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This film is a total masterpiece. It is without a doubt one of the greatest films ever made. This is probably the number one film that can change peoples lives forever. This film is probably Stephen Kings most famous novel but I prefered the Green Mile to this one because the Green Mile was more depressing and there was more drama even though there was an awful lot drama in this film too. My favourite scene of the film is where Andy escapes the prison and stands in the rain with his arms in the air. That is probably one of the best movie moments ever and it is a classic image of the film. Well, that scene is pretty much the poster and cover of the film. The acting in this film was absolutely superb from Morgan Freeman. He definately deserved his Oscar nomination but I dont think he deserved to win it. Tim Robbins was good but I think he could have done a bit better as Andy Dufresne. I think that actors like Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise or Kevin Costner would have been good for the character. This film shows how scary prison life can really be. Even for the present prisons right now like being stuck in the cells, doing chores for the prison and even sometimes get raped by either another prisoner or a guard. I think film and also Fight Club are the highest ranked films that havent won any Oscars at all which isnt like most classic films. Well Fight Club was only nominated for Best Sound Effects but this film was up for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Music - Original Score, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. No wonder this film is number 2 on IMDBs top 250 films of all time. This film will remain a masterpiece for many, many generations to come.
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I love the Godfather trilogy. I dont understand why Marlon Brando refused his Oscar for Best Leading Actor as Don Vito Corleone. It is one of the best male performances of all time. He was one of the greatest actors of all time. Vito Corleone is my favourite character from the Godfather trilogy. Vito Corleone is a all-time classic character because he is played by two of the greatest actors ever: Marlon Brando (elderly Vito) and Robert De Niro (young Vito in The Godfather: Part II). The picture of Vito Corleone with his cat in his hand sitting in the chair that is such a classic image. R.I.P. Marlon Brando. Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall were all absolutely fantastic and the three Corleone sons and Talia Shire as Vitos only daughter Connie. Probably the best film of the 1970s other close ones are The Godfather: Part II (sequel of first Godfather), Star Wars, The Deer Hunter, Jaws and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. This is probably the number one film when every single actor of the casts acting was fantastic. This is my favourite one of the trilogy. With performances, style and substance to savour, this shows how it is possible to smash box office records without being mindless.
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Best Star Wars out of all six. Most people would say either Episodes 3,4 or 5 are the best Star Wars films. Love Yoda training Luke because you learn a lot about the Force and two styles of the Force. Yoda is my favourite Star Wars character because he is so small and so different (species) and yet he is the most powerful person/thing in the galaxy. Also, the way Yoda speaks aswell, like when he says: HELP YOU I CAN. I love R2 D2 and C3Pos friendship and how they are completely different types of druids and yet they bond so well together. I love R2s style of speaking. Like In Revenge Of The Sith, He Beeps UH-OH and he beeps chuckling sounds aswell. Also, C-3POs stubbornness of what his job is with his masters. On the other side of the film, I love the Empires searching for the Millennium Falcon. It is very tense. When Han wants to fix the light speed inside the shop, he acts like he knows what he is doing with it even though he really has no idea. The I AM YOUR FATHER quote has to be nearly the most famous moment in film history. When Vader says this to Luke, it completely changes not just The Empire Strikes Back but the whole saga. This is the number one rip-off film of all time. Another famous quote, when Leia says to Han before he is going to be frozen in carbonite I LOVE YOU and Han says back I KNOW. That sounds better than I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU TOO. The battle of Hoth is my favourite Star Wars battle out of all six. The visual effects are brilliant in this scene for a film that was made in 1980.
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Very good story. Excellent acting from Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. Really depressing though. It is brilliant at the end when all of the people who survived the Holocaust came and visited the real Oskar Schindler's grave. I think it is the only black and white Steven Spielberg film. It is quite scary but true of what the Holocaust was really like and what really happened to the Jews and others involved.
