The Movie Review and Discussion Thread

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by DjMethod

I'm pretty nostalgic when it comes to my favorites, so many of them I grew up watching and I'm not afraid to admit my love for them

After all, when it comes down to it, I believe movies are about entertainment, so the most cerebral are not always the most enjoyable (take the pure badassery of 300 outranking Perfect Blue for example). Most of the classics I've seen over the past few years were great, but there is a very high, personal threshold movies must cross to enter my heart! Thanks for the feedback btw.



I really like every title on your list, with the exception of Blair Witch (which I haven't seen since VHS), Michael Clayton (very boring to me sorry, but I am very interested in why you it made your list), and Garden State which I haven't seen. Nice to see your appreciation for Paul Thomas Anderson. His films are pure genius. You might also like to know that my #30 inspired a scene in your #14 (at least our lists share some connection ).

with some i am nostalgic as well. with one of the majors being The Blair Witch Project. it was the first horror film i ever saw in the theater (with my mom who hated it and was completely bored and i was 10 and scared sh*tless ) and it was the first (and really only 1 of like 5) scary movie to really traumatize and scare me. and the films scares are my own personal fears / scares. little things like yelling when outside in the dark (really creeps me out and makes my skin crawl just thinking about it ).

as for why i love Michael Clayton... i can clearly see why a lot of people find it boring, it is slow moving and i would NEVER watch it with friends or the girlfriend. it's definitely a film that i watch by myself because it is so slower paced. but as to why i really enjoy it, i LOVE the cinematography - the color palette especially fits perfectly, the score, the performance by Clooney and the character he portrays: someone who has a very cryptic, unknown job and it seems like something i would love to do, but he really doesn't have it all, he's

[Show spoiler]broke, divorced and his family life isn't perfect and now his job might be gone and he will have nothing left

, but in the end, he perseveres

i remember the first time i watched it, i was just hypnotized. the performance by Tom Wilkinson was phenomenal as well. i guess it's kind of hard to explain? (and i haven't watched it in forever, but just going off memory and remembering things that stood out to me) although bringing it up now makes me want to watch it in a bit

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by shinseiromeo

In one sitting...? Monday into Tuesday?

Nah, Monday = 1 and 2

Tuesday = 3 and Special Features


But if I did watch them all, it would be 4.5 hours long, only a little longer than watching Return of the King EE

Originally Posted by DjMethod

2. The Fast and the Furious

Wooooo!!





It's not even that high (or close to it) among my favorite movies....even though I don't have a list

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Nah, Monday = 1 and 2

Tuesday = 3 and Special Features


But if I did watch them all, it would be 4.5 hours long, only a little longer than watching Return of the King EE

no wonder i have little urge to revisit these!

[surfdude12]

my top 100:

[Show spoiler]
1 2001
2 Mulholland Drive
3 Apocalypse Now Redux
4 The Lives of Others
5 Eyes Wide Shut
6 Gone With The Wind
7 Last Year at Marienbad
8 Playtime
9 Memento
10 The Fountain
11 There Will be Blood
12 Vanilla Sky
13 Howards End
14 It's A Wonderful Life
15 Citizen Kane
16 Rear Window
17 Paris Texas
18 Barry Lyndon
19 Baraka
20 Wings of Desire
21 Revanche
22 A Clockwork Orange
23 The Leopard
24 The Shining
25 28 Up
26 Dark City
27 Psycho
28 Amadeus
29 Babel
30 The Orphanage
31 The Wizard of Oz
32 Godfather 2
33 Godfather 1
34 Dawn of the Dead (78)
35 Halloween (78)
36 Magnolia
37 El Norte
38 Fargo
39 The Fall
40 Casino
41 The Third Man
42 Monty Python and HG
43 Seven Samurai
44 Walkabout
45 Pan's Labrynth
46 Vertigo
47 The Ring
48 Casablanca
49 The 400 Blows
50 The Seventh Seal
51 Big Fish
52 Black Narcissus
53 Kingdom of Heaven
54 Dr. Strangelove
55 28 Days Later
56 The Others
57 Braveheart
58 Gladiator
59 Unforgiven
60 Cast Away
61 Cinderella Man
62 Corpse Bride
63 Dances With Wolves
64 The Descent
65 Eternal Sunshine of the Sp
66 Following
67 Schindler's List
68 Karate Kid
69 The Thin Red Line
70 Chungking Express
71 The Big Lebowski
72 The Blair Witch Project
73 Across the Universe
74 The Passion of the Christ
75 Requiem for a Dream
76 Summer Hours
77 The Shawshank Redemption
78 The Silence of the Lambs
79 Tell No One
80 Star Wars IV
81 Star Wars V
82 Jaws
83 The Last Emperor
84 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
85 Gandhi
86 8 1/2
87 No Country for Old Men
88 Groundhog Day
89 Terminator 1
90 Terminator 2
91 On the Waterfront
92 Gran Torino
93 Alien
94 City of God
95 Triangle
96 Bram Stoker's Dracula
97 LOTR Series
98 The Grapes of Wrath
99 About Schmidt
100 The African Queen

[jhiggy23]

My favorites?


