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AlternativeUlster said:
Brighter Summer Day got a new print in the US last year and appeared on some Top 10 lists just because it wasn't previously available. When I talked to someone over at Fox Lorber about 10 years ago they said the reason why they didn't get the rights to other Edward Yang films was because it was so too expensive to get the rights. Who usually releases the World Cinema Foundation restorations if they have been released on home video? I knew Mubi streamed The Housemaid.
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is there plans for a brighter summer day home release? are yang's films in print in taiwan? i guess its weird because there's only vhs rips of some of his films which i find odd considering his stature.

i think touki bouki was on netflix for awhile.


AlternativeUlster said:
P.s. I am glad you liked Syndromes and a Century. It made me want to revisit his previous works.
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yea i want to revisit boonmee again also. just the sense of place you get from him camera is remarkable especially for a contemporary film maker.
 
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Reign of Fire

I had originally watched this in theaters my senior year of high school but didn't really pay much attention. Finished it up last night. Really enjoyed it. Dragon CGI is pretty good for 2002.
 
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Don't even know what I just watched. Can't really say it was good, why was levitt and portman in this ? maybe the script looked better lol

is there a site i can make a check list of movies i have seen recently and maybe there is a buddy system where u can see what friends are watching too? i am noob

edit: edited pic. where do u guys get ur pics? i just google a small sized poster lol
 
Protip: never post a movie poster as the title. Most of the time we see nothing followed by "WOW WHAT DID I JUST WATCH INCREDIBLE."
 
Watched Harold and Maude for like the 26th time the other night. It was the first time for my girlfriend and I was so glad she enjoyed it. One of my all time favorite films. The nuances are just right; the juxtaposition; a lot of the editing/cinematography, etc.

Tonight I'm looking forward to watching Winnie the Pooh that came out last year This weekend I'm going to rewatch Contact as it's been far too long. Plus Carl Sagan rememberance points.
 
Submarine (2010)

I didn't enjoy this one. I'm not entirely sure where all the praise comes from, the narration made me cringe at times and I found the two main characters and their silly relationship to be extremely annoying. I couldn't shake the feeling that the film was trying to hard, not sure if I'm alone in that.
 
Watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night. Liked the movie, but just gotta comment on what happened. Wasn't all that many in the theater and we we were farther up to the right and there was a shady character one row down. Middle of the movie he gets up walks towards the banister, thinking he's just moving over, nope fucker gets on it jumps over. Like 12 feet drop, lmao guess he was really getting into the movie and wanted to do some M style stunts, a couple minutes later he walked in like nothing happened lol
 
Just got done watching Kill List. It was very good at creating a sense of dread. The soundtrack was very There Will Be Blood-ish. It was brutal and violent. It did a good job of developing the characters and giving a glimpse of their dynamics with one another. With that said... can someone please explain wtf happened?

The worst part is I wasn't even like "wtf, I can't believe it" at the shock ending. As soon as I saw "The Hunchback" I knew what the deal was so I was even deprived of that much.
 
laughed hard at tucker and dale vs. evil. what a really excellent surprise this was. alan tudyk is way underused and i want him to be in everything.

it's on netflix w.i., so please, give it a go.
 
Kraftwerk said:
How so? Too long?
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It feels like a good film that could have been really, really great.

So it's a disappointment, in a way.

There's some great performances (Norton, of course) and some lines of dialogue that I find really cool/insightful but I don't know feels a little whitewashed.

I should rewatch so I can be more specific.
 
Kraftwerk said:
eh, I don't get the orlando Bloom hate just because he is a "pretty boy". No he isn't the greatest actor, but he gets too much unwarranted hate.
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but he's not pretty at all. he's rat-like and seems completely anachronistic in the film. i thought he was fine in POTC:COTBP, for what it's worth. and LOTR, for that matter. but in this he just felt very out of place.
 
Nappuccino said:
Since no one else answered it, that is because the film is based on the book by Robert Graysmith and his conclusion, not what actually happened.

Both the screen writer and director have a different belief about who the killer was, but since the script was about Robert's book, they decided to stick with his version of how everything happened.
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I'm familiar with Graysmith's book but who do Fincher and crew think was the Zodiac?

Never heard that before.
 
For me Bloom has the look but no charisma outside of Legolas in LOTR.

Pirates he was completely outclassed by pretty much everyone on camera.

I remember thinking he "wasn't awful" in KOH but I also remember wanting more from his performance.
Kinda bland. Maybe that was just his character and can be blamed on writing.
 
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
Didn't liked it as much as the other films by Schlöndorff that i've seem. All his films are very political but this one takes it a step too far imo. It's very one sided "68er" left wing propganda. Pretty much everyone except Katharina and some of her friends are portrait as cliched imperialist/capitalist/fascist assholes. She's depicted as an victim but isn't really that innocent at all. Schlöndorff seemingly tried to justify left wing terror, all with a good portion of cynism and polemics. At a time when the Red Army Fraction actualy killed people in Western Germany.

However these are only my personal reservations against the topic of the film. There is not much to criticise when it comes to the technical and artistic aspects of it.
 
Re-watching The Godfather III right now, and I have a question, to the people who did not like the movie.

When I ask my friends why did they not like it, they either say because of Sophia Coppola, or the complicated story. Sometimes both. I'm tired of hearing the same criticism.

I highly respect Gaf's opinions, so I thought I would ask this question from you guys.

Why did you not like Godfather III?
 
I haven't seen any of the Godfather movies. Why bother watching it when there are so many other movies that look more interesting. I'll get to it eventually. :p
 
The Descent 2.

