I’m really good with disturbing and controversial films. But as I’m sue most of you understand, you can’t avoid that sick feeling in your stomach during some films. These are some of them, in my case:
Irreversible – I love this film, but the first time I saw the fire hydrant scene and the rape scene, it got me.
I Stand Alone – Pregnant lady…
Salo – All of it, haha
Man Bites Dog – The first time I watched it the opening scene got me.
All of these are fantastic films, just not for the faint of heart.
Haven’t seen a whole lot of newer ones this year, especially not anything obscure. But as far as big films, I really liked The Wrestler, personally. I’ve always been a fan of Aronofsky. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Doubt (all the cliches) were pretty good too. But like I said, I haven’t seen many 2009 releases.
Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy is my favorite. I have to say I love Peter Jackson so the Lord of the Rings Trilodgy. Sergio Leone’s “The Man With No Name” Trilogy.
I got really into film about six years ago. It all started with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie”. It was just the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen at that point in time. Then I watched Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and was hooked.
Since I’ve been really into film though, I’d have to say “The Passion of Joan of Arc” had a major affect on me.
I personally would like to see less CGI and more Beetlejuice/Edward Scissorhands style effects.Basically, when Burton went all CG (and bad CG at that) he started going south, in my opinion. But I can’t help but like him nonetheless.
I have to go with Armageddon. But so much bashing on Robocop, I figured people would at least respect it for it’s “So-bad-it’s-good-” quality, haha. At least that’s why I freaking love it.
Well, from the business aspect of it, it is smart to sell some of the “Hollywood” films (armageddon, the rock, chasing amy, and even Wes Anderson’s films – though his are awesome). But I could be debated by the fact that all of those films have cheaper versions for people to buy, but I just always used that as there excuse.
They did it for the money I mean, I realize now I didn’t actually make my point. They sell Hollywood film for the income so they can put out other “unknown” (to the common movie-goer) films for the cult followers. Again, that’s just my personal excuse for them.
I think the trailer looks alright but the film will probably be awesome. That’s my prediction. I’ve loved every coen brothers film but The Hudsucker Proxy which bored me to tears. Yes, even Ladykillers. But everyone should see “the man who wasn’t there”, it’s my favorite of their’s.
I think this is a disaster waiting to happen. But I really liked the original, so seeing it remade already inspires preconceived hatred. But I will try my best to give it a fair shot, for Herzog…only for his sake.
I originally said this, “Haven’t seen a whole lot of newer ones this year, especially not anything obscure. But as far as big films, I really liked The Wrestler, personally. I’ve always been a fan of Aronofsky. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Doubt (all the cliches) were pretty good too. But like I said, I haven’t seen many 2009 releases.”
I will say I’ve now seen: The Uninvited, The Unborn, Bruno, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Changling, and Coraline.
Sorry to say, but the first three were horrible, Harry Potter was fun for the fans but an excrutaiting adaptation, and the last two were really good.
Horror is one of my least favorite genres as a whole because too many of them try too hard to scare me and leave out the key elements that made such films as Kubrick’s the Shining and Cronenberg’s the Brood so creepy; So here are a list of horror films I like. If you can help me find some more like these, I would appreciate it. Any era will do, but I would love to watch a real horror film that has come out in the last 15 years that was genuinely entertaining.
The Shining
The Brood
Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
The Others (which isn’t so much horror as it is mystery/thriller)
Funny Games (if that constitutes as horror)
I also have a strong affinity for hilarious horror movies. Whether they’re horrible horror, like Troll 2, or just down right entertaining, like dead alive, I love them. If you could make a separate list for these, that’d be awesome.
Cemetery Man (which is genuinely a good film too)
Dead Alive
Nightmare on Elm Street 6
Re-Animator
From Beyond
Evil Dead Series
Thank you for helping me further my knowledge of the horror genre.
I have seen Suspiria and the original wicker man, both cool, but no the others. I’ll check them out. Thank you.
Do you, or anyone else, really recommend Dario Argento’s other stuff. I don’t solely go by what people say is good or bad, but it’s hard to be motivated to watch it when I’ve heard and read very mixed things on his other stuff.
I was reading this book I recently bought called “Film 2: Films on War and Peace” by Robert Hughes. Obviously it has Hiroshima Mon Amour, Night and Fog, Let There Be Light, and so on, but there was this picture of this film called Neighbors. It shows this really bizarre looking guy holding up a baby like he’s going to smash it on the ground. It’s really disturbing and looks like it would be really awesome. Anyone know anything about it?
