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2010 Preview Part 4! The Genius Directors!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next and most likely last installment of the 2010 preview. This one’s not genre-specific… there are thrillers, comedies, dramas and horror movies below. What all the movies have in common are genius directors.
Genius by my own estimation, of course. You might not agree. That’s fine. You’re all wrong, but I’m okay with that. heh. Seriously, each one of these directors means an automatic watch from me. It doesn’t matter if it’s a feature, animated movie, documentary, radio play… don’t care. And yes, most of them have had a stinker or two under their belts, but I ain’t no fair weather fan!
Let’s look at the real good stuff coming sometime in 2010!
INCEPTION (July 16, 2010)
I hadn’t seen the second trailer for Inception until just this very moment when I embedded it in this article. I was holding out to see it on the big screen, but I’ve been to a couple three movies since it came out and still haven’t gotten it. My feelings? I feel like applauding the damn trailer. Christopher Nolan hasn’t made a bad film yet and while I don’t know what the fuck is going on in the below trailer I know it’s beautiful and looks fucking awesome. The city folding in on itself? I wish I could watch this movie right now.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (October 15, 2010)
David Fincher has a movie coming out this year. About Facebook. Yeah, that’s right. And it’s going to be fucking great. Know how I know this? Well, besides that it’s David Fincher, the script was written by Aaron Sorkin and we’re getting a really great cast to tell us the crazy behind the scenes story of how Facebook came to be. The cast features Jesse Eisenberg, young British superstar in the making Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella and Joseph Mazzello. I’m actually excited to see Mazzello make his return this year. I thought he was a good kid actor that just kind of disappeared, but now he has a David Fincher movie and the lead in the Band of Brothers follow-up series THE PACIFIC. Good on him!
THE FIGHTER (TBD 2010)
Originally scheduled to be a Darren Aronofsky drama about boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward, the flick languished for a while before Aronofsky left and David O. Russell came on board. The dude might not be as proven as Fincher, but Russell’s always an interesting director… anyone who has seen those I HEART HUCKABEES leaked fights knows this to be true. So you have a boxing drama starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. I bet the set was very calm and happy and all that, but I’d love to imagine Bale and Russell going at it like rabid pitbulls. But that’s because I’m an asshole, not because I want to see a trouble picture. Basically the story tells of Ward’s rise to stardom as his half-brother and trainer (Bale) falls from glory and becomes addicted to crack. Here’s a bit of the real “Irish” Mickey Ward:
SHUTTER ISLAND (February 19, 2010)
If I wasn’t lucky enough to have seen this movie at BNAT it still would have figured high on my list of anticipated 2010 films. Martin Scorsese doing a creepy psychological thriller? A period film set in a mental institution? Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley? Yes, it’s gorgeous, yes it’s fun… yes, it has a bit of a talky “let me explain everything” ending, but it’s a fine example of why Scorsese is one of our best working filmmakers.
GREEN ZONE (March 12, 2010)
The trailer for Paul Greengrass’ GREEN ZONE is linked below… but don’t watch it if you haven’t already. I get the distinct feeling this is one of those “entire movie in 90 seconds” trailers. Scripted by Brian Helgeland and starring Matt Damon as a US Army officer in the Middle East, hunting down WMDs. It looks like a Bourne style action thriller set against the backdrop of the current war. Damon has a lot of good back-up… Greg Kinnear, Jason Isaacs, Amy Ryan and Brendan Gleeson to name a few.
HEREAFTER (December 2010)
We follow Matt Damon over to Clint Eastwood’s next. I liked Invictus a lot (even if I still couldn’t tell you what happens in a rugby match besides a bunch of dudes hugging each other and kicking the ball seemingly at random), which is good because I haven’t been much of a fan of his latest run. Let’s just say I’ve liked a lot of his stuff okay and just plain didn’t like some of it (I’m looking at you FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS). This film marks Eastwood’s first foray into the “supernatural thriller” genre and stars Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard and Cecile De France as three people “who are touched by death in different ways.” I don’t know what that means, but I like it. Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg produce.
THE TREE OF LIFE (??? 2010-ish, maybe)
Terrence Malick’s long in the works which may or may not be on my Anticipated Flicks of 2011. The dude takes his time. And he can afford to even in the current studio system because he’s got both Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Set partially in the ‘50s and partially modern day the flick is about that moment in your life where childhood innocence recognizes the harsh reality of the world. Pitt plays the father in a family unit comprised of three boys, mom and dad. Mom teaches the kids about the wonder and purity of the world and dad tries to prepare them for what’s out there. Sean Penn plays one of the kids all growed up. At least I think so. Being a Terrence Malick movie you won’t really know until you’re watching it. I really hope the thing releases this year… Like really a lot…
BLACK SWAN (TBD 2010)
Darren Aronofsky is a kind and merciful God. I know this because he’s making this film with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. And they reportedly get it on. This film is a thriller about rival ballerinas… one of whom may or may not be real. Joining Kunis and Portman are Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. All hail Aronofsky!
HOW DO YOU KNOW? (December 17, 2010)
James L. Brooks has a new film coming out, his first since the mild disappointment that was SPANGLISH. This Romantic comedy reunites Brooks with his AS GOOD AS IT GETS star Jack Nicholson. New to the family are Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson. The flick is about an executive (Rudd) and baseball pro (Wilson) vying for the same woman. The film could be about Jack Nicholson people watching in the park for 2 ½ hours and I’d still be there. Soooo…. Fffaarrrrr…. Awwwwwaaayyyy….
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (TBD 2010)
Woody Allen’s pulled himself out of a slump with a real run of great films. It’s oddly not popular to love MATCH POINT, but I did. It was a real departure for Allen. SCOOP was entertaining, but not all that memorable… thankfully he followed it up VICKI CHRISTINA BARCELONA and now he has this film coming. There aren’t a lot of details out there, but there’s a snippet from the trades that says it’s about the tangled love lives of a family. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto and Ewan Bremner star.
THE GREEN HORNET (December 22, 2010)
Technically I should have included this in the first article of remakes, reboots and sequels since this is just as much of a remake/reboot as The A-Team is of a classic and much loved television series, but I honestly consider Michel Gondry one of our great directors even if I was a bit underwhelmed by BE KIND REWIND. So, he joins the ranks in the final article with his redo of THE GREEN HORNET written by the Superbad duo of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, starring Rogen and Jay Chou as Kato with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS’ Christoph Waltz as the baddie and featuring Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos, Tom Wilkinson and Eddie Furlong?!?
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THE WARD (TBD 2010)
John Carpenter’s back, everybody! Why isn’t this a bigger deal? “Wah, wah, he made Ghosts of Mars.” Okay. I’ll trade you three awesome movies for Ghosts of Mars. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, HALLOWEEN and THE FOG. “But he also made that horrible VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED remake!” Shame on you, wth Christopher Reeve barely cold. Too soon. But okay. I’ll trade you that one for another three awesome movies: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, THE THING. “But he made IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS…” Fuck you! That movie’s great. Vetoed. Let’s stop right there. You lose, I win. John Carpenter has had more great films than most other directors on this list that you people won’t bat an eye at. And now he’s returning to feature filmmaking, doing what is supposed to be a creepy little mindfuck of a movie about an institutionalized young woman terrorized by a ghost. The luscious Amber Heard plays said young terrorized woman. Here’s a brief behind the scenes clip I found on the internets… check out the corpse hand holding the big ass needle!
LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D’ADELE BLANC-SEC
(TBD US 2010, April 14, 2010 UK)
I cringed when I heard the rumors of Luc Besson commenting that he had such a good time making his animated movies that he was going to quit making live action movies… And then out of the blue comes the trailer for this movie, a kind of Indiana Jones-ish pulpy adventure story about a female novelist and, I guess, a Pterodactyl flying over period Paris. I know only the title, that it’s based on a well known French comic and what I see in the trailer. That’s all I need. It’s Luc Besson! And he’s still got some live action left in him!