Did not know there was a sequel until someone mentioned it. Wasn't as good as the first. In fact, most of the movie was lame until
Juno appears alive and started kicking ass.

Movie has same problems I have in movies. People tend to be absolutely stupid and not use common sense. Hey we're stuck in a cave with creatures who are blind but are super sensitive to sound, let's god damn scream at the top of our lungs. Dumbass people I swear.

The last 10-15 minutes of the movie were intense as the original and made up for the rest of movie.
 
swoon said:
yea, it just proves i've woefully under watched in rohmer, because i got off to a wrong start with him initially, but we are in love now.
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This happened to me over the past year or so as I started exploring beyond the Moral Tales and learned that shockingly few of his films are less than first-rate. I might have listed even more (A Summer's Tale is wonderful), but I thought some variety would be nice.

swoon said:
here's a couple for you

Criss Cross (1949)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
In A Year With 13 Moons (1978)
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I've seen the Fassbinder and of course it's very great, but I'll definitely seek out the other two. They've been on my radar for awhile.

swoon said:
yea, watching his early films don't really hint at the brilliance of europa and voyage to italy.
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Yeah, Voyage to Italy made a similar impression on me when I saw it a few years ago, but I still wasn't quite prepared for Europa 51, which I think is possibly even more enigmatic, stylistically exalted and thematically complex.
 
Kraftwerk said:
Re-watching The Godfather III right now, and I have a question, to the people who did not like the movie.

When I ask my friends why did they not like it, they either say because of Sophia Coppola, or the complicated story. Sometimes both. I'm tired of hearing the same criticism.

I highly respect Gaf's opinions, so I thought I would ask this question from you guys.

Why did you not like Godfather III?
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I enjoy Godfather III, a fitting conclusion to the series.
 
Kraftwerk said:
Re-watching The Godfather III right now, and I have a question, to the people who did not like the movie.

When I ask my friends why did they not like it, they either say because of Sophia Coppola, or the complicated story. Sometimes both. I'm tired of hearing the same criticism.

I highly respect Gaf's opinions, so I thought I would ask this question from you guys.

Why did you not like Godfather III?
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It's basically fanfic. All of the surviving characters from the first two films were de-eviled until they were unrecognizable, and the movie's overarching theme is that the Corelone family used to be kinda bad, but they're good now! And definitely not as bad as those bad apples in the Vatican!

Makes for an excellent drinking game, if you quaff every time somebody says any variant of "I love you" or "I've always loved you." "Oh Michael, I've always loved you, even after
you had your own brother-in-law garroted, even when I realized you were the fully complicit head of a mass-murdering criminal organization, even when I aborted your son out of sheer spite, and especially when you punched me in the face and separated me from my kids.
I only wish things could be that good between us again."
 
I just rewatched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It was my second time seeing it (the first was about a year ago) and damn its still good! I liked being able to understand a few more things as well as seeing things I missed the first time.

I've always had a crush on Kate Winslet and I think she and Jim Carrey did very great in this. Its definitely become one of my favorites. The line "Please let me keep this memory, just this one" is so sad - that and the last memory that is erased.
 
I bought cheapo copies of Miller's Crossing (seen it already, but its great and it was like $4 new), Jackie Brown (never seen it) and Glengarry Glenn Ross (seen parts of it, been wanting to see the rest) from a local Blockbuster that's moving... and I forgot to bring them home with me during the week. Sigh.

I've got tons of other movies sitting around here for me to watch, though. Maybe I'll start on them tomorrow.
 
GurgleBot20 said:
Satantango:

Nothing short of astonishing. A+, 5/5, 10/10, whatever arbitrary rating you want to give it.
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Did you watch it in one sitting? Personaly i didn't give it a perfect score. It's a great film, a very unique experience. I would recommend it to anyone who can appreciate slow moving artistic films. Tarr isn't a good story teller tho and the cat torture scene also deserves deduction of a point imo. My rating on imdb was 8/10.
 
I bought cheapo copies of Miller's Crossing (seen it already, but its great and it was like $4 new), Jackie Brown (never seen it) and Glengarry Glenn Ross (seen parts of it, been wanting to see the rest) from a local Blockbuster that's moving... and I forgot to bring them home with me during the week. Sigh.
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Holy hell that is a super combo, triple threat, hands down fantastic series of selections. All are perfect.
 
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Has anyone seen this one? I'm almost certain that someone recommended it to me earlier on in the thread (or maybe it was the last Movies You've Seen Recently thread), I only got around to watching it today but man, I thought it was great.

It's fairly simple but it's bleak, grim and I think pretty far ahead of its time in its brief handling of the moral questions that it raises concerning lynch mobs and frontier /vigilante justice. Henry Fonda stars as the main character (I guess), I'm not even sure of his name (Gil maybe?), but it doesn't really matter - the main character is pretty much just a passive onlooker like the viewer, watching 3 innocent men being condemned to immediate death by hanging. It's pretty powerful considering it's almost 70 years old, and the lighting in the film was spectacular. The majority of the film pretty much takes place on one set but you really don't care because it's so well shot.
 
_Isaac said:
What makes Bloom so distracting? What makes him anachronistic?
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I'm not sure, I think it's just the poor acting, but I think he was great in Troy and LOTR

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Watched this last night and I thought it was great. For pretty much the entire movie I had no idea what was going on, but somehow every thing made sense by the end. Great directing and an awesome cast! I had no idea gary oldman was british, i was like damn that is a good accent
 
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