Mine? I actually think that John Carter from Mars was a decent flick for what it was worth.

Ill also add that I despite its flaws I enjoyed Skyline.

First 3rd of the movie was good, but then it got all road trip and scooby doo haunted house chase like...I hated that shit.



>Mine? I actually think that John Carter from Mars was a
>decent flick for what it was worth.

Yeah, I enjoyed it too.

>First 3rd of the movie was good, but then it got all road
>trip and scooby doo haunted house chase like...I hated that
>shit.


Nah, that's not unpopular. I think most people would agree with you.

Constantly throwing you for a loop

I liked it 28 Days Later & Sunshine but not so much in Trance

I don't get why it's considered dope.

>I don't get why it's considered dope.


Its supposed to be poetic/Chandler-esque but set in the future aka timeless storytelling

yours is a true unpopular opinion but I think most think it to themselves but dont say it out loud

>yours is a true unpopular opinion but I think most think it to
>themselves but dont say it out loud

>>I don't get why it's considered dope.
>
>
>Its supposed to be poetic/Chandler-esque but set in the
>future aka timeless storytelling

Also the production design is GOAT status

it's really a major improvement from the theatrical cut that you generally see broadcast on TV.


>I don't get why it's considered dope.

For one the set/art design is basically the blueprint for every dystopian future sci-fi movie of the past 30 years.

i blame this place for watching it 3 years ago

i'll revisit one day, but lawd was i disappointed

Blade Runner is weird to me....cause Phillip K is always called a 'post-modern' writer and the movie is often characterized as post-modern.....but there is absolutely nothing post-modern about the movie's theme. I sum it up as: The will to survive is what makes us human and the finite nature of life is what makes things beautiful.

Again,there's really nothing post-modern about that. It's much more rooted in old philosophers like Descartes.

On the other hand....Ex-Machina is totally post-modern in it's themes and asks completely different questions rooted in 20th century philosophy rather than the antiquated stuff.

They're both excellent movies imo....but ex-machina is basically a wet-dream for me. The first movie (Ive seen) that addresses all my favorite philosophers.

because I'm all up in the Ex-Machina post, as in one of the first to reply to the trailer and being skeptical, only to watch it and love it

and Dick, is NOT looked at as a post-modern writer. what space did you pull that from

can't sit through an entire film without nodding

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Well done sir

good grief

say that to my face punk

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>
>say that to my face punk
>
>Ray Liotta was that nigga straight up and down

Nah chill, he drunk!





http://twitter.com/collazo

...sue me.

that's one of the worst major studio films ever made

::Kanye Shrug::

The two main characters were pretty unlikable, and the only redeeming aspects of the movie were the shots of Tokyo and the music. A long exercise in white whiny angst.

Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, War Horse, Amistad, even Schindler's are not that great.



Spielberg is insanely talented but beyond that not that bright, I think. When he gets serious his intellectual deficiencies become really apparent.

when he tries to get "deep" his blandness really shows.

>Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, War Horse, Amistad, even
>Schindler's are not that great.

The first 10 minutes of SVR is the best directing in
the history of film

Literally changed my life and politics on war, never
been able to say that about a non-documentary

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The use of music and sound editing in that is astounding.

>The use of music and sound editing in that is astounding.

Well, ok, but the story was not so good at all

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voice over narration

i still think Stone, Pecsi and Deniro held it down on the acting tip sumthin serious and the film looks and sounds great, but the story is mediocre

once thought it was a down right classic, more like B+

love that scene of the hotel room getting blown to bits. Munich is a bit anti-climactic

Besides the awkward sex/shooting scene...Munich was a masterpiece too

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You cannot hate people for their own good.

HOW he tells a story is what makes him who he is...I am not a fan of his movies as stories, but I absolutely respect his filmMAKING.

CBS sunday night movie level, though.

That Matt Damon story about his brother in the barn with the girl? That was HORRIBLE. It was so obvious what they were trying to do....which only made it fall flatter.

The first 15 minutes of that movie was an amazing revelation and completely groundbreaking technique. The rest was a made-for-tv movie at best.

absolutely very little to no Black or Chicano/Latino/Hispanic people exist in his film universes. even Asians get more nods than those three groups lol

He just had shit to work with after Goldeneye. But if they brought him back instead of bringing Craig in, I would not have been mad at all

And I'm pretty sure that most would agree with you, that GoldenEye was cool but his last 2 movies were shit, but it wasn't his fault

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But Zootown, black people and media, so...

