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Damnit, this is so annoying xD Met a girl last night and she must've been a younger twin sister of some Hollywood actress (not really but quite possibly a clone, Marvel style) but I can't remember her name or what she's been in. I looked for some top 100 lists but couldn't find her :(
 
Minamu said:
Damnit, this is so annoying xD Met a girl last night and she must've been a younger twin sister of some Hollywood actress (not really but quite possibly a clone, Marvel style) but I can't remember her name or what she's been in. I looked for some top 100 lists but couldn't find her :(
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you should start a thread, i bet we could figure it out
 
Just watched The Fly. Superb, very classically done monster film. I loved it. Also watched Cosmopolis. I got that it was supposed to be super clinical, cold. They even got the king of clinical, cold acting, R Patz, to be in it. Still, though... It didn't quite sit well with me. I suppose it accomplished everything it set out to accomplish, I'm just not sure I really liked what it set out to accomplish in the first place.
 
The Return of the Living Dead: This was quite a funny and wonderful movie. The zombies were pretty insane; fast, smart and couldn't be killed. And you even kinda felt bad for them, though I'm not sure how eating brains would relieve pain, but I suppose that's not really important. I did wonder, if the zombies were as strong as people, how could they rise from their graves, and so fast? I'm pretty sure a human buried alive would not be getting up any time soon. The guy who played Frank did a great job, and the start of the movie and his panic was funny as hell, and Freddy begging to eat his girlfriend's brain was pretty hilarious. That redhead dancing at the cemetery had some body on her. I don't remember ever watching this movie before, but I have a faint recollection that as a kid I stumbled across that scene on TV one night, and it did things to me. Ah, to be young again.
 
CaptYamato said:
I watched like 200 movies this year. June through Sept I only watched four movies a month tho.
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Yeah I mean I'm not unhappy with the number I got in this year at all, I just would have rather missed my goal by like, 10 instead of 3 or 4. being that close is painful
jakncoke said:
I wonder how many new movies I watched this year. I kinda stopped keeping track a long time ago lol. I think in 2013 I'm going to try and branch out theaters. I had a bucket list thing to see as many screens in theaters as possible b4 I die. I started keeping track in September, im up to 2 theaters seeing 13 screens out of 32.
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my plan for 2013 is to keep to a few theaters. I already seen enough new releases I feel, but my backlog needs to get some major dents put in it.
 
I watched Contact for the first time since probably 2000ish. The first 3rd is so slow and so 90s it hurts. Just the way it is shot and acted. But then it picks up and is super awesome. Love the actual travel and meeting. I wish Carl was still around.
 
Was there a Contact viewing party while I was on my way to tell brianjones about the Ordet viewing party?

That's one of those ones that objectively pretty terrible, like that whole thing with McConaughey is like yeah right. It was hard enough buying him as a lawyer, but as a scholar, of anything, I don't think so. Also all the bullshit with the destruction of the thing and then ta-da there's another one is stupid. But, it's such an awesome movie. I love the discovery part, and the blueprint figuring out part, and obviously the ending. I sit through this garbage every time just for "I'm ok to go."
 
Recently I have watched Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Rashomon, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro. All for the first time. I enjoyed Yojimbo/Sanjuro so much that I bought both on blu-ray. I want to pick up Seven Samurai on blu-ray next.
 
It must be a cosmic joke because I too was watching Contact last night. It was at Walmart on Blu-ray for $6 and my mom had never seen it.

Going through it again there are definitely parts that are hard to believe, but I think what's so great about this movie is that every discovery actually leads to something substantial instead of the
you-think-it's-aliens-but-it's-not-actually-aliens schtick
which happens so often in movies and has made a bit of a cynic out of me.

When's the next party, by the way?
 
Dial M for murder Liked it. I had only seen "North by northwest" and "the birds" beforehand and will definitely check out more of Hitchcock, and also some Henri-Georges Clouzot's films. I saw this film on french television even though I hate dubbing, directly translated the french title is "The crime was almost perfect". Ok, maybe the english title was difficult to translate, even if it's a little spoilerific, it still has something to do with the movie. Here in Norway the title is the even worse "Call the police!". Call the police? That could be any movie! Seven -> Call the police!, Bad Boys -> Call the police! and why do they put an exclamation mark in the title? Older movies always have stupid titles in Norway (The shining -> the hotel of wickedness), at least they don't dub movies here. Oh, Grace Kelly = hot!
 
jakncoke said:
I dont know why im asking this here, but.. Are you counting just movies you have never seen or all the movies.

Edit; People seem really upset at your thread like they are being forced to join! its amazing.
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All the movies so even if you rewatch them during that year, that should count but I will mostly be watching something new unless Dana hasn't seen it before.
 
