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@Miranda's Eyes and Mister Hex
Let me just chime in and say: DON'T WATCH JULES & JIM AGAIN. From an analytical standpoint it's interesting, but as a movie it's meandering and unentertaining. Best to stick to Breathless and The 400 Blows. -
I need to watch Mephisto again, to get a third opinion. First saw it on TV in my early teens, and thought it was a great film. Watched it on DVD last year, and it felt like a completely different movie. Still good, don't get me wrong, but not as powerful as I remember. Mind you, I was picking up on far more this time through.
Which has me a little worried about seeing Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence again. Like Mephisto, there will have been over a decade between viewings. It used to be one of my favorite films in my teens, but I wonder now if it was for the wrong reasons ( or just the fact that my tastes have changed so drastically.) I still listen to the score fairly often, which has some of the most hauntingly beautiful music I've ever heard, so I'm sure the movie will still hold sway. I just wish I could find the bloody thing on DVD in Canada. VHS looks so horrible on an HDTV.
I first saw Unforgiven in theaters back in the day, and though I enjoyed it, I was far too young to really get it. These days I watch it at least annually, and it becomes more of a masterpiece every time I see it.
As for Blade Runner: saw it young and loved it. Watched it later and still loved it. Bought the 5 disc Blu-ray-big-ass-brief-case-holy-fuck-you're-a-nerd-edition, and watched it ALL. And it just kept getting better.
Lastly it doesn't matter how old I get,or how many times I watch them, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and the animated Transformers will remain two of the greatest movies of all time.
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- CommentAuthorlongtimelurker
- CommentTimeJul 8th 2010
@VietBong
The animated TF should be required viewing for anyone who writes dialogue for an action movie:
"Such heroic nonsense."
"Oh how it pains me to do this."
"Very well then, proceed on your way to oblivion."
"Spare me this mockery of justice."
"We can't hold out forever but we CAN give them one humongous repair bill."
...the new photorealistic films wish they had anything half as good as these gems. -
@ Longtimelurker
Is it bad that I read all of those in the character's voices? -
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CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
- CommentTimeJul 8th 2010
I rewatched The Conversation last night. Haven't seen it since I was a kid; was impressed by how well the film is crafted. -
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- CommentAuthorlongtimelurker
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2010
@VietBong
Probably! But you really should try to re-read them and imagine someone like Clint Eastwood delivering them. They work even better!
...stopping now before the forum erupts into a crescendo of nerdgasm. -
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CommentAuthormister hex
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2010
@Greasemonkey - oh, man! The Conversation is fantastic! That last shot of Gene Hackman in his ruined apartment and he STILL hasn't found the bug ... MAN! -
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CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2010 edited
I saw a restored print of the film at the cinema, too - not just a home DVD. I can't recommend The Conversation enough, if any of you get the chance to see it.
A few more brilliant Australian films while I'm here:
Rabbit Proof Fence
Noise
Gettin' Square -
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I wonder what Drop Dead Fred would be like as an adult. I was facinated and horrified by it when I was youngin'.
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CommentAuthormister hex
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2010
FREDDY GOT FINGERED. *ducks flying shoe*
Seriously, it's hilarious. Watch the commentary and hear Tom Green keep saying "I can't believe they let us do this."
*ducks ANOTHER flying shoe* -
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- CommentAuthorgovernment spy
- CommentTimeJul 9th 2010
I'll raise a glass to Freddy Got Fingered, in a long line of the tradition of completely immature dick & poop joke movies. -
@Greasemonkey
I thought Noise was a pretty good little Indie film but I saw it just one or two years ago...so it doesn't really fit into the "now you're older" aspect of this thread for me.
I am in the Paul Verhoeven as under-appreciated satirist camp...though I don't believe his films are great works of art. They are like bubble gum with a hint of cyanide.
I can remember thinking Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was some edgy shit when I was 8 years old and then being totally cheesed out by it when I was in my 20's. -
I just rewatched /Con Air/ the other night. 1997 was longer ago culturally than it seems. I had really sort of written it off as another mindless 90's X-treme blockbuster, but I gave it a shot again and was really amazed.
I thought it stood up quite well as an homage to the 70's crime/caper/disaster genre that sort of spans from /Airport/ through /Cannonball Run/, and it fundamentally reaffirmed my love of Nick Cage. Nobody, but nobody else could deliver a straight line like "I'm going to show you God *does* exist!" or "Hey, my mama lives in a trailer!" and *make it work* like Cage. He's entirely in the zone where his performance is *just* shy of completely going over the line, and he's hitting the mark squarely on every quip as he chews his way through that ...unique Southern accent with his puppydog eyes and surprisingly pumped biceps.
Above and beyond the homage, though, there's a genuine techno-fetishist aesthetic going on in the camerawork. The long, loving shots of the prison and airport architecture and the beautifully grotesque set destruction is just awesome to rewatch. There's one shot alone of a deputy carrying a bundle of leg irons that stand out - the use of perspective put recent Paul Duffield work to mind. The last 30 minutes fall a bit flat now, though, due to the relatively poor special effects, but it is worth waiting it out to the credits to again get that great flavor of the 70's caper/crime/disaster flick as each character takes the little cinematic bow at the end. Those precise, professional touches just make the film, as do a number of surprisingly good throwaway lines.
And that's not even to mention the mad spectacle of Steve Buscemi serenely clutching a Ken doll and the film cutting back to snatches of /He's Got the Whole World In His Hands/ ringing out unsteadily as destruction rains down on Los Vegas. -
I'll second (or third) for Freddie Got Fingered. In fact, I'll go further, and champion it as a genuine piece of transgressive surrealist cinema. There is some mindbendingly twisted shit in that movie.
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^ "Daddy would you like some sausage?" Best part of Freddy Got Fingered.
The Goonies is still a great film. Also seems kids swearing was more acceptable in the 80s? Nothing Anglo Saxon of course, but I don't think they'd get away with it in Harry Potter. -
That's something I never got about Potter. By the last book they're all sixth formers, they'd be smoking, drinking and swearing like troopers by then...
I second Akira. I don't think I ever really understood the plot watching it as a teen, seems to make a lot more sense to me as an adult. -
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CommentAuthormister hex
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2010
@pixiedust - Oh, I don't know. The girl in the wheelchair is pretty good. For my part, I like the heart-to-heart talk he has with his dad, while his dad is covered in elephant semen. -
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Peeping Tom
Pi
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse -
The Colour Purple
The World According to GARP
The saint of fort washington
Gone with the wind
Tombstone
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Once upon a time in america
Ikiru
the lower depths
When Father Was Away On Business