Which I guess is an unpopular movie opinion.

But yes, "Die Another Day" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" sucked ass, and it wasn't Brosnan's fault.

Named the avengers

They need to be the blueprint for ACTION movies, not these character building snooze fest...

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Del Toro stuck his foot in that one.

But besides that one, I'd agree

.

I agree with you....but something tells me more
people would agree with you than either of us would
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i'm not a big fan of his style or stories honestly, but those two i really like. American Beauty 14 yrs later is highly strange and problematic

but get passes because most folk think they're *cute* or *hot* or have a great personality that let's them skate by in roles:

Aubrey Plaza
Olivia Munn

Nicolas Cage (he *USED* to be good, he's not now)
Ryan Gosling (he gives great, constipated DEW DEW FACE though)
Bradley Cooper

Taye Diggs

add on...please.

>but get passes because most folk think they're *cute* or
>*hot* or have a great personality that let's them skate by in
>roles:
>
>Aubrey Plaza

No doubt

>Olivia Munn

No

>Nicolas Cage (he *USED* to be good, he's not now)

ok

>Ryan Gosling (he gives great, constipated DEW DEW FACE
>though)

He's legit but probably needs to start picking better scripts

>Bradley Cooper

Hated him at first but he's won me over since playin Face

>Taye Diggs

Agreed

>add on...please.

I'll add actress Jessica Biel & her boy toy for starters

>>but get passes because most folk think they're *cute* or
>>*hot* or have a great personality that let's them skate by
>in
>>roles:
>>
>>Aubrey Plaza
>
>No doubt

like, folk STAN for this chick. And save for that Daria live action short she did, I don't get it. AT ALL.

I mean, shit, there are folk on Parks and Rec who are *WAY* funnier than her, and don't get NO shine.

Plaza isn't even worth all this praise.

>>Olivia Munn
>
>No

we can agree to disagree. I feel like if she continues make interesting choices in terms of roles (the Olivia Munn contingent I know SWEAR by her work on The Newsroom and this occult horror movie she's doing with Eric Bana, directed by the guy who did SINISTER (Scott Derrickson) shows serious promise. So, I will gladly amend my views on her...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2377322/?ref_=sr_1 Beware The Night, the Scott Derrickson movie.

But, until then, I'm real wary of giving her praise. What I've seen her in I just haven't been real impressed.

>>Nicolas Cage (he *USED* to be good, he's not now)
>
>ok

true he used to be, but damn he sucks. Like I can't even rock with the parody acting he's doing.

>>Ryan Gosling (he gives great, constipated DEW DEW FACE
>>though)
>
>He's legit but probably needs to start picking better scripts

yes he needs better scripts definitely.

>
>>Bradley Cooper
>
>Hated him at first but he's won me over since playin Face

nah...i'm going to need him to do some small, indie gritty shit ala The Machinist, etc. that he carries ON HIS OWN, etc. because I've always felt like he was someone that had some talent but really just got by on being pretty...

Silver Linings Playbook: not a decent movie, but that was ALL about Jennifer Lawrence for me, and not him.

>
>>Taye Diggs
>
>Agreed

YUP. I need him to either go back to acting school for a couple years or just go the fuck away.

>>add on...please.
>
>I'll add actress Jessica Biel & her boy toy for starters


BINGO!

Biel and Timberlake aren't great actors at all.

Timbo has more potential to eventually BE better...but Biel? nah. she's horrible.

But I need Justin to start singing again...he's good at that.

