Last movie you watched

[BigApplePi]

How dare you blaspheme The Matrix?

You never complained before.

 

[BigApplePi]

The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon is even better then The Matrix and Avatar

I just got an independent email advocating this film as exemplifying the issue of free will versus determinism.

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Jim Jarmusch 'Down by Law'

Vincent Gallo 'Buffalo 66'

Both pretty good; I recommend.

 

[Zmaster]

Just coming in from a realistic point of view since metaphyics claims that astral walking is possible then why couldn't there be angels/demons/daemons/guardians that assist destiny in giving us a little nudge whenever we need it. I think that The Adjustment Bureau is more real simply because it doesn't claim that everything is illusionary just that the bigger the decision the more guidance we are given. Being a humanist, it's a more rational concept to grasp.

 

[BigApplePi]

"Red Beard" by Akira Kurosawa. Top notch film. It's about a new doctor who is too conceited to do the work where he's sent. The chief doctor, "Red Beard", is the wise one, yet he's far from perfect. Terrific stories inside the film but one has to put up with the Japanese style different from the Western World. There is violent action in there too but one has to buy the extremity of it.

It think Kurosawa did "Rashomon" also but I forget.

The reviews of this film are beyond belief they are so raving. Above my head to type something here. See the reviews.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058888/usercomments

 

[Cavallier]

I finally saw King's Speech and thoroughly enjoyed it. My throat clenched in sympathy through most of this film. As always Colon Firth and Geoffrey Rush were excellent as stiff and odd Brits. I went into this film suspecting most people were raving it about it simply because they thought they were supposed to and was pleasantly surprised to discover that it really is a good story well acted.

 

[BigApplePi]

Re: King's Speech. It was my birthday. My wife was taking me to the movies. I wanted to see "The Social Network." When we got to the multiplex it was gone. I had to quickly pick out another one because of the start timings. The King's Speech was ready to go. Not sorry I saw it. Was as you say Cavillier. I had seen Colon Firth in other films and he is so good it's hard to believe it's not him ... or is it?

 

[A22]

A beautiful mind

And a beautiful movie

 

[Anchorite]

Rango. I liked it, although it oddly felt like certain parts where recycled from the Pirates of the Carribbean movies that Gore Verbinski directed earlier.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

The Machinist, watched it again as something to fall asleep to (ironic, no?).

Definitely recommended for INTPs / lovers of psych-thrillers.

 

[Black Rose]

 

[Darby]

The Machinist, watched it again as something to fall asleep to (ironic, no?).

Definitely recommended for INTPs / lovers of psych-thrillers.

Watched it last week or so, pretty interesting, I would also recommend it.

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Solaris

Pretty damn good

 

[Cavallier]

I saw Rango recently as well. It was rather more adult (mid-life/existential crisis, identity, it's not about you-it's about them you selfish little twit) in it's themes than I expected. It was a pleasant surprise. The artistry was really well done. I appreciate a good western and enjoyed the throwback to Clint Eastwood and the Man With No Name mythology of westerns as apposed to the John Wayne westerns which were often more romantic than hard bitten. It was fun for me but I'd be surprised if it really appealed to children.

I think the U.S. media mogols don't really know how to market an adult animated film so we get these sort of hybrid types. Perhaps someday they'll learn from the Japanese.

 

[Jesse]

There were kids laughing in my theater during the more slapstick parts but I would agree it's not exactly a kids movie.

 

[Masterlord]

I've watched Black Swan and American Psycho this weekend. They were both quite good. Christian Bale never fails to impress as an actor.

 

[Cavallier]

^The scene where he runs down the hall way naked, covered in blood, and weilding a chain-saw should be one of those classics of filmography. So disturbing and over-the-top fascinating. Hard to top...except for the scene where he shoves a kitten into the cash machine.

 

[Masterlord]

The Machinist, watched it again as something to fall asleep to (ironic, no?).

Definitely recommended for INTPs / lovers of psych-thrillers.

Just watched it. I figured it out midway...quite a good movie. I hate watching movies twice...second time just ruins it for me. I watched Inception a second time a while ago and...it just ruined the movie for me. I sure won't do that again.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

The original Tron.

 

[snafupants]

I've watched Black Swan and American Psycho this weekend. They were both quite good. Christian Bale never fails to impress as an actor.

He comes off as a phony to me, sort of like John Cusack or Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves, like he's trying to be a badass, and in lieu of that, just trying to be taken seriously. Melodramatic, monotone, and impotent, all four of those guys are a rung down from Nick Cage. They would be much worse too if they weren't typecasted into these machismo roles. Basically my compaint is that they're one trick ponies, or maybe jackasses. Give them a serious role and they crumble. That said, Christian Bale was bearable in Rescue Dawn...a broken clock's right twice a day.