1) The Fountain
2) 12 Angry Men
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
4) The Lives of Others
5) Judgment at Nuremberg
6) The Werckmeister Harmonies
7) Vivre Sa Vie
8) Amelie
9) Braveheart
10) Forrest Gump
11) The Deer Hunter
12) The Godfather
13) The Cove
14) Room in Rome
15) Solaris
16) The New World
17) The Thin Red Line
18) Psycho
19) Alien
20) Aliens
21) 400 Blows
22) Everlasting Moments
23) Last Year at Marienbad
24) Paris, Texas
25) Playtime
26) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
27) A River Runs Through It
28) Atonement
29) The Assassination of Jesse James
30) Gattaca
31) House of Flying Daggers
32) The Last Samurai
33) My Cousin Vinny
34) Red Cliff
35) The Orphanage
36) Lolita
37) Tell No One
38) The Matrix
39) American Beauty
40) Road to Perdition
41) Casablanca
42) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
43) Dial M for Murder
44) Apocalypse Now redux
45) Heat
46) Beauty and the Beast
47) Titanic
48) Sin Nombre
49) Bicycle Thief
50) Traffic

Not in order, of course.

[shinseiRomeo]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Nah, Monday = 1 and 2

Tuesday = 3 and Special Features


But if I did watch them all, it would be 4.5 hours long, only a little longer than watching Return of the King EE

I'm seriously wondering how in the hell someone can watch the Alien Anthology set and all of its extras... wayyy too many features and not enough time.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

my top 100:

[Show spoiler]
1 2001
2 Mulholland Drive
3 Apocalypse Now Redux
4 The Lives of Others
5 Eyes Wide Shut
6 Gone With The Wind
7 Last Year at Marienbad
8 Playtime
9 Memento
10 Revanche
11 There Will be Blood
12 Vanilla Sky
13 Howards End
14 It's A Wonderful Life
15 Citizen Kane
16 Rear Window
17 Paris Texas
18 Barry Lyndon
19 Baraka
20 Wings of Desire
21 The Fall
22 A Clockwork Orange
23 The Leopard
24 The Shining
25 28 Up
26 Dark City
27 Psycho
28 Amadeus
29 Babel
30 The Orphanage
31 The Wizard of Oz
32 Godfather 2
33 Godfather 1
34 Dawn of the Dead (78)
35 Halloween (78)
36 Dr Strangelove
37 El Norte
38 Fargo
39 The Fountain
40 Casino
41 The Third Man
42 Monty Python and HG
43 Seven Samurai
44 Walkabout
45 Pan's Labrynth
46 Vertigo
47 The Ring
48 Casablanca
49 The 400 Blows
50 The Seventh Seal
51 Big Fish
52 Black Narcissus
53 Kingdom of Heaven
54 On the Waterfront
55 28 Days Later
56 The Others
57 Braveheart
58 Gladiator
59 Unforgiven
60 Cast Away
61 Cinderella Man
62 Corpse Bride
63 Dances With Wolves
64 The Descent
65 Eternal Sunshine of the Sp
66 Following
67 Schindler's List
68 Karate Kid
69 Jaws
70 Chungking Express
71 The Big Lebowski
72 The Blair Witch Project
73 Across the Universe
74 The Passion of the Christ
75 Requiem for a Dream
76 Summer Hours
77 The Shawshank Redemption
78 The Silence of the Lambs
79 Tell No One
80 Star Wars IV
81 Star Wars V
82 Master and Commander
83 The Last Emperor
84 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
85 Gandhi
86 8 1/2
87 No Country for Old Men
88 Groundhog Day
89 Terminator 1
90 Terminator 2
91 A Christmas Tale
92 Gran Torino
93 Alien
94 City of God
95 Triangle
96 Bram Stoker's Dracula
97 LOTR Series
98 The Grapes of Wrath
99 About Schmidt
100 The African Queen

excuse me sir but 8 1/2 and LOTR's is way to far down!

[shinseiRomeo]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

My favorites?


1) The Fountain

Not in order, of course.

When someone mentioned Babel earlier, I immediately thought of The Fountain. I blind bought this a couple months back but as of yet have not watched it.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

no wonder i have little urge to revisit these!

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by shinseiromeo

I'm seriously wondering how in the hell someone can watch the Alien Anthology set and all of its extras... wayyy too many features and not enough time.

