Roger Deakins delivers yet another breathtaking cinematography, and Casey Affleck is downright amazing too. I feel the directing brought this movie down a little, and cursed it to mediocrity.

This thread is great btw, I'll definitely check out a few titles!

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Canada505 Posts

June 11 2010 12:08 GMT

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Crying Fist

I've seen a lot of great Korean movies

Daytime Drinking
Mother
City of Violence
By the Book
Attack the Gas Station

but Crying Fist will probably remain my favorite for years to come. Character development doesn't get any better than this.

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Canada599 Posts

June 11 2010 12:11 GMT

#465

I was actually surprised I liked Kick-Ass. I saw the trailers for it and thought "This is one of those movies I will never see". Another movie making fun of the super-hero genre I thought.

I was on justin.tv and it just happened to be playing. I missed the beginning but the rest was fucking awesome. It's not high art cinema but it was definitely one of the most entertaining movies I've seen this year so far. And I've become a fan of Hit-Girl <3. I'll definitely be picking this one up for blu-ray.

Shame though it didn't do so well at the box-office. I think a lot of people were turned off by the trailers like I was. It means we won't be seeing any sequels unless this becomes an underground cult hit.

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Manit0u

Poland17236 Posts

June 11 2010 12:15 GMT

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On June 11 2010 06:24 Ghardo wrote:
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Just watched Ondskan / Evil (has been recommended here). Really liked it, great movie, very exciting. Some epic scenes.

Only thing I didn't quite understand was + Show Spoiler +

how Erik turned from the bully who smashes peoples' faces in at the beginning to the perfect example of a self-controlled "soon-to-be-studying-law" saint - just like that. There was no explanation given really. At first I thought it was because of the violence from his step father that he had to pass on. But he was still beaten up by him later in the movie. And there was no deep cutting experience that changed him. Arrived at the boardiang school and suddenly another person. Strange.

Here's your answer (I think I should give it since I was the one to recommend the movie in the first place):

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It was because of his mother. He loved her, despite her being totally passive about her boyfriend beating him. Somehow, he understood that this school was his last chance to not fall down even further, to get back on the track and make his mother happy and proud of him for once.

Edit:

And to whomever posted Paycheck: Are you freaking kidding me? This is yet another example in the long line of movies (vide Next, Solaris, I, Robot, I Am Legend) showing that Hollywood is incapable of understanding the nuances of great science-fiction books. They put focus on something that is completely irrelevant in the book, completely missing what's really important there.

Personally, I wish some director finally stepped up and said "screw the special effects, let's make a movie that doesn't rely on them" and then proceeded to make a movie based on some great s-f work and do it properly for once.

Manit0u

Poland17236 Posts

June 11 2010 12:47 GMT

#467

More suggestions:

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The acting and special effects kinda suck, but the story is good overall.

SwedishHero

Sweden869 Posts

June 11 2010 12:50 GMT

#468

I just watched, according to me a great movie. Its a recomendation from my side

Mr nobody starting Jared Leto. Check it out

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RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

June 11 2010 12:53 GMT

#469

On June 05 2010 18:31 ColorsOfRainbow wrote:
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btw yes equilirium was one of the best movies ever

Guy looks like Jinzo.
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inb4 lolygo

wbirdy

Singapore335 Posts

June 11 2010 16:50 GMT

#470

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464049/
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i watched this for my language arts class. overall pretty insightful and entertaining. worth a look at least.

InFiNitY[pG]

Germany3468 Posts

June 11 2010 21:48 GMT

#471

Is Man From Earth anything like K-Pax? Because I couldn't stand that movie.

Another movie that I surprisingly found very little about
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914863/
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Unthinkable with Samuel L Jackson. It was released in late 2009 in the US, but apparently won't be in theaters anywhere else in the world until this summer, maybe that's why. It's about a military interrogator trying to get the locations of three hidden nuclear bombs from a terrorist.

