Whats the best movie you have seen lately?
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April 12th, 2008
either in theaters or at home, i just feel like my movies are so redundant, its always the same thing over and over again. i dont mean your favorite movie, that question was asked, i just mean a pretty good movie that hasn’t disappointed you in like the last month or so.
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I been watching some AMC movies. Like Ferris Bueller, The Graduate, and Rear Window. I love all those classic movies.
New movie-wise: No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were good ones.
Caramel, 95 minutes – in Arabic and French. Written by, directed by and starring a beautiful young Iranian woman. The story of 7 women in and around a decrepit but lively beauty salon. It takes the place of the kitchen, where everyone hangs around. A decidedly better version of the idea in Steel Magnolias.
Subtext of Christians versus Islamics in Beirut, role of women (even the less traditional ones.)
Filmed in Beirut; Caramel
Spoiler; hot sugar syrup (caramel) is used in place of wax to remove body hair from both men and women. You can eat a blob before ripping off someone’s mustache.
Network.Oldie but goodie. Could not be any more relevant for what’s going on today.
@allie, i love Feris Bueller and i saw no country in theaters =] i kind of watch a lot of movies in my spare time, hahah.
@gailcalled, That sounds fabulous, except i would need someone with me to watch it because i am not particularly good with reading subtitles. not only am i a slow reader i also have problems reading, unless very simple text and people generally get mad at me if i say “what did that say” cause then they don’t have time to read the next subtitle. I will probably check it out though, i love foreign films =]
The Planet Earth Collection
In the cinema: No Country for Old Men was great. Sweeney Todd restored my faith in Burton, Depp, and the film musical. There Will Be Blood is incredible, and I saw it three times in total. I could watch it again easily.
On DVD: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is just a beautiful way to spend nearly 3 hours. Pitt and Affleck are great.
In theaters 21 was a very good movie. I would recommend it to anyone.
@babirurtle, I actually have the planet earth collection downstairs, my mom borrowed it from my grandparents. Isnt it like 8 hours long?
On DVD I would diffidently suggest The Mist. Buy it for sure, the Black and White Version on the Special Edition is just one of the best alterations I’ve seen done to a film. It is really a great film with some pretty cool scenes and very well though out characters.
I second 21,awesome flick
I Am Legend was pretty good. Makes you think.
Mothman Prophecies was good because it’s “based on actual events” but we all know how they embellish those. Still a good movie though.
Stephen King movies are good, too. The Shining, Storm of the Century, Cujo, Carrie, Christine, Stand By Me, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile.
@gail I saved Caramel in my Netflix queue. My favorite all time movie scene was in Steele Magnolias weh Sally Fields is invited to “take a whack at wheezer”. I love a movie that can make me laugh trhough tears. I’ve watched it probably 20 times, and get the same reaction each time I see it.
@ppcakes Planet Earth is well worth watching. If I remember correctly it took 10 years and about 5 million dollars to create, and the veiws are breath taking! They have filmed things that no one has ever been able to accomplish before. so far I’ve only watched the first disc in the serioes, but I am anxious to get the rest.
I liked Black Snake Moan with Samuel Jackson. I never knew he could sing!
@scamp; I will be interested to see what you think of Caramel, once you have seen it. The two cultures are so very different, but the themes of lost, unrequited love, searching for the fountain of youth, infidelity, etc are the same.
@gail I’ll let you know! I watched the trailer on netflix, and it looks intersting. Thanks for the tip!
@Scamp; make sure that you are not waxing your legs (or any other body parts) while watching. g
I watched Branded to Kill last night and loved it once again.
No Country is perhaps one of the only current movies I enjoyed seeing and hence didn’t walk out on. I may get a lashing for this but I hated Juno, yes hated.
we had a girl night last night wine, pop corn and I saw untaimed heart for the first time….. Cried…... May be it was the wine but me and my girlfriend bawled!!‘n
hitman.
Also the other night I decided to watch vanilla sky, since I havent seen it since it came out.
Last night must have been movie night for fluther members! i watched the Royal Tenenbaums, it was actually really good. but i am a Wes Anderson fan!
I really liked Juno. I think the dad was my favorite character in it though.
Is Vanilla Sky that one with Cruise? If it is, I didn’t really like that movie.
@gailcalled Should I wax SO’s chest instead? ha ha!!
He will find enough vicarous pain, I am sure. Iranian men have thick hair and very busy mustaches and the salon is unisex. No more spoilers (altho you might want to give each other shampoos at movie’s end.)
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Oops. That is “bushy mustaches.”
That’s too funny, because we have an appointment in the salon in an hour, and my stylist is middle eastern. It’s giving me a devilsh idea because SO and I had a tiff this morning. (insert evil laugh here.)
and of course my favorite is titanic, monster in law and the notebook…..
I’d rather chew on glass then subject my eyeballs to Cloverfield once again.
@peedub, thank you so much, i went to see it with my friend, he was like DUDE I LOVED IT, i was like not only am i motion sick now, i feel slightly dumber then when i came into this godforsaken movie!
