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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: The Good Movie Thread.
I like to start a good movie thread in most forums of which I am a part, just watching now: Bang, bang, You're Dead. Quite good. Please add any especially good/interesting/unique movies you come across.
EDIT- Really can't say enough about this movie. I was never bullied in school being 6'1 200 pounds who liked to fight, but I WAS the weird kid in the 'cool' clique in a small ass school, I can only imagine wtf woulda happened if I was smaller and in a big school.
EDIT-2x, watched the whole movie, I cried...heh, good watch.
EDIT-3x- Ok I have to go to bed now because I have a long drive to Albany at 2am...but a statement first...watching a good movie alone sucks so badly. Gah. _________________ <-Tri/_p
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AlaskanPsycho It's, like, TOTALLY time for my custom title now.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:
I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time last night. My mother explained that, yes, it is quite strange even today, but when it first came out, it was the most twisted, freaky thing ever.
Also, I recently saw The Darjeeling Limited, which was interesting. I think I may have liked it because of the relationship between the brothers. I could see a lot of my brother and me in that.
And then, there's Hot Fuzz, which I love mostly for its defiance of the laws of physics and British-ness.
DarkAngela Fights LightAngela for World Domination (changed by MaggotHex)
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 1765 Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject:
Ugh, I hated A Clockwork Orange. But, then, I only made it through the first fifteen minutes. I really should read the book, everyone tells me that the plot is right up my alley.
Don't laugh, but I watched A Walk To Remember this weekend. I like that movie a lot. It always makes me cry. _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." -Pres. Ford
Clockwork isn't even very weird imo, but i've done weird drugs. However I did think it was an all right movie/never got around to reading the book...damn droogs. Communists in England? The hell you say...Red Dawn instead. Disjointed..need sleep now. _________________ <-Tri/_p
Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 795 Location: Clermont, Fish Lake
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:
A Clockwork Orange the movie=pretty good for what it was.
A Clockwork Orange the book=awesome. It explains whole lot more about Alex and what eventually ahppened to him (hint he grows up and realizes what a twit he was).
Good ass movies, lets see: I agree about Red Dawn. Pretty intense.
The Zero Effect: You should watch this of you like Tarantino movies.
Blind Swordsman Zatoichi: Like samurai movies? One of the best. The series was pretty awesome too. Also any Akira Kurusawa.
Il Monstro: Absolutely Hilarious Roberto Benigni movie (unlike Pinnochio).
Once Were Warriors: One of the best dramas I have ever seen. Almost as good as the book.
Withnail and I: A British classic, comedy.
Fritz the Cat. Nothing else must be said but its about the 60s.
American Splendour: actually kind of ties into Fritz the Cat in an odd way. The main character of this movie and the creator of Fritz the Cat were good friends.
That should get a few people started. _________________ Military intelligence/Two words combined which can't make sense...
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:13 am Post subject:
Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb were indeed friends. They are both major heroes in the comics world, and to anyone who hates censorship. These guys were part of the instrumental voice of the people in the 60's and 70's when the gubbmint was trying to crack down on "pornography" and blanked-labeled comics as a kids medium...
I'm not sure if I have seen ALL of the Blind Swordsman movies, but most of them, love that guy...actually i'm still not sure how he was in prison in the one made in the 80s.. _________________ <-Tri/_p
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject:
He loved to cheat at gambling! That's usually how he got in trouble and if memory serves me correctly that's how he ended up in jail, too. _________________ Military intelligence/Two words combined which can't make sense...
Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 795 Location: Clermont, Fish Lake
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject:
Not when everyone else can see the fact that your loaded dice have just broken open.
Now, I've seen a few made for TV movies in my time as well. I would have to say the win goes to Omega Doom with Rutger Hauer. Dystopian Andriod future at its finest. I'd say a close second goes to Cube. _________________ Military intelligence/Two words combined which can't make sense...
V scared the hell out of me as a kid. For months, I was worried that I was going to be captured by aliens and turned into a lizard-man. And then I decided that it would be cool to be a lizard-man. _________________ I want to go out of this life the same way I came in. Screaming at the top of my lungs and covered in someone else's blood.
Nah, the best made for TV movie was The Librarian. I just watched Howl
s Moving Castle the other day, made by the same people as Spirited Away. The animation is so great and they never really explain what is going on, you either have to figure it out or know some thing about Japanese culture (at least in Spirited Away. My friend had to explain some parts.)
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Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 1765 Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:
I also liked The Librarian. I've never heard of V, but now I feel I must see it. Like I don't watch enough tv already! _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." -Pres. Ford
I've never heard of V, but now I feel I must see it.
Unless you're an old fart like me, you were probably just a wee young'un when the original V miniseries first aired back in 1983. Then a mini-series which carried on with the story aired the next year.
While the special effects are sort of dated now, the story is a great and it's got some creepy fun moments too. My favorite in it is Jane Badler. She plays an awesomely bitchy evil character named Diana. And the dude who later played Freddy Krueger in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies is in it too.
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