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"No great films in the last 10 years"
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To be fair, Pete transcends poncy film buffness. He's like Master Yoda of the movie world.
Wrong is wrong and he's wrong.
Mega Mind.
I've seen two from that list, which is 'Eternal Sunshine..' and 'Lost in Translation'.
The latter is one of the most daft movies I've ever seen, and pretty much did what the titled preached. It was like a film about sleeping except the people in the movie weren't sleeping but the audience was.
Eternal Sunshine was good. Not a great movie IMO but I saw it in the wrong environment so I could give that another go.
Anyone who likes Wong Kar Wei as much as you do is my bruv.
Btw, I laughed because of how few of that list I had seen.
How to Train Your Dragon and Mary and Maxx were very nice too, but again, we're talking about greatness. These aren't movies I'm going to be talking about years to come.
Something like Godfather, I'll ALWAYS be talking about. Even 40 years on that movie will still be remembered and fondly, and probably rewatched.
How to Train Your Dragon and Mary and Maxx were very nice too, but again, we're talking about greatness. These aren't movies I'm going to be talking about years to come.
Something like Godfather, I'll ALWAYS be talking about. Even 40 years on that movie will still be remembered and fondly, and probably rewatched.
You're to be envied - there's hours of class film right there waiting for you (and those are two of the 3 poor calls).
Awesome. What are your top 3 of the last decade Pete? Chances are I won't like all those movies. It's better to narrow down.
Royal Tenenbaums is class. One of the very few times Stiller hasn't annoyed me.
That Jesse James with Pitt/Affleck one was amazing. In the context of the genre it was just what was needed too.
But thats because mainstream is a lower standard to what it was when you had Coppola, Spielberg, Marty all breaking through. Guys of their standard breaking through now don't get the hype they deserve because they don't make films that rake it in. Good films generally don't make big money anyway.
Only LOTR will go down in a similar vein to the Godfather, because like the Godfather, it was a huge hit and was and still is nearly 10 years later highly regarded.
Only LOTR will go down in a similar vein to the Godfather, because like the Godfather, it was a huge hit and was and still is nearly 10 years later highly regarded.
Cache
Mulholland Drive
The New World
Syndromes and a Century
Zodiac
Inland Empire
Regular Lovers
High Fidelity
Brokeback Mountain
The Flight of the Red Balloon
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Dogville
Punch-Drunk Love
Yi Yi
The Holy Girl
I'm Not There
The Class
A Prophet
There Will Be Blood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eterern Promises
A History of Violence
Munich
Before Sunset
The Kite Runner
Shaun of the Dead
feck what Hollywood wants you to see.
Mulholland Drive
The New World
Syndromes and a Century
Zodiac
Inland Empire
Regular Lovers
High Fidelity
Brokeback Mountain
The Flight of the Red Balloon
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Dogville
Punch-Drunk Love
Yi Yi
The Holy Girl
I'm Not There
The Class
A Prophet
There Will Be Blood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eterern Promises
A History of Violence
Munich
Before Sunset
The Kite Runner
Shaun of the Dead
feck what Hollywood wants you to see.
The third poor call in your opinion, Pete? Amelie?
I can't think of a better judge of movies on here. He needs a mic, though.
I've seen two from that list, which is 'Eternal Sunshine..' and 'Lost in Translation'.
The latter is one of the most daft movies I've ever seen, and pretty much did what the titled preached. It was like a film about sleeping except the people in the movie weren't sleeping but the audience was.
Eternal Sunshine was good. Not a great movie IMO but I saw it in the wrong environment so I could give that another go.
Yes, but go through the list....I suspect there are some on the list that you will immensely enjoy.
I will, thanks.
I've gotten some great recommendations in the past from people here at the caf regarding films and music so it will probably be worth it.
I've got one none of you poncy film buffs mentioned - The Station Master. A lovely little movie.
Not a great fan but it's redeemed by the enchanting Audrey. No, it's the dog that is Black Swan another Aronofsky wank-off.
I don't know whether it was in the last ten years (I think so, or perhaps just beyond) but David Lynch's The Straight Story is fantastic and doesn't often get mentioned in thse things.
A very beautiful film (Roger Deakins, so no surprise there). I thought the pace was very slow and at the time I preferred 3:10 to Yuma. I probably need to re-watch it though.
I think True Grit is slightly better than the pair of them though.
Is that the one about the midget?
Felt like one of those emotional dramas you'd find on Hallmark. Might be confusing it with another film though.
Well Hollywood wants you to see
Mulholland Drive
The New World
Zodiac
Inland Empire
High Fidelity
Brokeback Mountain
Dogville
Punch-Drunk Love
I'm Not There
There Will Be Blood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A History of Violence
Munich
Before Sunset
Shaun of the Dead (Universal were the main producers for it.)
I'd forgotten that, it was absolutely brilliant and I was ready to slay them if they fecked it up.
I'd like to shout for 'City of God'
This is one of those impossible arguments that come down to individual taste.
For what its worth, and I will no doubt get ripped for this, but hell, its my list, is my top 10 favourite movies of the last 10 years in no particular order.
