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The movie recommendations thread, son (pg. 82)
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Stay (2005)
Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Has anyone seen The Machinist with Christian Bale? Is it worth watching? |
Yes and yes. Not one of my favorites, but a decent enough movie to be worth a watch. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Either way, it's no wonder Redbox is puttying local Blockbusters out of business. |
i think it's such a same. netflix, i can understand. but redbox? with a miniscule selection? gtfo. |
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| leph555 |
| quote: | Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
i think it's such a same. netflix, i can understand. but redbox? with a miniscule selection? gtfo. |
Redbox is for the rednecks at walmart |
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| WittyHandle |
I think piracy has more to do with Blockbuster's downfall than Redbox.
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Has anyone seen The Machinist with Christian Bale? Is it worth watching? |
It's a decent movie imo., worth watching. Pretty impressive to see what Bale went through to work that role. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
It's a decent movie imo., worth watching. Pretty impressive to see what Bale went through to work that role. |
The word "intense" doesn't even begin to describe that guy. He's kind of scary man... did you see the character he played in Harsh Times? How can one just "act" like that without it coming from somewhere within? :nervous: |
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| WittyHandle |
| He's well known in working circles for flying off the handle, as evidenced by his rant from the T4 set that leaked a little while back. Personally I don't think he's all that great, but I know many others disagree. I haven't seen Harsh Times, but I think I have it on my computer here. I'll check it out. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
I think piracy has more to do with Blockbuster's downfall than Redbox.
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piracy + netflix. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
He's well known in working circles for flying off the handle, as evidenced by his rant from the T4 set that leaked a little while back. Personally I don't think he's all that great, but I know many others disagree. I haven't seen Harsh Times, but I think I have it on my computer here. I'll check it out. |
Yeah I agree. I think he's a good actor but there always seems to be something missing... can't put my finger on it. I think he's still too involved in the whole Batman character, as you saw in T-4 when 90% of the time he was talking in that same raspy batman voice for no reason. His rant on the set of T-4 was awesome though... lol. |
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| EgosXII |
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Cor Version: Quinten Tarantino ing sucks: Is anyone with me?
am i the only one alive who thinks that quinten tarrantino is a ing director?
Seriously, i don't think he's done a good movie. he's done good scenes, and a couple good shots in his career thruout his films, but the only thing that i can see that tie any of his movies together is pointless graphic violence.
I don't get negatively effected by violence, i don't cringe or anything, but i do think it's pointless, and i definitely don't get aroused by it like tarrantino seems to.
I avoided seeing inglorious basterds because i knew it would be , but i just watched it cause i was bored and it was here, and , another waste of hours....
what the can anyone possibly get out of his films? Any of them? there's practically no story, and the semblences he manages to stitch together are either illogical or just stupid, then there's consistent bad acting and casting, horrible dialogue.... really the only good thing is one good scene a film that i can think of... the first scene in I.B was cool, with the nazi talking to the farmer, but holy , then it all spills out, and tarrantino handles the rest of the film like a fumbling retard as usual. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
nah it's not him. interestingly enough he raises a very valid point. Egos-- your post reminded me of a DFW essay on David Lynch written during the filming of Lost Highway. He briefly spoke on Tarantino, mostly to note how much Tarantino owes to Lynch and how the very idea of dialogue being "Tarantino-like" is utterly ridiculous since Tarantino's style of dialogue borrows a great deal from Lynch. He said something along the lines of "what Tarantino, Jarmush, and a host of other anti-Hollywood directors have done is take the commercially unpalatable genius of Lynch and adapt it for commercial success." And then he said something about how it's similar to what some musician (can't remember who) did with the music of Fats Domino.
Another quote from that essay, a more relevant one regarding the ear scene in Reservoir Dogs - which Wallace noted was perhaps the most Lynchian scene in Tarantino's work : "Quentin Tarantino is interested in cutting off an ear. David Lynch is interested in the ear."
I think it's difficult to watch a Tarantino film and find any true meaning or message in the violence. It is violence for the sake of violence. Egos was right. |
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