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Frownland 07-03-2017 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1852453)
I think Q suggested the one which just a soundtrack and barely any dialogue.
Probably Baby Driver then.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 07-03-2017 04:06 PM
i suggested Drive, yes. and if you dont like it that says more about your inability to appreciate cinema than anything else.


baby driver does look dope though.

djchameleon 07-03-2017 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Qwertyy (Post 1852457)
i suggested Drive, yes. and if you dont like it that says more about your inability to appreciate cinema than anything else.


baby driver does look dope though.
Drive is a good movie for us cinema nerds but I wouldn't recommend that **** to a person that isnt into movies the same way.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 07-03-2017 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1852501)
Drive is a good movie for us cinema nerds but I wouldn't recommend that **** to a person that isnt into movies the same way.
they gotta learn somehow

Frownland 07-03-2017 05:12 PM
It's not a cinema nerd movie, it just has the air of one. That's why the glasses ****boys are all about it.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 07-03-2017 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1852509)
It's not a cinema nerd movie, it just has the air of one. That's why the glasses ****boys are all about it.
you're a ***got, ***got.

Mondo Bungle 07-03-2017 08:12 PM
Movies are cool whatever

Chula Vista 07-05-2017 10:30 AM
John Wick II

:clap::clap::clap:

Spoiler for Jebus Christ:
1. Not many sequels live up to, let alone, surpass the original.
2. Talk about perfectly setting up another sequel. Jeez, I can't wait.
3. The slow buildup to "The Matrix" reunion was killer.
4. JW "How was he?" Charon "He's a good dog. I enjoyed his company."
5. Loved the nod to Enter the Dragon.
6. Winston "You have 1 hour."


****ing LOVED this movie.

innerspaceboy 07-05-2017 04:11 PM
Snowden (2016). My first Oliver Stone film, and the first I've seen starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (who did a really great job with the role of Snowden). The film adds a much-needed emotional context to the stoic and disassociated presence of Snowden in Citizenfour. Definitely watch Citizenfour first if you haven't seen either film. The documentary presents the actual interview footage between Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, in which Snowden's unemotional delivery might seem cold or even sociopathic without the context of what caused him to build those walls. The central character in Citizenfour is the story of mass surveillance, as Snowden communicated clearly that he didn't want it to be about him. The 2016 film adds all the personal backstory to frame why he is the way he appears in the documentary.

Good stuff.

Frownland 07-05-2017 04:35 PM
You touched on one of the reasons why I think Oliver Stone is a terrible director: he presents himself as a lighter form of documentarian despite his films being full of overdramatization and pathos. Those tactics helped him dump gasoline on the fire that is the JFK conspiracy umbrella, with half truths put in the film for the sake of suspense being viewed as hard evidence by the public (I've seen people passionate defend facts that originated from the film, like the part where they go to the book depository to test out whether or not someone could fire six shots in that amount of time; for one they absolutely can and two that test never happened).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good for a pretty boy actor though.

Janszoon 07-05-2017 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1852987)
You touched on one of the reasons why I think Oliver Stone is a terrible director: he presents himself as a lighter form of documentarian despite his films being full of overdramatization and pathos. Those tactics helped him dump gasoline on the fire that is the JFK conspiracy umbrella, with half truths put in the film for the sake of suspense being viewed as hard evidence by the public (I've seen people passionate defend facts that originated from the film, like the part where they go to the book depository to test out whether or not someone could fire six shots in that amount of time; for one they absolutely can and two that test never happened).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good for a pretty boy actor though.
I like Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July—and I liked Natural Born Killers when it came out, though I suspect I might not like it if I saw it now—but otherwise I tend to not like Oliver Stone movies. I think he gets way more praise than he deserves considering how much garbage he's put out in the world. I also think he personally is a horse's ass. I remember the moment I started thinking that was when I saw him in an interview, sometime in between Natural Born Killers and U Turn, whining about how John Woo's movies were too violent. On the positive side, he did give us The Hand and Conan so his record isn't 100% pretentious.

Trollheart 07-05-2017 05:11 PM
One of the original dystopian sci-fi movies. When I saw it was on SyFy I simply had to watch it, for probably the fourth or fifth time. Excellent stuff.

Frownland 07-05-2017 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1853010)
I like Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July—and I liked Natural Born Killers when it came out, though I suspect I might not like it if I saw it now—but otherwise I tend to not like Oliver Stone movies. I think he gets way more praise than he deserves considering how much garbage he's put out in the world. I also think he personally is a horse's ass. I remember the moment I started thinking that was when I saw him in an interview, sometime in between Natural Born Killers and U Turn, whining about how John Woo's movies were too violent. On the positive side, he did give us The Hand and Conan so his record isn't 100% pretentious.
Ah, forgot about NBK. I think that's a good one, little overrated though. Never finished Platoon, I find a lot of the renowned war films to be rather boring, even Full Metal Jacket (the war part at least, the training part is great).