Well, that about wraps it up. Sorry if I overlooked something major, but I am only one man… who did all that just to turn right around and start up his Sundance Preview article of a good 45-50 titles that I hope to see in my 10 days in Park City.
Hope you folks enjoyed the series! If you missed any here are the first three:
CLICK HERE FOR PART 1 COVERING REMAKES, REBOOTS AND SEQUELS!
CLICK HERE FOR PART 2 COVERING COMEDY, HORROR AND COMIC BOOK MOVIES!
CLICK HERE FOR PART 3 COVERING ACTION, ANIMATION, DRAMA AND FANTASY!
-Quint
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INCEPTION (July 16, 2010)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (October 15, 2010)
THE FIGHTER (TBD 2010)
SHUTTER ISLAND (February 19, 2010)
GREEN ZONE (March 12, 2010)
HEREAFTER (December 2010)
THE TREE OF LIFE (??? 2010-ish, maybe)
BLACK SWAN (TBD 2010)
HOW DO YOU KNOW? (December 17, 2010)
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (TBD 2010)
THE GREEN HORNET (December 22, 2010)
THE WARD (TBD 2010)
LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D’ADELE BLANC-SEC
(TBD US 2010, April 14, 2010 UK)
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where are you?
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I wish he would stop trying to teach transcendental meditation to school kids so that he could make a list like this.
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That is some pretty cool news.
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Jan 07, 2010 12:25:00 AM CST
I like Matt Damon but he sure is in a lot of stuff
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
Doesn't he ever, y'know, go home?
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..if you're the new DICK IN ASS guy, i will not be happy.
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Thought I would have first.
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Jan 07, 2010 12:30:34 AM CST
I think John Carpenter suffers from John Landis syndrome...
by ronald raygun
He rocked in the late seventies/early eighties, then lost his mojo somewhere around 1988.
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The list is a nice reminder of all the great treats for this year. "Inception" is at the top of my list followed by "tree of life" which has literally taken forever. Curious about "Black Swan." One that wasn't mentioned on anywhere was one I was told recently to check out called "Revenge". I saw it on whatisyourrevenge . com It looked pretty bad ass, could be a great time at the movies. Had never heard of it before. Any thoughts??
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This could be the most anticipated movie of my entire life.
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And after that point I stopped caring. The more appropriate name would be name directors.
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And after that point I stopped caring. The more appropriate name would be name directors.
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Brutal.
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i wish he would do a little less woodworking and a little more filmmaking. but i can excuse it, because i know when he comes out with another flick, it will be great.
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but come on, he's pretty fucking good.
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Except Scorcese, for some odd reason. Spielberg? Doing good with hard drama, but his "magical" movies have been pretty weak lately. Coppola? The last relevant movie he did was Dracula - his sucky acting daughter from Godfather III has more credibility now. Lucas? Oh, George...I love you, but, man, the glory has faded. Carpenter? Case already made against him in the defense; Villiage of the Damned and Ghosts of Mars. And he was exec-producer of the Fog remake (if I recall), which was so awful it was beyond description. Anyway, that's my opinion.
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Seconded. The ending of that movie left me mentally disturbed immediately after that film (I saw it in a theatre, so that should explain a lot). They wouldn't even play it on television or cable for a decade after it came out.
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Fucking great movie, and Roddy Piper delivering..."and I'm all out of bubblegum!" Classic. Nuff Said.
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Any news about "World War Z"? Does anyone know why/if Joe Straczynski lost the job as script writer?
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here's the proof : tinyurl.com/yj5wzql along with James Cameron and Sam Raimi
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Had it, lost it. In The Mouth Of Madness was his last good one. Doesn't mean all those truly great films he made just disappear. Get over it. He's done. He made a "film" with Moriarty, for crying out loud. Dunzo.
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1978-1988 Then the Devil got his soul. And we got the worst string of movies ever after an unbelievable, amazing 10 year run. Fucking Lucifer He at least gave Jimmy Page 12 years of brilliance before collecting his soul.
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... has Matt Damon in an empty desert, no WMDs in sight, falling to his knees in anguish and screaming, "Buuuuush!!!!"
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So basically.. Leonardo DiCaprio and whats her name invade a man's mind(how? doesn't matter.. thats the sci-fi part.. it makes the story go), in order to steal an idea that they can sell for millions. Wackiness ensues.
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The movie of 2010 for me, the only one I really can't wait to see.
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Jan 07, 2010 2:35:52 AM CST
for comprehensive list of 2010 movies check out Dark Horizons
by miyamoto_musashi
He hasn't finished yet, but seemed very very comprehensive.
But thanks for doing some work Quint, feels more and more like your site these days. -
...while many just lose that creativity. Perhaps when they are no longer hungry...and have families and lots of money...some men just don't have that curiosity for the human condition or for compelling stories...and just lose the spark...I don't know.
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Jan 07, 2010 3:00:02 AM CST
BLACK SWAN - PORTMAN AND KUNIS EATING EACH OTHER OUT IN 2010
by tehcreepythinman
Nothing else matters.
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Quint, how can you visit NZ that many times and not get rugby? There's a test at immigration on it at the airport before we'll even let you in!
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I'm totally up for a new Besson.
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I'll defend you forever for that Carpenter write up. A+ Top marks. Correct in every way. Well played, sir.
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...drops The Way Back in 2010. The case for a genius yet understated director?
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Dead set, how can Americans understand the idiocy that is gridiron or baseball but not grasp rugby or cricket?
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Horror movie of all time, it is my second favourtie movie of all time, love it more than life itself.
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Hey...you missed out 'Whatever Works'. I see this is on DVD over there, but here in the UK we haven't seen it. Anyone? What's it like? it's Larry David so it has to be good, right? btw...Nolan IS a genius. What's the poll say?
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I'm a pushover for classic Carpenter, but unfortunately I've seen the garbage he's made as well, and we all know what films I'm referring to. I'll give him another chance, though, because he might actually make a great movie again. The Ward might hit big like Drag me to Hell. It has that vibe. By the way, the craziest thing about The Thing is when Kurt pours whiskey in the chess wizard! How the hell will he get a replacement away out in the middle of nowhere? If the alien beastie hadn't shown up, I bet Kurt would have regretted that. I watched The Thing recently and there is actually plenty of scope for the prequel. We never see the faces of the Norwegians at the start, and there are a lot of interesting questions raised at the Norwegian base--the axe in the door, the suicide guy, the burned thing-corpse with the mutating face. Then the stuff with the Norwegians finding the ship and the alien. The whole plot is right there. Maybe there was more than one dog at the end, and the helicopter guys went after one, while another party of Norwegians went after a different dog, in the opposite direction. Maybe this second party ended up at a Russian ice base, to set up a direct sequel. There is potential here.
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I was maybe 15 when it came out, but it did a number on me. I haven't seen it in years, I shall have to throw it on the ol queue.
By the way, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are far too successful to do any kind of nudity. And no, Goyas Ghosts and Hotel Whatthefuckever don't count. It'll be another Scarlett/Penelope cocktease fest. -
...95% of the drivel Hollywood is turning out these days. The man's a God of celluloid.
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He already is a genious director, one of the most talented and intelligent directors working on the mainstream Hollywood right now. I don't call genoius too often to directors, but Nolan gets it in an heartbeat.
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'Nuff said.
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I rather watch a failed/bad movie made by Carpenter then the sucess made by some beloved hack by AICN who they keep on sucking his dick, licking his balls, swallowing his cum and taking it up in the ass.
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Still dont love TDK, Just dont, much prefer BB.
Inception looks interesting though, which is far more than I can say for most of the movies out in 2010.
