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)!

[Dowly]

Heads up for those who liked Boondock Saints; BS2 is not nearly as good... sadly. Few good things in it, but it is basically a copy of the first movie, just with worse supporting actors.

As for Avatar, I was positively surprised about it. Less showing off the CGI and more to the story would have made actually a good movie.

Saw Gran Torino the other day, awesome movie and great performance by Eastwood.

[Feuer Frei!]

Avatar, huuuge budget, James Cameron directing which brings obviously massive expectations, but i thought it was kind of like Pocahontas in Space, very generic story line, shame, with some more polish and character-development, less emphasis on effects it would have been good.
But, i must say the movie "2012 was cast in a similar vain,
saw that and tbh rather disappointed, sure, effetcs were great but character development, story and overall plot very "shallow".
That's 2010 generation movies though i think, similar to perhaps PC Games, all about the effects (graphics) but not much content.
Shame.

[Skybird]

Big VHS collector, some 240 cassettes, most of them carrying 2 films, self-recorded), in parts replaced with DVD.

I see a trend to technics- and eye-candy-heavy movie.making, due to the 3D hype. Avatar was visually different, but simply a lame story, and Battle of Titans 3D I do not even look at. I fear it will become worse in the next years, and this trend towards infantile anime-3D-movies is alienating me even more.

Waiting for Ridley Scott releasing "Robin Hood", and hoping he will finally, finally, start with shooting The Forever War. Last great film I saw was Gran Torino, I think.

Storytelling and character descpriton gets hijacked by all this technical childplay. But most often you do not get a good movie if you have no good story to tell, with believable characters in it. It's easier to forgive a simplistic technical realisation, than to forgive a simplistic story scheme, or shallow characters. Some of the best movies I know were realised with almost primitive technical means.

[Dowly]

Hahaha, don't even get me started with 2012. Has to be THE worst movie ever made.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Waiting for Ridley Scott releasing "Robin Hood"

This.

[stabiz]

2012 was bad, almost Batman & Robin-bad.

Those who liked Gran Torino better see Harry Brown as well. I saw Avatar a few days ago (probably the last person on earth to see it) and it was okay. I expected to hate it but it was entertaining, and some of the combat scenes were epic. The romance/rivalry thingy was auto lame, but overall a better movie than expected.

Movies suck in general these days, me thinks.

[HunterICX]

The movies I watch nowadays are pretty much nostalgic, since if you put me in front of a row of DVD's what they released last year I pretty much would go
Crap...crap..crap..crap...crap...decent...crap...c rap...crap...ok...crap...crap.
and perhaps I would find a few good ones.

mostly the good movies are overshadowed by big budgets visual effect flashing crapmovies. 2012 to mark the highlight of last year's worst movie...

If I miss something, it would be those old Fantasy movies.
where things where mostly handcrafted set, scenery, suits, masks, animatronics the whole lot.
stuff like Neverending story...its pleasure for the eyes for me...too bad its become a lost art in todays movies.

this year so far doesn't look much promising if you see the trailer of Battle of the Titans 3D...if it where a Video game trailer...then I could accept it..but a Movie? my god talk about a visual effect puke-a-ton

HunterICX