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ryan5
Monday 04 June 2012 - 04:19:51
Finished The Sixth Sense last night. Was good, very good. Particularly liked the twist at the end. Did start to watch The Tree of life but got too tired so i turned it off. I tell ya, that is a bit different to most movies that i've watched. There's a Ton of filming without dialogue from what ive seen so far. From what i gather it represents the emotional burden on the family after a sons death. I guess the idea is to great this, and atmosphere. I think the director here is trying to make the viewer feel an emotional attachment to the movie .
 
Anyway i think next on my list is No Country for Old Men

ryan5
Tuesday 05 June 2012 - 09:54:14
Finished watching Apocalypse Now last night. Was good, but was once again different. I'll probably have to re-watch it because i was left wondering what the moral of the story actually was. I did pick up that there is a good and bad side to every human, and just how the "dark side" consumed Kurtz in the Vietnam war. After watching the film i did some reading and realised that there was a load of filming techniques, albeit rather simple that were packed with ideas. e.g When we first meet Kurtz his Head is in The Darkness, which is Symbolic to him being "consumed" by the darkness. We learned that another Assassin had been assigned to Kill Kurtz and yet he was consumed like Kurtz in The Darkness of the vietnam war. All the shock, the Stress the terror turned both men. As we see Willard Kill Kurtz half his Head is in Darkness and the other in light. This signified himself almost being consumed by the darkness.
 
I thought Martin sheen's acting was good, and i thought the scenes with Kilgore and his surfing fanatasism were hilarious. It also opened my eyes to the Vietnam war and just how the men were basically fighting under no authority. Everytime we come to a new outpost Willard asks for the OC and there is none. The men on the boat are drug fucked - Lance. I read somewhere that Apocalypse Now was almost non-fictious in the sense of the Vietnam war.
 
Anyway it was pretty good and i'd rate it 7-8/10.
 
Oh and Infinity, i'm currently downloading "Rear Window" from the list you gave me earlier on. I read the synopsis and it seems pretty darn good. It also occured to me that Alfred Hitchcock is one Hell of a director/producer. Most of the films you sent me where directed by him and rated very highly on IMDB.
Tuesday 05 June 2012 - 14:55:02
Ryan, I love Tree of Life and Apocalypse now. Tree of Life doesn't QUITE hit my favourites list but it is close. Apocalypse Now is defenitely one of my favourites, including the four and a half hour version of it that I own.
 
Well, you asked for a suspense/thriller list and that was what Hitchcock was known for. My favourite director of all time, however, is Stanley Kubrick, no contest. Anyway with Hitchcock he's got some great movies as I've said, but a couple bad ones like Torn Curtain (oh GOD, I still shudder at the thought that the Genius who made Psycho also made Torn fucking Curtain). Anyway he made North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho and Rear Window so yes he's great and many consider him the best director of all time.
 
Anyway I last Saw the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in theatres (the only thing that looked anywhere near good that's in theatres right now).

It was pretty good, except the multiple romances didn't get much depth and it was one of those movies where you aren't quite sure why Two characters are in love other than plot convenience (there was a crap Ton of plot convenience), but everything else like the script, location, humour was good. Lots of that good old British-style humour.

Mercenarion
Tuesday 05 June 2012 - 22:37:43
Kubrick is definitely the greatest director in my opinion. Hell, I'd say he's 'objectively' the best director.



I've watched a couple of films recently, NoNe English. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Faust and this masterpiece...



Stalker.

Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the greatest directors based off of this film and what I've seen of Solaris and The Mirror. Simply incredible.



InfinityZero
Wednesday 06 June 2012 - 15:34:34
Yeah Merc, foreign films are the shit.
I've seen The Cabinet of Dr Caligari! That twist ending was great. It was also the EXACT SAME twist ending as 2010's film Shutter Island XD Total rip-off on that part.
 
I also love Tarkovsky. Watch Ivan's Childhood--it is absolutely great and the cinematography is very ahead of its time. Solaris is amazing also, though I haven't seen this film you mentioned.

ryan5
Wednesday 06 June 2012 - 17:25:30
Just finished No Country for Old Men, and i must say it was brilliant, but the ending was an anti-climax. I mean the climax was building and building, with the mexicans and Anton after Llwelyn at the El Paso hotel. Then suddenly Llwelyn is killed. WTF? I thought it was way too brief and basically ruined a brilliant film. I was keying up for a battle of wits between the protagonist (llwelyn) and the antagonist (Anton) for the ending. I guess that would have been to predictable, but i reckon it would have been better.
                                                The ending where Anton is in the car Crash is basically pointless, if anything it brings about the possibility of a second film.
 
Anyway i thought it was very good, but the anti climax ending ruined it. I still give it an 8-9/10,
Wednesday 06 June 2012 - 19:15:07

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ryan5 says : Just finished No Country for Old Men, and i must say it was brilliant, but the ending was an anti-climax. I mean the climax was building and building, with the mexicans and Anton after Llwelyn at the El Paso hotel. Then suddenly Llwelyn is killed. WTF? I thought it was way too brief and basically ruined a brilliant film. I was keying up for a battle of wits between the protagonist (llwelyn) and the antagonist (Anton) for the ending. I guess that would have been to predictable, but i reckon it would have been better.
                                                The ending where Anton is in the car Crash is basically pointless, if anything it brings about the possibility of a second film.
 
Anyway i thought it was very good, but the anti climax ending ruined it. I still give it an 8-9/10,

 
At least No Country for Old Men is better than the fucking book. Cormac McCarthy is one of the most overhyped writers ever. Anyway, blame him for the limp-dicked ending. I personally had no problem with the protagonist Dying when he did, but maybe because I'm a sucker for gritty realism. What I didn't like about the ending (again, referring to the book) was the long-winded psuedo philosohpical speech by the sheriff who had absolutely no personality. The movie was good, but I personally think There Will Be Blood (the other movie vying for best film 2007) was infinitely better.

Mercenarion
Wednesday 06 June 2012 - 21:52:10

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InfinityZero says :  
I also love Tarkovsky. Watch Ivan's Childhood--it is absolutely great and the cinematography is very ahead of its time.


I need to watch that and Konstantin Lopushansky's "Dead Man's Letters". Both (from the bits I've seen) look amazing.


ryan5
Thursday 07 June 2012 - 02:50:45

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InfinityZero says : 
 
At least No Country for Old Men is better than the fucking book. Cormac McCarthy is one of the most overhyped writers ever. Anyway, blame him for the limp-dicked ending. I personally had no problem with the protagonist Dying when he did, but maybe because I'm a sucker for gritty realism. What I didn't like about the ending (again, referring to the book) was the long-winded psuedo philosohpical speech by the sheriff who had absolutely no personality. The movie was good, but I personally think There Will Be Blood (the other movie vying for best film 2007) was infinitely better.

 
I have to read The Road for our single text study in english. I've noticed that it is very hard to get in to. I mean it's fucking bland to start of with and very "to the point". I'm with you so Far, i havent finished the novel, but there's no complexity in his writing. The teachers at the school library praise that novel also.
 
I'll have to check out "There will be blood". Cheers mate
Thursday 07 June 2012 - 14:18:53
There Will Be Blood is an incredible film. Hope you like it.

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