Let's watch a movie. [Archive]

Hannibal

08-10-11, 12:44 AM

I've never understood Donnie Darko. Ever. I've watched it a bunch of times, and I just can't get why people like it.

That being said, I enjoy The Notebook, Dear John, and- I'm kidding. My favorite movies are There Will Be Blood, Once (the Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova movie that is beautiful), Good Will Hunting, and Network ( "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I WON'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!" ).

Letho

08-10-11, 01:38 AM

That being said, I enjoy The Notebook, Dear John, and- I'm kidding. My favorite movies are There Will Be Blood, Once (the Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova movie that is beautiful), Good Will Hunting, and Network ( "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I WON'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!" ).I loved There Will Be Blood. I think Daniel Day-Lewis did a stellar job in that one, but that isn't surprising seeing as he's a great actor. I loved him the Gangs of New York.

As for my favorites... There are quite a few, but I'll just list a couple. Watchmen, 300, Se7en, Snatch, Fight Club, LOTR Trilogy of course, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Sin City, I could go on for quite a while as I watch quite a lot of movies.

Hannibal

08-12-11, 12:13 AM

I loved There Will Be Blood. I think Daniel Day-Lewis did a stellar job in that one, but that isn't surprising seeing as he's a great actor. I loved him the Gangs of New York.

As for my favorites... There are quite a few, but I'll just list a couple. Watchmen, 300, Se7en, Snatch, Fight Club, LOTR Trilogy of course, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Sin City, I could go on for quite a while as I watch quite a lot of movies.
Daniel Day Lewis is one of those few actors who legitimately make any movie worth watching, like Jack Nicholson or Samuel L. Jackson. I didn't like Gangs of New York that much (I felt it was too long and drawn-out, which is saying something), but man his character was a badass.

I see you're a Brad Pitt fan, huh? Massively underrated acting skills on that guy. He's great.

Vigil

08-12-11, 12:58 AM

Layer Cake, American Gangster, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Night Watch, Delicatessen, Suerte...

Movies I can remember off the top of my head. My list has always been kind've fluid given the volume of movies I usually watch.

Letho

08-12-11, 01:20 AM

Daniel Day Lewis is one of those few actors who legitimately make any movie worth watching, like Jack Nicholson or Samuel L. Jackson. I didn't like Gangs of New York that much (I felt it was too long and drawn-out, which is saying something), but man his character was a badass.

I see you're a Brad Pitt fan, huh? Massively underrated acting skills on that guy. He's great.Yeah, I agree on the Gangs of New York. On a whole, it's probably not one of my all favorites, but Lewis was awesome and I think Leonardo DiCaprio did a decent job. Which he seems to be doing more and more lately. Inception, Shutter Island, Blood Diamond. Leo did a pretty good job in those as far as I'm concerned.

As for Brad Pitt, I'm not necessarily his fan. It's just that he keeps popping up in the movies that I like. :P Like 12 Monkeys. I think his character there was hilarious and he did a great job portraying him. But yeah, I do agree that he's underrated. I guess with the pretty boy label he's stuck with (oh woe is him), people forget that's he's actually a great actor. Like in Legends of the Fall. Man, I love that movie.

Silence Sei

08-12-11, 01:25 AM

....I liked Daredevil....

Make of that what you will.

Hannibal

08-12-11, 02:17 AM

....I liked Daredevil....

Make of that what you will.
*hiss, claw* IT BURNS! IT BURNNNNS!

@Letho: Yeah, Leo is a great actor. Inception is a great movie, but everyone always looks at it the wrong way and obsesses over the parts that don't matter - but that's usually how it goes, isn't it?

And its gotta suck to have that pretty boy label. I mean, I'd hate to be John Mayer. All of that good music and the chicks always fawn over the worst songs and those gorgeous curls... What was I talking about again? Oh, right. Legends of the Fall. Never seen it, but i''m gonna have to check it out now

Jack Frost

08-12-11, 02:08 PM

Almost anything with Johnny Depp, except Rango, my favorite would have to be Sweeny Todd. Who doesn't like musicals about an insane barber who kills people and has his girlfriend serve up the corpses as meat pies. Pirates of the Carribean is pretty epic too.

Off my strange fanboy rant I also enjoyed the LOTR series, still haven't seen three though. I also enjoyed the toy story series, number three made me cry.

Iron man, Kickass, Harry Potter. I have a very wide palate when it comes to movies or any sort of entertainment.

