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Mogman

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I've been seeing an absolute smegload of mediocre movies, and very few that actually standout as anything decent, last Decent film i saw was Lord of War (Nicholas Cage flick)

So i'm curious, what is the best film that you last watched?
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« Reply #1 on: 19 Sep 2006, 22:04 »

That's hard to say... Probably Brick. Real good film, that one. I recommend it to anyone.
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« Reply #2 on: 19 Sep 2006, 22:21 »

I really dug Little Miss Sunshine quite a lot.
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« Reply #3 on: 19 Sep 2006, 22:23 »

I'd say Hoodwinked. I found it to be a very funny movie.
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« Reply #4 on: 20 Sep 2006, 04:37 »

Clerks II was the last movie I saw, and it was the last movie I've really really enjoyed. I HAven't laughed that hard in a film in a long long time, and I have to tell you I laughed hard and loud in that cinema, along with the five other strangers in the cinema who couldn't get their friends to come with them because the idea of watching a sequel to a film which was originally in black and white seems stupid to them.

To be succinct, a great fucking movie which had me in stitches.
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« Reply #5 on: 20 Sep 2006, 05:25 »

theater-wise, little miss sunshine, and before that, the proposition.


dvd/internet-wise, innumerable good movies. recently, dead man, for the nth time.
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« Reply #6 on: 20 Sep 2006, 06:23 »

Pssh.  I only see good movies.  The last one I saw was Friends With Money.  Before that was Thankyou For Smoking.  Before that, Brick.  Coming up: An Inconvenient Truth, the Child (L'Enfant), and the Wind That Shakes the Barley.
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« Reply #7 on: 20 Sep 2006, 07:35 »

...Hmm, this isn't the music forum, yet i know i shouldn't be a snob...

Oh well, whatever
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« Reply #8 on: 20 Sep 2006, 07:47 »

Last movie I watched that I really dug was Spider.  It's pretty mercilously miserable, but whatever.  Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson are both awesome and Cronenberg's on form, being difficult with good reason.
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« Reply #9 on: 20 Sep 2006, 08:15 »

rented dirty harry last night. damn good movie
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« Reply #10 on: 20 Sep 2006, 08:26 »

The Lady Eve was really good.  through netflix I got Throne of Blood which was too similar to Polanski's macbeth for me to enjoy (I wrote my senior thesis on Polanski's version.  if I recall correctly it is one of the more accurate films.  I think a total of 46 lines omitted).  Sword of Doom was wicked. Virgin Spring sucked;  It was like Bergman went all Gustavus Adolphus on our asses and bludgeoned the audience with religion.  ouch.

I almost died watching Little Miss Sunshine. laughing
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« Reply #11 on: 20 Sep 2006, 10:10 »

little miss sunshine and thank you for smoking were the last two to actually blow me away, from what i remember. the rest were either just good/ok or crap, like the wicker man.
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« Reply #12 on: 20 Sep 2006, 10:23 »

i saw the last kiss with zach braff (well not with him, but he's in the movie).  I liked it.  He plays nearly the same character as garden state.  I didn't think the story was all that interesting but the all around good actors carried the movie.  with lessor actors it would have been horrible.
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« Reply #13 on: 20 Sep 2006, 16:12 »

In the cinema?

SNAKES ON A PLANE!
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« Reply #14 on: 20 Sep 2006, 18:18 »

Cronenberg has always seemed much more interested in style than substance to me.  I've generally found his dialogue to be frequently flat in terms of delivery, by otherwise extremely competent actors.

Brick was indeed good.  Some people I know were bothered by the switching on and off between the different types of dialogue, but I think it worked fairly well.

I saw Hollywoodland recently.  Didn't even come close to living up to my expectations.
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« Reply #15 on: 21 Sep 2006, 00:49 »

I saw the original Wicker Man finally. excellent film.
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« Reply #16 on: 21 Sep 2006, 02:40 »

Run, Lola, Run. It was so good I had to watch it twice. That good.
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« Reply #17 on: 21 Sep 2006, 12:56 »

Bon Cop, Bad Cop.
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« Reply #18 on: 21 Sep 2006, 14:14 »

I saw The Matador the other night. It was pretty good!
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« Reply #19 on: 21 Sep 2006, 16:08 »

I'll second Little Miss Sunshine.. it was the last really good movie I saw.
I'm going to see Pulp Fiction at the flash back cinema in a couple of hours so there's that.
I saw Nightwatch not long ago on DVD and it was quite good.

I want to see The Proposition. It's releasing on DVD this week I think.. I'll have to shove it in my netflix queue I suppose. I've got Blue Velvet here but haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
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« Reply #20 on: 22 Sep 2006, 01:12 »

I thought The Proposition was pretty average quite frankly, except for the oldest brother, and the Irish Bounty Hunter, I thought the characters were pretty two dimensional.

That aside however, Life of Brian has been playing a lot on cable these last few days and I have been taking the time to watch that fine movie, which I haven't seen in quite a while.

