A few films recently watched.

  On 9/14/2010 at 7:56 AM, goffer said:

I'm with the rest Remy, not valid reasons at all. You can't base a films obsolescence on apperance alone.... that's just being cynical to be cynical.

aye it's supposed to be set in a grey, depersonalised vision of the future. the reasons you give for it being dated are what make it timeless/strange imo.

although i'd agree that it's def not his best work.

dead man - a waste of an hour and a half... whatever the point of this film was it escaped me. .5/5

bad lieutenant - bad remake

  On 9/14/2010 at 2:16 PM, keltoi said:

dead man - a waste of an hour and a half... whatever the point of this film was it escaped me. .5/5

What's it about? That's a good question, I did enjoy it actually but I do hav a soft spot for Jarmusch

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:04 PM, keltoi said:

bad lieutenant - bad remake

I preferred the remake to the original I must admit. Thought Herzog even made a great actor out of Nicholas Cage

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:13 PM, AJW said:

I preferred the remake to the original I must admit. Thought Herzog even made a great actor out of Nicholas Cage

I agree, Cage was actually perfect for the part.

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:15 PM, impakt said:

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:13 PM, AJW said:

I preferred the remake to the original I must admit. Thought Herzog even made a great actor out of Nicholas Cage

 

I agree, Cage was actually perfect for the part.

wow! cage isn't fit to lace/lick keitel's boots.

original was grittier, more debauched, hard hitiing.

i must admit i just don't like cage .

I have an ambivalent "relationship" with Cage. Sometimes he's great, sometimes he's awful. I liked him very much in The Bad Lieutenant though.

cage had me lolling quite often though, like when he was totally fucked doing a kind of mutley-esque gasp/laugh.

Hilarious.

Macgruber was so fucking terrible I turned it off.

I just watched "My son, my son what have ye done". It was a bit slow and boring, at times absurd. There were however some really great parts that made it all worth it.

  On 9/14/2010 at 10:19 PM, impakt said:

Macgruber was so fucking terrible I turned it off.

same here and i paid for the rental *shudders*

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:32 PM, keltoi said:

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:15 PM, impakt said:

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:13 PM, AJW said:

I preferred the remake to the original I must admit. Thought Herzog even made a great actor out of Nicholas Cage

 

I agree, Cage was actually perfect for the part.

 

wow! cage isn't fit to lace/lick keitel's boots.

 

original was grittier, more debauched, hard hitiing.

 

i must admit i just don't like cage .

same, I think people way overhype Herzog, he's really good, but his remake wasn't really that amazing.

  On 9/14/2010 at 3:04 PM, keltoi said:

bad lieutenant - bad remake

IT'S NOT A REMAKE!!!

j/k but i've been told that numerous times by Herzog penis riders

MacGruber..just found out that Val Kilmer AND Powers Boothe are in this. What the hell is it though? And why are people hating on it so much?

Regarding the Bad Lieutenant films, I had really high hopes for the original after seeing the remake. Maybe I should have seen them the other way round. Oh well. Might have to rewatch the original then.

the original bad lieutenant is great. one of the most quotable movies ever.

Brazil.

I didn't realize it before, but Bioshock (the game) really borrows a lot from this film.

Great stuff. I don't know how this isn't in the IMDB Top 250.

Tokyo! - 8/10

Three short movies made by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax (?), and Joon-ho Bong. Gondry's and Bong's (especially Bong's caught my attention which most of his movies do) short movies were both fantastic whereas Carax's started out great but the last 30 minutes were boring as hell.

Gondry's short film was about a couple that move to Tokyo. The man gets a job wrapping gifts, who shows screenings of his horrible movies at the theatre, and people really love them even though they are extremely amateurish. The girl friend doesn't get a new job, and she feels overlooked and doesn't know what to do until one day something weird happens to her body.

Bong's short film was about a "hikokomori" who hasn't been outside of his home for 10 years. I shouldn't really tell anymore than that. All I can say is, 'wow!'.

Secret & Lies (Mike Leigh) - 8/10

Breathtaking performance from the lead actress, it's been a log time I hadn't seen any quality acting like this !

enemy mine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/ and slaughterhouse five http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069280/

two gems imo

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

  On 9/14/2010 at 11:52 PM, AJW said:

 

Regarding the Bad Lieutenant films, I had really high hopes for the original after seeing the remake. Maybe I should have seen them the other way round. Oh well. Might have to rewatch the original then.

Actually somehow I saw Herzog's film in the cinema, and came home the same day to find that the "original" was on tv. And yes, I was pretty disappointed with Abel Ferrara's film. Mostly because there was no character development or much of a plot, the imagery and symbology was really heavy handed and somewhat silly (jesus bleeding on the cross so unnecessary).

I admit there were some pretty nice standalone scenes with a great presence from Harvey Keitel.

And no, Herzog's Bad Lieutenant is NOT a remake. Its a completely different movie, the only thing they have in common is that they're both centered around a corrupt cop who does a lot of coke.

  On 9/15/2010 at 12:09 PM, Squee said:

Tokyo! - 8/10

 

Three short movies made by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax (?), and Joon-ho Bong. Gondry's and Bong's (especially Bong's caught my attention which most of his movies do) short movies were both fantastic whereas Carax's started out great but the last 30 minutes were boring as hell.

 

Gondry's short film was about a couple that move to Tokyo. The man gets a job wrapping gifts, who shows screenings of his horrible movies at the theatre, and people really love them even though they are extremely amateurish. The girl friend doesn't get a new job, and she feels overlooked and doesn't know what to do until one day something weird happens to her body.

 

Bong's short film was about a "hikokomori" who hasn't been outside of his home for 10 years. I shouldn't really tell anymore than that. All I can say is, 'wow!'.

You have me interested, must check that out.

Les quatre cents coups 9/10

yeah, I watched a classy foreign flick this time!

this isn't the type of movie I normally watch but it kept my interest so it gets lots of points for that

I didn't really like the ending and there's some unnecessary scenes (or maybe I just didn't 'get it')

but it's very real and matter-of-fact, and some of the classroom cut-ups remind of South Park kids if they were set in 1959 Paris

  On 9/16/2010 at 3:55 AM, Awepittance said:

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

 

 

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

Cemetery Junction: UK drama from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Toy Story 3: story bout toys. better than 2, not as good as 1.

Three Men And A Biker Chick: slightly overweight woman stuffed with overweight men in the 1980's

  On 9/16/2010 at 3:55 AM, Awepittance said:

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

 

 

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

logan's run is awesome.

have you seen PHASE IV?

  On 9/16/2010 at 11:41 AM, keltoi said:

  On 9/16/2010 at 3:55 AM, Awepittance said:

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

 

 

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

 

logan's run is awesome.

 

have you seen PHASE IV?

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