All in favour of a movies forums, say AYE, those not in favor say NAY, and those who don’t know or don’t give a damn, say FTW!?
FTW!?
lol not a movie forum. we could go to a movie website for that. but having them in separate threads would be nice.
anyone got a direct link to the X3 trailer or any new X3 footage? or screens for that matter…
New Teaser Trailers!
Mission: Impossible III
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/missionimpossible3.html;_ylt=Av4fl_zQl1f_oI_vxDuQva1fVXcA
Doesn’t look much better than that John Woo travesty also known as MI2. And once again it bears no resemblance to the TV series.
**Miami Vice ** (exclusively on Bacardi’s website)
http://www.bacardilive.com/
I REALLY hate the casting choices… matter of fact I didn’t really like anything about the trailer… but Mann produced the TV show and he’s got a great track record, so I’m expecting a smart and well-written crime drama (I luv smart and well-written crime dramas).
About time someone posted info on MI3! Gonna dl that trailer when on high speed net.
I’m gonna watch Syriana tomorrow. I’ll tell ya about it then.
since this is no longer a sticky, I’ll frequently bump it when there’s updates…
also, PLEASE, if some of the links don’t work, PM ME…so I can fix 'em…
Saw the MV trailer and fuck Colin Farrel. Weak actor but Mann is behind the whole thing.
As for Mi3, I’ll check out the trailer, all I know is that Maggie Q is in it. Ugh.
Syriana was really good. It was pretty complicated and there so many characters though, so it was easy to get lost watching it. Everything else about it was good though.
I don’t know about an entire movie forum(this ain’t Gaia, where breakfast cereal has its own forum), but perhaps just entertainment in general like tv/movies/music. Individual shows/whatnot threads are so numerous they probably give the mods a headache cleaning up after all of them.
I saw earlier in the thread people mentioned a Fastball Special in the X3 teaser…where?! I looked a few times and had a hard time finding any actual action in any of the spots.
I finally saw the Boondock Saints yesterday night, as well as watching Kiss Kiss BANG BANG.
Saints was cool, a pretty entertaining flick. They should do a sequel where they go to New York, that would be crazy.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a great movie. The story was kinda meaningless, its the dialogue that delivers. So random, its great!!!
Thanks dude. I like complicated political thrillers so I’m definitely interested in this. Too bad it won’t show up in the UK until March…
Anyway, new trailer!
V For Vendetta
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/v_for_vendetta/trailer
Looks good, even though the movie’s script reportedly screws up a few key points from the graphic novel.
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=statues&item=7172&type=store
That is what the Juggernaut design used to be until they gayed it up.
back from the dead!
i revived this thread because i felt what i wanted to do did not belong in the more active dvd thread. so, i’ve decided to compile a list of my top 100 films, based on films i’ve seen thus far in my life. this will not be anything more than my opinion of what i feel are the best films. i’m not trying to spark debate, though i’m sure i’ll get a whole string of people on here saying ‘that movie sucks’ or ‘you know whats so much better?’ or ‘you don’t know shit about movies’ - however, i thought it would be a great test of my ability to enact such a daunting task. i plan on giving short reasonings for each film. anyways, anyone else think they are up to the task? calling out the movie snobs and know it alls…
the only thing that bothers me about the xmen movie is the casting for magneto…
seriously, most of the othe characters have good casting, to excellent casting, to perfection…
but magneto??? it really irks me cause mag is one of my fav villians of all time and they make him out to be some old dude who needs a walking cane, fucking dumb…and the age thing, from the comics i get the impression that hes in his early 50s? in the movie he LOOKS like he is 70…MUCH MUCH older looking than xavier, and they are supposed to be around the same age…
i cant get over this, both times i watched the first one and second movie…other than that the movies were awsome…
im outi
Roberth
ok, so here’s my formula for breaking down my list. i have an actual equation for it. i’m making a database of all the potential movies, basically anything i rate 3-5 stars on netflix. each movie will have 3 different ratings. these ratings will be of varying values based on importance and their sum total will place the movie in the list. the three criteria are quality(1-5), importance(1-4), enjoyment(1-5) and my personnal rating(1-10). quality is the overall quality of the film from a movie snob pov, like cinematography, directing, editing, deepness of story, etc. importance is the film’s overall importance to the whole of cinema. enjoyment is how much excitement/horor/etc i got from the film. personnal rating is how i feel about the film. so here’s an example:
the burbs
quality: 2
importance: 1
enjoyment: 5
personnal rating: 8
so it has an overall rating of 16 out of a possible 24(66%). i don’t think any movie will score a perfect 24, so the burbs will make my list. after all is said and done, i still make the final desicion on placement in the list regardless of final score. this will all just be a way to help me make an initial placement of movies. once i have my database full of the scores, they will be ordered in a report by final score, then personnal rating, then enjoyment, quality then importance and finally if there is still movies tied, by title. its a long proccess and very anal, but it will help me decide in the future what movies to add to the list. plus, i’m an anal geek when it comes to this stuff.
