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The Shallows | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052882/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Blake Liveley plays a surfer who goes to a hidden beach in Mexico to surf. There is a stranded dead whale floating there so a psychotic Great White Shark has made it it's hunting ground. Cat and mouse game between Blake Liveley and the shark ensues, with her stuck on a buoy and a reef. It might sound shit but it is pretty good, the shark is vicious and the excitement is good. Also you get Blake Liveley in a bikini, not so sexy after the shark has had a few bites, but I still totally would.

6/10
 
Jason Bourne

Wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Not as good as any of the first 3 and some of the hacking/technology stuff was silly but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Still shits on Bond. Cassell and Tommy Lee were both great villains too.
How many people does Cassell kill in that final car chase?
:lol:

The real question is who was his best nemsis?

A) Clive Owen
B) Karl Urban
C) Edgar Ramirez
D) Vincent Cassell

Urban, Owen, Cassell, Ramirez for me.
 
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Spring in a Small Town - Going into this film I kinda expected, just judging by the title and the fact that it was an old Chinese film, some sort of quiet moralizing family drama. However, it was released a year before Mao came to power and I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was actually a great, subtle emotional drama, charged with suppressed sexual tension and understated performances, with occasional dips into melodrama. It's direct handling of adulterous desire, complexity of emotions shown in gesture and dialogue, imaginative use of voice over, all felt very modern for it's age. I watched it on youtube and the next video that automatically played afterwards was In the Mood For Love, which seemed pretty apt, WKW must have watched this a few times before setting out to make that one. Definitely one of the greatest Asian films ever.
 
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The Hateful Eight - Thought I was gonna be tired of it midway through - as I did with Django, but really enjoyed it. That last scene was so bizarre I couldn't help laughing
 
Coherence
Triangle
The one I love

Any more similar movie?

Liked Amelia, Breathless, The Intouchables, Five, Priceless. Please recommend other good French films.
 
Sb_16 said:
Coherence
Triangle
The one I love

Any more similar movie?

Liked Amelia, Breathless, The Intouchables, Five, Priceless. Please recommend other good French films.
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Brotherhood of Wolves
Dobermann
Mesrine part:1
Mesrine part:2
 
It is quality you hopeless poofters.

Ok, admittedly I havent seen it for like 14 years. But I think I enjoyed it as a 17 year old.
 
R.N7 said:
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Le Havre
A Prophet
Hiroshima mon amour
Claire's Knee
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Can't believe you didn't even squeeze in one Godard or Truffaut film. French new wave too mainstream for you these days?

Sb_16 said:
Coherence
Triangle
The one I love

Any more similar movie?

Liked Amelia, Breathless, The Intouchables, Five, Priceless. Please recommend other good French films.
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Vivre Sa Vie
Le Mépris
Jules et Jim
Les Quatre Cent Coups
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

All remarkable. Especially the last one.
 
Brwned said:
Can't believe you didn't even squeeze in one Godard or Truffaut film. French new wave too mainstream for you these days?



Vivre Sa Vie
Le Mépris
Jules et Jim
Les Quatre Cent Coups
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

All remarkable. Especially the last one.
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I thought I'd make a short, concise and varied list, I nearly threw in Vivre Sa Vie, actually! To be perfectly honest, I don't really rate Truffaut that much...The Wild Child is probably my favourite film of his and I don't really think it's that great of a film. I haven't seen many of the New Wave classics in years though, stuff like Breathless and Jules et Jim could use a rewatch, but overall I kinda prefer the fringe players more than Godard/Truffaut, people like Rohmer, Chabrol and Resnais.
 
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I wonder if there was some sort of Persian mysticism in it that flew over my head.

I just finished watching Through the Olive Trees. I didn't realize it was the third film of the trilogy so I might have missed a few things but I thought the whole thing about the young man and his insecurities and ego was pretty poignant, and the final long shot was rather inspired.
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Yeah, Through the Olive Trees was the final film of the Koker Trilogy, and indeed, what a brilliant study of this insecure youth. Really an incredible, pioneering trilogy he made. First, a completely naturalistic film on youth with all natural actors of this village in the mountainous region of Iran, and then the second one, has an actual trained actor playing sort of himself as a director searching for the actors from his first film in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in the region that wiped out nearly everything, and then the final installation, a film about making a film in this village traumatised by the same earthquake, again mixing trained and natural actors. Such a simple, extremely creative and moving trilogy of cinema, made with practically no production and financial resources.

It really is such a cultural shame these monsters of Iranian cinema are not more widely seen and appreciated in cinema as opposed to the over produced, weak storied, CGI-roided mediocrity that dominates popular cinema. These directors such as Kiarostami, Molsen Malkmalbaf and his daughter Samira, Jafar Panahi, Farhadi and Bahman Ghobadi, among others, make these extremely profound, real, unique stories on shoe string budgets, flavoured by that certain Persian mysticism, using mostly natural actors, under hard core censorship and a creativity rarely seen in the west. Such profound stuff. What I call the deepness of the surface.

