The First movie I saw that made me realize there could be more to movies than mere entertainment was the Royal Tennenbaums. I bought it at my brothers suggestion thinking it would be an amusing comedy,but found it to be much more probably around age 12. I then found every Wes Anderson movie I could.
Apocalypse Now opened me up to the concept of slow deliberate storytelling, I stayed up starting it at midnight expecting it to be what I then considered the normal length for movies and was sitting on the couch tranfixed 3 hours later in awe of this strange new phenomena.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis opened up my mind to movies of an earlier age, as did Easy Rider, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Before seeing these films I would assume anything without the sharp clear picture I grew up with must be boring and outdated.
and Richard Linklater’s Slacker as well as The Waking Life changed my concept of what film could be.
I hate Greg Araki, and Michael Bay of course damn criterion for treating him like he deserves respect
I also hate Keanu Reeves whom seems to have become the actor of choice for supernatural scifi movies, although he managed not to ruin A Scanner Darkly, he completely vomited all over the character of John Constantine. He will soon undertake ruining Spike from Cowboy Bebops character in a live action version of the movie.
Will Smith has recently also caused me great ire in his being in crappy adaptations of classic science fiction novels (I Robot, I am Legend(and apparently an upcoming prequel)) and his silly bandwagon superhero movie, just go back to making regular stupid action movies.
I hate the side of Nicolas Cage that doesn’t know how to act and made shit like The Wicker Man remake, Ghost Rider, and National Treasure.
Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Life Stinks mel brooks movies used to be sooo hilarious, and now them seem to have lost something. It feels like sacrilege saying this about Mel Brooks movies, I fear I may discover others aren’t good anymore if I watch them.
I find Tim Burton’s films mostly to be in between the area of blockbuster nonsense and films…Ed Wood was great, as was Batman mostly for Nicholsons part alone. I really enjoyed Sweeny Todd for the story, the songs, although I can see how there was very limited character development for some characters. Although I recognize them as being sappy I still enjoy Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish or at least I did the last time I saw them….and Nightmare before Christmas was directed by Henry Sellick, and only cowritten/produced by Burton so I tend to give him credit for that film, which I enjoy quite a bit. I have to give him credit for
I like the few of his films I have seen, but I watched the special feature on deep impact (the 4th dirty harry movie) about him as a director and it was sooo over the top treating him like the saviour of the film industry, it made me almost want to hate him….but I have never heard such arrogance from the man himself so he should not be blamed.
Head, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, The Shining (I know, I have a strange mind), Trainspotting, Natural Born Killers, The Waking Life, and probably Erashead if I really wanted a crazy trip..
Walkabout and Don’t Look Now were really disapointing for me after having seen The Man Who Fell To Earth many times and imagined I would love every Nicholas Roeg film I encoutered.
I like most of the Lynch I have seen (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet), but I Muhalland Drive was just incomprehensible to me.
I second the Forrest Gump, it is the only movie set in the 60’s that says about as little as possible about the time period, it seems to avoid all the major issues using forrest oblivoiusness to them as an excuse….it seemed like a great story before, but now it just seems an empty story where laughing at Forrest is encouraged and you are left with nothing afterwards….
grrrrrrrrrrrr what are you people playing at, this is such a horrible idea, this movie is such a staple of the 60’s, a new version would just be wrong….there better not be any talk of remaking easy rider..
Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it’s what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?
Otto: They don’t pay bills in Russia, it’s all free.
Bud: All free? Free my ass. What are you, a fuckin’ commie? Huh?
Otto: No, I ain’t no commie.
Bud: Well, you better not be. I don’t want no commies in my car. No Christians either.
-Repo Man
Louis: Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!
-Men at Work
Alex: Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening.
- A Clockwork Orange
Max Renn: Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!
-Videdrome
I’m pretty sure were going to have comic book movies for a long time, I imagine the film industry will continue making superhero movies, but many non superhero comic book movies have been made although they don’t really advertise it usually…. A History of Violence, Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World, Art School Confidential, From Hell, Persipolis, Heavy Metal, When the Wind Blows…..this trend of turning graphic novels into movies has been going on for a while, and it shall continue..
I love all of the cronenberg films I have seen, yet I see him drifting towards more mainstream acceptabale material ( A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) which bothers me, I liked the strangeness and unpredictability of his older films and I want an unending supply of bizarre cronenberg movies….but I know someday that supply shall run dry…I would not condem him for changing though. If he did not change his work probably would have become a bit repetitive…although I do wish he’d included that self referential deleted scene dream sequence in A History of Violence.
