In the mood for Love is a masterpiece. If you liked 2046 even a tiny bit, you'll love that.
Gorgeous movie, truly is.
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In the mood for Love is a masterpiece. If you liked 2046 even a tiny bit, you'll love that.
Gorgeous movie, truly is.
Originals? over 300.
Any of you cnuts actually tried making a (non-sex) movie
Wouldn't know where to start. But would love to.
ive thought about writing a script quite a lot. got some ideas but struggle to beef them out or even to simply motivate myself to keep going
I've had a few ideas. That's about it.
X-Men 3: The Last stand
I never really got the jist of all this. Still, there's lots of stuff getting destroyed, including a guy in a wheelchair, and there's also Vinnie Jones wearing a stupid looking helmet thing on his head, so it's not all that bad. The whole plotline is fatally flawed by the very idea of paradox boy, but what does it matter? It's a film about people with special mutant hero powers. The only way to create something more silly would be if say, it was a film about animals with mutant hero powers, but that's surely just too stupid to ever happen.
Things that made no sense about this film:
a) Paradox Boy - i.e. the kid who's special power was that anyone near him would lose any of their mutant powers. Therefor, surely his power would prevent itself from existing???
b) Chess pieces arn't made of metal (are they?)
c) Just because you have mutant powers, doesn't mean you also have the ability to invent an invisible spaceship/jet type thing
6/10 - Sat through it, wasn't angry that I did, but felt that maybe I should have been
What films can you compare it to, Cinc?
2046 or In the mood for love? 2046 is a tedious rehash of ITMFL with a nonlinear plot.
In the Mood is one of a kind. Slow, but never boring, lustful, but never erotic, beautiful, but never corny.
One could say that it is a simple romantic movie about never to be realized love with nice photography and costumes but that would be totally off the mark.
My best friend is a scriptwriter, I've been in some of his early projects.
- Clockwork Orange
- Blue Velvet
- The 400 Blows
- Star Wars
- Brazil
- Dersu Uzala
- Dr. Strangelove
- Solaris
- Chungking Express
- Secrets and Lies
But this is too damn hard
By Star Wars I mean III-VI, but if I have to choose one, its Empire Strikes Back.
Nice choice on 400 Blows, cinc. I prefer Godard over Truffaut though.
Way too hard on 2046. It's deeply flawed and no where near as good as In the Mood for Love but still well worth a watch.
I was thinking about putting Band of Outsiders on the list. Others that I've left out were Paris, Texas; The Tin Drum; Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; Hana-Bi; Repo Man, The Seventh Seal, Closely Watched Trains, Bladerunner, Delicatessen, Full Metal Jacket, Eraserhead, The Man Who Fell the Earth, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Rosencrantzand Guildenstern are Dead.
Is Closely Watched Trains the one where the kid works at a train station. Hooks up with some women, then the next day gets hit by a train or something like that?
Band of Outsiders is on my top 3.
Band of Outsiders is on my top 3.
Yup, that's the one. He blows up a Nazi train though
Ah, right. Good movie.
It's one of those childhood movies that stay with you.
Do you like Andrzej Wajda movies?
His earlier ones when I'm in the right mood, yes.
Three films make my top ten without any debate
Bladerunner
Godfather 2
Apocalypse Now
After that it varies from time to time.
Bladerunner
Godfather 2
Apocalypse Now
After that it varies from time to time.
What's your top ten then?
Some fantastic films in that list. Agreed about Empire, best Star Wars flick, without a doubt.
Oh yeah, I shouldnt have left Apocalypse Now out. What a shame.
I think I'd probably put all three of Wibbs' in my top ten. (Godfather 1 and 2 - being one film, for me. . . a dead cert.).
Too many greats for such a short list.
Pulp fiction
Band of Outsiders
The Godfather(I'll go with spoony and say 1 and 2 are one movie)
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Barbarella(it doesn't quite fit with the others, but I love it)
Bob Le Flambeur
The Killer
A Fistful of Dollars
Superfly
It's a strange list I know.
Barbarella.... hm. You really suprised me there, I have to tell you. Although she looks stunning in that movie.
Superfly reminds me how much i like Badasssss.
Superfly reminds me how much i like Badasssss.
Barbarella is one of those movies which I know is bad, but I grew up watching it, so it just kind of stuck.
I can understand that. I'm still hunting for a bad soviet fantasy film with witches, swords and spaceships.
Other film that I love for some reason is Sex Mission, a really bad polish sci-fi about two hibernated men, who wake up in a world where only women are alive.
If you find it, let me know the title. It sounds like a winner.
Chung King Express? I liked the movie but not that much. I was really not expecting spoiler* there to be two stories and hugely disappointed when they suddenly switched from the first to the second.*
am I the only one who liked Soderbergh's Solaris ?
am I the only one who liked Soderbergh's Solaris ?
Not seen it. Just saw Tarkovsky's and I thought it was a masterpiece. In fact, I think it made my head hurt for a couple of days.
Personal thing, though, isn't it.
Yes. Solyaris is probably the only one out of yours I'd have in mine. Although, Empire would probbaly be there or there abouts.
I fail to see why is that a problem.
So you are the one
Go on Wibbs, post your top then and all.
Another great-great one is The Exterminating Angel.