Martin braved his way through it all and wrote the review for the site

Must have took a LONG time.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

my top 100:

[Show spoiler]
1 2001
2 Mulholland Drive
3 Apocalypse Now Redux
4 The Lives of Others
5 Eyes Wide Shut
6 Gone With The Wind
7 Last Year at Marienbad
8 Playtime
9 Memento
10 The Fountain
11 There Will be Blood
12 Vanilla Sky
13 Howards End
14 It's A Wonderful Life
15 Citizen Kane
16 Rear Window
17 Paris Texas
18 Barry Lyndon
19 Baraka
20 Wings of Desire
21 Revanche
22 A Clockwork Orange
23 The Leopard
24 The Shining
25 28 Up
26 Dark City
27 Psycho
28 Amadeus
29 Babel
30 The Orphanage
31 The Wizard of Oz
32 Godfather 2
33 Godfather 1
34 Dawn of the Dead (78)
35 Halloween (78)
36 Dr Strangelove
37 El Norte
38 Fargo
39 The Fall
40 Casino
41 The Third Man
42 Monty Python and HG
43 Seven Samurai
44 Walkabout
45 Pan's Labrynth
46 Vertigo
47 The Ring
48 Casablanca
49 The 400 Blows
50 The Seventh Seal
51 Big Fish
52 Black Narcissus
53 Kingdom of Heaven
54 On the Waterfront
55 28 Days Later
56 The Others
57 Braveheart
58 Gladiator
59 Unforgiven
60 Cast Away
61 Cinderella Man
62 Corpse Bride
63 Dances With Wolves
64 The Descent
65 Eternal Sunshine of the Sp
66 Following
67 Schindler's List
68 Karate Kid
69 Jaws
70 Chungking Express
71 The Big Lebowski
72 The Blair Witch Project
73 Across the Universe
74 The Passion of the Christ
75 Requiem for a Dream
76 Summer Hours
77 The Shawshank Redemption
78 The Silence of the Lambs
79 Tell No One
80 Star Wars IV
81 Star Wars V
82 Master and Commander
83 The Last Emperor
84 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
85 Gandhi
86 8 1/2
87 No Country for Old Men
88 Groundhog Day
89 Terminator 1
90 Terminator 2
91 A Christmas Tale
92 Gran Torino
93 Alien
94 City of God
95 Triangle
96 Bram Stoker's Dracula
97 LOTR Series
98 The Grapes of Wrath
99 About Schmidt
100 The African Queen

#25 "28 Up" is this a mix of 28 Days Later and Up?! i think my brain just exploded thinking of that mix

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

#25 "28 Up" is this a mix of 28 Days Later and Up?! i think my brain just exploded thinking of that mix

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/28_up/

Just guessing

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

My favorites?

[Show spoiler]1) The Fountain
2) 12 Angry Men
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
4) The Lives of Others
5) Judgment at Nuremberg
6) The Werckmeister Harmonies
7) Vivre Sa Vie
8) Amelie
9) Braveheart
10) Forrest Gump
11) The Deer Hunter
12) The Godfather
13) The Cove
14) Room in Rome
15) Solaris
16) The New World
17) The Thin Red Line
18) Psycho
19) Alien
20) Aliens
21) 400 Blows
22) Everlasting Moments
23) Last Year at Marienbad
24) Paris, Texas
25) Playtime
26) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
27) A River Runs Through It
28) Atonement
29) The Assassination of Jesse James
30) Gattaca
31) House of Flying Daggers
32) The Last Samurai
33) My Cousin Vinny
34) Red Cliff
35) The Orphanage
36) Lolita
37) Tell No One
38) The Matrix
39) American Beauty
40) Road to Perdition
41) Casablanca
42) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
43) Dial M for Murder
44) Apocalypse Now redux
45) Heat
46) Beauty and the Beast
47) Titanic
48) Sin Nombre
49) Bicycle Thief
50) Traffic

Not in order, of course.

which version of Solaris, jhiggy? 2002? or the original?

[lDlisturb3d]

[QUOTE=jhiggy23;3925827]My favorites?

[Show spoiler]1) The Fountain
2) 12 Angry Men
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
4) The Lives of Others
5) Judgment at Nuremberg
6) The Werckmeister Harmonies
7) Vivre Sa Vie
8) Amelie
9) Braveheart
10) Forrest Gump
11) The Deer Hunter
12) The Godfather
13) The Cove
14) Room in Rome
15) Solaris
16) The New World
17) The Thin Red Line
18) Psycho
19) Alien
20) Aliens
21) 400 Blows
22) Everlasting Moments
23) Last Year at Marienbad
24) Paris, Texas
25) Playtime
26) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
27) A River Runs Through It
28) Atonement
29) The Assassination of Jesse James
30) Gattaca
31) House of Flying Daggers
32) The Last Samurai
33) My Cousin Vinny
34) Red Cliff
35) The Orphanage
36) Lolita
37) Tell No One
38) The Matrix
39) American Beauty
40) Road to Perdition
41) Casablanca
42) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
43) Dial M for Murder
44) Apocalypse Now redux
45) Heat
46) Beauty and the Beast
47) Titanic
48) Sin Nombre
49) Bicycle Thief
50) Traffic

Not in order, of course.[

/QUOTE]


I didnt know you like Red Cliff. That movie was so damn amazing i sold the theatrical and now im planning to by the international version which at the time i didnt know existed!