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I rented this film for the first time and I only watched 45 minutes of it. But when I watched it again, I thought WOW! WHAT A CLASSIC MASTERPIECE THIS IS. This is a romantic masterpiece that everyone would enjoy. No wonder it is IMDBs number 10 film of all time. It is one of my favourite black and white films. This film shows that the classics can never die. This is a film that all of the classic songs and phrases can be remembered forever like SEE YA GAIN KID and WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS. After this film, I think they made it into a song. Humphrey Bogart was brilliant as Rick Blaine in this masterpiece. And so was Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa. When Rick sees Ilsa again, and when she wants him to help her and her husband, it is like a total clash of personality between Ricks tough character and Ilsas soft character. The flashbacks were really clever with Rick and Ilsa in Paris. This is nearly one of earliest masterpieces of all time along with Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life and The Wizard Of Oz. What an awesome classic masterpiece this film is. This film will become a classic phenomenon for generations!! After I have watched this and Gone With The Wind, I am going to start watching the old classic films. R.I.P: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS!! Definitely my favourite romantic film of all time.
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One of the most famous films ever made. This is another contender for best performances by the entire cast along with The Godfather. John Travolta was awesome as Vincent Vega and so was Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield. Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman were very good in this masterpiece. This is Quentin Tarantinos best film. I cant believe the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995 didnt go to Samuel L. Jackson. Well, he was the favourite to win it. As far as Best Picture is concerned, the favourites were this, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption. But when the ceremony went underway, it was going to be either Forrest Gump or this. But the award went to Forrest Gump in the end (Yes!), even though I still love this film. I knew John Travolta wasnt going to win Best Actor and I thought that Uma Thurman was going to win Best Supporting Actress. This is a really graphic film. Not as graphic as Kill Bill though. I love the phrase from the Bible which is Ezekiel 25:17 that Jules says when he is about to kill somebody particularly the scene in the café near the end of the film. I just love this film because it is like so original, the script is absolutely superb, the general way of the characters, and the quotes that they come up with like the Bible quote and the burger. This film will be a masterpiece for generations to come.
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Jaws
(1975, PG)
This is without a doubt the tensest film I have ever watched. The opening scene with the young girl Chrissie is the best scene of the film and probably the classic scene from the whole film. But I think there was a bit of a disappointment: the characters werent that interesting really. R.I.P Roy Scheider. It is a film that most people who have watched this film will never swim far in the sea again. I am one of them. I went to the Eastern England beach about 1 day after I watched it. A total classic phenomenon. With all due respect to Steven Spielberg (as one of my favourite directors): thanks for making most of the people who have seen the film have fears of swimming in the sea now!. But this is probably Steven Spielberg's first film and this is when he became a film directing legend. It really terrified me but I still really enjoyed this classic masterpiece.
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This film is definately a classic work of art from Se7en director David Fincher. The acting in this film was absolutely outstanding from Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter which I think should have had some Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. This film is very, very tense and has a little bit of fantasy involved in the film which is where it makes this film quite a complicating story. Brad Pitt plays Tyler Durden really well because he is a charming guy with alot of arrogance aswell. It is like he really means business when he opened Fight Club. Edward Norton was good as the Narrator because he looks very complex and a very soft yet quite hard character to think about when he is around Tyler. Especially when he is around Marla Singer who is a young woman who is arrogant and appears like a prostitute. She makes a really good couple with Tyler because she is a bit of a bitch who deserves to be with a big charming guy like Tyler. I thought this was alot better than Se7en. This is another film along with Shawshank Redemption and a few others that are classics that havent won any Academy Awards at all. Well it should have won some at least. I am sure that this film was so underrated at first before it was released but when it was it turned out to be a classic like it deserves to be.
