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Post by DavidMc on Apr 11, 2008 9:22:18 GMT -6
Post your favourite Movies on this thread
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Post by DavidMc on Apr 11, 2008 15:14:57 GMT -6
For a million reasons I would recommend 'JUNO'... It's funny, poignant, great soundtrack... blah, blah ... just watch it! www.imdb.com/title/tt0467406/ |
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Post by anirbas on Apr 12, 2008 16:08:15 GMT -6
Here! Here! I sooooo totally agree!
And I also would add, it was the best of fun, viewing it with you...
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Post by anirbas on Apr 12, 2008 16:11:02 GMT -6
Another good movie with a wonderful ensemble cast, including the venerable and talented Juliet Binoche, if you've not seen it is: Dan in Real Life. www.imdb.com/title/tt0480242/ |
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Post by anirbas on Apr 14, 2008 21:29:28 GMT -6
I have a penchant for watching movies that are about the lives of poets and or writers. One I would recommend is Fighting Words. It is not a large production and for the most part uses actors, not well known. You could even say, it resembles a "B" movie. It's appeal lies in the many actual performances by poets that compete in poetry slams reading their own material. www.imdb.com/title/tt0354578/ |
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Post by DavidMc on Apr 21, 2008 11:37:54 GMT -6
Another good movie with a wonderful ensemble cast, including the venerable and talented Juliet Binoche, if you've not seen it is: Dan in Real Life. www.imdb.com/title/tt0480242/I adored this movie on so many levels! The way each character was fleshed out was tremendous. I felt I was was in the middle of a real family gathering ... and Ms Binoche has been my fav actress since dot! One of my all time favourite movies is: Trois couleurs: Bleu [/color] www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/ |
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Post by pamela on Apr 21, 2008 19:51:55 GMT -6
Loved Juno as well. Great dialogue.
All time faves include: Bull Durham, Point of No Return, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather I and II, Almost Famous, Terminator II, the Die Hard Series, You've Got Mail, Chocolat, Legends of the Fall, Regarding Henry, and so many others.
I saw Evening last week with an amazing cast. Has anyone else? I thought it was beautifully done.
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Post by anirbas on May 6, 2008 20:11:57 GMT -6
Evening? No, have to check that one out...
I watched "There Will Be Blood", last night...Interesting portrayal of the early years of the oil boom and the emergence of "oil men", as a result...Daniel Day Lewis, turned in a fine, gritty performance as Mister Plainview...
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Post by sasa on Jun 10, 2008 22:29:33 GMT -6
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Post by DavidMc on Jul 20, 2008 10:23:13 GMT -6
We pigged out and saw to movies yesterday. Hellboy ll and Dark Knight, which were both fantastical indulgencies, but what the heck, you're only a teenager once!
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Post by anirbas on Jul 22, 2008 18:43:29 GMT -6
Tis true, what you did say...
"You're only a teenager, once"...
But, scads more fun
to act like one,
when you
are forty-something
and fifty, respectively...
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Post by amnacar on Sept 19, 2008 13:25:03 GMT -6
Favorite movie? More like movieS.
For the epistler in me, I love:
84 Charing Crossroad with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft
Possession with Gyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart
The Love Letter with Scott Campbell (yummy)
The Lake House with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
You've Got Mail with Hanks and Ryan before she botoxed her lips.
For the romantic in me, I go English as in
Pride and Prejudice (any version)
Emma (any version)
Jane Eyre (any version)
Miss Potter with Ewan McGregor and Renee Z
Elizabeth with Kate the Blanchett I
Shakespeare in Love (need I write more)
Much Ado about Nothing (what a cast!)
Oscar and Lucinda with Blanchett and Fiennes' brother
For the need to laugh, must be
American Sweethearts with Cusack, Roberts, and a hilarious Hank Azaria with the
most outrageous Spanish accent
Bubba Ho-tep with Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis (don't even get me started)
Overboard with Russell and Hawn (love the "bu-bu...buh-buh-buh....I know those moments)
For the "classics", check out
The Quiet Man with the best fight scene ever across a countryside
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Rex Harrison at his best
Miracle on 34th Street with John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and the real Santa Claus
Mr. Roberts James Cagney as petty evil incarnate. Jack Lemmon steals scenes!
