Movies

Hi All,

I do not usually go to the movies in the theaters unless the movie is really special becuase most theaters have really messed up the way they show movies and they are very expensive.
So now I wait and rent most of the movies I see from Netflix.

so I what some recomendations of what to watch and why.
these can be brand new Movies that are just coming out into the theaters or ones that have recently been released on DVD or even real old movies

as in example

So I saw a preview for this movie coming out called Cabin Feaver.

A group of college kidds go on a get away before graduating and one of them gets sick with the flesh eating virus then they have to deal with it, each other, and the towns people.

Any one else seen this yet?

also I saw Dare Devil recently I liked it. The movie had a great moment when He sees her face in the sound the rainmakes as it hits her face.

I have the stereotypical geek's movie junkie syndrome... don't pretend you don't know it. I see a movie every friday, and I love it, but recently the movies have been looking so aweful I can't bring myself to go to any. Even in my favorite theatere in the Calabasas Commons, I simply refuse to see such movies as Gili (pause for vomiting). My favorite movies of this summer, few good ones as there were, has to be: Pirates of the Carribean, Seabiscut, Identity (not this summer but I loved it) and The Matrix Reloaded.

Rick Jokingly says " I am afraid toi see Matrix Reloaded, i think there must be subliminal messages in it that is making so many people see it and then kill thier families"

honestly thogh I will wait to see that and the others you mentioned.

Pirate and Identity I have been hearding very good things about.

Seabiscuit I do not know about, I mean I like the actor Toby but didn't they already make this movie a long time ago?

i think Jason Schwartzman is funny. Check out "Spun" or "Slackers". I liked Matrix Reloaded but the sex scene destroyed the coolness factor in my opinion.

I don't go out to the movies but we rent at least two a week. We've discussed a few (Rick). I'm going to be watching this for reviews on newer releases so I know what to rent when they come out

I also only go to the cinema to watch a film if it looks like it will be a great film. My local cinema has a bit of a problem with RL griefers, throwing popcorn at people and talking and shouting thru the film, and thats another reason why I prefer to wait and rent more often than not.

However, I recently went to see Matrix Reloaded (again) at an IMAX cinema! WOW! I must say though that when the actors faces are four stories tall, they REALLY show up their skin problems! Morpheus is a real 'crater-face' up close! lol

Personally, I can't wait to see Matrix Revolutions, and the next Lord of the Rings film. You just know theyre gonna be great!

another I saw this weekend was "searching for bobby fisher". it's a chess movie and a very young laurence fishburn is a pro-chess hack. I _really_ loved it.

okay so I am going to see cabin fever tomarrow i will give you a review about it afterwards.

Here's a couple that are coming out or are already out that are promising to be fantastic:

American Splendor
Thirteen


I can't wait to see American Splendor. Unfortunately, I live in such a pissant small town that I'll have to drive two hours to see it! But oh well.

Zana

saw Lost In Translation this weekend. Really good - lives up to the hype.

There is an older movie I saw, that I just love. Primarily because of the music in it. It is called 'The Keep'. Scott Glenn stars in itm and the music is by Tangerine Dream. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes Sci-Fi and horror.

I would just like to point out, with incredible smugness that both Spun and Cabin Fever played at last year's Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Maddness programme. I was away from SL last week attending this years TIFF, and there were some more great Midnight Madness (haven for the bizzare genre films that don't make it in to the snootier programmes) screenings including Undead, an Auzzie comedy/horror zombie movie, Ong-Bak Muay-Tai Warrior who's star makes Jet Li and Jackie Chan look like sad little girly men and Cypher, a great techno-thriller. Look out for screenings of any of these.

For recent movies on video House of 1000 Corpses and May are very enjoyable horror flicks. I heard Cabin Fever is good and if can catch 28 Days Later, I hear that's really good.

I just saw Anger Management and it was ok. As for another Adam Sandler flick, Punch Drunk Love is very good IMO.

If all else fails, rent 'The Killer' or 'Hard Boiled' by John Woo.

This movie was not at all what I expected. It's worth a look if you havent seen it.