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This is a masterpiece on freedom for lands, dramatic turns in the film, and Frodo and Sams quest to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring; led by the villainous Gollum. It is really well-directed by Peter Jackson. He is one of my favourite directors. The acting was good, particularly from Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen. All of the battles, confrontation and adventures are all at the perfect time in the film. The script is very good for a fantasy film. The best quotes have to be the long King Theoden when Rohan are joining forces with Gondor to fight off Saurons army. I love the Nazgul because they are hooded, they look so evil and you feel for them in some ways because of the easily-seductive Rings of Power. Gollum is my favourite character in the trilogy and of all time because he has a nice side to him and a vile one too. He makes me laugh in some places because of his voice and the way he moves. The art in this film is amazing, especially Mount Doom, the Winding Stairs and Minas Tirith. The make-up is brilliant particularly on Frodo and Sam, also all of the Orcs. The visual effects are amazing especially Gollum, Shelob and the battle scenes. I am not surprised that it won best picture of the year. But I am quite shocked that it won all 11 Oscars and became the 3rd film to have won 11 Academy Awards along with Ben-Hur and Titanic. There is no leader at the moment. It is a tie between those three films. I have watched this film more than 500 times. I cant wait to watch The Hobbit which is scheduled for release in 2009. I love the animated film of Lord Of The Rings which was released in 1978.
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Awesome Film!! Not Best Scorsese Film!! The Departed, Cape Fear And Raging Bull Are Better Than This!! However, Oscar Worthy Acting From Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro And Joe Pesci!!
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I always wonder why some people and some websites say that this is the best film of all time. Me, on the other hand, doesnt think that it is one of the best. I think the best from the elder days are Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Wizard Of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life. Orson Welles was brilliant as Charles Foster Kane as he delivers one of the best and most memorable performances in film history and he directed this film really brilliantly aswell. Charles Foster Kane is a billionaire who dies in his sleep in his mansion and his last word is rosebud. No one knows what it means but the papers than Kane worked with and for try and figure out what the word means by interviewing friends and ex-wives of Kane. While this is happening there is a flash back of Charles Foster Kane as a young man and of how he grew up aswell. This film ends with one of the greatest endings in cinema history.
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An absolutely awesome film. Worst of the original trilogy but not worst of all of them. Episode 2 and episode 1 are the worst. The acting in this is good from Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. But quite disappointing from Mark Hamill. The plot is excellent but not as good as Episodes 5 and 6. Sir Alec Guinness did very well in his Oscar nominated performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi. I am not surprised that Alec Guinness did want to star in a sci fi after he has been alot of past classics but when the entire saga became a legendary series. I am not sure whether Alec Guinness was happy with his Oscar nomination but he deserved it though. This film will be a classic for many many generations to come.
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Probably the best film sequel ever made. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Robert Duvall were absolutely outstanding. Robert De Niro deserved his oscar in this film for Best Supporting Actor. This was probably Robert De Niros first ever film, so along with Peter O Toole in Lawrence Of Arabia, it is one of the best film debuts in history. Al Pacino should have won for Best Leading Actor. I loved this film, but I didnt like it as much as the first Godfather because I love Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone. Dont get me wrong, Robert De Niro is also class as young Vito Corleone. This is the best directed film of the trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola. The art and cinematography was absolutely fantastic aswell. Michael Corleone is like Elizabeth I in some ways because in the first Godfather he was a nice, young man but since he became Don of the Corleone family after Vito died, and when he killed Fredo his half-brother, he became a cold-hearted murdering monster who simply wants power over all of the other families and industries in all of America. That is where Michael is different from Vito. Vito wanted power, but he didnt really turn into a cold-hearted murderer. Don Vito Corleone's youngest son isnt some leering, capering psycho. In Michaels mind he is avenging his family and saving them. Michael never thinks of himself as a gangster. To audience, though, hes the original gangster.
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Psycho is one of the most thrilling films and scariest films of all time. This film has a lot of famous and classic scenes. The main scene I think is probably the shower scene where Marion Crane is murdered by Norman Bates pretending to be his mother. When this film was released, this film was refered as a classic horror movie but now I dont think it is a horror film anymore. I think it is just like a psychological thriller. This film I think officially made Alfred Hitchcock the greatest director of all time and also the Master Of Suspense. He directed this film really well. I have seen a lot of disturbing and crazy sort of films but this is definitely one of the best ones. Anthony Perkins portrays the psycho that is Norman Bates very well because he is a young nice looking guy with a hidden psychotic character to him. I think Norman Bates is the most disturbing character that I have witnessed ever. Janet Leigh is brilliant as Marion Crane aswell. This film deserved all of the Oscar nominations it got but didnt win any. It was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Janet Leigh, Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock, Best Cinematography, Best Art direction. In my view this is a film that I think should have had the Best Picture nomination and Best Leading Actor nomination for Anthony Perkins. This film is my favourite Hitchcock film.
