i <3 snopes
I dunno what youāre talking about hereā¦ regardless, itās one of the best films ever made. I dunno what the fuck your point is.
Iām a HUGE fan of horror movies, especially early 80ās slashers.
One of my all time favorite slashers is The Burning. It has a typical plot - A group of kids at camp play a prank on the caretaker. The prank involves fire, and the caretaker ends up getting burned VERY badly, and then takes his revenge. A typical horror movie plot. Itās a bloody slasher, so if youāre a fan of gore, youād love it.
P. Gorath would probably know about this movie. The raft scene is one of the best death sequences ever
I saw it last night. Itās really good and hyper bloody and violent. It takes place in Spain during war time and the movie doesnāt flinch showing you the horrors of war despite itās fairy tale setting. The villain in the movie, the Captain of the military is one evil sadistic bastard. Thereās fairies, a faun, a mandragora AKA mandrake and things of that nature only not exactly kid friendly in itās depiction so to speak. Itās like the reviewers say - a fairy tale story for adults. The pacing is bit slow for my tastles but still I give it 5 out of 5 stars. Itās in spanish and is subtitled. Go see it! :tup:
yeah, i really want to see it, i just have to find a theater playing it here in san diegoā¦
Ok, so I havenāt watched any good movies in a while(wellā¦ a few)ā¦iām thinking of catching up on older movies that I havenāt seen yet. Any recommendations? (obviously you donāt know what movies iāve seen, but throw out em suggestions anyway.)
So far iāve got on the list:
1.) Little Miss Sunshine
2.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Things iāve already seen:
1.) Scoop
2.) The Departed
3.) The Prestige
4.) Borat.
And you guys can go way backā¦ iām a fan of the old school b&w movies too.
ummmā¦go to the official dvd thread and check the dvd haves and wants of me and pg on our dvdaf pages(link on the first page)ā¦thats a good place to startā¦
i highly recommend āspring, summer, winter, fall and springā
Ok I saw Rushmore for the second time and was even more impressed this time around. I also like the Coen Bros stuff, natch. Will check out this thread some more.
But yeah, Rushmoreā¦ Bill Murrayās first āindie-flick rebirthā film? Definitely the best Iāve seen (I definitely DO NOT like Lost in Translation, although it was kind of the motivation for me to plan a trip to Japan. to be like the complete opposite of how Bill Murray and Scarlet were in that film)
watch the tennenbaums if you like murrayā¦
watch the life aquatic first, then tenenbaums
Tenenbaums is good, another one Iād like to see again. I mostly just remember that Gene Hackman rofl scene. āIām dyingā
Ok, anybody fancy tiering the Coen Bros films?
God: The Big Lebowski
Top: Millerās Crossing, Fargo
Upper-Middle: O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasnt There, Barton Fink
Lower-Middle: Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, Raising Arizona
Bottom: Blood Simple
Not that Blood Simple is bad, but you can tell itās like their first film. Donāt think Iāve forgotten any thereā¦ and no, I havent seen Hudsucker Proxy yet, need to check that out.
ok, how is raising arizona in the same tier as intolerable cruelty?!? i mean, ask anyone here, i fucking HATE nicky cage, but arizona is fucking brilliant. and blood simple at the bottom? i dunno manā¦your tiers need some workā¦
also, they didnāt write bad santa, they produced it.
Intolerable Cruelty wasnt that great, but it had one of the most incredible slapstick gags in it that I have ever seen.
Intolerable Cruelty
Spoiler
Wheezy Joeās death
All I remember about Raising Arizona was that showdown with the biker dude. I prolly need to see it again, one of the films Iām least familiar with.
Iāve removed Bad Santa, my bad. Blood Simple stays where it is because to me itās like a rough-draft of Fargo. Although hey, there is that bit that inspired the Radiohead music videoā¦ itās still a great film.
Stillā¦ you donāt have any complains about the God/Top tiers now that Bad Santa is gone? You canāt really go wrong with Leb, Millers and Fargo.
i agree, although i wouldnāt differentiate them on the coen brothers scale. all three are very different and very close to perfect examples of the coen brotherās genius.
blood simple >>> all other coen bros movies with the possible exception of millerās crossing
if i havenāt stated this enough, christopher guest is a fucking genius. i havenāt seen consideration yet, but i watched mighty wind for like the 100th time last night and i laugh harder each time. i mean, none of the guest/levy movies compare to their first, guffman, but show and wind are still both fucking hilarious, the latter being better. i donāt put tap in with them simply because it was directed by rob reiner, but if it was to be tiered with them it would be ultimate god tier.
I havent seen Blood Simple in years and years and years, so I may be forgetting some stuff about it, but Iāll tell you why I put it bottom tier and why I think it doesnt match up to their later stuff: it doesnt have a comic edge to it.
Bottom line is I find the Coen Bros funny, and in a way that isnt really done anywhere else. Theyāve got a dark humour (Iāve also got the book of short stories by Ethan Coen, called āGates of Edenā, check it out if you can) and I can remember Blood Simple being dark (both metaphorically and literally) but not being funny.
I guess you like Millerās Crossing because thatās the next closest to their straight film. Although of course it is sort of funny-odd, what with the insane unlimited-ammo tommy gun scene, and also the incredibly subtle homosexual love-triangle aspectā¦
But Lebowski obviously is my favourite. I laughed the first time I saw it in the cinema, and I still laugh now watching it drunk (white russians of course). Itās the one out of all their films that has real āCultā status (thereās actually a Lebowski-festival that goes on every year, check out the vid of it up at Youtube [media=youtube]FVe-r334mrA[/media] )
EDIT: whew gotta be careful with the spoilers inthis thread eh. Donāt think any of the above would classify though.
perhaps you were too young at the time to get the humour, because Blood Simple is really, really funny (the cul de sac running gag alone is golden). You should watch it again. There is even a ādirectorās cutā now that adds soem more humour too