Equilibrium

It's a mix of 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Matrix. Except it has better action scenes than matrix, IMHO.

Hi I am back sorry about the delay (busy work week) .

My review on Cabin Fever.

I liked it okay but have to admit that there were a few times that I had to close my eyes and stick my fingers in my ears ( to not hear the flesh being pulled away from the body) and make la la noises in my head.
LOL

I likd the actors. they did a great job.

I am told that this was kind of a spoof of movies like this.

It will probably end up as a cult classic, but if you are squimish you might avoid it.

On the other hand I am thinking about making a Cabin fever site some where.

sorry I have not kept this thread up like I should have.
I will try to do better.

recently I have seen
Finding Nemo: that was great
and
Shrek: that was cute
and
S.W.A.T.: Okay Movie but I just never cared about the CHaracters in it. good action and a good fight scene in the railroad yard.
and
Tigerland: surprisingly intense film. I liked this one.

Okay, I will ask:

Who has seen the Passion by Mel Gibbson and WHat did You think about it?

Rick,

People's taste in films vary so widely that recommendations don't mean much unless you know the person very well and know their taste coincides with yours.

My favourite films of all time? Firstly, by far, Fellini's 'Juliet of the Spirits' It was a film made during the early sixties, but its feminist message is much more modern. The wonderful Gulietta Massina plays a middle-class housewife, who feels inferior to her glamorous mother and sister, who begins to suspect her husband is being unfaithful. Her fear, and her attempts to deal with the situation lead her in many directions, to the verge of a nervous breakdown, but at the end of the film she is able to break free of all the social and environmental issues that fetter her, and sees for the first time what she really wants.

Being Fellini it is totally phantasmagorical and visually beautiful throughout. A film I have watched countless times.

A (relatively) recent film I enjoyed very much, and which I feel is underrated, is 'Brassed Off'. It's a British film about a colliery brass band, set in the 80s, when the government was in the process of destroying the coal mining industry. Highly political, containing a love story and lots of nice music.

Another underrated film is 'Jabberwocky' - a Michael Palin film, very much influenced by the Monty Python style. Set in the middle ages, it is, in Palin's words, 'basically a film about dirt'. There is more to it than that, of course, but dirt does play an important role. There is a wonderful performance by Max Wall, who is King Bruno the Questionable, living in a crumbling (and dirty) castle. Palin himself plays a cooper's apprentice who prides himself on his business acumen, and is something of an innocent, but irritating, go-getter. The monster itself, which appears at the end of the film, is a wonderful invention.

As for American films, I did enjoy 'Ramblin' Rose'. Set in 1935, it tells of the arrival into a kind southern family of Rose (an innocent but highly-charged sex-bomb), and the repercussions this has on everybody. At the end of the film the family has to transcend the dictates of society to protect her, and by doing so they allow their humanity to triumph.

And a more recent one yet was from France. 'Amelie' - a story of a strange young woman whose father is somewhat geeky, who decides to start to influence other people's lives. What I particularly liked about this is the central 'mystery' - why are there discarded photographs of the same man in railway stations all over Paris? The answer is obvious when it is revealed, but I didn't get it until then.

Anyway, if you managed to get to the end of this, thanks for reading!

I'm not going to see it. I read the book, so I already know how it ends.

Thank You Wednesday: I think that is the first time that I have heard that response.

and selador thank you for your suggestions I will look into them.

no no no

If you want old movies all you need to see is

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs

Your modern choices are any LOTR movie.

END of discussion!

Well phbbbbt.

It doesn't matter, I think I'm funny.

lmao...

some of my fav movie suggestions:

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
- the first part of the movie is slow.. really slow, but the second half is great. there's an easter egg in the movie. if you watch it, you *might* get it.


Spirited Away (2001)
- great.


Trick (1999)
- i can't stand tori spelling, but this is her shining moment on the screen. after watching this funny movie, i hated her only this much: > <


The Women (1939)
- camp, camp, camp. some great one liners, lots of bitchiness/sassiness, but not a single man in the movie. oddly, you think that they *are* in it.


Friday (1995)
- best watched with friends and any number of mind altering substances.