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Last week I saw Rushmore and the Royal Tenenbaums.

For years I had avoided seeing Rushmore because an asshole co-worker at a place I used to work recommended the movie to me and said that he was immediately reminded of me when he watched the film.

I enjoyed Rushmore, but don't have any regrets waiting as long as I did, if only so that I could honestly tell him that I hadn't yet seen it every single time he asked.

Both movies were good, but I felt that RT was less focused and more all-over-the-map. Something about Owen Wilson also annoyed me. Maybe it's the smug self-awareness, which is fine in writing and not so good during a performance.
 
TOM f'N CRUISE said:
*Total Recall remake*

enjoyed this in the theater and enjoyed it on dvd
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I saw this too, thought it was alright. Hollywood continues to remake movies with personality into generic blockbusters. Wasn't offensive or anything but it just is what it is. What was with that stupid bass drop every time something even mildly dramatic happened? Quaid puts a coffee cup down *BASS DROP*

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Watched this on Netflix last night, was fucking awesome!!!!!
 
Tenenbaums and Rushmore are both rad, I do share a disdain for Owen Wilson though, he's just awful. I watched Midnight in Paris a few days ago and his gooch is hard to see passed.
 
Mondriaan said:
Both movies were good, but I felt that RT was less focused and more all-over-the-map. Something about Owen Wilson also annoyed me. Maybe it's the smug self-awareness, which is fine in writing and not so good during a performance.
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Well...Owen Wilson's performance was performed in a kind of obsolete vernacular?

Wildcat.....Wild. Cat. Wildcat.

I'm gonna go. I'm posting this and I'm going. Stepping out.
 
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Just saw Sleuth which was simply amazing. Just the excellent writing, solid direction, the witty banter, the terrific acting the fact that the movie keeps you guessing make this a classic. I love the way it all played out and how the story was set up. I did feel kinda bad for recognizing
Inspector Doppler
the moment he appeared in the door, but his reveal comes pretty quickly so it wasn't that bad. 9/10

Can anyone recommend similar movies?
 
Mondriaan said:
Last week I saw Rushmore and the Royal Tenenbaums.

For years I had avoided seeing Rushmore because an asshole co-worker at a place I used to work recommended the movie to me and said that he was immediately reminded of me when he watched the film.

I enjoyed Rushmore, but don't have any regrets waiting as long as I did, if only so that I could honestly tell him that I hadn't yet seen it every single time he asked.

Both movies were good, but I felt that RT was less focused and more all-over-the-map. Something about Owen Wilson also annoyed me. Maybe it's the smug self-awareness, which is fine in writing and not so good during a performance.
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I thought it was perfect for a character who tried to seem more important and better than he ever actually was.
 
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Just saw Sleuth which was simply amazing. Just the excellent writing, solid direction, the witty banter, the terrific acting the fact that the movie keeps you guessing make this a classic. I love the way it all played out and how the story was set up. I did feel kinda bad for recognizing
Inspector Doppler
the moment he appeared in the door, but his reveal comes pretty quickly so it wasn't that bad. 9/10

Can anyone recommend similar movies?
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It's nowhere near as good as Sleuth, but it has Michael Caine, twists and it's quite fun so I'm always pimping Deathtrap.
 
Any thoughts on Glengarry Glen Ross? I saw the clip of Alec Baldwin's incredible performance in it today so it'll probably be my next movie to see.
 
Minamu said:
Any thoughts on Glengarry Glen Ross? I saw the clip of Alec Baldwin's incredible performance in it today so it'll probably be my next movie to see.
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Great film, some amazing performances but (unpopular opinion alert) I thought Jack Lemmon really hammed it up in his role.
 
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums are not a bad trifecta of films to co-write. I think he's very underrated, and there's obviously more to him than just being a Hollywood funnyman (and he is very funny I think, a different kind of funny though, and he's very good at adlibbing) Darjeeling Limited, Bottle Rocket and Midnight in Paris are three very enjoyable performances. Hope he makes some more stuff with Wes in the near future, be it writing or acting. Or Woody Allen for that matter, he's a good Allen surrogate.

