Is Last of the Mohicans worth watching? That's his one big one I haven't seen it seems.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High **

A good 80s comedy flick. I never watched this film growing up so it didn't have any sentimental value to me. I still like Dazed and Confused better

I12, that's the one with Sean Penn right??? Spicoli or something was his name; a real space cadet. Ha ha, yea, even I liked that movie.


TIS

Definitely. The score is beautiful, the cinematography is beautiful, the violence is beautiful.

Beautiful, but somehow a bit muddled. I need to revisit it.

Yeah that was him. I watch him in stuff like Mystic River and The Interpreter and then to see him in a role like this was weird

I just rented two films I have yet to watch: Taxi Driver and Sin City. I can't watch them tonight, so what do people think of these films?

Looks like my review is gonna be late like most of the shit on my to-do list lately.

Sin City is a good but overrated film from a director I usually dislike.

Taxi Driver is a masterpiece, one of the ten best ever and Scorsese's best, IMO.

I concur with DV on Taxi Driver. It is a masterpiece.

Taxi Driver is definitely a film I greatly respect and admire. But despite the fact that I've seen it several times, and it's from my favorite director, and it has one of my favorite actors, and I find the subject matter fascinating, for some reason I still just don't like it very much.

I get the feeling like it will be one of my favorites one day, but right now it's not.

Sin City was my favorite movie last year

Stick It **

Not the train wreck I expected. It's basically Bring It On but with gymnastics instead of cheerleaders. My, how Jeff Bridges has fallen

The Royal Tenenbaums **
Somewhat humorous and somewhat poignant story of a family of geniuses that disintegrates.

an overrated, unnecessarily disturbing movie. IMO. :p

A bout de Souffle is one of my favorites. It's a warning of the growing effect of American pop culture.

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (Every Man For Himself and God Against All of Them/The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
Werner Herzog 1974 West Germany (2nd time; DVD)
In 1828 Nuremberg, a 16-year-old boy, with no previous interaction with the world, is found, his origins unknown.
A rather mysterious story told in a simple, profound way; Bruno S., whom Herzog cast in the lead role after seeing many real-life parallels, offers an unflinchingly warm and often haunting presence as the "outcast" at the centre of things.

La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
Werner Herzog 1977 West Germany (2nd time; VHS)
On the island of Guadaloupe, a volcano shows signs of erupting. While the nearby population evacuates, Werner Herzog ascends the mountain in search of the man refusing to move.
Fantastic, characteristic view of the director's fascination and search for his own reasoning behind confronting danger, as much obsessed with the absence of disaster as with the foreboding of it.

Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner / The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Werner Herzog 1973 West Germany (3rd time; VHS)
A carpenter whose true love in life is ski-flying sets world records and becomes a phenomenon.
The said phenomenom is not least in the director's eyes, or even in Steiner's own psychology; a beautiful evocation of a man wanting to, like the director, push as many of his own boundaries as he can.

I'm too lazy to read all of this :p ,but I've just seen "Carlito's Way",so...Do you like it?I do,but if we compare it with "Scarface"(just if),"Scarface" is stronger,darker somehow...Was it mentioned here...?

I prefer Carlito's Way. But that's just me.

Me too. The film is, in my mind, vastly superior intellectually as well as technically when compared to Scarface.

The Notorious Bettie Page **

A big disappointment for me. This movie didn't really settle or focus on anything hardly in Bettie Page's life, it was just a very brief overview. At least Walk the Line established the connection between John and June early on in the movie

Invincible
Werner Herzog 2001 UK/Germany/Ireland/US (1st time; TV)
In 1930s Germany, a smalltown Jew with incredible strength is exploited in Berlin, and rises to fame, to the bewilderment of the Nazis.
"Based on a true story", it tells us in big letters after the title pops up; nevertheless, it's presented like a tragic fairytale, full of wooden characters, stiff acting and, perhaps most unusually, drab images. Herzog's never been a director to make films with a predominant sense of realism, but this sinks early on into a contrived mess, whose most powerful shot, of thousands of crabs in a rock pool, is apparently stolen from his previous feature, Little Dieter Needs to Fly.

Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog 1981 Peru/West Germany (2nd time; DVD)
Against all odds, an ambitious Irishman attempts to haul a steamboat from one river to another over a hill, in order to establish an opera house deep in the Peruvian jungle.
Surely one of Cinema's most physically exhausting accomplishments; it took three years to film, with a complete re-shoot when Herzog lost his two leads after 40% was filmed, though even as second choice, Kinski is as intense as ever. It looks, sounds and feels like one of the director's most polished films, and also ranks among his most accessible.

I don't really consider any of Herzog's films (besides Grizzly Man) accesible.

I seriously doubt anywhere around here carries any of them. Kind of a shame.

I jsut asw Misison IMpossinbe 3 with 2 of my feinds. There were only 5 people in the theather, incdluing us.

I actually liek dit. Maybe I'm werid. I think I erfad on here somehwere that it sucked. I dudnno right nwo.

What I readly liek dabout the movie was the preveiw for Pirates of the cariibena 2. I love em some johnny dpep. Theres a cscene where he wasa gonna ikiss Eleizabith. DARMA!! Hahaha

not you, just your typewriting!! :p

That whiskey was real good, wasn't it?

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai **

I had an urge to see this and I was somewhat disappointed. I like Forest Whitaker but didn't think he did a really good job. Pretty slow and stupid in some parts

Capo DLCN and I once talked about Taxi Driver and I couldn't really pin down my feelings about it, but you kinda feel the same way I do.

Favorite director, favorite actor, fascinating subject matter (especially because I was a NYC taxi driver for a while many years ago), but I just don't like it that much for some reason.

Could you define "stupid", please?

Could you define "stupid", please? [/b][/quote]I was about to say the same thing.

Irishman, have you ever seen Dead Man?

just saw capote

hoffman had one of the top 5 performances ive seen in any film and the film has an excellent story

5/5

Could you define "stupid", please? [/b][/quote]The infamous cry of "well, I didn't know I had to justify my answer" Just kidding Capo. I thought there were too many pigeon/bird shots and just mid-way through the movie I lost interest. I like Forest Whitaker as I said but didn't think he did a good job. SPOILER when he shot the guy through the drain, I think that did it for me. Plus the French ice cream guy scene was getting rather annoying to me. END OF SPOILER

DVC, no, I have not seen Dead Man