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Nobby style said:
Top ten movie wankers who make top ten lists:

1. People who don't really understand the whole "director" "producer" "screenplay writer" "auteur" "etc" schtick.

2. Mouth breathers with shouldn't-have egos who haven't seen shit.

3. Those who place too much impressionable mind to the traditional top ten lists of Wells, Hitchcock & stuffy academia.

4. Over enthusiastic earnest young universitarios.

5. Radical leftists.

6. The middle of the road Ebert crowd.

7. Honest to god poets.

8. Opinionated cnuts who think they're fecking poets and seers and genre-heads and know-it-alls and should shut the feck up.

9. The Fight Club/Shawshank crew.

10. fecking geeks.
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Nice top ten list ;)


Adaptation. - It was always on the brink of crossing that fine line of being too self indulgent but it never really strayed over that line. The film was sort of carried by it's freshness and originality, making it a very pleasing and entertaining film in my eyes. It even made me forget about my hatred for Nic Cage, this and Raising Arizona are the only roles that has ever suited him, as far as I know.
 
TheBest said:
Vertigo: I usually don't watch movies this old but after reading quite a lot on various boards I gave it a go. Absolutely great movie. I've only seen Hitchcock's 2 movies Psycho and this. Will now watch rear window next.
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My favorite is Dial M For Murder.

Give it a shot, to me it's a perfect thriller, from beginning to end. Ray Milland has never been better and Grace Kelly is always nice to look at.
 
antihenry said:
My favorite is Dial M For Murder.

Give it a shot, to me it's a perfect thriller, from beginning to end. Ray Milland has never been better and Grace Kelly is always nice to look at.
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a cracking film, for me the person that made the film was John Williams has Chief Inspector Hubbard.
Forget it is a film made in 1954, you cant fail to enjoy this film
 
I remember a couple of months ago I saw the 14-film Hitchcock collection boxset for about £18 on DVD... wish to feck I'd bought it.
 
Vato1979 said:
Battleship

Strangely, I enjoyed it, special effects were top notch and story is what you can expect for a movie like this, non existant.

Would have been a bit better if they left the patriotic bullshit at the end out aswell. Better than I expected though, 6/10
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You've lost the plot...that movie is a pos, at best a 3/10
 
Someone recommend me some good documentaries. I like political documentaries, especially on US politics (such as Inside Job and No End In Sight), nuclear weapons proliferation, etc.
 
Have you seen An inconvenient truth? Even though Al Gore annoys the shit out of me, it's a pretty good one. Cleveland vs Wall Street is, apparently, worth a watch.

Non political documentaries that should be seen:
- Exit through the gift shop, by Banksy, about street art. I won't say much, but it's quite surprising and very interesting.
- A cross the universe, with follows Justice's tour in North America. Shows how unhealthy their style of life is, there's a few giggles in there.
- My favourite one would be DiG! : it's about how two bands, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, went two very separate ways even though they started out pretty much the same. One of the best music documentaries there is, I think.
 
Anything by Adam Curtis (Specifically The Century of the Self, The Trap & The Power of Nightmares)...Just beware that a lot of it is complete bollocks. But they're still definitely worth watching. Which sounds odd, but is true.
 
R.Nilsson7 said:
Nice top ten list ;)


Adaptation. - It was always on the brink of crossing that fine line of being too self indulgent but it never really strayed over that line. The film was sort of carried by it's freshness and originality, making it a very pleasing and entertaining film in my eyes. It even made me forget about my hatred for Nic Cage, this and Raising Arizona are the only roles that has ever suited him, as far as I know.
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Leaving Las Vegas might be the only other one.
 
DouLou said:
Leaving Las Vegas might be the only other one.
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Brilliant in that one. Also thought the part he played in Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans was brilliant. Completely over the top, but the part required it and made that film completely crazy.

I think he's actually ok in quite a few films, but then again I'm a Nic Cage fan (well not most of his films as most of them are shit, but now and again he manages to star in a decent movie). However I totally understand why so many people can't stand him.
 
