Movie Thread

[L'arriviste]

it was a lifetime award. we all know Jack is one of the all time greats. has he ever be been bad? i have seen a lot of his movies and some are better than others,but he is usually, at least, ok. Chinatown is a classic.

Five Easy Pieces and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are both Nicholson high points and super-excellent movies in their own right.

 

[nvpacchi]

it was a lifetime award. we all know Jack is one of the all time greats. has he ever be been bad? i have seen a lot of his movies and some are better than others,but he is usually, at least, ok. Chinatown is a classic.

Something's Gotta Give is the only film by Nicholson that left me turning it off.

Nice point about Carney, never thought of it from that point of view. It is similar to Pacino winning with "Scent of a Woman." Obviously not Pacino's best role, but he needs to win an oscar at least one time in his life.

 

[usedtobefast]

Something's Gotta Give is the only film by Nicholson that left me turning it off.

Nice point about Carney, never thought of it from that point of view. It is similar to Pacino winning with "Scent of a Woman." Obviously not Pacino's best role, but he needs to win an oscar at least one time in his life.

yeah what was the phrase they tried to get people to say from that movie?
i remember thinking it was kind of silly.

 

[Lifeshape]

There is no movie that makes me "Laugh Out Loud" as much as this one.

It is is not my "Best" but it is the one I will watch again, and again, and again, and again...

THe biggest problem is now I can't keep a straight face if I see a midget

"Of course you're blind, i just shot a blank in your fuggin' eyeees." That is a great movie and a start point in a classic.

 

[Colm.Murphy]

bahahahaha!

my top 10

1. Empire of the sun
2. on the waterfront
3. American History X
4. Dances with wolves
5. platoon
6. Fight club
7. the Deer Hunter
8. Black hawk down
9. Godfather
10. star wars (IV, V & VI)

I appreciate those films.

I would add Schindler's List in place of Star Wars.

I would place Apocolypse Now in place of Fight Club.

In no order, here are several of my favorites:

Reservoir Dogs
Silence of the Lambs
Wizard of Oz
Fargo
Unforgiven
Ping Pong (Japanese)
Big Lebowski
Munich
Paper Moon

Wow, once you get to recalling, there are so many great films!

 

[aarnold517]

just watched taxi driver in a film class the other day and that movie is excellent. really blunt, frank depiction of corruption in the big city. plus de niro was absolutely brilliant throughout

you talkin' to me? you talkin' to me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzPBUGUM7KQ

 

[nvpacchi]

yeah what was the phrase they tried to get people to say from that movie?
i remember thinking it was kind of silly.

Which film were you referring to? I sadly have not seen Scent of a Woman yet, and I forced myself through only the first 25 minutes of Something's Gotta Give

 

[Bala Verde]

Is the verdict out on "birdemic, shock and terror"?

trailer

 

[usedtobefast]

Which film were you referring to? I sadly have not seen Scent of a Woman yet, and I forced myself through only the first 25 minutes of Something's Gotta Give

'scent of a woman' it was a silly phrase like 'vavaoom' but not that.

found it. it was "whohah!"

 

[marinoni]

In Bruges
Stranger than Fiction
Lost in Translation
And two guilty pleasures- Trailer Park Boys and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.

 

[amp300]

city of god- just a fantastic film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqD7MksivSo&feature=related

trailer is in portugese, I couldn't find a subtitled one.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

V for Vendetta
Sin city
LOTR( all three)(extended)
Gladiator'(extended)
Team America
South Park bigger longer and uncut

 

[Sydney Sider]

I would have Big Wednesday and Eddie & the Cruisers original as two of my fav movies of all time but my 2 year old son and 3 year old nephew are adament that The Wiggles movie will never be beaten as the best movie ever made

 

[elapid]

OK, I just got an iPhone and have been playing with all of the apps. One of the apps is the IMDb site and they have their top 250 movies. Here is a link: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Pretty similar to some of our collective choices, some other interesting ones as well.

 

[trompe le monde]

OK, I just got an iPhone and have been playing with all of the apps. One of the apps is the IMDb site and they have their top 250 movies. Here is a link: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Pretty similar to some of our collective choices, some other interesting ones as well.

Most of the highest ranking films seem to be more recent. Maybe it's an out of sight, out of mind phenomenon. Some older films by some of the mid 20th century masters are still some of the best movies made.

'M' by Fritz Lang is on that list and it has perhaps one of the more powerful final scenes in film. Probably Fritz Lang's best film. 'M' is now a public domain film, so you can watch it on youtube without fear of reprisal. 'M' by Fritz Lang.

 

[D Avoid]

I don't know if I been in here before, but "Some Like it Hot" , you can't ignore.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't know if I been in here before, but "Some Like it Hot" , you can't ignore.

"I'm a man!"
"Well, nobody's perfect."

 

[Anonymous]

"Titicut Follies" B&W documentary I saw in 1967, about treatment (abuse) of criminally insane prisoners in the Massachuttes Correctional Institution in Bridgewater MA. Banned by the MA Supreme Court. I still remember the prisoner having a tube forced down his throat and being force fed. It could have been an important film, if it wasn't so embarassing to the State.

Also in 1967, "Portrait of Jason", by Shirley Clarke. A 12 hour "discussion" with an African American gay hustler, distilled into about 90 minutes. as one critic said, "For Jason is a chameleon/hustler/shapeshifter/trickster/thespian/vagabond/dreamer/houseboy/tragicomic/sham/male *****/stoned *****/consummate bull**** artist whose sleight of hand will always put him just outside your grasp." Its beyond category. See it if you can.

 

[nvpacchi]

So I just watched L.A. Confidential, easily the best movie I've seen in the past few years.

All aspects are flawless, I recommend to all.

 

[BroDeal]

Going in a little different direction here, but how many IQ points will I lose if I watch Transformers 2?

We really need a general movies thread rather than a "best movie ever" thread.

 

[HL2037]

Bladerunner might be the best movie ever made in my opinion. I cry everytime I see it when the scene comes where Roy dies on the roof. (And I never cry, never!! )

 

[Fourier]

The best movie I have seen in the last 12 months has to be Zombieland.
I highly recomend it, kinda low-budget and bad-taste humour but I laughed so hard!

 

[Anonymous]

The "doped bike" videos made me remember this....

"Blowup", 1966

London fashion photog take pics in park, thinks he sees something, keeps enlarging the images until he's convinced he has photographed a murder, or did he? A must see. Be warned, do NOT watch this is you find images of naked young model-wannabes offensive. Close your eyes whenever Vanessa Redgraves nude body parts are shown. (To think I was a teenager then and still a ...... inexperienced person.)

 

[L'arriviste]

"Blowup", 1966

London fashion photog take pics in park, thinks he sees something, keeps enlarging the images until he's convinced he has photographed a murder, or did he? A must see. Be warned, do NOT watch this is you find images of naked young model-wannabes offensive. Close your eyes whenever Vanessa Redgraves nude body parts are shown. (To think I was a teenager then and still a ...... inexperienced person.)

Wow, you liked it! I absolutely couldn't stand this movie when I saw it some years ago. A photographer friend recommended it so I bought a posh edition and hated every moment.

I don't think it was the "wannabe" angle as you put it (good phrase) that bothered me so much as practically every scene being suffused with a near-brutal inner coldness. It gave me the same sort of creepy feeling as watching Ang Lee's The Ice Storm.

Totally respect your take though. Funny how films polarise opinions!

 

[yourwelcome]

Dead Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WQE7AO9LA

+ 1

Beautiful well-made film in every way.