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WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT PORTMAN / ARONOFSKY PHOTO?
Aronofsky "..And now I move my hand inside your blouse, and touch your soft, soft flesh. Do not flinch. Do not stop me. And now I move my hand up your stomach towards your pale white breast. You will learn to like this..."
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How fucking retarded do you have to be to misspell it three times in one post? Kill yourself.
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I do think that The Prestige is nolan's best movie. And The Dark Knight is a masterpiece.
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... even despiste the lots of love it has going for it.
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I prefer Batman Begins, mainly because Bale can still remember how to act in that movie, but it felt so different at the time, a new take on an old favourite, wheras TDK I got the feeling I had seen it all before.
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That's Vincent Cassel.
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Kosher jokes are high art- and I mean that. But you can't give twitter/facebook/whatever users shit as long as you're posting on this dumb website. By the by, I'd much rather see Emma Watson and Dakota Fanning in a lesbo scene. Natalie and Mila are old news. Ahhhh... first good creep moment of '10 for me.
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Far better movie then most give it credit. a true love letter to classic gothic horror while being adamn good horror movie in it's own right. And the cast is a killer. Sam Neill in a leading role, support with David warner, Charlton Heston and Jürgen Prochnow. And a complete mindfuck of an ending. What's not to like about that movie?
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I read ya. It's too bad that you don't share the love for THE DARK KNIGHT, but it's great to see you do have the love for BATMAN BEGINS and the sadly underrated THE PRESTIGE. Memento and Batman Begins made me a fan of Nolan, but The Prestige made me admire the man. The Dark Knight just reinforced it. And Inception, i just can't wait. My most expected movie of the year bar none.
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I do like The Dark Knight, but not in same I love Batman Begins.
Glad to see you like In The Mouth Of Madness, an absolute classic, love that movie so much. Sam Neill is my favourite actor, and that is his finest performance. I remember the first time I saw it, really late one night, and the ending just freaked me out.
" Did I ever tell you my favourite colour was blue?"
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She is a dramatic actress which is also proficient in action roles, not the other way around. Michelle Yeoh started as an action princess who grew into a fine dramatic actress with time.
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Count me in.
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Is the worst actor in Hollywood. Bai Ling has a bigger range than that douche. Plus, he's awful looking.
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This could be the most blatant shilling push yet.
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I love Carpenter's films from the 80's, but you have to admit that 20 years is a looooong time for not making a good movie. "But what about Escape from L.A.?" you whine. Fuck you. It's fun, but it's not really good.
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..."Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil"! I heard it's supposed to have its premiere there. It looks fucking hilarious!
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When would a phrase like that EVER mean anything other than the other ballerina is not real?
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Anybody who has Sam Neill as their favorite actor deserves respect. Have you seen him in the early 80s TV series REILEY? It was the first time i saw Neill as an actor. Same thing was with Michael Gambon for me, who is now one of my top favorite actors, and i first saw in a TV series called THE SINGING DETECTIVE.
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Yes, there's some weird goofy shit in it, like the Tsunami surfing, but overall it's a darn entertaining and quite smart actioneer. I guess the reason many might not like it is because the movie pisses and shits on the neo-con fundie loonies. And rightly so, which is part of it's charm. And the ending is total balls of brass. And the best thing? They did not pussified Snake Plissken, in fact he's an ever bigger bastard then in Espace From New York. Which is as he should.
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Ace Of Spies!!! Yeah it is a great show, still catch the repeats soemtimes, should really get the boxset
Have you seen the Possession, a really old Sam Neill flick, absolutely terrifying, makes In The Mouth Of Madness look tame, its banned in a lot of countries though. The freakiest film I have ever seen, I actually refused to watch it again! It was made in 1981 before Ace Of Spies.
Here's the IMDB link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082933/
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That's Vincent Cassel?! Barely recognizable from the young man in EASTERN PROMISES... that motherfucker is aging in dog years.
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does DiCaprio look like Chris Nolan in the Inception poster.
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CreasyBear, very true!! "a rival ballerina who may or may not be real"
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Maybe i saw it at the right time, at the right place, and at the right age, cuz I thought that movie was amazing. It was like living in Clive Barker's mind or something for the duration of that flick.
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Finally Quint, James L Brooks is a 'genius' director???
REALLY?
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Just to refresh tb'ers minds on the genius of James L Brooks - of course geniuses shouldnt need introductons - but here goes..
I'LL DO ANYTHING (1994). You all remember this one im sure. No? Well, you know it starred Nick Nolte.. What was it about? Um, well.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997). Hey Jack Nicholson! Being cantankerous! Wearing sunglasses! 'Meet Marvin'! Ironically this Nicholson-love in is 'as good as it gets' for Brooks' career.
SPANGLISH (2004). It took the genius 7 years to come up with this one since his last movie... but im sure you all agree the results were worth it. You *did* see SPANGLISH right? Anyone? *tumbleweed blows across the plain* -
Jan 07, 2010 7:25:24 AM CST
I can't tell if there's no One Of A Kind Watch comparing...
by flickapoo
...in these movies or if these movies are nothing but One Of A Kind Watch envy...
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flocka
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Malick in IMAX. That is all.
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Flicka, I think Natalie Portman might have a 'one of a kind tutu'.
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Prince of Darkness. It's very messy, and there are stretches of the movie where there's nothing but talking. But there are imagines and implications in that movie that will straight fuck me up for days. The dude turning into a pile of bugs. The grainy fucking video from the future. I get chills thinking about it.
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...on that tutu too...
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My favorite Stephen King adaptation. Even though Kubrick's 'Shining' is a classic, and Misery was good, I love Christine. That movie is such a classic. Bad to the bone. That would definitely be on my list of top 50 favorite movies.
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...instead of "childhood innocence recognizes the harsh reality of the world" we get "the harsh reality of the world recognizes the innocence of childhood"?......oh, who am I kidding, we get plenty of both.
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We need you John. No…really…I mean it…
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There's a surprise. And EFLA blew hairy goat nob (not unlike yourself, which may explain why you like it).
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Who wouldn't love to see him do SF or fantasy. Hell, even Altman did "Popeye".
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...could be just about anybody...a young Meg Ryan, Naomi Watts, the new grown up Dakota Fanning, Liz Phair... weird...
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Let's all go out and a buy few rounds of Guinness, since it's in this movie, and thus, it must be awesome. Course, if the dude had any sense, he would know that Guinness in a bottle tastes like SHIT, but I guess that's besides the point.
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In the Mouth of Madness - great movie!!
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P.T. may be the guy who could crack Dune. If only ...
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Been drinking since age 8.
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I'm not one of those douchebags (and let's not dance around it; those people ARE douchebags) who refers to Jesse Eisenberg as 'Cera 2.0', but that wig he's wearing in the Facebook movie photo ain't helping the case.
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He so OWNS Lily Tomlin!
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...tastes like shit! I think the Irish just send us piss mixed with pond scum, However, in Ireland, the real deal is awesome!
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Who says? I thought it was one of the best movies of the decade and don't care who feels otherwise.
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Maybe you put this one somewhere else, but Jean Pierre Jeunet is just as deserving to be on this list, especailly once we realize that Alien:Resurrection never actually happened.
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Besides, everyone who saw this at BNAT seemed to love it, so it is high up on my most anticipated list.
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He probably likes Guinness…
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... was in "Milk," and he was pretty good ...
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Gotta say I really liked that movie. I felt, this is my opinion and could be totally wrong about it, that it was Gondry showing us his frustration with his film process. It was a love letter to the early times in his career when the process was still fun and magical. Yeah, it was a much smaller, fragile piece, but it still got me.
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And I doubt many people are looking forward to it.
