Those accents were hoooooooooooorrible.:lol: It might have worked if it was set in Dublin. It had potential. Annie Hall is considered his best comedy, but I'm a Love and Death fan.Quote:
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Those accents were hoooooooooooorrible.:lol: It might have worked if it was set in Dublin. It had potential. Annie Hall is considered his best comedy, but I'm a Love and Death fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I think the last movie I watched was the 3rd Futurama movie. I forget what the name is. Anywho, 9/10 because I love Futurama and I love the refrences in it, and random things like: "Is that a hobbit?" "No, that's a hobo and a rabbit, but they're making a hobbit." (Might've got that wrong but it's the general idea :p)
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Noone excepects the spanish inquistion is my fav and the dejuvu skit! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Final Destination 3
7/10
I admit, I got quite a big thrill out of this film, sadistic as that may sound.
I thought the directing was excellent in certain parts.
It wasn't the best horror movie I've seen, not by miles... but I'd watch it again sometime.
To Janine and Kandourov: I love Monty Python too! I love the Ministry on Silly Walks!!
Janine, yes, I really just can't get enough of Alfie. I got a boxed set for Christmas that I'm making my way through (more slowly than I would like:(). Suspicion was really interesting.
I watched Dial M for Murder...again. Infinity/10
The work with shadows is AMAZING.
Saw Bride Wars today. It wasn't totally terrible, but it wasn't as good of a chick flick as it could have been. Or maybe I just wasn't really in the mood for a movie.
I don't really understand the whole bridal mania frenzy that this movie and others seem to try to promote as I myself got married in a pair of jeans and my husband wore flip flops. Ew, that is kinda tacky, now that I think of it, but whatever. I still don't get it. I don't understand the quest for the perfect wedding, and I don't understand spending loads of money on it. Marriages won't be perfect - you know they're going to be hard, and if you have any sense at all you realize that no man is going to be perfect, and if you go into thinking like that, you're just going to end up disappointed....
But anyway, back to the movie. I like Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, so this movie was tolerable to me and there were at least two real laugh out loud moments, and a many more moments worthy of a slight soft chuckle here and there. Candice Bergen's performance as the drill sargent wedding planner was a little too cliche for me though, and I didn't see the ending because I had to pee.
7.9/10
I will start with you NickA, I really liked "Love and Death", too; I haven't seen it in years but would love to see it again soon. It was so great. Agree about those accents. They were just awful :lol:...soooo phoney....made it hard from the start to get into the story or the film; from there on the film seemed too unreal to me...just like something was thrown way off balance.Quote:
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*Classic*C*, oh yes, the 'Silly Walks' was just hilarious!Quote:
To Janine and Kandourov: I love Monty Python too! I love the Ministry on Silly Walks!!
Janine, yes, I really just can't get enough of Alfie. I got a boxed set for Christmas that I'm making my way through (more slowly than I would like). Suspicion was really interesting.
I watched Dial M for Murder...again. Infinity/10
Edit: just found it on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYlzTdSZeI4
I did see this before - so funny!
Cool, we have a lot of MP enthusiasts here amongst us. We should form a social group.
Yes, aren't Alfie films the greatest? I must see "Suspicion". I have a boxed set of his earlier b/w films. Those are fun to watch, too. Nice you got the box set for Christmas - great gift. "Dial M for Murder" is one of my all-time favorites of his. I love the way the story unfolds so meticulously. Wonderful film! Perfect in every way. 'Infinity' is a good word!
You said it. True of all his films. He was truly genius. Such talent and a very nice man on top of that!Quote:
The work with shadows is AMAZING
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Night, I think I recall the second one, but not the first; although the title sure sounds slightly familiar.Quote:
No one excepects the spanish inquistion is my fav and the dejuvu skit!
Edit: here is "The Spanish Inquistion" - indeed I had seen this before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A
On the other hand, I now don't recall seeing this before but it is quite a riot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eUopy9sd8
I'll tell you a movie I'm about to watch: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Netflix says it's "Oscar-nominated film was one of the most talked about of 2002. Rich teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the alluring, older Luisa at a wedding and try to impress her with stories of a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach."
Oh, I did a road trip this summer halfway across America, but didn't see any beautiful, secret beach. Well, maybe one if lakes count. If you're wondering why I only made it halfway, the car I was driving in broke down. I tried to hitch a ride on a state highway like Kerouac did but those Missouri police didn't like it much. Missouri has the best grassy fields and flowers I've ever seen though. :p
Anyway...what thread is this? ;)
Citizen Kane, 1941
9/10
A great film indeed, but somewhat overhyped. I mean, best film ever made?
Technically speaking the film is irreprehensible, and universally heralded as being groundbreaking in many ways. Welles was a fantastic story teller, the ellipses are in all right places and he manages to have a smooth narrative despite its being a collage of fragments. Even the makeup work is amazing.
However, the lack of emotional depth and overall superficiality of the film, which we watch as though from a bird's eye view, render the film entertaining rather than truly memorable. The acting wasn't worthy of a film claimed to be the best ever, either.
That's why this movie doesn't deserve a 10/10 rating. Somewhat disappointed after having watched it, I was prone to give it an 8 or even a 7, but I knew full well that such feeling was more due to the dizzying heights of my expectations, which were fed by numerous critics, rather than due to the film itself.
