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| Movie: | The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Seven Samurai, The Wild Bunch, The Good, the Bad And the Ugly, A Hard Day's Night, Duck Soup, Life of Brian, Goodfellas, The Meaning of Life, Annie Hall, the 40-Year-Old Virgin, Star Wars, Excalibur, Help!, Love Actually, The Searchers |
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| Actor: | Men: The Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Al Pacino, Pedro Infante, Toshiro Mifune, Michael Caine, John Wayne, James Cagney, Robert DeNiro, Humphrey Bogart, Vincent Price, James Gandolfini, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Quinn, Liam Neeson, |
| Director: | Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, Ismael Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Joel and Ethan Coen, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen (Pre-90's), Francis Ford Coppola (Pre-"Jack"), Judd Apatow, Fernando Meirelles, John Huston, Ridley Scott, Arturo Ripstein, Michael Mann, Clint Eastwood, Edward Zwick, Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Raoul Walsh, John Boorman, Frank Oz, Robert Zemeckis, Brian DePalma, Preston Sturges, Don Siegel. |
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Love Actually
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I first watched LA at a very depressing time of my life. It was the holiday season, and my heart was broken because the girl I love was going out with this complete jackass. I was in tremendous pain, but I watched this movie and I felt a regenerative power that I have seldom felt before or since. Every scene of love found, love lost, love gotten resonated within me and I laughed, smiled and sighed continuously. The music is wonderful, more so because it sets the mood of nostalgia and melancholy so wonderfully. This movie has a large amount the crme de la crme of British film on its cast (and some non-Brits too). Everyone and everything is so beautiful, filled with Curtis' trademark wit and warmth. I have seen this film dozens of times and it still works its magic on me. This movie is always there to cheer me up and for that I believe it to be one of the best films I have ever seen.
A Hard Day's Night
G
The Beatles are the greatest group of musicians in the world, and this is the greatest music movie of all time. I weep when I think of the people who have'nt had the luck and joy of watching it. The four lads from Liverpool are hilarious, irreverent and completely potentially insane as they utter brilliantly funny lines that are either absurdist, witty or critical of their contemporary society and Beatlemania itself. Rossington and Junkin are endearing as Norm and Shake, the band's long-suffering tour manager and roadie respectively, playing Margaret Dumont to the modern day Marx Brothers. And there is also the irreplaceable Wilfred Brambell as Paul's "clean" grandfather, a rambunctious old coot who is more rebellious than the four famous youngsters. If you love the Beatles, British comedy, great music and a healthy dosage of surreal humor and witty dialogue, this film is a must.
The Searchers
Unrated
John Wayne's has the performance of a lifetime as Ethan Edwards, a racist, irrasacible Confederate soldier who, with adoptive nephew Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter, a great actor who died before his time) engages in a 5-year-long quest for her Comanche captured niece. It is a tale of obsession and prejudice like no other, epic in scope and deeply human in it's depth. It's also a brooding film with funny spots of humour and music, and a mature western that still holds its power after all these years. The movie begins with an open door and ends with a closed one and you'll be hard pressed to find a more bittersweet closing shot.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Unrated
A gripping adventure story of deranged greed and reluctant loyalty, starring Bogart as an initially likeable bum who turns into a murderous, paranoid materialist who descends into madness. Walter Huston as the wise, fast talking prospector and Tim Holt as Bob Curtin, the film's everyman, do a fantastic job. The action sequences are great, but what sticks out is the witty dialogue, strong plot and characterization and the Shakespearean element to the story, in particular it's tragically ironic ending.
300
R
This movie kicked so much ass, I could almost feel my tail bone being snapped in two. Scene after scene in this movie, there are moments were the luscious beauty or beautiful brutality of what's on the screen was so etheral that I had to pinch myself to prove that I wasn't watching paintings in motion. Everybody in this movie was so immersed in their roles that there were times that I felt that I was watching footage of the actual events. The action is flabber-gasting, the dialogue so inspired, like Shakespeare meets "The Dirty Dozen". I don't think there's a scene that sums up the bombastic greatness of this terrific epic flick, like the scene in the well. Wherein King Leonidas bellows with savagely joyous animalistic fury: "THIS...IS...SPARTAAA!" and kicks a bunch of Persians into a bottomless pit. Welcome to a world of violence. Enjoy your stay.
The Big Sleep
Unrated
"Marlowe, you go too far!" "Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom."
Bogart is Phillip Marlowe, one of the most famous and beloved P.I.'s in the history of fiction, and he defines the role that would be played by several more actors, including Robert Mitchum. Bogart is the epitome of cool, using his wits to fight off gangsters and other criminals as he tries to solve an elaborate mystery involving blackmail, pornography, kidnapping and murder. There's never a dull moment in this film, the dialogue will make you smile both because of its intentionally funny lines and its sharp cleverness, and the sexual chemistry and interplay between the future married couple lightens the screen up in this decisively Noir masterpiece.
