Spoon87 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Well, Full Metal Jacket was really good. First half was really disgustingly shocking, the second half seemed to drag on a bit, but still had those intimidating moments in it. I liked it. Stanley Kubrick was a genious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 God I love that movie! Kubrick sure wasn't very productive, but the few movies he made are exceptionally good."This is my rifle, this is my gun!This is for fighting, this is for fun!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Death Proof is pretty much shit, when you compare it to previous efforts.Death Proofs problem is that its a Tarantino movie and is judged as such instead of taken for what its worth...then again, a lot of people might not've even stomached the dialogue had it not been a Tarantino movie so im not sure really. i love it personally. Death Proofs problem is the shit it has to live up to which sort of blinds people to what it is unto itself which is a tidy little movie and thats all its meant to be i think.Tarantino has the ability to write some of the snappiest dialogue you’ll ever hear. On the flip side, when he goes too far with it, it sounds so alien and I have to cringe. I did that more in this movie because I thought that a lot of the writing just didn’t work. I don’t know, Sam Jackson saying his stuff is one thing, but teenybopper girls is another. What it boiled down to for me is if I thought the actresses were any good at delivering his stuff. Some were, and a couple fell flat on their faces. I was pretty critical of Quentin in this movie because I was appalled at some of the choices he made for actors, who felt totally out of realm for me (and that included him as the bartender). The only person I had a serious problem with acting wise was Zoe Bell. I know, I know...she wasn't exactly hired for her ability to deliver dialogue. But fuck, she was appalling. But overall, I like it a lot. Although chase excepted, the second half is vastly inferior to the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissirge Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 saw 300 again....man I love that movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Just saw this really cool Danish film called Pusher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SofaKingWhat Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Just saw this really cool Danish film called Pusher.Don't watch the remake then. It's not so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Just saw this really cool Danish film called Pusher.Don't watch the remake then. It's not so good.Oh yeah? I didn't even know there was a remake.I'm watching Taxi Driver now, for the second time this week. It's gotta be one of the best movies ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCGNR Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I think I'm going to watch Full Metal Jacket tonight. It's one of the few Vietnam movies I haven't seen yet.First half of the move is spot-on what US military basic traing is like; It's great!!!Second half is boring and sucks.JMOYes, this sums it up to perfectionSecond half just........loses you1st half - Incredible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GET OFF AXLS BACK Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Hamburger Hill and Platoon are far better Vietnam films than FMJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite4illusions Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Hamburger Hill and Platoon are far better Vietnam films than FMJ.Baloney!I like both of them but they're of the 'plight of the soldier' ilk and suffer from the nineteen eighties Vietnam hangover syndrome. I only wish Kubrick had axed the basic training part of FMJ and did a full out war movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GET OFF AXLS BACK Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Hamburger Hill and Platoon are far better Vietnam films than FMJ.Baloney!I like both of them but they're of the 'plight of the soldier' ilk and suffer from the nineteen eighties Vietnam hangover syndrome. I only wish Kubrick had axed the basic training part of FMJ and did a full out war movie.For me the basic training part is the only good part of the film, take that out and its complete shit, in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylvesterStallone Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite4illusions Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Being John Malkovich is such a brilliant little movie.Charlie Kaufman has his head screwed on a little loose but has a knack for writing offbeat comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B)Living Daylights is my favorite bond movie. It's the first one I saw. That A-ha song is pretty good as well. Chickezie should do a cover. I didn't really know when I saw it, but it's sort of more serious than later day Bond which more like Austin Powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylvesterStallone Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B)Living Daylights is my favorite bond movie. It's the first one I saw. That A-ha song is pretty good as well. Chickezie should do a cover. I didn't really know when I saw it, but it's sort of more serious than later day Bond which more like Austin Powers.I liked parts of Goldeneye and Casino Royale was a true return to form. However, Licence to Kill was my favorite bond flick. Dalton was a very underrated Bond. He was very good as the hard edged ruthless bond. Certainly much more convincing than Daniel Craig. He also is the classiest of the lot and the best actor since Connery in the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B)Living Daylights is my favorite bond movie. It's the first one I saw. That A-ha song is pretty good as well. Chickezie should do a cover. I didn't