Snrub wrote: I like The Twilight saga. It is my favourite movie series ever.
The end.
Snrub, you are dead to me!
I like quite a few movies. The Lord of the rings and the Hobbit ofcourse Pretty Woman is a really good film too. I also like the whole Alien daga. Arghh there are just to many "best films"
Good call. HDS is awesome. He really should have gotten more lead roles.
Best film and personal favourite could be two different things.
Maybe The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Along with Princess Bride, those are the two films that I hope never have to go through the Hollywood remaketastrophe after watching what they did with John Carpenter's The Thing.
I couldn't possibly pick a single one because it's like saying, which is better - Pizza or Ice Cream? They fill different niches.
Here are some of the films that are my personal favorites, in no special order: Aliens, The Thing (John Carpenter version), Halloween, Almost Famous, Forrest Gump, Goodfellas/Casino, The Dark Knight, Hellboy, Benjamin Button, Fight Club, 28 Days/Weeks later.
Along with Princess Bride, those are the two films that I hope never have to go through the Hollywood remaketastrophe after watching what they did with John Carpenter's The Thing.
Technically, I think The Thing (2011) was actually a prequel.
Ouze wrote:I couldn't possibly pick a single one because it's like saying, which is better - Pizza or Ice Cream? They fill different niches.
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
BaconUprising wrote: Really? Saving private Ryan I personally find it very repetitive but still a lot of people enjoy it
I have yet to see hurt locker (there seems to be this weird inside joke about it that I still don't understand), and black hawk down wasn't very memorable because, well, i barely remember it even though I watched it. Sort of like the GI Joe movie.
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
Albatross wrote:My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
Ouze wrote: I couldn't possibly pick a single one because it's like saying, which is better - Pizza or Ice Cream? They fill different niches.
Same here. A lot of different movies, that I love more than any other movie depending on the mood I'm in. So I figure to name just one I have to go with the film I've seen more times than any other, and that's Heat.
Can range from Blade Runner, Indiana Jones to Empire Strikes Back and more. Really depends on my mood.
I'm posting this video for no real reason, other than the edification of those who haven't seen it.
I can't tell you what is best but I can say my personal favorites
Sci-Fi: Bladerunner
Fanasy: Lord of the Rings
Action Adventure: Big Trouble in Little China
Comedy: Anything made by Mel Brooks
Drama: Saving Pvt. Ryan
Romance: ?????
War: Kelly's Heroes
Favorite bad movie: Plan 9 From Outer Space
Full Metal Jacket, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lord of War, Pucker Up And Bark Like a Dog, The Jerk, Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (actually might be the best movie)...
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
American Pyscho?
EDIT: Bah, MoD already searched through your previous posts about 'favourites' already guessed that. Ah well.
In any case, I'd also like to nominate Van Wilder: Party Liason, solely for this (Highly NSFW, very highly; watch at mod discretion and your own peril): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLPnN_YMMM
Linking to NSFW is okay, with clear warning. We prefer that folks not embed. -Mannahnin
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
And if not High Fidelity (which you haven't denied, yet) then The Commitments.
Along with Princess Bride, those are the two films that I hope never have to go through the Hollywood remaketastrophe after watching what they did with John Carpenter's The Thing.
Technically, I think The Thing (2011) was actually a prequel.
At the risk of damaging the perception of my impeccable taste in movies, I actually like the 2011 prequel. It wasn't up there with the original, and could havent used, like any tension at all, but it wasn't a bad 2 hours spent.
Albatross wrote: My favourite film and book are the same thing. If anyone guesses it correctly, I will personally come over to their house and blow them.
I'm not into movies enough, and I don't have broad enough taste to try and make any claim about the best film ever. My favourite movie is the Shawshank Redemption though.
Skyline was horrid. I watched it cause it had Brittany Daniel from Club Dread (awesome movie) and wish I hadn't. Everyone had this angry/constipated expression on their face through the whole movie no matter what the scene was. You could have had any of the actors swap dialogue and nobody would have known it.
What did you find to be functionally different about those movies?
Maybe 'cuz I saw Battle:LA first. I just really enjoyed the take on the alien/war story from a single unit's perspective. It was an homage to being a Marine.
EDIT: how far did you really go in that flick? It does drag a bit in the beginning, but the last 1/3rd of the film is where it really shines.
whembly wrote: EDIT: how far did you really go in that flick? It does drag a bit in the beginning, but the last 1/3rd of the film is where it really shines.