It may or may not be live action stop motion animation. And it looks very low budget, but I’m not sure.
The Thing is good, I own that. And I love foreign horror usually, so thanks.
And I’ve also heard about I Spit On Your Grave but not seen it. Though, I have seen Salo and even though I would categorize it as horror, it is truly horrific.
Judy* I watched some clips from Riki Oh and it looks amazing! haha. I love ridiculous stuff like that so if you, or anybody else, know of any films like that, let me know too.
I didn’t like Session 9 personally. If someone would like to tell me why I should I’d be willing to watch it again with that in mind, but I wasn’t impressed. But the Machinist is great. Signs, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, and Night of the Living Dead are great. I’ll check out the other ones.
I don’t believe anyone in there right mind (Except for corporate companies who profit from it) would say war is a good thing any it’s what we should do to be better. Nope…wrong. But I think when people discuss anti-war films, it’s opposing the glorification of patriotism. How one may glorify, for example, a group of people for bombing a city of innocent people that resulted in the winning of a war. One film may express, “Good goin! We won and we did what we needed to do for our safety!” And another film could portray the same scenario as heartless and cruel because regardless of winning or losing, there are still innocent families that were sacrificed. I’ve never in my life seen a film that glorified war, as in PRO-WAR. But some glorify, as was originally said, “glorify the patriotism or courage that can be found in war, and they celebrate the honor of fighting for country.” I believe that is the opposite of anti-war films. Most anti war films have no glorification at all, except for the resistance.
Oh wow, this will be good.Please be kind…sigh
Here we go…
Nothing (or little) by:
John Ford
Federico Fellini (I’ve seen “8 1/2”)
Robert Altman
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville (I’ve seen “Le Samourai”)
Jean Renoir
Ingmar Bergman (I’ve seen “the Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries”)
Francois Truffaut (I’ve seen “Jules and Jim” and “the 400 Blows”)
Bernardo Bertolucci (I’ve seen “The Last Emperor” and “The Dreamers”)
Robert Bresson
Luis Buñuel
John Cassavetes
Sergei Eisenstein (I’ve seen “Battleship Potyomkin”)
Samuel Fuller
I know a lot about those directors and there films, but I have no outlet to see them. I’m hoping to get a netflix account soon. This is hurting my cinematic self esteem.
Individual films I have not seen:
Au revoir les enfants
The Battle of Algiers
Eyes Without a Face
Grand Illusion
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Murmur of the Heart
Hiroshi Inagaki’s Samurai Trilogy
Videodrome
And here is the saddest part, for my birthday my girlfriend got me the criterion 50 disc Janus films set, and I still haven’t got around to seeing some of those directors. Oh! My pride.
I blind buy constantly, but not Criterions. Though, if I have some extra money and want an important cult classic, I will occasionally – especially if they’re used.
Best blind buy: “M” by Fritz Lang
Worst blind buy: “The Magic Flute” by Ingmar Bergman
10 directors 1 movie about 3 years ago
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Darren Aronofsky: Requiem for a Dream
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver
Lars Von Trier: Dancer in the Dark
Jean Luc Godard: A Woman is a Woman
Akira Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well
Tony Kaye: American History X
Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange
Christopher Nolan: Memento
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Films that made you physically ill after watching about 3 years ago
I’m really good with disturbing and controversial films. But as I’m sue most of you understand, you can’t avoid that sick feeling in your stomach during some films. These are some of them, in my case:
Irreversible – I love this film, but the first time I saw the fire hydrant scene and the rape scene, it got me.
I Stand Alone – Pregnant lady…
Salo – All of it, haha
Man Bites Dog – The first time I watched it the opening scene got me.
All of these are fantastic films, just not for the faint of heart.
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Top Films of 2009 - so far about 3 years ago
Haven’t seen a whole lot of newer ones this year, especially not anything obscure. But as far as big films, I really liked The Wrestler, personally. I’ve always been a fan of Aronofsky. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Doubt (all the cliches) were pretty good too. But like I said, I haven’t seen many 2009 releases.
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Best Trilogy (NOT Star Wars) about 3 years ago
Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy is my favorite. I have to say I love Peter Jackson so the Lord of the Rings Trilodgy. Sergio Leone’s “The Man With No Name” Trilogy.
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema about 3 years ago
I got really into film about six years ago. It all started with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie”. It was just the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen at that point in time. Then I watched Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and was hooked.
