Good Movies

[Imperator2]

Of Star Wars films: The Empire strikes back, because it was dark and IMO most of the characters simply acted coolest in this one.

 

Of Non-SW... Well, the restriction of budget sure makes that tough. I'm simply gonna stick with those where the effects and budget were not the point of the film (unlike all hollywood blockbusters lately):

Blues Brothers, which features both great musicians and actors and, additionally, is funny as hell.

Ghostbusters is great, nothing more to be said.

Airplane literally left me rolling on the floor laughing.

And Dr. Strangelove must be one of the greatest movies EVER.

 

Empire Strikes Back for me, and for the same reasons, it also had some of the best lines.

 

Blues Brother:- Great film

Ghostbusters:- Ok

Airplane:- Brilliant

Dr. Strangelove:- One of my favourite films Mein Fuhrer, .....I mean Admiral Fishface

 

I also love Young Frankenstein and The Producers, .....always bring tears of laughter to me.....FAB

[Mad78]

I remember howlijng with laughter at the scene in Airplane where the doctor describes the symptoms

 

Saw Fahrenheit 451. It was an interessting film. To be seen.

[Imperator2]

Pilot:- But surely you can't be serious?

 

Doctor:- I am, and stop calling me Shirley

 

 

Brilliant

[Mad78]

Another Classic... Blazing Saddles.

The bit with the track cart is marvellous.

[Vero]

Id put gladiator up there with my favorite movies and also Dumb and Dumber served its purpose as a abdomen ache. I thought it was one of the funniest movies ever....

[Skynxnex]

Empire is easily the best of any of the Star Wars movies that have come out.

[Mad78]

I forgot to mention a film.

Demolition Man.

Its so amusing.

[Lord_La_forge]

I forgot to mention a film.

Demolition Man.

Its so amusing.

 

LOL and LOL abd LOL!!

I've seen it 10 minutes ago.

 

Good post!

[Mad78]

Core when they showed the radio and how the cops reacted to violence

It must be seen.

[Vero]

"Silence of the Lambs" was a good film as was "the jerk"with steve martin.

[wormie]

Favorite StarWars movie - ESB

Favorite movie as a child - Goonies

Favorite movie as an adult - too many to mention

Favorite Adult movie - Uhh.. I don't watch them?

[Vero]

The gods must be crazy is a hilarious movie about Bushman and modern man. You all should definatly try to watch it

[Krytos]

Geeze, its been years since I last saw a "The Gods must be Crazy movie"

 

I think I saw two, maybe three of them. Heck, I'm not even sure how many there are now?

 

Still, they're funny from what I can remember

[Trejiuvanat]

I definitely remember two of them, I didn't know there were more.

[Jahled]

Gosh, this seems to have been ressurected from the bowels of swrebellion's past... but a very pleasnant surprise was The 13th Warrior.

 

It's sort of the Seven Samurai but with the Vikings, and an Arab.

[Trejiuvanat]

Gosh, this seems to have been ressurected from the bowels of swrebellion's past... but a very pleasnant surprise was The 13th Warrior.

 

It was a fun movie, even if it was kind of akward with the Arab tagging along.

 

It's sort of the Seven Samurai ....

 

Now that's a great movie. After all the troubles I had try to find it and downloa... watch it, I found it highly entertaining. A intelligent, fun and entertaining movie.

[Jahled]

Gosh, this seems to have been ressurected from the bowels of swrebellion's past... but a very pleasnant surprise was The 13th Warrior.

 

It was a fun movie, even if it was kind of akward with the Arab tagging along.

 

It's sort of the Seven Samurai ....

 

Now that's a great movie. After all the troubles I had try to find it and downloa... watch it, I found it highly entertaining. A intelligent, fun and entertaining movie.

 

Quite frankly, the Seven Samurai is beyond doubt one of the finest movies ever made. Kurosawa not only proves he is a genius story teller, but that his action sequences are about the finest in movie history.

 

Personally, I find the currant new-wave of martial arts movies comming out of China/Hong Kong, wrapped up in a cloak of interlectual respctability, dull and boring, given the violence is cartoonish and childish.

 

Kurosawa's action brilliantly combines the limits of humanity's heroism with believability. The genius of his three hour epic is that for most of the film he concentrates simply on character development, which to the western viewer is spell binding in it's detail and revelation:

 

Samurai #1: 'So how did you escape?'

Samurai #2: 'I hid in the ditch.'

 

Blew away a few misconceptions of feudal Japan...