I usually think of De palma as a watered down scorsese (due to my seeing of Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way,Mission Impossible and Black Dahlia) but this Phantom of the Paradise gives pause as being some different kind of animal, perhaps my opinion will change once I see it. Although I loved the book Bonfire of the Vanities, I also have my doubts about how the movie could be, Tom Hanks would really have to show some talent I haven’t seen in other movies to play the vicious main character….
Yes I read that Disney bought Marvel as well, and they claim that they will let muck about with the storylines and Disneyfy them, but I still have trouble trusting them….Hopefully they release movies through Mirimax, it would be nice to have some R rated superhero movies as something so focused upon violence should be, but most I would be suprised if they did that…
Strangely the first time I saw spider it was amazing, I was in a dark room, alone, one of my first nights in college wearing large stereo headphones, and after seeing the movie I felt quite schitzophrenic myself. Subsequent viewings have never recaptured that feeling or any measure of the enjoyment of the movie close to the original time.
I liked Last Days, but what was with that strange music in the middle of it, some wacky R&B shit while kurt curbian is passed out on the floor…I don’t meen Venus in Furs that was a good choice, I can definetly understand why people would hate this movie, probably the same reason I was quite dissapointed in Paranoid Park…
Tom Hanks slightly redeemed himself to me by being involved in the movie The burbs…..but now that I think about it he really brought nothing to the film.
I wonder how well the Michael Bay films actually sell I know they must be some effort to draw in watchers of mainstream films to the collection but I doubt too many of them are aware of the criterion edition or are interested in it though I have heard the commentary by Michael Bay is hilarious.
I think they should release Coonskin on Criterion, I think it is his best work. While Fritz the Cat was more influental and succesfull , it seems to be much more easy find a copy of it. While I have never read the Fritz comic,R. Crumb hated the culture of the counterculture of the 60s (despite being part of it) so I think he would hate any adaptation of Fritz the Cat.
The Crumb documentary is awesome.It would be a fine addition to the Collection I think even people with no interest in Robert Crumb as an artist would find him and his familys bizarre lives interesting.
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
I watched this yesterday and I thought it was amazing. I would agree it does not really depict the reason the IRA members were imprisoned and being an ignorant American this is the first I have heard of any of this. Though the supplemental features talked about how the prison guard was looking for bombs under his car in the beginning and the 80s news broadcast showed a bit of the violence the IRA was involved in, I think Steve Mcqueen really was just trying to depict what happened within the prison during the hunger strike and avoid political issues, though with the whole 15 minute priest discussion, which was really the only explanation for his hunger strike it only really showed his side of the story…..I saw him as a fanatic doing all this just over the principle of wearing his own clothes and being treated as a prisoner of war in jail.
I think this movie mostly just showed a person suffering for something he believed in, and I don’t think that necessarily makes that person a hero.
Not exactly a great film even without the ending but the movie Gangster No. 1 was pretty awesome until the last 30 minutes were Malcolm Mcdowell actually starts playing his character (who is played by Paul Bettany in an excellent imitation of Mcdowell’s mannerisms and expresions in a flashback), it is just so over the top and ridiculous, it marrs the rest of the film…. It should’ve ended with Mcdowell be killed by some uncouth gangster without the respect for expensive clothing that he had or just right after the flashback ended.
WHY!!! about 3 years ago
Michael Bay should not be encouraged, this is disgraceful……
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema about 3 years ago
The First movie I saw that made me realize there could be more to movies than mere entertainment was the Royal Tennenbaums. I bought it at my brothers suggestion thinking it would be an amusing comedy,but found it to be much more probably around age 12. I then found every Wes Anderson movie I could.
Apocalypse Now opened me up to the concept of slow deliberate storytelling, I stayed up starting it at midnight expecting it to be what I then considered the normal length for movies and was sitting on the couch tranfixed 3 hours later in awe of this strange new phenomena.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis opened up my mind to movies of an earlier age, as did Easy Rider, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Before seeing these films I would assume anything without the sharp clear picture I grew up with must be boring and outdated.
and Richard Linklater’s Slacker as well as The Waking Life changed my concept of what film could be.