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Jack Nicholson's best film!! Louise Fletcher was brilliant as well!! Oscar worthy!! Randle wants fun in the mental house but Ratched doesnt because she is so cold and mean!! She is a passive-aggressive nurse on a power trip, Louise Fletcher's Ratched is the ultimate control freak, willing to do anything to the patients - up to and including frying their brains - in order to keep order. Randle R. McMurphy is a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the nuts. Immediately, his conagious sense of disorder runs up against numbling routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other side is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched, among the coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Keseys acclaimed bestseller, this film swept all five major Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor - Jack Nicholson, Best Actress - Louise Fletcher, Best Director - Milos Forman and Best Adapted Screenplay. Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars.
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Excellent Film!! Quite A Complicating Plot!! Awesome Visual Effects!! There Are Like 300 And Sin City Because Of The Slow-Motion Action That Is In The Film!! Doesn't Surprise Me Why It Is One Of Best Fantasy Films Of All Time!! Brilliant Acting Too - Particularly From Keanu Reeves And Laurence Fishburne!!
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What an absolute classic film. This is probably one of the most warm-hearted family masterpieces of all time. James Stewart portrays George Bailey really well. His performance is in my top 10 performances by an actor in a leading role. James Stewart is one of my favourite actors so that is one of the reasons why I love this film so much. George Bailey is a man who is going in debt and is stressed out with his job. He attempts suicide on Christmas Eve until he meets an angel called Clarence and tells George what the world would be like without him. Because of the pressure that George suffers, he starts getting aggressive and angry towards his wife and children. His wife Mary Hatch Bailey is portrayed by Donna Reed. Donna Reed was good as Mary but I think she could have done better or there could have been a better known actress like Grace Kelly or Ingrid Bergman or someone like that. I was impressed with Lionel Barrymores performance as Mr. Potter. Lionel looked really evil in this film. He was quite a terrifying character and a very cold character for his profession which makes him one of the coldest film villains of all time. No wonder he is number 6 on AFIs top film villains of all time. Mr. Potter is a banker and is the owner of pretty much the whole town. There are many words to describe Mr. Potter, he is greedy, heartless, apathetic, evil and there are probably more words to describe him. He is one of those villains that you wish you could punch right in the face and where it can hurt. Despite of how evil and cold he is, he is in a wheelchair and is disabled. He is just so cold when he doesnt help George when he is in desperate need of it which almost leads him to suicide. This film didnt turn into a fantasy film until at least about 1 hour 25 minutes which is when George attempts suicide and when the angel Clarence first appears aswell. I liked Henry Travers as the Angel Clarence Odbody, AS2 because he looks like a really nice man in real life and looks like a guy who would make a really good angel. This film is one of the earliest fantasy films of all time and is probably one of the best fantasy films of all time aswell. I simply adore the scene where George is by the bridge and there is a large fall of snow around him and all on his body. It is just beautiful. I also love the bit near the end when George is with his family and all of the people in the town are coming giving money and their respects to him and what he success he has given to the locals of the town. It also makes me feel happy because George became very strong within himself when he was in a bit of a crisis in his job which can affect his family and despite that he over came all of that. At that moment, he became one of the best and one of my favourite movie heroes of all time. George is a hero not just in his job but emotionally because he loves his family and would do anything for them. This film deserved every single Oscar nomination is got including Best Actor for James Stewart, Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra. This is the only Frank Capra film that I have watched and after I have watched this film I will watch more of his films now. I feel that it should have had two Supporting Actor nominations for Lionel Barrymore and Henry Travers. The classic image of Its A Wonderful Life is when George is holding his wife and children in his arms in front of the Christmas tree of their house. I dont think I have ever seen a film that has made me feel any better. I see now why this film is refered as a feel-good film. This is definitely one of the greatest films of all time, one of the greatest family films, fantasy films and romantic films of all time aswell. This is a Christmas masterpiece that hopefully always will be. I always look forward to Christmas every single year because it brings joy and peace to this cruel world. I usually watch this and The Grinch and Nightmare Before Christmas on Christmas Eve every year. I will again this year and will every year. This is definitely my favourite Christmas film and probably always will be.
