the departed- maybe the best movie i've seen in 10 years +.
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the departed- maybe the best movie i've seen in 10 years +.
Old School--10/10
One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. Trumped 40YOV in my mind, and I've been wrestling with the question, "Is it funnier than Anchorman?", an argument where I am getting nowhere.
Still, fucking great movie. Set the tone well with the wedding sequence, and was a crackup the rest of the time.
Have you seen Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong movie(s) that it's based upon? There's actually three Infernal Affairs movies, and it was billed to me as the HK equivalent of the Godfather. But when I rented it, I got maybe 20 minutes in, fell asleep, accidentally sealed it in the return envelope rather than try to rewatch (again, I was tired), and hadn't thought about it since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Higherwarrior
As for other movies I've seen recently... hmmm... Love, Actually and How The Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon are perennial Christmas favorites to me. I got the 14-disc Superman set, but that's too big a bundle to tackle here and I don't even really have all of it yet -- WB screwed up the packaging. Most of what I've seen is concert stuff and DVDs of good TV programming.
Ohhh... I finally got to see Lathe Of Heaven, the first movie PBS ever made. If you're big into 1970s pre-Star Wars era sci-fi, Soylent Green and Logan's Run and whatnot, you're into psychological stuff and character studies kinda like Donnie Darko, and don't mind cheap (but not distractingly cheesy) special effects, you'll appreciate this. It's far better than the remake in 2002.
I saw the movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson...the museum movie.
Stupidest movie ever with so many famous actors.
I dont even know how its number 1 in the box office...nor do i know why i watched it
^ THAT is the greatest movie clip i've ever seen. :)
where did you get that?
I assumed it was a home movie.
Pursuit of Happyness: 7.5/10
Pretty much what I expected. Not my type of movie but good either way. Will Smith is becoming one of my fav actors because five minutes into a movie I always forget its him (not counting movies like I Robot). He plays the part perfectly in Happyness and should win something.
found it off another person[smilie=llama_banan:Quote:
Originally Posted by Higherwarrior
it has to be porno. home movie with quality like that isn't likely. [smilie=jefffoster.:
In my last movie review, I praised the acting and directing of "Flight Plan" for keeping children the FUCK out of the movie.
Well, you are probably wondering, "I wonder what kind of child actors Zip likes--I mean, besides unemployed ones"
Well, I like children who are ready for the real world. I like kids who you can look in the eye and say something like "Shut up you worthless fuck, and change back to the Porn channel". OR, better yet, and I think you all know where I'm going with this one: "I tell you what. You dig a hole, and I'll go get me another beer". Writing that good can only be the product of the genius of Will Ferrell, and baby, we're talking TALADEGA NIGHTS!!!
Except for the glaring absence of Fred Willard, this movie has to rate a ten on a scale of 1-10 (ten being the best, one being the worst).
This movie is what the term "Great Experience" once meant to Hollywood.
Swearing kids. Anybody can swear. But good swearing takes talent. If a kid can say something like, "Shut up you old fart, or I'll shove your fucking dentures up your goddamm ass", what can stop him later in life? Any little shit fourth grade wimp can blurt out, "Fuck, hell. Damn Bitch-ass". Sorry, unless that kid possesses some other talent, like, say, belching the alphabet, he's lost, and he might as well be shipped off to the Gulag.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Ferrell's brave stand on the issue of homosexuality. It is about time we were presented with good, strong images of homosexual love in cinema, not some lame cop out that makes gay men look cheesy like the farcical "Brokeback Mountain". Unlike that sham, Ferrell shows us a brave race car driving French faggot and his American lover, and when we can see a gay man in the macho world of Car Racing, instead of the stereotypical realm of sheep humpers, then I know we've made a step in the right direction.