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the hate corner about 3 years ago
I hate Greg Araki, and Michael Bay of course damn criterion for treating him like he deserves respect
I also hate Keanu Reeves whom seems to have become the actor of choice for supernatural scifi movies, although he managed not to ruin A Scanner Darkly, he completely vomited all over the character of John Constantine. He will soon undertake ruining Spike from Cowboy Bebops character in a live action version of the movie.
Will Smith has recently also caused me great ire in his being in crappy adaptations of classic science fiction novels (I Robot, I am Legend(and apparently an upcoming prequel)) and his silly bandwagon superhero movie, just go back to making regular stupid action movies.I hate the side of Nicolas Cage that doesn’t know how to act and made shit like The Wicker Man remake, Ghost Rider, and National Treasure.
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I used to think this movie was great, but i don't anymore about 3 years ago
Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Life Stinks mel brooks movies used to be sooo hilarious, and now them seem to have lost something. It feels like sacrilege saying this about Mel Brooks movies, I fear I may discover others aren’t good anymore if I watch them.
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Who likes Tim Burton? I don't see much mention of him in here. about 3 years ago
I find Tim Burton’s films mostly to be in between the area of blockbuster nonsense and films…Ed Wood was great, as was Batman mostly for Nicholsons part alone. I really enjoyed Sweeny Todd for the story, the songs, although I can see how there was very limited character development for some characters. Although I recognize them as being sappy I still enjoy Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish or at least I did the last time I saw them….and Nightmare before Christmas was directed by Henry Sellick, and only cowritten/produced by Burton so I tend to give him credit for that film, which I enjoy quite a bit. I have to give him credit for
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STOP THE LISTS! about 3 years ago
Favorite Films involving a main character wearing glasses
Papillon
Sleeper
Rushmore
Everything is Illuminated
Dr Strangelove
A Scanner Darkly
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Anyone Else Sick of Clint Eastwood almost 3 years ago
I like the few of his films I have seen, but I watched the special feature on deep impact (the 4th dirty harry movie) about him as a director and it was sooo over the top treating him like the saviour of the film industry, it made me almost want to hate him….but I have never heard such arrogance from the man himself so he should not be blamed.
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Trippy/Psychedelic Films - Name some! almost 3 years ago
Head, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, The Shining (I know, I have a strange mind), Trainspotting, Natural Born Killers, The Waking Life, and probably Erashead if I really wanted a crazy trip..
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Art-House films people give you "shit" for not liking almost 3 years ago
Walkabout and Don’t Look Now were really disapointing for me after having seen The Man Who Fell To Earth many times and imagined I would love every Nicholas Roeg film I encoutered.
I like most of the Lynch I have seen (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet), but I Muhalland Drive was just incomprehensible to me.
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I used to think this movie was great, but i don't anymore almost 3 years ago
I second the Forrest Gump, it is the only movie set in the 60’s that says about as little as possible about the time period, it seems to avoid all the major issues using forrest oblivoiusness to them as an excuse….it seemed like a great story before, but now it just seems an empty story where laughing at Forrest is encouraged and you are left with nothing afterwards….
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Remake of The Beatle's Yellow Submarine (film) over 2 years ago
grrrrrrrrrrrr what are you people playing at, this is such a horrible idea, this movie is such a staple of the 60’s, a new version would just be wrong….there better not be any talk of remaking easy rider..
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Film quotes you love over 2 years ago
Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it’s what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?
Otto: They don’t pay bills in Russia, it’s all free.
Bud: All free? Free my ass. What are you, a fuckin’ commie? Huh?
Otto: No, I ain’t no commie.
Bud: Well, you better not be. I don’t want no commies in my car. No Christians either.
-Repo Man
Louis: Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!
-Men at Work
Alex: Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening.
- A Clockwork Orange
Max Renn: Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!
-Videdrome
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What does the success of watchmen mean about the future of action movies? over 2 years ago
I’m pretty sure were going to have comic book movies for a long time, I imagine the film industry will continue making superhero movies, but many non superhero comic book movies have been made although they don’t really advertise it usually…. A History of Violence, Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World, Art School Confidential, From Hell, Persipolis, Heavy Metal, When the Wind Blows…..this trend of turning graphic novels into movies has been going on for a while, and it shall continue..
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Hit or Miss? over 2 years ago
I love all of the cronenberg films I have seen, yet I see him drifting towards more mainstream acceptabale material ( A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) which bothers me, I liked the strangeness and unpredictability of his older films and I want an unending supply of bizarre cronenberg movies….but I know someday that supply shall run dry…I would not condem him for changing though. If he did not change his work probably would have become a bit repetitive…although I do wish he’d included that self referential deleted scene dream sequence in A History of Violence.
