Your favorite movies

[timmie 988]

Please try to not monopolize the thread

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Hollywood Remake.

 

New version out Dec. 2013 with Ben Stiller.  Is he capable of being Danny Kaye?

 

Should Hollywood remake the classics?

[blade2k5 1,523]

Went to the movies this past Sunday and saw The Hobbit 2 in 3D.  Wow!  What a fun ride and a sudden ending.  This one will end up in my blu-ray collection along with the other 4 Middle Earth films. 

[timmie 988]

It was good, but there was no break when I went to see it. A 2h30 movie without a break, that's criminal

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

That's a bit of a long haul for people like me with prostate problems.  I'll wait for the CD and watch it where i can hit the pause switch.

 

"When you gotta go, you gotta go.  If you don't go when you gotta go, you'll find that when you go to go you've already gone."

[blade2k5 1,523]

It was good, but there was no break when I went to see it. A 2h30 movie without a break, that's criminal

 

 

You're right, it's criminal it was 2.5 hrs, it should have been at least 3 hrs.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Are you suggesting that it was overly precised?  Wonder what wound up on the cutting room floor?

[Prophet42 1,503]

Ok, I guess I will jump in with my favorite movies.  My favorite genre is Science Fiction (almost to the exlusion of anything else).  So top five would be (in no particular order):

 

1)  Terminator 1

2)  Star Trek: Into Darkness

3)  The Time Machine

4)  Star Trek: Wrath of Khan

5)  Terminator 2

[madhatter106 3,931]

I watched A Zed and 2 Noughts as part of the Architecture class. It's the most interesting film I've ever seen.

 

All of Greenaway's stuff fascinates me.  One of my favorites is The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover - it's tough sledding for some people but it's definitely one of my favorite films.  But one of my all-time favorites is one of his, entitled The Baby of Macon, with Julia Ormand and Ralph Fiennes (before they went on to bigger things.)

 

I'm surprised your architecture class didn't watch The Draughstman's Contract instead of Zed...

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Omigosh, my class had to endure the 1949 film "The Fountainhead," adapted from Ayn Rand's book.  I couldn't stop laughing at the over-the-top melodrama, the anachronistic modernism, and the femme fatale's Freudian dialogue obsessing over the heroic architect's phallic skyscrapers.  Admittedly, the portrayal of the architectural critic as a ruthless, communist commissar who insidiously destroys the individual wills of the more feebleminded architects was a hoot.

 

 

No subtle Freudian meanings here...

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

Titanic, A Night to Remember, the Austin powers trilogy and Dark Shadows. Also Gone With the Wind, Sound of Music and The Music Man

[crthtjefkelo 3]

I just finished watching the Godfather Trilogy. Very melodramatic, very sad at the end.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Finally caught up on the last X-men movie (Wolverine, the new one).  So our boy is really an overhauled standard mutant, eh?

 

Most of my TV channels have given themselves over to movies and series marathons for the holidays.  Hope it ends soon.

[crthtjefkelo 3]

I've been searching for a cheerful movie to watch, and I decided to venture out of the box and chose. "Pulp Fiction". Nihilism wasn't really the synonym of cheerfulness and I learned a lesson to always read the synopsis prior to watching any movie.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Watch Die Hard for some Christmas cheer.  Watch Galaxy Quest for cheer in general.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Watched Disney's OZ the Great and Terrible last night.  Not sure whether this is a prequel to the Wizard of OZ or a parody.  Must say that the business of turning a rather nice looking woman into the equivalent of Margret Hamilton could have been done on stage as well as on screen since it essentially happens out of sight.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Well my list of favorite movies has changed since I first posted here:

Jurassic Park(The original and Lost World)

Back To The Future(Just the original)

Airplane!

Independence Day

[airman15 4,113]

I just watched Idiocracy (2006) the other day. Title explains itself and after watching it it's scary to think that's what society is turning into over time.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Did I mention that I consider Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to be one of the best films ever made?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finally watched  How to train your dragon.

[airman15 4,113]

There were rumors of Samurai Jack movie, but now it seems like it will never happen :/

 

On the plus side, there are now comic books that picked up where the TV series left off.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

I recently watched "Saving General Yang," an action flick featuring the last battle of the ancient Chinese general and his loyal sons during the Song Dynasty's war with the Liao Dynasty.  Betrayed by jealous royal court rivals, famed General Yang is captured in battle by the invading Khitan army, and his seven comrade-in-arms sons are dispatched to save him.  However, the family fortuneteller prophesizes to their princess mother that only one son will return from their rescue mission alive, and the mother is not told which son she will see again.