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Dude, are you kidding? I love POSSESSION! Complete mindfuck of a movie. It even has one of Indy villains in it, as the wife's lover. I didn't rest until i bought the DVD. It's region 1, and it has an audio comentary with the director, and it's a must. Funny enough, for such a strange movie, the director does sound quite level-headed and down to earth. And the best thing? The movie was made with Paramount's money. Yeah, a big studio payed that movie to be made. How about that?
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It revolutionized hooking up!!
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Yeah I have the same disc! Took me ages to find it, cost a bomb, and I wish studio money still made movies like that!
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It revolutionized hooking up with Jewish chicks!!
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Did it get canned and I just missed the news or something.
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How did this news escape me? What an odd choice. It wil;l either suck ass or rule. No in between.
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Starring Jonah Hill as Harry Knowles, Michael Cera as Mr. Rapes, Russell Brand as Massawyrm and Zooey Deschanel as Alexandra DuPont.
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Nothing else really matters.
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...is a great b movie. If it were made in the seventies all you johnny come lately "grindhouse" fans would hail it as a classic.
Fucking movie deserves more respect. And yes, Vampires falls flat at the end but the first ten minutes are up there with anything Carpenter has ever done. Watch the beginning. The cinematogrophy, the shots, the soundtrack, the James Woods. Classic. -
Jan 07, 2010 9:08:20 AM CST
CARPENTER MOVIES ARE LIKE WATCHING STAGE PRODUCTIONS
by bringingsexyback
Prince of Darkness still one of his best. Very eerie use of fuzzy video.
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I guess it depends on whether you consider camel toe a cloven hoof.
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Yes, the beginning of Vampires is really good, and Woods makes the rest at least somewhat watchable.
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Black Swan would be near the top of my list. It sounds like it could make a great double feature with Mulholland Drive. It's been great watching Aronofsky develop. Same could be said about Natalie and Mila.
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Yes, the man makes exposition downright terrifying!
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playing Desolation Williams instead of Jason Statham. And Natasha Henstridge remaining fully clothed of course. Still, it was a fun movie. I don't understand some of you folks that don't have fun with movies. If I want high brow entertainment I'll read some literature, if I want quick fun I'll watch a goddamn movie.
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That's like watching a period piece Horror movie that happens to be true and it was infinitely better than Million Dollar Baby.
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I actually worked at Blockbuster back in the day so that might have colored my opinion of the movie, but dammit, I really do love Be Kind Rewind.
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Still Inception for me, Iron Man 2, Kick Ass, Shutter Island and Paul making up my top 5 most anticipated
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because it's been filming for years here in Texas. There have been huge costumed extra calls (even just for test shots I suspect)... a friend of mine even got hired as 2nd unit DP for "scenery". They even filmed a scene at the Houston museum of science here with an animation I worked on in the background.... WHAT IS THIS FILM GOING TO BE?
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Oh man this is THE movie of 2010 for me. Inception I'm kinda iffy about, don't really care too much. It's on my second-tier list. Above Inception is Beaver, Cemetery Junction, Never Let Me Go and the Woody Allen film. And fuck Iron Man 2.
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I'm sorry but Huckabees was fucking crap. Three Kings was alright, but eh who cares? It's pretty forgettable in the long run. Hereafter sounds pretty boss, I think Changeling and Iwo Jima are his best films in a while (since Mystic River). Invictus wasn't too bad, brings out a lot of interest in Rugby overall. I want to start playing.
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Jan 07, 2010 10:01:41 AM CST
Black Swan sounds like Aronofsky trying to tackle Lynch...
by thewaqman
I'm fucking there. I really can't wait for that one too. Man my list keeps changing. I'd put that just behind Never Let Me Go.
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I noticed that too. You know what would be hillarious? If INCEPTION would be nolan's most personal artsy movie yet, and he made it not only on the studio's buck, but on a 200 million dollars budget. It would be the most expensive art movie ever made! That thought warms my heart.
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"What is it with Sam Neill and making movies like that?!"It's called artistic integrity and not just selling your ass like a whore and making movies just for the paycheck (and the ocasional oscar bait), in what i call The Will Smith Syndrome.
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Asimov you're talking shit. I don't think this will be the art film you're looking for. I'm looking forward to it (though not as much as before, the trailers aren't really doing much for me and the Matrix like premise neither) but this will most definitely just be a good summer blockbuster with some thought put into it. Don't go expecting another Memento.
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COmpletely agree with you.
Imagine what Jurassic Park might have been without Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum?!
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and ugly...
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How can you like movies and NOT admire Sam Neill as an actor, you may not like everything he does, but his work ethic is amazing, he gives it everything he has, even in the movie he is in doesn't measure up to his efforts. Event Horizon? Sorry, love that movie and it's Neill that makes it great for me. The rest of the cast is good, and it's surprising that Paul WS Anderson actually pulled of the haunted house in space thing, but Neill just makes that movie, I love when he steps into the shadows after he says "I am home" creepy, love it.
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Carpenter's made several good movies. He's made, maybe, two really good movies. He's never made a great movie.
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Event Horizon is in my top five movies of all time, Sam Neill really frightens the hell out of me in that movie.
I wish they had made a sequel!
Having Sam Neill in your movie is an assurance of quality, because he brings that with him, and he seems like an awesome guy in interviews too.
He is, and always shall be my favourite actor.
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Is a great movie, period. His other films you could debate on the level of quality, but The Thing? Classic, great movie.
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Miller: If you miss you'll take out the hull!
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Nice to see some Event horizon love here, I have always loved that movie, has great atmosphere and is fucking creepy as hell. Too bad Anderson's other movies don't even come close to what EH was.
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Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mark Strong, girl from Lovely Bones/Atonement, Colin Farrell and Ed Harris. If you can put David Shit Russell in the 'genius' post. Then surely the director of Master and Commander and the Truman Show deserves a fucking spot here.
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I wish the director cut had been finished, much gorier, alternative ending, over 30 mins longer, but all the footage was lost or destroyed.
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I think it would have still been decent, but not nearly as good as it is with Neill in it. like I said the rest of the cast was good, but Neill's performance elevates that movie to a higher level.
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Sam Neill is one of those excellent actors that never gets enough praise, he has been in some truly amazing movies, and even the not so great ones, his performance shines through.
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if Sam Neill wasn't in it. Also looking forward to seeing Daybreakers tomorrow. Ethan Hawke is underrated, add Sam Neill and Dafoe and it should be badass.
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Hopefully there is a latex muscle suit under that trenchcoat.
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Did you know that a blockbuster can also be an art movie? Or are you one of those people who thinks there's a clear divide between the two and never shall they met?
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... The Thing is a great movie ... and, fuck it, In the Mouth of Madness is a great movie. They Live is certainly great in its own little, idiosyncratic way. I agree that Carpenter is sometimes inconsistent with his mixture of dramatic scenes and scares (especially Prince of Darkness, which I love for all its creepiness and horrifying ideas; it feels like a first draft, though), but when he puts it together, there's greatness.
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Agreed. 100% my friend. He is a terribly underrated actor. Hunt For Red October? How great is he in that? Dead Calm, and how do I forget The Final Conflict, Neill as an adult Damien Thorne, just awesome.
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i love larry and woody, but jesus christ! he'd better up improve this year.
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All blockbusters, all art movies.
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Check out Possession if you havent seen it, just keep the lights on and watch it during the day, it was one of Sam Neill's earliest roles.
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Yes I saw you and Asimov talking about that earlier in this TB, I will definitely check that one out. Oh and shoot me for this, but I have yet to see In The Mouth Of Madness. I know, terrible, I will try to download it...oops I mean uhhhhh...rent it this weekend LOL.
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Well, you would probably have trouble finding In The Mouth Of Madness these days, I have never seen it in the shops.