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United States1267 Posts

June 11 2010 22:40 GMT

#472

On June 11 2010 21:47 Manit0u wrote:
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I dont think this movie is really a hidden gem (maybe in Poland I dont know what your movie scene is like) but I did thoroughly enjoy it. IIRC this movie came out between Hero (an exceptionally good film) and Fearless (less so, but still pretty good).

On that subject, if you like Kung Fu but dont really know what to watch beyond Bruce Lee films Executioners from Shaolin and Fist of the White Lotus are a good place to start.

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hizBALLIN

United States163 Posts

June 11 2010 23:56 GMT

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I saw someone put this up already, but I felt the need to restate it anyway. Awesome movie.

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Awesome movie. James Dean rocks.

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Guy Richie's remake of The Longest Yard. Very funny. Never really got around in the States.

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Quirky Korean film. Outstanding.

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Good movie, excellent cast. Features a very young Mickey Rourke.

I truly hope everyone enjoys these movies.

OPSavioR

Sweden1465 Posts

June 12 2010 00:11 GMT

#474

On June 12 2010 08:56 hizBALLIN wrote:

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Guy Richie's remake of The Longest Yard. Very funny. Never really got around in the States.

They made a clone of that movie with Adam sandler BUT with American Football! Very bad clone

nam nam

Sweden4672 Posts

June 12 2010 00:21 GMT

#475

On June 11 2010 19:57 FaCE_1 wrote:

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sequel suck, dunno about the prequel O_o

The prequel is a little better, more similar to the original.

nam nam

Sweden4672 Posts

June 12 2010 00:25 GMT

#476

On June 10 2010 21:33 Zoler wrote:

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On June 10 2010 21:31 nam nam wrote:

On June 10 2010 02:56 Zoler wrote:

On June 10 2010 02:55 ZapRoffo wrote:

On June 10 2010 01:37 Zoler wrote:

On June 10 2010 01:32 Aether wrote:

On June 10 2010 01:20 Zoler wrote:

On June 10 2010 01:17 Aether wrote:
Rofl, I was going to write out a thought-out response, but you just compared a documentary crew to soldiers involved in one of the bloodiest if not the bloodiest war in the history of the planet. Do you honestly think what you just wrote makes even a tiny bit of sense?

Your argument is that if you take average people and put them in a forest with a camera they're likely to start raping, murdering, and pillaging just because they can, and your justification for this argument is that some soldiers involved in war, an activity in which you are generally immersed in daily violence and death, adopted sadistic traits.

---->LOL<----

Sorry but if you thought that argument made any sense at all, continuing the discussion is pointless.

Maybe you should quote who you're talking to

OMG. I'm obviously talking to the same person I've been talking to for the last like 5 posts in a row??? Sorry but you people are really stupid, I can't stand talking to you anymore, it's just painful. I feel like I'm getting dumber by the second.

Just giving you general advice how to post in a forum man, might be hard for people who just entered the thread to follow. Chill...

Also IMDB is not as inflated as you say, just look at the top 100 and say one movie that shouldn't be there, they're all gold!

It takes 1 second to look at the list and know it's not a serious resource. Shawshank Redemption as the #1 movie ever? Seriously?

I mean it's a good movie, but...

According to most people, apparently yes.

Uhm, no. Since you can give how many movies you like 10's if you like, IMDB's list if more a list of the "least hated movies" than anything. Also personally I rank movies by genre. I can give a action movie a 9 and a drama movie a 9, but that doesn't mean I think they are equally good in general.

I don't care, I've looked through the list and it fits me and my opinions pretty good so I'll go with that

Hey I didn't say imdb is a bad list, just that it shouldn't be looked at as "The best movies ever made" list as much as "Movies that most people like" or something like that. Maybe a bit too much caring about semantics on my part.

It doesn't really matter though. Find a list you like and stick to it, nothing wrong with that.

Kwidowmaker

Canada978 Posts

June 12 2010 00:35 GMT

#477

On June 05 2010 19:59 Corrupt wrote:
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totally 100% agree. I was doing the wtf face the whole movie and it's one of the few that I'm very puzzled by and still think about

The suicide scene was ridiculous, I was on the edge of my seat with my jaw gaping the entire time