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The Godfather
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I have a theory that the main factor that determines what makes a movie great comes from how much we see ourselves in its story and characters. "The Godfather" not only does that for individuals, but the entire human experience. It's a thrilling Mafia movie, as well as a moving saga about family. Artistically speaking, it is perfect: the acting, the directing, the script. It's dark, funny, angry, joyous, brooding, romantic, violent and enlightening. After many years watching, I still notice new things and I'm never bored by it. I could watch it in one sitting once a month and feel like it's the first time I've seen it. And beneath the story of organize crime, there lies a rich, lush epic about the war between tradition and modernity, loyalty and betrayal, love and bloodshed and our very own struggle, family and friends included, to survive in a savage world of hyper-capitalism and dying honor. Simply The Best.
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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)
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Kurosawa's most awesome film is perhaps the most artistically perfect action film of all time. Containing one of the best ensemble movie casts, ably led by screen legends like Takeshi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, the film doesn't waste a single minute of its 3:30 long screen time. It doesn't drag, contains both light humorous moments and terse dramatic scenes, and it develops character and plot with tremendous easiness. Kurosawa's use of slow motion and expertly edited scenes enhances the thrilling action and the title characters all come on their own and become flesh and blood human beings in a masterpiece that deals with issues like class, heroism, moral dilemmas and loss in the midst of rarely surpassed epic adventure.
BEST SCENE: The Battle In the Rain.
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The Wild Bunch
R
Words cannot describe the blood-and-thunder majesty of the greatest western of all time, and one of the most important movies of my life. It introduced me to the great Sam Peckinpah, and it also affected how I view movies and how I hope to direct and edit them. This movie changed the world with its depiction of brutal hyper-violence, brilliantly slow-motion and multi-scene cross-cutting time. It is an enjoyable adventure film, with the aptly-titled Bunch waging war against some icons of Mexican film. Almost every scene is a classic, and codes of honor, male bonding and the death of the West are present, the latter perfectly summed up in the climatic Battle of the Bloody Porch, the best gunfight I have ever seen and a truly numbing orgy of death and destruction. This leads into a moving ending complete with a rousing rendition "La Golondrina", the Mexican funeral song par excellence. A true masterpiece.
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hypathio7 (Administrator)posted 2 days ago -
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Swing Kids
by ByronA great movie! Excellent performances. Explores the question, Why do people become so filled with hate. A man like Hitler capitalized on the German people's need to feel superior, but he was supported and financed by the upper class who had reached such an excessive level of extravagance. Many people wanted to eliminate outside influence because they thought purely German culture was the only culture worth furthering. There was a dangerous nationalism that said everything had to be for the 'fatherland'. And this movement gained muscle from the youth. Young men who felt inadequate, who felt they were never good enough to earn the love of their fathers started finding purpose in the Nazi propaganda. Young men whose fathers had been snatched away for questionable ideas and acquaintances, who questioned if their fathers loved them less because they let themselves be taken away found a replacement father in the 'fatherland'. Young men who thought they were superior to cripples and Jews and people of other cultures who seemed strange to them discovered power in the praise and things they were given. Who knows what other reasons led to so many people being filled with hate or complacency at this moment in history. Robert Sean Leonard's inner turmoil is vividly portrayed as he comes to fully realize the extent of the Nazi's evil acts and discovers that his father loved him more rather than less by speaking out against the terrible things he saw developing years earlier. Frank Whaley as the consummate artist who is not fit for the Hitler Young and therefore doomed to become a target for their crushing force is touching as well. And Christian Bale as the spoiled rich kid who is always insulting and boisterous yet craving positive feedback is tragic as the one who too easily absorbs the hateful messages and can't see clearly until it is too late. The Swing Heil ending is a little corny, but the music and dancing throughout the movie is great to watch and listen to. Swing music takes on such a symbolic deeper meaning for appreciation of diversity and an outlet for a strong passion and love.
