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Why dont we just use this thread for Recommended Films only
and those who want to discuss popular actors and actresses start another off topic thread?
There is only one thread in this forum for Films and it turns the thread to treacle if we have to plough through other discussions about the merits of actors and actresses.
How about we don't. You can't discuss films without discussing the actors/actresses in them, and I'd assume most recommendations would be made on the basis of the performance of Hanks, Ricci, whoeverQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Saw Superbad last night for the first time.. absolutely hilarious, funniest comedy in years IMO..
agreed....also dunno if its been mentioned already(shouldbe the name of the thread) but the squid and the whale is also very funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by PAURO 7
I'm Not There based on part of Bob Dylan's life with him being played by a nr. of actors plus Cate Blanchett.
Some parts were very good, especially the depiction of Dylan as a teenager being played by a 12 year old precocious cocky black kid.
Overall the film focuses on a few areas of his life, much of it around Dylan's time in England in the mid sixties. The Pennebeker documentary "Don't Look Back" has already done that and much better. AFAIR the real Dylan in that Documentary (the light bulb press conference) was funnier and more coherent than Cate Blanchett's portrayal.
I wouldn´t not recommend it.
For me it doesn´t stand beside the real footage in the Scorcese /Pennebaker/Newport documentaries, even Renaldo and Clara.
Have to disagree, I thought I'm not there was a great film and Blanchett gave a great performance.
Disagree with the double negative "I wouldn't not recommend it"
or everything?
Out of interest have you seen Don't Look Back?
or the other documentaries that many of the scenes were taken from? like where Dylan sings Hattie Carroll out of the back of a truck or the Newport appearances.
massive dylan fan. thought "Im not there" was rubbish. blanchet was good but agree that the real dylan footage is way more entertaining. Best performance was the young black kid.
anybody seen very bad things or Buffalo Soldiers? Two quirky films I rate that have probably passed many people by. Went to see No Country for Old Men and it's a return to form for the Coen brothers. Moody, dark and tense - my kind of film. The first 90 minutes are outstanding but after that it goes in a reflective direction that kind of threw me. The ending especially so. Well worth a watch. Next up for me is Cloverfield and the Valley of Elah.
Buffalo Soldiers is a good one. Some excellent black humour. Very much recommended.
Hoping to see Cloverfield myself over the weekend. Haven't been to see anything in ages.
Buffalo Soldiers is good. Jarhead is worth a look too on similar theme if different war.
I recommend No Country For Old Men too. Not funny like other Coen films that I liked such as Raising Arizona or Fargo but very interesting and intriguing.
A Coen film on Sky Movies last night, Blood Simple.
It's a raw masterpiece.
The earth certainly moved :)
Saw Bobby over the weekend, based around the assasination of Robert kennedy, it focuses on the lives and the relationships of the staff of the hotel (cant remeber the name) where he was shot. Amazing cast and great inter-twining storylines.
Bobby is excellent. Had forgot about that one.
Jarhead is another one that I'd agree is very good.
saw that "walk hard" last nite. mildly amusing.
Saw a german movie today called "The tunnel", very good
It was about some west germans digging a tunnel under the berlin wall and trying to get their loved ones from the east. Brilliant acting, and good suspense. Worth a look
The Tunnel is very good, that same director did Downfall.
Fallen was on Sky M tonight. It's a very clever film.
I was trying to think of a better ending for it and I couldn't come up with one.
Usually I'd have to be nailed to the sofa to sit through a big budget special effects so called horror. I missed the first 15 minutes, I couldn't figure out why Ezabel would be so focussed on Hobbs the detective. Wouldn't you think that someone with those ambitions, (bring down Babylon) would have bigger fish to fry and the capacity to do it?
is fallen the one with Denzel Washington and John Goodman? "Time is on my side - yes it is" is that the right song they keep singing?
That's right, it annoyed me a bit that they use the Rolling Stones songs in that context, a bit of a cheap commercial trick and then what a great leap in imagination to have Sympathy for the Devil as the closing song.
Who started all that? find a classic pop tune, shovel it into the film in some context and have the audience humming it in their heads.