The Film Thread!

[Feuer Frei!]

I thought it might be nice to create a movies thread where we/you can discuss movies that you've seen or want to see, worst movie of all time, best movie of all time, favourite actor(s), good/bad directors.....meh, you get the picture (pun intended).

Seriously though, i was inspired to start this as like all of us, have seen some wonderful movies in my time, more recently, such as: Descent 2, The Road (awesome) and over the last year or so: No Country For Old Men (Tommy Lee Jones is awesome !), Pan's Labyrinth (holy crap was this cool!), Rose Red (mini series based on a Stephen King adaption), Insomnia (with Al Pacino, my all-time favourite actor along with Clint Eastwood), Gran Torino, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima (dam, Clint is a great director!), Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, The Assassination of Richard Nixon (normally not a fan of Sean Penn but this movie was pure brilliance!) and The Assassination of Jesse James (another awesome movie, with Brad Pitt!).

I've seen my fair share of bad movies of course, haven't we all, luckily i frequent IMDB ( http://www.imdb.com/ )
to scour movie reviews, to attempt to filter out the bad ones before i have to see one. In my opinion this is one of the best if not the best sites out there if you are a movie fan, or want to get the low-down or history of your favourite actor, etc.

Finally got around to seeing Avatar and i must say, apart from the special effects i didn't really like it that much, the main character's role portraying the "smart-a**" who has the not funny one-liners irritated me.
A bit like the Star Trek movie, which on the whole i enjoyed, being a bit of a closet Trekky fan, however the main character was cast to play a "yep, i'm cool, awesome, funny, and dam hot dood" character, with the usual bad (imho) one-liners, wise a** jokes and sexist comments to boot. This slightly "spoiled" an otherwise great movie.

Of course when/if we mention "classics", i would pick The Thing, Das Boot, Pulp Fiction, any Dirty Harry and The Lord of the Rings, (which i loved, love the fantasy and monsters theme). Another reason why i can't wait for World of Warcraft to be premiered!!!
So, what have you seen lately? Are you a movie buff? You have a big collection? Know who said what, line for line in your fave movie? Do you hate going to the cinemas and rather watch movies at home? (like me).

Post away Kaleun(s)!