On July 06 2012 16:39 EpiK wrote: 10/10. go watch this now. I postponed watching it despite hearing all the high praise for it just because it seemed like a senseless gorefest. But it's just perfect in every aspect I can think of (and not that gory surprisingly). Be sure to watch the director's cut if you do, because they leave out a really critical scene in the end that really made the movie for me.
I'm gonna cancel out your 10/10 with a -10/10
yeah i agree with the -10/10. well maybe not that harsh, but the movie is not really that good. very melodramatic with ZERO character development. its an intriguing plot, but i mean really, its something that you think is cool in middleschool. most of the korean films recent that have been reccomended all involve killing to move along the story, the only one i think is decent is "mother." but still involves lots of death. and tarintino is a hack, so im not suprised he admires that film.
You have to be joking. He is top 5 greatest film makers of all time. Not only has he never made a bad movie, but he has successfully dominated practically every major style with his own, instantly recognizable flair. Really, he has never made anything bad but Pulp Fiction and his latest Inglorious Basterds are straight up masterpieces. He is a master at making even simple conversations between characters highly engrossing. I'm convinced you could give him any script and he would make it endlessly entertaining (not to mention hilarious).
are you for fucking for real. even he would disagree. seriously? top 5 of all time jesus. Orsen Welles? Alfred Hitchcock? Sergio Leone ?Stanley Kubrick? Fellini? Coppola? Malick? Charlie chaplin? Tarkovsky? and i could probably list 30 others. look, if you are in highschool or lower i understand because you think tarintino movies are cool and stuff, which they are. but they are inherently shallow and full of style over substance. hes made 2 good movies... SO WHAT. the guys i mentioned have done 5+ CLASSIC movies. yeah pulp fiction might be someday, but come on. imo hes a hack who just steals other peoples ideas. and his "style" has been done long before he claimed it or whatever. Tarantino is so overrated these days its not even funny. your other top 5 are probably coen brothers, wes anderson and darren aronofsky and christopher nolan ... give me a break. he only makes "simple" conversations interesting because theres something bad happening in the background... nothing more.
Stanley Kubrick: blech. the definition of a hack.
Orsen Wells: i've only seen Citizen Kane, which was good. (boring but very good) of course it did suffer from basically being an inaccurate hit piece. overrated imo.
Alfred Hitchcock: okay this guy is the real deal. awesome director, great storyteller, all that jazz.
Sergio Leone: good stuff but one of the best? idk about that.
Fellini: ive never even heard of this guy so... i usually tend to think that discounts him from being "the best" but hey, i could be wrong.
Coppola: Godfather was great, Godfather 2 was great, everything else... meh.
Malick: never seen him but i've heard that both "The Thin Red Line" and "The Tree of Life" were horrible, so... idk, guess i can't say much about him.
Charlie Chaplin: not a big fan.
Tarkovsky: don't know, i've never even heard of him.
also, i think wes anderson, quentin tarantino, akira kirusawa, and (sometimes) the coen brothers are all better than any of the directors you've mentioned except Hitchcock. aronofsky and nolen are meh.
opinions bro, they're like assholes, everyone's got em and they all stink.
Fellini is arguably the greatest European filmaker of all time (easily the best Italian, but maybe Bergman or Hitchcock could challenge him). You should really check him out, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2. At least one of those three films is probably on the top ten list of every major movie critic/director out there. Also, how the hell is Stanley Kubrick a "hack"?
You just don't GET it bro. he doesn't like him, therefore he is a talentless hack.
On July 06 2012 16:39 EpiK wrote: 10/10. go watch this now. I postponed watching it despite hearing all the high praise for it just because it seemed like a senseless gorefest. But it's just perfect in every aspect I can think of (and not that gory surprisingly). Be sure to watch the director's cut if you do, because they leave out a really critical scene in the end that really made the movie for me.
I'm gonna cancel out your 10/10 with a -10/10
yeah i agree with the -10/10. well maybe not that harsh, but the movie is not really that good. very melodramatic with ZERO character development. its an intriguing plot, but i mean really, its something that you think is cool in middleschool. most of the korean films recent that have been reccomended all involve killing to move along the story, the only one i think is decent is "mother." but still involves lots of death. and tarintino is a hack, so im not suprised he admires that film.