>but get passes because most folk think they're *cute* or
>*hot* or have a great personality that let's them skate by in
>roles:
>
>Aubrey Plaza
>Olivia Munn

No. both are funny as fuck. Nunn is good in Newsroom and her lil stint on Daily Show and Aubrey kills in P&R and was damn good in Safety Not Guaranteed

>Nicolas Cage (he *USED* to be good, he's not now)

i thought i was a lone, but he was great in The Weather Man and FANTASTIC in Bad Lieutenant

>Ryan Gosling (he gives great, constipated DEW DEW FACE
>though)

nigga no! you will bow down to Gosling GAWD: he picks great roles and is THEE SHIT:
Place Beyond The Pines: is only great when he's on screen
Ides of March: come on Yo, damn good especially next to Cloon dog
Crazy Stupid Love: he was perfect. ol ordinary freckled-face-redhead was the miscast
Drive: contemporary classic... mad?
All Good Things: decent film, but he was incredible. in this and Drive he says so much wihtout saying a fucn word
Blue Valentine: killed
Lars & The Real Girl: he was excellent
The Believer: again, excellent

you trippin fam. Franco wishes he was Gosling
>Bradley Cooper
>
>Taye Diggs
>
my lady loves that chocolate skint nigga

>>but get passes because most folk think they're *cute* or
>>*hot* or have a great personality that let's them skate by
>in
>>roles:
>>
>>Aubrey Plaza
>>Olivia Munn
>
>No. both are funny as fuck. Nunn is good in Newsroom and her
>lil stint on Daily Show and Aubrey kills in P&R and was damn
>good in Safety Not Guaranteed

1/2 aint bad but Blahza is terrible...I liked p&r but she ruined it for me

>>Nicolas Cage (he *USED* to be good, he's not now)
>
>i thought i was a lone, but he was great in The Weather Man
>and FANTASTIC in Bad Lieutenant

Never saw TWM but Bat Lt is great...get stuck watchin it everytime it's on

>>Ryan Gosling (he gives great, constipated DEW DEW FACE
>>though)
>
>nigga no! you will bow down to Gosling GAWD: he picks great
>roles and is THEE SHIT:

>Place Beyond The Pines: is only great when he's on screen

He's better than Coop but the movie really only started to drag for me when the focus switched to the kids

>Ides of March: come on Yo, damn good especially next to Cloon
>dog

True

>Crazy Stupid Love: he was perfect. ol ordinary
>freckled-face-redhead was the miscast

Yeah he killed it but wasn't buyin Ehhma in this or Gangster Squad...the little boy in CSL sucked too but I'll digress

>Drive: contemporary classic... mad?

Already made my feelings known about this flick elsewhere in the thread but he was good in it

>All Good Things: decent film, but he was incredible

Misleading title w/ Dunce as the co-star...skipped it

>Blue Valentine: killed

yeah

>Lars & The Real Girl: he was excellent

meh...mortimer was better

>The Believer: again, excellent

k

>you trippin fam. Franco wishes he was Gosling
>>Bradley Cooper
>>
>>Taye Diggs
>>
>my lady loves that chocolate skint nigga
>
lotta chics do but i'm still waiting for an impressive acting performance from him

performance in him? me, personally no.

he'd have to go full creeper/asshole/scumbag role and I don't think his handlers would let him take that risk

and yeah my lady diggin that nigga comment, was more about how i give her the side eye

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You cannot hate people for their own good.

People are always quoting that fucking movie at me. lol

fuck outta here

I fell asleep both times I have tried to watch it.


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I Love That Dirty Water...Boston Your My Home

i can't w/that movie.

.

Alien, Aliens, and Predator are classics, hands down.

Alien 3, Predator 2, and Predators are good fun.

I even have a soft spot for both Alien vs. Predator movies. They aren't great, but they also aren't completely awful. I look at them this way... We aren't getting anything better.

*NOTE... Alien Resurrection is the worst of the bunch though, that's rough to throw compliments at.

Resurrection at least LOOKS gorgeous.

those I will never watch again. I agree with Frank, Resurrection is better than those and I still watch it when I feel in the mood to watch the series, just did before watching Prometheus.


I also like all the Terminator movies, including 3 and Salvation. Obviously take a giant step down from the first two but still its fucking Terminators and they are cool. lol

Can't help it, I'm a sucker for Stallone, and seeing him pal around with Statham, Li, Lundgren, Willis, Schwarzenegger, Crews, and Austin makes for a good time. It really is a throwback to the movies of old, and nothing too over-the-top like the sequel ended up being.

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My dad lives about 10 miles from Rosewood and its a ghost town in the woods now. Even driving through the area and seeing the Rosewood sign makes me feel shitty. Xomparable to when I went Auschwitz (another subject I cant sit thru a whole movie about)

The psychology of the whole area is still royally fucked, whether white or black.