Since I’ve been really into film though, I’d have to say “The Passion of Joan of Arc” had a major affect on me.
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Last movie you saw and rate it about 3 years ago
Last film I’d seen before:
Kill Bill Vol. 2 – 9.5/10
Most recent film I had not seen before:
The Last Emperor – 7.5/10
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
“Toto the Hero” by Jaco van Dormael
“Lady Snowblood” by Toshiya Fujita
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P.T. Anderson's Best Film? about 3 years ago
Troy Myers said: “…my mood today says magnolia.”
This is the best answer. I can’t choose one of his because I love them all so much. But today, it is “Magnolia”.
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Alice in Wonderland (2010, Tim Burton) trailer almost 3 years ago
I personally would like to see less CGI and more Beetlejuice/Edward Scissorhands style effects.Basically, when Burton went all CG (and bad CG at that) he started going south, in my opinion. But I can’t help but like him nonetheless.
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Worst Criterion DVDs almost 3 years ago
I have to go with Armageddon. But so much bashing on Robocop, I figured people would at least respect it for it’s “So-bad-it’s-good-” quality, haha. At least that’s why I freaking love it.
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WHY!!! almost 3 years ago
Well, from the business aspect of it, it is smart to sell some of the “Hollywood” films (armageddon, the rock, chasing amy, and even Wes Anderson’s films – though his are awesome). But I could be debated by the fact that all of those films have cheaper versions for people to buy, but I just always used that as there excuse.
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WHY!!! almost 3 years ago
They did it for the money I mean, I realize now I didn’t actually make my point. They sell Hollywood film for the income so they can put out other “unknown” (to the common movie-goer) films for the cult followers. Again, that’s just my personal excuse for them.
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A Serious Man (2009, Joel/Ethan Coen) Trailer almost 3 years ago
I think the trailer looks alright but the film will probably be awesome. That’s my prediction. I’ve loved every coen brothers film but The Hudsucker Proxy which bored me to tears. Yes, even Ladykillers. But everyone should see “the man who wasn’t there”, it’s my favorite of their’s.
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Top 10 Films of the 90's almost 3 years ago
Pulp Fiction
American History X
Magnolia
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
Man Bites Dog
Boogie Nights
The City of Lost Children
Fargo
(I have a feeling I’ll change my mind on this later)
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Bad Lieutenant: Has Werner Herzog Sold His Soul To The Devil? almost 3 years ago
I think this is a disaster waiting to happen. But I really liked the original, so seeing it remade already inspires preconceived hatred. But I will try my best to give it a fair shot, for Herzog…only for his sake.
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Top Films of 2009 - so far almost 3 years ago
I originally said this, “Haven’t seen a whole lot of newer ones this year, especially not anything obscure. But as far as big films, I really liked The Wrestler, personally. I’ve always been a fan of Aronofsky. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Doubt (all the cliches) were pretty good too. But like I said, I haven’t seen many 2009 releases.”
I will say I’ve now seen: The Uninvited, The Unborn, Bruno, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Changling, and Coraline.
Sorry to say, but the first three were horrible, Harry Potter was fun for the fans but an excrutaiting adaptation, and the last two were really good.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
Horror is one of my least favorite genres as a whole because too many of them try too hard to scare me and leave out the key elements that made such films as Kubrick’s the Shining and Cronenberg’s the Brood so creepy; So here are a list of horror films I like. If you can help me find some more like these, I would appreciate it. Any era will do, but I would love to watch a real horror film that has come out in the last 15 years that was genuinely entertaining.
The Shining
The Brood
Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
The Others (which isn’t so much horror as it is mystery/thriller)
Funny Games (if that constitutes as horror)
I also have a strong affinity for hilarious horror movies. Whether they’re horrible horror, like Troll 2, or just down right entertaining, like dead alive, I love them. If you could make a separate list for these, that’d be awesome.
Cemetery Man (which is genuinely a good film too)
Dead Alive
Nightmare on Elm Street 6
Re-Animator
From Beyond
Evil Dead Series
Thank you for helping me further my knowledge of the horror genre.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
I have seen Suspiria and the original wicker man, both cool, but no the others. I’ll check them out. Thank you.
Do you, or anyone else, really recommend Dario Argento’s other stuff. I don’t solely go by what people say is good or bad, but it’s hard to be motivated to watch it when I’ve heard and read very mixed things on his other stuff.
