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Post by Lawrie on Jul 2, 2008 18:25:43 GMT
Ha ha, no you're a lot more qualified than I am!  |
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Post by hyperborean on Jul 2, 2008 20:51:20 GMT
Ok movie buffs and film students - I was off from work today, spent the whole day cleaning up and I found this note I wrote to myself, a list of films I wanted to check out, but never did. Here's what it says:
Godard, "La Chinoise", "Weekend"
Wexler, "Medium Cool"
De Palma, "Dionysus in 69"
Tanner, "Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000"
Kramer, "Milestones"
...any suggestions, any good ones?
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 2, 2008 20:56:16 GMT
Haven't seen any of them, I'm afraid.  You want a recommendation? My standing answer to anyone asking this question is Park Chan-wook's Oldboy: you know it makes sense...  |
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Post by ryan on Jul 2, 2008 21:33:03 GMT
Not seent those particular Goddard films, but they are bound to be great. Also check out A Bout De Souffle (Breathless) if you've not already, might be my favourite film. Ha ha, no you're a lot more qualified than I am! Awesome  |
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 2, 2008 21:43:41 GMT
[mood=uppity,defensive] Yeah? Yeah? Well I bet I know a lot more Chemistry than you! Yeah, how d'you like them apples?! [/mood]  |
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Post by hyperborean on Jul 2, 2008 23:22:05 GMT
Haven't seen any of them, I'm afraid. You want a recommendation? My standing answer to anyone asking this question is Park Chan-wook's Oldboy: you know it makes sense... Is that the one where they guy is stranded in a room (...of his own guilt?!) or something? If so, I saw it, and thought it was ridiculous. Now - it did remind me of the movie, Revolver by Guy Richie, which I did enjoy quite a bit. |
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 3, 2008 6:51:51 GMT
No, not unless you're remembering it slightly wrong. It's about a 30-something Korean man who is abducted by persons unknown and held captive for 15 years in a private prison, where his cell looks like a dingy hotel room. He has no idea who has imprisoned him or why, and unexpectedly he is released after 15 years, and told that he has 5 days to find out why he was being held. There's more after that, but that would be completely spoilerific, so I don't really want to describe it in any more detail than that. Hope that's enough for you to go on to decide if you have or haven't seen it!  And you thought that Revolver was good?!  I'm not joking, that has been the only ever movie where I've left the cinema before the end of the film because it was so bad! Really. Ah well, different strokes for different folks, but if you're saying you thought Revolver was a good film then I don't think you and I are going to agree on much when it comes to movies... |
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Post by ryan on Jul 3, 2008 15:56:40 GMT
[mood=uppity,defensive] Yeah? Yeah? Well I bet I know a lot more Chemistry than you! Yeah, how d'you like them apples?! [/mood] I'll bear in it mind next time I'm discussing which chemicals boil better |
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Post by hyperborean on Jul 3, 2008 15:58:04 GMT
Ah, yeah, I did see Oldboy - there was some drama over the guy's sister or something right? Anyway - I usually wouldn't have thought a movie like Revolver was worth my time, except, that I read all sorts of symbolism it had in it on the imdb.com message board - because I thought something was surely missing when I saw it - and then it all made perfect sense. It's kinda like Alice In Wonderland to the uninitiated. At first viewing one might think it is all nonsense, the white rabbit, card soldiers, mad hatter and so on. But in literary, or, cinematic fashion it's all in reference to other elements. In the end though - even though I liked it, it didn't strike me as particularly GOOD - hell, I had to go on a message board to make any sense of it! It was just interesting, I guess.
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Post by hyperborean on Jul 6, 2008 4:27:08 GMT
Currently watching: Princess Monoke. And wishing I had revisited this anime sooner - it's so good. Rather magical.
Princess Monoke = PROFOUND.
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Post by isador21 on Jul 6, 2008 22:31:06 GMT
My girlfriend and I are in a Tarantino trip We've seen Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1 & 2 (5th time for the first, 2nd for volume 2) And tonight we'll watch Pulp Fiction again (4th time for me) and Death Proof (also 4th time) |
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Post by ryan on Jul 6, 2008 22:42:04 GMT
Tarantinos a thiving arse. though at least he's up front about it i guess.
saw hancock recently. started ok, ended badly. was average hollywood fluff.
still excited about wall-e.
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Post by isador21 on Jul 7, 2008 0:33:54 GMT
Wall-e was amazing ... Perfect balance of cute, funny and sad. Visually awesome too. Ouch, had to correct that horrible typo |
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Post by ryan on Jul 7, 2008 13:08:35 GMT
Is it out over the pond then?! Argh!
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Post by Lawrie on Aug 7, 2008 16:54:33 GMT
The Dark Knight very good. Probably about half an hour too long (they could've even chopped the last hour off the film and used the last hour as the opening of a new and equally great film), but still a very good watch. Much more worthy of the hype than the rather mediocre Batman Begins. And the hype around Heath Ledger's performance was also probably justified: often people are 'bigged up' for no other reason than they're recently deceased, but Ledger's performance was very, very good. As was Aaron Eckhart's as Harvey Dent. First time in a good while that I've really, really enjoyed a mega-budget blockbuster.
Wall-E was also excellent, though it's very much more a film for adults than it is for children. Equally enjoyable to The Dark Knight though.
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