He's very good, I keep looking for his next work.
I liked these and have rewatched them
A Mighty Heart
A Dry White Season
Indochine
The Red Shoes
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
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He's very good, I keep looking for his next work.
I liked these and have rewatched them
A Mighty Heart
A Dry White Season
Indochine
The Red Shoes
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
what about Mars Attacks that was the second Movie if i wasnt with my friends parents when i was younger i would have walked out on but yet every time its on tv i have this urge to watch it
the only other movie i walked out on was the Alamo god that was so freaking slow and boring.
The Illusionist was way better wasn't it
I cannot actually finish watching The Prestige for some reason. I think I have given up on it about three or four times.
Casablanca always tops my list too.
1. Casablanca
2. Seven Samurai
3. Spirited Away
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa's version of King Lear)
5. Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka)
1. Casablanca
2. Hidden Fortress
3. 39 Steps
4. Hell's Angels
5. Tie - To Be or Not to Be; The Man Who Knew Too Much; To Have and Have Not; Seven Samurai; Yojimbo; ...
what about Mars Attacks that was the second Movie if i wasnt with my friends parents when i was younger i would have walked out on but yet every time its on tv i have this urge to watch it
Mars Attacks is a little different. It's a spoof on classic sci-fi/horror. Everything is played out in that movie "with a wink and a nudge"; it's intentionally cheezy, and unapologetically so.
The makers of Battlefield Earth, in contrast, were trying to make a serious epic film. unfortunately, the plot had holes big enough for post-apocalyptic cavemen to drive thousand-year-old Harrier jets through.
John Travolta had tried to get this film done for years, in homage to L. Ron Hubbard, who wrote the novel. By the time anyone decided to work with him on it, he was too old to play the lead hero convincingly, so he took the lead villain part instead-- and chewed more scenery than William Shatner. The tired Star Wars screen wipes and inappropriate tilted camera shots didn't help matters either.
I've seen worse, but not much worse. I was lucky that I waited to watch someone else's copy of it, instead of renting it myself or (gasp) paying to see it in the theatre.
Unfortunately i watched The Prestige after i watched The Illusionist so it was always going to come off worse
That steaming pile of.... well you know what I was going to say. To me it was a horrible movie masked by great special effects.
Finally a scott Pilgrim vote have you read the books? my bro got Vol 1. he said he was actaully shocked on how dead accurate it was
I've read a bit of the first volume after watching it, and from what I've read the film is almost line perfect with it, which shocked me.
I went to see the film not knowing anything about it, just liked the look of the poster. I should do that more often!
My personal five favorites:
The Silence of the Lambs
Alien (and Aliens, if you consider the story arc as one film... Alien 3 never happened in my world...)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Unforgiven
Star Wars: Episode V
Honorable Mentions:
The Godfather (I and II together)
The Green Mile
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Full Metal Jacket
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Goodfellas
Schindler's List
Blackhawk Down
A Clockwork Orange
Patton
Ran
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Seven Samurai
No Country for Old Men
Solaris (original 1972 Russian version)
Akira
The Exorcist
The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Tampopo
The Silence of the Lambs
Alien (and Aliens, if you consider the story arc as one film... Alien 3 never happened in my world...)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Unforgiven
Star Wars: Episode V
Honorable Mentions:
The Godfather (I and II together)
The Green Mile
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Full Metal Jacket
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Goodfellas
Schindler's List
Blackhawk Down
A Clockwork Orange
Patton
Ran
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Seven Samurai
No Country for Old Men
Solaris (original 1972 Russian version)
Akira
The Exorcist
The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Tampopo
Why is everyone saying Inception as one of the best movies ever? That movie was so God awful long and boring I almost got up and left.
Today's five:
• Mulholland Drive
• Apocalypse Now
• Taxi Driver
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Rear Window
Ask me tomorrow for an entirely different 'all-time' list... but it will not include anything directed by George Lucas.
• Mulholland Drive
• Apocalypse Now
• Taxi Driver
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Rear Window
Ask me tomorrow for an entirely different 'all-time' list... but it will not include anything directed by George Lucas.
I loved this movie, partly because of its eccentricities, and partly because of the incomparable Marianne Sägebrecht (note to fellow FAs: she briefly appears topless at one point--hubba hubba!). The television series bears very little resemblance to the film.
Marianne had another memorable performance in Zuckerbaby, the German film that was later remade into the American film Sugarbaby (starring Ricki Lake).