The Official Movie Thread

[Kristuphir]

City of God (Cidade de Deus)

Fuck yes, an amazing movie. I watched that one 360 degree shot about 5 times in a row...

[Jand3rson]

Oh great, a movie thread. I'm in for the rest of the night.

Here's my list, and doesn't even encompass the sphere of my uber movie snobbiness:

Layer Cake, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Donnie Darko, Sin City, Scratch, Trainspotting, 300, Casino Royale, Smokin' Aces, Lucky Number Slevin, Grandma's Boy, Waiting, V For Vendetta, ALL 3 Matrix films, Run Lola Run, Kill Bill, Fight Club, Blade, Super Troopers, Se7en, Ronin, Run Lola Run, Out Cold, Underworld, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Saw, Superbad, Death Proof, American Psycho, Robot Jox, The Boondock Saints, The Bourne Trilogy, Garden State...

I'll add more later. But I'll say this, I'm fucking STOKED for Sweeney Todd.

[speedhop]

I'll add more later. But I'll say this, I'm fucking STOKED for Sweeney Todd.

YESSSSSS...good movie choices

[E_DIRTY]

Taxi 4 the other night (french movie, not the american bs remake, and the first 2 parts were much better).

wait. is four the one where the taxi races the evos? i think i've only seen three. who do they go up against in 4? i just about got wood the first time i saw the car to car footage in taxi 1. the american movie was honestly the biggest letdown of my life.

my list:
shaft (roundtree, not jackson, aight?)
lock, stock, and two smoking barrels
high fidelity
annie hall
eternal sunshine
smokey and the bandit
john carpenter's The Thing
the game
kiss kiss bang bang

and btw. before the devil knows youre dead is the biggest piece of shit i've ever seen. even the fact that marissa tomei is in it, and naked for a solid third of the movie, the thing was awful. and it's bad when even gratuitous nudity didn't make the movie watchable.

[TwoJ's]

300 was okay. A little bit more historical accuracy would have been nice. And I really want to see No Country For Old Men, does it live up to expectations? I thoroughly enjoy any Tarantino films, especially Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction etc. I like films that require a bit of thinking and aren't mindless i.e. Donnie Darko and such.

Oh, and the only two Guy Ritchie films I've seen were great (Lock Stock and Snatch).

[Charlie]

Indies... anyone watched "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada"?

Just one example. I used to not like Tommy Lee Jones but he's grown on me.. but not to focus on one movie.

Great flick, I've actually got it on DVD. I'm a big Dwight Yoakam fan, both his music, and his film career. He's great in this flick. The only thing that kind of irked me about "No Country for Old Men" was that Tommy Lee Jones plays practically the exact same character in it as he did in "Estrada". Granted, both roles consisted of a border town Texas Sheriff filmed about 2 years apart, but it was kind of eerie nonetheless.

-Charlie

[Turf1600]

I forgot V for Vendetta, office space, sin city...

And for anyone who skates - Cheese and Crackers!!

[Charlie]

And I really want to see No Country For Old Men, does it live up to expectations?

What are your expectations? It's a Coen brothers film, so if you like their catalogue of work, (beyond just Fargo & Lebowski) you'll probably enjoy it. Chigurh, the main antagonist is wild. He plays a great sociopath.

-Charlie

[Jand3rson]

300 was okay. A little bit more historical accuracy would have been nice.

SO many people say this, and I don't think they get that 300 was a grpahic novel done by Frank Miller, the same guy that did the Sin City books. It was his take on the events at Thermopylae, BASED on what actually happened. He took the basis of the historical events and put his own spin on them. Been done hundreds of times on hundreds of events.

[Turf1600]

SO many people say this, and I don't think they get that 300 was a grpahic novel done by Frank Miller, the same guy that did the Sin City books. It was his take on the events at Thermopylae, BASED on what actually happened. He took the basis of the historical events and put his own spin on them. Been done hundreds of times on hundreds of events.

Kinda like the bible?

[Jean]

wait. is four the one where the taxi races the evos? i think i've only seen three. who do they go up against in 4? i just about got wood the first time i saw the car to car footage in taxi 1. the american movie was honestly the biggest letdown of my life.

Nope, 4 just came out this year. The Taxi was upgraded yet again, but it's lacking in chase scenes compared to the previous 3 movies imho.

[CorvallisBMW]

Kinda like the bible?

That much I agree with you on :)

[CorvallisBMW]

I'll add more later. But I'll say this, I'm fucking STOKED for Sweeney Todd.

I am headed down to SoCal next week to visit a friend, and he got us tickets to the pre screening. Supposedly Depp will be there

[Turf1600]

That much I agree with you on :)

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Haha when I saw that you responded I was like "fuck what now"

[Kristuphir]

Great flick, I've actually got it on DVD. I'm a big Dwight Yoakam fan, both his music, and his film career. He's great in this flick. The only thing that kind of irked me about "No Country for Old Men" was that Tommy Lee Jones plays practically the exact same character in it as he did in "Estrada". Granted, both roles consisted of a border town Texas Sheriff filmed about 2 years apart, but it was kind of eerie nonetheless.

-Charlie

You know, I was wondering about that. I haven't seen "Estrada" yet, but I just sort of assumed the characters were similar. I think the thing with Tommy Lee Jones, who I didn't used to be a fan of, is that many of his characters are pretty similar and his range isn't huge. But I think as he gets older, he inhabits his persona a bit differently and now it really fits, and he's getting some roles that really work with it. Kinda like Eastwood in that way - he's always the same guy, always has been, but that "guy" works to the point of elevating a lot of the stuff that he's in.