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Post by KC on Feb 3, 2010 21:02:21 GMT -5
I watched Gone With The Wind, 12 Angry Men, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in my TV/Flim Industry class.
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Post by Her 69 Eyes on Feb 4, 2010 0:10:32 GMT -5
I started my Film Studies class last week, and it's shown me some good to great movies I hadn't seen before. So far we've watched "Three Ages", "City Lights", "The Circus", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and we're currently watching "The Sting". Meanwhile, I'm home watching "Bullit" on netflix and loving it. City Lights is one of the best films ever made! I would've loved to be in your class in high school. We watched the typical stuff: Casablanca, Godfather, Graduate, etc. Classics, yes, but obvious ones... you are watching great films that aren't quite as lauded by a casual movie-watcher.
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Post by curbside on Feb 4, 2010 7:25:24 GMT -5
Lethal Weapon 3
Arguably the weakest of the series, but still fun and entertaining. Definitely a good watch from 5 to 7 in the morning when working on a project.
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Post by Harry on Feb 4, 2010 15:31:07 GMT -5
I started my Film Studies class last week, and it's shown me some good to great movies I hadn't seen before. So far we've watched "Three Ages", "City Lights", "The Circus", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and we're currently watching "The Sting". Meanwhile, I'm home watching "Bullit" on netflix and loving it. City Lights is one of the best films ever made! I would've loved to be in your class in high school. We watched the typical stuff: Casablanca, Godfather, Graduate, etc. Classics, yes, but obvious ones... you are watching great films that aren't quite as lauded by a casual movie-watcher. "City Lights" was definately ahead of it's time. "The Circus" is also an interesting watch if you know going into it all of the personal issues Chaplin had during the shoot. Up next we've got "Citizen Kane", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and "Star Wars".
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Post by RyanGoslingFan99 on Feb 6, 2010 0:52:15 GMT -5
I've watched a ton of movies and it would take forever to type a review for all of them, so here's a quick view of what I've watched.
Hurt Locker was as amazing as everyone said it was, definetly my favorite movie of 2009. District 9 was another incredible movie, it changed for a mockumentary to a sci-fi movie so seamlessly. The effects were incredible and story was very good, I really wished I would have watched both of these in theaters.
Frontier(s)it was an After Dark Horror Film that was banned here in the states, not really much to say, it's a mash up of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel. It's a violent movie, but it doesn't try and be anything else. Good movie, just don't watch on a full stomach.
Moon was another great Science- Fiction movie with an incredible story and great acting from Sam Rockwell, this guy should get an award for this, or at least some lead roles in bigger films. I finally got around to watching Old Boy, It's the film that all film buffs and geeks hear about and have to watch..the same with Ichi The Killer. There is really not a whole lot you can say about Old Boy, the story is decent enough to make you watch til the end. You should make an effort to see this, it's really good.
I saw two great action movies; the first was Operation Condor with Jackie Chan and the other was Blood and Bone with Michael Jai White. Go out and watch Operation Condor, great action and comedy, its like Jackie Chan's Indiana Jones! Blood and Bone feels like a old school action movie, kinda like Blood Sport. White plays a street fighter who works his way up from the bottom to the top of the underground fight syndicate. Great Fights plus Kimbo Slice and GINA CARANO!!
With Watching some many movies you'll eventually run into some bad ones, Pandorum was just a mess, I thought the spaceship sequences were quite good but it's hard to get through the storyline because its so confusing.
Then their is just the disturbing movies out there that no one in their right mind would watch, Netflix recommended me a movie based on how I liked Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it suggested The Ordeal. How I wish I could go back and not watch this, without question one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. Its disgusting, in no way is this like TCM, its more along the lines of Deliverance if anything. This one is shocking...
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Post by onthehiballz on Feb 6, 2010 18:47:13 GMT -5
Beerfest. Crazy Film
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Post by Harry on Feb 8, 2010 16:20:51 GMT -5
I'm currently watching "HUD" in Film Studies. Probably the best cinematography I've seen yet.
Also just wraped up "Role Models" here at home. Probably one of the best, most well-rounded comedies I've seen in a few years.
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Post by Harry on Mar 5, 2010 8:13:43 GMT -5
More film studies classics!
"To Catch a Theif"-one of my first Hitchcocks, and a great film.
"Sunset Boulevard"-wow
"Phantom of the Opera"(1925)-My teacher pretty much buried the film before we started it. I though it was fairly good. The two-color processing in the mascarade scene looked better than I thought it would.