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This is one of my favourite films because this film introduced me properly to Alfred Hitchcock and so did North By Northwest. This film is in my mind the best Hitchcock film because it a typical Hitchcock tense thriller and there is some drama in this film aswell so that is another reason. My seventh favourite actor Jimmy Stewart delivered an excellent performance in this film as L.B. Jeffries and so does Grace Kelly as Lisa. This film must have been hard to write about because the plot of the script is very complex so it must be hard. It looks very hard for J.B. Jeffries to find out the murder investigation across the street with all of the other neighbours and also so he doesnt go to the police or go across to the house himself because he has a broken leg. Not my favourite thriller but one of them though. This is a film that I thought should have had several Oscar nominations but it didnt like Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. This film contains events that all lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in film history and one of the greatest thrillers of all time.
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Ian McKellen should have won Best Supporting Actor for this film. This one is brilliant because it is the start of the journey and you learn about the Ring, Sauron and Gollum aswell. The art and the cinematography was brilliant on this film. And so was the visual effects and make-up particularly on the hobbits, Nazgul, and the fighting scene in Moria. This was my favourite film before I watched the other two films. I Dont know how many times I have watched this. Lord Of The Rings is my favourite film series ever. It is really tense when the Nazgul trying to find the Ring!! It was really tense at the cinema. I was only ten when I watched it. Love the end scene because it was truly when the trilogy came alive and got more tense and exciting!! It is probably the most adventurous film series of all time!! That is probably why it won lots of oscars. That it looks so serious and realistic even though it is a fantasy trilogy. Saruman The White is an amazing film villain because he is a good wizard gone bad, Christopher Lee's Saruman turns his back on the plight of man and chucks his lot with the Dark Lord of Mordor - a sort of magic Mussolini to Sauron's Hitler. His war ends just as messily, too.
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Amazing film. Best one I have watched so far. Shame Sigourney Weaver didn't win Oscar for performance. A very tense film. Awesome visual effects. Better than the first one because there are more than one aliens involved in this film. Really clever how the Alien Queen was sent into outer space!! When Ellen and Newt met the Alien Queen and with the other aliens surrounding them, I thought how the fuck is a woman supposed to escape with a little girl in her arms?! One of James Camerons best films. I preferred Titanic. Warrent Officer Ellen Ripley really holds the Alien cycle together. This is my fathers favourite film so that is another reason why I love this film.
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What a classic and phenomenal film. It is probably the best film of the 1960s. the story is very powerful. I really felt for Lawrence because he is white and really isnt Arab. Also, that he was forced to go to Arabia. When I heard that this was a true story I looked on the real T.E. Lawrences life biography before he died and I was fascinated by his biography. So I decided to watch this film. Peter O Toole is perfect for T.E. Lawrence because his boss sent him to Arabia and that the Arabs felt confused that a white man was there to join them and/or help them defeat the Turks. The cinematography is absolutely fantastic and so is the art within the film. The costumes are probably the best. There is a zoom out view during the film when you see the desert, it looks absolutely beautiful and also the sunset image like on the front cover of the DVD. I love the fact that the Arabs use camels instead of horses. I bet it must be hard to direct a film like this and to still make the film when there are sandstorms on the desert. There are some scenes of racism in this film (not really against the Arabs but against Lawrence). I could watch this film repeatedly. It is a very, very long film. I think it is longer than Gone With The Wind. It is a classic masterpiece that everyone would enjoy.
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Brilliant classic masterpiece by Billy Wilder. I was quite suprised that William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erin Von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen and Billy Wilder were all nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director. They all deserved their nominations. This is a truely brilliant film about decay, love and death.
