Yeah, that was pretty good. I'm not big on the whole flying swordsman genre, but that's one that I actually like. Def not one of my fav martial arts movies though.

yeah yeah, I know this but still doesn't mean I can't be disappointed in the outcome of the fights.

Ah okay, I didn't realize that Who Am I? was post Hollywood breakout era. I wonder how good Rumble in Hong Kong was. You have piqued my curiosity to look for his earlier work.

I have a soft spot for most of his American movies. The One hits me in the nostalgia feels. War was another good one along with Hero and Black Mask to me.

You might like him in Once Upon A Time.

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Frighteningly foretelling.

I watched La Haine. I liked it.

Melancholia for the 2nd time. Purposely waited a couple of years since my first viewing. Lars Von Triers is simply in a class all by himself IMO.

Every single second of this movie is a visual and dramatic masterstroke. Been a huge fan of Kirsten ever since her mind blowing performance in Interview With a Vampire. She's beyond brilliant in this.

I love that movie. So many beautiful scenes.

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A Single Man

One of the best movies I've ever seen. It does stream of consciousness in a way that I've never quite seen in film. Colin Firth and Julianne Moore play great performances and the introspective approach of the plot was really well done. Definitely going to be watching this a few more times.

Really is a fantastic film. What led you to watching that?

Is that a young Julianne Moore? Me-****ing-ow! I really do need to have sex with that woman.

Not that young. This movie came out in the last 5-8 years.

Yes, it was your list in the true best picture thread that led me to watch it you self congratulatory bastard.

You know me so well.

That is one ****ing nice redhead milf.

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^x2

I think having to **** an 80-year-old at some point would be a fair tradeoff for marrying her now.

Check her out in the movies Blindness and Magnolia. Beautiful and one of the greatest female actresses of the past 50 years.

And let's not forget Maude.

And Boogie Nights above all.

x100000000000 on Julianne Moore

Atmospheric horror movie recommendations are welcome.

Aliens.

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Been about 20 years since I last seen it. Movie hasn't aged one bit. The last 30-40 minutes might be the most intense and exciting white knuckle **** in Sci-Fi history.

Alien > Aliens

Two completely different movie experiences. Both 5 stars in my book. Alien was a complete and total mind **** when it first came out.

Knowing that Aliens was being made had everyone wondering where they'd take the premise. I think they nailed a perfect sequel to the first movie.

Very much like Terminator and Terminator 2.

Not a good comparison. It's more like Predator and Predators that came out recently in like 2010.

Seen House of the Devil?

Lies!
Also, Aliens is a great action movie with some of the best, if not the best special effects done without cgi. Has great acting, memorable characters, is a popculture icon. It's also a great sequel as it doesn't repeat the original story, but expands on it and changes the focus.
I will bare knuckle fight anyone who disses Aliens.

Aliens is awesome, but it still can't **** with the original. Sometimes overrated isn't actually an insult.

i just don't think the two are even comparable.....Alien is exactly what it is....an atmospheric, slow paced, suspense film set in space....it concentrates on feeling more than action...but when there is action it's beyond intense.

whereas Aliens is more like the Vietnam films of the 80s....all action...in this case also very intense action and just overloaded with it, great acting from everyone (not that Alien did not have great acting), and overall a fucking fun movie to watch....

out of the two i typically throw on Aliens when i'm in the mood....but i still think Alien is an actual masterpiece

What I get more and more with subsequent viewings of Aliens is how emotion is involved and how characters changed over the course of the movie.

Ripley, the hard as stone uber female, evolving into full on protective mother by the end. "Leave her alone, you BITCH!"

Vasquez starts out hating Gorman but after he bravely goes back to try and save her they end up almost embracing as they blow themselves up in the air shaft.

Same with Bishop and Ripley. She, and us the audience, starts out completely distrusting him, and yet he turns out to be a hero who gains Ripley's trust.

The way Hicks starts out as boss but slowly gives leadership over to Ripley. And the funny and almost sweet flirting that goes on during the quiet moments.

And then there's Hudson. Dude completely loses it once the Aliens show up and becomes a blubbering mess. Then he gets that simple little salute from Newt while she's wearing the helmet and he starts getting it back together. And in his final scene he's a total killing machine. "Come on! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! I don't got all day! Come on! Come on! Come on you bastard! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? **** you!"

Vasquez and the others almost ruin the movie for me. I know they are supposed to be annoying, so it's more satisfying when they get all scared and killed off. But it's really overdone.

I definitely agree with this, even though I still like the movie. It's like James Cameron got drunk and just wrote the most stereotypical military stereotypes he possibly could. You could replace any of those characters with one from Starship Troopers and never notice the difference.

I think that was the point. He had very little time to establish the characters before the action kicked into overdrive so none of them could be nuanced in any way. They were all basically caricatures.

Interesting tidbit. Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) is the only actor to have appeared in Cameron's 3 biggest films. Aliens, Terminator 2 (John Connors' step-mom), and Titanic (Irish mom).

T2 is so great, I want to watch it now.

You can't defend weak characters by saying it would have been too hard to make them stronger.

As usual you totally missed my point. And Vasquez was far from a weak character. She had some of the best lines in the movie.

No she was a generic TOUGH CHICK(!!!) with not-at-all subtle dyke undercurrents.

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And yet Spielberg did pretty much the exact same thing in Saving Private Ryan with countless throwaway characters, and yet still managed to not make them into walking self-parodies for the most part. Aliens is a fun movie, but pretty much the only character in the movie who wasn't a cardboard cutout was Ripley.

Saving Private Ryan has some of the best action sequences I've seen. That movie is gold.

He also had an amazing ensemble cast to work with.

All of the Alien movies are essentially different visions of the same story.

Alien is the creepy suspenseful horror movie
Aliens is the action sci fi movie
Alien 3 is the gritty psychological thriller
Alien Resurrection is the campy special effects eye candy movie

It all depends on my mood. There are even times I reach for Alien 3 - as long as it's the Workprint cut.