Mockney said:
Anything by Adam Curtis (Specifically The Century of the Self, The Trap & The Power of Nightmares)...Just beware that a lot of it is complete bollocks. But they're still definitely worth watching. Which sounds odd, but is true.
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Rooney in Paris said:
Have you seen An inconvenient truth? Even though Al Gore annoys the shit out of me, it's a pretty good one. Cleveland vs Wall Street is, apparently, worth a watch.

Non political documentaries that should be seen:
- Exit through the gift shop, by Banksy, about street art. I won't say much, but it's quite surprising and very interesting.
- A cross the universe, with follows Justice's tour in North America. Shows how unhealthy their style of life is, there's a few giggles in there.
- My favourite one would be DiG! : it's about how two bands, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, went two very separate ways even though they started out pretty much the same. One of the best music documentaries there is, I think.
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R.Nilsson7 said:
Into the Abyss
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Pogue Mahone said:
https://www.redcafe.net/f27/feature-length-documentaries-317236/
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Thanks.
 
Ted - 5/10

It was alright. It had quite a few funny moments but there wasn't too much to it and Ted became a bit tiresome much the same way Peter Griffin did (albeit Peter Griffin become boring after around five minutes). The "can you believe a teddy bear would say that?" shtick got old halfway through.
 
It was basically one long alright episode of Family Guy. No real story and full of random bits of pop culture that don't actually do anything or fit in anywhere and loads of one line characters who, well, have one line, and also don't do anything or fit in anywhere. Plus nothing actually happens at the end, despite the whole story (what there was of it) being that these two need to move on with their lives and stop hanging around with each other...which they both admit they need to do, and then they don't. Which baffled me a bit.

It was basically one really, really, really log sketch, or lots of little sketches about the same thing, with jokes about Flash Gordon taping them all together. Marky Mark is alright though. Wait for torr..errr..DVD.
 
Brophs said:
Ted - 5/10

It was alright. It had quite a few funny moments but there wasn't too much to it and Ted became a bit tiresome much the same way Peter Griffin did (albeit Peter Griffin become boring after around five minutes). The "can you believe a teddy bear would say that?" shtick got old halfway through.
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I'm going to avoid this one. I thought Family Guy was shit and reading this, followed by Mockney's "one long episode of family guy" comment. I can tell I'm not going to like it.
 
Mockney said:
It was basically one long alright episode of Family Guy. No real story and full of random bits of pop culture that don't actually do anything or fit in anywhere and loads of one line characters who, well, have one line, and also don't do anything or fit in anywhere. Plus nothing actually happens at the end, despite the whole story (what there was of it) being that these two need to move on with their lives and stop hanging around with each other...which they both admit they need to do, and then they don't. Which baffled me a bit.

It was basically one really, really, really log sketch, or lots of little sketches about the same thing, with jokes about Flash Gordon taping them all together. Marky Mark is alright though. Wait for torr..errr..DVD.
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Yeah the moral of the story is that you should never change when you're in the wrong. Wait for other people to blink first.
 
I'm not even sure Ted was a "film" more then it was just a bunch of jokes/pop-culture reference thrown against the wall and seeing how many would land. I saw it last weekend and can barely remember the plot already.

I laughed at more then I didn't laugh at, thus I would classify it as an entertaining time.
 
Brophs said:
Yeah the moral of the story is that you should never change when you're in the wrong. Wait for other people to blink first.
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Yeah, and your girlfriend will accept you being a complete prick, as long as you get your mate to apologise for you.
 
Just wanted to say I'm new around here and being an avid film fan, I've been looking into this thread, just randomly selected a page and read some of the discussions and movie reviews. Think I'll enjoy it here! :)

Love Mockney's reviews (probably cos I agree with them but hey), and reading those pages has made me want to finally watch Casablanca, which was discussed a while back. One of those "classics" I always felt I should have watched and never gotten round to. Probably do so this weekend.

Recently I've been re-watching a few of Scorsese's films, hadn't seen Casino in a while, re-watched Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull. Brilliant stuff.
 
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai - Takashi Miike remake of the 1962 classic, his 83rd(!) directorial effort. Gone is the bleak, gloomy despair of the original and replaced with a colourful and lavish film. I don't want to spill the guts about the story...Like with 13 Assassins I sat and waited for some campiness that never came. Miike definitely has more strings to his bow. It's not as good as the original but a worthy, decent and stylish remake. If you like Samurai drama, this will hit you right in the gut...sorry.
 