>My dad lives about 10 miles from Rosewood and its a ghost
>town in the woods now. Even driving through the area and
>seeing the Rosewood sign makes me feel shitty. Xomparable to
>when I went Auschwitz (another subject I cant sit thru a whole
>movie about)
>
>The psychology of the whole area is still royally fucked,
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Gummo is better than any other film Harmony Korine or Larry Clarke made.

its a piece of shit just like the films the other two directors make

other film (to date) about Black women/girls.
It was more progressive as well.

and The Postman sucks.

It was at the edge of filmmaking technology in its day and scared the shit out of people.

GF = 5 stars
GF2 = 5 stars
GF3 = 4 stars

What an, ICKE!
LOLOL.

it suffered from poor promotion and then, at a certain point, it just couldn't get out from underneath it's own innertia.

http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

I liked the books for what they were

I still haven't made it through the film
I blame the books
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

an excellent character-study.
Screw the plot. That "Cobain" character was perfect.

In fact, the humor falls flat. Very bland.
Pryor was too dry. Red Foxx was struggling with his delivery.
Arsenio was trying way too hard.
The whole script was awful.

The best parts are the individual comedy set-pieces and the seemingly ad-libbed quips here and there.

The story, acting, direction, continuity, all that? Blech.

EYYYYY OOOOOO

Imo,it could of been great but it's pacing is really strange..like if Oliver Stone had just moved this around and cut a little of that it would of been a much better film. There's still more than a few great scenes individually, though..

>Imo,it could of been great but it's pacing is really
>strange..like if Oliver Stone had just moved this around and
>cut a little of that it would of been a much better film.
>There's still more than a few great scenes individually,
>though..

that really threw it off. dunno if it could've been great but I agree with the rest.

>>Imo,it could of been great but it's pacing is really
>>strange..like if Oliver Stone had just moved this around and
>>cut a little of that it would of been a much better film.
>>There's still more than a few great scenes individually,
>>though..
>
>that really threw it off. dunno if it could've been great but
>I agree with the rest.

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the one I have is the Final Cut and it's 3 and half hours. I haven't watched it in a long time but I'm gonna resurrect it today and watch it with fresh eyes. I may have to apologize later..

I feel like I should have a plaque, a medal, & a trophy just for watching the whole thing

to walk out of a movie theater so bad. That movie made me question Oliver Stone's sanity. Terrible!

Never had any desire to see it in the theater so it was pretty easy to have it on in the background once it finally came on cable

I actually wanted to see Alexander on the big screen & decided against it after seeing the reviews & run time. One of the smartest decisions I ever made.

Biggest trainwreck and pathetic piece of dogshit
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Watcha think? The way you described Alexander is how I feel about Savages, Twilight, etc

>Watcha think? The way you described Alexander is how I feel
>about Savages, Twilight, etc

The only one I hear comparable is that 'Mission to Mars'
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oh well ...Im also one of the only people on earth who likes U Turn and have watched it many times. Same with Any Given Sunday, also widely despised and hated..

>oh well ...Im also one of the only people on earth who likes
>U Turn and have watched it many times. Same with Any Given
>Sunday, also widely despised and hated..

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>The only one I hear comparable is that 'Mission to Mars'
>shit

Don Cheadle survived for a year on the surface of Mars in a tent. IN A FUCKING TENT!

and it was pretty bad
but its not WOAT status tho

You're pretty good when you're not carrying over
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People who've seen both I think would generally agree.

I really like that film.

if the unwashed masses had seen Dark City they'd still go for Keanu Matrix-Fu over it.