It is an amazing film, yes the effects are dated now, but that makes them creepier in some ways. You will love it, I have never actually known anyone to see it and not like it.
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I fucking hate EVENT HORIZONT. I know that there's many at AICN who have a pronographic feticistic lust for that crap, but i don't care, the movie is dumb and stupid beyond the call of duty. Like many Paul WC Anderson movies, it has an interesting and potentially great premise, it starts pretty well, but soon degenerates into idioticy, and the ending is retarded beyond beleif. fuck Event Horizont. I hope Sam neill got a fat paycheck for his trouble. In all logic, Neill's character should had been the hero of the tale, but the fucking hack who "directed" that bullshit was too preocupied in ripping off ALIEN to even allow a moderatly new thought to cross his mind.
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I don't think it is.
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And i'll not be in any way original to name it, but that's because many know it's greatness. That movie is, of course, THE THING. That is a great movie. No, that is a great film. Not a great horror movie, A GREAT FILM. It's greatness trasncends genre.
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Your opinion of the movie aside, where do you see an Alien ripoff? It was more of a haunted house in space movie than Alien, IMO anyways.
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As I stated earlier in this TB, The Thing is a great film, to deny it's greatness is ignorant.
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Actually there is at amazon.com, but it's used disks. Still worth the purchase, if you ask me. The movie really is a mindfuck, and makes no concessions. It's not nice safe mindfucks like Vanilla Sky, but the real hardcore deal.
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Indeed.
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Alien rip off? Easy. The blue collar astronaut stuff. The ship as an haunting house stuff. Crew that goes investigate an unexpected stuff and follows a beacon. The death one by one of the crew, some of them in ventilation shafts just for the same of "hommage" (or because the director lacks imagination). Of course, the ending rips off FRIDAY THE 13TH. And the least said about the undestructable obnoxious useless black comedy relief character the better, which, thankfully, was absent in ALIEN.
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He really is the real deal, if you ask me. Great actor. Great actor. A movie always gets better with him in it.
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The AICN definition.
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hopefully not too expensive.
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But he made a couple that make no sense.
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...thank you for including Carpenter on this list. I suppose I could go on and make this some long flowery dissertation on why I'm thanking you, but the simple fact you know horror well enough to have special love for movies like In The Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness lets me know I wouldn't be telling you anything new. So just thanks.
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I couldn't fuckin sleep at night for almost a week after that fuckin movie. And I was 20 when it came out.. That movie is fucked up!
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Maybe. And that's why I'll always love Carpenter. So I'm really pulling for the guy on this Ward movie... Dude needs to release one more classic film before getting the hook...
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Jan 07, 2010 11:38:07 AM CST
In the Mouth of Madness, I think, would make Lovecraft proud
by soylentmean
I would kill for some of those Sutter Cane paperback covers as posters...
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I will have drool bib at the ready...
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Jan 07, 2010 11:39:28 AM CST
The Thing is in my top 5 movies of all time, not just Horror
by soylentmean
It flat out floors me every time I watch it. It's great to watch when you're snowed in.
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I'm in love with Kelly MacDonald.
"I'm too young for wot?" -
One of a Kind tutus... OMFG....
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He's also an asshole
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Yeah, it's definitely high up on my list as well. I've never watched it snowed in... that's a fucking great idea...
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I love TDK, don't get me wrong, but I think if he focused just a tad more on the detective aspect of Batman, the puzzling out, if you will, it would have been a more complete film. I hope he really cuts loose in Batman 3, but with The Riddler. HOWEVER, Memento and The Prestige do bode well for Inception.
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I did love the pounding score over the end credits... that was kind of cool. Too bad such an awesome premise yielded such a mediocre film.
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...on this list are Inception, Shutter Island and the new Woody Allen film.
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When can we ever expect more adaptations of his works? I've already given up on GDT's taken on At The Mountains of Madness. I'd love to see Aronofsky take on something. Perhaps Blomkamp could take on The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A dude can dream ...
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Jan 07, 2010 11:50:03 AM CST
ColonelFatheart: I wish Stuart Gordon would get off his ass...
by harrycalder
and do some more Lovecraft. Reanimator is probably on my Top Ten list...
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Cameron, Bigelow, Daniels, Tarantino, Reitman
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I thought it was a crazy fun ride.
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... tell me about it. I wish he had better FX for Dagon, though.
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the 'twist' of the machine really just ruined the film for me. With that said I think Inception will be alright, but man there are so many potentially better films coming out this year that I can't get too hyped for Inception. The cast sounds dope though, and Nolan is...hit and miss with me. I loved his last few films except for Insomnia and Prestige.
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nope, I'm sure they can make a blockbuster art film. I just don't think it will be this one. It's no secret that Nolan loves the shit out of The Matrix. Which is why this film basically looks like the Matrix in the corporate world.
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hmm....
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But "From Beyond" was damn close to Reanimator-levels of perfection...
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So I've never seen In the Mouth of Madness, although I remember thinking the trailer was amazing... just never got round to seeing it. Ok, so that's on my list now. Then I see people talking about Possession, so I go over to IMDB, watch the insanely fucking strange trailer, and then start reading through the discussion boards and formulating a list of what people consider the 'most depressing/and or weirdest films ever made.' Here's the gems people mentioned and I haven't seen but intend to track down now, as a result of this discussion... it's gonna be a depressing as hell month at my house! And this, btw, proves to me that spending time here, while still wasting it somewhat, is nowhere near as much a waste of time or a black hole of narcissistic/self-absorbed despair as Facebook. Twitter, at least, you get some interesting links if you follow the right people. Facebook? I honestly don't see much positivity in it if I spend a lot of time there, which is why I no longer do. Here, it's great discussion about something we all love... movies! So here's that list: 1) Shura
2) Come and See
3) In the Mouth of Madness
4) Possession
5) Lilja 4ever Anyone seen any of these and/or have any others? I'm just going through a period where I love watching great, surreal/and or crazy shit that I've never heard of or did, but never tracked them down. -
...don't know if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but there was a recent remake of The Dunwich Horror with Combs and Stockwell. It's not...good, but it is Lovecraft. There's the silent Call of Cthulhu, which is interesting as an oddity. There's a no-budget version of Colour From the Dark that came out in 2008. It's...what it is. There's a movie called Unknown Beyond from a little earlier. It's 2001, made in Italy, and if you have a taste for later day Italian horror it may work for you. AM1200 is a short film, based on an original story but Lovecraftian enough that they ate it up at the Lovecraft festivals. It's only 40 minutes long, but it stars Ray Wise and it really is pretty fun. There's also Cthulhu from 2007, which is really slow, really low budget and well, hey, it's got Cthulhu in the title. The Thin on the Doorstep is also pretty no budget, but it isn't absolutely dreadful (though a lot of the acting in it is). There's a movie called Chill based on the story Cool Air. It has James Russo and that girl from the first two Hellraiser movies. Shunned House is based on some Lovecraft short stories. It's Italian and came out about five years ago. No absolutely dreadful. And there's another Italian movie that came out in 2005 called The Road To Lovecraft which is a Blair With style mockumentary of some film students or documentarians getting in over their heads. There are probably a bunch more I'm not listing, but if you've got a real hunger for Lovecraftian stuff, enough to put up with films that aren't...hmmm...in some cases watchable but in others just not great, there are a few leads that might be so obscure as to have fallen under your radar.
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I bow low before your scholarly Lovecraftian film knowledge...
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when I read Carpenter is back, and when I read Woody Allen has Ewen Bremner in the cast (a natural-born scene stealers, and one of the biggest robberies ever perpetrated by the AMPAS: they didn't even nominate his "Spud" in "Trainspotting" as Supporting Actor). They have another chance this year to compensate one of the most brilliant - and iconic - character actors at work.