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Anyone know anything about Neighbors? almost 3 years ago
I was reading this book I recently bought called “Film 2: Films on War and Peace” by Robert Hughes. Obviously it has Hiroshima Mon Amour, Night and Fog, Let There Be Light, and so on, but there was this picture of this film called Neighbors. It shows this really bizarre looking guy holding up a baby like he’s going to smash it on the ground. It’s really disturbing and looks like it would be really awesome. Anyone know anything about it?
It may or may not be live action stop motion animation. And it looks very low budget, but I’m not sure.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
The Thing is good, I own that. And I love foreign horror usually, so thanks.
And I’ve also heard about I Spit On Your Grave but not seen it. Though, I have seen Salo and even though I would categorize it as horror, it is truly horrific.
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Anyone know anything about Neighbors? almost 3 years ago
Incredible, thank you so much!
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
Amazing, I will definitely research them. Thanks Chris.
and Eli
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
28 Days Later is good, but I love Danny Boyle. And Frailty is really good. I wish there were more films like that.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
Judy* I watched some clips from Riki Oh and it looks amazing! haha. I love ridiculous stuff like that so if you, or anybody else, know of any films like that, let me know too.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
I didn’t like Session 9 personally. If someone would like to tell me why I should I’d be willing to watch it again with that in mind, but I wasn’t impressed. But the Machinist is great. Signs, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, and Night of the Living Dead are great. I’ll check out the other ones.
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Help me find some good horror films almost 3 years ago
I really Loved Jacob’s Ladder too.
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Pro-war movies almost 3 years ago
I don’t believe anyone in there right mind (Except for corporate companies who profit from it) would say war is a good thing any it’s what we should do to be better. Nope…wrong. But I think when people discuss anti-war films, it’s opposing the glorification of patriotism. How one may glorify, for example, a group of people for bombing a city of innocent people that resulted in the winning of a war. One film may express, “Good goin! We won and we did what we needed to do for our safety!” And another film could portray the same scenario as heartless and cruel because regardless of winning or losing, there are still innocent families that were sacrificed. I’ve never in my life seen a film that glorified war, as in PRO-WAR. But some glorify, as was originally said, “glorify the patriotism or courage that can be found in war, and they celebrate the honor of fighting for country.” I believe that is the opposite of anti-war films. Most anti war films have no glorification at all, except for the resistance.
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Favorite Indie CD or Band? almost 3 years ago
Ferguson – a house divided
Anderson, IN
www.myspace.com/therealferguson
Dignan
McAllen, TX
www.myspace.com/dignan
Via Audio
New York/Boston
www.myspace.com/viaaudio
The Serpent and the Sun
Chicago, IL
www.myspace.com/genderagename
Enlou
Cincinnati, OH
www.myspace.com/enlouwasaman
Timbre (harpist / SO GOOD!)
Nashville, TN
www.myspace.com/timbre
Copeland (they’re pretty poppy, but really good)
Lakeland, FL
Tooth & Nail Records
www.myspace.com/copeland
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CONFESSIONS--FILMS YOU ARE ASHAMED TO SAY YOU HAVE NOT SEEN (YET) almost 3 years ago
Oh wow, this will be good.Please be kind…sigh
Here we go…
Nothing (or little) by:
John Ford
Federico Fellini (I’ve seen “8 1/2”)
Robert Altman
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville (I’ve seen “Le Samourai”)
Jean Renoir
Ingmar Bergman (I’ve seen “the Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries”)
Francois Truffaut (I’ve seen “Jules and Jim” and “the 400 Blows”)
Bernardo Bertolucci (I’ve seen “The Last Emperor” and “The Dreamers”)
Robert Bresson
Luis Buñuel
John Cassavetes
Sergei Eisenstein (I’ve seen “Battleship Potyomkin”)
Samuel Fuller
I know a lot about those directors and there films, but I have no outlet to see them. I’m hoping to get a netflix account soon. This is hurting my cinematic self esteem.
Individual films I have not seen:
Au revoir les enfants
The Battle of Algiers
Eyes Without a Face
Grand Illusion
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Murmur of the Heart
Hiroshi Inagaki’s Samurai Trilogy
Videodrome
And here is the saddest part, for my birthday my girlfriend got me the criterion 50 disc Janus films set, and I still haven’t got around to seeing some of those directors. Oh! My pride.
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Blind Buys almost 3 years ago
I blind buy constantly, but not Criterions. Though, if I have some extra money and want an important cult classic, I will occasionally – especially if they’re used.
Best blind buy: “M” by Fritz Lang
Worst blind buy: “The Magic Flute” by Ingmar Bergman
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