Mind you I like both
They are just different

Both maybe scifi
On is scifi noir
The other is scifi action with noir coloring
~~~~
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

Let's be clear...Dark City is an amazing film...but The Matrix was a better metaphor.

Even for a sci-fi flick...there was a bit of a believability about The Matrix...like it was making a huge social comment within the scope of a really good film.

Dark City? The mythology was kinda all over the place....

I think that Dark City was dope enough to be mentioned in the same breath as The Matrix...but I don't necessarily clap to it being a better film

D

ever

and i can only barely get over it. besides the story of the 2002 season and billy beane and art howe's personalities, there's so many little things they got wrong. the championship banners were already up in fenway. the song his daughter played wasn't created until 2008. they were pretty lazy in their research.

HAHAHAHA!

Shyamalan gets alot of grief over his endings, but I thought the twist was novel.

The first two thirds are really well done regardless.

Nicolas Winding Refn is an accumulation of other better directors' affectations.

>Nicolas Winding Refn is an accumulation of other better
>directors' affectation

I'm pretty sure he's just not my cup of tea

All style, no substance. And the word 'pretentious' was invented for a movie like this.

I watched that movie and was just confused as to why people were talking about it.

There are sections of that movie that can still make me uneasy.

>There are sections of that movie that can still make me
>uneasy.

That's the kinda horror I enjoy...didn't need to stoop to gore

and got a serious sci-fi horror flick instead.

The sound design in that movie is mind-blowing. And I LOVE Cruise's relationships with his kids. It's a dead-beat dad's triumph in so many ways. Too bad the sub-plot with Tim Robbins stayed off the cutting-room floor. The comparisons to Iraq were genuinely painful. Tom Cruise killing him moved the main theme forward....but there was no need to get all political with the Robbins character. Nickel-bag preaching in an otherwise great film.

and i also hated Pacific Rim.

Couldn't get past Carol Channing Tatum's terrible acting when I tried to watch it a 2nd time

>and i also hated Pacific Rim.

Didn't hate it but definitely wasn't very impressed outside of 2 scenes

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

.

Danny fuckin Glover.
I will repeatedly watch part 2 over part 1, ANY day.
The fight in the meat locker. Goddamn.
Side note: excellent use of Jamaicans in this movie. Haha

overall, I don't like it very much.

his miserable characters are far more tolerable when they're endearingly cute animals

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Rushmore, Fox, Aquatic, Moonrise for me, personally

No shots intended, but to me Royal Tenenbaums has always tried way too hard to be a "dark" and "ironic" fable about a family

Every time I try to give it another shot, I come away with that same conclusion

On the other hand, I really think Max Fischer is possibly the greatest teen character I've ever seen in a movie

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But Zootown, black people and media, so...

ALL of his movies are boring as fuck.
Sure, his set designs are interesting, but thats it.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was okay.
But I have never wanted to watch any of his films more than once.
And some I even didn't want to finish.

If he made it today with a budget, maybe. bUt fuck that movie.

SMH

Royal Ts
Moonrise Kingdom
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Life Aquatic
Darjeeling

ARE ALL BETTER

for house goodness:

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http://soundcloud.com/dj-rsenal

ahhh, why the hell not:
www.facebook.com/djrsenal
www.twitter.com/djrsenal

.

Except Argo was still pretty dope.

that is a beautiful fucn movie

Except Boogie Nights.

Everything else is... eh.

Pile on.

>Except Boogie Nights.

I'm gonna tell him.
Someday.
You just wait.

JOHN CARTER OF MARS.

(that's not an unpopular opinion, just a response to the OP)

Stupid Disney.

Transformers 1, 2, 3
Pirates 4
Alice in Wonderland
Oz the Great and Powerful

Marketing is powerful, but is it THAT damn powerful?

.

any films you seen over the last few years you think would've benefited from being B&W. i know that wasnt ur point, but just for the sake of convo

Essentially, small, personal quiet dramas could still be made in black and white. I'm not talking a sweeping epidemic, just a few.

last one was that turd Elysium

i was like why

what purpose is this serving

Black folks be lookin all ashy or waaay darker than their natural hue.
Also, they need better make-up artists. Somethin my wife helped me to realize.

No one wanted to say it sucked for fear that people would think they didn't catch all the literary and art references in the movie.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

> No one wanted to say it sucked for fear that people would
>think they didn't catch all the literary and art references in
>the movie.

It had a few moments here & there but I couldn't hang for the most part