I got up to the part where Michelle Rodriguez meets up with Aaron Echkardt after fighting her way alone through 8 blocks of alien infested territory, when he subsequently motions to her holding her weapon and asks, "are you ready to use that thing?" You mean, like she has been all goddamn morning? Christ.
The first time I tried, I didn't quiet get that far. It seems like the dialogue was almost completely written with jingoistic slogans that would be more appropriate for selecting a Marine unit in an RTS then for dialogue in a film ("ooohah", "Ready to go", "No Marine left behind", etc etc).
I mean, I'm not immune t the charms of bad films in general and even this genre in specific - I love Independence Day - but I don't feel like they tried very hard here, and some of the dialogue was just plain insulting.
My favourite is (don't shoot me) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings. Bad acting, they cut out Tom Bombadil completely etc. But it fulfilled my expectations of what Middle Earth looks like and it's still a very enjoyable movie.
Dredd 3d was amazing and I've not enjoyed a movie like that in a long time, perhaps not since Aliens. Even my old dad came out of the cinema enthusing about how good it was.
Good call. HDS is awesome. He really should have gotten more lead roles.
Best film and personal favourite could be two different things.
Maybe The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Thanks, yeah I think Harry Dean Stanton did a great job in the film. A very moving performance, especially his monologue in the strip club towards the end. It would have been interesting to see him in more lead roles, although he's done a lot of cool small parts
I'm sorry, but I have been compelled by the force of Slaanesh to throw this at you guys
Top 20 Movies:
20: Avatar
19: Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
18: 9
17: Jack Reacher
16: Saints and Soldiers
15: War Horse
14: Predator and Predators
13: Phone Booth
12: American Pie
11: Forest Gump
10. Hollow Man
9: Dark Knight
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7: Saving Private Ryan
6: Black Death
5: Joan of Arc
4: Back to Future Trilogy
3: Goonies
2: Terminator 1&2
1: Star Wars Original Trilogy 45&6
Never saw that one. My love for Control doesn't stem from it being an Ian Curtis movie, but because it's just a really well made movie. Great acting aside, it's also visually beautiful. Anton Corbin's movies (Control and The American right now, and he's working on another one) just have amazing cinematography.
What did you find to be functionally different about those movies?
Yeah, both were alien invasion movies. That makes them completely the same movie!
Battle Los Angeles had it's share of problems. Cliched characters, well trodden alien invasion story, and more. That didn't stop it being a fun alien invasion movie, going for something we don't normally get - dirty and gritty aesthetic and following a squad of Marines through it, rather than random people doing dumb things. It had interesting, different alien design to what you normally see, and a fairly well thought out military composition of the alien forces - even using air superiority to cover ground forces.
Skyline was the opposite - it had the same problems, but it didn't even try to be anything other than a typical b grade alien movie. The usual random people doing dumb things in an alien movie because they're idiots in an alien movie.
If you didn't like the movies or the genre, that's cool. But some do.
It's like saying people who liked Scream will like all slasher movies - they're all functionally the same movie. Masked psychopath killing a bunch of idiots doing the usual idiotic things people do in slasher movies. But fans of the genre aren't all going to like every slasher movie.
What did you find to be functionally different about those movies?
Yeah, both were alien invasion movies. That makes them completely the same movie!
Hey, look at you, pretending I said that all alien invasion movies are the same! Good times.
I think the movies were very similar because the Sony outsourced the visual effects for B:LA to a studio which, after doing the work, released their own version first, causing Sony to sue them for stealing their ideas and making a very similar movie. I'm not particularly interested in debating the nuances of two movies that if you add together their rotten tomatoes score are still a 50/100, but suffice it to say I wasn't the only one that saw remarkable similarity between the two products.
Never saw that one. My love for Control doesn't stem from it being an Ian Curtis movie, but because it's just a really well made movie. Great acting aside, it's also visually beautiful. Anton Corbin's movies (Control and The American right now, and he's working on another one) just have amazing cinematography.
In that case, you'd probably really enjoy 24-Hour Party People. Again, it's a film about the Manchester scene (encompassing Joy Division/New Order), but it's also got a really interesting visual style, and is very, very funny.
Have you seen The Master yet, by the way? I thought it was mesmerising. Joaquin Phoenix is either a genius or insane. Maybe both.
What did you find to be functionally different about those movies?
