Movie Discussion! - Page 142

On April 09 2012 14:50 EienShinwa wrote:
Are there any good war films within the recent 10-15 years besides the already big ones like Saving Private Ryan, Letters to Iwo Jima, and the like (can't remember the titles for some reason....)? I just want to watch some big scale large proportion warfare films. Any good suggestions?

On April 09 2012 14:50 EienShinwa wrote:
Are there any good war films within the recent 10-15 years besides the already big ones like Saving Private Ryan, Letters to Iwo Jima, and the like (can't remember the titles for some reason....)? I just want to watch some big scale large proportion warfare films. Any good suggestions?

On March 22 2012 16:18 Zerothegreat wrote:


Amazing... Very imaginative and creative independent film. Hollywood could learn a lot from movies like this.

It's very hard to describe this movie, but I would categorize it with "Pan's Labyrinth". I like movies that you can lose yourself in and will make you think for a long time after seeing it. Beautiful story. I give it a 10/10. My favorite character in the film has to be the "Pathfinder". He brings a great comic relief to an otherwise pretty serious and obscured plot.

If anyone else has seen Ink, I'd like to hear their thoughts about it and any recommendations they may also have.

On April 10 2012 02:45 EienShinwa wrote:
I Saw the Devil


One of the most fucking amazing movies I've seen in awhile. It's a movie that will take it far beyond what you thought was reasonable and seriously goes into the situation with no limits. Satisfying to see the protagonist do what people call going down to his enemy's level instead of being conflicted with a high moral horse. The end just tore me in two. This man who had done nothing wrong in his life until his wife was brutally murdered is left with almost nothing in his life, deprived of his loved one, unborn child, and a battered family. When he's just walking down the road and starts breaking down, I felt so torn.

Thanks for the war film rec's, but I have already seen all of them. It doesn't have to be recent wars, but can be medieval (Robin Hood), Japanese shogun(?) (The Last Samurai), Roman (Gladiator), etc. I'm just dying for some good large scale war movies.

On April 11 2012 01:37 BlazingSonic wrote:


I loved that film too! Very raw and violent, yet emotional and touching. Can anyone recommend movies like this? I really enjoyed Oldboy too. I´m looking for more movies like those two, preferably asian ones. Anyone got some recommendations?

On April 11 2012 01:42 WArped wrote:

Have you seen Infernal Affairs or Memories of Murder? Both amazing films from Asia.

On April 11 2012 02:20 summerloud wrote:
sadly enough, the only decent movie i saw lately was really old :/

movies i saw in the last two weeks or so:

[proceeds to list movies and dislikes them for strange reasons]

On April 11 2012 09:05 Spekulatius wrote:

Wow.

I saw at first glance that I disagree with you on a lot of stuff you posted. Which in itself isn't a problem; tastes vary. But the reasons why you disliked the particular movies baffle me.

The tree of life: I agree, the first half an hour of the movie, as well as the last 10 or so (although not to the same extent) are try-hard, and don't really help the movie at all. But you should have kept on watching. The real movie that starts after the 30-min-ish intro is wonderful and touching. Do yourself the favor and skip the first part and watch the core part. It's storytelling and observing unlike anything I've seen on film before.

Drive: I loved parts of it, but I agree the main actor is kind of a turn-off. People say Ryan Gosling incorporates perfectly what the director wanted his main character to be, but I didn't like him really that much. I loved the movie's artsy style, and the retro feel it gave me. I can understand your rating though, it's really not a movie for everyone.

Black Swan: Aronovski is great, I agree. Requiem for a dream is really good, as is the Wrestler. But how can you dislike Black Swan just because it's about ballet? Ballet isn't really the main part of the movie, it could have been any other sport or performing art without losing its grip. It's a psychological horror-ish movie that in the end leaves you with a "wow so that's what the movie was about"-feeling. The solution was less than I expected it to be and left me with slight disappointment; but disliking it because it's ballet? Why did you even watch the movie then, it's right up there in all the synopsises.

Rosemary's baby: There I agree. Dunno about 10/10 but great movie.

Didn't watch the rest.

What surprises me is that you decide to watch those kind of non-hollywood productions - movies that tend to be artsy, not straight-forward or difficult to grasp completely - and then critisize them for the - sorry to use the word - shallow reasons. Maybe these kinds of movies just aren't for you.

On April 09 2012 21:55 Pangolin wrote:

The Thin Red Line is my favorite. Although I love it not for the war scenes but for the introspective monologues and the beautiful cinematography, two things that Terrance Malick has always been a master of.