Movie Discussion! - Page 78

On February 17 2011 05:17 EscPlan9 wrote:
Can someone recommend some great comedy movies? Some of my all-time favorites (in no particular order):

* Dumb and Dumber. Amazing replay value - I still laugh even though I've seen every seen dozens of times.

* Harold and Kumar. I enjoyed just about everything in the movie. I love the adventures they go on!

* The Jerk, Planes Trains and Automobiles. Both are classic Steve Martin films.

* South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. My favorite cartoon series into a movie with some hilarious musicals!

* Team America. Another comedy with hilarious musicals.

* Naked Gun, Airplane. Back when there actually were good parodies rather than this "Scary Movie" crap.

* Don't be a Menace in South Central.... So many hilarious scenes and lines. It also inspired me to watch the blaxploitation movies it parodied from, which were excellent movies in their own right.

* Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I wish more people had seen this movie. For the longest time it was only available on VHS which makes me think it must have been underappreciated.

* National Lampoons Vacation. Mostly the original and the trip to Europe.

* Old School. By far my favorite movie starring Will Ferrell!

* Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore. Remember back when Adam Sandler movies were hilarious?

To be more specific, I'm looking for movies where the emphasis is on the comedic elements. Although I do enjoy action movies with good one-liners and the like, it isn't what I'm looking for here.

On February 13 2011 07:09 Hidden_MotiveS wrote:


I don't know how inception was a bigger name than this movie... probably just the cast size. In every single way, surrogates was better than inception. (I'm just saying this to get you to watch it, but surrogates is at least on par with inception).

It's about how the world develops ways for humans to communicate with robots, so then the entire world just plugs into robots and live their lives through their robots.

Anyways, I just watched it because I'm interested in a technological singularity. I don't think a surrogate like world could ever happen because of this singularity.

Surrogates: 7/10
Inception: 6.5/10

On February 17 2011 05:17 EscPlan9 wrote:
Can someone recommend some great comedy movies? Some of my all-time favorites (in no particular order):

* Dumb and Dumber. Amazing replay value - I still laugh even though I've seen every seen dozens of times.

* Harold and Kumar. I enjoyed just about everything in the movie. I love the adventures they go on!

* The Jerk, Planes Trains and Automobiles. Both are classic Steve Martin films.

* South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. My favorite cartoon series into a movie with some hilarious musicals!

* Team America. Another comedy with hilarious musicals.

* Naked Gun, Airplane. Back when there actually were good parodies rather than this "Scary Movie" crap.

* Don't be a Menace in South Central.... So many hilarious scenes and lines. It also inspired me to watch the blaxploitation movies it parodied from, which were excellent movies in their own right.

* Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I wish more people had seen this movie. For the longest time it was only available on VHS which makes me think it must have been underappreciated.

* National Lampoons Vacation. Mostly the original and the trip to Europe.

* Old School. By far my favorite movie starring Will Ferrell!

* Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore. Remember back when Adam Sandler movies were hilarious?

To be more specific, I'm looking for movies where the emphasis is on the comedic elements. Although I do enjoy action movies with good one-liners and the like, it isn't what I'm looking for here.

On February 02 2011 21:47 Sm3agol wrote:


Screw that. I hate those movies. We KNOW what is wrong with the war in Iraq. It's about time we started supporting the guys over there until we can get them out instead of trying to be whistle blowers....as if there isn't enough people dissatisfied with the war over there.. Movies like The Hurt Locker are great in that respect. Show respect to the men fighting and dying over there, while also not glossing over the issues. Anything more is massively disrespectful to the guys over there, imo. It's not their problem, save the political crap for when we finally leave. It's a crap situation, don't make it worse.

/rant..I HATE these kinds of movies.

On February 26 2011 03:04 Manit0u wrote:


Sherlock

A recent BBC mini-series. Blew my mind.

On February 27 2011 14:22 r33k wrote:

With every new role Martin freeman looks a decade older. I am seriously worried about his health. Compare him in Ali G Indahouse, in THHGTTG and in sherlock...

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds. Back in the village, accompanied by Claire, a young woman he loves but who hesitates to commit herself, he does the job half-satisfactorily. Too blunt, not in harmony with the locals, he offends them more than he serves them. Fortunately Claire, who has more business acumen, helps him to improve his skills. On the other hand, the relationships are tense with his brother François and even worse with his father, who despises him. So when the latter is back in the village, the situation deteriorates...