An Affair to Remember ultimate chic flick
The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant as an angel...will make a believer out of atheists
For Horror:
Any zombie movie made anywhere. Flesh eaters...my cup of tea;-)
Nosferatu the original black and white German scariness.
Them The opening with the little girl is the best horror intro ever!
Just because....
Frida
Lion in the Winter
Excalibur
King Arthur with Clive Owen
Cloverfield
The Station Master
Tip-Toes
Reign of Fire
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Post by anirbas on Oct 7, 2008 21:55:36 GMT -6
Quirky little movie that had me cackling and giggling is Moving McCallister...
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Post by glenn on Nov 9, 2008 14:51:19 GMT -6
Beowulf with Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovitch, and Robin Penn-Wright is an interesting movie. Not quite true to the original poem. The humor in some of the scenes is quite subtle. The use of digitalization and computer graphics kind of put me off at first, but after a second viewing I think I see why it was made that way. ****
I watched Dune on DVD a few weeks ago. 'Twas interesting to see that book come to life. ***1/2
The Constant Gardener was tremendous viewing. Highly recommended. *****
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Post by anirbas on Nov 10, 2008 16:04:32 GMT -6
If you're talking about the one that also had Angelina Jolie in it, I thoroughly enjoyed it, too.
Perhaps, we are just old school, Glenn...As at first the digitalization and computer graphics
did throw me a bit...I thought 300 was great, too...The special effects employed in movies
these days, certainly are a far cry from the seventies...LOL...
I watched Dune and was fascinated with it, too...But, it's probably been at least a decade,
since the last time I saw it...
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Post by DavidMc on Jan 29, 2009 10:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by DavidMc on Feb 9, 2009 12:26:28 GMT -6
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Post by phantasm on Mar 3, 2013 17:35:16 GMT -6
I loved the latest trilogy of the Batman movies. Fantastic work on so many levels.
Also, does Grey's Anatomy count? I watched the entire series in loooong binge sessions from February 19th or 20th to late last night. Yes, I said the ENTIRE series, from the pilot right up to the bitter end. I quite literally could not get enough of it. And while the character Meredith was the protagonist, they built a big enough world around her to have a number of strong male characters, too.
This is a keeper. It will have a spot in my favorites tab in Hulu for as long as Hulu exists.
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Post by heartfelt7 on Mar 5, 2013 9:16:39 GMT -6
I've done that too. I watched the whole first season of "Touch" (the new show with Keifer Sutherland). That first season was the "best of TV" with the fantastic idea of his autistic son being so into numbers that as Keifer followed the numbers, different people and situations from all over the world were fixed, like everything and everyone is connected. Now this second season must have a new writer because the synchronicity is gone and now priests are having their throats slashed. I'm looking for the new and all I find is old. Oh well, what's new?
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Post by anirbas on Mar 5, 2013 18:40:30 GMT -6
Totally think the latest three Batman movies feature fantastic work on so many levels. However, I have as yet to see the third one, and my favorite will always be the one in which Heath Ledger stole the movie right away from the Batman character with his portrayal of The Joker. Gotta love a run on sentence. lol
I also think series counts in this thread if you enjoyed them, share them. We live in an entertainment age where, often, cable and television series and movie efforts are comparable to anything done cinematically.
My latest fave's in the series/television catagory would of course, have to be, The Big Bang Theory. David and I actually just "discovered" the show about a year, ago. Don't know how we'd missed it first seasons, but, we had. Thrilled to say we have marathon watched and brought ourselves up to the current season and laughed our butts off to do it. Lovers of the show, often ask, who is your favorite character? I love 'em all.
Adored Firefly and often rewatch it's first and only season...Game of Thrones...Can't wait for season three to start!!!!! Downton Abbey...Adore, adore adore this bbc series...Justified and Suits...