and i'm speaking as some one caught many of the references, especially the art ones. i mean being able to be like, "ohh, he name/character dropping Amedeo Modgliani, cool," and Brody was great as Dali, but yeah fuck all that

Never understood why people fell head over heels with it.

I'll even one up that opinion with another.... the sequel is better.

Like it represented a huge leap in CGI when it came out.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

But story wise, it's just not entertaining to me.

I was a CGI nerd at the time and the dinosaurs never seemed real to me outside of a few shots.

I read the book Jurassic Park and the book dealt more with the ethics of science and man's attempt to tame nature. The movie dumped that theme to appeal to kids, I suppose. I thought the movie was going to be more suspenseful. I was 14 when the movie came out and was at the age that I wanted something more sophisticated than the average movie geared for kids.

Some of the action notes were good - the paw imprints rumbling when the T-Rex walked, the chase scene when the T-Rex attacked and the mirror said 'Objects ate closer than they appear.'.

I liked the second one because it made the dinosaurs flesh and blood creatures and less pet-like. And had some great moments of action. The ending notwithstanding.

Does nothing for me.

Top THAT shit

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But Zootown, black people and media, so...

I was a big defender of that movie, as I'm a big defender of the prequels in general. But I went back recently and watched it, and it is pretty bad. I still enjoy it... but holy crap is it worse than I thought it was when it came out.

Take out Hayden and Portman's dialogue, and you've actually got a pretty good movie.

Hayden is really horrible. Rewatching that movie, I was wishing George went back and replaced him digitally with the CLONE WARS CGI. lol

Remove that and the "FROM MY PERSPECTIVE THE JEDIS ARE EVIL!!!!!" and you might have something.

unless you count literal LOL moments like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXA21RL9-IY

that was so totally unbelievable. but other than that, it was very good.

and if im watching in order i prefer to do III,IV,V,VI,I,II

>and if im watching in order i prefer to do III,IV,V,VI,I,II

You watch:
Revenge of the Sith
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones

In that order?!

Why would you leave Attack of the Clones last?

Why even start with Revenge of the Sith?

I hope you got your roman numerals fucked up cause this is blowing my mind right now.

I like more than I used to, and I consider Marge and Norm one of the great film married couples, but a lot of it just work for me.

And Hudsucker Proxy >> Barton Fink.

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LEAVING MOM ISN'T HEROIC
HE SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT AFTER DAD DIED
INNOCENT PEOPLE DIED IN HE MOVIE
HE KILLED SOMEONE


Zach kicked Donner's ass.

I'll even argue that Man of Steel > Age of ultron

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1. Amoldovar
The Skin I Live In, Mala Educaccion, Volver, Talk To Her, Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown, Bad Habits... bow down BasedGAWD

2. Spike
- idk if Inside Man was his last overall good/respected film he got DTRT, Malcolm X, Bamboozled, Summer of Sam and He Got Game. and for the record i didn't mind/liked She Hate Me and Red Hook Summer. also he gots When The Leeves Broke, A Huey P Story and 4 Little Girls

3. Paul Thomas Anderson
-There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love... shiieeeet. Even though i didn't particularly like Magnolia the performances he got out of Cruise, my boo Julianne Moore, and PSH gets props. Also i thought the Master was powerful, if not great

4. Terry Gilliam
-Brasil, 12 Monkeys, Fear & Loathing.. the end

5. Wes Anderson
-Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, Fox are great. Life Aquatic is damn good. Dajeeling good too

6. Darren Aronofsky
-only misstep is The Fountain

7. Alejandro Iñárritu
made my favorite movie of the last 15 years Amores Perros. only misstep is Babel

8. Martin Scorsese
-post 1979 he's got Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull (which I don't love but respect), Aviator, and The Departed

9. Kubrick
-i mean, post 1979, The Shinning and Full Metal Jacket alone mean he could be #1-5

9 & 10 is a battle between spike jonze, curon, del toro, gondry, the wochowskis, and ritchie (yeah i said it)

And how can you love Kubrick but not like Clockwork Orange?
Eh.... to each his own.

but as a fan of PTA, my last rewatch of it was tough. it's on the lower end of his films.

everything on the list is post 1979, when was A Clockwork Orange released?

Magnolia, i appreciate for the acting and tone, but i typically have a hard time digesting bourgeois white angst, which Magnolia was full of. and its pretty easy to love a director when you LOVE HIS OTHER FOUR MOVIES

Cuaron is no 4

21 Grams and Babel are beautifully crafted piles of sheer misery. shit's just too much.

Amores Perros kind of is too, but I love it to death

I didn't see Biutiful so I have no idea of it's also 2 hours of people hitting rock bottom interlocked by some type of accident, but i'm not really trying to find out lol