No Country For Old Men - great film, but it needed more of McCarthy's original prose.
This is England - most people would plump for Dead Man's Shoes (great great film) over this, but This is England made a great impression on me.
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Wall-E
Gran Torino
High Fidelity
Inception
Walk the Line
Frost/Nixon
There is a fair chance that tomorrow I will watch something that will change this list. But right now, this is it.
For what its worth, and I will no doubt get ripped for this, but hell, its my list, is my top 10 favourite movies of the last 10 years in no particular order.
No Country For Old Men - great film, but it needed more of McCarthy's original prose.
This is England - most people would plump for Dead Man's Shoes (great great film) over this, but This is England made a great impression on me.
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Wall-E
Gran Torino
High Fidelity
Inception
Walk the Line
Frost/Nixon
There is a fair chance that tomorrow I will watch something that will change this list. But right now, this is it.
City of God
The wind that shakes the barley
Fifty dead men walking
Rampage
Shaun of the dead
The Dark Knight
28 days later
This is England
Dead mans shoes
The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum
I would class all the films on that list as great and can't think of any others that would really be classified the same, in my opinion.
As far as the whole 'films are declining in standard' idea goes, that seems to be the party line with absolutely everything now. If you were to subscribe to that view as it's peddled with just about everything else you would be the type of person wheeling out the rhetoric that 'motorbike racers used to regularly hit 400mph in the sixties and footballers used to be men capable of playing on pitches made of glass without football boots on'. Too many nostalgic people have convinced themselves that everything was better back in their day basically, which isn't really true in my opinion.
Saying that there have been some brilliant films made over the years and, if I'm being completely honest, my two favourite films of all time were made in 71 and 94 (Clockwork Orange and Natural Born Killers).
The wind that shakes the barley
Fifty dead men walking
Rampage
Shaun of the dead
The Dark Knight
28 days later
This is England
Dead mans shoes
The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum
I would class all the films on that list as great and can't think of any others that would really be classified the same, in my opinion.
As far as the whole 'films are declining in standard' idea goes, that seems to be the party line with absolutely everything now. If you were to subscribe to that view as it's peddled with just about everything else you would be the type of person wheeling out the rhetoric that 'motorbike racers used to regularly hit 400mph in the sixties and footballers used to be men capable of playing on pitches made of glass without football boots on'. Too many nostalgic people have convinced themselves that everything was better back in their day basically, which isn't really true in my opinion.
Saying that there have been some brilliant films made over the years and, if I'm being completely honest, my two favourite films of all time were made in 71 and 94 (Clockwork Orange and Natural Born Killers).
With massive overacting thrown in for good measure.
That's is the heart and steaming arsehole of it.
Somehow, this went unnoticed....
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Sorry....What?
LOTR will go down in a similar vein to Star Wars. Loved far too much by geeks who find it seminal or profound, thought of as a well made but OTT event movie by everyone else.
The Godfather, it is not.
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Sorry....What?
LOTR will go down in a similar vein to Star Wars. Loved far too much by geeks who find it seminal or profound, thought of as a well made but OTT event movie by everyone else.
The Godfather, it is not.
The LOTR books are much better than the films, the films were alright but began fading the further they went.
They're well made and seminal for the time they came out. They aren't by any stretch films that can be comparable to the Godfather, and won't be remembered as such. Even that Empire Top 500 Film list someone mentioned earlier had the highest one at 24 (and the Godfather 1) and that was done within a few years of their release. If anything I can see their status falling over time as the hype gets forgotten. Much like The Dark Knight and it's ilk. I reckons anyways.
Wonderful film.
Thanks to dumbo & sammymc on here for putting me onto that one.
https://www.redcafe.net/f27/great-road-movies-287260/?highlight=road+movies
Yup. Godfather is simply on a whole different level.
Yet Godfather 2 is significantly better. Godfather is great but not quite as good as Apocalypse Now. Then again when you are trying to separate films of that quality it is all a bit pointless.
While I liked or even loved many of those, The Departed being the exception which was a dog, none would make my top ten and none approach the brilliance of Godfather 2 or Apocalypse Now or Blade Runner.
The books are awful and all. As for the films...they're for kids. I think Star Wars's best comparison, to be fair....but without the cool incestual undertones.
The books are great and films are great fun. As long as you avoid the poetry and prose in the books which is truly terrible.
I couldn't complete Two Towers. It was painfully boring. The film was a massive improvment.
rofl. As if I wouldn't know some of the films I mentioned weren't by Hollywood studios, but most of them were barely advertised by their studios, and most were completely snubbed at mainstream awards.
Again, people taking things way too literally to make themselves look cool, tell me another film that was a HUGE box office success and was well regarded all round, getting top marks from nearly every critic? Yeah outside of LOTR, and maybe TDK, not much, and TDK is already fading a bit, thus leaving LOTR. Star Wars is same also yes. I'm not comparing the films in the slightest, since that's not the point, but all 3 = huge box office, loved by critics, success with awards.
You mean Station Agent? If so, agreed, great little film.