(CC, yeah Ministry of Silly Walks is great :D My favourite sketches are: the Argument Clinic, the SPAM one, the Lumberjack song, the Self Defence class, and the Germany vs Greece football match played by philosophers!)
:sick: I hated Citizen Kane.
Lumberjack song! Love it!
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
That's a great film :) Good choice :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
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Just saw your review on Citizen Kane..i remember liking the film but not giving it a 10/10 either..all those things about best film ever, 100 best films etc are a load of crap if you ask me.
But there must be some criteria for all those lists but i unfortunately don't know enough about directing techniques etc to actually judge.
I always thought that "battleship potemkin" by Sergey Eisenstein was considered the best film ever (perhaps we are consulting different lists :) or simply my memory plays tricks on me)
Thanks, manolia! :) I've made a shortlist of 96 films out of the 1001 films you must see before you die book. I'm skeptical about these things, but so far so good: I've already watched three of these: Hiroshima, Kane and 'A Trip to the Moon', 1902 (the whole of it: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9OaZ...eature=related + http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NjjTAu...eature=related). Starts slow, but great special effects in the second half, I was rather impressed! Couldn't bring myself to rate a film more than a hundred years old, I with my 21st century prejudices and all, but it's definitely a must see, everyone!
(by the way, manolia, I'm in love with your signature. 'Twin Peaks' is one of my favourite shows ever, you see ;))
EDIT: Yeah, my sister actually hates these kind of lists, but I think it's a reliable guide of quality if you're looking forward to seeing good movies for a whole year. This book is good because one of its criterion is the film's legacy in other films and its impact on society too. That's why 'The Exorcist', for example, features in it, and even though I found it quite bad (I laughed my way through it) I can see why it's a landmark. Every movie comes with a short description, so I know if it's my cup o' tea.
(One such films should be 'David Holzman's Diary'. I'm desperately looking for it, looks like my sort of film, but can't find it anywhere...)
And yes, it depends on who says it's the best movie, because it's not like there's a universally accepted canon. I too have seen people herald Battleship as the king of films, that's why it's also on my list ;)
A twin peaks fan :eek2: where were you hiding? :D I absolutely love twin peaks..Lynch was so cruel for never finishing the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
Yep i agree with what you say about lists..i keep whining about them but i have lots of them :D They are certainly a good guide but most of them are biased. Just like the book lists.
The "exorcist" is a good film (if you disregard all the green vomit :lol:)..it used to scare people back then it seems. My dad took my mom to watch this film when they were young (i guess he wanted her to get scared and hide in his arms :lol: :lol:) Anyway it is a cult film..i can easilly imagine someone laughing his way through this one ;)
Thanks for the links. I am not familiar with this one. I'll have to watch it at my leisure time :)
It is indeed very difficult to judge a film made so many years ago. I know people who love cinema and just can't bring themselves to watch silent films..so just watching a silent film and really trying to appreciate it (with all our prejudices as you term them) is a good thing to do. And requires a bit of an effort. I have watched many of Hitchcock's silent films (Hitchcock being one of my fav directors) and the experience was quite rewarding.
Oh, not only Twin Peaks: if I was obliged to say which is my favourite film, I think I'd choose 'Mulholland Dr.' (though 'Wings of Desire' is a close second). I'm ashamed to say that I haven't seen 'Lost Highway', 'Blue Velvet' or 'Eraserhead' :( They're on my list though :D
Your dad's clever :D Well, the problem I had with 'The Exorcist' is that I watched it first with a bunch of friends (15 people in a small living room), and then with my two hilarious cousins, so never really seen it in a proper horror film atmosphere :)
Totally understand people who have the 'silent film prejudice'. I used to have it too, but my amazing German Culture teacher introduced me to the likes of 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', 'Nosferatu' and 'Metropolis' (all of which public domain and therefore available at the Internet Archive!). I'm feeling bad about hijacking the thread, so a ludicrously short review of these films follows:
At first it's really weird, might be boring and Expressionism in film is quite liable to make you laugh if you're feeling detached from the film. I watched them at least three times each and they grew on me :) I recommend them all, of course, if only to expand your cinematic horizons. 'Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' are less than two hours combined: 'Nosferatu' is, in my opinion, the best rendering of Dracula, and I've seen quite a few of them; and 'Caligari' has terrific acting, setting, and a lovely twist in the end.
As for The Trip to the Moon, it's only 10 minutes long, so I guess it'll be easy to fit in your schedule ;) And I'm sure I'll love Hitchcock (I've only watched his movies when I was young and foolish), already have four of his in my list. Your taste in movies seems to be very reliable, would you recommend me a film or two? :)
My favourite is "Lost Highway"..it has this really weird scene where you get to hear "heirate mich" by Rammstein (i like rammstein very much by the way), i've seen it plenty of times and this particular scene is just creepy..hehe but i won't say more, you have to watch it by yourself :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
The only one i haven't seen is "Eraserhead". "Wings of desire" is a film by Wim Wenders (also one of my fav directors..well what can i say he is german..i love german cinema).
Yes, these three films are really good. I have a soft spot for 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'..there are so many modern horror films that where influenced by it. I used to like horror films a lot. I am fed up with them now. Seen too many and only a few are really worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
I think most of them are worth it. If am not mistaken Hitchcock has made around 60 films (56 i think). I've seen half of them. My favourite is "The birds" but the rest are really good too:Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
The birds
Spellbound
Notorious
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Psycho