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I can't believe how many people actually like Boondock Saints. It's such an obnoxious movie. I like that 30 minute shoot out where they're 20 feet away from each other and one of younger guys only gets hit like once.
And I hate that guy with the long hair and the beard that they hung out with. He was always screaming and being an idiot and I kept asking myself, "Now, why do they hang out with this guy? Why haven't they ditched him long ago?"
The ending is really stupid too how they're all in church saying how everyone has to be moral or the Boondock Saints are going to kill them. Stupid stupid movie.
Memento is fairly coherent, it makes perfect sense if you watch it carefully... Videodrome continues to confuse me... so far the only thing that I am really getting is the pirate and the screwdriver he was staring at and why is he staring at it so intently, ha-ha.
Speaking od Donnie Darko, netflix has a regular version and a director's cut version. Some director's cut ones are really good, so which should I pick?
I have finally got to watch Mulholland Drive, which was recommended by Dopplegagner, I think...? Anyway, my rule of the thumb is to watch confusing movies twice due to what I call unchronologicalness and my own personal level of dimness and stupidity, but I have no time now... just wanted to write out my basic opinion, but I will definitely watch this again sometime.
Firstly, I felt that the movie was rather boring until to the point where the funky stuff started (the blond girl looks into the blue box). I even felt that the camera spent too much time staying at one place. The story itself was, to a degree, entertaining, as any story of the sort would be, but otherwise, it was as though nothing happened. Either it's made specifically for a second watch, or I don't really know why is it so long and draggy. Perhaps everything in it links to something else, but not at the beginning stage. With the exception of the two old people. When I first saw them I was like "wow, those guys look unreal".
Secondly, there is no feel, no thrill of any sort whatsoever. Even at the end. No athosphere, whether sound or music, either. There are some things like a monster coming from behind a wall, or people seeing a corpse or whatever, or after those two old guys chased Diane, but I don't think those were intended to have any emotional influence, nor did they. For me, a perfect thriller causes disturbance or fear throughout the movie, or after it, or after thinking about it...
The rest of the movie, after the visit to the box, was a lot more entertaining. I can make 200 theories now on what happened, and that's what I do like to do and what I often look for. There seems to be a serious case of things shown before they have a meaning, I'm also not sure if everything in order, and I need some tracking to do because I got confused with all the names. I'm not even sure if the name of the blond girl is ever mentioned until she "becomes" Diane Sullivan.
The other thing, though, the movie leaves kind of an empty feeling. There seems to be no point, message, moral, anything. It just goes and repeates on top of itself, but what's the point?
But, as I said, the first watch of a movie like this doesn't even count, it's way too raw for my level of intelligence. I have a feeling it was specifically intended for additional viewals, though. Which is OK with me...
The new spiderman 3 sucked my brain it is not so funny but yeah the stunts were great.
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''May the Gods give you the strength and power to bear the madness which flows through our minds.''
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
The only comic book movie I've ever truly liked was Batman Begins. Despte a few minor plot contrivances, I really thought it had a good story with great direction and character development. The villains are great too. Especially Scarecrow; a sheer sociopath who wants to help make everyone go crazy just because he would enjoy seeing what it would be like.
It's a good movie also because you really sense that people are in danger, like there are real stakes involved. I loved how Christian Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne and demonstrated both his strengths and especially his weaknesses. Gary Oldman and Cillian Murphy were great. Katie Holmes was kind of crappy, but tolerable. Michael Caine was a great Alfred, I thought. Liam Neeson was okay as well, but his heart didn't really seem into it.
It seems like everything becomes more freakish and "wrong" after watching it a couple of times, and it became more tense.
Well, I know what you mean by that, in order to notice everything at once, you really need to have a good memory of regular things to later link them to something strange.
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For example when that guy tells about his dream in the coffeeshop, i get goosbumps thinking about it now because sometimes you also have something in the back of your head and you know something bad is gonna happen and you wish it wont, but you somehow know it will.
I don't know... I never felt anything like that, it's superstition, but at the same, I guess it fits the movie, kind of like it did in Interstate 60, and there were other movies with the "I feel something bad is going to happen". Did you see Interstate 60, by the way?
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Or when those two guys are in a meeting discussing who they want to play the leading role in the movie, its so tense after watching it a couple of times cause it feels about not having control over simple things and on first sight meaningless things.
Not sure what you mean here...
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Anyways i can talk hours about this movie,
Maybe we will, after I get rid of all my projects and just sit down and watch all these movies a few times over...
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but something confused me though because the music and atmosphere is absolutly fantastic in the movie, it almost feels like you didnt watch the same movielike me, lol.
Well, I felt it was slow and quiet for the sake of athmosphere that never came. There was barely any music at all. Usually, you hear some soft background buzzing, but in MD, there isn't any background, it's just them staring at each other in the silence. Videodrome seemed more athmospheric to me the first time despite the fact that I didn't really get what was it about. Besides, before I feel the athmosphere, I need something, at least something to relate to, and nothing happened in the movie (for now), so, no athmosphere...
