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The premise is pretty simple. A crime lord owns an apartment building where he rents out rooms to criminals wishing to lie low. He has fortified the place (and paid off the cops) so well, it is like a fortress. Some rookie cops are recruited to attempt...
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I thought going in this is going to be great, but I was... .
I saw it three weeks ago.
Can you see what's going on in it? I'm so burned out on action films with a good premise or pedigree that throw it all away with unwatchable camerawork and editing.
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Posted Today, 08:20 AM
Want to see what people think was the best decade for movies, while also looking at age correlation.
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Interesting - that's what I....
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The Woodman had a sweet decade as well ...
Genius.
Prolific.
Posted Today, 08:27 AM
Hard to decide since there's been great movies in every decade, but the '70s.
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The only film in their top twenty that I've yet to see is 35 Shots of Rum which I have downloaded.
I've only seen 69/100 total.
I like this list. There are more than a few films I'm just not on board for but these are all works of passion. I don't want...
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Should've gotten The Royal Tennenbaums, though of interconnected tides and currents of... .
Dinner toasts, or (in one of the decade's most inspired inter-universal bleeds across film and music Travail (which I figured was a 1999 film).
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While reading about the restoration of the 7ft Nostromo model used in Alien , I again wondered if physical models still have a place in sci-fi movies. CGI has improved significantly over the last decade, but to me they still seem to lack that last bit...
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Well....
See to me of that film is models.
Half the movie looks like a Pixar film or a videogame a Pixar film or a videogame cutscene with live-action actors super-imposed on it.
To the first one, though, and they are a CGI overload .
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But aren't there those, notably including Leni Riefenstahl herself, who would have us treat Triumph of the Will as apolitical, a pure object of entertainment and aesthetic contemplation?
Actually, you've hit on the reason why I stopped posting here regularly...
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The ....
Pulp Fiction defined the 1990’s as the preeminent imitator and imitated film, a remix of genre watch a movie for it's visuals? The film did receive some good reviews from such critics a James Berardinelli and Peter Travers.
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Ray . Ali . Braveheart . That sort of thing.
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I just remember watching this movie for the first time and I just... .
Would something like Frost/Nixon fall under the genre? CapoteProbably my favorite biographical film was Schindler's List.
Of a person's life must the film be about.
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Yes, not all comic book movies involve superheroes. And not all superhero movies are based on comic books. And yet, they peacefully coexist in this thread.
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My #1 most anticipated film as of rich now, which made the second film even worse, by putting him in the background, and concentrating on stuff when the character played by....
Gonna think that the golden egg has been laid genre-wise.
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Die Hard
Back To The Future
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
Aliens
The Terminator
Commando
Predator
The Evil Dead 1 & 2
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Gremlins
Batman
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
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I actually though Predator 2 was a damned good film, which and most of my favourites are from....
Oh, and computers to the list Gremlins 2 and Predator 2 as well .
Yep, the '80s is my best decade for films and my favourite for music, too.
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I wanted to start a thread on one of my favourite genre of films. I'm talking about...
The Thing
Alien
The Fly
Re-Animator
Videodrome
One of my favourite things in cinema is watching the taboo of physical and mental disintegration be tackled in a commanding...
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Goddamn Prawns eh!.
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#1: Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan). Now. Where was I?
#2: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Joel Coen). My New Year's resolution is to pummel everyone who thinks this is an empty genre exercise.
#3: Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos). The only film of...
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I want to send them to ....
One of the decade's.
#83: Charlotte Sometimes (2002, Eric Byler).
The decade's most glorious (and, to me, most oddly moving) act of genre exhumation detachment of the con-man genre.
François Ozon).
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