Justthefacts 07-05-2017 11:32 PM
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Rosewater

Fantastically directed. Incredibly believable acting from everyone. The tension throughout this film is so palpable I was nearly gasping for fucking air at certain points. Kudos to you, Jon Stewart. Chula, don't let this slip you.

MicShazam 07-06-2017 12:41 AM
I was thinking I should see that movie too, but I forgot it existed.

Lilja 07-06-2017 02:42 AM
Neill Blomkamps project, Oats studio, has started to put out experimental film shorts on youtube and steam. The first film, Rakka, was pretty good. And Sigourney Weaver is in it so it can't be bad!


Goofle 07-06-2017 05:51 AM
I don't usually watch films but for some absolutely inexplicable reason, I decided to watch About a Boy yesterday. I remembered it as a very funny film, and I wasn't disappointed. Hugh Grant gives a brilliantly sardonic performance, and Nicholas Hoult is just fantastic. It's one of those films which doesn't really have a great payoff, or really go anywhere you wouldn't expect, but the content is satisfying on more than just a humorous level. I can't think of another film of it's type to deal with suicide for example. The comedy hits the spot and that's ultimately all I wanted.

8/10

MicShazam 07-06-2017 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1852987)
You touched on one of the reasons why I think Oliver Stone is a terrible director: he presents himself as a lighter form of documentarian despite his films being full of overdramatization and pathos. Those tactics helped him dump gasoline on the fire that is the JFK conspiracy umbrella, with half truths put in the film for the sake of suspense being viewed as hard evidence by the public (I've seen people passionate defend facts that originated from the film, like the part where they go to the book depository to test out whether or not someone could fire six shots in that amount of time; for one they absolutely can and two that test never happened).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good for a pretty boy actor though.
I find him more uneven than terrible. Platoon, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, W. and The Doors were all good movies to me. I really hated 4th of July, Nixon and Alexander. The other few I've seen were just middling.

The Batlord 07-06-2017 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1853144)
I don't usually watch films but for some absolutely inexplicable reason, I decided to watch About a Boy yesterday. I remembered it as a very funny film, and I wasn't disappointed. Hugh Grant gives a brilliantly sardonic performance, and Nicholas Hoult is just fantastic. It's one of those films which doesn't really have a great payoff, or really go anywhere you wouldn't expect, but the content is satisfying on more than just a humorous level. I can't think of another film of it's type to deal with suicide for example. The comedy hits the spot and that's ultimately all I wanted.

8/10
The book was way better, with a far more interesting main character.

Justthefacts 07-06-2017 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1853117)
I was thinking I should see that movie too, but I forgot it existed.
Don't let it slip you, especially if you love Gael Garcia Bernal like I do. I'd fuck the man.

MicShazam 07-06-2017 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1853199)
Don't let it slip you, especially if you love Gael Garcia Bernal like I do. I'd fuck the man.
It's strange. I don't think I've seen any movies with him yet, but his face is really familiar to me. There's some interesting things on his IMDB filmography, so I've got some things to look in to now. So many bookmars of interesting things, so little time!

Justthefacts 07-06-2017 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1853218)
It's strange. I don't think I've seen any movies with him yet, but his face is really familiar to me. There's some interesting things on his IMDB filmography, so I've got some things to look in to now. So many bookmars of interesting things, so little time!
Third world problems at its absolute worst.

MicShazam 07-06-2017 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1853237)
Third world problems at its absolute worst.
Screw climate change, let's all focus on how overwhelming it is that there's so many cool things to see and do in the world.

If we reduced the amount of worthwhile things, it would be less of a problem.

Justthefacts 07-06-2017 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1853251)
Screw climate change, let's all focus on how overwhelming it is that there's so many cool things to see and do in the world.

If we reduced the amount of worthwhile things, it would be less of a problem.
Amen sista

Cuthbert 07-08-2017 03:57 PM
Watched the Sign O The Times film.

****ing sick. 10/10.

Trollheart 07-08-2017 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1853264)
Amen sista
That would be brotha. He just happens to have a female avvy.

Mondo Bungle 07-08-2017 05:49 PM
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Mondo Bungle 07-11-2017 04:51 PM
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robertbrown1 07-12-2017 04:33 AM
mangatha is the best movie

Mondo Bungle 07-12-2017 03:54 PM
splatter addiction gettin out of hand

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djchameleon 07-12-2017 04:09 PM
You spent all day watching those back to back?

Mondo Bungle 07-12-2017 04:13 PM
no, but they're the latest films I've seen

Frownland 07-12-2017 11:26 PM
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I Stand Alone

Well, it doesn't have the dizziness of Enter the Void, the sickening violence of Irreversible, or the hardcore sex scenes of Love (which I've yet to finish). Or maybe a better way to put that is that it has those things to a far lesser extent than Noe's other movies. I think it's my favourite film that I've seen from him so far, mostly because of the introspective element, how it dives deep into the main character's mind. Irreversible pretty much traumatized me the first time I watched it and I was worried that this would do the same, but after the shock of the wife incident wore off the rest didn't seem as bad.