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...be very unimpressed. I watch so many crap movies I cry offal. But you know...every once in awhile you stumble over a good one. Every once in a while.
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Thanks for that! I'll have dig some of these up, while others I'd heard of and decided to pass on. I'll definitely seek out that AM1200. Still haven't seen that silent Call of Cthulhu, which I'm thinking of blind-buying because of its novelty.
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Makes me wonder why it isn't the basis of every enterprising film student's thesis project.
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...yeah, of everything on the list that's the only one I'd recommend without reservations. I like Italian horror so I was okay with those but that's one of those things where you either have a taste for it or you don't. And most of them are basically what Royston mentioned in his post. Blown up fan films where they managed to scrape together just enough money to hire a small name or two and include some painfully bad "special" effects.
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to build on his mythologies... so, yeah, why aren't we seeing more Cthulu stories... Why, indeed?
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Jan 07, 2010 12:43:13 PM CST
Holy shit ... I am definitely tracking dow Possession
by colonelfatheart
That movie sounds all kind of fucked up. How does it compare to Cronenberg's The Brood?
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Your dedication to the cause is to be applauded.
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...it isn't as scary. But it is really claustrophobic and despairing.
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Sounds good to me!
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You have not known depression until you see COME AND SEE. It might be the harshest WWII movie i ever seen. You literally see a young 14 years old boy turn into an old man due to threshit he goes through in the movie. And all thanks to brillant acting.The movie is also notorious for being wholesome shot on steadycam, and for being the first movie which simulated a realistic hearing trauma caused by explosions. Spielberg loves the movie so much, he used that sound trick in COME AND SEE for his SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.The director felt he had used all his skills as a director that he considered it his final movie and never made another one until he died. The movie impressed his collegues so much, he became the president of RUSSICO (the russian body of all professionals working in film) to his death.And do yourself a favour, watch it in the original russian language with subtitles.
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And another thing, if you plan on killing yourself, you can do no worst then have a double feature of watching COME AND SEE and then followed by the french horror movie MARTYRS. I tell you, MARTYRS is a complete endurance test. It will disturb like few others. I know that after i saw it, i had my mood ruiend for at least 3 days. And rarely a movie mannages to do that to me, not even the double feature whammy of MONSTER and THE PASSION OF CHRIST did that. MARTYRS has to be seen to be believed.
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Survive that.
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Actually, Cronenbergian would be a good way to describe POSSESSION. With a touch of french weirdiness. There is a scene setin a train station where Isabelle Adjani goes berserk and possessed that is just unbelievable! Truly, words fail tod escribe it. Suffice to say, all thyose who have seen that scene never forget it. POSSESSION is total mindfuck!
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You did saw those 3 movies in a row? Man, if you did, i salute you. Nothing can kill you now.
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watch GRAVEYARD OF FIREFLIES. It's suicide for the whole family!
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add in Irreversible and it's like torturing one's soul.
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Nice little horror movie which made great use of it's gallician locations. and i migth be biased to the movie, sinc eit's set in Gallicia, in northern spain, and that part of the country is pretty close and pretty alike the northenr part of my own country Portugal. so, i had this cool familiar feeling when i saw the movie. Really, i liked it. Seems i liked it better then some in her,e which is a pity. Damn good little horror movie.
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I can't even bring myself to watch the Criterion DVD I ran out and bought.
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IRREVERSIBLE alone is enough to make one contemplate terminating one's stay on Earth.Truly, the frenhc and japanese are expert in making people feel complete misery for entertaiment. You got to admire and love them for that.
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LILA4EVER is a swedish movie, of course. And of course, rarely was Ingmar Bergman accused of being a comedian, if you get my meaning.
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I really believe that Pasolini was assassinated because of that movie.
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Jan 07, 2010 1:42:08 PM CST
JOHN CARPENTER HAS THREE ALL TIME CLASSIC'S ON HIS RESUME......
by tehcreepythinman
Dark Star, Halloween and The Thing. That is all.
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From what i read, seems that Lucio Fulci also did one mean wrist slicer with that movie. Or at least powerful enough to make one feel disgusted with your fellow man.
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DARK STAR is quite something, isn't it? And truly, all that scwene with the volleyball monste,r it's like a whole packed ALIEN done for laughs. I guess Dan O' Bannon saw the serious potential for a whole really serious horror movie story from that sequence and basically expanded to a whole movie. Really, ALIEN is the "feed the alien" mosnter scene done without laughs.
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...Fulci made a few movies that make you want to shower for a very long time after you've watched them.
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I bet. Never seen a Fulci movie, but i want to remedy that ASAP.
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Yeah ... why haven't I watched his movies yet? I'm ashamed.
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...would be my Fulci choice if I wanted to make myself sick. But The Killer Is Still Among Us might take the honors as the sickest giallo it has ever been my...pleasure to see.
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That's saying a lot, isn't it?
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Zombie, and Gates of Hell. Eyeball-splinter sequence in the former is just epic...
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but I was expecting more, based on its rep... pretty harmless, actually.
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...without a doubt Zombie is one of the five zombie movies you have to watch. Gates of Hell...well, what can you say about a movie where Christopher George has THAT happen to him?
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system that makes "Gates..." such a family favorite for me. And isn't that the one with the bizarre tarantula attack? Or am I confusing that with another Italian masterwork?
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not the prosecution. its great!
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Indeed.
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...I was thinking the spider scene was from The Beyond...but I wouldn't swear to it.
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That dude is flawless?
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Jan 07, 2010 2:24:27 PM CST
LES AVENTURES EXTRAORDINAIRES D’ADELE BLANC-SEC is right up my s
by moonlightdrive
I could watch hours and hours of period Paris the same as I could have watched hours and hours of period London in the recent Sherlock Holmes. Makes any story immediately better.
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Asi, are you talking about that Russian war film?
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News to me.
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Made two of those fucking Author movies? The first one was barely a hit world wide.
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except Paul Greengrass. Too much shakycam for my tastes, and the Bourne movies never did much for me. United 93 is a good film, but the event is inherently dramatic and emotional.
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...don't know if I'd say that. Just watched the first movie he directed, Play Misty for me, again and I love that movie. And I like The Outlaw Josey Wales better than Unforgiven. I actually prefer his earlier work, it's just that the critics have finally caught up to him. And as he has made a lot of good films lately, his peers from the seventies, excluding Scorsese, have either died, work infrequently, or just are doing inferior work. But I love his earlier, politically incorrect stuff. Just watched The Gauntlet on bluray and I love the scene where the woman on the train says "you wouldn't hit a girl" and ..BAM... a haymaker in the mouth. But speaking of westerns, where's the Coen's True Grit?
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Best WW2 movie ever made. The end.
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Maybe the best by any modern director. Even his TV movie Someone's Watching is a good thriller.
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I'll continue to support him, even though he has faltered with his recent output. And I like seeing the In the Mouth of Madness love, since that is an amazing flick. It's one of the few films that truly creeped me out.
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Play Misty for Me is a classic. Sure his films are more polished now, but I think he's always been good. Now sure he's made some bad films, but for being as prolific as he is, I'd say he's one of the greatest directors we've got right now.
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If you can try to see it projected. You might be able to find it at some museums repertory screenings. I've seen it twice and I can tell you it's a powerful, devastating film."In the Mouth of Madness" is a good movie, closer to Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" but with a better ending, I think. And, "Possession" is a bit slow, so be prepared for that, but by the time you get to the ending(!)— let's just say, you'll either buy into what's happening or you'll be annoyed. Definitely worth seeing, just be patient with it.I haven't seen "Lilja 4ever" yet; it's on my list though.
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It's one of the only films where I can't argue with it's supporters or detractors.
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Easily John Carpenter's best film and I'm kind of glad it's not as well-liked and almost forgotten because there's less of a chance of a shitty remake.
