The Godfather Part 1 10/10 (#2 Favorites)
The Godfather Part 2 10/10 (#1 Favorites)

I recommend everyone to watch these 2 very underrated movies on this board :p

The interprator with Nicole Kidman, I saw it a while back but it really surprised me...I was really amazed how deep this movie went and how good the plot was.. I went because my girlfriend thought it would be good and I was like ahh man (but of course I ddin't say anything) but it was really good I would recommend to anyone



Joe Batters

Oh brother. :rolleyes:

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AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

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SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964)

Oh brother. :rolleyes: [/b][/quote]I know. I was thinking the exact same thing after watching the movie becaused I was so bored with it :rolleyes:

How did you like NETWORK if you hated ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST?

As in....I just don't get it. You make me proud when you dug NETWORK, but then to call perhaps the most beautiful and operatic western ever "boring"?

But hey, to each his own...

Speaking of which, how is your new DEER HUNTER DVD? Too bad it doesn't have Cimino's commentary track from R2, for which I have that DVD. :p

Speaking of which, how is your new DEER HUNTER DVD? Too bad it doesn't have Cimino's commentary track from R2, for which I have that DVD.

Well, it has a really cool cove--

Just go to hell, now. :p

Touchy Touchy, eh?

Really, the only good thing I can see maybe worth being excited over is the new digital transfer for DEER HUNTER on that new DVD...but that is it.

Go to hell? Sure DV. I'll tell Kurt that you said hi. :p

Network was funny and that's what kept me entertained. Once Upon a Time I just found slow and not very interesting. I think it took like 10 minutes from the start of the movie to get to the director's name across the screen. I was looking forward to a good movie but from that point on I knew it could possibly be slow and it was. Also, at first I liked the harmonica song when Bronson would be around but towards the end of the movie I was so sick of hearing it

I used to not participate in this discussion seeing that I do this at the Movie Boards, but I think I should now.

Here's my first review.

Wuthering Heights (1939) Second Viewing
Directed By: William Wyler
Rating: ****/****

A film that was the product of one of the greatest years in Hollywood history stands as a testament not only to the genius of independent producer Samuel Goldwyn, but of he directorial craft shown by William Wyler, the screenplay written by Ben Hecht an Charles McCarthur, the beautifully vivid deep focus cinematography of Greg Toland and of course the acting of performers like Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven.

These people bring to life Emile Bronte's timeless tale of love between two star crossed lovers: Heathcliff and Cathy. Top notch for everything along with Alfred Newman's lush and beautiful score which only accentuates the beauty and horror seen in the rise and fall of a group of people in Industral Era England.

You better sleep with one eye open.

Anyway, Once Upon a Time in the West is the greatest western ever. It went off the trails of normal ones and took the operatic route. It's also a very inspirational film to many others people may not realize. I think it was Lucas who had a copy of the film's soundtrack during Star Wars. The soundtrack itself is excellent, for each character.

The opening is also great. Sure it's slow, but that's the point. Morricone went to a concert where music was made with all natural objects, and he decided to hold out on music for the opening, and just keep natural sounds in, probably to give us the annoying feeling of the desperados waiting for the train, and when that train comes it's like a blast from hell, contrasting the silence. The film itself is an excellent allegory to the rise of power, and corruption of landgrabbers.

The one thing I wish was different was the three desperados. Originally Leone wanted Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef to be the three desperados in the opening, but one of them couldn't make it. Fonda is probably the best villain in a western ever.

MFA Review

Ray 2004

Brilliant Film

Jamie Foxx was awesome

RAY...average biopic, but Foxx was pretty good. Amazing what Oscar nominations a movie can get if your subject character dies around the time of its release...

Yeah...that reminds me I want to have sex with Keira Knightley

I couldn't agree more

Monster

No bad movie at all, even if I thought the first half wasn't really interesting but it gets alot better by the end. Mrs. Theron gives a great performance, Christina Ricci was ok.

7/10

Uh, DeNiro, do you have to post page-stretching pics?

Anybody who have seen this movie? "La grande bouffe" with Michel Piccoli & Marcello Mastroianni? Propably one of ou fellow members from Italy? Can you recommend it?
It will be released here on DVD this month...

Dazed and Confused (1993; Linklater)

Wow. I just saw this movie and fell in love with it. It's soundtrack, sense of humor, and attention to detail (Alfred Hitchcock's "Family Plots" is one of the films playing at the local theatre, for instance) really make it great. Plus the cast really acts well together. It's the tale of the incoming class and outgoing class of students in 1976. Overrall, a really great film.

Yeah I've only seen Dazed and Confused once myself but I liked it, moreso than Fast Times At Ridgemont High

I concur, Irish.

Desperate Housewives Season 1

I heard so many good things about this show that I had to see it to see what the big "fuse" was about. I liked it enough to buy it on DVD. The season ends with a BIG cliffhanger so I'm looking forward to Season 2. I like watching them on DVD instead of TV because you can watch as many as you want and don't have to wait week to week. The beginning of the season was pretty funny but towards the end I think it lost some of its humor

Speaking of which, am I the only one that thinks DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is quite a terrible title? Really, it sounded like a crappy TV pilot that somehow escaped into the populace.

Was it a good show to begin with Ron? Hell, TV sucks today save for a few shows.

I feel the same. I think the title could and should have been changed and doesn't promote the series very well (i.e. others think it's going to be crappy based on the title alone)

I agree Don Vercetti. In fact, save for maybe some FOX sunday programs, the only network programs I go watch that is worth my time is on HBO.

I mean there is the pretty good historical dramas DEADWOOD and ROME, the masterpiece mob series THE SOPRANOS(of course!), the really good comedy CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM(which returns on sunday!), the rather unique fantasy series CARNIVALE, and not to mention the many TV pictures that HBO produces that are sometimes really unique effective low-budget dramas or melodramatic crap(IRON JAW ANGELS anyone?)

All Quiet on the Western Front #54 on the AFI Top 100 List *

It's been awhile since I've been able to watch a movie from the list but this was not the movie to do with it. I was pretty bored throughout it

Amadeus #53 on the AFI Top 100 List ***

I had seen parts of this before but never in its entirity. What a good movie and a GREAT performance by F. Murray Abraham. I'm glad he won an Oscar for this part

And #1 on Afi's top list?

I've just rewatched Insomnia.
On the second glance it was much better. I mean, Al was acting good, and it atoned for the boring and slow and unnatural story... If everything else would be as good as Al...

And #1 on Afi's top list?
[/b][/quote]Of course! You bet.

Glad you liked it Irish.