Seconded, very violent, very clever. I may yet have to forgive you for not liking Aliens
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Are you kidding me? Froggbeastegg! You have the greatest collection in War movies! Your boyfirend should respect you and what you watch(I watched part one of red cliff,which was fantastic,but how can there be 5 hour full version?) Anyway,If I were your boyfirend,I would let you watch any film you want(thanks for the dislikes of your movies,I don't like them )
Has anyone mentioned 'Casablanca'?
It's the special edition version which includes parts 1 and 2 in the same box. It's supposed to be superior to buying parts 1 and 2 individually, I think there is some extra material or something.
Black Hawk Down.
:yes:
But a really good film,have any of you watched this? Monsieur N.Seriosuly excellent movie.
War(2007) staring Jet Li and Jason stahom. Excellent plot
1911 (film) ,the 100th film of Jackie Chan,about the Xinhai Revolution,I just found it now on Wikipedia.
Little Big Soldier(Jackie Chan)
Very good story as well,seriosuly good.
The Founding of a Republic(2009)
A huge cast of famous chinese actors.This one is the def to watch.
The Warlords, previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 epic war film. That was one of the best I've watched
The Last Samurai
These films are worth def watching.
But a really good film,have any of you watched this? Monsieur N.Seriosuly excellent movie.
War(2007) staring Jet Li and Jason stahom. Excellent plot
1911 (film) ,the 100th film of Jackie Chan,about the Xinhai Revolution,I just found it now on Wikipedia.
Little Big Soldier(Jackie Chan)
Very good story as well,seriosuly good.
The Founding of a Republic(2009)
A huge cast of famous chinese actors.This one is the def to watch.
The Warlords, previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 epic war film. That was one of the best I've watched
The Last Samurai
These films are worth def watching.
[QUOTE=TinCow;2053379709]That's a pretty good selection there. Of those, The Curse of the Golden Flower is probably the weakest IMHO, but still good entertainment. And by weakest I mean, still very good. The rest are all top notch. You'll be pleased.[/QUOTe
Empire of the Sun was Good,The Adjustment beurue and Inception were good.
Like I always have with chinese movies, I don't really understand the motivations and symbolism. But great visuals
And Frog watch Inception. It is absolutely not teh omgwut!masterpiece some say it is. But it DOES have the greatest action sequences since The Matrix. Awesome movie
Why watch a crappy remake when you can watch the original?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpowoKqSzc
Try Rocky Mountain Holiday. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. I think Kermit the Frog appeared in it.
j/k
I watched Dark Knight. While it was better than the other superhero films, it didn't offer anything which I liked. I will not bother with the other one.
Dang, loved it. Batman begins is quite different The Dark Knight is about insanity, Batman Begins about fear. Whole different mood to them, unless you really really reeeeeeeally dislike genre I'd watch it anyway. And don't we a- w8, you just love Christian Bale.
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Bounty (1984)
Amadeus (1984)
Brazil (1985)
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac
Thought I'd recommend some modern classic American movies since you seem so fond of using "American" like a four letter word :laugh4:
Actually, that scene was more like this.
https://i219.photobucket.com/albums/...tivational.jpg
But yea, I don't like senseless violent movies either so I can see where you're coming from on that.
That scene is incredible imho, reminds me of the nightclub scene in Jacob's Ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1nSVy8q8I
Hmmm.... wonderful visuals, not much on straight story or dialogue though.
Time to report back. So far I have watched:
The Shawshank Redemption. Absolutely wonderful film! I really enjoyed it. The tight focus on a small number of excellently acted and written characters worked fantastically for me. Towards the end I feared they were going to pull a typical film gotcha but thank heaven they did not, and the box contained precisely what it should have. Turns out this is a film my boyfriend has seen before and is very fond of.