 

[Jesse]

Then you haven't seen The Fighter. Bale owned that role and I think it was quite a tough role.

 

[Cavallier]

He comes off as a phony to me, sort of like John Cusack or Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves, like he's trying to be a badass, and in lieu of that, just trying to be taken seriously. Melodramatic, monotone, and impotent, all four of those guys are a rung down from Nick Cage.

Ouch. Nick Cage is possibly the worst actor in western film history.

I agree about Christian Bale and that's why I think he was so good in American Psycho. Phony, melodramatic, monotone, and impotent is sort of what that part is all about.

 

[snafupants]

Ouch. Nick Cage is possibly the worst actor in western film history.

I agree about Christian Bale and that's why I think he was so good in American Psycho. Phony, melodramatic, monotone, and impotent is sort of what that part is all about.[/FONT]

Yeah, Nick is far from the best; he's in the same territory as Ice Cube or Gary Busey or Bill Pullman, so rather elite company. On your American Psycho point, I still think he was typecasted for that role because he's a no-talent ass clown, to quote Office Space, who talks like a computer and puffs out his chest, generally acting like a twat. If an actual mentally retarded person starred in Forrest Gump, would he have deserved the Academy Award instead of Tom Hanks? On a side note, would you consider hiring this man?

Spoiler

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Gary Busey!

Notice what he has going for a tie there.

Since I apparently am not the only admirer of Nick Cage, here are choice scences from the remake The Wicker Man. Note that I have not altered these scenes in any matter, they are directly from the film. May god bless Nick Cage.

Spoiler

YouTube - Best Scenes From "The Wicker Man"

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Nicholas Cage is a dolt lol. He looks the same in all his movies.

Yeah, Nick is far from the best; he's in the same territory as Ice Cube or Gary Busey or Bill Pullman, so rather elite company. On your American Psycho point, I still think he was typecasted for that role because he's a no-talent ass clown, to quote Office Space, who talks like a computer and puffs out his chest, generally acting like a twat. If an actual mentally retarded person starred in Forrest Gump, would he have deserved the Academy Award instead of Tom Hanks? On a side note, would you consider hiring this man?

You never go full retard.

 

[Cavallier]

On your American Psycho point, I still think he was typecasted for that role because he's a no-talent ass clown, to quote Office Space, who talks like a computer and puffs out his chest, generally acting like a twat. If an actual mentally retarded person starred in Forrest Gump, would he have deserved the Academy Award instead of Tom Hanks?

...okay, I can't argue against that.

I watched the original and then the remake of Wicker Man a few years back. I still have Vietnam style flashbacks.

I'm waiting for the day when Nicholas Cage stars in a Uwe Boll movie. If we throw in Gary Busey it'll be the worst film of all time.

 

[snafupants]

Nicholas Cage is a dolt lol. He looks the same in all his movies.


You never go full retard.

It pleases me on a profound soul level that someone got the Tropic Thunder reference.

 

[Cavallier]

Eh. My 13 year old cousin makes that reference all the time. I've sort of blocked it out of my consciousness for the most part.

 

[snafupants]

Eh. My 13 year old cousin makes that reference all the time. I've sort of blocked it out of my consciousness for the most part.

That could get annoying, "but he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping pong competition, that ain't retarded." Yeah, somehow movies like The Ringer, Beerfest, and Superbad demand multiple viewings under various states of inebriation. That type of humor is one intellectual step up from poop jokes and that's what she said bits, yet it grabs me. Movies geared towards young teenage boys inadvertently tickle my nihilistic funny bone. I draw the line at Tom Green and Jackass movies though.

 

[Cavallier]

One of my favorite stupid movies of all time is Balls of Fury. When the muscled sex slave men run around screaming in high pitch voices and scramble to hide behind the protagonist who valiantly declares he'll save them I practically pee myself. Just too funny.

 

[warryer]

I just watched Limitless. I liked it because the main character uses the power of his brain to make all these insane intuitive leaps and connections. Easily one of my new favorites.

Also it glorifies using the power of one's mind versus the typical one-man-army-bring-the-fight-to-'em heroes.

I would recommend it be viewed at least once. INTPs will appreciate this one for sure.

 

[BigApplePi]

"The Adventures of Werner Holt."

Rated as one of the top ten German Films. Is about two German buddies who join the Hilter youth. One is a rational thinker; the other is an enthusiastic soldier believer. Film is about what happens to them near the end of the war when they have to decide what to do with their belief and how others behave with theirs.