Silence Sei

08-12-11, 02:10 PM

Rango was excellent, you ass.

Letho

08-12-11, 02:15 PM

I have to say that Kickass left me seriously underwhelmed. I expected a nice action-comedy flick, but the action wasn't great and the humor made me laugh maybe once, when this dude called the main protagonist the Green Condom or something. That was funny. The rest was just... bleh. I don't know. Not my cup of joe. Or just not as funny as they meant it was.

Get Smart. Best. Comedy. EVER. And also anything Jim Carrey.

Jack Frost

08-12-11, 02:26 PM

Rango was excellent, you ass.

I've heard bad things about it, I'll wait and see if It makes it to Netflix and watch it.

Silence Sei

08-12-11, 02:33 PM

It wasn't Toy Story 3 by any means, but it sure as heck beat out Cars 2, imo.

And Letho.....how could you not love this exchange...

Hit Girl: It looks so much cooler than it did in the picture.

Big Daddy: Thats because in the picture, it didn't have gatling guns strapped to it.

Not to mention the 10 minute realistic fight scene where kick ass gets owned by those guys in front of the diner. And the Big Daddy slow mo kill cam?

Man, the only way that movie could have been better is if they actually had stayed true to source material.

Jack Frost

08-12-11, 02:35 PM

Kickass was glorious. It was absolutely one of the greatest movies I've seen.

Good thing I watched on netflix and not with my Ex back when we were still going out. That would have been awkward with some of the jokes.

Sagequeen

08-12-11, 02:53 PM

300.

That is all.

Okay, that's not all. Who can forget Se7en... Fifth Element... Avatar (not the sucky M Night Shyamalan one)... Lethal Weapon/Die Hard... And Commando. Jk. (I swear, our local Fox station must be in a contract that obligates them to play it once a month. Or maybe they lost a bet.)

That's all I got, (besides LotR) that wasn't mentioned. If it was, I skimmed and I'm sorry. :D

Was anyone else weirded out by The Other Guys?

Letho

08-12-11, 02:57 PM

"Terry Hoitz: No, I don't like you. I think you're a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. If you were in the wild, I would attack you, even if you weren't in my food chain. I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you and then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend.
Allen Gamble: OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.
Terry Hoitz: How you gonna do that?
Allen Gamble: We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.
[pause]
Allen Gamble: Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope."

The movie is rather average, that exchange was fucking brilliant.

Elrundir

08-12-11, 04:00 PM

Yeah, I found Kick-Ass kind of meh too. I'll still watch it if it happens to be floating around TMN or something when I'm looking for something to watch, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it. It did have some pretty good action scenes, but they all involved Hit Girl.

Wynken

08-12-11, 04:00 PM

Once (the Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova movie that is beautiful)

My wife is crazy about that movie, but I've got to be honest that I thought the whole thing felt like a really long (and somewhat awkward) commercial for the soundtrack - which is admittedly pretty descent. The Swell Season is a fine folk band (for those of you who are into that, I suppose), but, apart from the music, I felt that there wasn't a whole lot going on. My opinion of course.

Silence Sei

08-12-11, 04:38 PM

For those that didn't read the Kick Ass comic, here are just a few ways the movie would have been better if adapted straight from the book. SPOILER ALERTS FOR KICK ASS MOVIE AND COMIC and all that.

Big Dadd is actually a bank teller, not a cop, who kidnaps his daughter from his wife and her new husband (the other cop in the movie), and basically has the same idea as Dave, dressing up as a vigilante and training his daughter to do the same.

The girl that KA fawns over the entire time? Turns out, when he reveals he's not gay, but also KA, she doesn't want anything to do with him, has her boyfriend beat him up after school, and texts pictures of her giving said boyfriend oral satisfaction to KAs phone.

Those are two of the major plot points I think they should have kept to make the movie more awesome. I mean, Big Daddy taking out that full warehouse of goons by himself was epic, but if it turned out that they were killed by a freaking BANK TELLER and not a cop? That would have the very definition of spectacular.

The International

08-12-11, 05:48 PM

My new favorite is Limitless. It's completely different from the book but it's done like that ON PURPOSE for once. The reincarnated Star Trek. Thank God JJ Abrams finished Super 8 (which was disappointing). He wanted to finish that before he got to the Star Trek Sequel. A Clockwork Orange, the original Planet of the Apes, the original Ocean's Eleven (although I like the newer version a lot too), Boondock Saints, the latest Batman incarnation and by far my very very favorite.

