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 firmlog wrote:
Battle for Los Angeles is really good too, predators is a good fun movie.

Oof, I could not get through Battle:LA, and I tried twice. I made it about 30 minutes in.

If you liked it, you should check out Skyline. You'd probably like it (I did not).

 Ouze wrote:

 firmlog wrote:
Battle for Los Angeles is really good too, predators is a good fun movie.

Oof, I could not get through Battle:LA, and I tried twice. I made it about 30 minutes in.

If you liked it, you should check out Skyline. You'd probably like it (I did not).

Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

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.

 whembly wrote:
Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

What did you find to be functionally different about those movies?

 Ouze wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

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.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou is the greatest movie of all time.

Period.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,
Princess Bride,
Heat,
Inside Man,
Rent (great stage show as well by the way)

The Holy Mountain.

Easy

Inglorious Basterds

 Fafnir wrote:
Easy

Really? I prefer 24-Hour Party People.

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.

That or A Few Good Men.

Plan 9 from outer space.

Truly an inspiring film. 10/10

Gosh, how could I forget that wonderful, well made, Oscar-deserving movie?

Honorable mention:



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.

Pokémon: The First Movie.

I stand by my decision.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
Inglorious Basterds

Good choice.

 Squidbot wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
Paris, Texas.

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

For me, it would have to be a toss-up between Pulp fiction and Jurassic Park.

Brazil

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

Those are the only ones I can think of atm

Cheers!
-bax123

 Albatross wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
Easy

Really? I prefer 24-Hour Party People.

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.

I really like Hanna it has a very sinister, fairy tale like plot but there are still very impressive fight scenes and great camera shots.

Dredd is my all time favourite film.

"Mama is not the law......... I am the law."
"You have been warned...... and as for you Mama...... Judgement time."

 Ouze wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

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.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

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.

 Fafnir wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
Easy

Really? I prefer 24-Hour Party People.

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.

 Ouze wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Ugh... hated Skyline... but, LOVED Battle:LA!

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.

This is my opinion... not denigrating yours...

 Albatross wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
Easy

Really? I prefer 24-Hour Party People.

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.