Your favorite movies

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

All things being considered, my absolutely favourite motion picture remains Gone With the Wind made in the late 1930s.  Most people won't tolerate a three hour movie these days without commercials.  I think it was the first time that the word 'damn' got by the film censors.

 

There are so many great performances in that film that the stuff produced today looks like amateur night at the opera.

[Cpt Johnny 58]

127 hours (2010)

The Other Guys (2010)

Real Steel (2011)

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Tonto and His Side-kick John.

 

CBC A & E review of the Lone Ranger.  2.5/5 stars.  Gobble, gobble.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Not too long ago I finally watched Roman Polanski's award-winning "The Pianist," a 2002 film based on the wartime autobiography of Polish classical pianist Władysław Szpilman.  I'm never been an Adrien Brody fan, and I rather felt the idea of the once-and-future prodigy luckily escaping the Holocaust has long been turned cliché thanks to Hollywood, but, the film does give us an eerily harsh and haunting look within the center of Nazi-occupied Warsaw's harrowing decimation, all set to the gripping music of Chopin.

 

At the other end of the spectrum, I also recently watched "Titanic"...no, not the Leonardo DiCaprio blockbuster, but, the 1943 German propaganda flick pushed as a pet project by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.  Though intended as a wartime German attack upon everything they see as wrong with disaster-making British culture and values, this can only been seen instead today as an ironic exposé on everything wrong with Nazi obsessions and values.  The most surreal moment comes when the German-speaking officers start forcibly separating out the caged masses of Third Class passengers into queue lines of the damned, and then later try to keep order by openly firing guns en masse into those panicked crowds.  Of course, such events have no resemblance to what witnesses reported happened during the actual Titanic sinking, however, the scenes unnervingly resemble what was then actually taking place inside the Nazi-controlled areas.  We realize the mindset behind the fictional movie propaganda is the same mindset behind the very real Holocaust taking place just outside the view of the camera.  This show apparently premiered in occupied Paris, but, was soon afterwards banned by the Nazis as dangerous to domestic morale back in carpet bombed Germany.  In truth, the movie is heavy-handed in its messaging, its German First Officer "hero" is an arrogant, insubordinate, unlikeable prick (is this really how the Nazis saw themselves?!), and the behind-the-scenes story with Goebbels and the Gestapo eliminating the director is outright Orwellian.  Yet, the show is a fascinating view into its time period and an excellent disaster allegory--not so much of a hubristic Great Britain, but of the vainglorious Third Reich.  Briefs clips of the movie, which showed miniature work considered cutting edge for the period, we reused in the later British movie "A Night to Remember," a film still highly regarded as the most accurate and unembellished of Titanic disaster epics.

 

Lastly, following the now apparent theme, I just finished watching "Hindenburg," a 2011 made-for-television mini-series set aboard the infamous zeppelin.  I'm a sucker for zeppelin shows, but, as much as I like ogling stylish Art Deco airship interiors, this drama mixing a love story and a spy caper was floating dreck.  We are watching this because we want to see the Hindenburg, we are not really interested in the fictional story cobbled together by your committee of television writers.  James Cameron did it better in "Titanic"...actually, George C. Scott's droning disaster spiel "The Hindenburg" from 1975 plays out in comparison like a meticulous documentary.  Why on earth would a German film with German actors be filmed first in English and then dubbed back into German, and then who thought to have the character of Herb Morrison recite his famous lines in dubbed German?!  "Oh, the Humanity...ach, die groß Manatee!"

 

Next up for me is last year's live-action Japanese movie of "Rurouni Kenshin," a popular samurai romance manga and anime series set during the Bakumatsu  and Meiji periods, when civil war had replaced the feudal, isolationist samurai world with a modern society imported from and modeled after the West.  I like the anime, that I do, so the movie better be good de gozaru.

[Bdub01 201]

I just watched 42 today and it was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Defiantly a must see. And I can't stand Major League Baseball but the movie was great!!!

[airman15 4,113]

I watched Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker recently and it is one of the best movies I have seen in a while.

 

I liked Batman Beyond: RotJ because it connects Batman: TAS and Batman Beyond with a dark underlying reason why Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon and Tim Drake (the second Robin after Dick Grayson) all stopped being superheroes. Then, their worst nightmare comes true when a blast from the past when the Joker returns to try and finish off Batman.

[timmie 988]

Recently seen 'The Prestige' for the first time, wow. (And David Bowie plays a role in it, bonus points!)

[blade2k5 1,523]

Has anyone seen Europa Report yet?  I'll be watching early next week On Demand before it hits theaters on 8-2.

[Easy Bakes 253]

I Will have to admit i enjoyed Pacific Rim.

[timmie 988]

I saw 'Moonrise Kingdom' by Wes Anderson yesterday, very nice and delicate movie, very funny too. I like how Wes Anderson makes movies (also the Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr Fox), a lot of work goes in the images, and the movies are very subtle. The funny stuff is in the details.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I saw Nobou no Shiro (のぼうの城) this week.  It was a good movie, and I think it is a good showing for Nomura Mansai, easily Japan's best actor, with no close competition.

