Movies, movies, movies

OhMyJosh95 · May 25th 2011, 9:21am

RollinRightInuit wrote:

I didn't know there was another version.

I think it was technically a sequel, called The Glass House 2: The Good Mother, but it was basically just a crappy direct-to-video remake. Starring Angie Harmon and Joel Gretsch as the "parents," and kids that I never heard of.

RollinRightInuit · May 25th 2011, 8:20pm

Oh :p Well, it wasn't that one.

RollinRightInuit · May 26th 2011, 2:30am

Watched two more tonight.

Straw Dogs was pretty cool

And put me in the mindset for more psychological thrillers, so I'm currently downloading Perfume, Shutter Island, Ronin, In Dreams, The Talented Mr Ripley, Buried, Harry Brown and Eagle Eye, in the hopes that I get at least one or two good films out of the lot :p And I just watched Hard Candy, which was awesome

So far most of the films I've watched in this marathon and really loved were ones I watched in the first couple of days, so it's nice to have had District 13, Amélie and Hard Candy in the past three days ^_^

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Updating my list of watched films:

1. Life is Beautiful
2. Pi
3. Fight Club
4. Source Code
5. Cube
6. The Mission
7. Trainspotting
8. American History X
9. Let the Right One In
10. Big Fish
11. The Untouchables
12. The Ghost Writer
13. Rampage
14. Taking Woodstock
15. The Pianist
16. Requiem for a Dream
17. Aliens
18. Legend of the Guardians
19. The Passenger
20. Interview with the Vampire
21. An Education
22. Taxi Driver
23. Rubber
24. Lars and the Real Girl
25. Catch Me If You Can
26. Never Let Me Go
27. Thor
28. Banlieue 13
29. A Simple Plan
30. The King's Speech
31. Banlieue 13 Ultimatum
32. Before Sunrise
33. Before Sunset
34. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
35. The Glass House
36. A Brief History of Time
37. Hard Candy

And still on my list of films to watch:

127 Hours
2001: A Space Odyssey
21 Grams
25th Hour
Amores Perros
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
The Aviator
Battleship Potemkin
Black Hawk Down
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Braveheart
Buried
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Carlito's Way
Changeling
Chinatown
City of God
Closer
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Eagle Eye
Enemy at the Gates
Fuck
Full Metal Jacket
Gangs of New York
Gladiator
The Godfather
Gone With the Wind
Goodfellas
Good Will Hunting
Gran Torino
Harry Brown
The Hurt Locker
In Dreams
Inside Man
The Kite Runner
La Regle du Jeu
L'Avventura
Lawrence of Arabia
M
Midnight Cowboy
Mr. Brooks
Mullholland Drive
North By Northwest
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Painted Veil
Paths of Glory
Paul
Perfume
Pride and Prejudice
Public Enemies
Raging Bull
Remember the Titans
Rent
Rocky
Ronin
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Se7en
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Shutter Island
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sting
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Thin Red Line
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
V for Vendetta
Valkyrie
Vertigo
The Wrestler

DamnImGood · May 26th 2011, 4:21am

I must be the only person in the world that thought Hard Candy was crap. It was incredibly boring.

On the plus side, I was very impressed with Eagle Eye. It ranked #2 for me for movies of 2008.

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Wow you haven't seen Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Inside Man, or Valkyrie?

It's time to step up your game, my Irish friend.

MADVILLAIN · May 26th 2011, 4:24am

Shutter Island could of been a lot better in my opinion, Buried is so-so and Harry Brown is pretty bad. Se7en is the film you should watch!

OhMyJosh95 · May 26th 2011, 5:44am

DamnImGood wrote:

I must be the only person in the world that thought Hard Candy was crap. It was incredibly boring.

I don't think I'd quite call it crap, but I'm definitely with you on "incredibly boring." I really did not like it at all.

On the plus side, I was very impressed with Eagle Eye. It ranked #2 for me for movies of 2008.

