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31 days of film: day 1, favourite film
Sister thread to the similar music one: I'll do a new one every few days.
So, what's your favourite film?
Mine is LA Confidential. Just a perfect movie from start to finish.
Sister thread to the similar music one: I'll do a new one every few days.
So, what's your favourite film?
Mine is LA Confidential. Just a perfect movie from start to finish.
Hedwig and the angry inch
Spirited Away
or Princess Mononoke
the granny in that well looks like david moyes
Well if push comes to shove then:
The Godfather II
^knows
Three Colours: Red
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dumb and dumber
Silence of the Lambs
prolly
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Lost In Translation
indie betwetter alert^
betwetter :D
p.s I hope your planning on one of these being
"what do you consider the greatest film ever made" because there is a difference (for me at least)
Maybe.
I will see how it pans out. Other catergories are more 'Films you used to love but now hate', 'Comfort Films', 'Films which make you cry' e.t.c.
"Films which you shouldn't bother trying to be friends with because they
will only break your heart."
"DVDs you borrowed from friends who you're not friends with any more
So you sent them back out of spite."
Um
how is sending back someone else's property spiteful?
Anyway, stop trying to get me to talk about that stupid twat. I've moved on.
Certainly seems like it.
:D just some VERY light ribbing z, don't worry
Don't worry though. People totally forget when you've been over sensitive in the past on this board, so it'll all blow over soon!
well I hope you do
cuz otherwise I have to change my answer here, which I don't want to do
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Seven Samurai
School of Rock
Being John Malkovich
Les Enfants du Paradis
Inland Empire
Purple Rain
Amazing choice
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The Usual Suspects
Sure, there are better films made but this was the first film as an adult that made me go wow and thus has a place in my heart. Similar as to why i'll say Kasabian are one of my favourite bands. Formative years, innit.
Watched LA Confidential recently and just how much LA Noire ripped from it is obscene.
how much it ripped out of Chinatown though...
not seen it
will add to the list.
WHAT
fucking hell, and your call yourself a film blogger, sort it out mate
Can't 'this' this enough
Mon Verbal, get it watched!
there's loads i've not seen
that is supposedly great. Then again I guess it';s the same for a lot of people - how many of the S&S top 100 can you say you've watched from beginning to end?
I will watch it soon.
nah I know
only banting, I only saw it for the time a year ago or so, but it is a properly amazing film (which maybe doesn't get talked about enough these days?) and if you love LA Confidential then it's essential viewing.
(to answer your question 25/100, so by seeing Chinatown you too can come closer to the quarter mark)
which ripped how much out of Raymond Chandler...
I've seen Chinatown but don't recall it making me think of the Usual Suspects.
it was directed at the LA Confidential comment
Which makes far more sense.
Cheers
Yes BUT
Chinatown is a knowingly post-modern noire film, which LA Confidential re-hashes somewhat
la confidential is based on a book though, innit?
the look of it was very polished, almost knowingly cartoon-like. Anyway, gonna watch the ol chinatown and get back to you, hughton.
ya
which is why it inevitably ends up feeling very similar to Chinatown. Don't get me wrong, LA stands up brilliantly on it's own, but it does owe a lot to Chinatown being the other great post-golden era Noire film
Similarly, watch Point Blank if you haven't before, that's a noire film that turns into Hitchcock's Vertigo (i.e amazing)
has anyone seen The Two Jakes?
no, but now having looked it up
Chinatown had a sequel? wtf? is it any cop?
no idea
i was seeking opinions haha might watch it tonight
I thought it was decent enough, though not a patch on chinatown
ha yep
really, really bad
yeah
it's not great. probably worth a look thouhg
Millers Crossing
Apocalypse Now
regular cut not the redux effort.
Get Shorty
^watched this the other day
it's such a fucking good film.
Dennis Farina is fucking brilliant in it! :)
Such an excellent film
Dennis Farina delivering Elmore Leonard dialogue is a thing of beauty.
The whole cast is brilliant
But for me he steals it, nails every line and scene he's in
'e.g, i.e, fuck you!'
Absolutely
Struggling to think of a bad moment in the entire film.
"The point is this. When I say 'jump', you say 'OK', okay?
'Fuck you, fuckball'
I like the bit when he just says it in passing
like it's a perfectly normal thing to say. Something like...
'No, no, no. Wait a minute. Fuck you, fuckball. I've come all the way out here to LA...'
:)
When he walks to the kerb, stands about a foot in front of a taxi, clicks his fingers to summon the taxi, sits down in the back...'fucking airport!'
Fargo
I love Fargo so much
Just think everything about it is amazing. Really hope this TV series thing is up to the same standard.
Ghostbusters II
Older: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Newer: The Departed
have ye seen infernal affairs, lad?
I have
But I have a soft spot for nearly every single actor in the departed, in particular Wahlberg when he's at his very best and Baldwin in absolutely everything.
fair dinkum
Wahlberg is really underrated generally imho, tbh, pal
He should never have done Ted.
Because he'd been on such a good run (Max Payne didn't happen) until then.
Part of me thinks that Marky Wahlberg
has a decade-old contract somewhere meaning he HAS to star in every film where the main character is from Boston until the day he dies.