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I agree that there doesnt seem to be much morale in the movie but that is extremely intentionally done (after watching it a couple of times you realize everything in the movie is there with a purpose and nothing is chance, and i feel like i dont have time to watch and contemplate/understand everything).
I hate movies where morale is forced upon the viewer and thats why i really like this movie (when moral is involved to much like that in other movies it really backfires on me).
Hmm, well, if a movie has no moral, for me it has no purpose, you know... I guess I know what you mean by all that, but at the same, that is something that can pull me back a lot from a movie, because if it carries no message, if it's just made to be freaky, it's not a movie which I will remember for long.
I agree that forced messages are more annoying than anything, but there are different degrees of forcing. When the message is hidden behind a bastion of puzzles, it can be annoying, too. I wonder if Mulholland Drive has an initial meaning, and if it contains sci-fi. That would make things really complicated.
Did anyone here saw "Once Upon a Time in America"? Is it any good? I wanted to check it out because it has Woods in it, but apart from that, I'm not very excited to see a crappy movie, either... the ratings are OK, but, who knows.
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how could you forget william dafoe(spiderman)lol hes the best chacter:D
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I can't believe how many people actually like Boondock Saints. It's such an obnoxious movie. I like that 30 minute shoot out where they're 20 feet away from each other and one of younger guys only gets hit like once.
And I hate that guy with the long hair and the beard that they hung out with. He was always screaming and being an idiot and I kept asking myself, "Now, why do they hang out with this guy? Why haven't they ditched him long ago?"
The ending is really stupid too how they're all in church saying how everyone has to be moral or the Boondock Saints are going to kill them. Stupid stupid movie.
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Speaking od Donnie Darko, netflix has a regular version and a director's cut version. Some director's cut ones are really good, so which should I pick?
Firstly, I felt that the movie was rather boring until to the point where the funky stuff started (the blond girl looks into the blue box). I even felt that the camera spent too much time staying at one place. The story itself was, to a degree, entertaining, as any story of the sort would be, but otherwise, it was as though nothing happened. Either it's made specifically for a second watch, or I don't really know why is it so long and draggy. Perhaps everything in it links to something else, but not at the beginning stage. With the exception of the two old people. When I first saw them I was like "wow, those guys look unreal".
Secondly, there is no feel, no thrill of any sort whatsoever. Even at the end. No athosphere, whether sound or music, either. There are some things like a monster coming from behind a wall, or people seeing a corpse or whatever, or after those two old guys chased Diane, but I don't think those were intended to have any emotional influence, nor did they. For me, a perfect thriller causes disturbance or fear throughout the movie, or after it, or after thinking about it...
The rest of the movie, after the visit to the box, was a lot more entertaining. I can make 200 theories now on what happened, and that's what I do like to do and what I often look for. There seems to be a serious case of things shown before they have a meaning, I'm also not sure if everything in order, and I need some tracking to do because I got confused with all the names. I'm not even sure if the name of the blond girl is ever mentioned until she "becomes" Diane Sullivan.
The other thing, though, the movie leaves kind of an empty feeling. There seems to be no point, message, moral, anything. It just goes and repeates on top of itself, but what's the point?
But, as I said, the first watch of a movie like this doesn't even count, it's way too raw for my level of intelligence. I have a feeling it was specifically intended for additional viewals, though. Which is OK with me...
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
It's a good movie also because you really sense that people are in danger, like there are real stakes involved. I loved how Christian Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne and demonstrated both his strengths and especially his weaknesses. Gary Oldman and Cillian Murphy were great. Katie Holmes was kind of crappy, but tolerable. Michael Caine was a great Alfred, I thought. Liam Neeson was okay as well, but his heart didn't really seem into it.
Anyway, that was a really good movie.
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I don't know... I never felt anything like that, it's superstition, but at the same, I guess it fits the movie, kind of like it did in Interstate 60, and there were other movies with the "I feel something bad is going to happen". Did you see Interstate 60, by the way?
Not sure what you mean here...
Maybe we will, after I get rid of all my projects and just sit down and watch all these movies a few times over...
Well, I felt it was slow and quiet for the sake of athmosphere that never came. There was barely any music at all. Usually, you hear some soft background buzzing, but in MD, there isn't any background, it's just them staring at each other in the silence. Videodrome seemed more athmospheric to me the first time despite the fact that I didn't really get what was it about. Besides, before I feel the athmosphere, I need something, at least something to relate to, and nothing happened in the movie (for now), so, no athmosphere...
Hmm, well, if a movie has no moral, for me it has no purpose, you know... I guess I know what you mean by all that, but at the same, that is something that can pull me back a lot from a movie, because if it carries no message, if it's just made to be freaky, it's not a movie which I will remember for long.
I agree that forced messages are more annoying than anything, but there are different degrees of forcing. When the message is hidden behind a bastion of puzzles, it can be annoying, too. I wonder if Mulholland Drive has an initial meaning, and if it contains sci-fi. That would make things really complicated.
I think if you did saw it, you would remember it. So I guess you didn't, and I suggest that you do. No one ever watches what I recommend, though.
It was fairly interesting. Some parts kind of seemed cheesey, but on a whole it was a good movie.
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Yeah, it's far from perfect, but I give it the credit it deserves.