In terms of movies I've seen at the movies though, the last "decent" movie I've seen was Thank You For Smoking. I am really glad Hollywood is capable of making movies like this. It's not very often I can stroll down to the giant honking megaplex, with a flask of Irish Whiskey, and a obscenely large bucket of popcorn, and actually watch a movie that I find amusing and intelligent, so I savour these kinds of moments.
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« Reply #21 on: 22 Sep 2006, 13:46 »

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« Reply #22 on: 22 Sep 2006, 14:00 »

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« Reply #23 on: 22 Sep 2006, 14:20 »

Children of horses, what kind of sicko do you take me for?

Children of deer, however...



Paedozoophiliah!
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« Reply #24 on: 23 Sep 2006, 04:43 »

Snakes on a Plane!
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« Reply #25 on: 23 Sep 2006, 12:19 »

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That's hard to say... Probably Brick. Real good film, that one. I recommend it to anyone.


That movie was brilliant. Some of the best writing in a movie also. That's a good example of how a world can be born from the words.
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« Reply #26 on: 23 Sep 2006, 13:37 »

Munich was the last movie I saw that I left the theater and immedeatly wanted to buy the DVD when it came out.

The Matador was another one.
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« Reply #27 on: 23 Sep 2006, 21:49 »

Amelie, last night.

I can't remember the last time I watched a new movie, though...
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« Reply #28 on: 23 Sep 2006, 22:37 »

Half Nelson.
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« Reply #29 on: 23 Sep 2006, 22:41 »

Little Miss Sunshine was the last I saw that was any good.
The Wicker Man was before that except it wasn't good...at all.
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« Reply #30 on: 24 Sep 2006, 02:24 »

The Usual Suspects, last night.
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« Reply #31 on: 24 Sep 2006, 22:01 »

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I saw The Matador the other night. It was pretty good!
Funny you should say that, I just watched it. Very good movie that was marketed all wrong.
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« Reply #32 on: 24 Sep 2006, 22:27 »

It's not a mid-90s Pedro Almodovar melodrama featuring necrophilia?
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« Reply #33 on: 24 Sep 2006, 22:35 »

Bulletproof Monk was surprisingly good.  I thought it'd be terrible, but I didn't mind it.

Astaldo, you only saw The Usual Suspects last night?  That's one of my all-time favourites.
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« Reply #34 on: 26 Sep 2006, 11:53 »

I saw Clerks 2 last night and I laughed so much I cried which has never happened before. The Star Wars vs LOTR was genius and it has pretty much confirmed that Jason Lee is the man I want to marry.
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I liked Clerks 2 a lot too, but "Millions" was really, surprisingly good...not mushy and altruistic, like a lot of "family films" out there.  Also, "Tristan and Isolde" was done well. 
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Hard Candy, Little Miss Sunshine and A Scanner Darkly.
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I saw The Matador the other night. It was pretty good!
Funny you should say that, I just watched it. Very good movie that was marketed all wrong.
I saw that last week.  The way he dealt with the how-do demonstration was just awesome. 

The last film I saw that I thought was good* was Casablanca.  I’ve seen it a bunch of times before, but when I found my girlfriend hadn’t, we rented it that night.

*This was a few days after I saw The Matador, or else that would be the last good film.
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I watched Memento again the other night, that movie is awesome, Guy Pierce has the most soothing voice....
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Last night I stayed up until 2 watching Mighty Aphrodite. Oh how I love Woody Allen's neurotic antics :-D I was also hanging out with my friends yesterday and we rented The Princess Bride

Sweetest line from a movie..."My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die!"
Also had an amazing epiphany about halfway through the movie. The 6-fingered man is Nigel from This Is Spinal Tap. Isn't that intense?! :-o

I think that's pretty intense :}

Hehe and Inigo Montoya is Rube from that tv show Dead Like Me! Crazy, eh?
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Lucky Number Slevin! 'Nuff said.
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Clerks 2 was one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen, and Crank was just awesome. Best movies that I've seen recently for sure.
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Went to see a one-off screening of Andrei Rublev at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image yesterday (MASSIVE screen).  That's pretty much one of the best films I or anyone else is ever gonna see.  Three hours and you can't tear your eyes away.  Tarkovsky is just incredible.
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Being the Scorsese whore that I am I went to see The Departed. I actually enjoyed this film, despite how unsettling some scenes tend to be.
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Snow Cake.
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Definitely "Primer". That's in my top twenty. They refreshed an old topic for me.
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Dun dun. V For Vendetta for the third time. It has its genious parts I can't stop loving. So... I keep loving it, naturally. On the cinema, Snakes On A Plane is a must though. You just have to see it, it's that nice. I won't say "good", but entertaining. Entertaining indeed.
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I got out "palendrome"t he other night... it was great
absolutely insane, but great
I still have to re-watch happiness

I saw "saw II"  that night as well.  I hate those movies :-(
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Crash.
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V For Vendetta for the third time.

You should definitely see Children of Men, if you haven't already.  Well, okay, everyone should see it - but especially if you liked V for Vendetta, you'll like it a lot.  It's basically everything the film of V for Vendetta was trying to be.
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