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Diesel

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/28_up/

Just guessing

thanks a lot wikipedia, i type in "28 Up" and gives me some bullshhhh British documentary series from 1964!

[Show spoiler]thanks Diesel!

[shinseiRomeo]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Martin braved his way through it all and wrote the review for the site

Must have took a LONG time.

All of the extras? Isn't that 60hrs worth...?!

I had a hard time reviewing Iron Man 2 here as that had a shit ton of extras, had to watch it over two days. Aliens is the motherload, no pun intended.

[jhiggy23]

[QUOTE=lDlisturb3d;3925850]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

My favorites?

[Show spoiler]1) The Fountain
2) 12 Angry Men
3) To Kill a Mockingbird
4) The Lives of Others
5) Judgment at Nuremberg
6) The Werckmeister Harmonies
7) Vivre Sa Vie
8) Amelie
9) Braveheart
10) Forrest Gump
11) The Deer Hunter
12) The Godfather
13) The Cove
14) Room in Rome
15) Solaris
16) The New World
17) The Thin Red Line
18) Psycho
19) Alien
20) Aliens
21) 400 Blows
22) Everlasting Moments
23) Last Year at Marienbad
24) Paris, Texas
25) Playtime
26) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
27) A River Runs Through It
28) Atonement
29) The Assassination of Jesse James
30) Gattaca
31) House of Flying Daggers
32) The Last Samurai
33) My Cousin Vinny
34) Red Cliff
35) The Orphanage
36) Lolita
37) Tell No One
38) The Matrix
39) American Beauty
40) Road to Perdition
41) Casablanca
42) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
43) Dial M for Murder
44) Apocalypse Now redux
45) Heat
46) Beauty and the Beast
47) Titanic
48) Sin Nombre
49) Bicycle Thief
50) Traffic

Not in order, of course.[

/QUOTE]


I didnt know you like Red Cliff. That movie was so damn amazing i sold the theatrical and now im planning to by the international version which at the time i didnt know existed!

My mom saw the theatrical (as did most critics) and loved it. Many critics didn't know how an additional 2 hours could be added. I assure you that at no point does the film drag--it's pacing is fantastic for a four hour film. Easily one of the best and most effective epics out there.

[Diesel]

This thread has freaking EXPLODED!

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

thanks a lot wikipedia, i type in "28 Up" and gives me some bullshhhh British documentary series from 1964!

[Show spoiler]thanks Diesel!

Wikipedia, sometimes its , sometimes its

Originally Posted by shinseiromeo

All of the extras? Isn't that 60hrs worth...?!

I had a hard time reviewing Iron Man 2 here as that had a shit ton of extras, had to watch it over two days. Aliens is the motherload, no pun intended.

Well he described ALL of the extras, I don't know if he actually watched them all before writing the review. He may have.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by shinseiromeo

All of the extras? Isn't that 60hrs worth...?!

I had a hard time reviewing Iron Man 2 here as that had a shit ton of extras, had to watch it over two days. Aliens is the motherload, no pun intended.

in the Alien Anthology thread and in his review didn't he say he got it Friday afternoon? so if he started right away, and the review wasn't up until either late, late last night or early this morning (i was up until 1:30 where i am (central standard time)) so if he stayed with it, that gives him around 4 days = 96 hours.

depending on if he likes to sleep or not, and when the set arrived Friday, it could be done.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Diesel

This thread has freaking EXPLODED!

i know. i'm having a nice, quiet discussion with DJ about our favorites list and then suddenly everyone chimes in, as if i care or talk to these people

[Show spoiler]

but that's okay, it's my goal to get this thread to 20,000 posts by December 31, 2010 11:59pm

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

as for my list, i was actually just looking it over last night and made some rearrangements, here's my top 20 (favorites, not "best made films")

[Show spoiler]1. Fight Club
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Apocalypse Now
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Lives of Others
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. (500) Days of Summer
9. Magnolia
10. Zodiac
11. Mulholland Dr.
12. The Mist
13. The Last Kiss
14. Requiem for a Dream
15. Punch Drunk Love
16. Moon
17. Boogie Nights
18. Garden State
19. Michael Clayton
20. Blow

wow, 4 of the same top-10, and 5 of the same top-11...that's sick!