You have to be joking. He is top 5 greatest film makers of all time. Not only has he never made a bad movie, but he has successfully dominated practically every major style with his own, instantly recognizable flair. Really, he has never made anything bad but Pulp Fiction and his latest Inglorious Basterds are straight up masterpieces. He is a master at making even simple conversations between characters highly engrossing. I'm convinced you could give him any script and he would make it endlessly entertaining (not to mention hilarious).
are you for fucking for real. even he would disagree. seriously? top 5 of all time jesus. Orsen Welles? Alfred Hitchcock? Sergio Leone ?Stanley Kubrick? Fellini? Coppola? Malick? Charlie chaplin? Tarkovsky? and i could probably list 30 others. look, if you are in highschool or lower i understand because you think tarintino movies are cool and stuff, which they are. but they are inherently shallow and full of style over substance. hes made 2 good movies... SO WHAT. the guys i mentioned have done 5+ CLASSIC movies. yeah pulp fiction might be someday, but come on. imo hes a hack who just steals other peoples ideas. and his "style" has been done long before he claimed it or whatever. Tarantino is so overrated these days its not even funny. your other top 5 are probably coen brothers, wes anderson and darren aronofsky and christopher nolan ... give me a break. he only makes "simple" conversations interesting because theres something bad happening in the background... nothing more.
Stanley Kubrick: blech. the definition of a hack.
Orsen Wells: i've only seen Citizen Kane, which was good. (boring but very good) of course it did suffer from basically being an inaccurate hit piece. overrated imo.
Alfred Hitchcock: okay this guy is the real deal. awesome director, great storyteller, all that jazz.
Sergio Leone: good stuff but one of the best? idk about that.
Fellini: ive never even heard of this guy so... i usually tend to think that discounts him from being "the best" but hey, i could be wrong.
Coppola: Godfather was great, Godfather 2 was great, everything else... meh.
Malick: never seen him but i've heard that both "The Thin Red Line" and "The Tree of Life" were horrible, so... idk, guess i can't say much about him.
Charlie Chaplin: not a big fan.
Tarkovsky: don't know, i've never even heard of him.
also, i think wes anderson, quentin tarantino, akira kirusawa, and (sometimes) the coen brothers are all better than any of the directors you've mentioned except Hitchcock. aronofsky and nolen are meh.
opinions bro, they're like assholes, everyone's got em and they all stink.
Fellini is arguably the greatest European filmaker of all time (easily the best Italian, but maybe Bergman or Hitchcock could challenge him). You should really check him out, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2. At least one of those three films is probably on the top ten list of every major movie critic/director out there. Also, how the hell is Stanley Kubrick a "hack"?
You just don't GET it bro. he doesn't like him, therefore he is a talentless hack.
well when 4/5 of the movies of his that i've seen were that bad, and he's called the greatest director of all time... imo that makes him a hack. if you like his movies, more power to you. if you think he's amazing, good, then you'll love his work and think he's not a hack. i hate his work and i think he's a hack. is he objectively a good director? i don't think so. maybe you do? i didn't find any of his works to be very original or groundbreaking. mostly they were boring, with terrible acting, unrealistic, and strange for the sake of being strange. a clockwork orange has a good message i guess, but to me message is rarely enough to make it a good story. full-metal jacket is straight up one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my life.
On July 06 2012 16:39 EpiK wrote: 10/10. go watch this now. I postponed watching it despite hearing all the high praise for it just because it seemed like a senseless gorefest. But it's just perfect in every aspect I can think of (and not that gory surprisingly). Be sure to watch the director's cut if you do, because they leave out a really critical scene in the end that really made the movie for me.
I'm gonna cancel out your 10/10 with a -10/10
yeah i agree with the -10/10. well maybe not that harsh, but the movie is not really that good. very melodramatic with ZERO character development. its an intriguing plot, but i mean really, its something that you think is cool in middleschool. most of the korean films recent that have been reccomended all involve killing to move along the story, the only one i think is decent is "mother." but still involves lots of death. and tarintino is a hack, so im not suprised he admires that film.
You have to be joking. He is top 5 greatest film makers of all time. Not only has he never made a bad movie, but he has successfully dominated practically every major style with his own, instantly recognizable flair. Really, he has never made anything bad but Pulp Fiction and his latest Inglorious Basterds are straight up masterpieces. He is a master at making even simple conversations between characters highly engrossing. I'm convinced you could give him any script and he would make it endlessly entertaining (not to mention hilarious).
are you for fucking for real. even he would disagree. seriously? top 5 of all time jesus. Orsen Welles? Alfred Hitchcock? Sergio Leone ?Stanley Kubrick? Fellini? Coppola? Malick? Charlie chaplin? Tarkovsky? and i could probably list 30 others. look, if you are in highschool or lower i understand because you think tarintino movies are cool and stuff, which they are. but they are inherently shallow and full of style over substance. hes made 2 good movies... SO WHAT. the guys i mentioned have done 5+ CLASSIC movies. yeah pulp fiction might be someday, but come on. imo hes a hack who just steals other peoples ideas. and his "style" has been done long before he claimed it or whatever. Tarantino is so overrated these days its not even funny. your other top 5 are probably coen brothers, wes anderson and darren aronofsky and christopher nolan ... give me a break. he only makes "simple" conversations interesting because theres something bad happening in the background... nothing more.