Spoiler for So, about that ending:
I initially had a pretty strong negative reaction to the very very end where the main character subverts and wonders about the ethics of incest. Him wondering what's wrong about his actions upset me more than him actually committing the incest or the forced abortion because it felt like Gaspar Noe was communicating that as the philosophy of the movie. The big, gaudy letters saying (in French) that you have just watched a Gaspar Noe film seemed to punch that notion in deeper.

Then I thought about it a little bit more since I liked a lot of what was leading up to those closing lines. I realized that the movie isn't a manifesto, it's a portrait into the mind of the main character as he's giving into his urges with his (admittedly hot) daughter. His character is driven by animalistic instincts the entire film and his moral foundation is shaky if it even exists, as evidenced by the abortion and unabashed racism. Of course he's going to have flaws in his thinking. Noe didn't make this film to show why incest is okay. He did it to show how and why it can happens so that we can understand it better and how to stop it. Had the protagonist had help or lived in circumstances that didn't leave him disillusioned, he wouldn't have taken two steps down the path that led him to incest in the first place.


Gaspar Noe sure does prompt a lot of thinking with his movies. That alone makes me think that he's a great artist, because even though the act of watching his movies are experiences I don't want to repeat, the amount that they leave me reflecting on the movies and the themes counts for a lot. This is probably his best film.

Chula Vista 07-12-2017 11:30 PM
Full Metal Jacket

Kubrick movies just keep getting better and better with each repeated viewing.

The Paris Island bathroom scene gets creepier ever time. D'Onofrio had only been a bit player in a couple of low budget flicks before FMJ. He gained 70 pounds to play the role (which is more than DeNiro gained in Raging Bull). Both he, and Lee Emery were nominated for multiple awards.

Emery was originally cast as the crazy dude in the helicopter shooting VC civilians. Kubrick was so impressed with him he gave him the lead role as drill instructer and most of his dialogue was improvised.

Kubrick hated to fly so he filmed the movie in England. He flew in 200 palm trees and a few thousand fake tropical plants to help make things authentic.

The only downside to the movie is that a number of scenes use the same location sets over and over again.

MicShazam 07-13-2017 12:59 AM
I totally agree on the bathroom scene. Really intense acting!

Full Metal Jacket is one of my three favorites of Kubrick. The other two would be the The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I never understood why even Kubrick fans seem to mostly ignore the latter.

Justthefacts 07-13-2017 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1855054)
I totally agree on the bathroom scene. Really intense acting!

Full Metal Jacket is one of my three favorites of Kubrick. The other two would be the The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I never understood why even Kubrick fans seem to mostly ignore the latter.
Who ignores Eyes Wide Shut? I'm pretty sure the general consensus around here is that maybe it's not top 3 material sure. But it's still as solid as they come. Eyes Wide Shuts a fucking masterpiece.

Frownland 07-13-2017 01:36 AM
Ermey was initially hired as a consultant because of his military experience before he was cast as the drill sergeant.

MicShazam 07-13-2017 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1855059)
Who ignores Eyes Wide Shut? I'm pretty sure the general consensus around here is that maybe it's not top 3 material sure. But it's still as solid as they come. Eyes Wide Shuts a fucking masterpiece.
Maybe it's just personal experience then, because my impression was that it's not particularly appreciated by a lot of Kubrick fans. The only person I know who appreciates it as much as I do is my brother.

If you're right, then all is as it should be.

Yac 07-13-2017 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1855062)
Ermey was initially hired as a consultant because of his military experience before he was cast as the drill sergeant.
I think I saw FMJ at least 20 times, it is one of my favorite movies ever. Ermey played the best abusive drill sargent ever.
However, I have to ask.. have you seen any of his other performances ? He's not a good actor by any means, but that's not the point.
He's producing a series called "GunnyTime with R. Lee Ermey" and as a fan of things military, this is probably the closest to getting cancer from tv as you can get.
Don't be fooled by it's surprisingly high score - it's based on 18 votes, probably his assistants ;) Anyway it's the most shallow, stereotypical and often very wrong show full of old men shooting guns and yelling "yeehaw" while doing so. Full of "experts" being baffled by obvious things.
Sorry, had to rant. Don't watch it. It's not "so bad, it's good". It's so bad, you'll get cancer.

Chula Vista 07-13-2017 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Yac (Post 1855080)
Ermey played the best abusive drill sargent ever.
However, I have to ask.. have you seen any of his other performances ? He's not a good actor by any means, but that's not the point.
He was solid as the grieving dad in Dead Man Walking.


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