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Coming out? I remember Ebert saying that it had the best 3-D he's ever seen. Dude flip flops on that all the time though.
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I bet.
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Taking a clue from your nick, i also have to mention that if one wants to watch a powerful, harsh and depressing movie, one should also mention AUDITION. That movie is also another one of those "has to be seen to be believed". On a more macabre comedic tone, ICHI THE KILLER will either make you laugh or puke... or both.
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Man, that is one of the very few movies, if the only movie, that mannaged to out-Lynch David Lynch at his own game. That movie is just bizarre beyond description!
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That movie fucked me up for life. I still have nightmares about it. I saw it shortly after I dated a cute little Asian chick.
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the Beyond may be the one with the spiders... sometimes some of those Italian zombie flicks kinda ooze together in my memory...
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Talk about synchronicity, hem?
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Doesn't help that it was pratically the same guy writing them.
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J-Horror is off the hook... They go places few other cultures would dare to go.
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The Italian Cannibal/Zombie movie industry was a very close-knit one...
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Dead Or Alive? I've only seen the first one, but the ending of that movie is one of my all-time favorites. Completely berserk.
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Korean horror also packs qquite a punch. They rarely go for gore, but they are depressing and emotionally devastating. Many would mention A TALE OF TWO SISTERSHowever, there is also another lesser known korean horror movie called THE UNINVITED, which, i believe is one of the most depressing and sad horror movie i ever seen in my whole life. Also, the movie is very, very ambiguous, to the point that one might even doubt if the story really is an hororr story and the supernatural actually exists in the story. Still, as a drama, it's unrelentless. It's quite the downer and one of the very best horror movie i ever seen. Too bad it's so little known.
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I have the 3 movies on DVD. The first movie was a great slow burn cop vs gangster movie, very dramatic, very powerful... and then that ending that defied explanation. The sequel is in fact a moving drama about two childhood friends who reunite and decide to do soem good to the world... by being hitmen. The 3rd movie is a strange weird SF movie that's total lunacy, and the better for it.
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You're right about Korean Horror - I own "Tale of Two Sisters," and the first "Eye" movie is pretty good, too. I've got to watch the two DoA sequels... sound very good.
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The first and likely last Coen Bros/Shakespeare mash up!http://tinyurl.com/y8p9sro"A playwright and theatre-man am I,
With tendrils dipp’d in lakes of many stripes,
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I think DOA 2 is pretty good. Maybe even the best of the saga. Certainly it's the most genteel, even pastoral at times. It's the only movie of the series where the two protagonists are actually friends and they don't compete or try to kill each other, but instead, they do a partnership. In fact, they have great chemistry together, you can believe this dudes have been friends since forever.As for the 3rd movie, while i think it's the weakest in the series, but what it migth lack in quality it compensates in weirdness and wackiness, which is part of it's charm. So, yeah, any of the DOA movies will provite lots of ways to have fun.
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Truly, im can't speak highly enough of this movie. You guys should really check this out. And don't mistake it for the american movie called THE UNINVITED, which is a rmake of A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. No, really, go and try check out THE UNINVITED, the korean movie. It's a sad thing that among the korean affictionados, even that oen is over-looed and ignored. The movie might have one of the smartest scripts i ever seen writen for a horror movie. -and evne it's classification as horror is dubious, which is part of it's charm. Might be the most subtle ambiguous movie i ever seen made since the 70s.
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I'd say if you mention Carpenter as genius, then you better include Joe Dante. I still think The Howling is head and shoulders above Landis' Werewolf In London (Lets see who would be the better writer John Sayles or John Landis..hhmmmmmmm), and Gremlins is classic. The New Batch is the rare sequel that expands on the original AND is good. And I'm really fond of Innerspace and Matinee. Dante is such a movie geek (I remember getting issues of Castle Of Frankenstein magazine as a kid), who lucked out to become a great genre director.
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are two of the most criminally overlooked movies... Love them both, esp. Matinee...
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I've heard thats a really good movie?
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With Back In Action! Still need to see Movie Orgy damnit.
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...you guys covered a lot of good movies in the last hour or so. Asimovlives...you like your depressing movies, don't you? Uninvited is depressing as hell. Humans are ants and to think you're not an ant is to be mad. And that truck scene...let's just say I have seen Salo, and there were grosser things in Salo, but there was nothing as hard to watch.
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... is way overlooked. It should be mentioned whenever any classic coming of age film discussion is brought up. Would absolutely love to see a collectors edition done on this flick(dvd or blu I don't care). It is especially memorable for those of us who were old enough to remember the "kiddee" matinees. I wasn't around for the Castle heydays, but do remember some saturdays where our local theater would have anywhere from 3to 5 horror flicks run all day. Some were a couple of years old(Dracula prince of darkness, Pit and the Pendulem) and some were terrible(Horror House, The Crimson Cult) but I loved them all. And as far as the best wwII movie, I don't know. You could argue Private Ryan, The Pianist, or any number of recent films. But what do you define as a WWII movie? It could be anything from the propaganda films of the 40's to comedies like the Great Dictator or To Be or Not To Be, through adventure films like The Dirty Dozen or The Eagle Has Landed. My own personal favorite will always be The Great Escape.
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is hard to beat for WWII-themed flicks. McQueen jumping the fence on the motorcycle... And, yeah, where is the Criterion Collection Matinee set? Didn't there exist some digital release where you could just watch "Mant!" as an uninterrupted, stand-alone film? Or was I just dreaming a happy dream?
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I'm not saying it's the best WW II movie ever made. Just that I can't see a list of WW II movies without adding it to it.
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...but I have an old laserdisc of Matinee where the 3rd side(don't miss that) included the full run of Mant!(glad you reminded me of the exclamation point)
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Holy shit, that's where I saw it; old, old friend of mine was an early adopter of Laserdisc technology, and that was a stand-out in his collection...
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...but I must add "Inglorious Basterds" to the great WWII movie list. Fucking love that movie.
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..and RedLynch I almost put Kelly's Heroes in place of The Eagle Has Landed, but wanted to get a 70's flick in there. But fuck yeah Kelly's heroes belongs there, shit sodoes Eastwwod's other wwII adventure flick Where Eagles Dare.
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That movie makes my brain flip upside down every time I watch it. One of the only other movies that gives me Exorcist-like fuckedupness for days. Even the goofiness like Alice Cooper aka monster dog still works.
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..just watched Experiment in Terror over Christmas.
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recently, citing its "downbeat" ending as the type of thing we're likely to not see again in American cinema... Just amazingly haunting...
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Just watched the segment at dailyshow.com. All I can say is, suck me haters, George rules! He gets it, and you don't. Muwahahahahahaha!
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If my resume was two Bourne Movies, United 93, and a Decent TV movie, I would be proud of myself but I would not be anywhere near Genius. Not one of those works was mind-blowing and not one of them has had time to establish itself as a classic. Commercially successes do not equate to genius.
This man's work should not be compared to Scorcese and Allen and Malick. He should not even be compared to the "New generation" geniuses like Nolan, Gondry and Aronofsky. Not only are Greengrass' movie below these in terms of quality and impact but he has yet to create a story of his own. Robert Ludlem gave him the stories for two of his 4 successes, the other two are based on real life tragedies both of which rely on the extreme subject matter (as opposed to storytelling) to create compelling drama (in other words it is dramatic exploitation). I'm not saying he is a bad Director by any means, but come back in 10 years when he has create a story of his own and characters of his own and do so in a way the other director's would not have been able to, and then make it great. That's what makes you a Genius: Not only does your vision and artform have to be great, but it has to be unique to you... No one could make Woody Allen's movies as they are but Woody. -
and every Gothic mansion separate & pick-em-off - ALL of those things are based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers/Indians... it's become one of those basic story templates. Alien being of course the most awesome! Event Horizon pissed me off. Yes it had the Christie thing, but it was a film disproportionately respected by nerds for great production design. Which ironically enough is ALSO the "Alien" dupe. Everyone goes on about how incredible and ORIGINAL Alien is - and it's not in the least, they were just blindsided because no-one had seen anything that looked like Giger's stuff. That doesn't mean it's not the Gothic mansion/Christie thing though.