It's only now that I think about it that I realize how bad this past year has been for me in terms of watching movies. Outside of cinema releases, I'd say I watched maybe thirty films at home that I hadn't already seen.
 
Scullibundo said:
It's only now that I think about it that I realize how bad this past year has been for me in terms of watching movies. Outside of cinema releases, I'd say I watched maybe thirty films at home that I hadn't already seen.
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I'm disappointed I've only seen 20 films released this year. Before the Oscars I'd probably seen 50 movies from 2011. Don't see how I can catch up the next few months.
 
Borgnine said:
Was there a Contact viewing party while I was on my way to tell brianjones about the Ordet viewing party?

That's one of those ones that objectively pretty terrible, like that whole thing with McConaughey is like yeah right. It was hard enough buying him as a lawyer, but as a scholar, of anything, I don't think so. Also all the bullshit with the destruction of the thing and then ta-da there's another one is stupid. But, it's such an awesome movie. I love the discovery part, and the blueprint figuring out part, and obviously the ending. I sit through this garbage every time just for "I'm ok to go."
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Yeah, he was pretty awful in it. I had a lot of issues with how hamfisted the religion stuff was handled in the movie. I was thinking how ridiculous it would be for some basically televangalist to be put on the board to decide who would be sent to represent all of humanity, but then I got to thinking that Jesse Jackson would probably not be a surprise to be on something like that. The whole idea that faith in god and faith in science aren't very different was so forced and bordered on obnoxious to me. Or the scene where James Woods asks if the aliens even believe in god. What the fuck. That's the first thing you're wondering about? If they believe in the bible? And if they don't believe in god that must mean they're terrible beings that want to destroy earth?

I felt the "see, there are good religious folk and there are bad religious folk" and "faith doesn't have to mean god" were annoying to me. It also seemed like the only religion in the world was Christianity. When god was referred to, it was clearly the Judeo- Christian god. When he asked "Do you believe in god", he clearly wasn't talking about Vishnu or Zeus. And why would anyone think that creatures from different planets would automatically know or give a shit about a book on this one? I wish all of that had been excised from the movie, or greatly truncated. We still would have been able to get the point of what was essentially a religious experience without having a half hour or more of the movie drawing the parallels.

How did the book handle all that stuff? That stuff felt very Hollywood, but I've never read the book.
 
Just watched The Train (1964), John Frankenheimer film with Burt Lancaster. Really enjoyed it, great acting, all shot on location in beautiful black & white. The cinematography really stood out, some fantastic tracking shots.
 
Wrong Turn - Why did I let myself be convinced to watch this? :lol Almost done with Wrong Turn 2 Dead End too, but I'm saving the end for tomorrow. This is gonna be my final film for 2012? O_o Shame.
 
strobogo said:
it was clearly the Judeo- Christian god. When he asked "Do you believe in god", he clearly wasn't talking about Vishnu or Zeus. And why would anyone think that creatures from different planets would automatically know or give a shit about a book on this one?
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His initial question was if she had faith, it wasn't for any specific religion, and she tried to dodge the question so he made it more singular. And another member of the board talks about belief in a creator of some fashion is a broadly shared human trait, way beyond just the Biblical God.
 
StuBurns said:
His initial question was if she had faith, it wasn't for any specific religion, and she tried to dodge the question so he made it more singular. And another member of the board talks about belief in a creator of some fashion is a broadly shared human trait, way beyond just the Biblical God.
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Considering that Palmer was basically the most famous Christian in the world, it is really hard to take that question as anything but "Do you believe in Jesus". That whole part of the plot was bad, I thought. All of that stuff could have been condensed into 5 minutes and made the point just as clear. All the religious stuff was just so heavy handed and clumsy to me.
 
strobogo said:
Considering that Palmer was basically the most famous Christian in the world, it is really hard to take that question as anything but "Do you believe in Jesus".
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I completely disagree. I think it's wholly possible for the most famous Christian to ask a person if they have faith beyond the scope of their own beliefs.

Not that it matters, he doesn't ask because he wants to know, or even cares about it in terms of her viability as a candidate.
 
Amistad

Found it more interesting to watch than Lincoln, if you can believe that. Can totally see why few people wanted to even see it in the first place. Hell, I don't think even my own parents saw it when it came out.
 
Django Unchained - I really love the title "Once Upon a Time in the South". Favorite movie of the year by far.
Z Channel: A Magnficent Obsession - Interesting documentary about a guy who loved movies and ran a pay-cable channel in LA. Wouldn't watch it again, but it's got James Woods!
Best in Show - Perfect.
Forbidden Planet - Very cool concepts backed by some pitch perfect whitewashed cheese that's endearing rather than offputting.

Top 10 non-2012
1. In A Lonely Place
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Just wanted to say fuck yeah! Really great movie.
 
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