Good Night and Good Luck was really fucking good. Uh that’s all.
yes it was. david strathairn was amazing as murrow. interesting sidenote, his brother is an english teacher at my former middle school.
edit: i’d like to add, i saw a history of violence last night. i liked it alot, but i felt it sort of rushed through the story. if it had been like 2 hours instead of 90 minutes, i think it could have been even better.
here it is, the liberal’s top 100 films that i’ve seen based on how much i like em(not simply from a ‘cinematic quality’ pov). the list will expand as my knowledge base of movies expands:
1 Shining, The
2 Pulp Fiction
3 Godfather, The
4 Psycho
5 Casablanca
6 Dr Strangelove
7 This is Spinal Tap
8 A Clockwork Orange
9 Jaws
10 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
11 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
12 Usual Suspects, The
13 Graduate, the
14 To Kill a Mockingbird
15 Godfather Part 2, The
16 Big Lebowski, The
17 Burbs, The
18 Citizen Kane
19 Shawshank Redemption, The
20 Airplane!
21 Se7en
22 Chinatown
23 Ghostbusters
24 Apartment, The
25 Clerks
26 Some Like It Hot
27 Rear Window
28 Fight Club
29 Full Metal Jacket
30 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
31 Rocky Horror Picture Show
32 Princess Bride, The
33 Motorcycle Diaries, The
34 Dog Day Afternoon
35 Reservoir Dogs
36 America Beauty
37 Blazing Saddles
38 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
39 Almost Famous
40 Fisher King, The
41 City of God
42 Lord of the Rings
43 Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail
44 Animal Crackers
45 Producers, The
46 America Psycho
47 Being There
48 Tootsie
49 Professional, The
50 Fargo
51 Empire Strikes Back
52 Goodfellas
53 Truman Show, The
54 True Romance
55 All the President’s Men
56 Young Frankenstein
57 Apocalypse Now
58 Living in Oblivion
59 Being John Malkovich
60 Caddyshack
61 Easy Rider
62 Omen, The
63 Alien
64 Star Wars
65 Bonnie and Clyde
66 Delicatessen
67 Waiting for Guffman
68 Amadeus
69 Exorcist, The
70 Singin’ in the Rain
71 Hunt for Red October, The
72 Unforgiven
73 Naked Gun, The
74 American History X
75 Braveheart
76 Dumb and Dumber
77 The Tin Drum
78 Lost Boys, The
79 Repo Man
80 My Dinner with Andre
81 Kentucky Fried Movie
82 UHF
83 Beetlejuice
84 Stand By Me
85 Killing, The
86 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
87 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
88 Battleship Potemkin
89 Donnie Darko
90 Road to Perdition
91 Jerk, The
92 Garden State
93 Army of Darkness
94 Ref, The
95 Sin City
96 Lion King, The
97 Clue
98 Mallrats
99 Matrix, The
100 Cube
you need to see some foreign films
i’m quite aware - i cut my teeth on american cinema, so i know my classics real well, and there are a few foriegn films on there. i doubt highly my top 10 will change. i have ikiru at my house right now from netflix and i have some others coming, but i’m really trying to finish my study of classic american cinema.
maybe you can suggest some more, here is what i have on my netflix list:
seven samurai
sanjuro
rashomon
ran
yojimbo
dreams
seventh seal
fannie and alexander
the virgin spring
old boy
amores perros
city of lost children
ichi the killer
carandiru
red
white blue
metropolis
m
battel royale
farewell my concubine
any other suggestions?