Movie Madness

clash of the titans? Are we talking the new or the old? Because, no offense, but I HATE the new remake. It's stray off the original story and boring as hell. Well, at least for me.

the story is nice , the acting sucks , but there was a lot of fighting which made it more exciting , watching a movie with a large group doubles the pleasure ( except the porn movies), so it seemed nice to me

Added
Grave of the fireflies
Hrafninn flýgur
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
The Untouchable
On The Waterfront
The Big Labowski
The Red Thin Line
The End of Evangelion
Evangelion: You Are (not) Alone
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
Throne of Blood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hotel Rwanda
Kill Bill
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Usual Suspects
The Truman Show
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Animal Farm
My Sassy Girl

Ading the german movie "Kein Pardon"

IMDB: Kein Pardon (1993)

Story:
A satire about show-biz: Peter Schlönzke was raised in the large mid-German industrial area "Ruhrgebiet" and is an adoring fan of the show "Fun Unlimited" and it's moderator Heinz Wäscher. Peter wants to be like him, but when he attends a talent contest, he fails entirely, manages to get only a job as cable layer. His view behind the background lets him see the real personality of his idol: an arrogant choleric. By his innocence and motivation Peter gets probated soon and manages to start a show-biz career himself.

Opinion:

Theres allways something new to see, and even after the 5th time watching it, I still laugh about a lot of things.
However, since most of the things joked about are specifically related to gemany its hard to watch/less funny for non-germans.

9/10

This movie follows 3 episodes, three different storys and situations, but with the same protaganist Tohno Takaki. Through lifes three most important and changing stages. Mainly early teens, late teens and adulthood.
It's about love and relationships.

"Desperatly, reaching recklessly towards the sky. In search of something almost overwhelmingly far off in the distance."
This explains most of the stories - and human nature.

The animation goes from good to amazing at times. Only problem I have is sometimes their face design feels out of place. It stands out a lot. Especially in the first episode.. But once you see the amazing scenery you'll forget all about it.
Actually I think I discovered the potentials of animation while watching this movie.

To be frank I think the special/ending is much better than the movie. But the movie makes it special. Damn that song is good.

In the end I give it a 9/10. It gave me a lot of feels and it made me re-think about wasting my youth for nothing. For some reason I kept thinking about that through the entire movie.
The ending/special get an 10/10. If it was an fan made amv, I would shit my pants. I'm serious, it's that good.


Quotes
"The speed cherry blossom petals fall is five centimeters per second."

"I don't even know what I'll do tomorrow."

"Desperatly, reaching recklessly towards the sky. In search of something almost overwhelmingly far off in the distance."

Screenshots


I guess everyone is searching for their own miracle....

Truth be told: I think this is my first Satoshi movie. I know he's quite famous. So I've been thinking of starting a "Satoshi theme" meaning I'll be watching all his most famous movies (the other ones later) until Christmas.

And as a first comer to Satoshi, I have to say my anime-penis is pleased. FINALLY THEY USED ALL THE POTENTIALS AN ANIME HAVE. It's obscure, surrealistic, bizarre, exceptional, funny, amazing, breathtaking and beautiful. All of this in one movie.

Visuals The anime looks good, very good. It may not have the scenery as 5 Centimeters Per Second but it does a good job displaying the odd 'things' happening through out the movie. Something even with comedic effect.

Story I have heard that this is in many ways similar to Inception. And I was surprised that Paprika was released 2 years before Inception because my original thought was that Paprika got the inspiration for the dream idea from Inception but in fact it's (most likely) that Inception got it from Paprika.
And it's true, there's a lot of similar things happening in Paprika that happens in Inception. Searched the web and found these, no spoilers.


But don't forget the only thing similar with Inception is a few scenes and the entire "going in other people dreams" thing. The rest is pretty much original as far as I know.

And the theme song is pree coo and experimental like the rest of it.


I give it 10/10 because I love the beautiful surrealistic animation a lot. The story is unique and unpredictable. And I get a Tegumi feeling towards Chiba Atsuko, fuck she's hot.

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Honest review time:

Movie: Prometheus
Release: 2012
Grade: B

I honestly will give this movie a B; not a B minus or plus, just a B. I'll go into the pros and cons which have ultimately decided my grading.

I'll start off with what I disliked about it. The first thing I recognized was smaller details that just didn't fall into place.



Also, there is some lack in quality in the plot.



That's about it for what I dislike about it. Onto the positive side.

The acting is about average throughout the film, overall. I honestly found Michael Fassbender to be the most appealing in the movie. Michael Fassbender was absolutely fantastic. Fantastic; every scene he was in just stole my attention. He almost literally became an android throughout the film, in my eyes.



Everyone else were kind of there, in my eyes. Even Noomi Rapace isn't really convincing as a lead actress in the film. At the end she warms up, but it's still sub par compared to Scott's other works.

The film is visually incredible; the cinematography, special/computer effects, the sound. The cinematography, indisputably, is fantastic. From the desolate, hilly landscape to the small corridors of the ship to the alien structure, it's fantastic. They really did pay attention to the surroundings when filming it. It looks foreign and strange while being familiar at the same time.

