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Post by Vendaval Este on Jan 6, 2011 17:27:56 GMT
It's nice to see your opinion on Enter the Void by the way, it's not for everyone it seems.
For a better collaboration between Pacino and Brian de Palma, I recommend seeing Carlito's Way if you haven't already. Based on a book this time around, I find this one trumps Scarface as a 70s/80s based gangster flick starring an incredible actor. Scarface, admittedly I've not seen in years, I watched more for the cultural impact of it. It's a fun flick, but goddamn it couldn't have a worse fanbase holding it high.
Oh, I forgot to mention I recently also saw Tim Burton's Ed Wood, probably one of the most touching films I've ever seen. It's heartwarming and painstaking to watch at times simply because you get so brilliantly attached to Ed, even if it does make a few historical inaccuracies for the sake of audience enjoyment. I think this one is now in my Top 50 if I ever have one.
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 6, 2011 17:47:50 GMT
It's nice to see your opinion on Enter the Void by the way, it's not for everyone it seems. For a better collaboration between Pacino and Brian de Palma, I recommend seeing Carlito's Way if you haven't already. Based on a book this time around, I find this one trumps Scarface as a 70s/80s based gangster flick starring an incredible actor. Scarface, admittedly I've not seen in years, I watched more for the cultural impact of it. It's a fun flick, but goddamn it couldn't have a worse fanbase holding it high. Oh, I forgot to mention I recently also saw Tim Burton's Ed Wood, probably one of the most touching films I've ever seen. It's heartwarming and painstaking to watch at times simply because you get so brilliantly attached to Ed, even if it does make a few historical inaccuracies for the sake of audience enjoyment. I think this one is now in my Top 50 if I ever have one. Funny, right now I'm eyeing a boxset of Scarface, Carlito's Way and Casino on DVD for a fiver. Should snag that really. |
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jan 6, 2011 18:08:43 GMT
Do it, couldn't be more worthwhile.
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jan 18, 2011 7:20:11 GMT
The Spirit of the Beehive
Pierrot le Fou
Fitzcarraldo
All of them brilliant, I'd particularly recommend Spirit and Fitzcarraldo, with Pierrot to be watched later down the line. It looks beautiful, and is easy enough to read, but the fact it's simply French New Wave might make it a bit hard to sit through.
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 18, 2011 15:24:50 GMT
A Clockwork Orange.
Yeah I know, never saw it before. However it is easily one of the best films I have seen, period.
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jan 18, 2011 18:08:14 GMT
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Post by Krieg on Jan 18, 2011 18:22:09 GMT
I very rarely watch movies since I got the internets. They don't feel attractive enough to me. I tried to watch Invasion USA with Chuck Norris a few weeks ago because I saw the beginning and it looked awesosome, but I got annoyed when the bad guys didn't manage to blow up a church full of praying people and didn't manage to shoot up a crowd that was standing before a store. I don't understand it. Isn't more mayhem better for an action movie?
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 18, 2011 23:06:06 GMT
I very rarely watch movies since I got the internets. They don't feel attractive enough to me. I tried to watch Invasion USA with Chuck Norris a few weeks ago because I saw the beginning and it looked awesosome, but I got annoyed when the bad guys didn't manage to blow up a church full of praying people and didn't manage to shoot up a crowd that was standing before a store. I don't understand it. Isn't more mayhem better for an action movie? Wait, let me get this straight. You say that Invasion USA, a Cannon film in which Billy Drago gets shot in the balls at point blank range and his hooker being subsequently shoved out of a window 2 seconds later has not enough mayhem for you?  |
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Post by Krieg on Jan 19, 2011 2:40:46 GMT
I very rarely watch movies since I got the internets. They don't feel attractive enough to me. I tried to watch Invasion USA with Chuck Norris a few weeks ago because I saw the beginning and it looked awesosome, but I got annoyed when the bad guys didn't manage to blow up a church full of praying people and didn't manage to shoot up a crowd that was standing before a store. I don't understand it. Isn't more mayhem better for an action movie? Wait, let me get this straight. You say that Invasion USA, a Cannon film in which Billy Drago gets shot in the balls at point blank range and his hooker being subsequently shoved out of a window 2 seconds later has not enough mayhem for you? Well, after setting up a stage for these two bloody events it's pretty disappointing when they don't occur . |
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 19, 2011 7:56:04 GMT
Wait, let me get this straight. You say that Invasion USA, a Cannon film in which Billy Drago gets shot in the balls at point blank range and his hooker being subsequently shoved out of a window 2 seconds later has not enough mayhem for you? Well, after setting up a stage for these two bloody events it's pretty disappointing when they don't occur . I find it quite bizarre that you don't enjoy a film because you don't see innocent bystanders get killed every 5 seconds. Very well, may I point you in the direction of A Serbian Film. You might find that more to your liking. |
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jan 19, 2011 9:25:43 GMT
I'd personally recommend Men Behind the Sun for gory thrills of brutal slayings, or Phantom Soldiers and perhaps even 2008's Rambo just to see people be constantly murdered.
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 20, 2011 13:20:56 GMT
MD Geist (1986 version). I think that makes the sixth time I have seen this OVA all the way through now  . A friend on Skype wanted to watch it, so I showed it to him. We both watched it at the same time so we had an MST3K style commentary going on throughout which was fun. Best of all, the guy enjoyed it so that's a bonus. |
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Post by Zach of Manime on Jan 23, 2011 9:39:48 GMT
Season of the Witch. Screw the critics, it had Nic Cage, Nic Cage's hair-piece and Ron Perlman fighting demons and zombie monks, a great drunkin' free night out at the movies.
+1 for Christopher Lee cameo.
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Post by zombi1978 on Jan 23, 2011 17:36:29 GMT
STEINER - CROSS OF IRON: Part 1
Perhaps the best and most authentic WWII movie ever made; no fucked up propaganda bullshit à la Spielberg and Hanks. This movie shows how the war was fought in a realistic way - and not all Wehrmacht soldiers were the "bad Jew-killers".
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Post by invidninja92 on Jan 23, 2011 19:32:05 GMT
STEINER - CROSS OF IRON: Part 1Perhaps the best and most authentic WWII movie ever made; no fucked up propaganda bullshit à la Spielberg and Hanks. This movie shows how the war was fought in a realistic way - and not all Wehrmacht soldiers were the "bad Jew-killers". to me is the greatest war film ever made and easily my second favourite film. A true classic, of course no one remembers the sequel with the late great Richard Burton as Steiner called Breakthrough. Yep, that exists. |
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. A friend on Skype wanted to watch it, so I showed it to him. We both watched it at the same time so we had an MST3K style commentary going on throughout which was fun. Best of all, the guy enjoyed it so that's a bonus.
