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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: wardog300k on June 14, 2015, 08:16:02 am
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What is your favourite movie?
The way to answer:
Best movie of the year:San Andreas
Best movies I've seen:San Andreas
Aliens Vs Predator
Terminator
(can't remember the name,its the one with...guy that was frozen for 30 yrs fighting against Dr.Evil)
Police Academy series
Naked gun series
These are only some of the movies I can remember now,there's many more.
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That's a difficult question, really.
I'll answer by timeframe.
Best Movie I've seen this year: Mad Max Fury Road
It's basically perfect, and a complete masterpiece in terms of visual storytelling.
Best Movie I've seen last year: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Marvel branching out into cold war spy thriller and doing everything right
Best Movie I've seen this decade: Tie between Mad Max Fury Road, Pacific Rim and Dredd
Everything I ever wanted from each of those franchises
Best Movie I've seen ever: (The following in no particular order)
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Heat
-Apollo 13
-Hot Fuzz
-Gladiator
-Alien
-Blade Runner
-Kingdom of Heaven
-Aliens
-Django Unchained
(And a lot more favourites that I am not gonna name for space concerns)
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I'll respond in the same format as the E (as it is a difficult question):
Best Recent releases i have seen (2014/2015 release only):
Interstellar
The Imitation Game
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Best Movies I have seen this decade(released during or after 2010):
Interstellar
Pacific Rim (who doesn't like giant fighting robots)
Inception
Best Movies I have ever seen (no particular order) (any release date)
Interstellar
Das Boot
The Shawshank Redemption
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Dark Knight
The Matrix
*note - I haven't seen Mad Max yet, but from what I hear I assume it would have probably made this list
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OK,since it is so difficult,the scoreboard is gone.Answer with the E's format.
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(can't remember the name,its the one with...guy that was frozen for 30 yrs fighting against Dr.Evil)
I believe that would be Austin Powers! "Yeah Baby!"
Top film for me of all time has to be Blade Runner, then in that list has to be the Original Star Wars Franchise, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Shawshank Redemption (a must see), It's a Wonderful Life, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Alien, Aliens, 2001 A Space Odyssey.
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I believe that would be Austin Powers! "Yeah Baby!"
Yeah that's the one.
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Best movie i have ever watched i don't even know. I just have a stack of ones i really like.
Guardians of the galaxy
rise of the planet of the apes reboot (although it did have it's stupid moment; humans have an immune system that fights off a virus that's an experimental cure for alzheimers, apes then get tested with an upgraded version of the stuff, but are noted for being real troopers with this new virus cure because they're immune systems are strong...the ****, it's the other way around for the virus treatment to work. had to ignore this and rest is decent movie)
trancers series (the description sounds like ****, but actually the story is great, and over all enjoyable and entertaining)
All i have for now.
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Dredd, but my reasons are more from a writer's perspective. Although the directing, cinematography, acting, and soundwork, sets, and everything else are done with with no mean skill; more on that in a moment.
There is a saying that perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. When it comes to modern action movies, most fail to heed this advice. See also Micheal Bay, whose formula is usually...not a stunning success. (Though he has his moments; Pain & Gain as a satire is amazing.) Most are also...well, they're aimed at wider markets, and hence not always very good as action movies.
There are exceptions. The Raid: Redemption is a personal favorite of mine, though it's too much action movie for some people. The recent Mad Max: Fury Road is in the same vein.
And then, there is Dredd. If perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away, Dredd is the perfect movie. Everything you see, everything you are told, is meant to tell you something. Sometimes what it's meant to tell you isn't very deep; the line about the reopening of the food court, for example, isn't meant to say much beyond the fact that yes, they reopen fifteen minutes after the bodies are cleared away because society doesn't care very much about a mass shooting. The names of the various megablocks are references to various things.
But before the opening is even complete there's a very important scene, which doesn't pay off until much, much later in the movie. That's the kind of movie you're watching. Everything matters. Everything is meant to matter. You may not see it, or it may go over your head (a lot of it went over mine until I actually read some Dredd comics or watched the special features on the DVD), but it's there. The nonsense-word on the back of one guy's shirt from the opening chase? Doesn't mean anything to most of us if we even see it. Authentic swear from the comics to those who get it. A small signpost for how well the team knows its Dredd lore.
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Haven't seen any new ones this year yet, though I plan to see Mad Max and Jurassic World.
Some of the best (read: most enjoyed) movies I've seen ever:
Apollo 13
2001, 2010
Serenity
Django
Song of the Sea
Secret of Kells
Chocolate
Primer
The Matrix
LotR trilogy
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Best movie I've seen this year: Tomorrowland (I don't go to the movies much for myself anymore. I would love to see Mad Max)
Best movies I've ever seen:
1. Castle in the Sky
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Memento
Dr. Strangelove
The Last Emperor
The Empire Strikes Back
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Shiki-Jitsu
Lawrence of Arabia
Rashomon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Say Anything
Films I really really want to see:
Mad Max Fury Road
The Decalogue
Camille Claudel
Cries and Whispers
The Seven Samurai
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NGTM-1R have you seen Fury Road yet? I think it may unseat Dredd for you, for the same reasons you listed.
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NGTM-1R have you seen Fury Road yet? I think it may unseat Dredd for you, for the same reasons you listed.
Yes. It's not quite as...focused, in my opinion. (Particularly the soundtrack.)
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Best ever? Hard to answer. But definitely, post 2000, my favorite is still Children of Men. Instant christmas classic.
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Best ever? Hard to answer. But definitely, post 2000, my favorite is still Children of Men. Instant christmas classic.
Agreeb
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Best Movie Last Year: Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Movie Ever: Star Wars
Best Action Movie: Equilibrium
Best Animated: Akira
Best Buddy Movie: Die Hard
Best Comic Adaptation: The Dark Knight
Best Comedy: Kung Pow!
Best Crime/Cop Drama: Heat
Best Cult Classic: Donnie Darko
Best Foreign Language: Kagemusha
Best Historical Adaptation: Black Hawk Down
Best Monster: Godzilla 1954
Best Reboot: Star Trek 2009
Best Sci-Fi: War of the Worlds (1953)
Best Sequel: Empire Strikes Back
Best War Movie: Enemy at the Gates
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Current favorite cult series: Trancers 1 - 5. Plus, something that only was able to be released recently was trancers city of lost angels that takes places after the first trancers.
Trancers 6, so not worth watching unless you want a medium barrel full of laughs, it is pretty funny. TIM THOMERSON IS AWESOME (he's not in trancers 6)!