Some kind of Hollywood clause yeah
It wouldn't surprise me.
I like Mark Wahlberg a lot
But at no stage in his career has he ever been on a good run. For every Boogie Nights or The Departed there are at least four really shit films (The Happening, The Italian Job, Rockstar, Shooter, Max Payne, The Other Guys etc. Also heard that Pain and Gain and Lone Survivor are awful but merficully haven't seen either). He's so very frustrating.
I watched Invincible again t'other day. It was great.
Woah woah woah
The Other Guys is brilliant.
"Thanks for the F shack"
It's really, really not
It was going to be the subject of a thread I was going to make about films that you think look shit but people say they're good but they turn out to be shit and you hate them even more because you thought they might not be shit. The Other Guys and Tropic Thunder were going to feature heavily.
What are you expecting to see when you watch The Other Guys, out of curiosity?
Considering the actors in it and the set up, I mean.
Perhaps you were hoping for a final scene of a petal twirling in the breeze while Kevin Spacey narrates?
how patronising!
isn't the final scene a weird out of place political statement?
It's hardly patronising, delicate petal.
We're disagreeing over a film that he says 'is shit'. I am countering with an equal amount of half-hearted arguing about it.
Do you need a rusk?
^ THAT is patronising.
And btw
the entire thing is a statement about corruption, and was recognised as such.
it's weird though
it's supposed to make you laugh (which it did for me at times) and then at the end it has a misjudged, michael moore animation think that's just like 'oh so i was supposed to be paying attention'
Meh, I think it's kind of good when comedy tries to do *something*
with what it's saying. And it was jarring, yes, but then again it's because no other silly comedies have a crack at saying much.
just felt stapled on at the end
was referring to
"What are you expecting to see when you watch The Other Guys, out of curiosity?"
but you're right, I'll stay out next time, stupid fucking DiS
actually no, all of it
:D
it draws you in to its incessant banality, this place. God help us all.
That's my point
I was expecting it to be rubbish, then someone said it wasn't (I've forgotten who, but when I remember I'll hunt them down and grind their bones). It wasn't even good throwaway comedy, and the whole "but isn't big business the REAL crook?" powerpoint presentation was trite and condescending.
I could understand
if it was about 21 Jump Street. But fair enough.
All of these are dog shite
Jump Street
Other Guys
I Love You Man
All that fucking dog shite and if you like it you are dog shite and should die.
Balonz haven't you got a quite-but-not-hugely funny skit to do
about thewarn and/or Meths in at least three other threads right now?
No
... *really*?
Don't worry
my skin is 133 g/m
:D
I thought I might finally have gotten to you.
all time dogs
Cuckoo's Nest is such a great film
I forget just how good sometimes. Must re-watch
Yes!
I come back to it once every couple of years thinking 'this is going to be good'. And nope: it's fucking incredible. The acting is almost entirely flawless throughout.
When McMurphy commentates on the baseball game that isn't
Always brings a lump to my throat
^This: also (SPOILER)
The scene when he returns from having shock treatment and pretends to be out of it :D
v
The final(ish) scene when he returns... D''':
That's just triggered the theme tune in my head
watching it again tomorrow
yep, it has everything
its hilarious, heart warming, heart breaking.
The scene where Nurse Ratched catches Billy in bed with the girl is stunning, how he is made and broken
Big Lebowski
pclockwork orange
Liberal Arts
Though it seems to change every couple of years, the progression has been Johnny English, Coach Carter, 500 Days of Summer to this.
this MUST be trolling
hey it's your favorite right?
i'm proud of my love of mediocre films. though coach carter is a classic.
even mediocre is a stretch for most of them...
I'll give you Coach Carter though
can we have ban requests for anything by:
Wes Anderson
Sofia Coppola
Brian de Palma
(will update list as thread goes)
Cheers
fuck off mate
:)
what have you got against brian de palma?
Cemetery Junction
:)
it is !
Brick
Cunt
:D
Why 31 days?
Sounds like a calendar month to me, well one of seven. But to start on the 23rd January just makes no sense. What are you doing?
Just
random. More interesting than 30 days.
Jaws.
Blade Runner
wHiCh VeRsIoN tHo?
Think I'd go with the first Director's cut
Still like the original theatrical too.
Final Cut can fuckin' do one!
Eraserhead
i guess Tokyo Story
Withnail & I
My Cousin Vinny
All the President's Men
Raising Arizona
tough call but probably
a nightmare on elm street. no. wicker man. yeah, wicker man. but trust has to hover very close to that number 1 spot.
the David Schwimmer film?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103130/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Annie Hall
High Fidelity
*some kind of klaxon*
that's plenty
gremlins 2: the new batch
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
kung fun hustle
*fu
think some of you are getting lost on your way to the best shit-film thread
which incidentally probably makes this "day 2"
Sister Act 2
might be aguirre, wrath of god
probably not though
or maybe (wanker alert)
last year at marienbad
strong
why ever not!
because i can't commit to one film
Bonnie & Clyde
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
From the
Great Films Canon - Raging Bull
Not from the Great Films Canon - Things to do in Denver when you're dead
The Haunting (1963)
Belleville Rendezvous
The 400 Blows