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This may shock viewers of my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey but I have rented this film from LOVEFILM and have given up on it twice. But when I watched the whole film for first time, I couldnt understand why I gave up on such a masterpiece. This film has a lot of awesome and different qualities like the different plot from very beginning to when space scenes first appeared. The Dawn of Man scene with the ape-men is absolutely fantastic. This scene first introduced the classic music score within this film. This film has one of the best film music scores that I have ever seen my whole film. It is quite tense, tearful and like awe because it matches with the general plot of the film. The make-up and costumes on the ape men at the beginning of the film were absolutely fantastic for a film from the 1960s. The visual effects were superb. It has one of best visual effects from a film that I have ever watched. I just loved the whole plot of this film. I loved all of the characters aswell. Hal 9000 is an awesome character who is not only in complete control of the space ship and is a computer but because he is a villain aswell. I love the quote OPEN THE POD DOORS, HAL. The visual effects on Hal were good aswell but particularly Hals shutdown. Dave Bowmans character was very good aswell but I dont think the actors performance was that good really. There could have been someone more popular and a better actor. I did think if Tom Hanks was an actor around that time I think he would have been good at that character after he was in Apollo 13. I love the scene just after Hals shutdown when Dave goes closer to Jupiter and enters a new space world which shows absolutely fantastic and beautiful scenes with heart warming music aswell. After watching this masterpiece, I am completely torn between what my favourite Kubrick film is. Those films are this, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. They are all three completely different films but if I went into great depth about each genre. Horror for Shining, Crime for A Clockwork Orange and Sci-Fi/Adventure for 2001: A Space Odyssey. I would probably say this is his best even though I still love Clockwork and Shining. This might change in the future between the three films. 2001: A Space Odyssey is probably Kubricks most achieved film because of the way he wrote it and also how well he structured it aswell. This film appears slow but it isnt slow at all really. The ending of this film brings out pure beauty and a scene that you will never forget. This is widely considered the greatest science fiction film of all time. It is certainly in my top 10 of best sci fi films and maybe even in my top 10 of all time. This is probably my 2nd favourite sci fi film after The Empire Strikes Back. I need to see sequel 2010 but not sure whether it will be any good but will give it a try soon.
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I absolutely adore this film. This is my favourite action packed film of all time. This is my favourite Ridley Scott film. This is my favourite Russell Crowe film. I personally think he did deserve his Oscar in this film but it was probably luck that he did. I looked on the Oscar charts of 1st to 5th it said that Tom Hanks would win for Cast Away but Russell Crowe was still awesome in this film though. His performance in A Beautiful Mind is another film with one of his best performances. Joaquin Phoenix was absolutely fantastic in this film aswell in his Oscar nominated performance as Commodus. Despite the fact that this film was very action packed with alot of violence involved it was a beautiful tale with Maximus an his murdered wife and son. In this film, the art direction, cinematography and costume design are absolutely awesome which is expected of an epic film and the colours of the film suit both Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe. Even compared to their films together. This is my favourite Scott-Crowe film. I love A Good Year and American Gangster. I cant wait to see Body Of Lies. This film teaches about what the afterlife could be like when you die just like what Maximus sees in this film. This film is tied with Lord Of The Rings as my favourite epic film. This film deserved every single Oscar it got including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Costume Design. I think that it should have won Best Art Direction, Best director, Best Cinematography and Best Music Original Score. This film will remain a classic action packed epic film for a very long time that will make you jump out of your skin yet would maybe bring tears to your eyes.
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One of the best films of 1995. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt: Oscar worthy nominations. The adapted screenplay is probably the best out of the whole film. David Fincher is a brilliant director. He has directed two of the greatest films of all time: this film and Fight Club. A very good cop film, it is quite hard to understand. A dark, gripping thriller which saves it's most shocking revelations for the final scenes.