I'm impressed by this film ... I try to comment here only about films I like ... and skip those not worthwhile.

 

[GottabeKB]

Just watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish with English subtitles. I enjoyed this movie very much. The imagery was dark (just the way I like it). Apparently it is supposed to mirror the Fascist ruler Francisco Franco and his regime in Spain. The captain mirrors this historical figure. It was a film about self-sacrifice, greed, pride, supremacy and prejudice. I recognized myself in the main character Ophelia, as she created a fantasy world so as to escape from the tyranny and horrible world around her.

 

[A22]

Dog Day Afternoon

I can't believe that really happened that way

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Zeitgeist: The Movement.

Very entertaining and thought-provoking.

 

[Minuend]

Just watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish with English subtitles. I enjoyed this movie very much. The imagery was dark (just the way I like it). Apparently it is supposed to mirror the Fascist ruler Francisco Franco and his regime in Spain. The captain mirrors this historical figure. It was a film about self-sacrifice, greed, pride, supremacy and prejudice. I recognized myself in the main character Ophelia, as she created a fantasy world so as to escape from the tyranny and horrible world around her.

One of my favourite movies.

Spoiler

As I told Cava, my interpretation;

We are presented with two stories. One is the story from a war where an army unit is currently trying to kill off some rebels (if I remember correctly). The other is that of a young girl, Ophelia, who moves with her mother to the general of this army and lives amongst them. Here she encounters a fantasy world where she must accomplish certain tasks to be reunited with her real father- the king of a different land.

The last thing in the movie, is the faun saying how Ophelia is with her father, the king, and how she will be remembered in this world by those who know where to look.

I believe those last words are the end of a fairytale. The whole story with Ophelia's search for home is a fairytale. The war, the rebels, that's what actually happened.

I think the storyteller must be someone central in the movie. The most logical choice, I believe, is Ophelia's little brother. She attempted to rescue him and was very brave doing so. Mercedes later told him of this. So he created a fairytale in which she triumphs that he, as a grown up, is telling some child.

We, however, get to see what really happened. Her little brother speaks true when he says she is gone and will be remembered by those who know where to look.

Both the faun and the little brother are central characters. They both represent some form of hardship. Thus it makes sense they are the same person.

 

[Jennywocky]

Just saw Sucker Punch on Friday.
Wow.
I'm kinda at a loss for words. [laugh]

And I saw the second half of The Runaway Jury yesterday, with some great actors involved. The movie itself is only about a 7, but still entertaining.

Just watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish with English subtitles. I enjoyed this movie very much. The imagery was dark (just the way I like it). Apparently it is supposed to mirror the Fascist ruler Francisco Franco and his regime in Spain. The captain mirrors this historical figure. It was a film about self-sacrifice, greed, pride, supremacy and prejudice. I recognized myself in the main character Ophelia, as she created a fantasy world so as to escape from the tyranny and horrible world around her.

It's a great movie... easily in my top 10-20 movies I have ever seen... and I'm not much one for subtitles because I feel like they leech away some of the emotion. However, here, that was not the case at all. I always cry at the end, even having seen it a number of times.

I also like the relentlessness of it. It does not compromise. A few of the scenes in that movie are some of the most disturbing scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie, but... it only made it more real, especially with the protagonist being a young girl. I felt like it had a lot of integrity. European films, from what I can tell, do not dumb down their movies when children are involved, nor do they usually slap on a happy ending just to appease the audience. They just tell the story just like it is.

 

[Anthile]

The Sunset Limited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0MSitTAYyA

 

[Cavallier]

*glomps Anthile*

Umm...Sorry. I haven't seen you a while.

 

[BigApplePi]

"Ace in the Hole" = "The Big Carnival"

If you are an INTP or anything close to it you will want to see this Kirk Douglas film. A morality story about what happens when freedom of the press goes unrestrained in one man. Kirk is an "ExFJ." Billy Wilder is a thinking director. If you are planning on dying any time at the end of your lifetime, see this film before you do so.

If you see it, please report back here and tell me if I was not right.

 

[GottabeKB]

European films, from what I can tell, do not dumb down their movies when children are involved, nor do they usually slap on a happy ending just to appease the audience. They just tell the story just like it is.

Which I love. I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't have been indoctrinated with the fantasy happy endings that are so prevalent in North American culture and elsewhere I am sure. Would I have become mature and more aware of the world as it is faster? Or would I have fallen into a depression at an early age? Or would I have developed a completely different personality?