[Bdub01 201]

I bought "Super 8" for the low price of $3.99 thinking that it wasn't going to be a good movie. It was actually pretty decent but the alien in the movie looked a lot like a small version of Cloverfield. Anyone else who may have seen both movies notice that as well?

[Mr Saturn64 742]

I'm goin on a plane today, and I usually see horrible movies on the plane.

[blade2k5 1,523]

Europa Report was pretty darn good.  If you get a chance to see it, go for it.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

This is a holiday weekend so all the TV channels I normally watch are running series marathons and other junk which are basically no-brainers for the staff with all the directors on holiday.  So I had a dip into nostalgia and had a Saturday afternoon at the movies.

 

I watched Galaxy Quest, which is a general send-up of Star Trek.  It was hilarious, well done, good CGI, and a real live hokey plot.  It was interesting seeing Sigorney Weaver playing a dumb blonde instead of an alien hunter.  The finale was an absolute hoot.

[Bdub01 201]

^ I sorry but I'm not aware of any holiday this weekend or any holiday in August period. Which one do you refer to sir?

In keeping with the thread I saw" The Wolverine". It was okay. Not the best movie I've seen but it was alright.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

In most Canadian provinces we take the weekend closet to August 1st as Civic Holiday.  Good to get a break in the hottest part of the summer.

 

Was Wolverine up to the rest of the X-men trilogy?

[blade2k5 1,523]

Just watched TDKR and finally got a Batman film worth watching after waiting for 23 years.  The story was actually interesting this time and not some ho-hum-bore-me-out-of-my-skull drivel we got in the last two films.  Nolan finally got it right with this one.

[KevinPaul06 57]

I have a lot of favorite movies. But I can't really decide which one is my top. Right now, I think it's "The Great Gatsby". 

[airman15 4,113]

I have a lot of favorite movies. But I can't really decide which one is my top. Right now, I think it's "The Great Gatsby". 

 

Which one? I've only seen the 1974 movie..

[Bdub01 201]

In most Canadian provinces we take the weekend closet to August 1st as Civic Holiday. Good to get a break in the hottest part of the summer.

Was Wolverine up to the rest of the X-men trilogy?

Well you learn something everyday!!! To me personally it was not as good as the rest of the X-men movies. I know Wolverine is a major character but I would like to see movies about some of the other characters as well. How did Storm get to be Storm! Now that Xavier, Scott, and Jean Grey are dead what happened to the school? And so on. I'm getting bored with Wolverine now...

About to go see The Purge at the dollar theaters in a few minutes!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I watched Galaxy Quest, which is a general send-up of Star Trek.  It was hilarious, well done, good CGI, and a real live hokey plot.  It was interesting seeing Sigorney Weaver playing a dumb blonde instead of an alien hunter.  The finale was an absolute hoot.

 

Galaxy Quest is one of my all-time favorite movies.  I remember watching it with my now-wife with her complaining about a stupid geek movie, and then she loved it and we quote it all the time, because, by Grapthar's Hammer, that movie is just as quotable as Army of Darkness or Star Wars.  Holy crap, do I love that movie.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

By Klono's Gadolinium Guts, you have a point there.  {Care to source that one?}

[KevinPaul06 57]

 

I have a lot of favorite movies. But I can't really decide which one is my top. Right now, I think it's "The Great Gatsby". 

 

Which one? I've only seen the 1974 movie..

 

The new one. I heard there where like 3 or 4 Gatsby movies already in the past. 

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Several starting in 1926 one year after it was published.  Also a TV performance and an Opera commissioned by the New York Met.

[Easy Bakes 253]

 

I watched Galaxy Quest, which is a general send-up of Star Trek.  It was hilarious, well done, good CGI, and a real live hokey plot.  It was interesting seeing Sigorney Weaver playing a dumb blonde instead of an alien hunter.  The finale was an absolute hoot.

 

Galaxy Quest is one of my all-time favorite movies.  I remember watching it with my now-wife with her complaining about a stupid geek movie, and then she loved it and we quote it all the time, because, by Grapthar's Hammer, that movie is just as quotable as Army of Darkness or Star Wars.  Holy crap, do I love that movie.

 

I love Army of Darkness.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Watched In Bruges last night. Was quite interesting...

[airman15 4,113]

I saw The Wolverine last night. Haven't been much into the X-Men series lately but I might look more into it.

[JanYpe 17]

Watched In Bruges last night. Was quite interesting...

Dark but good, I thought.

 

Watched Enemy of the State last night. Those NSA guys seemed a bit over-eager, but I'm sure they're not like that in real life.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

My favorite movies are

Lord of the rings trilogy

all the harry potter movies

dune

all the star wars movies

All the star trek movies.