Recommend a frog a film?

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

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.

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

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.

[TinCow]

We also got copies of 'The last Emperor', 'Empire of the Sun', 'Green Mile', 'Chocolat', 'Curse of the golden flower', and 'Inception'. The rest were either not to be found, or were far more expensive.

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.

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

[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.

[Fragony]

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.

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

[naut]

The Adjustment beurue

Why watch a crappy remake when you can watch the original?

[Shaka_Khan]

Recommend a frog a film?

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

[frogbeastegg]

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.

[Fragony]

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.

[Shaka_Khan]

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Bounty (1984)
Amadeus (1984)
Brazil (1985)

[Graphic]

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

[Fragony]

Zodiac

Yikes. Good movie, but the murder scenes are kinda horrible to watch

[Shaka_Khan]

Blade. I think it was Blade. Something about a vampire killing people in a disco which turned into a shower of blood. Or something. Whatever it was, no. Just no. Horrid.

Actually, that scene was more like this.



But yea, I don't like senseless violent movies either so I can see where you're coming from on that.

[Fragony]

That scene is incredible imho, reminds me of the nightclub scene in Jacob's Ladder

[Yoyoma1910]

Hmmm.... wonderful visuals, not much on straight story or dialogue though.

[frogbeastegg]

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.

[Moros]

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).

[Subotan]

The Last King of Scotland is fantastic. Definitely not a Friday or Saturday night film though.

[Fragony]

The Last King of Scotland is fantastic. Definitely not a Friday or Saturday night film though.

Good movie but it's kinda odd that they completely left out the war that follows, if you do a movie adaptation of a book you shouldn't just disregard half of it, movie could have been much richer in content

[Subotan]

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.

[frogbeastegg]

Which book was 'Last King of Scotland' based on?

[drone]

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.

[frogbeastegg]

The Last King of Scotland, by Giles Foden.

I should have guessed that.

[Moros]

It's about Idi Amin, who is played by Forest Whitaker in the movie.

A part he played very well. Didn't he win an oscar for it?

edit: apparantly he did.

[Vuk]

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!

[rajpoot]

My suggestion for you would be The Expendables! I think you would LOVE it!

Yeah, after all who can resist this-



And we all know girls go crazy about Sly.

[Vuk]

Yeah, after all who can resist this-



And we all know girls go crazy about Sly.

Hey now, no picking on The Expendables. It is one of the most awesome movies ever.

[frogbeastegg]

My battle to not watch Expendables was far more epic, emotional, and thrilling than any Hollywood production could ever be. I won in the end; my boyfriend had to watch it alone.

And we all know girls go crazy about Sly.

Urgh! Never, ever have understood the appeal. Ever.

[Vuk]

My battle to not watch Expendables was far more epic, emotional, and thrilling than any Hollywood production could ever be. I won in the end; my boyfriend had to watch it alone.


Urgh! Never, ever have understood the appeal. Ever.

Yeah, right! We all know about your secret boy crush on Sly!
You remember that time you got drunk and posted this in the hunk thread?

Sylvester Stallone is without a doubt the sexiest man alive! How can anyone resist those well oiled, giant muscles of his?! I wanna spank that bad boy!

A quick delete when you sobered up did not stop me from quoting it!

[frogbeastegg]

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 ...