This Must Be The Place - Paolo Sorrentino (2011)

Didn't have much expectation with this one but I thought it was fookin' brilliant. Sean Penn done up like some Robert Smith-esque aging rock star geezer. The first part where he's in Ireland has like an early whacky Love Cats era Cure song swing to it, and then he's off to New York and then the western US on a surreal road trip. fecking bizarre concept of a movie. Got to hand it to the Italian director and writer, came up with something totally off the wall and could've easily fecked it up but managed to create a fantastic movie out of it. For the work of an Italian director, he was spot on in America. I remember living in Italy in the 80s and The Cure was massive, so I can imagine where the director got his ideas

The music isn't Cure-like at all though. More folksy. David Byrne and weird feck folkster Will Oldham team up as the group, The Pieces of Shit (ha ha) for the soundtrack. Byrne makes a great cameo as well. It even had Harry Dean Stanton and Judd fooking Hirsh in it. I really loved the dialogue in it, especially Penn's character. Had a sort of innocent weary wisdom in almost everything he said. Sort of cliche to say it, but Penn comes up again with a master acting class.

9 cocks up.

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Definitely. Massively impressed with this one. It was the first I've seen of his. His others are all Italian/Italy ones I guess. I'm thinking they might even be better. The camera work and photography are top rate. From what I understand, Penn had seen one of his earlier films and asked to work with him.
 
To my shame, I only watched the Godfather films this week for the first time. First one is incredible and definitely my favourite of the lot. Second one wasn't as good for me but was still an incredible film. The third one wasn't awful like many say it is, but it wasn't anywhere near the other two. If you forget the quality of the other two though then you can still moderately enjoy it.
 
Nobby style said:
Definitely. Massively impressed with this one. It was the first I've seen of his. His others are all Italian/Italy ones I guess. I'm thinking they might even be better. The camera work and photography are top rate. From what I understand. Penn had seen one of his earlier films and asked to work with him.
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Consequences of Love was really stylishly shot too, one of the best shot films of the last decade imo. It had a nice classical, electronica and post-rock score as well.

The camera work in this scene is amazing:
 
Cheesy said:
To my shame, I only watched the Godfather films this week for the first time. First one is incredible and definitely my favourite of the lot. Second one wasn't as good for me but was still an incredible film. The third one wasn't awful like many say it is, but it wasn't anywhere near the other two. If you forget the quality of the other two though then you can still moderately enjoy it.
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The first one is definitely the best one I agree. Saying that second one is the best has probably been a hipster opinion that has sort of stuck with ever since it was released when it became one of the first succesful sequels, and with the first one being so lauded and all. Mockney summed up my feelings about the third one in a post earlier in this thread. For some bizarre reason my dad thinks the third one is best, might be because he's a massive hipster tbf.
 
The second one is a better film that the first. I love the first but Pacino's performance lifts the second above the first. The second also has an emotional depth lacking in the first. I refuse to accept that they made a third one so shit is it. If they had made it that is. Which they didn't.
 
The Dictator Lazy and unfunny in comparison to previous Sasha Baron Cohen offerings. A few laugh out loud moments but him simply saying outrageous things simply isn't enough to sustain a 1.5 hour film. And this is a straight out film with no fooling of the public involved which is a major flaw. 2/10 A bit more if you are pissed.
 
Wild Bill I expected nothing but was very pleasantly surprised. As Mockney mentioned one very odd bit of casting nearly spoilt the film but the strength of all of the other performances were more than enough to overcome this flaw. A bit grimy and dark maybe but a great film. 7/10
 
Just saw Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Knew nothing about it going in. Just that it starred Steve Carell and Keira Knightley.

I liked it. Was a surprise. Nice to be able to see a movie that you know nothing about and therefor have no sorts of expectations on mind going in. Last time that happened was when I saw The Hurt Locker.

That's why I'm not going to talk about it at all. Miss Knightley was lovely in it (I never use the word lovely). She really is a great actress when you see her out of the big budget/Victorian era environment.
Steve was solid. Nice supporting cast. It's really a movie to see with a date though and not your mates or alone. Get a better wipe off it that way I reckon.
 
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