his old chief inspector Dreyfus eventually got murderously insane and hell-bent on killing Clouseau and admitted to an insane asylum (it's just the effect Clouseau eventually has on people, I guess, as he constantly causes mayhem and misfortune for others wherever he is). At the start of this film, Dreyfus is well on the way to recovery and about to get released from the asylum when a surprise visit from Clouseau reverses all the treatment he's had and he becomes murderously insane again. Instead of getting released from the mental hospital, Dreyfus escapes and tries to kill Clouseau on his own. When that fails, he instead builds a doomsday device that he uses to force the worlds nations to try and kill Clouseau who then gets a large amount of assassins on his back.

Add to that of course the walking comedic entity Jacques Clousea played by Peter Sellers and you got a very funny film. For me, this is a definite classic and I re-watch it every few years. Great stuff :)

i have it on DVD - shame that we live so far apart and i'm NOT gonna mail it to you

I've watched Being John Malkovich and Requiem For A Dream over the last few days. Both were rather mindblowing. Amazing movies.

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Superbad & 28 Days Later. Both were mediocre.

Watch it and you'll see what I mean! :laughing:

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Cabin in the Woods (2012)

I really wish I did a better job at avoiding the publicity for this one. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie, but if I had not read all the stuff about it I would have enjoyed it a lot more, or it would have at least been a lot more special. Still though, this is one of the more creative horror movies I've seen a good long while.

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Saw this classic for the first time. This is a Noir style private eye classic starring Jack Nicholson as P. I. Jake Gittes who's investigating what starts out as suspected adultery but which of course turns into a lot more. I don't wanna potentially spoil anything else. I love Polanski's way of telling the story and how he uses the camera. I thought the movie was basically great in every way, but ..


Still, great film :)

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I just got back from seeing this. I intentionally avoided reading anything about it before going because it seemed like it would be better that way, but I have to confess I was slightly disappointed. It was a great ride but the ending was kind of a let down. I figured out what was happening pretty early on so I think I was expecting some more twists (and better explanations) and they never came. Certainly an original concept though.

I think we waited too long and just heard about all the hype which created an expectation too spectacular to be fulfilled by a really good mainstream horror movie. I know what you mean about the ending, I was hoping for a bit more of an explanation as to just where all the monsters came from.


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Videodrome (1983)

I really enjoyed this movie, I think it did a great job of creating a mindfuck movie that was still easy to follow. David Cronenberg is definitely the master of body horror because that chest cavity VCR thing was awesomely disgusting. Definitely one of his better movies.

Agreed, but the bigger questions for me were:

Oh man, I'm so curious, but I don't dare clicking those spoiler buttons. I'm really looking forward to seeing it in the cinema myself, although I'm thinking maybe I should turn down my expectations a little. :p:

Don't click the spoilers.

Do dial down your expectations before watching the movie. It's a good movie, but definitely flawed. It's frustrating because with just a bit more tinkering it could have been amazing.

:)

I have to admit the impression I have based on the very little that I know makes it seem like a sort of mix between Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Cabin Fever and Saw. I'm not sure how promising that sounds, but the hype I've read in this thread has been considerable .. :)

It's true that horror isn't exactly brimming with top quality entertainment, even to a general fan of the genre, so just "good" horrors stand out from rest. The last horror movie to come out that really satisfied me, I think, was probably The Orphanage. And I was also quite happy with Drag Me to Hell even though it wasn't perfect. I should mention that when it comes to horror, a lot of the movies I watch these days are from previous decades.

I would say it's more like a cross between Evil Dead II and a well-known non-horror movie that I can't tell you the name of because it would probably reveal too much.

I still need to see both of those movies.

I think a problem with the horror genre may be that quality stories/projects like The Changeling (1980), Rosemary's Baby or The Shining are considered risky for the big companies who seem to just churn out follow-up films in franchises like Saw or Paranormal Activity and the like, basic popcorn cinema scare flicks. Independent film makers sometimes make horrors with a little more quality, but there's a lot of ****e coming from that direction too. Overall, I feel like horror movies really lack class these days. They're more likely to contain cheap scares or just be over the top like Human Centipede than actually be moving and engaging with characters you care about.

Definitely worth checking out, I think. :)

Horror is both the easiest and hardest thing to do. It's the easiest thing to do poorly and the hardest thing to do well. The problem with the scene is that we haven't had anything particularly original, or if something original does miraculously descend from on high to take us to the promise land, some Hollywood suit will clip its wings and present us with the same thing a billion times. We either get a quick cash-in on the original's success like with The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, or just the same movie every goddamn year for seven fucking years in a row. When they're not making making the same movie with increasingly bigger numbers on the end, you've got Michael Bay's guild of evil hiding behind the name Platinum Dune remaking 1970's or '80's horror franchises, or you have some other studio doing shot-for-shot remakes of foreign horror movies like The Ring or Quarantine. It really is an abysmal time to be a horror movie fan.

I just watched the Descendants last night. Pretty good movie. Even though George Clooney's acting is something like "George Clooney is a psychic military guy", "George Clooney is a guy who fires people", or "George Clooney is Batman", I still like that guy's movies. There were some pretty powerful moments in the movie.

I liked it too. It was just a tad off key for me. I can't quite place my finger on it, but I expected more from Payne (and Clooney). The best bit was when they went to the father's house (it was that guy from Jackie Brown).

I'd give it a 7/10

I just watched this...

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But I fell asleep halfway through. Is it worth watching the whole thing? It seems pretty creepy... but it's gotten mostly terrible reviews.

I'm judging from the movie poster you tried to watch the 2006 remake? The 1976 film is a decent enough film that kind of caught the wave of possession movies after The Exorcist.

Yep the 2006 remake! I haven't seen the original, is the 1976 version better?

As is the case with every remake thus far of a horror film, yes. That said though, I've never really considered The Omen to be one of the more important horror films in the history of the genre.