Reminds me somewhat of the way I felt about Bring It On.Originally Posted by Yaboosh
Ah great thread. I haven't noticed this thing around. Now I can finally fire my movie-loving frustrations on the forums.
I've read a couple of pages of the thread so I'm not real sure if the following films are mentioned earlier or not, but that'll be that...
...kick off:
Beerfest:
quality 6/10
fun 8,5/10
This movie is really not meant to be classic or whatsoever. However it is one of the first movies I've seen that's pure and only about drinking beer. And since that is also one of my hobbies I was hooked right away. Some parts of the movie are so terribly absolutely bad, that you definitely like them. The hole plot is no surprise from beginning to end, but that's not the point of the movie. We sometimes watch this movie when we're playing Mex.
A Scanner Darkly:
quality 7.5/10
fun 8/10
There really isn't much fun in this movie, but I give it big credits for just the way it is directed and animated. The sort of cell-shaded-over-movie-picture technique is really catchy. This movie reminded me a bit of the Max Payne game. Overall it wasn't as satisfying as I hoped to, but good none the less.
The Fountain:
quality 9/10
fun 8/10
This movie is really much of a mistery. This is no surprise if you have seen Pi, which is from the same director iirc. The whole movie really stays a bit in the fairytale genre, but shifts now and then to drama. The sound is again very VERY good, just as in Requiem For A Dream (same director as well). Since fairytales are my favourite this movie scores very high. Really very nice sphere setting here.
(damn it's hard to review without spoiling...)
American Beauty:
quality 9/10
fun 9/10
My personal all-time favourite. The only problem is that I have to leave room for another better movie one day, some day. Hence not the 10.
Tonight I'm going to watch Ocean's 13 in a movietheatre. I have pretty high expectations of this one.
American Beauty was okay, I thought a bit overrated though.
I want to see A Scanner Darkly, and his previous rotoscoped film, Waking Life.
Casino Royale (1967)
I don't know what the hell just happened, but I liked it.
Barbara Bouchet and Ursula Andress... *wipes drool off chin*
Agreed. Knocked up was a pretty good flick, with some very intelligent pop culture remarks, despite the coarse language. However, falls short of 40r old virgin imo.Knocked Up (2007) 8.5/10
Amazing what a good director and good cast can do to a chick flick. The comedy was natural, clever, mostly conversational but it really had me cracking up the entire time. The lack of believability and the supreme idealism offered by the plot is overshadowed by the fun exchanges of the different characters and the way the plot unfolds. I enjoyed the idealism and did not feel it hokey, and the film never feels over sentimental, even though it should. Upon thinking about it, the movie should be a below average movie, but somehow, it is done so right that it was one of the most enjoyable comedies I have ever seen. This is basically a chick flick but it does not alienate the male viewer who is not out for a sappy love story. The movie is basically a walking cliche but it still feels fresh. I definitely recommend anybody to see this movie, unless you are so jaded that you couldn't possibly enjoy a movie that, while it has been done before, a chick flick has never been done better (that I have seen anyway).
May: 10/10
Fun: 1/10
May wasn't as family unfriendly as I thought it was. I only say 1/10 because it was not a fun movie. Not fun at all..the decent into psychosis is never fun.
It was a very odd movie. Angela Bettis plays these quirky roles in such an outstanding manner. I loved her in MOH Sick Girl. Go figure, done by the same director. She is now my favorite actress. The character development has to be one of the best I have seen.
Its about a girl who grows up with a lazy eye. It is hard for her to make friends so her mother makes her a doll and tells her "If you don't have friends, make them". You can guess what happens after that. It is not a hack and slash movie. I would post spoilers but no one would want to see it here anyway.
I really liked this movie and it pretty much tops my list of favorites.
not a fan of American Beauty
Casino Royale is weird, David Niven was good, then a bunch of cowboys showed up
Hero (2002)
It's no Crouching Tiger.
It sort of has a good plot, it's too heavy-handed though and as for the action scenes I felt largely underwhelmed in part due to my lack of emotional investment and in part due to their unoriginality. I think I'd seen enough campy wire stunts to last me a lifetime before watching this.
The English subtitles translated "Yeeeaarrgh!!!" from Chinese.
Ooh, that does sound good, I'll have to try to find it.
Luckily that wasn't until the last part.
I read that a lot of the weirdness (well, apart from the cowboys, indians and David Prowse as Frankenstein) was due to Sellers pulling out and them still trying to go ahead, it brought back memories of Trail of the Pink Panther on that score. Except this movie was still good.
Hero is a pretty bad film. All visuals, little substance.Hero (2002)
It's no Crouching Tiger.
It sort of has a good plot, it's too heavy-handed though and as for the action scenes I felt largely underwhelmed in part due to my lack of emotional investment and in part due to their unoriginality. I think I'd seen enough campy wire stunts to last me a lifetime before watching this.
The English subtitles translated "Yeeeaarrgh!!!" from Chinese.
Anyway, I recently watched Ocean's 13 and FF2. Going to give the former a solid 7.5/10 for going back to what made the first so cool. The entire casts radiates energy and camaraderie in this one. definitely worth a watch. FF2 was better than the first, but the power switching thing was nonsense, and I was extremely underwhelmed by the deux ex machina employed to combat the surfer's power cosmic. They also failed to incorporate the surfer's philosophical approach to his unique job, to sacrifice millions of lives to save billions of lives. Galactus himself is up in the air as to whether or not he appeared. Still, better than the first. 6/10.
Hard not to be better than the first, I'll see it when it's out on DVD... and in the weekly section.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Oeoeoeooo... WA WA WA!
Great film, great soundtrack, I especially loved the ending.
My only complaint is that I thought it foundered a bit during the bridge sequence, and in general it was probably a bit long. It's a minor issue compared to the movie's strengths though.
I should try to find the Dollars movies.
Also, I think my version was edited (I taped it from the TV) and it was pan-and-scan, hell in the final scene where the three guys are circling each other you can only see one. I guess I'll rewatch it eventually so that'll be something to look forward to another day.
I keep trying to watch Fistfull of Dollars, but I saw the Kurosawa original first and its hard to watch the same movie over again
have the same problem with Magnificent Seven
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