Wow. Really? Now that was crap, and just everyone involved with the movie agreed on that in hindsight. Disturbia was a much better Hitchcock-knock-off-staring-Shia.

Wow you haven't seen Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Inside Man, or Valkyrie? It's time to step up your game, my Irish friend.

I'm down with Gladiator and Inside Man. SPR deserves its accolades, but it pales in comparison to Band of Brothers (which is technically a miniseries, but is more like a 10 hour movie). And Valkyrie was just...full of missed opportunities.

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And for the love of God... please... please... stay away from Perfume.

Even Hugh Jackman isn't worth suffering through that mess.

RollinRightInuit · May 26th 2011, 10:34am

I didn't think Hard Candy was boring at all :p I loved it. But each to his own, eh?

All of those films finished downloading overnight, so I'll decide which ones to watch later

And I have some of the others on the list already downloaded but not yet watched.

And like I've said before, I've seen around a thousand films or so, just not all the ones some people think are "must see" films. Which vary from person to person anyway.

RollinRightInuit · May 26th 2011, 1:58pm

Brent, we obviously have quite different opinions on what is interesting and what is boring :p Eagle Eye bored me so much that I ended up taking off all the keys of my keyboard during it to clean under them :lol:

Dexterace · May 26th 2011, 3:23pm

RollinRightInuit wrote:

Brent, we obviously have quite different opinions on what is interesting and what is boring :p Eagle Eye bored me so much that I ended up taking off all the keys of my keyboard during it to clean under them

:rofl:

Ari Gold · May 26th 2011, 3:30pm

You haven't seen The Silence of the Lambs..what..

RollinRightInuit · May 26th 2011, 3:32pm

Sweetheart wrote:

You haven't seen The Silence of the Lambs..what..

And I'm sure you haven't seen a lot of films I think are great

This isn't the first time you've posted in this thread, and that's been on the list since the very beginning, so I don't really see the point in bringing it up 14 pages into the thread. If you'd like to recommend a film, please do so

Dexterace · May 26th 2011, 3:35pm

I'd like to suggest a film. It's not on the list and I don't know if you have watched it.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - IMDb

Ari Gold · May 26th 2011, 3:42pm

RollinRightInuit wrote:

And I'm sure you haven't seen a lot of films I think are great

This isn't the first time you've posted in this thread, and that's been on the list since the very beginning, so I don't really see the point in bringing it up 14 pages into the thread. If you'd like to recommend a film, please do so

Maybe I was shocked because you still haven't seen it after 14 pages?

RollinRightInuit · May 26th 2011, 10:46pm

15 minutes into Perfume and I'm already regretting it thanks to the amount of times the words smell, scent and olfactory have been used =/

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OhMyJosh95 wrote:

And for the love of God... please... please... stay away from Perfume.

Even Hugh Jackman isn't worth suffering through that mess.

Hugh Jackman isn't in it.....

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Dexterace wrote:

I'd like to suggest a film. It's not on the list and I don't know if you have watched it.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - IMDb

I actually haven't seen it before, but I've downloaded it now

DamnImGood · May 27th 2011, 3:11am

OhMyJosh95 wrote:

I don't think I'd quite call it crap, but I'm definitely with you on "incredibly boring." I really did not like it at all.

How can you "really not like" a movie but not consider it to be crap?

OhMyJosh95 wrote:

Wow. Really? Now that was crap, and just everyone involved with the movie agreed on that in hindsight. Disturbia was a much better Hitchcock-knock-off-staring-Shia.

Eagle Eye was a fast-paced, well-executed action flick and probably one of Shia's better performances (probably because he's not a pimply-faced teenager fighting giant robots). The film had a decent twist at the end and it was interesting how all the characters involved was brought to the exact same point even though they were all over the country. I wasn't expecting much when I saw the trailer but I found myself to be very entertained. That's what I go for when I see movies.

Disturbia was okay, but it was incredibly cheesy and had some pretty stupid moments in it. For example, when he admits he's been spying on the girl and basically tells her he's been watching her for weeks and knows everything about her, and she turns around and says it was the sweetest thing ever. Yeah. Right.