Stanley Kubrick: blech. the definition of a hack.
Orsen Wells: i've only seen Citizen Kane, which was good. (boring but very good) of course it did suffer from basically being an inaccurate hit piece. overrated imo.
Alfred Hitchcock: okay this guy is the real deal. awesome director, great storyteller, all that jazz.
Sergio Leone: good stuff but one of the best? idk about that.
Fellini: ive never even heard of this guy so... i usually tend to think that discounts him from being "the best" but hey, i could be wrong.
Coppola: Godfather was great, Godfather 2 was great, everything else... meh.
Malick: never seen him but i've heard that both "The Thin Red Line" and "The Tree of Life" were horrible, so... idk, guess i can't say much about him.
Charlie Chaplin: not a big fan.
Tarkovsky: don't know, i've never even heard of him.
also, i think wes anderson, quentin tarantino, akira kirusawa, and (sometimes) the coen brothers are all better than any of the directors you've mentioned except Hitchcock. aronofsky and nolen are meh.
opinions bro, they're like assholes, everyone's got em and they all stink.
You've never heard of Fellini, therefore he's probably not one of the best? Uhh...?
To sc2superfan101: Terrence Malick films, especially the more recent ones, have always been very hit or miss. The problem has always been the messages involved, presentation, and subject matter of his films. For a very cynical person, his films are extremely easy to scoff at and I imagine this is why Tree of Life rubbed so many people the wrong way. Its not a great film but its nowhere near as bad as people are saying.
In the same regard, I suspect a lot of audiences went into The Thin Red Line expecting Saving Private Ryan 2.0 and completed hated it because it was not what they were expecting. I think I read an opinion that mentioned that it was Saving Private Ryan for smart people and in many ways that opinion would be right. Mainly it doesn't use identification (i.e. Jew, Christian, etc) as a tool to generate emotion and doesn't have such a strong focus on the gore and explosions.
Also, please don't say stuff like "XXX was straight up one of the worst movies in my life". There are a lot, a lot of very mediocre, misjudged, and awful films worse than Full Metal Jacket. I don't have love for the movie (or a lot of Kubrick's work) either but come on man.
I came into this thread for some more movie ideas as the last movie I've seen was In Time and soon to be The Avengers and the last page and a half has actually left me incredibly annoyed. There is probably nothing worse in the world than seeing wannabe film critics argue over the most stupid shit.
On July 07 2012 12:51 sc2superfan101 wrote: well when 4/5 of the movies of his that i've seen were that bad, and he's called the greatest director of all time... imo that makes him a hack. if you like his movies, more power to you. if you think he's amazing, good, then you'll love his work and think he's not a hack. i hate his work and i think he's a hack. is he objectively a good director? i don't think so. maybe you do? i didn't find any of his works to be very original or groundbreaking. mostly they were boring, with terrible acting, unrealistic, and strange for the sake of being strange. a clockwork orange has a good message i guess, but to me message is rarely enough to make it a good story. full-metal jacket is straight up one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my life.
How can you even take yourself seriously when you make statements such as this. I know I'm singling you out here and there are plenty more offenders but I see people say shit like this all the time and it blows my mind. I think you need to be sat down in a room and be forced to watch a marathon of movies for a few days straight that could actually be considered the worst movies ever seen.
With that said, my recent films:
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
6.5/10
I watched this for Jason Segel alone and wasn't entirely disappointed. Nothing special here, but still worth a watch.
Safe House
5/10
I didn't expect too much entering this. I'm not normally against shaky cams but it was pretty overbearing here. There was nothing redeeming in the writing and the action scenes were mostly sub par. I wouldn't bother with this one unless you're a big Reynolds/Washington fan but even then I'd skip it.
Admittedly I haven't seen a good movie in awhile but I'm currently on season 5 of The Wire and loving every second of it.
^^ lol The Wire kinda ruins movies/shows in a way. Once you get used to quality THAT high it's hard to watch most everything else. Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop did that for anime with me as well. All anime is just awful after watching those 2.
On July 07 2012 15:11 Neurosis wrote: ^^ lol The Wire kinda ruins movies/shows in a way. Once you get used to quality THAT high it's hard to watch most everything else. Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop did that for anime with me as well. All anime is just awful after watching those 2.
