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I was on a double date the other night and got dragged along to this. It was on a big screen outdoors as part of this summer festival thing I've been at for the last few days. Just as horrible an experience as when I last saw it.

Just watched this.

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Man, it is so sad in the scene when Dwayne (I think that's his name) finds out he is colour-blind :( :( :(

^I was suprised by how terrible that movie was with such a great cast. I was really dissapointed when I saw it.

^ Aw really? How come? I really liked it! Especially that scene where Dwayne freaks out, it just really got to me. I thought the cast were great but so was the movie in general. Just really loved everything about it.

no...just no

Come on guy I wasn't being serious. I don't think it was a particularity good movie but it wasn't bad. If you don't take it serious and see it for what is and trying to be a sci fi action movie (with more action than sci fi) it's quite good. I'm not calling Micheal Bay a cinematic genius but he does know how to make a decent action movie from time to time. And I never said the acting was bad, Gary Oldman did a good job a moronic heroin junkie and Chloe Webb did an amazing job as Nancy, but my complaints aren't with the acting it's with the inaccurate story and why this was ever needed to be made.

I'm sorry that you've taken such offense to the fact that I think your taste in film is absolute shit. Maybe if you watched better films you wouldn't have this problem? I don't know, that seems like a good solution. What is "real world cinema" ? That means nothing. You're a music fan, I assume, since you're posting on this site. If the type of shite films that you like are what you would consider "real world cinema" then am I allowed to say that Nickelback and Miley Cyrus are "real world music" with which you're obviously just out of touch? Or can we accept that the general population has awful taste in music, just like you have awful taste in film, and leave meaningless terms like "real world cinema" that you've invented to make yourself feel better about your taste, out of the discussion completely?

Also, up to this point...I hadn't made a single personal attack. In fact I don't think I'd said anything notably douchebaggy. Apparently you just really don't like it when someone says "That film was directed by Michael Bay..."

I saw that recently - I loved it. Some of the stuff in there was just brilliantly done. The first sex scene when they get into the new apartment made me laugh.

Did you love the male lead? Cause that man is my hero.

He was great. Both him and the female lead were oddly believable as a couple (one of the reasons the sex scene made me laugh because it was so unsexy/realistic) and did their parts well. This is ignoring all the things that obviously complicate it.

You should watch some of the films he directed on his own as well, the man was an absolute genius.

What should I start with?

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One of the most popular "arthouse" films of all time--so it doesn't really need me to come in here saying how great it is but--what a fucking film! It's funny, the more Bunuel I watch the more I realize how pervasive his influence on cinema has been. I initially associated him as an influence on the big-name decidedly weird directors like Jodoworsky and Lynch (Bunuel is a huge influence for both), but watching more you see just how much impact Bunuel has had on modern cinema as a whole, not just the niche weird stuff. Anyway...brilliant surrealist satire.

Sounds like I'll dig it - I'll try and get it this evening.

My favorite is Husbands, but I don't know that that would be my recommendation for a first film. I'd say start with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, it's an unconventional neo-noir gangster film with the Cassavetes twist. I think you'd like it.

Oh that was just the last film I watched. It is awesome too, and a masterpiece. Not Cassavetes though, I recommended a Cass to you ^^^ up there.

*knowing names probably helps* Okays, I'll get that.

Haha, John Cassavetes. Sorry. :)

bunuel is ****ing awesome. belle de jour, le fantome de la liberte, and el angel exterminador are awesome as well.

Just watched this again, still looks awesome on the big screen.

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Midnight showing?

I had a chance to see Mononoke on the big screen couple of months ago. Missed it. :banghead:

No, it literally just finished about 10 minutes ago

But you also said on the "big screen."

Home theater?

Oh right, yeah

just back from the pics went to see "the ugly truth"
was okay nothing special
wouldnt really recommend it, it really dragged at parts n my mind would wander, i hate films like that :(

The tone of your replies are insulting enough.

I secretly want to see this movie but I'll probably wait til it comes out on dvd instead of going to see it by myself.

The last movie I watched this weekend was The Contract. A straight to dvd movie starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman. It was bloody awful. I don't even know how I made it through the movie. The description for the movie made it sound more exciting than it turned out to be.

I got The Deer Hunter and Grosse Point Blank out of the library and watched them both last night.

The Deer Hunter was incredibly depressing, however it was an incredible movie non the less. Definitely one of my favourite De Niro roles, perhaps better than Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.

Grosse Point Blank is either my favourite or second favourite Cusack comedy, I really love High Fidelity so it's kind of hard to choose between the two. They both have an amazing supporting cast and excellent soundtracks. It definitely lightened the mood after The Deer Hunter.

High Fidelity is also a personal favourite of mine. As a secret fan of romantic-comedies I enjoyed finally seeing one that wouldn't make me feel dirty afterwards...