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What are the best Brian De Palma's films? over 2 years ago
I usually think of De palma as a watered down scorsese (due to my seeing of Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way,Mission Impossible and Black Dahlia) but this Phantom of the Paradise gives pause as being some different kind of animal, perhaps my opinion will change once I see it. Although I loved the book Bonfire of the Vanities, I also have my doubts about how the movie could be, Tom Hanks would really have to show some talent I haven’t seen in other movies to play the vicious main character….
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What does the success of watchmen mean about the future of action movies? over 2 years ago
Yes I read that Disney bought Marvel as well, and they claim that they will let muck about with the storylines and Disneyfy them, but I still have trouble trusting them….Hopefully they release movies through Mirimax, it would be nice to have some R rated superhero movies as something so focused upon violence should be, but most I would be suprised if they did that…
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Hit or Miss? over 2 years ago
Strangely the first time I saw spider it was amazing, I was in a dark room, alone, one of my first nights in college wearing large stereo headphones, and after seeing the movie I felt quite schitzophrenic myself. Subsequent viewings have never recaptured that feeling or any measure of the enjoyment of the movie close to the original time.
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
I liked Last Days, but what was with that strange music in the middle of it, some wacky R&B shit while kurt curbian is passed out on the floor…I don’t meen Venus in Furs that was a good choice, I can definetly understand why people would hate this movie, probably the same reason I was quite dissapointed in Paranoid Park…
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
quadrople post so sorry
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
Prehating seems to be justified, tis a shame that John Cusack would be involved in such a silly film…..
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the hate corner over 2 years ago
Tom Hanks slightly redeemed himself to me by being involved in the movie The burbs…..but now that I think about it he really brought nothing to the film.
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Best selling Criterion releases? over 2 years ago
I wonder how well the Michael Bay films actually sell I know they must be some effort to draw in watchers of mainstream films to the collection but I doubt too many of them are aware of the criterion edition or are interested in it though I have heard the commentary by Michael Bay is hilarious.
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Fritz the Cat coming to Criterion? about 2 years ago
I think they should release Coonskin on Criterion, I think it is his best work. While Fritz the Cat was more influental and succesfull , it seems to be much more easy find a copy of it. While I have never read the Fritz comic,R. Crumb hated the culture of the counterculture of the 60s (despite being part of it) so I think he would hate any adaptation of Fritz the Cat.
The Crumb documentary is awesome.It would be a fine addition to the Collection I think even people with no interest in Robert Crumb as an artist would find him and his familys bizarre lives interesting.
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Am I the only one who didn't like "The Hurt Locker"? about 2 years ago
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
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Am I the only one who didn't like "The Hurt Locker"? about 2 years ago
I was really expecting something special from all this damn hype. i mean it was alright had some good scenes and acting buut alot of it just seemed like the smoke bomb he sets off.Just more shiny distractions from the films having very little to say about war or any subject. At least Avatar didn’t win Best Picture that would have been silly.
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Can I just say Congratulations about 2 years ago
I watched this yesterday and I thought it was amazing. I would agree it does not really depict the reason the IRA members were imprisoned and being an ignorant American this is the first I have heard of any of this. Though the supplemental features talked about how the prison guard was looking for bombs under his car in the beginning and the 80s news broadcast showed a bit of the violence the IRA was involved in, I think Steve Mcqueen really was just trying to depict what happened within the prison during the hunger strike and avoid political issues, though with the whole 15 minute priest discussion, which was really the only explanation for his hunger strike it only really showed his side of the story…..I saw him as a fanatic doing all this just over the principle of wearing his own clothes and being treated as a prisoner of war in jail.
I think this movie mostly just showed a person suffering for something he believed in, and I don’t think that necessarily makes that person a hero.
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GREAT MOVIES WHERE THE ENDING (ALMOST) RUINS EVERYTHING over 1 year ago
Not exactly a great film even without the ending but the movie Gangster No. 1 was pretty awesome until the last 30 minutes were Malcolm Mcdowell actually starts playing his character (who is played by Paul Bettany in an excellent imitation of Mcdowell’s mannerisms and expresions in a flashback), it is just so over the top and ridiculous, it marrs the rest of the film…. It should’ve ended with Mcdowell be killed by some uncouth gangster without the respect for expensive clothing that he had or just right after the flashback ended.
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