Holyshit thats hilarious, you absolutely described how I feel about tv shows and animes ahaha. Breaking Bad & Boardwalk Empire are the only ones that were even remotely close in the "WTF THIS IS SO GOOD CANNOT STOP WATCHING" department since The Wire, and Cowboy Bebop & Samurai Champloo, well, I never watched an anime again :s
On July 07 2012 16:06 OutlaW- wrote: Where are the times where someone would recommend a movie and 1-5 people would watch it and then share their thoughts :/ gonna post later
Yeah man... How come people can come here and discuss some random shit instead of actually talking about movies... = exactly what you did
About movies :
An indonesian action movie. "Yeah right" that was my first reaction when a friend told me to watch this. I'm not a huge fan of action movies, like at all, except for maybe Heat, and some others, but fighting movies I always hated simply because it's never realistic, well, this one is 10/10, non stop action, to a point where you dont give a fuck about the story, it's just pure action, fights are fucking great, directing is quite original, some part of it just seem really weird, like to hear some dubstep track during a gunfight scene, but in the end, 95% of spectators would get out of this happily dumb because it was an awesome experience.
On July 07 2012 17:42 Mvrio wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1jxRanimU documentary about the greatest sushi chef ever, world renowned and his son's mission to be like him once he's gone
Seconded.
All very charming people making sushi, very Japanese. Unforgettable the scene where the old master and a rice merchant were rubbishing the Hyatt hotel for wanting to buy the same rice as was used in the sushi. 'I won't sell it to them just because they ask for it!' "Indeed. What's the use of buying good rice if you can't cook it right?" 'Precisely!'
And as not to be without contribution myself:
Kings of pastry
French-american patissier goes to France to compete in the yearly contest for the title of 'un des meilleurs ouvriers de France', or 'one of the best artisans of France'. Very high standards, but from a different perspective.
Detective film noir with every stereotype of the genre but the setting is set in a highschool and its community. Queen cheerleader a la femme fatale, the studious geek a la all knowing reporter etc. I'm a sucker for dark vibes but I also appreciated the geniously given comedic element. The more gory and gritty it becomes the more you think that it's just a silly movie really.
Interstate 60
I don't even remember how that came before me. But it's a sweet unknown movie that will soften your heart and leave you with a grin on your face. It's about a rich young dude who doesn't know what to do with his life and happens to take an impossibly bizarre trip, on a road that's not supposed to exist, rediscovering what's important in life as he goes. Did I mention garry oldman in a mad hatter-y role?
Eastern Promises
Eastern european mafia in the mushing pot otherwise known as London. People fight in an ethically swampy world for a better life and in the midst of it all there's a badass Viggo Mortensen. I loved it.
edit: wtf with that ridiculous argument in the previous pages. Guys who havent heard of fellini and tarkovsky are speaking their minds? oh dear.
At first it may just seem like a funny, lighthearted French film, its brilliant use of colouration, and amazing cinematography make it shine through. Although its storyline is a bit lighthearted, its quirkiness make it really memorable. I would most recommend you see it with a girlfriend, as it has much quirky humour, and is lightly romantic, but its cinematography and colouration make it a visual gem.
Steveling check out A History of Violence seeing as you liked Eastern Promises. Loved that and Brick as well, will check out Interstate 60 though, haven't seen it.
Detective film noir with every stereotype of the genre but the setting is set in a highschool and its community. Queen cheerleader a la femme fatale, the studious geek a la all knowing reporter etc. I'm a sucker for dark vibes but I also appreciated the geniously given comedic element. The more gory and gritty it becomes the more you think that it's just a silly movie really.
Interstate 60
I don't even remember how that came before me. But it's a sweet unknown movie that will soften your heart and leave you with a grin on your face. It's about a rich young dude who doesn't know what to do with his life and happens to take an impossibly bizarre trip, on a road that's not supposed to exist, rediscovering what's important in life as he goes. Did I mention garry oldman in a mad hatter-y role?
Eastern Promises
Eastern european mafia in the mushing pot otherwise known as London. People fight in an ethically swampy world for a better life and in the midst of it all there's a badass Viggo Mortensen. I loved it.
edit: wtf with that ridiculous argument in the previous pages. Guys who havent heard of fellini and tarkovsky are speaking their minds? oh dear.
I loved Brick, it was pretty damn fun.
Interstate 60 though? This actually is the single worst movie I've ever seen that I expected to have merit (so throwing out stuff I knew would be bad and watched for the fun of that). It's completely artless, the main character is the hammiest, smuggest ass I've ever seen and you are supposed to closely identify with him (he's basically the audience's proxy in the movie, I forget if there's a literary term for that), and the whole thing is so proud of its completely unsubtly delivered right wing, moralistic platitudes that are divulged in weird scenarios that are supposed to "make you think" but really barely touch the surface of any issue they raise. Truly one of the worst pieces of tripe I've ever laid eyes on.