Note that I'm not slagging it at all, it IS a classic. I just take issue with everyone who ever held it up as some paragon of originality. EH should've been more honest and just remained a videogame though. -
Who somehow warped from being the older brother in E.T. into our time period/movies. I think the trip tightened his curls too.
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Sorry, that's rhetorical. Of course they are, and I do know why. But fucking hell guys...
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ever visit a bookstore? there are several new anthologies out now. frank even wrote one, which is the only story he's managed to get published (4 offers!). GHOSTS OF MARS really, really, really, really sucks.
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Well, not as disturbing as Cannibal Holocaust, Man Behind the Sun, Guinea Pig 2 or Gigli. There are a lot of naked chicks in it. You could probably rub one off to it if you had just the right amount of wine. As a drama teacher, I staged a live production of Salo with 8 year old kids. Went down really well with the parents. Some stills from it ended up in Chris Langham's hard drive, which is flattering. PS: Prince of Darkness was great fun. Anyone remember Dark Star?
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Because he has the brains (and balls) to give Carpenter his due with Mouth of Madness...that was a great movie.
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Jan 07, 2010 9:26:33 PM CST
fucking a gorgeous ballerina is glorious even more so if ...
by ludmir88
you're doing it after a class or presentation... well it's what i heard ;). And how matt damon find the time to make two movies almost in a row. Which one was first the clint eastwood movie or the other featured in part3 of this long article?
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Thanks for the extra suggestions! I definitely want to see Audition, that was on the top of at least one list of the most disturbing movies ever made I googled shortly after posting in here. One list was pretty ridiculous... it was a top 10 that included Donnie Darko, Clockwork Orange, Freaks, and a few others that I wouldn't even call disturbing. Is it perverse to say you can't wait to see some of these movies? I especially wanna check out Come and See and Lilja4Ever for some reason. Also, I should probably be drawn and quartered for this, but I've never seen Eraserhead. Like I said, it's going to be one hell of a depressing/surreal month at my house... I'll have someone post in my name to let you all know whether or not I've killed myself by the time I get through Martyrs... I think I'll start with Inside, move onto Possession, then Mouth of Madness (take it down a notch, ya know?), then Come and See, followed by some random order of the rest, finally ending with Martyrs... that is, if I can even get my hands on most of them!
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Or however u spell his first name was a better villiam than benedict. Fact!
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...have the same font as the
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Whoops, posted the last one too fast...
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..........He needs to make BLOODY RIVER...........DARK STAR my favorite IN THE MOUTH OF MADDNESS and GHOST OF MARS some of CARPENTERS best work............Oh PRINCE OF DARKNESS............HALLOWEEN 2....................
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........THEY LIVE greatest invasion the planet doesn't know about..............I don't think he has made a bad film.........They should nice name him JOHN "THE GRINDHOUSE" CARPENTER.......for his craftmanship in cinema...............or THE GRINDHOUSE CARPENTER.......everyone of his filmhas it's own style to it...ESCAPE FROM LA........
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.........I hope he gets to make his WESTERN peice......BLOODY RIVER........
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Jan 08, 2010 12:33:19 AM CST
Something that bugs the fuck out of me about "Pterodactyls"...
by burnhollywood
When I was growing up, I learned that a flying reptile from the Mesozoic (now extinct) was called a "pterosaur". The all-familiar twenty-foot wingspan version with the pickaxe shaped head was the "Pteranodon", while a "Pterodactylus" was in fact a puny little 20-30 in specimen, about the size of a crow...
In fact, there's no such scientific descriptor as "pterodactyl". A Pteranodon is a genus of suborder "Pterodactyloidea", true, but there's a full three syllables on the end getting left out, so that hardly falls under the misused descriptor of "pterodactyl"...
Anyway, stop sounding fucking illiterate and using the word "pterodactyl" when you mean "pterosaur". Are you going to get all your scientific knowledge from THE FLINSTONES? You probably didn't even know there isn't a brontosaurus anymore... -
I love the man's energy..
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Paul Greengrass has been nmaking movies for mor ethen 20 years, you just so happen to know his most recent and higher profile stuff. And anybody who made a movie like UNITED 93 deserves the genious accolade any day of the week. And BOURNE SUPREMACY is everything an action movie shouod be and more. It's so influencial that even the James Bond saga took the hint from it. So, yeah, Paul Greengass deserves the high accolated that Quint bestowed to him. He really is one of the top best directors working today.
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The reasons is that the real mystery and why INCEPTION is kept at such secrecy is that the movie is really a musical.
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Sure, hardly Carpenter's best, and in truth it's just a remake of ASSAULT OF PRECEINT 13, which itself is a remake of sorts of RIO BRAVO. And yet i can't bring myself to hate it, or even disparing it. I guess i just have a big soft spot for ol' Carpenter. i think everybody who grw up in the 80s and saw his movies back then can relate to that.
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Carpentetr always dreamt of directing a western. Many of his action movies are in fact westerns in disguise. And he can be pretty harsh and cynic in his view of mankind and the world. So, he could be really good for BLOOD MERIDIAN. Though it seems the gig is already taken by somebody else.
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I'm not attracted to watch depressing movies. I just prefer intelligent and good movies. And among those, many of them are of a darker mood.
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Im really not sure two great movies ( United 93 and Bourne Supremacy ) qualify him to be a genius. Nolan is a genius. Speilberg is a genius. Darabont is a genius. Lucas is a genius.
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People called Spielberg a genius from Jaws foward. The thing is, it's enough ONE truly great movie made with an unique style or vision, which seems to reinvent something, to be seen as the work of a genious. Paul Greengrass, like nolan, are some of the very few directors working today who deserve to be called such. They are. They are truly top of the crop.
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He doesn't need to make masterpieces in a row to be seen as one of the top best directors working today.
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I just dont rate him as highly as you do. Which is fair enough.
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I don't think that Bourne Ultimatum is as good as Bourne Supremacy, but the movie has a brillance of it's own which makes it a superior action movie and far above the crop. and that in itself is a sign of brillance, if we take into account how the action genre is inundanted and taken over by the hacks and their miserable shit movies they make.
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I think for me, Ultimatum was never going to better than Supremacy, I also found the story and film making style to be all over the place, tonally it didnt fit with the other two, and the staple car chase was a let down.
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Bourne 4 only with Paul Greengrass, thank you very much.
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It's a french movie called INNOCENCE. The mood in that movie is to cut with an axe, so thick it is. And throughout the movie, there's this notion that creepy stuff is going on, to the point that as the movie progresses, more and more one feels that there is bad things to going to happen soon enough. and then there's the ending which totally different then one would expect. But it puts everything into perspective. but really, the creppy mood in that movie is pure Lynchian. Also has Marion Coutillard in a small role, before she became an international star.
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Just checked Innocence trailer, looks weird and creepy, think I might try and pick it up this weekend. Cheers.
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Glad to be of help.
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Bourne is everything an action movie should be at best it was a Ronin rip off and at worst it was a pre-cursor the Ultimatum which was as lazy an effort as any action movie I've ever seen. United 93, at it's best was cliche drama that relied on real life tragedy for credibility. His only decent movie was Bloody Sunday and that was a TV movie. It is people like you who settle for mediocrity that allow movies like 'Crash', 'Gladiator', 'Braveheart', and 'Titanic' to be considered more than generic or subpar sheep food.
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