Clockers was ok. Do the Right Thing is probably Spike Lee's best.
Favourite movies....
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Clockers was ok. Do the Right Thing is probably Spike Lee's best.
Yeah, easily his best I reckon.
Clockers is OK. Thought it was really well acted but there were holes in the plot that undermined it a little.
It was originally going to be directed by Scorsese, with De Niro playing the part that Harvey Keitel does, and it was to focus on him. They fecked off to do Casino instead and Spike Lee did his own adaptation of the novel.
dead serious. so many classic lines from that film
i thought crash was so stupid and cheesy. it was so stereotypical i couldn't take it seriously. they tried too hard to be serious about it, but it turned out comedic for me.
Malcolm X's probably his second best. . . Personally, I thought he could've done a much better job.
Red was indeed brilliant, probably the one I enjoyed the most. However, I thought Blue was the most perfect film out of the three.
no one seemed to list any documentary films. some great ones are:
omnibus 174- brazilian. about the guy who took a bus hostage.
hoop dreams- follows 2 young high school basketball players in the poor streets of chicago as they aspire to play in college and hopefully in the NBA. pretty sad, yet hopeful film
fog of war- former US secretary of defense robert macnamara. shows how human our politicians and leaders really are, and all the things they have to deal with in times of war.
bowling for colombine- well made. i guess i like it because i agree with his views on gun control. i'm not a flaming liberal and i thought farenheit 9/11 was so blatantly 1-sided and dumb.
omnibus 174- brazilian. about the guy who took a bus hostage.
hoop dreams- follows 2 young high school basketball players in the poor streets of chicago as they aspire to play in college and hopefully in the NBA. pretty sad, yet hopeful film
fog of war- former US secretary of defense robert macnamara. shows how human our politicians and leaders really are, and all the things they have to deal with in times of war.
bowling for colombine- well made. i guess i like it because i agree with his views on gun control. i'm not a flaming liberal and i thought farenheit 9/11 was so blatantly 1-sided and dumb.
yes but red had irene jacob! she's so freaking hot i want to marry her.
When We Were Kings - Brilliant.
Yes, she's sexy as feck.
films rated highly by most, but i think are overrated are:
raging bull
apocalypse now
battle royale
any of the spidermans
the matrix
lotr
fight club
raging bull
apocalypse now
battle royale
any of the spidermans
the matrix
lotr
fight club
Raging Bull was a good movie...
Noone in their right minds rates Spiderman or the Matrix.
Fight Club was very good.
Lord of the Rings are quite simply the best adaptations made.
Clockers was very good. Do the Right Thing was good, but for different reasons if you get me. It was quite significant in the social potitics going on in in America at the time, but for sheer movie value, Clockers was better. And Higher Learning was a Spike Lee film too wasn't it? Very good.
Depends which Crash he means, but having When Saturday comes as one of your fave films ranks up there with hoping Utd buy John Stead.
As for Guy Richie and Snatch, I think this sums it up better than I ever could -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9crnz6vQg
I think the first Matrix movie is very good, its a very unusual idea and really gets you thinking. the other two are rubbish.
Can someone please explain what makes Fight Club so good? The storyline is messed up and the twist at the end is stupid and leaves more questions than answers.
Dany the dog
Gladiator
300
Troy
Crash
The hardest yard
Gladiator
300
Troy
Crash
The hardest yard
The Deer Hunter
I'm very selective with movies, but watched almost all Burton films. Other than burton films Shawshank Redemption, Master and Commander, Life is Beautiful, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Gangs of New York I can think of right now.
Life of Brian
Kelly's Heros
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Hill
Dr Strangelove
Kelly's Heros
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Hill
Dr Strangelove
The Big Lebowski.
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
This dude has taste. One of my all time favourites too.
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
Classic
uppers, downers, laughers, screamers. haha
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
City Of God
Friday, Next Friday
The Warriors
Godfather II
Raging Bull
The Untouchables
Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Clockwork Orange
Schindler's List
Enter The Dragon
Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
City Of God
Friday, Next Friday
The Warriors
Godfather II
Raging Bull
The Untouchables
Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Clockwork Orange
Schindler's List
Enter The Dragon
Worst buy of the decade, I threw it in the garbage after I've seen it. I can't believe that someone who sees quality in apocalypse, pulp fiction, city of god can like that piece of crap. The characters were over the top and I felt as I was watching a poor Disney-movie with real-life people. Bad script, bad directing (Why, De Palma, Why?), bad acting and it's incredibly stylishly inconsistent.
What do people actually like with that movie? I can't see it.
It's...it's...
You're gay.
You're gay.
The Life Of Brian
Blade Runner
Godfather 2
Three Colours Blue
Truly Madly Deeply
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
And loads of others.
Blade Runner
Godfather 2
Three Colours Blue
Truly Madly Deeply
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
And loads of others.
It is the Costner factor. He made 1 half decent film (which I thought wasn't all that anyway) and loads of rubbish of varying degrees of shitness.
the Untouchables was one of his better offerings. Remember just how shit Prince of Thieves, Field of Dreams, that golfing one, The Postman, Waterworld etc have been.
Red didn't work for me at all and it was my least favorite of the three.
Agreed about the cinematic quality of blue.
Crash partonised me so badly it actually made me angry while watching it. The cnutting thing won an oscar n'all which was a disgrace.
true, from the ludicrous baseball bat scene to the clumsy Potemkin reference, the film is a mess. but a strangely enjoyable mess.
I must be the only person in the world to be unimpressed with City of God. Too flashy for it's own good in my not so humble opinion.
One of the worst films I've ever seen. It wasn't just a shit film, I actually found it deeply repellent.
Haggis is a fecking numbskull.
My favourite film is probably Withnail & I. It's one of the only films I know of where every character is written and played to perfection, every scene is memorable and every last line of dialogue is quotable. I love it.
First 3 Planet of the Apes
First 3 Dirty Harry flicks
Godfather 1and 2
Papillon
From Here to Eternity
The Manchurian Candidate
The Marathon Man
Zulu
The Great Escape
Goodfellas
Platoon
Planes Trains and Automobiles
First 3 Dirty Harry flicks
Godfather 1and 2
Papillon
From Here to Eternity
The Manchurian Candidate
The Marathon Man
Zulu
The Great Escape
Goodfellas
Platoon
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was fecking hilarious
RIP John Candy, he died on my birthday.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Dark Knight after the serial wanking in the DK thread