Dark Knight I mentioned earlier. Wasn't impressed. I'd rather play Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Inception. Very good. Leo De Caprio can act!? He can act! I'm a surprised froggy - every other film I've seen him in he was the token pretty face with mediocre at best acting skills. I watched this one with the boyfriend and he enjoyed it as well. The ambiguity of the ending was a nice teaser; I shall have to watch the film again in search of additional clues.
Arn: Knight Templar. This is the English version which has the two Swedish films cut together into one, so there's a lot of material missing. I was really skeptical. Really. I like the trilogy of books this film is based on, yet medieval+film=disaster 99.98% of the time. Know what? It's a good film, the hacked down plot tells a solid story, and it avoids most of the usual film-based perversions of medieval world. It's a shame that Cecelia's story was reduced to a sideshow as in the book trilogy and the original non-English duo of films there's a lot of interesting politics and characterisation going on in her half. The cut was done well enough that you wouldn't know something was missing if you weren't already familiar with the original story. I quite liked the way the characters kept swapping between different languages.
Chocolat. I enjoyed most of it, and felt that it outstayed its welcome. It was great until the end of the party, and then it kept on going and going and going with little left to say. The ending was an overly happy, perfect one which pushed the film from tolerably sweet into cloying. However the parts before the end of the party were really very good.
The Last Emperor. I liked it when I watched it years ago without much understanding of the history on which it was based. This time around I still enjoyed it for the performances and imagery, and felt that I gained more from it because I now have the background knowledge. Its classic status is well deserved.
All in all the most successful run of films I've had in forever! That leaves me with 'Green Mile', 'Curse of the Golden Flower' and 'Empire of the Sun' left to watch out of the initial pile I picked up. I think 'Curse' will be next for a change of pace.
I'm still trying to find 'Let the right one in'.
I'm currently wondering about 'Mongol: The Rise of Gengis Khan' and 'Confucius'. I'm skeptical but slowly becoming intrigued. 'Gengis' is being recommended as a fairly accurate bio with a good understanding of Mongol society and solid acting. I don't know. 'Confucius' is reportedly more a legendary piece in tone, yet focused in on a small number of characters. It definitely has that visual splendour I enjoy in Asian cinema. Hmm.
Good to hear!
I watched inception quite a few times, considering it is quite a recent flick. And it's one of those few you can do it with. If you like that, you might also like Shutter Island. It is also with Dicaprio again not as the 'cute' boy. The guy is actually not such a bad actor, just had a lot of the same stupid roles for a while in which he played the good guy that gets the girl parts. But remember one of his earliest full feature films, what's eating Gilbert grape, you might remember he played a mentally handicapped boy in it. The more recent movies the departed and blood diamand aren't that bad either.
Btw I believe I'm not sure but was last king of scotland already mentioned and suggested? That's a great movie as well. It's about a young and naive British doctor wanting some adventure in his life and goes of to Uganda to do some humanitarian aid. However he soon becomes the pet monkey of the local president (read: dictator).
The Last King of Scotland is fantastic. Definitely not a Friday or Saturday night film though.
It would have been too long/they wouldn't have been able to go into it in detail. I'm sure there will be other films to focus on the aftermath.
Which book was 'Last King of Scotland' based on?
The Last King of Scotland, by Giles Foden. It's about Idi Amin, who is played by Forest Whitaker in the movie.
Froggy my friend, congrats on being an admin! Just so you know though, you have bad taste in movies. ~;) (with the exception of LoTR)
My suggestion for you would be The Expendables! I think you would LOVE it!
Yeah, after all who can resist this-
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/ph.../33258.jpg?v=1
And we all know girls go crazy about Sly.
It's ok. This is an open-minded forum and no one is going to judge you for wanting to talk about Sly's muscles. There's no need to hide.
Meanwhile, it's 'The Princess Bride's 25th anniversary and time for another repeat viewing. If only Westley didn't have that moustache ... :loveg:
I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok.
My favorite. I have seen it so many times now when I watch I like to not historical inaccuracy in the plot and try to find things that went unedited. And look at Andy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFEfHCJG4G4