Dogma

Letho

08-12-11, 06:11 PM

The message that I got from Limitless is basically: Hey, take drugs to get ahead in life, you might get in trouble, but in the end taking shortcuts will pay off. So yeah, didn't like it all that much. Besides, it's based on the ridiculous premise that humans don't use the majority of their brain and that if they could, they would be smarter. Which just isn't true.

Anyways, any fans of the classics? I recently got into watching some of the oldies. On The Waterfront is still very good, Brando is great in that one. Back in those days, actors seemed to give more character to the roles they were playing. I mean, if you took away all the shiny crap from the movies of today and left it with just the bare bones, there are very few that could stand up to some of the classics. And I'm not trying to sound snooty; I'm not even a great fan of the classics and very much like the shiny crap. But there is a different charm to the old movies.

Also, and I never thought I would be saying this since I always thought of them as fucking boring until I sat down and watched them all, but The Godfather Trilogy. The development of Pacino's Michael Corleone through the three movies is just great.

orphans

08-12-11, 06:37 PM

. _ . the two movies I stated earlier are from like... 1910 - 1940 or something. Kinda old...

Also, just remembered, Back to the Future Trilogy. Even more epic when you watch all three in a row!

And then other recent movies that really excited me and caught my attention... mmm... I don't see movies much so... eh....

Oh, I like the Fifth Element !

Grandjester

08-20-11, 10:19 AM

Listing a few favourites that pop into mind: Pirates of the Caribbean, LotR, Harry Potter, Studio Gibli films (watched Castle in the Sky as a kid on TV, was absolutely enthralling), The Incredibles, I Am Legend, KickAss, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 300, Inception, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and many more.

SandStorm

08-20-11, 01:04 PM

I'd have to say Young Guns 1 & 2. Best damn movies ever. Emilio Estevez is just too cool for school as Billy the Kid. No matter what, if one of these two movies is on or even if I just stumble across them in my movie collection or something, I'll watch 'em.

Kuffs, with Christian Slater. I'm a huge Slater fan, regardless of the fact that most of his movies came out when I was a kid.

True Romance, with Christian Slater. Directed by Tarantino, with music by Hans Zimmer (what's not to love about this movie).

Crash with Matt Dillon, Don C., and a bunch of other great actors.

Lord of the Rings trilogy, or course.

Friday Night Lights (mostly because I love the soundtrack since it was virtually all by Explosions in the Sky)

In all honesty I'm a huge film fan. It's my only other passion besides mixed martial arts. My original plan for life was to direct films, which I've been to two films schools (one was a military film school & the other was civilian). Once I'm worn out from fighting at the age of 40 or so I plan to jump back into it, but until then I'll keep writing scripts and entering small script competitions. In fact, I'm better at writing scripts than I will ever be at writing short stories.

Funfact: The goal of bettering my writing to create a solid movie script was what originally got me into this website. I figured it was the most fun I could have while improving my writing.

Vigil

08-20-11, 04:33 PM

In all honesty I'm a huge film fan. It's my only other passion besides mixed martial arts. My original plan for life was to direct films, which I've been to two films schools (one was a military film school & the other was civilian). Once I'm worn out from fighting at the age of 40 or so I plan to jump back into it, but until then I'll keep writing scripts and entering small script competitions. In fact, I'm better at writing scripts than I will ever be at writing short stories.

Funfact: The goal of bettering my writing to create a solid movie script was what originally got me into this website. I figured it was the most fun I could have while improving my writing.

Be a rebel and write scripts for independent movies only. Rocking Sundance is a lot better then selling your soul to Hollywood. ...Or Bollywood?

Skie and Avery

08-20-11, 06:45 PM

My favorite movies are Repo: The Genetic Opera, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Ponyo, Finding Neverland, Love Actually... pretty much any Japanese big monster movie, anything directed by Takashi Miike, and old monster flicks (Swamp Thing, Nosferatu, etc). Vincent Price immediately ups the movie for me, because he melts me like butter. Space Hunter, Winter Passing, Gone with the Wind. Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise's only worthwhile role, I think), Seven Samurai, Seven Swords, Unleashed (Amazeballs, seriously), and Sean Connery's greatest movie - Zardoz.