Anyway, watched: Into the Abyss(2011)

Herzog's exploration into capital punishment through a triple homicide case in Texas (hell of a place) was pretty much as expected (although it's more than just an issue film about capital punishment, in fact it isn't really that at all). It's admirable that Herzog remains non-judgemental throughout this, despite the fact he's dealing with losers that don't deserve the respect he gives them. There's truly nothing interesting or redeeming to be found within the souls of the two inmates (only one is on death row); there seems to be little or no remorse in them for one thing. The father of one of the inmates (also incarcerated) is arguably a more interesting human being, but in the end they really are hopeless criminals that carried out a brutal and unnecessary act of evil, regardless of the hands that they were dealt. I thought it was obvious before, but after watching, I've been wondering just what abyss Herzog is referring to in his title.

You would think that an intimate conversation with a human being that is scheduled to die in 8 days (that is within 8 days of appearing on screen) would be the most interesting thing about the film, but it wasn't. The interviews with the prison workers who ferry the condemned were what I found to be the most insightful. You could just see this terrible sadness looming over them. I won't ruin anything by discussing what they say in their interviews, and if you've seen it you'll know probably know the interviews I speak of, but I think they were the most poignant moments in the documentary. Also, the interview with one of the victim's brother's was pretty hard to watch, as you would expect I guess. There's more to be said here, as there is with any film about capital punishment but I'll leave it for now.

Oh, death-row groupies are strange.
 
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I watched this finally the other night lol. Pretty silly movie, but I knew what I was getting when I went in (another SNL thing that didn't require a movie but has one so *shrugs*). Great soundtrack of course, for some reason I use to listen to all that kinda stuff when I was younger.

My GF absolutely hates the What Is Love song which makes me laugh at it all the more. :D

Eva Mendes is randomly in it too as a bridesmaid for like 4 seconds (one of her first 'roles'?).

Molly Shannon is still awesome.
 
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Girlfriend and I saw this movie last night. Completely caught off guard by the look, as I hadn't seen anything outside of the trailers. Jude Law was great. Levin was good. Matthew Mcfadyen was funny. Keira played Keira. I didn't hate Aaron Johnson as much I expected, but I didn't like her.

I'll say that the play metaphor worked for me, but she hated it. Thought it was too kinetic and distracting the whole time, which I didn't mind. We both agreed that the ball scene was amazing, though. Completely seamless.

Also, weird to see the chick from Luther in this...and I recognized her because of the massive lips.

I think the film ultimately fails in fleshing out Anna Karenina's struggles. My girlfriend had not read the book, and she didn't see the conflict within her character at all. Wright isn't particularly sympathetic to AK, and they really don't focus too much on her inner conflict.
 
Scullibundo said:
I really enjoyed Wilson in Darjeeling.
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Wilson is good at playing unconscientious assholes.

I just finished watching Darjeeling Express and I don't think I would have appreciated it nearly as much if I hadn't already seen The Royal Tenenbaums.
The film felt like a really long set-up for an Anjelica Huston RT bad parenting joke.
 
I've just watched Hugo.

Every time I get excited about a 3D film coming to the cinema, I get the irrational urge to check out every film that's available in 3D to see if I can convince myself to buy a 3DTV, and I never can, because there's virtually nothing I care about in 3D, subtract a couple of the things I'd be interested in, but the 3D is reportedly bad, and I'm left with two or three films, and I'm certainly not buying a TV for that.

I can't remember when, but some time this year I had that same urge, and thought I'd try Hugo, and I got bored and bailed about an hour in, so I thought I'd give it another try. I do think it's a frightfully boring first hour, it is indeed pretty, but I don't feel like much happens, I don't really like the way the two kids interact, it's a rocky start, but the second half is really pretty great. Even as someone who has basically no attachment to early films.

It's funny, I can't imagine a film I'd think of as being further away from how I see Scorsese as a filmmaker, and closer to how I see him as a man than this film, it practically radiates the same feelings as he always does in interviews, it's very usual.

Ultimately, I'm really glad I gave it a second chance, it's a nice film, and it's really pretty (although not close to as pretty as Tree of Life, which it beat out for the Oscar), when I get around to getting a 3DTV, I'll certainly pick it up.

EDIT: And the girl's constant lip licking is really annoying, not sure if that's a character thing or the girl herself, but it's bad.
EDIT2: The 3D Blu Ray is only £6, might as well grab it now.
 