Fuck haters.

I never understood why people hated that scene.

Also, Darth Maul has one of the greatest introductions in movie history. His appearance at the doors is one of the coolest most badass intro ever. The killed his momentum when they split him in half. He could have been a contender because even though he was only in the film for 5 - 10 min., and only had 2 lines IN THE ENTIRE FILM, he's still very memorable.

And I believe that it is where cinema is headed, in general.
There are some really great ones, so far.
Blair Witch Project.
Paranormal Activity (the 1st one).
Day Zero (it was about the 2 Columbine boys).
Chronicle.
Cloverfield.
Trash Humpers.

VHS 1 and 2

I heard good things about it.
Will probably check it out tonight.

Loved the concept though

The last short was the only memorable one. VHS2 was waaaay better.

The Dirties is about two teens who film themselves making a comedy spoof about seeking revenge on their bullies, but one of them seriously starts taking it to another level.
Its not bad.
There are some laughable moments.
Not the best "Found Footage" movie.
It has a similar theme to "Zero Day". I think "Zero Day" is better.
Who the hell was shooting this?
Its never made clear. And how the hell were there 2 different camera angles on them if its supposed to be just one cam dude?
The cam dude just follows them around everywhere, but yet the 2 friends rarely communicate with him/her.
Seemed a bit odd and thrown in there.
I thought it would've been better if the cam was being held by the main protagonist.
Looked kinda like The Office (style-wise).
I prefer rougher looking found footage, as opposed to this crispy MTV look.
But still, this one wasn't as cliche as I thought it would be.

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CLEAN UP, GO HOME!

Movie still sucked.

You, good sir, went for the latter

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its also better than a lot of movies clowns in here "like/love"

Contagion is hard for me to re-watch, though, because I'd consider it one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. 90m of pure anxiety. the way society unfolds is all too plausible and it really play's out like a neurotic germophobe envisioning his worst case scenario in order to get some relief by envisioning the safe landing at the end. and yeah, sure, that works okay, but the time before the end was just lots of dread for me.

I felt they took a taut, beautifully shot sci-fi horror flick and turned it into a generic first person shooter.

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tho i do like Alien quite a bit

I feel like people use Heath's performance as sort of a benchmark to measure the film as a whole. When in actuality, most of the scenes w/out Heath are snooze worthy.

to Perdition is awesome.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I thought Miller's Crossing was highly regarded.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

and agreed on road to perdition.

needs strong scripts to even be considered passable. No personality whatsoever.

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Denzel was good, but not Oscar good in my opinion and the movie was average. There was no ambiguity with his character. He was just bad. I would have enjoyed it more if he had some redeeming qualities. He did those bad things, but he also did some good stuff. Forces the viewer to reconcile how they feel about the character. The Shield did that well with Vic Mackey. He was bad, but he did a lot of good police work. So there was a grey area with him.

Don't understand its hate at all.

Now, if you said Ghostbusters II is better than the original, that would be unpopular.

Even Harold Ramis thought it was a dud.

i don't think the edward norton hulk is THAT much better (if at all) than the ang lee one (the only real problem with the latter is the dumb bit with the dogs)

He ruins every single movie he is in. I hate Mark Walhberg more than AIDS

Shit was a Benny Hill superhero movie.

Stewart gets shat on for starring in a crappy book franchise while Lawrence has been propped up as the greatest thing since Meryl Streep after being in the "good" book franchise. I loved her in Winter's Bone but she hasn't given a great performance since, despite the fact that they want to nominate her for an Oscar just for showing up in a movie. Lawrence has access to any script she wants, but i think Stewart is the better actress if given the same opportunities.

She's picked some bad roles, her recent great performance was seen by nobody in the US (Clouds of Sils Maria), and she's been a zero in terms of personality with the press (and in Snow White and the Huntsman.)

She might be better but Lawrence is the bigger personality which is why she's the star. I wouldn't be stunned if Stewart settled into being an indie stalwart and is perfectly happy there.

In Clouds and Camp X-Ray and some other lesser seen films she killed it. I think Lawrence gets over-hyped cause of her whole shtick with the press, taking more mainstream roles, etc. I'm glad K-Stew is settling into the Indie realm for the most part. I almost wish Lawrence would do the same cause i LOVED Winter's Bone Jennifer Lawrence.