Rambo was amazing. I love Fellini, Bergman, Herzog, Joderowsky, and other directors that make more ‘high brow’ cinema, but Rambo was great. Yes it was over the top, but the effects were gritty and real-looking, not animated. I also liked how the enemy had no discernible dialogue. What they were saying was never interpreted and I think this enhanced the feeling of them being seemingly nonhuman.
“Vantage Point!” I saw it in the theaters last week and it totally rocked my world. Loved it.
Great perspectives on terrorism, and so so well done.
@trustinglife; I wanted to watch that movie so bad, but none of my friends were interested.
Oh and speaking of barbers (loosely), David Cronenberg’s recent “Eastern Promises” is fabulous. Vigo Mortensen is super, again. The bath-house scene is worth the price of entry.
@Allie : Mothman was surprisingly good, but Legend? Can I have that 100 minutes of my life back please?
What are you in the mood for? I can always watch Harvey (its silly but I love it)
Breaker Morant for a drama. It’s a little heavy.
Things to do in Denver when your dead—it’s a good weird one.
Momento – another strange one.
I can always watch The Matrix
My favorite movies are horror but I’m typically alone in that.
Whatever you do avoid Whicker Man w/ Nicolas Cage, that is two hours of your life you can never get back!!!!!
I finally saw no country for old men and the mist on DVD and enjoyed both of them… And don’t make fun of me, but i had to buy enchanted!!! :D
Donnie Darko never disappoints.
@TheHaight: Enchanted is fantastic! I took my seven-year old daughter to see it, but really wanted to see it myself. I may have liked it more than she did. And yes, I’m so buying the DVD..
Donnie Darko always disappoints… its so over-rated by the younger generation, and it really has no actual point.
@sharl oh yay! I’m not the only one that thinks that… Everyone was all in depth with their answers an here I am all into enchanted. Yes… Love that movie! Worth buying in my opinion :)
If your going to watch Planet Earth and are into that type of thing i also highly recommend watching Blue Planet.
sharl: I really liked I Am Legend. But I think the alternate ending is so much better than the theatrical version.
dpena2009: i love Donnie Darko.
No Country for Old Men was great.
Walk Hard. Stupid but funny.
Hitman. Terrible all the way around. Especially if you are a fan of the game series.
Into the Wild was amazing; it’s great when a film has a great story, is spiritually uplifting, and deals with the human condition in a poignant and beautiful way (also based on a true story and real events).
Also, the soundtrack is amazing (by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam fame).
The directing was excellent (Sean Penn), and Emile Hirsch is an actor coming of age in his acting prowess (along the lines of a Leo DiCaprio).
It wasn’t the easiest film to watch (for some it may be too emotionally draining), but if you’re ready for a film that is moving, this film comes highly recommended.
sndfrQ: ooooohh!! Into the Wild was amazing!! I have to watch that again.
i’m re-watching all of Ed Wood’s movies, those are always a good laugh.
sndfreQ Into the wild was good, but I liked the book better.
@ppcakes: And since when did a movie need to have a point to be good? Can a movie not be great without one? I seriously disagree.
Last night I watched Sunrise, which in 1927 was the first film to get the main Academy Award – essentially the first Best Picture Oscar. It’s silent, the acting is of a style that may seem over-wrought in these days of high-def close-ups and realism, and the story is highly Romantic, but it’s still a stunner. You might be more familiar with German-Director-in-Hollywood F.W. Murnau’s earlier Nosferatu, but Sunrise is far better IMO.
@ppcakes; the thing about donnie darko is everyone is looking for the meaning of it. the movie is about time travel, that’s the point.
I just didn’t enjoy it, kind of wasn’t worth it to me, and although yes it does have a “general point” i do not see what all the hype was about, To me, it just wasn’ worth it, then again im not a 14 year old teen that is like OMG Nightmare Before Christmas and Donnie Darko.
Don’t get me wrong, im not saying you have to be 14 years old and a scenester to enjoy it but it seems to me their the ones who found “meaning” and got amazing things out of the movie, and yes it did have a good soundtrack.
i agree early teens do think that movie will make them more “emo” or “scene”, they see it as a depressed kid with problems they don’t see the actual point in the movie. i saw the movie around the time it first came out, although no one liked it until “hot topic” recently brought it back.
hot topic is to scene for itself. im glad we can agree to agree and disagree at the same time!
Not to change the subject but the movie called The Band’s Visit is exquisite, you must
see it. Everyone must see. You will love me for telling you.
ha ha gail :busy moustaches: the thing about your typos is that they are hilarious not
just sloppy
Also I really love Almodovar’s big movie Talk To Her.
(off topic)@susanc: let us grow old together and shortly we will grow our own *mustaches.
Yes ppcakes! that’s the one, with its Hebrew title.
Okay gail I’m in for the old-age moustache-growing. Though we seem to be pretty
advance already; when do we begin?
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