The Official Movie Thread

[unknown]

stuff i've seen in the last 3 or 4 weeks:

Paprika is such an awesome fucking movie. Really interesting concept pulled off with some top notch animation.

 

[challenge_everything]

stuff i've seen in the last 3 or 4 weeks:
gran torino ***1/2
the reader *1/2
frost/nixon **
milk **
paprika ***1/2
flight of the red balloon ***
klass ***
still life ***1/2
paranoid park *
the wrestler ***1/2
encounters at the end of the world ***
hellboy II **1/2
ghost town **1/2
hunger **1/2
slumdog millionaire 1/2*
tideland ***1/2
curious case of benjamin button *1/2
kiss kiss bang bang ***
repulsion ***1/2

Man you're a harsh critic. Not that I've seen most of those newer films but Repulsion is a classic.

I'll do the same but my recent views are mostly very very old films:

The Third Man (Carol Reed) ***
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) ***1/2
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks) ****
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) ****1/2
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone) ****1/2
Four Rooms (Tarantino) **
Shivers (Cronenberg) **1/2
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard) ***
In the Heat of the Night ****
Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (Clouzot) ****1/2

 

[Satanstoenail]

Do you have examples of what you would consider a 5* movie?

I'm gonna take a wild stab and say probably No Country For Old Men. :Smug:

 

[seedofvengeance]

Yeah.... but I imagine that can't be the only one.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

I may be insane, but I think he's rating on a 4 star scale tbh.

 

[no country for old wainds]

you're not insane

Paprika is such an awesome fucking movie. Really interesting concept pulled off with some top notch animation.

oh yeah man it's superb, satoshi kon is like my hero, he's the animated hitchcock+lynch. check out his first two 'perfect blue' and 'millennium actress', i like those even more - 'perfect blue' is basically an animated 'mulholland drive' and it came out 3 years earlier.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Glad you liked Gran Torino that much, awesome movie.

 

[AchrisK]

12 Angry Men

We watched this movie because it was something my son had watched in class and was doing some school work on. It was awesome! The whole thing is set in a juror deliberation session.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Glad you liked Gran Torino that much, awesome movie.

i laughed my ass off for the most part

I enjoyed Paprika, but I didn't find it as astoundingly original as some seem to. It fits pretty neatly within the conventions of a lot of feature length anime, but it is well executed and beautifully animated.

yeah, i really like paprika but i don't *love* it in the way i love the first two. i haven't seen his previous movie 'tokyo godfathers' yet although i've heard it's his worst.

could you recommend some good feature length animé? i'm not exactly an expert. i've been really wanting to see 'FLCL' and 'mind game' for some time.

 

[unknown]

oh yeah man it's superb, satoshi kon is like my hero, he's the animated hitchcock+lynch. check out his first two 'perfect blue' and 'millennium actress', i like those even more - 'perfect blue' is basically an animated 'mulholland drive' and it came out 3 years earlier.

sweet. I'll definitely check em out

 

[no country for old wainds]

I actually found Tokyo Godfathers to be a much, much better film than Paprika. It's not quite as visually flashy, but the narrative is much more coherent, and the story less of a genre cliche. I suspect it didn't go over as well with the otaku fanboys over here because it bucks the conventions in favor of old fashioned sentimental storytelling.

If I'm going to watch a more "conventional" movie anime, it might as well be Akira, which is still the genre landmark.

i share your view to an extent but i'd rather they didn't avoid modern conventions by just going back to also-worn sentiment. outright narrative cliché is no better than genre cliché.

for the record i find most animé incoherent, but find the chaos in satoshi kon's stuff (that i've seen) totally exhilarating.

 

[Blind Guardian]

On the anime movie subject, if you like Grave Of The Fireflies you should watch the movie Voices From A Distant Star, very beautiful and sad movie.

What would you say is the best Kurosawa movie? I've recently watched Ran and that movie was seriously good.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

So I recently bought

Master and Commander: Far Side Of The World, still an excellent movie in my book

 

[Dak]

stuff i've seen in the
hellboy II **1/2

curious case of benjamin button *1/2

:zombie:

Has to be a typo.

 

[tagradh]

Watching Rome at the moment for the second time. Not a movie but it has the same kinda feel as one imo.

 

[Zephyrus]

Watching Rome at the moment for the second time. Not a movie but it has the same kinda feel as one imo.

Actually, they're planning on a movie.

 

[NinjaGeek]

What would you say is the best Kurosawa movie? I've recently watched Ran and that movie was seriously good.

I'm not an expert on Kurosawa but Seven Samurai is a seriously amazing film. If you're looking for something a bit shorter then I'd also recommend Rashomon.

 

[unknown]

Yojimbo is also a really good Kurosawa film

 

[tagradh]

Actually, they're planning on a movie.

Aye. Read about that the other day, it's what reminded me I had both series on DVD.

 

[no country for old wainds]

:zombie:

Has to be a typo.

no chance.

my top 5 kurosawas would be something like
1. ran
2. seven samurai
3. throne of blood
4. rashomon
5. high and low

still need to see yojimbo/sanjuro though, as well as kagemusha, hidden fortress, red beard etc.

and i *love* 'grave of the fireflies' so i'll definitely give that one a shot, cheers.