really know when I saw it, but it's sort of more serious than later day Bond which more like Austin Powers.I liked parts of Goldeneye and Casino Royale was a true return to form. However, Licence to Kill was my favorite bond flick. Dalton was a very underrated Bond. He was very good as the hard edged ruthless bond. Certainly much more convincing than Daniel Craig. He also is the classiest of the lot and the best actor since Connery in the role.Yeah I wanted more Dalton. Bronsnon was sort of return Roger Moore campness. I liked what Harrison Ford was doing with the Clancy Novels, he was sort becoming a new Bond.I read this theory that Craig is going to rework Bond as a more modern, sensitive man, like an new man. As in Bond was always sort of conquering exotic chicks in foreign locations, it was male dominance, with Craig they are going to challenge the preconceived notions of his machismo and sexuality. The next Bond was rumored to be him wrestling with his first gay lover?He will have a crisis in terms of the sexual orientation. It seems a bit extreme but Casino Royal did do something like this in another area, I'm not sure which. Maybe he just lost at cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylvesterStallone Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 So you mean that Bond has sworn off women after Vesper Lynd betrayed him in Casino Royale? I guess that's kind of extreme but it makes sense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yeah, yeah that was the link, there was some half baked theory that this is Craigs MO for new Bond, there will be some subtle kind of homoerotic subtext. This sounds like something I made up but it is lossely based on fact, well at least speculation. It's sort of going back on Connary in a weird way. These were the issues but then Bond went all 60s and kind of execessive, action oriented, more about the locations and dominating chicks in the 70s. In the 90s they sterred away with more hardboiled then sort of played up to it late 90s.So now all they can do is go back to old school topics but rework them. Casino Royale was first book I think but the misogny won't fly no more, so they making him gay?Too far if you ask me. I prefered Dalton, sort of like Live and Let Die style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylvesterStallone Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yeah, yeah that was the link, there was some half baked theory that this is Craigs MO for new Bond, there will be some subtle kind of homoerotic subtext. This sounds like something I made up but it is lossely based on fact, well at least speculation. It's sort of going back on Connary in a weird way. These were the issues but then Bond went all 60s and kind of execessive, action oriented, more about the locations and dominating chicks in the 70s. In the 90s they sterred away with more hardboiled then sort of played up to it late 90s.So now all they can do is go back to old school topics but rework them. Casino Royale was first book I think but the misogny won't fly no more, so they making him gay?Too far if you ask me. I prefered Dalton, sort of like Live and Let Die style.You're onto something, they were actually working in the homoerotica in Casino Royale. All those scenes with Bond in a uber tight speedo rising out of the water bare chested were there for a reason. To set up his "lifestyle change" in the sequel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I had to avert my eyes a couple of times when the camera lingered on his ass a few times too many. At first I thought it was for the chicks in the audience. But looking around the cinema it was wall-to-wall guys in sports jackets.Also in the sex scene doesn't she go on top. This is very un-Bond. Normally he's the captain.I think as a Bond fan I may feel violated by the next movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SofaKingWhat Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I had to avert my eyes a couple of times when the camera lingered on his ass a few times too many. At first I thought it was for the chicks in the audience. But looking around the cinema it was wall-to-wall guys in sports jackets.Also in the sex scene doesn't she go on top. This is very un-Bond. Normally he's the captain.I think as a Bond fan I may feel violated by the next movie.Keep in mind Casino Royale is Bonds first 007 mission and never mind a woman going on top, the latter wiser Bond would never fall in love . Vesper was his mistake, and he learned from it. Now he treats the Bond girls for what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMonk Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 That Vesper was insanely hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Just got done watching AVPR. I actually thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the first, but good in my opinion none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylvesterStallone Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Just got done watching AVPR. I actually thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the first, but good in my opinion none the less.One you hit your late teens/20's you will hate this movie and the original Alien vs Predator. They are just a disgrace compared to Alien 1,2 and Predator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite4illusions Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Just got done watching AVPR. I actually thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the first, but good in my opinion none the less.One you hit your late teens/20's you will hate this movie and the original Alien vs Predator. They are just a disgrace compared to Alien 1,2 and Predator.Agreed. It's sad to see two great franchises flushed down the same toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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