Btw I am a man, not a woman, but then again how would you know for sure on a forum... anyways I still found a connection with the girl, not because of her gender but what she went through. I remember making up a fantasy world when I was in elementary school because I didn't have many friends, if any at all. I would walk around the outskirts of the school property at recess time, just thinking about things. I am almost certain I would make up fantasies in my head at that time, but I have a horrible memory so I could very well be wrong.

 

[Cavallier]

Speaking of European films I just watched the 2009 French film Bluebeard by Catherine Breillat. I should have read up on the folk tale of Blue Beard and on the director, Catherine Breillat, before I watched this film. It might then have given me more context and thus made it more accessible for me.

Anyway, now that I understand that the similarity between the names of all the girls in the film and the name of the director I can see that Breillat was making some sort of connection between herself, her sister, and the story of the girls in the film.

Also, I didn't quite know how to access the weird sexual dynamic between the underage Marie-Cathrine and Bluebeard. After some thought I've decided that the scene were Marie-Cathrine decides to take the smallest room in the castle her bedroom (a room into which the ugly and corpulent Bluebeard can not fit) is a metaphor. A rather obvious one actually and kind of humorous.

The scene at the end where Marie-Cathrine stands gently caressing her husband's severed head was actually really boring. The play of emotion across her face is interesting but the scene is very long. Also, I suppose it's some sort of metaphor (Ack! They're everywhere!) for her coming of age. Was the part where a different girl falls through a hole and dies a metaphor for something as well?

Anyway, if you like pretentious indie art films you may enjoy this. I liked it simply because all the knotted correlations and metaphors in this film turned it into some sort of sexual blossoming and coming of age story...puzzle? I don't know. It was weird (and probably boring for most).

 

[BigApplePi]

"And the Ship Sails On" by Federico Fellini. I've never seen any thing like this. Highly stylized. Saw two days ago. Am watching it again to see what I've missed. I don't think this is a film. It is somebody's mind. You cannot believe this is happening, but it's happening right here in this film.

Like "The White Ribbon" it captures an era: 1914.

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

"Throne of Blood" Kurosawa

 

[Cavallier]

^What did you think of it? That's the one with a plot that parallel's Macbeth right?

I saw Kurosawa's Ran many years ago. It's the King Lear retelling. I thought it was fantastic but I haven't seen Throne of Blood yet.

I post to much in this thread.

 

[a detached retina]

Watched both (Dr. Strange + Punch Drunk)>Love last night!

PT Anderson is the most brilliant director ever. (ISFJ?)

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

^What did you think of it? That's the one with a plot that parallel's Macbeth right?

I saw Kurosawa's Ran many years ago. It's the King Lear retelling. I thought it was fantastic but I haven't seen Throne of Blood yet.

I post to much in this thread.

I thought it was really good. I've recently gotten more into Kurosawa and have really been enjoying his work, most recently: Highs and Lows.

Throne of Blood was considered one of his real magnum opuses on par (and more critically-acclaimed) w/ Ran even. I *really* liked Ran when I saw it a few years ago. I suggest you check it out (ie T.O.B.).

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Watched both (Dr. Strange + Punch Drunk)>Love last night!

PT Anderson is the most brilliant director ever. (ISFJ?)

Punch Drunk Love one of my favs--Amzing artistic creation.

 

[BigApplePi]

Guys. Re: Kurasowa. In growing up I was so naive, I would never have understood what even a director was. I guess now I will have to look for your Kurasowa films as I don't believe I've seem them. I did see this one: Last movie you watched

 

[Cavallier]

I first came across Kurosawa in a college level Shakespeare class. I forgot about him for a while and then was reintroduced to his stuff a year ago. My understanding of his films has definitely benefited from being a little older and with a little more life experience under my belt.

I watched the first episode in the miniseries Pillars of the Earth. Many I talked to said it was boring but I thought it was really interesting. It's not as faithful to the book as it could be but I don't really expect that. It is somewhat truthful in it's portrayal of how brutal the dark ages were. The first passages of the book sets such a completely desolate picture that would be difficult to pull off in a color film. Perhaps black and white.

Anyway, it's good. I'll get back and review a bit more after I finish the rest of the episodes.

 

[Melllvar]

Insomnia, yesterday morning. Was a re-watch. Good movie, directed by Christopher Nolan, and probably one of my more favoritest Al Pacino performances. Needs no more endorsement.

Restraint, last night. Australian film. Was ok, not that great though. I was hoping for something a little more mysterious and clever. Had a weird ending, I'm still not entirely sure how to interpret it.