Maybe it's because I just saw Django Unchained over the weekend, but I think after my Bond marathon is over, I'm going to go on a spaghetti western kick.

Other than the Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West (which I've already seen), any good recommendations? Already have my eye on the original Django.
 
Blader5489 said:
Maybe it's because I just saw Django Unchained over the weekend, but I think after my Bond marathon is over, I'm going to go on a spaghetti western kick.

Other than the Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West (which I've already seen), any good recommendations? Already have my eye on the original Django.
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Finish off Leone with My Name is Nobody and Duck, You Sucker.

Can't go wrong with Sergio Corbucci: Django, Navajo Joe, The Great Silence, Companeros, The Mercenary, A Professional Gun, Hellbenders.

Lee Van Cleef is in some good ones. Death Rides a Horse, the original Sabata, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown.

Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer films are great. My Name is Trinity and Trinity is Still my Name in particular.

There's a bunch of Django films out there, but the only one I've seen is Django, Kill! which was serviceable (they're mostly stand alone films and a lot of them don't even have a character named Django in them, it was just a marketing ploy).

A Bullet for the General, Keoma, A Pistol for Ringo and it's sequel The Return of Ringo, Red Sun, and 'Run, Man, Run' to name a bit more.
 
Saw Lock-out. Pretty great Escape from:________ style movie. It drags just a tad in the middle and it would have been nice to see the really crazy guy's story come full circle
either killed by Snow/the girl or taken out, remorsefully, by his brother. I'd have preferred the latter because the former is much too common.
I was a bit surprised, though I liked, how it was a little more hard edged than I expected. The Bodycount was shockingly high given the main characters light and jovial attitude through most of it.

Re-watched The Royal Tenenbaums in part, due to the talk here.

Still fantastic, even if I have to fight through the opening introductions a bit more on every re-watch. The movie really catches fire once they're all back in the house together. Great great stuff.

Next up- Rushmore, it is the only Wes movie I've seen less than 4 times. Scratch that, it's the only Wes movie I've seen once. I finally own it and have some catching up to do.
 
Every time I watch a Godard film I'm always hoping it'll be even better than Breathless, somehow.

It's gotta be out there somewhere, although his post-67 work is uh...well, it is
 
I saw the new Total Recall director's cut

it wasnt necesarelly a bad popcorn action flick on its own

but it being a remake of a superior version and such; it was pretty damn pointless
 
I once wrote a 20,000 word essay on a single scene in Godard's Contempt..... :-/
His films really knocked me out when I discovered them, Vivre sa Vie is still my very favourite of all films.
 
SalsaShark said:
I saw the new Total Recall director's cut

it wasnt necesarelly a bad popcorn action flick on its own

but it being a remake of a superior version and such; it was pretty damn pointless
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The original is far superior.

I'm open to a remake if it's done well, or truly has its own character. But the new Total Recall was just so bland.
 
Killing Them Softly was so fantastic. Brad Pitt is handsome and I wish Richard Jenkins was my uncle. Also, it was beautifully shot and edited, incredibly tense, and the way the themes unraveled was neat and effective. Awesome soundtrack, too. Oh and James Gandolfini is amazing in this.
 
Just re-watched Kill Bill two night in a row for each part, Vol 1 not as amazing when I watch it for the first time, its great but fight with crazy 88 kinda dragging and its bore me and make me not care with the climax versus O-ren.

Vol 2 though, goddamn its still mindblown me how seamless the directing were, and every chapter have golden moment that you couldn't forget, and man.. the closing part, bloody fantastic. I have no word, such a brilliant cast that this movie have.

Now if just I don't need to wait long to see Django, fuck.
 
fertygo said:
Just re-watched Kill Bill two night in a row for each part, Vol 1 not as amazing when I watch it for the first time, its great but fight with crazy 88 kinda dragging and its bore me and make me not care with the climax versus O-ren.

Vol 2 though, goddamn its still mindblown me how seamless the directing were, and every chapter have golden moment that you couldn't forget, and man.. the closing part, bloody fantastic. I have no word, such a brilliant cast that this movie have.

Now if just I don't need to wait long to see Django, fuck.
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Agreed. Kill Bill Vol 2 just totally blew me away after Vol 1. Its on a whole other level.
 
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