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Post by anirbas on Mar 5, 2013 18:49:56 GMT -6
Beast of the Southern Wild...This Oscar nominee is mesmerizingly gritty...Enchanting and haunting...Think it's worth a watch...
Silver Linings Playbook, great but the ending sucked.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower...Splendid work by it's many young actors...
Zero-Dark Thirty...Good, but, no Homeland and no Claire Danes...lol...
Argo...I found this one interesting, as it dealt with an event that happened when I was a child and I vaguely remembered news footage dealing with it...
It's good to see you guys, hanging out and yakking it up.
's everyone up to this week?
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Post by phantasm on Oct 27, 2013 16:41:33 GMT -6
I was just hopping around the site at random. Huh, Nir, a browncoat. Who'd've thunk? I largely liked Firefly and Serenity, too. Good T.V./movie to learn about writing from, excellent and strong characters. I'm not a complete nut over it, but I'd be willing to be called a bowncoat if it was a short coat that just covered down to my lap. Me and a former roommate finished watching the series maybe a week ago. He's learning to life Sci-Fi via me.
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Post by heartfelt7 on Feb 15, 2018 13:54:41 GMT -6
Can't believe no one comments on movies anymore. Did anyone see "Passengers" about the space ship traveling for 120 years to a new world and one of the passengers wakes up 90 years too early?
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Post by heartfelt7 on Feb 15, 2018 13:56:44 GMT -6
I thought I'd also make some comments about Poldark (or maybe we should make a whole new thread)?
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Post by anirbas on Feb 16, 2018 11:06:49 GMT -6
Yes, I watched 'Passengers' and loved it, dear Heart!
I recently watched 'The Shape of Water'. I cannot rave about this movie, enough. I've watched it twice, now.
'Dunkirk' is a riveting, factual mere forty-eight some odd hours during the theater of WWII. Literally left
me gasping for air at some points. Great ensemble cast.
'Godless' is a New Age western I found to be quite good. Binged it til I binged it up, on one day off. It's on Netflix.
I am waiting with bated breath for the return of 'Midnight, Texas' in season II.
Agree we've all let this thread unravel...So, here's to a new season of our favorite movies and binge worthy programs.
Comment away about the darkly handsome, 'Poldark' sweet Heart. But, I also plead of you to watch our Aidan Turner in 'Desperate Romantics'.
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Post by darkness0within on Oct 16, 2018 6:28:22 GMT -6
I liked the film Passengers and its concept. One day humanity will reach the stars, but we are a couple of leaps of technology away yet.
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Post by darkness0within on Oct 16, 2018 6:44:35 GMT -6
Carrying on... Lots of films I like. But film studios are doing a lot of remakes these days, almost as if they've run out of ideas. And also the low budget, and not so low budget films that seem to rely on CGI to sell the films. There is no substitute for good acting. And there has been some real howlers over the years.
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Post by darkness0within on Jan 30, 2019 7:50:29 GMT -6
Just a few movies I particularly like for various reasons.
Historical? Epics
Spartacus. (The original Kirk Douglas version).
Gladiator.
300.
Cold war classic.
Ice station Zebra.
Western.
Tombstone.
The outlaw Jossie Wells.
The good, the bad and the ugly.
Horror.
Interview with a vampire.
Species.
The Thing.(John carpenter version).
Science fiction.
Passengers.
Star trek into Darkness.
Westworld. (The movie) though the TV series is excellent.
And these...
The green mile.
The Showshank redemption.
These are a fraction of what I like BTW.
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Post by phantasm on Feb 17, 2019 19:11:27 GMT -6
I watched E.T. The Extraterrestrial last night. It still holds up fairly well.
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Post by anirbas on Jul 27, 2019 18:27:18 GMT -6
I've been doing my own Rutguer Hauer Memorial Festival, since learning of his death. So far, I've re-watched 'Ladyhawke', 'Flesh and Blood' and 'Blade Runner'.
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