Now we're on "Citizen Kane". I love it so far.
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Post by Her 69 Eyes on Mar 5, 2010 10:34:05 GMT -5
Sunset Boulevard is one of my favorites! I've never seen Phantom of the Opera, though...
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Post by Harry on Mar 5, 2010 20:08:06 GMT -5
In the '25 version I saw the mask was pretty dumb, just a piece of ribbon over his mouth pretty much. Great make-up, though.
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Post by Harry on Mar 12, 2010 8:35:07 GMT -5
Finished "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lou" yesterday.
Really, one of my favorites from this class. I just felt genuinely happy after watching it. For as cheesy as most of it is, I absolutely loved it.
Up next is the 1969 version of "Planet of the Apes".
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Post by Atomsk on Mar 19, 2010 16:14:54 GMT -5
Spirited Away Whisper of the Heart The Cat's Return
The Miyazaki marathon I'm hosting on Stickam is lasting from yesterday to Sunday. I love Studio Ghibli movies <3
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Post by Harry on Mar 23, 2010 6:24:50 GMT -5
Just finished "The Elephant Man".
Eric, because of you, ALL I could think of in the last five minutes was Generation Next turning on Alex Shelly.
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Post by SS press on Mar 23, 2010 18:46:26 GMT -5
I love watching live converts on DVD. I also am a fan of rock documentaries. This movie is an odd mix of both. The story starts off rather simple, The White Stripes (Jack White on Guitar and Vocals & meg White on Drums) grew up in Detroit and despite being so close to Canada, they always had trouble getting into the country, even after they became world famous musicians. So they decided to perform in every Province and territory of the Great White North and document it. Mixing in concert footage form every stop they made with free secret side shows and sight seeing. It starts off as a fun experiment of "Let's see if we can actually do this" and focuses more on Canada itself than anything else. But as the tour rolled on, and the group's Tenth Anniversary Show drew nearer and nearer, suddenly things focus on the band themselves. Jack is some what of a control freak but very supportive while Meg is quiet, shy, and feels like she doesn't do good enough at times. As the tour is about to end and stress starts to roll in, suddenly the band decide to reflect on their career and criticisms. The performances are all amazing and of course all the sightseeing is something to behold, but the final scene in the movie is by far the most powerful. Throughout the tour, meg seems to think she cannot get things going right is apologizing a lot and constantly seen smoking. As they perform their final show, they have a party to celebrate the band's 10th year together. @ hours after everyone left, the Stripes sit together at a Piano Bench and Jack plays the song "White Moon" as best as he can remember the words. As the song goes on, Meg starts to cry and Jack himself starts to get choked up in his words near the end. Afterwords, Meg cries in Jack's arms, as he whispers something inaudible to her and kisses her on the crown of her head to a sudden fade to black. What made this even more poignant is that after the Canadian tour, Meg White canceled the US Tour they had planned due to Anxiety issues and other than a one-off performance for Conan O'Brien's final Late Night show, they have not performed together since, making that final scene even more touching. When I bought this movie, I expected some great performances and interesting interviews. And I got that. What i did not expect is to cry watching a rock doc. This is probably the best music DVD I probably have ever seen. I am dead serious.
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Post by SS press on Mar 27, 2010 18:48:17 GMT -5
Going in to the movie, I had heard all sorts of praise for it. Up until about a week before it's release I had heard nothing. Then suddenly it came from everywhere. So naturally I had my hopes PRETTY high for this one. The story revolves around a young viking named Hiccup, who was pretty much a giant clutz. He wants to kill a dragon to prove to his Dad he is worth something. He ends up capturing the legendary Night Fury dragon, but does not have the heart to kill it. He learns quickly that Dragons can be friendly. Renaming the dragon "Toothless" (He has retractable Teeth) they bond together as the day slowly arises where Hiccup must kill his first Dragon. Overall the movie has a great story. It is basically if you took E.T. (Boy meets strange creature, befriends it, hides it from everyone, people find out and panic, ect.) and added a whole bunch of great fight scenes. The climax and ending are really well done and I like the characters (Craig Ferguson really steals the show). All in all I really liked it. But I kinda wish I watched it in 2-D instead. Other than flying scenes, all it did was hurt my head. The comedy was good, but based on what I was told, didn't meet my expectations I suppose. Keep in mind, I did REALLY like the movie and might try to see it again, but critics kinda over-hyped it for me. If I had heard nothing, then the only complaint I would have made is about the 3-D. But I suppose this is where too much word-of-mouth can sour an otherwise good movie-watching experience.
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