 

There is another movie of his where there is an action sequence so brilliant in it's purity, human nature reverts to instict to rewind the sequence, which is the film's ultimate build up, and lasts only a second or two. Yojimbo, the bodyguard, is seen to behold for the sequence alone.

 

I must confess to finding films making mockery of violence boring and dull. The Seven Samurai is a classic example of a film that does not.

[Guest Scathane]

What did you guys think about Fight Club?

[Jahled]

What did you guys think about Fight Club?

 

Utter crap.

[AdmiralFishface]

Speaking of Brad Pitt (I KNOW noone was): Snatch, if nobody mentioned it yet. Very funny movie.

 

"D'y like dags?"

[Krytos]

What did you guys think about Fight Club?

 

Awesome movie, did you see Se7en?

 

Oh, and I just saw Punisher a day or two ago. Not bad, could've used a better ending though

[Trejiuvanat]

Kurosawa's action brilliantly combines the limits of humanity's heroism with believability. The genius of his three hour epic is that for most of the film he concentrates simply on character development, which to the western viewer is spell binding in it's detail and revelation:

 

...

 

There is another movie of his where there is an action sequence so brilliant in it's purity, human nature reverts to instict to rewind the sequence, which is the film's ultimate build up, and lasts only a second or two. Yojimbo, the bodyguard, is seen to behold for the sequence alone.

 

I've finally found a Video Rental that does have Kurosawa movies and rented some of them to watch during Easter Holiday (It's one week were national TV channels only show those 60s Roman Themed movies (Ben Hur, Cleopatra, Quo Vadis, Spartacus, the list goes on and on... Heck even Jesuschrist Superstar!) So I needed to watch something else. I watched Yoshimbo (I afterwards rented 'For a Fistful of Dollar' and laugh off as every scene in the Spaghetti Western mimicked Kurosawa's Yoshimbo.), I rented Hidden Fortress and Sanjuro. I enjoyed them quite a while, though it kept me from looking for images for Reloaded Cards (Let's hope La_Forge doesn't catch me here )...

 

Recently, I saw Robots (went there with my sis, she'd enjoy the movie and I'd get to see the ROTS trailer in its cinematographic glory). And I found it quite amusing. Not as good as other such as Ice Age or Shrek.

 

What's se7en? (And I have been told to steer clear from Comic Chars turned into movies chars, thus I haven't seen Punisher, nor Electra, nor Daredevil, etc... And in the future I'd most likely NOT see Fantastic Four, nor Sin City...)

[Krytos]

What's se7en? (And I have been told to steer clear from Comic Chars turned into movies chars, thus I haven't seen Punisher, nor Electra, nor Daredevil, etc... And in the future I'd most likely NOT see Fantastic Four, nor Sin City...)

 

Se7en (or Seven) is a thriller with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, very dark. It's about a serial killer that picks his targets and murders by the seven deadly sins. It's not a "who done it?" style of movie where you try to figure out the murder, just a thriller. Though it's one of my favourite movies - even if it's dark.

I recently bought the special edition DVD, though I'm yet to watch it

Now I just need The Usual Suspects and Dark City, and I've got nearly all my favourite movies

 

I'm not a fan of the comic book movies either. Spiderman was crappy, the Hulk was . . . not even worth a mention, so far I've only liked X-Men 1 and 2 and the Punisher, mainly because they stear clear of trying to make it feel like a comic book - and give it a more mature edge. It's no where near as crap as Red Devil or any of those other ones, well at least in my opinion.

[Guest Scathane]

Some comics were actually turned into resonably good movies... I'd say that X-men 1 & 2 were okay, as were The Hulk and the first two Batman movies. I thought the Spiderman movies were so-so...

 

The punisher movies (yes, both of them) were horrible, as was Daredevil. I have high hopes for Sin City and maybe The Fantastic Four will even turn out to be not half bad...

 

As for Constantine, though...

[AdmiralFishface]

I'm really hoping the next Batman movie will be good. At least it's not cheery-neon-bright as the last two, but rather dark. If they don't overdo the special effects, it might be something.

 

I've come to like the first X-Men, but the second was just... more of the same. It felt like the expansion to a game; some more features, a few more characters, and another campaign that plays just like the old.

Spidey I liked, the first one anyway. Only thing that bugged me was the goblin's costume. Second one was just too cheesy (though Molina as Ock was okay).

 

Sin City is definitely one to keep an eye on. I'd like to read some of the comics before watching it, though.