Movies You Just saw and Thought were Great

[peter12]

Originally posted by moon+Aug 13 2005, 03:59 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (moon @ Aug 13 2005, 03:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Blade 3 would have made a terrible Saturday morning cartoon. Oh lord that movie was freakin awful.
Garden State was one of the best movies I have seen in awhile.

What????

Garden State was a movie that I was really looking forward to see and was so disappointed by. [/b][/quote]
I just really got into the characters.

[Hakan]

Garden State was great.

Gladiator???? That movie stinks. Most overrated movie ever (next to Braveheart of course)

Underworld???? Ok, if you like really really badly acted and typically cliched teenage fan action movies.

[MrMastodonFarm]

I love Garden State, it wasn't an amazing movie but it was simple slice of life type movie with great well written characters.. probably one of the better movie soundtracks as well. You don't need to be a fan of the music on the movie to like it, but those tunes just fit in great.

I have recently seen Crash and Downfall.. I suggest everyone do the same.

[Hakan]

Downfall or Der Untergang is just stellar. It was one of those movies that you can't stop thinking about a day or two after you've seen it. The reason? Incredible acting.

[Jake]

The Boondock Saints is one of my all time favorites. Apparently a second one is being made, but I've been hearing that for 2-3 years now.

I'm going to see Broken Flowers tonight with Bill Murray. I've heard good things about it and Bill Murray is hilarious.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally posted by Jake@Aug 13 2005, 02:55 PM
The Boondock Saints is one of my all time favorites. Apparently a second one is being made, but I've been hearing that for 2-3 years now.

I'm going to see Broken Flowers tonight with Bill Murray. I've heard good things about it and Bill Murray is hilarious.

I havent caught on to this the whole Boondock Saints thing. I couldnt get thru it all, thats how much I hated it....,....Maybe it was because I was goin into watchin it hearing so many good things about it and then I watch it and I ws thinkin to myself that this was a very low budget John Woo movie. and Im talkin Woo's earlier work, so im talkin very low budget.


but hey, thats just me...

[Looger]

going to see movies with expectations above realistic i'll never understand.

boondock saints is a great movie, though it was undoubtedly greater when i was the only person i'd heard of that had even seen it. diamonds in the rough always shine brighter.

as for recent movies i've seen?

ghost world - not a new release but a great flick aboot life and its less glamourous moments.

[moon]

I just saw Four Brothers and I loved it.

Plenty of violence and killing, along with a good story and great acting. What more could I want in a movie??

[the crispy badger]

Originally posted by evman150@Aug 13 2005, 03:55 AM
I couldn't finish Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Mind numbingly boring movie. And I'm not one of those guys who thinks "oh man sick explosions" when I see an ad for an action movie on tv. I like movies that make you think. This movie did not make you think, it just made you want to go to sleep.

All the movie nerds on IMDB loved it too. Top 25 movie all time on their list. I guess I'm missing the point.

I found that it lost me half way through..and I'm also the kind of person that prefers "thinking" movies

[the crispy badger]

We went and saw March of the Penguins the other night...wow...it has everything you could ask for in a movie..but no gunfights..that would of been weird

[Cheese]

Finally watched Meet the Fockers on the weekend....hilarious...as good or better than the first.

Hotel Rwanda was excellent as well.

[peter12]

Originally posted by VANFLAMESFAN+Aug 14 2005, 07:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (VANFLAMESFAN @ Aug 14 2005, 07:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Jake@Aug 13 2005, 02:55 PM
The Boondock Saints is one of my all time favorites. Apparently a second one is being made, but I've been hearing that for 2-3 years now.

I'm going to see Broken Flowers tonight with Bill Murray. I've heard good things about it and Bill Murray is hilarious.

I havent caught on to this the whole Boondock Saints thing. I couldnt get thru it all, thats how much I hated it....,....Maybe it was because I was goin into watchin it hearing so many good things about it and then I watch it and I ws thinkin to myself that this was a very low budget John Woo movie. and Im talkin Woo's earlier work, so im talkin very low budget.


but hey, thats just me... [/b][/quote]
I totally agree.
I got to the part when they fall through the ceiling and swing around madly shooting bad guys. I couldn't stand it.

[Frank the Tank]

The only movie I have seen lately that is any good was Collateral. I'm getting really picky or something because I've watched about a dozen movies in the past couple of months and they were all crap.

[peter12]

I saw The Talented Mr. Ripley yesterday. Blagh. Is there anything great about this movie except for the locations in which it was filmed?

[pope04]

This list must include Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.

[Patek23]

Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Aug 15 2005, 08:06 AM
The only movie I have seen lately that is any good was Collateral. I'm getting really picky or something because I've watched about a dozen movies in the past couple of months and they were all crap.

I'm somewhat the same, I dislike alot of the new movies. But I am a sucker for the mindless actions such as the DMX ones like: Romeo Must Die (which wasn't THAT bad), Cradle 2 The Grave and Exit Wounds. But Never Die Alone is a GREAT DMX movie. But as for Collateral I've found that either people love it (me) or hate it.

[mykalberta]

Top 10:

Shawshank Redemption
A Time to Kill
Scarface
American History X
Man on Fire
Last of the Mohicans
Malcom X
BraveHeart
Unforgiven
Gladiator

Edit: Forgot Unforgiven

MYK

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally posted by mykalberta@Aug 15 2005, 12:19 PM
Not sure why this is in the Fire on Ice forum,

Because it isn't.

[Language]

Just saw "Million Dollar Baby" last night and thought it was a great movie.

[Flashpoint]

Originally posted by peter12+Aug 15 2005, 09:25 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peter12 @ Aug 15 2005, 09:25 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

I havent caught on to this the whole Boondock Saints thing. I couldnt get thru it all, thats how much I hated it....,....Maybe it was because I was goin into watchin it hearing so many good things about it and then I watch it and I ws thinkin to myself that this was a very low budget John Woo movie. and Im talkin Woo's earlier work, so im talkin very low budget.


but hey, thats just me...

I totally agree.
I got to the part when they fall through the ceiling and swing around madly shooting bad guys. I couldn't stand it. [/b][/quote]
If you liked (or hated) Boondock Staints, you should check out the 2003 documentary about it's making called "Overnight".

Lose yourself in this riveting documentary that chronicles the rise and ignoble fall of Troy Duffy, a bartender whose script for The Boondock Saints was picked up by Miramax bigwig Harvey Weinstein and made into a film. Like a freight train careening out of control, the arrogant Duffy -- once considered Hollywood's new wunderkind -- burns all his bridges, alienating his colleagues, his friends and his long-suffering brother, Taylor.

Netflix link

I liked the documentary more than the movie - I believe there is a German word for taking joy in someone else's well deserved downfall...