The visual effects were also good. It had explosions, gross tentacles, melting space suits, oozing stone vases, and cool architecture as well as nice medical room scene.

To sum up my feelings on the film, I liked it. It was entertaining while being somewhat intuitive. If a sequel comes out, I will probably watch it as well. Also, this is clearly my thoughts on the film, and should not be taken for granted. Watch it for yourselves if you want to judge a film.

No it doesn't. I was wondering why Django was better than Les Misérables.

You only explained why Django was good and that it has a very good shootout scene. If I'm not mistaken Les Misérables isn't even a action flick.

Your move. And to be clear, I love Tarantino's movies. Especially for his music taste. And I haven't watched neither Django or Misérables.

Good Things Ryssen started this thread, but where is the good Black Cinema that has not made the list yet, besides boyz n da hood.

What about the classics like Juice, Set it Off, Jason's Lyric, In too Deep, Thin line between love and hate, Mo better Blues, Miracle at St. Anna, I'm gonna get you sucka, Love Jones, Dead Presidents, Friday, The Tuskegee Airmen(not red tails), How stella got her groove back, Head of State, Soul Men,Life, and Harlem Nights Etc..Just to name a few..but not to seem overly black.

Here's a few I think belong on the list:
Sci-fi: The Last Starfighter, Total Recall(1990), Tron (1982), RoboCop, Event Horizon, and Dune.

Anime:Venus Wars, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter OVAs, Fatal Fury,Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Red Line, Karas: The Prophecy

Action/Adventure: Troy, Big Trouble little China, Last Samurai, Time Cop, Double Impact, Death Race, Tears of the Sun, Top Gun, The Fugitive, The Hunted, Sherlock Holmes/Game of Shadows, Die Hard 1,2,3, Live Free Die Hard, The Crow, The Warriors, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Punisher, and for QT fans: Where is "Sukiyaki Western Django", Way of the Gun, Blade, the Patriot.

Family: Short circuit, a Goofy Movie, The Pacifier,

Foreign: Red Cliff, House of flying Daggers, Rashumon, Merantau, The Man from Nowhere, Old Boy, I saw the Devil, Memoirs of A Geisha, Shinjuku Incident, Outrage, Raging Phoenix, Chocolate, Body Guard and Assassins, The Rebel.

Horror: Videodrome, TCM(Texas Chainsaw Massacre), QT's From Dusk Till Dawn, Aliens, HC2, Human Centipede, hostel, Cabin fever, Scream Franchise, Hellraiser, Heartless, Blood Creek.

Drama/Romance: Spanglish, Moulin Rogue, What a woman wants, waiting to exhale, The Bodygaurd, Rosewood, the Illusionist, The prestige, Original Sin,

I'm pretty sure there is more in my knowledge, but this all I can remember off the top of my head. I kinda feel this generation is missing out, sometimes. Man I love being an 80's baby. LOL.

Never seen any of them.


Robocop was meh. It's a classic. But it's not partially good. Haven't seen the other ones.


I have watched Akira so it's my fault it's not in there. Haven't watched the other ones.


Die Hard and Sherlock are in the list. Last Samurai isn't that good. Same with Death Race and Riddick. Haven't watched the other movies.


Never heard of.


Oldboy is in the list already. I'm sure of it. I am going to watch both Rashomon and Red Cliff soon, hopefully. Haven't watched the other movies.


Not a big fan of horror movies but you're right Alien should be there. Haven't watched the other movies.


Never heard of it expect The Prestige, which I will watch soon.[/quote]

There's some interesting stuff here on Kasul-rahul's list of suggestions and if I may, I'd like to weigh in on some of them.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka - this was a parody of blaxploitation films, and I intend to see it at some point given that I love me some blaxploitation. But I find it hard to believe that it would be anywhere near as good as Black Dynamite.

Friday - it's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember enjoying it.

Soul Men - I haven't seen it (haven't heard many good things about it either). I'm only weighing in here because for a second, I thought you were referring to Soul Man, that movie where C. Thomas Howell got into Harvard by pretending to be black.

Harlem Nights - I wouldn't call it a classic by any means, but I'd say it's a very underrated film. Eddie Murphy (before he gave up and started sucking) Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx... That's an awesome cast. Also, the look of the film was amazing.

The Sci-Fi films he recommended.

The Last Starfighter - Maybe it hasn't held up over the years, but it's still a classic eighties movie in my book.

Total Recall - Schwarzenegger at his best. Love it. Great science fiction mixed with awesome action cheese. An all around fun movie. (I'd also suggest another Arnold movie, The Running Man)

Tron - It's Tron. What else is there to say? I don't think it's a great movie, but I'd still consider it required watching.

Event Horizon - Complete and utter garbage. That being said, it's better than most movies made by it's director - Paul W.S. Anderson (the Resident Evil director).

Dune - A cult classic. I don't personally love it, but it's definately worth checking out.

The anime films he recommended.

Ninja Scroll - A kick ass action film. The fight scenes are amazing. I can't recommend it enough.

Fatal Fury - I've seen two of them - Fatal Fury The Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury The Motion Picture. Neither is really any good at all, but The Hungry Wolf is a fast watch (like, 50 minutes I think) and it's pretty good as far as unintentional comedy goes.

