Dazey Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I've never seen any of the Bourne films, and I like Matt Damon a decent bit, but does anyone think these three movies are a worth a blind-buy for like $25 on blu-ray?Probably the best $25 you'll spend this year! Also, trying to decide on two of these Criterions out of this bunch:RushmoreGojiraDazed and ConfusedFear and Loathing in Las VegasGimmie ShelterAny would be blind buys, besides Rushmore. Suggestions?I have no idea what you just said.So I'll go ahead and recommend Dazed and Confused and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.I'd go for Dazed and Confused and Fear and Loathing too but Rushmore is also very good. I must have watched Fear and Loathing more than 50 times and I still don't know what happens. "And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back"You beautiful, beautiful man! I fucking love that quote! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 If you're looking for other suggestions of possible cheap blu-rays, I'd recommend In Bruges, with Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. Definitely one of the most underrated, best acted movies I've seen in awhile. Got to like dark comedies however. Cheers,AndrewOne of the best movies I've ever seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 (edited) Watched Drop Dead Fred last night. My little niece is off on her summer holidays so if i ain't got nothin on i end up with babysitting duties so i thought i'd bung her down in front of something sweet and inoffensive. I leave the room a bit of the way through to go for a quick fag and i come back and she's in fuckin' floods of tears and i'm like, oh God, what have i fuckin' put her in front of and i'm like whats the matter and she's crying cuz Fred has to go, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...bless her dear heart, had to hug her for ages cuz she wouldn't stop crying...then it was like sniffles and trembling, she was that like...hurt by Fred having to go But he comes back at the end with the other little girl so everything was alright...fuck me, the things you find yourself having to do when you get older Their reactions are hilairious too, anything like kissing and she's like "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!" any swearing and she's like, cover her mouth and look at me like i'm supposed to react or something, like some awful sin has been committed Edited July 24, 2012 by sugaraylen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I'm somewhat leaning towards Fear and Loathing before D&C.I don't know. Need more opinions, dammit. Angelica?Dazed & Confused is a better, more re-watchable film than Fear and Loathing.... Gimmie Shelter is also essential, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Might go with those two then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GHS Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 WESTERN MOVIESAnyone is a big fan of this genre like me? Some classics I like (no order of preference): The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (perhaps my favorite one), The Big Country (a great metaphor of how big--in all terms--are the United States--and I'm not american), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (one of the best, of course), Once Upon a Time in the West, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Unforgiven, For a Few Dollars More, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Ox-Bow Incident, Rio Bravo, Giant, The Shootist, Dances with Wolves (although the end, the anthropological lesson, is a crap).Any indications? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zint Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Salt was kind of 'meh'. Not really worthy of being in my collection. The steel is really nice, but not nice enough for me to keep a movie I probably won't watch again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Really looking forward to that, love the novel and hoping they can manage a good adaptation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) Watched The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid over the past few nights. Turns out I wasn't really missing much. Also, I watched a Jack Nicholson movie about a guy who switches his identity and walks away from his old life called The Passenger. I thought it was pretty good; 70's movies are the best after all. Edited July 25, 2012 by Randy Lahey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Decided on my Criterions, and I think I'm gonna go with Dazed & Confused and Rushmore.If the deal is still going next paycheck, I'll grab the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnold layne Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Really looking forward to that, love the novel and hoping they can manage a good adaptation.Never understood why people liked the book so much. I couldn't even finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Watched Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. It was another bad ass movie from the 1970's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 WESTERN MOVIESAnyone is a big fan of this genre like me? Some classics I like (no order of preference): The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (perhaps my favorite one), The Big Country (a great metaphor of how big--in all terms--are the United States--and I'm not american), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (one of the best, of course), Once Upon a Time in the West, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Unforgiven, For a Few Dollars More, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Ox-Bow Incident, Rio Bravo, Giant, The Shootist, Dances with Wolves (although the end, the anthropological lesson, is a crap).Any indications?HUGE HUGE fan. I've seen so many fucking westerns honestly, it'd take the rest of my life to try and list em but suffice to say i've seen most westerns you could think of, just love the fuckin' genre, all the Spaghetti Westerns, The Henry Fonda ones like Warlock and My Name is Nobody & Drums Along the Mohawk, pretty much every western he was in actually, John Wayne i've literally seen every western he made, even the earlier hour long B movie ones that kinda recycled the same 8 or 9 stories over and over Jimmy Stewart had some great ones with Winchester 73 and Shenadoah and The Man From Laramie, then like, How the West Was Won and many many of the obscure Spaghetti Westerns like the Djangos and Death Rides a Horse with Lee Van Cleef, the old Gary Cooper classics too, in fact most of the Westerns he ever made, even Gene Autry i've seen most of his...and like, the ol' Johnny Mack Brown ones, i've yet to find anyone of this planet whoose seen those, ever seen em? And Johnny Guitar with Sterling Hayden and Joan Crawford i believe? Oh, and how could i forget, fuckin' Randolph Scott, seen the vast majority of his westerns too.What about Western TV shows like Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Rawhide...and Clint Eastwood, shit, i could recite the script to all his fuckin' westerns...literally all of em, amazing movies (except maybe Paint your Wagon ). Always adored Westerns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Went and saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was a good movie, but I wasn't really feeling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Went and saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was a good movie, but I wasn't really feeling it.Really?? It's by far my favorite film of the year so far. I assume The Master will trump it, but aside from that, I don't expect anything else to better it. I was enthralled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Went and saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was a good movie, but I wasn't really feeling it.Really?? It's by far my favorite film of the year so far. I assume The Master will trump it, but aside from that, I don't expect anything else to better it. I was enthralled.Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite movie of the year so far. I might not have been in the right mood or something last night when I saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. I did find it hard to understand what the people were saying sometimes, too. I will probably give it another shot when it comes out on bit torrent though. It felt like something I should have really liked, but I just didn't for whatever reason. Edited July 30, 2012 by Randy Lahey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Went and saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was a good movie, but I wasn't really feeling it.Really?? It's by far my favorite film of the year so far. I assume The Master will trump it, but aside from that, I don't expect anything else to better it. I was enthralled.Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite movie of the year so far. I might not have been in the right mood or something last night when I saw Beasts of the Southern Wild. I did find it hard to understand what the people were saying sometimes, too. I will probably give it another shot when it comes out on bit torrent though. It felt like something I should have really liked, but I just didn't for whatever reason.Weird. I actually saw Beasts and then Moonrise on the same night at the Sydney Film Festival. I was expecting a lot of Moonrise (and it's totally lovely) and I knew virtually nothing about Beasts, and I was completely blown away by it. And to the extent that it utterly overshadowed Moonrise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Have you seen Safety Not Guaranteed? I've heard it is really good, but I missed seeing it when it was out here. Edited July 30, 2012 by Randy Lahey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Have you seen Safety Not Guaranteed? I've heard it is really good, but I missed seeing it when it was out here.No, it hasn't opened here yet. Is it full mumblecore? I'm not sure what I think of that shit (although I loved Humpday, Cyrus and Tiny Furniture). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lahey Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Have you seen Safety Not Guaranteed? I've heard it is really good, but I missed seeing it when it was out here.No, it hasn't opened here yet. Is it full mumblecore? I'm not sure what I think of that shit (although I loved Humpday, Cyrus and Tiny Furniture).I'm not too sure. Sounds like a charming little indie flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I really wanna see Moonrise Kingdom. Maybe I'll go see it tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 This is such a good movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Cinderella, the 50s Disney one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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