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This is one of the best film of 2004. I think that the acting in this film was amazing. Kate Winslet deserved her Oscar nomination but Jim Carrey should have been nominated for Best Actor. The screenplay was awesome. It is a story that obviously isnt cant be really true but is a story that can really be in your imagination. Kate Winslet looked good with her highlighted hair. She looks best in the red hair rather than the blue and green hair. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson were good in this film aswell. This is the biggest snub of the Oscars, it should have been nominated Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director aswell. Kate Winslets best film and my favourite Kate Winslet film too. The image when Joel and Clementine are lying down on the ice with a crack in the middle of it, this is the classic image of the film. The technology that was used on Joel to erase the memory of his and Clementines relationship was absolutely outstanding. At first, I thought that this would be pretty crap really because some of the people that I have spoken to about this film said it was pretty shit but when I watched I thought this is the best film of 2004 and one of the best films I have ever seen in my life. Another reason why I underestimated this film at first was because Jim Carrey plays a serious character but when he stars in other films like Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Liar Liar and How The Grinch Stole Christmas he just plays hilarious characters and is a really hyper character aswell. Very good visual effects in this film aswell. There are a lot of scenes where there are a lot of adventurous scenes and puzzling scenes which can confuse viewers of the film.
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When I watched this film for the first time, I didn?t like it at all. But when I watched it again for second time, I enjoyed it a bit more. It was rated 1 star at first but now I have rated it 3 star. I thought that this film was way too complex and hard to understand for my taste. I couldn?t understand what the rabbit was for and about the book with that Grandma Death woman and about the universe. Jake Gyllenhaal is really good as Donnie Darko. When Jake is being manipulated by the rabbit he looks really evil and sort of possessed especially when he is holding the axe around his shoulder. Donnie is a troubled teenager who begins having visions of a large bunny rabbit which persuades Donnie to do terrible crimes. The plot is very dark and also very original. Jakes older sister Maggie plays his on screen sister in this film. Donnies parents Eddie and Rose arent very good parents to him. They are to his sisters Elizabeth and Samantha. They don?t really look out for their son which they should be doing. They only really look out for him until they find out how he has been behaving at school. I find this film seriously overrated. The only thing I liked about this film was Jakes good performance as Donnie and that is about it.
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It was alright. It is the sort of film that people would probably watch only once like me. It was very well directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Michael J. Fox is perfect for Marty McFly. Doc Brown is brilliant aswell. Really well acted by Christopher Lloyd. I like Doc more than Marty because Doc invents the time machine and he wants to be a famous scientist/inventor but makes me laugh because he sometimes gets things wrong and cant fix things off something that he created himself. The time machine is something that everybody would wish for. No wonder it was such a classic. I love the story. Very good example of a family film. Awesome visual effects, art direction and costumes. Good writing aswell. Funny that Martys mother had the hots for him. Though that that was funny. Biff makes me laugh aswell because he is a bit of an idiot even though he is a vile bully.
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Sin City is probably one of the coolest and cleverest film of 2005 and maybe even of all time. My favourite plot is That Yellow Bastard parts 1 and 2 because I think that this one is the darkest out of all of them. The Yellow Bastard/Roark Jr. is such a cool character because seeing black and white visual effects with a yellow man. He even has yellow blood. Also I think Hartigan is a really cool character and I love Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan. I love The Big Fat Kill which is where a man called Dwight is with his lover and he has to leave to defend and protect the prostitutes particularly Gail who then becomes Dwights new lover from Jackie Boy who is portrayed by Benicio Del Toro. I also love the Hard Goodbye with Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood and Jaime King. I love the visual effects on this film more than I do on 300. It is basically the colours like the black and white. They are all in different sorts of black and white. I love the other normal colours in this film like the red and yellow. I love the color of the red dress that the lady wears at the beginning of the movie. The Yellow Bastard is probably my favourite character from the whole film because of his psychotic character and also the colour of his blood I love aswell. That is pretty much why I prefer this film than 300 even though I love both. The first two plots are really good aswell where a cop Hartigan has to protect a prostitute Nancy. Marv avenges the woman he loves. There are a lot of awesome and famous stars in this film. I cant wait to see the two sequels of this film.
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This film is absolutely fantastic. I loved the first hour and a half but got a little bored with the court scene which lasted like 20 minutes. Gregory Peck was brilliant as Atticus Finch but I dont think he deserved the Oscar. It should have gone to Peter O'Toole instead in Lawrence Of Arabia. Mary Badham and Phillip Alford were brilliant as young children in this film. This film is quite tense in some scenes.
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