Yeah, both were alien invasion movies. That makes them completely the same movie!
Hey, look at you, pretending I said that all alien invasion movies are the same! Good times.
I think the movies were very similar because the Sony outsourced the visual effects for B:LA to a studio which, after doing the work, released their own version first, causing Sony to sue them for stealing their ideas and making a very similar movie. I'm not particularly interested in debating the nuances of two movies that if you add together their rotten tomatoes score are still a 50/100, but suffice it to say I wasn't the only one that saw remarkable similarity between the two products.
Sure those movies are simliar... but, I honesty believed that Battle:LA was executed much better than Skyline.
TBH: I have a man-crush on Aaron Eckhart. So... there is that.
Never saw that one. My love for Control doesn't stem from it being an Ian Curtis movie, but because it's just a really well made movie. Great acting aside, it's also visually beautiful. Anton Corbin's movies (Control and The American right now, and he's working on another one) just have amazing cinematography.
In that case, you'd probably really enjoy 24-Hour Party People. Again, it's a film about the Manchester scene (encompassing Joy Division/New Order), but it's also got a really interesting visual style, and is very, very funny.
Have you seen The Master yet, by the way? I thought it was mesmerising. Joaquin Phoenix is either a genius or insane. Maybe both.
I really want to see it, but I haven't gotten around to it. There are a lot of movies that came out this year that I really need to see. Cloud Atlas, Seven Psychopaths, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Killing Them Softly, Argo... the list just goes on and on.
Funnily enough, I managed to pinch some of those from my mate tonight, along with 'The Master'. I've already seen 'Django Unchained', mind you. It's just so entertaining that I wanted to watch it again. And again.
Albatross wrote: Funnily enough, I managed to pinch some of those from my mate tonight, along with 'The Master'. I've already seen 'Django Unchained', mind you. It's just so entertaining that I wanted to watch it again. And again.
I have to say Django was a damn good movie. Personally much better than Inglorious Basterds IMHO.
I was into Battle LA - even through the idea that it is worth interstellar travel to steal hydrogen and oxygen mixed together. Right up until they discovered the key to beating the aliens was shooting them, center mass. Like every soldier since there were guns is trained to do.
Favorite movie is Big Trouble in Little China, honorable mentions go to Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, The Man Who Would be King, Empire Strikes Back, Zulu, Adventures in Babysitting, My Name is Bruce, and Idle Hands...because of this
+1 to Big Trouble in Little China. My only complaint about the film is that the intro with Egg Shen should be cut out entirely. It's a much better film without that pointless spoiler.
Frazzled wrote: I liked the spoiler actually. You keep expecting Jack to be this super badass, but he's generally incompetent throughout. Its like a running gag.
I loved the Chinatown street fight scene. That was epic.
The alley scene is why I don't like the spoiler...it's better if you don't see it coming, because it puts you in Jack's seat. The first time I watched the film, I came in on it right after the intro and had no idea what the movie was about. Then the alley sequence hit, and my mind was blown... Egg Shen's lightning trick spoils the magic. It's a moot point during the time of its release, but for people seeing it for the first time nowadays, I definitely recommend skipping the intro.
Albatross wrote: It's a great film apart from... basically Tarantino's appearance onward. You'll ping exactly where it should have ended when you watch it.
Sure, but at the same time, I can see why it needed the last five minutes. The point is that Django, the black guy, ought to be the hero of the movie about slavery. Up until that point Schultz did all the running, made all the calls, and was basically the protagonist. So the film really needed a final act where Django hatched his own plan and carried it out.
I mean, sure, the film went on too long, no argument there, but I think that in hindsight they should have cut back on much of the earlier stuff. As fun as it was, the attack of the KKK imbeciles could have been shorter. As could the opening conversation, and the ride to Candiland. I suspect the much looser editing we saw here is the result of Tarantino no longer having Sally Menke to work with.
Albatross wrote: It's a great film apart from... basically Tarantino's appearance onward. You'll ping exactly where it should have ended when you watch it.
Sure, but at the same time, I can see why it needed the last five minutes. The point is that Django, the black guy, ought to be the hero of the movie about slavery. Up until that point Schultz did all the running, made all the calls, and was basically the protagonist. So the film really needed a final act where Django hatched his own plan and carried it out.
Yeah, absolutely. That's actually the most annoying thing about that whole final section, as far as I'm concerned - it was completely necessary, yet still managed to feel flabbier than Tarantino looked!