I watched the remake of 'Halloween' at a friends house the other day as we have a tendency to drunkenly watch shitty horror movies after a heavy drinking session. Needless to say, it had me in hysterics throughout. The bit where he's standing at the doorway dressed as a ghost wearing glasses - brilliant.

it's not the last movie i watched but the last movie i liked ... the others i just forgot

it was Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? watching non-stop topnotch movies [as i'm studying them in uni] it's really hard to find one that still amazes me ... that one was stuck in my mind ... just amazing ... can't believe it was Nichols' first movie 10/10

Finally watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night, which I thought was pretty good. Very lengthy, but rewarding. I am glad it didn't get best picture though.

The first time I saw it I was laughing and crying at the same time. My favorite scene is when they are sitting in the waiting room of the hospital and they get the news of the grandpa dying and Dwayne tells (writes) Olive to "Go hug mom". That scene just ripped my heart out.



I watched "The Deer Hunter" last night and it reminded me how much I love that show. That show is a masterpiece. Its long, but still a masterpiece.

If anyone would like a brief overview, it is about the lives of these friends, and how some go fight in the war of Vietnam and when they come back so much is different and so much has changed. The war changed them in so many ways emotionally because of the things they endured together and physical ailments that plauged some. No matter how much they wanted it to be normal like it used to be, it wasn't going to happen.

That is about the best desciption I can give you guys because it is such a complicated and intense show. It will also rip your heart out, I guarantee you. And I absolutly fell in love with Robert De Niro in this film.

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I just now noticed this. How weird!

In a lonely place (1950) - Nicholas Ray - 7/10
Tokyo twilight (1957) - Yasujiro Ozu - 4/10
Pitfall (1962) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - 5/10
Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini - 8/10
The cranes are flying (1957) - Mikhail Kalatozov - 6/10

Now your ratings are just getting ridiculous...can we at least get an explanation before you drop a bunch of 5s and 6s for certified masterpieces?

isn't a "masterpiece" just something that people who take themselves way too seriously take way too seriously?

He has an opinion?

Or maybe he realises that foreign cinema is boring and pretentious sh*t.

Plenty of masterpieces are so-so or even a chore to get through. It's all a matter of taste and opinion.

adidasss always struck me as one to investigate things others rate very highly and not be influenced by the hype one way or another. i appreciate it, even if i disagree every now and then.

Sigh...sure.

In a lonely place (1950) - Nicholas Ray - 7/10
Very good noir (although it's much less about murder mysteries than about abusive relationships). I suppose it could have gone up to 8 but I felt Grahame's character went through an odd change (from femme fatale to "battered wife") and the whole murder case seemed a little out of place/underdeveloped. I'm thinking it could hold up to repeated viewings though (especially on account of Bogart's performance and (I'd say) unusual choice of negative role).

Tokyo twilight (1957) - Yasujiro Ozu - 4/10
Started watching this about a year ago, fell asleep after about 40 minutes. Tried it again in the morning, started falling asleep again, but was determined to finish it because I can't stand to look at it collecting dust anymore. I took 3 breaks but I finally did it. Extremely slow paced (2h 20 min.), stiff acting, not a particularly interesting story, nothing particularly inventive in the directing or visuals and a pretty problematic message (as I saw it at least): single parents raise troubled children, therefore, it's best to give an abusive relationship another go than to risk raising a wayward child? Yah, I don't think so Mr. Ozu. I suppose it says something about the slow decay of traditionalist Japan but I don't really give a shit. :\

Pitfall (1962) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - 5/10
I guess I'm just not a fan of absurdist, abstract(ish?) cinema. I'm pretty sure I understand what it wanted to say, and appreciate all the technical aspects (and especially acting which, after the Ozu debacle, was a blessing), but I was still mostly uninterested. I'll watch his other stuff though...

Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini - 8/10
Obviously much closer to my kind of mentality/sensibilities. I liked La Strada better and thought it was much better suited for Masina's face and gesticulations (some of the clownishness was seeping out in Cabiria too which I could have gone without) but she's still pretty spectacular and carries the entire film really well. I love the host of street characters, the jocular/tragic street life and atmosphere of Fellini's Italy and particularly the ending. Definitely adding it to my collection.

The cranes are flying (1957) - Mikhail Kalatozov - 6/10
Ok, the first half hour of this one is extraordinary. I can't remember if I've ever seen any pre-1960s film which managed to show such incredible intimacy and genuine tenderness between a love couple. A lot of this is probably due to the casting, especially with Tatyana Samojlova who has a very Audrey Hepburn-like charm. But as soon as the boyfriend gets sent off to war the flow is lost, the characters start behaving oddly (I'm still trying to process why she married Mark) and the story is underdeveloped. In that sense it's kind of similar to Atonement which was brilliant until the shift to the front when it loses all its momentum. I would have preferred it had they kept the focus on their relationship (kept him alive perchance, which would have added all sorts of interesting complexities to the plot)...alas...:\

So yeah...:\

The Shape of Things.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and not just because Rachel Weisz was in it. Didn't know where it was going but I'm glad it went where it did. Great ending and some great dialogue. Thought provoking film. A lot of my favourite films are films like this with few characters and a lot of dialogue, like Closer and Lost In Translation. Anyone else seen this? What did you think?