Serious Movie Discussion

[Three Gun Fish]

In all honesty, VALKYRIE was hilarious.

[bulldogs_5]

Originally Posted by HH

In Bruges is definitely fantastic.

"What exactly am I tryin' t'say? Yuse're a buncha fuckin' elephants!"

Yeah, that was the shit...

Not a CF fan but he did good work in this.

I caught about half of After the Wedding (a Danish movie titled, Efter Brylluppet). Stars Mads Mikkelsen, the dude who played the most recent incarnation of Le Chiffre in the '06 Casino Royale. It captivated me enough that I want to finish it...

[Article125]

Originally Posted by Marsupial

Ha ha. But you still gave it a 3. I love it.

Meaning there are at least 3 potential levels of crapiness that a movie can attain beyond you hating it as much as possible for as long as you live.

I might have gotten a tad carried away with my review.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by Joe McPherson

Actually a surprising number of people don't know general history in detail

I wouldn't be surprised if not that many people knew Dillinger was specifically gunned down outside of a Chicago movie theater, but I'm very surprised there are people who don't know that the police killed him.

Originally Posted by Joe McPherson

Guess I'll have to

If you liked/are familiar with Last House on the Left, then go for The Virgin Spring.

Originally Posted by Three Gun Fish

Bullitt: it's not as though I don't get what you've done and why you've done it. You're making yourself look bad by constantly repeating what was already obvious. You're making yourself look mean by repeating the offense after you've been told. After you said you wouldn't do it.

It's funny you don't see anything wrong with being a hypocrite, but I guess that's people for you.

It's always fun reading your non-insult insults.

Just for my own piece of mind, though: Do you really know nothing about John Dillinger and Adolf Hitler? Do you consider these "spoilers" where I reveal well-known historical fact tantamount to if I'd revealed the surprises in films like The Departed or Burn After Reading?

[Three Gun Fish]

Shut the fuck up, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know... you're out of your element.

[JSN]

i just saw "children of men." good movie for sure. i would compare it to "28 weeks later" i think, because it's a far reaching movie, and sublimely well executed, but just not great for me. i'm super glad it was recommended here though. just a really, really, good movie.

[prod2821]

Children of Men was awesome, it had a "real" feeling to it.

[HH]

Team america, fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

[Bullitt68]

Last night, I watched my first Samuel Fuller film. TCM showed the first three films he made as a director after he got back from WWII, and his first film is the one I watched: I Shot Jesse James. Weird, too, how there's the spoiler right in the title, huh, Three Gun? I guess Fuller, like Andrew Dominik, just assumed it wasn't a surprise to learn that Jesse James got shot.

It was a really good Western, and more than that, it was really a character study set in the West. Like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the film shows Ford kill James, but unlike the newer film, which is really an epic Western that follows Ford from the time he joins James' gang all the way through to when he finally dies, I Shot Jesse James pretty much begins at the ending of The Assassination of Jesse James where Ford and his brother are at James' house before Ford kills him.

What I loved about Fuller's film was the way he didn't make his own ideas about Ford known through his handling of the character. He didn't make the film trying to show the audience that Ford was a coward. He showed him as a conflicted man feeling extremely guilty about killing his friend, but he did it so he could be with the woman he loved, so he felt justified, and that's why he felt so conflicted before killing him and why he's so torn up after he kills him.

The film includes several scenes later included in The Assassination of Jesse James, and if you liked that film, I think you'd find Fuller's film pretty interesting. John Ireland did a great job as Robert Ford, too. Much better than Casey Affleck, IMO.

Originally Posted by JSN

i just saw "children of men." good movie for sure. i would compare it to "28 weeks later" i think, because it's a far reaching movie, and sublimely well executed, but just not great for me. i'm super glad it was recommended here though. just a really, really, good movie.

Still haven't seen either of those, 28 Days Later or 28 Weeks Later. I do enjoy the apocalyptic film and I liked Romero's Dead trilogy, so I'm assuming they'd be something I'd enjoy?

Originally Posted by HH

Team america, fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

Still haven't seen this one, either, but it's come highly recommended and the clip flemmy showed was hilarious.

And since it's the Fourth of July, everybody should watch Yankee Doodle Dandy on TCM today

[pinoy ninja]

anyone watching the twilight zone marathon on sci fi channel?