Can't search for three letter words and I forgot what it was called.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
Can't search for three letter words and I forgot what it was called.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
I haven't seen enough films from 1981 that justify inclusion on a top ten, though I do love the top three and really like the rest:
1. Blow Out
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The Evil Dead
4. The Road Warrior
5. Escape from New York
6. The Funhouse
7. Prince of the City
Need to see again - The Beyond
I think I'll watch a few films from the year, just because. I'm particularly interested in:
Possession
Ms. 45
Dragonslayer
Knightriders
Vernon, Fla.
Eye of the Needle
The Aviator's Wife
Cutter's Way
Thief
Modern Romance
S.O.B.
Body Heat
Lola
Mommie Dearest
Excalibur
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
My friend Brad did an "Ultimate Bond-a-thon" this past weekend. I wasn't really up for going (life complications and general tiredness), but it was apparently a big hit. They watched every single Bond movie, ranked each one from one to ten, and they assembled a pretty neat video of it here.
That's pretty cool.Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
My god. Love and Other Drugs is the great movie ever made.
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Jesus Christ that's a lot of Bond to watch in a single weekend.Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Quoting Irish (view post)
Anne Hathaway's boobies?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Anyone else prefer the first Godfather to the second?
It's pretty close, but I really do prefer the first film.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
This was for his birthday, right? One of his friends posted it on Reddit yesterday.Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Weekend:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Fish Tank
Poetry
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 30s
I wish The Fall was a better film, as it's so often gorgeous and spillbinding visually. A cinema experience here would likely hide the story flaws and overall generic nature. Tarsem needs to work from someone else's script--love to see him tackle a Kaufman fever-dream of a script.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Most of those visuals or montages are completely lifted from other better films though so even on that level meh.Quoting dreamdead (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Weekend viewings:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (parts 8-11)
In the Mood for Love
Wild Strawberries
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
Sydney (Anderson, 1996)
El ángel exterminador (Luis Buñuel, 1963)
Completely? I don't think that's true.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Boobies.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
It was for his girlfriend's birthday. She wanted this for her birthday. He'd better never let go of that girl.Quoting number8 (view post)
I only said most not all, and yeah they are lifted and reintegrated into the story he wishes to tell but there are a very large number of instances of such cases throughout the film.Quoting Raiders (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
What I find much more bothersome than the actual addition of the extra scenes and effects in Star Wars Ep. IV (and the others in the OT) is that they're just done so, so poorly.
Maybe these effects were amazing back in '97, but now they are distractingly bad.
The Jabba scene at Mos Eisley is particularly terrible. Not only does Jabba himself look awful, but that HORRIBLE manipulation of Han Solo to make him look like he's walking over Jabba's tail is just...ugh.
Not to mention that the scene itself is just so unnecessary and just STOPS the movie dead in its tracks for a good minute or so. It breaks the building of tension completely.
I still believe that the definitive versions of these films were the THX Remastered VHS tapes that came out in the mid-90s, a couple of years before the "Special Editions" hit theatres.
These retained the content of the original releases, and the only alterations made were the addition of the cleaner, more vibrant surround sound audio track, and the sharpening of some SFX (such as the lightsabers, whose colours were made more distinct).
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
YES!Quoting Rowland (view post)
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Whoa there Derek, you're getting all Asian Cult on us here. You just need to watch Exiled again, revise your rating, and we'll be all set.Quoting Derek (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Yeah, I think I'm going to make a point of catching up with all these movies, just for fun.Quoting balmakboor (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
This is the version of New Hope that should have been released on DVD. It is excellent. Worth tracking down.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
http://originaltrilogy.com/fan-edits...65/category/4/
List of changes/edits:
http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/anhr-change-list/
I'd prefer to see Star Wars with all the little flaws intact. It's a 1977 movie and should stay that way.
I would too, but Lucas has made that nearly impossible.Quoting Isaac (view post)
And so of all the available modern versions, the Revisited cut is the definitive version.
Actually, you can. The theatrical cuts are on the limited edition DVDs. In non-anamorphic widescreen, bur it's pretty good.Quoting D_Davis (view post)