Oh man, I didn't think I really liked movies all that much until I had to sit down and talk about my favorites. :O

Knave

08-20-11, 10:43 PM

American Psycho is a real favorite. :) Same can be said for Watchmen, Kick Ass, and Falling Down.

BlackAndBlueEyes

08-21-11, 08:38 AM

Normally I can't stand sitting still for two hours to watch a movie. I much prefer radio drama; that way I can be listening to that while playing video games or taking a walk or writing. I'm also not a very visual person. So if I can catch a story adapted for radio as opposed to the silver screen, I'll do it.

On that note, bonus points if anyone here has listened to the original Star Wars trilogy dramatizations that were made with Lucas' blessings.

But if I had to pick favorite movies, they would be (in no particular order) Oldboy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sin City, Be Kind Rewind, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Seven Samurai, Akira, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill, and Pan's Labyrinth.

Inkfinger

08-21-11, 11:56 AM

I love The Pianist, The Fall, and Everything is Illuminated, though all three make me cry. On a happier note, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is still pretty rockin', The Princess Bride has so many more quotable lines than the one everyone quotes, and Napoleon Dynamite never fails to make me giggle.

...but I'm not the best person to talk to about movies. I cannot (literally cannot, my brain shuts down and I fail to notice anything in the movie until the credits roll; and I forget everything until 2 in the morning when it all comes flooding back) watch horror movies, but give me a good, mindless disaster flick or some cheesy late-70s-to-early-90s adventure thing and I am golden. I'm easily pleased when it comes to movies. D:

Slayer of the Rot

08-21-11, 02:00 PM

Of this year, Hobo With a Shotgun.

Grandjester

08-22-11, 02:10 AM

On the note of horror movies, I'm stuck in a pickle jar of LOVING anything to do with horror, and having ZERO threshold for fear. This means that I'll watch horror movies, or read horror stories, or whatever, think they're awesome, and then never sleep again. :(

Amber Eyes

08-22-11, 02:22 AM

Khaian Memory

08-27-11, 04:10 PM

The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Apocalypse Now and The Godfather part one and two are my favorite films. My DVD shelves are loaded with immense films, and I suppose I can't name them all, but those named above are the ones I can watch over and over again. Well, Apocalypse Now redux version is one I have to take a weekend out for so I can purchase the required level of alcohol, pringles and bar snacks, but it still makes for a cracking Saturday night.

Lye

02-07-14, 05:42 PM

This one is tough. I would say my favorites currently are Ender's Game, Terminator 2, Matrix (first one), and Treasure Planet.

I'm sure there is more, but I can't think of them. This is kinda necro reviving, but we have some newer members. What're your favorite movies?

Fox Owen Xavier

02-07-14, 05:54 PM

Lord of the Rings.

Umm, I think that's about it. (Don't watch movies much... And not that many good movies out there)

Lye

02-07-14, 05:59 PM

Just Lord of the Rings? Which one, there are a few of them. You can only pick one out of the series! Because I said so!

Fox Owen Xavier

02-07-14, 06:01 PM

Umm, they are all good? Been too long since I watched so don't remember them well enough. I do remember the extended editions made them better.

Lye

02-07-14, 06:04 PM

I always thought they were a little long. I totally had a man crush on the elf for some time. No, not because I thought he was hot, but because I wanted to surf down stairs and shoot arrows at orcs like a boss. Plus those elven short swords were pretty wicked. Otherwise, his character was pretty... er... lame.

If you liked LoTR, what about Harry Potter or Chronicles of Narnia? Game of Thrones perhaps?

Ashla

02-07-14, 06:10 PM

LOTR, Star Wars, the Hobbit, the Clone Wars movie (yes, I actually think that was good), Narnia ("LW&W" is still the best), the Naruto movies ("Land of Snow" is still the best, "Blood Prison" is a close second)

The Peabody and Sherman movie is coming out soon, and I really think it will be able to be as raw as the 50-60s show it came from; but it hasn't come out yet do I don't know...

Fox Owen Xavier

02-07-14, 06:12 PM

Umm, haven't read harry potter or watched the movies so can't really comment on that.

Read the Narnia books a lot as a kid. The movies... Well, I guess most recent "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" was good but the next ones just no...

Game of Thrones, I heard a lot of great things about the books and movie (wait, is it a movie or tv series?) so I have been wanting to read the game of the thrones. Just never seen the first book at the library (probably need to have it reserved).