OhMyJosh95 wrote:

I'm down with Gladiator and Inside Man. SPR deserves its accolades, but it pales in comparison to Band of Brothers (which is technically a miniseries, but is more like a 10 hour movie). And Valkyrie was just...full of missed opportunities.

I don't compare Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers because as you've already mentioned, one is a film and the other is a miniseries.

I thought Valkyrie was pretty good. What were its missed opportunities?

RollinRightInuit wrote:

Brent, we obviously have quite different opinions on what is interesting and what is boring :p Eagle Eye bored me so much that I ended up taking off all the keys of my keyboard during it to clean under them

Our opinions undoubtedly differ, since you consider films which consist of almost entirely of dialogue to be interesting, but films that are a fast-paced, well-executed action flicks with a decent twist and an interesting way of getting all the characters to the same spot to be boring.

Or maybe child predation is just your thing. Hey, to each ~~his~~ her own!

RollinRightInuit · May 27th 2011, 3:47am

DamnImGood wrote:

when he admits he's been spying on the girl and basically tells her he's been watching her for weeks and knows everything about her, and she turns around and says it was the sweetest thing ever. Yeah. Right.

Doesn't stop you from trying

DamnImGood wrote:

Our opinions undoubtedly differ, since you consider films which consist of almost entirely of dialogue to be interesting, but films that are a fast-paced, well-executed action flicks with a decent twist and an interesting way of getting all the characters to the same spot to be boring.

Or maybe child predation is just your thing. Hey, to each ~~his~~ her own!

Well, I do like the fact that the film is backwards and the teen has the upper hand over the predator. But yes, I do like films with a lot of dialogue if they're done well.

As you know, I loved both Rampage and Banlieue 13, so obviously it's not a case of me not liking well-executed action films, it's just a case of me not thinking Eagle Eye was well-executed :p It just seemed annoyingly predictable, and very... same-y. It was kind of disappointing, because I've quite liked Michelle Monaghan in a couple of other films, and it's fairly rare for me to like an actress. Plus I'd seen trailers for it when it was out originally and thought it looked like a film I'd like. To be honest, I didn't actually see any twists in it. First phone call he got I was like "Oh, it's a film about GLaDOS".

RollinRightInuit · May 28th 2011, 11:12am

1. Life is Beautiful
2. Pi
3. Fight Club
4. Source Code
5. Cube
6. The Mission
7. Trainspotting
8. American History X
9. Let the Right One In
10. Big Fish
11. The Untouchables
12. The Ghost Writer
13. Rampage
14. Taking Woodstock
15. The Pianist
16. Requiem for a Dream
17. Aliens
18. Legend of the Guardians
19. The Passenger
20. Interview with the Vampire
21. An Education
22. Taxi Driver
23. Rubber
24. Lars and the Real Girl
25. Catch Me If You Can
26. Never Let Me Go
27. Thor
28. Banlieue 13
29. A Simple Plan
30. The King's Speech
31. Banlieue 13 Ultimatum
32. Before Sunrise
33. Before Sunset
34. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
35. The Glass House
36. A Brief History of Time
37. Hard Candy
38. Eagle Eye
39. In Dreams
40. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
41. Inside Man
42. The Talented Mr Ripley
43. Shutter Island

Tarra · May 28th 2011, 5:37pm

Today I watched"The First on the Moon" and I was so impressed. I love movies like that, really. I think I'm going to watch some Soviet movies in a week. Mosfilm YouTube channel for the win!

DamnImGood · May 28th 2011, 7:43pm

How did you like Shutter Island? I thought it was fine until the end. I was pissed. I hate films like that.

RollinRightInuit · May 28th 2011, 11:45pm

I kind of saw the ending coming, and as you know from Eagle Eye, films bore me a bit when I find them predictable :p But I liked the dream sequences, and I liked how they did leave it kind of ambiguous at the end of it.

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