Last night I saw Labyrinth for the first time at a midnight movie showing
It's quite enjoyable, and most of the muppet-driven effects look really great. There are a couple embarrassingly awful scenes though, the first Bowie magic of dance musical number, and one mindbogglingly atrocious green screen segment with these detachable head creatures. But outside of those, great movie.
On July 06 2012 16:39 EpiK wrote: 10/10. go watch this now. I postponed watching it despite hearing all the high praise for it just because it seemed like a senseless gorefest. But it's just perfect in every aspect I can think of (and not that gory surprisingly). Be sure to watch the director's cut if you do, because they leave out a really critical scene in the end that really made the movie for me.
I'm gonna cancel out your 10/10 with a -10/10
yeah i agree with the -10/10. well maybe not that harsh, but the movie is not really that good. very melodramatic with ZERO character development. its an intriguing plot, but i mean really, its something that you think is cool in middleschool. most of the korean films recent that have been reccomended all involve killing to move along the story, the only one i think is decent is "mother." but still involves lots of death. and tarintino is a hack, so im not suprised he admires that film.
You have to be joking. He is top 5 greatest film makers of all time. Not only has he never made a bad movie, but he has successfully dominated practically every major style with his own, instantly recognizable flair. Really, he has never made anything bad but Pulp Fiction and his latest Inglorious Basterds are straight up masterpieces. He is a master at making even simple conversations between characters highly engrossing. I'm convinced you could give him any script and he would make it endlessly entertaining (not to mention hilarious).
are you for fucking for real. even he would disagree. seriously? top 5 of all time jesus. Orsen Welles? Alfred Hitchcock? Sergio Leone ?Stanley Kubrick? Fellini? Coppola? Malick? Charlie chaplin? Tarkovsky? and i could probably list 30 others. look, if you are in highschool or lower i understand because you think tarintino movies are cool and stuff, which they are. but they are inherently shallow and full of style over substance. hes made 2 good movies... SO WHAT. the guys i mentioned have done 5+ CLASSIC movies. yeah pulp fiction might be someday, but come on. imo hes a hack who just steals other peoples ideas. and his "style" has been done long before he claimed it or whatever. Tarantino is so overrated these days its not even funny. your other top 5 are probably coen brothers, wes anderson and darren aronofsky and christopher nolan ... give me a break. he only makes "simple" conversations interesting because theres something bad happening in the background... nothing more.
Stanley Kubrick: blech. the definition of a hack.
Orsen Wells: i've only seen Citizen Kane, which was good. (boring but very good) of course it did suffer from basically being an inaccurate hit piece. overrated imo.
Alfred Hitchcock: okay this guy is the real deal. awesome director, great storyteller, all that jazz.
Sergio Leone: good stuff but one of the best? idk about that.
Fellini: ive never even heard of this guy so... i usually tend to think that discounts him from being "the best" but hey, i could be wrong.
Coppola: Godfather was great, Godfather 2 was great, everything else... meh.
Malick: never seen him but i've heard that both "The Thin Red Line" and "The Tree of Life" were horrible, so... idk, guess i can't say much about him.
Charlie Chaplin: not a big fan.
Tarkovsky: don't know, i've never even heard of him.
also, i think wes anderson, quentin tarantino, akira kirusawa, and (sometimes) the coen brothers are all better than any of the directors you've mentioned except Hitchcock. aronofsky and nolen are meh.
opinions bro, they're like assholes, everyone's got em and they all stink.
Has got to be one of the most idiotic posts i've seen on this site. Atleast watch a few movies from Fellini or Tarkovsky oh and if i may recommend, from Bergman too.
Magic Mike was good. The first half was pretty much is pretty much what is advertised but it does a complete 180 the second half and turns it into an above average drama with real world situations.
Ted was just loads of laughs throughout the movie, only a few moments of the film were actually serious and it was dead silent in the theaters but all the jokes and antics had everyone laughing nonstop.
On July 08 2012 12:49 MooMooMugi wrote: Ted was just loads of laughs throughout the movie, only a few moments of the film were actually serious and it was dead silent in the theaters but all the jokes and antics had everyone laughing nonstop.
<3 Taylor Lautner
wtf
Just saw The Amazing Spiderman and I thought it was pretty good. Definetely better than the Toby MacGuire ones. It had a better plotline I felt (actual reasoning for certain choices), decent humor and a stronger message/meaning.
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