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Miyamoto Musashi Kanketsuhen: Kett Ganryjima (Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island) (Bushido)
by ByronBeautiful scenery and colors return in this last part of the legend of Musashi Miyamoto. Kojiro becomes singly obsessed with his ambition to become famous and kill Musashi in a fight. Musashi has matured much, taking up carving, and is no longer seeking fame. Twice he postpones the duel with Kojiro. Akemi starts off to find Musashi again but ends up a prostitute until her path crosses Kojiro again and he tells her where Musashi has been. Otsu has still been searching for Musashi even though she strangely rejected his advances in the previous part. Musashi has not forgotten Otsu but thinks she does not wish to be with him anymore. I can see how a man would be confused by her behavior. The young boy, Jotaro, has continued to be a disciple of Musashi since the previous year and movie, and Musashi has picked up a horse-wrangler as another disciple. These three head to a small village to continue training, and while there, protect the villagers from bandits. Musashi builds a house in this village and begins finding much peace in farming, which is what he was trying to get away from in the beginning. Otsu finds Musashi and they renew their relationship. Akemi is nearly there too when a bunch of bandits vow revenge on Musashi and realize they can use Akemi in their scheme. Akemi sets everyone off their guard, sends a signal to the bandits allowing them to attack, and fights Otsu for Musashi, but in the end she dies. Musashi has been living the simple life in the village for a year as he promised so Kojiro finally sends for him. Musashi and Kojiro finally have a grand face off. It doesn't last long, but it is stunning. Musashi uses nature against his opponent. They fight on the west coast beach of an island during sun set. The sun behind Musashi makes it hard for Kojiro to see him and Musashi is able to deliver a lethal blow. Musashi realizes that Kojiro was probably the greatest challenger he would ever face, and so Musashi can now go back to Otsu, settle down, and give up a life of the sword!
Hey, you should really see this! Part of a great trilogy!
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Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijji no Kett (Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple) (Swords of Doom)
by ByronIt starts kind of abruptly with Musashi Miyamoto dueling a guy with a chain and sickle. After he wins, a passing priest plants the idea in his head that he is too strong, that swordsmanship is about chivalry. Musashi spends most of the movie trying to challenge Seijuro, the head of a samurai school, which has fallen away from the samurai way and mostly consists of bandits. Multiple times he fights a group of this school's students who gang up on him instead of honoring his wishes to duel Seijuro one on one, always besting them. It's hard to see the fights as nearly all of them were shot in nearly complete darkness. He spends some time at a Geisha's house laying low, where the courtesan points out that his search for self-control has lead to a lack of affection. He also fights and kills Denshichiro, Seijuro's brother. Meanwhile, Otsu has still been waiting for Takezo/Musashi to return to her so they could begin a life together, but he now loves his sword more than her. Matahachi has become even more pitifully weak, sitting around singing sad songs and moping, but still trying to fool himself that he is a samurai. Oko has furthered an affair with a bandit from Seijuro's school, who we briefly met in the first part of the trilogy. These two schemers try to force Akemi, Oko's daughter, into a relationship with Seijuro. It has now become unclear who Akemi's father is, Matahachi, Takezo, or the bandit. Either way, Akemi has heard some stories of Takezo, probably from her mother or maybe folk tales, and now believes that she is in love with him. She begins to take after her mother quite a bit. Several characters don't appear anymore after this part of the story: Matahachi, Matahachi's parents, Oko, her bandit boyfriend, or the priest Takuan. The final main character to make an appearance in this part is Kojiro, who is a young samurai building quite a reputation with a new style of fighting. He works with Seijuro and is in favor of upsetting Musashi from his position as the greatest samurai, then when he sees Seijuro's students' lack of honor he becomes a sort of mediator, and finally, dragging Akemi along while watching from a distance, lets Musashi leave with the assurance that they will face each other later.
Hey, you should really see this! Part of a great trilogy!
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Butterflies Are Free
by ByronHere's an obscure one. An early Goldie Hawn movie (I think she is underestimated). Edward Albert plays an inspiring young blind man. I like it because it was originally a stage play and it was surprisingly modern and still relevant. I share the sentiments of the young characters wanting their funeral to be a celebration. A good little romantic comedy.
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A Thousand Clowns
by ByronHere's another obscure favorite movie. It has a precocious young man being raised by an uncle who lives by his own rules. Through much of the movie, the boy seems like the parent and the uncle seems like the child. Before long a couple of social workers bring a dose of reality (and a surprise romance). It's about the tragedy of being a care-free individual and having to take on the dull, mechanical responsibilities of adulthood. Very funny- also based on a stage play. A hidden gem.
Hey, more people need to see this movie!
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Righteous Kill
by RickJust about the worst film ever made. It's the equivalent of sitting through an entire Uwe Boll marathon. Sure I'm being overly hyperbolic, but it's pretty fucking bad, man. It's your typical, generic, cliche ridden buddy cop flick. De Niro and Pacino are both mind bogglingly awful. Yep, you heard it here first. De Niro plays the same taciturn, redundant mumbler he's been playing the last 13 years or so and Pacino is ...... Pacino. He's the olivier of contemporary times. Dude hams it uppppp. The script is so laughably bad. The score is achingly generic. The editing is insufferably scattered. Also, 50 CENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no faith left in these two. Unless De Niro does another Scorsese flick, consider me uninterested. You owe it to yourself not to see this.
Do yourself a favor, watch Raging Bull or Dog Day Afternoon again.
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