Movies You've Seen Recently: Return of the Revenge of the Curse of the...
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Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Ran > Rashomon. Would be the other way around, but that ending on Rashomon is actually so bad that it drops the whole thing down a significant notch.
Edit: The Bad Sleep Well is also great. Melodrama, but very Shakespearean.
Edit: The Bad Sleep Well is also great. Melodrama, but very Shakespearean.
Count Dookkake
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DREAMS is very underrated.
brianjones
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im in the same boat.. guess i should see high and low
TheKaeptain
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You should try and watch all of Takashi Miike's in a month. lol It's only like 87 movies. A lot are bad but when they are good they are amazing.
Now seriously Ozu should be your next after AK.
Well his contemporary films are better than his Samurai films.
I need to watch this. I've had the Disc for a year.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I still wanna know where CaptYamato and Jack Scofield were talking about me!
TheKaeptain
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lmao it was a joke dude.
ChocolatePuddin
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This was randomly on the other day and it blew my mind, just got the blu ray.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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TheKaeptain
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I'm not sure what I want to watch tonight.
mickcenary
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Man, I wish I didn't read this. Now I feel like I'll be subconsciously trying to nut everything out instead of enjoying the ride. WILL I BE OKAY?!
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Happy-Go-Lucky
I don't know, but I hope you watch it and then report back to this thread because I love reading people's reactions to the movie
TheKaeptain
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I'm thinking more Japanese cinema tonight. Last night before semester starts.
I Saw the Devil - Violent movie, well shot. Goes on for a bit too long. I liked it, even if I wouldn't exactly recommend it openly. I felt that some of the acting was a bit one-note. Also, I never was able to distance myself from the
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main character and, as such, I never began to view his actions as taking things "too far". I viewed it more as he didn't calculate the consequences for his actions
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Watch Nobody Knows and tell me if it's any good.
TheKaeptain
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Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
It's beautiful and devastating.
mickcenary
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I don't know, but I hope you watch it and then report back to this thread because I love reading people's reactions to the movie
I shall watch it tonight. It's just that now I feel like I'll be constantly pondering on just how FUCKED UP this movie could possibly be and ruin everything. Ha. Let's hope that I'm not that clued in.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Oh, don't get me wrong. The movie isn't that fucked up. It's just a great, fun melodrama with a well-told story. Enjoy!
Nappuccino
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This was randomly on the other day and it blew my mind, just got the blu ray.
woaaah, Fassbender is in this?
mickcenary
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Sweet. I'm definitely intrigued.
Also, Gaf, can you recommend me your best depressing/moving/impacting films that you'd deem imperative viewing? I'm in a mood where I want movies to make me feel vulnerable/alive.
Much thanks.
TheKaeptain
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I have Still Walking. Still haven't seen it. I'm still in 70's Japanese cinema phase and I don't ever want to leave it. lol
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Peter Ibbetson
Au Hasard Balthazar
A Woman Under the Influence
Steel Magnolias ;__;
Dancer in the Dark
A Woman Under the Influence
Cries and Whispers
edit: !! I guess this means you really need to watch A Woman Under the Influence.
Nappuccino
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Children of Men
TheKaeptain
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Gemera 3.
When he shoots his own arm off?
When he shoots his own arm off?
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Uh... The Bicycle Thief?
Count Dookkake
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BAD BOY BUBBY - Guy is trapped in apartment for 35 years by abusive mother. Then he gets out.
LOVE EXPOSURE - Guy meets girl of his dreams. Then everything goes wrong.
BREAKING THE WAVES - Mildly retarded woman in a cloistered religious community falls in love with sexy American oil man. Shit gets fucked up.
TURKISH DELIGHT - Artist bangs a lot of chicks and then falls in love. Shit gets fucked up.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Schindler's List.
Moved to great, verbose anger. Anger's an emotion!
TheKaeptain
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Gamera vindicated!
SCULLIBUNDO
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Don't you start. We'll go for pages.
mickcenary
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I watched Schindler's the other night; I felt obligated. It was good, but not as great/shocking as I was expecting it to be. Had I watched it in '93, different story... Mainly because I'd have been 5 years old.
Anyway, huge thanks for the recommendations. I'll get procurin'.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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mickcenary: It wasn't good anger.
Sculli: I try to have a sense of humor. Helps to cope with the crushing loneliness.
Sculli: I try to have a sense of humor. Helps to cope with the crushing loneliness.
I saw The Class recently. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this. It's a simple concept. Just a year in some French school. I think it's probably 9th grade I can't remember. I really liked it. It all felt really genuine and realistic. Like it really captured how kids behave and how frustrating it can be dealing with kids. It almost felt a little nostalgic for me even though I never went to a middle school in Paris. I was also a little horrified at some of the ways things were done in that school like
or wasting so much time having huge discussions instead of doing work. It almost felt like a Lauryn Hill album. There's also none of the sentimentality or melodrama found in other school movies like Freedom Writers or Dangerous Minds. I don't think this movie even had a score although I could be wrong. Anyway, I recommend it. I think it's one of my favorite movies about teaching.
discussing the progress reports of the students in front of other students
Count Dookkake
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They grow 'em big and dumb on the farm planet.
mickcenary
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Ha. I figured as much. Silly Germans!
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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No no no, I mean anger as in "God I hate this movie it's pissing me off."
But I will say that, unlike Life is Beautiful, it didn't make me cheer for the Nazis. So that's good.
Edit: What's especially funny about Life is Beautiful is that
the only reason Benigni died was that he left his cabin. Had he just waited out the night, he would've been saved by the Russians in the morning. Kinda makes the ending line about his "sacrifice" all the more hollow.
Count Dookkake
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Has there ever been a leak of Jerry Lewis's THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED?
I need to see that.
I need to see that.
SCULLIBUNDO
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The only thing about Schindler's List that angers me is that the version of Gloomy Sunday that Williams and Perlman composed for the film has never ever been made available.
Kilgore Trout
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That's too bad. I've been looking forward to seeing this for a long time. Considering Tarr said this is his last film I was hoping for something special.
Still Walking is fantastic. The kind of movie Ozu would have made if he were still around.
Another great contemporary Japanese movie on Netflix is Shall We Dance?
JoJoShabadoo
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For the first time. Great movie. Loved how each character flaw is what turned out to get each person killed respectively when shit got real.
Excellent Scorsese film that I never heard of until I sat down to watch it.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Did you seriously let that go over your head or are you just joking?
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Hey another thing we can agree about.
I think that is one of those holy grail films that has only been screened to like 4 people twice. I've read many articles about it but yeah, that one will be tough. We need to make friends with Jerry Lewis to see it. I am sure we will see it at some point in our lifetimes though.
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