 

Lots of comparisons to "Saving Private Ryan" or "Troy."  Admittedly, this is a movie about stylish ancient armor and swordplay, and the greater history of the time period is left unsaid behind grandiose sets and scenery.  Chinese moviegoers, I suspect, will know more than enough about the story's setting and legends.  Also, each son is fated to have his moment of loyal sacrificial melodrama in battle, but, even though the cast is full of big Chinese movie stars, I can't really tell them apart aside from Taiwanese idol Vic Chou playing Song Dynasty Legolas.  Fortunately, although this is still a Hong Kong-made action movie, they largely dispense with the outlandishly fantastical wirework of funky flying swordsmen and adopt instead a more realistic style.  As a comparison, I have also been watching the Mainland Chinese epic fantasy drama "The Return of the Condor Heroes," and it's funky flying martial artists is too over-the-top and even somewhat alien feeling.

 

Hmmm...I'm also watching the Japanese television miniseries "Satomi Hakkenden," aka "Legend of the Eight Samurai," and its portrayal of eight gifted samurai brothers overcoming the treacherous court to avenge their legendary princess mother and stop the invading evil dynasty seems quite similar.  Oh noes, is idol Tackey fated to be the only brother out of the eight to survive?

[timmie 988]

I just watched Idiocracy (2006) the other day. Title explains itself and after watching it it's scary to think that's what society is turning into over time.

 

Funny, that movie was mentioned in a comment I read one hour ago on the site of the Guardian. The (very good) opinion piece was about TED-talks and what's wrong with them. The commenter linked it to the movie. I need to see that movie, I guess

[airman15 4,113]

You should, it sums up how anti-intellectualism coupled with trash culture is killing society as we know it. It also takes a stab at how American culture is degrading to just a race of drunken, fat hillbilly types of people (I think it already has).

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

The way Superman ended his fight with General Zod in Man of Steel has traumatized me.  They should have done something similar to Action Comics #775.  Epic, graceful, powerful, and not traumatizing at all.  Why did they have Superman do that?  I just don't understand.

[blade2k5 1,523]

The way Superman ended his fight with General Zod in Man of Steel has traumatized me.  They should have done something similar to Action Comics #775.  Epic, graceful, powerful, and not traumatizing at all.  Why did they have Superman do that?  I just don't understand.

 

 

Really?  Supes snapping Zod's neck because Zod left him with no choice traumatized you?  Really???  I watched MOS the other day when the blu-ray arrived in the mail and don't see what's so traumatizing about it.  Best Supes film yet.  

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Oh, the movie started off great.  But Superman isn't supposed to be about big, ridiculous, endless fight scenes and snapping character's necks when it was just a set up to give him "no choice."  I'm not stuck in the 70s, the Superman film with Reeve was great, but we've seen that before, and Bryan Singer trying to remake that one with Superman Returns was a massive mistake.  It was a good idea to go in a different direction, and they started off wonderfully.  I was actually a bit surprised, they even used a lot of designs from the comics.  But from the moment he started fighting the Kryptonian war criminals in Kansas it just went downhill.  It was just destruction porn, pow, boom, shablams.  It wasn't him 'learning to be Superman' as a friend of mine suggested, it was just more mindless spectacle for the sake of mindless spectacle, and Superman should be something more than that.  They had an opportunity to do something special with, and then it turned into Transformers.  Sure, it looked nice, but it wasn't Superman (I support that point with my 10-year collection of Superman comics, among others).

 

I'll agree that it was probably the best one. The original is a bit cliche at this point.  But we're also talking about the best film in a series that includes Superman IV, so you can take that for what it's worth.

[blade2k5 1,523]

The first official movie poster for Godzilla 2014 has been released.  It's the best movie poster I've seen in decades.

 

 

[Munchiez 74]

Go go Godzilla!

 

Favorite Films:

 

1)Pulp Fiction

2)The Breakfast Club

3)The Patriot

4)Flight (Denzel Washington)

5)Saving Private Ryan

 

No particular order, they're all good to me.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Now if only it has a more realistic plot.  So far, we've seen a lot of hype, but no footage.