Does my head in that these artists receive such scant attention.
 
Watched Edge of Tomorrow aka Live.Die.Repeat, gotta say, was surprisingly fantastic. I went in expecting a dumb alien invasion flick, left reminiscing about Groundhog Day.

Tom Cruise may be a weirdo Scientologist but on camera, dudes still got it. And Emily Blunt, not only was she a badass, she's so fecking hot. Like gimme that.
 
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Yeah, Through the Olive Trees was the final film of the Koker Trilogy, and indeed, what a brilliant study of this insecure youth. Really an incredible, pioneering trilogy he made. First, a completely naturalistic film on youth with all natural actors of this village in the mountainous region of Iran, and then the second one, has an actual trained actor playing sort of himself as a director searching for the actors from his first film in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in the region that wiped out nearly everything, and then the final installation, a film about making a film in this village traumatised by the same earthquake, again mixing trained and natural actors. Such a simple, extremely creative and moving trilogy of cinema, made with practically no production and financial resources.

It really is such a cultural shame these monsters of Iranian cinema are not more widely seen and appreciated in cinema as opposed to the over produced, weak storied, CGI-roided mediocrity that dominates popular cinema. These directors such as Kiarostami, Molsen Malkmalbaf and his daughter Samira, Jafar Panahi, Farhadi and Bahman Ghobadi, among others, make these extremely profound, real, unique stories on shoe string budgets, flavoured by that certain Persian mysticism, using mostly natural actors, under hard core censorship and a creativity rarely seen in the west. Such profound stuff. What I call the deepness of the surface.

Does my head in that these artists receive such scant attention.
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Yeah, it's really been one of the most important countries in cinema, been pushing the boundaries for a while now, Kiarostami will be sorely missed.
 
DatIrishFella said:
Watched Edge of Tomorrow aka Live.Die.Repeat, gotta say, was surprisingly fantastic. I went in expecting a dumb alien invasion flick, left reminiscing about Groundhog Day.

Tom Cruise may be a weirdo Scientologist but on camera, dudes still got it. And Emily Blunt, not only was she a badass, she's so fecking hot. Like gimme that.
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He does make excellent movie choices I agree. I also concur about Emily Blunt. :drool: Can't wait to see Jack Reacher 2 and The Mummy should be shit hot.
 
Sb_16 said:
Coherence
Triangle
The one I love

Any more similar movie?

Liked Amelia, Breathless, The Intouchables, Five, Priceless. Please recommend other good French films.
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Tell no one is a good French thriller.
 
I'm thinking maybe it's time for another top 100 thread. The first top 100 list was 8 years ago, the second and failed attempt 6 years ago, the third and also failed attempt 4 years ago and Duffy's top 50 or summat thread was 2 years ago. Thus continuing the biennial cycle.
 
R.N7 said:
I'm thinking maybe it's time for another top 100 thread. The first top 100 list was 8 years ago, the second and failed attempt 6 years ago, the third and also failed attempt 4 years ago and Duffy's top 50 or summat thread was 2 years ago. Thus continuing the biennial cycle.
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Top 100 films? Maybe we could try top 100 Movie characters as a different suggestion?

But yeah, a list of whatever kind would be cool and interesting to see the results!
 
Sigma said:
Top 100 films? Maybe we could try top 100 Movie characters as a different suggestion?

But yeah, a list of whatever kind would be cool and interesting to see the results!
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Movie characters would be good too at some point. Could possibly start with films and work from there.
 
Sb_16 said:
Coherence
Triangle
The one I love

Any more similar movie?

Liked Amelia, Breathless, The Intouchables, Five, Priceless. Please recommend other good French films.
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Triangle is basically a timecrimes (cronocrimenes) rip off, only in another setting. Watch it, you'll like it.
 
Arq (2016) -

Another Netflix Original film. Quite similar to Edge of Tomorrow and Source Code about somebody who is reliving the same period of time.

Wasn't really expecting much but I soon got hooked. Well acted and has plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing. 7/10
 
Ex Machina,

Took it's time to get going but had me totally engrossed the whole way through. Fantastic twist at the end as well.
 
R.N7 said:
I'm thinking maybe it's time for another top 100 thread. The first top 100 list was 8 years ago, the second and failed attempt 6 years ago, the third and also failed attempt 4 years ago and Duffy's top 50 or summat thread was 2 years ago. Thus continuing the biennial cycle.
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Yeah that's just what's needed, a thread with the same bastards from here wittering about boring films that nobody else watches.

I'm only reading it if @pauldyson1uk is included.
 
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