Films watched recently... (CAUTION, SPOILERS)

traptunderice

The Annoying Frenchman wrote
The Social NetworkWhip ItInglorious Basterds

These made my eyebrows perk up. Shitty shit shit flicks.

Ness

traptunderice wrote
The Annoying Frenchman wrote
The Social NetworkWhip ItInglorious Basterds
These made my eyebrows perk up. Shitty shit shit flicks.

Haven't seen Whip It, but the other two are great movies.

noodles

metalNESS wrote
traptunderice wrote
The Annoying Frenchman wrote
The Social NetworkWhip ItInglorious Basterds
These made my eyebrows perk up. Shitty shit shit flicks.
Haven't seen Whip It, but the other two are great movies.

North_From_Here

The Annoying Frenchman wrote
InceptionThe Ghost WriterKick AssScott Pilgrim vs. the WorldWatchmenThe King's SpeechTrue GritThe Social NetworkWhere the Wild Things AreWhip ItInglorious Basterdsetc.

Agreed on Inception. Haven't seen most of these, you could be quite right on King's Speech, Social Network, True Grit, etc, and I do owe them a watch, thanks for the reminder.

Watchmen and Inglorious Bastards (or Tarantino generally) are part of what I consider wrong with filmmaking today. Though, to each his own.

Legacy_Of_The_Night

I loved the fuck out of Inglorious Basterds.

RW: Tommy.

noodles

emperorblackdoom wrote
Watchmen and Inglorious Bastards (or Tarantino generally) are part of what I consider wrong with filmmaking today. Though, to each his own.

Putting those two movies in the same category makes me sad. Inglorious Basterds had much better developed characters and ideas than Watchmen imo (Zack Snyder totally missed the deeper ideas of the comic.) And it was a lot better in terms of basic storytelling because Watchmen suffered from "cram too much of a novel into a movie" syndrome.

North_From_Here

noodles wrote
emperorblackdoom wrote
Watchmen and Inglorious Bastards (or Tarantino generally) are part of what I consider wrong with filmmaking today. Though, to each his own.
Putting those two movies in the same category makes me sad. Inglorious Basterds had much better developed characters and ideas than Watchmen imo (Zack Snyder totally missed the deeper ideas of the comic.) And it was a lot better in terms of basic storytelling because Watchmen suffered from "cram too much of a novel into a movie" syndrome.

Knew the Tarantino white knights would be out in full force. Wasn't equating the two films anyway...

The_Annoying_Frenchman

Mind, if Inglorious Basterds is indeed a great movie, it still is Tarantino's worst.

North_From_Here

The Annoying Frenchman wrote
Mind, if Inglorious Basterds is indeed a great movie, it still is Tarantino's worst.

Odd, his segment of Grindhouse is the only movie I've walked out on in my entire life. At least I'll give him credit for his first two films.

The_Annoying_Frenchman

Actually, the Grindhouse segment you mentioned is the only Tarantino I didn't see. have the DVD but I can't put my heart into watching it...

My Tarantino list:
1 - Pulp Fiction 99/100
2 - Reservoir Dogs 95/100
3 - Kill Bill (1) 92/100
4 - Jackie Brown 88/100
5 - Kill Bill (2) 85/100
6 - Inglorious Basterds 83/100

Goat

IB was worth watching for Christoph Waltz alone, let alone all the interesting subtle stuff about cinema audiences and reactions to violence. Much better than that Watchmen bollocks. Respectable filmmaking as opposed to mindless Hollywood nonsense, the only film I'm looking forward to at the moment is the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy remake.

noodles

Inglorious Basterds is his best movie.

Legacy_Of_The_Night

noodles wrote
Inglorious Basterds is his best movie.

Agreed.

noodles

Starting to watch The Century of the Self on Google Video again (didn't make it to the end last time). It's about Freud, media, controllin' the masses, aww yeah. "Buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people who don't like you." :dio:

Goat

Public Enemies - Quite faithful and well acted (despite that I don't like Depp as an actor) although it was a little dry. There are many more stories about the guy they could have used to spice it up, like how they used to pretend to be a film company scouting locations for a bank robbery whilst actually robbing the bank, or how bystanders dipped their handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood after he was shot, like Charles I. Good stuff overall.

noodles

I turned that movie off after 30 minutes 🙁

North_From_Here

Goat wrote
Public Enemies - Quite faithful and well acted (despite that I don't like Depp as an actor) although it was a little dry. There are many more stories about the guy they could have used to spice it up, like how they used to pretend to be a film company scouting locations for a bank robbery whilst actually robbing the bank, or how bystanders dipped their handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood after he was shot, like Charles I. Good stuff overall.

Essentially I thought it was fine, like you did. A rather pale imitation of Mann's generally regarded masterwork, "Heat" though. I'd strongly recommend checking that out if you liked this.

Goat

emperorblackdoom wrote
Essentially I thought it was fine, like you did. A rather pale imitation of Mann's generally regarded masterwork, "Heat" though. I'd strongly recommend checking that out if you liked this.

Oh, absolutely, seen it many times. Poor sod's probably sick of people whining about how his latest isn't as good as Heat! 😃

bloodpet64

Legacy Of The Night wrote
noodles wrote
Inglorious Basterds is his best movie.
Agreed.

this

North_From_Here

Goat wrote
emperorblackdoom wrote
Essentially I thought it was fine, like you did. A rather pale imitation of Mann's generally regarded masterwork, "Heat" though. I'd strongly recommend checking that out if you liked this.
Oh, absolutely, seen it many times. Poor sod's probably sick of people whining about how his latest isn't as good as Heat! 😃

Haha, no doubt. I did like Public Enemies, but the movie reminded me of Heat in a number of ways.

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