Endless Waltz - I hate Gundam Wing with a fiery passion. But people who like it would probably enjoy this.

Death Race - I can't say I thought it was great, but it was sort of entertaining. There are tons of better Jason Statham movies out there. I would recommend the original 1975 Death Race 2000, though. Dave Carradine, Sly Stallone and lots of awesome b-movie goodness.

Big Trouble in Little China - an eighties classic. I won't call it brilliant, but it's certainly entertaining as all hell.

Top Gun - I wouldn't call it good, but I love it. It's stupid, cheesy and oh so eighties.

The Crow - A bit pretentious, but overall, a solid action film.

The Punisher - I liked both of the recent Punisher movies. I'm probably in the minority, though. I sort of want to see the one from the eighties with Dolph Lundgren.

Family movies he recommended

Short Circuit - Great film. The sequel is fantastic too.

I can't recommend Rashumon enough. Also, this is going a bit off topic, but most John Woo movies are fantastic - The Killer, Hardboiled, A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II... Love that guy's work.

Horror films he recommended

Video Drome, Texas Chainsaw (the original at least) From Dusk Till Dawn and Aliens are all fantastic. Human Centipede was just stupid (not even funny stupid. It certainly wasn't disturbing. I want to know what eight year old thought that concept up. The mad scientist almost made it worth watching, though.) Cabin Fever and Hostel were dreadfully bad.

I haven't seen the romance movies he suggested, but if by 'What a Woman Wants,' he meant 'What Women Want,' I thought it was funny as hell.

Why do you dislike Gundamn Wing so much?

You sir are awesome. thanks for the input on my list. I said I was born in the 80's and it shows in my movies. also I forgot to mention Lawerence Fishburn in "Hoodlum" for crime and drama. I forgot to mention Brick, Bronson, She hate me, Menace to Society, The Last Dragon, The Chinese connection, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury(A.k.a the Big Boss), Return of the Dragon, Redbelt(a should watch), Hannibal Lecter, True Grit, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, The Golden Child, Identity,

(I cut out my post from Kasul-rahul's quote to save space.)

I watched Wing when I was little, it's what got me into anime and Gundam, but I've moved on since then and honestly, it just hasn't held up at all. I won't go into further detail here because I could probably write an essay on the subject.

Anyway... Of the films you mentioned here, I can recommend Enter The Dragon, Fist of Fury, Enter The Dragon, The Chinese Connection True Grit (the original - haven't seen the remake, but I hear it's very good), Menace II Society and The Good The Bad and The Ugly (one of the best films ever made IMHO)

As for She Hate Me... I made it about twenty minutes in to that before I remembered that the plot was a guy getting paid thousands of dollars to have sex with lesbians because apparently sperm banks and adoption agencies don't exist in the world of She Hate Me. Either that or every lesbian in that film's world is bisexual. That's when my brain shut off and I wished I had a copy of Do The Right Thing (another one of my favorite movies) or Malcolm X (which I liked a lot as well).

I don't know what happened to Spike Lee after Malcolm X, but I can't think of a movie he wrote after that that I enjoyed. I've heard good things about Miracle at St. Anna and I want to see that, but he didn't write that one, so in fairness, maybe it's just his writing that went downhill.

Cool..I can respect that. I think my most disliked gundam series, is Gundam Seed just to many lasers and fast motion for me. Now Gundam 00 got it right IMHO, but the movie kinda fell off. DBZ is kinda on my shitlist right now, I just sort out grew it. That and Gundam wing got me into anime Series, Akira and Venus Wars got me into Anime. Just DBZ doesn't do it for me anymore...and its surge to popularity once again..shows that it is a good show, but just alittle bit too memorable.

As for the movies, you mentioned. Dude all I can say is...you have good opinion that dont defame, or molest. Just good damn answers to questions. I felt Spike lee was hit or miss with me, cause I saw his movie "HE got game" Was not fairly in impressed, but I like Rosario Dawson(Actually met her on my campus a few months back.) Malcom X was an awesome movie...oh yeah. Have you heard about or Seen "Panther"... I saw it on Tv when I was little absolutely loved it. I just recently watched premium rush with JGL...it was meh..in my book.

Thanks. I appreciate that. I'm trying not to be outright offensive with my critiques of movies. That sort of goes against my nature, though. Seriously, I can easily go off on a vicious, hateful tirade for ten straight minutes if I hate a movie enough.

I haven't seen Panther, but it doesn't really appeal to me very much.

I have a suggestion for the thread. The other night, I watched a movie called Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage. It's one of the best movies I've seen in years. I was expecting another Nic Cage playing an arms dealer in one of his over-acting fests (which is a huge selling point for me. I love it when he does that) but I got a very intelligent, thought provoking and powerful movie with great performances across the board. I guess it could be called a dark comedy.

Also, the opening credit sequence is fantastic. I knew I was in for something special when I saw that.

Lord of War Opening Credits - Life of a Bullet

I've watched it. It was over average. I will be sure to add it later.

Fantasy,
Labyrinth

surprised no one put it up already.