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BetterThanYou

imalive wrote:

Yep, two thumbs up for those.

If you're tired of Will Farrell, Owen Wilson, Jim Carrey, etc., type "funnymen", check out these two GEMS from Albert Brooks:

Lost in America
Mother

Might be a bit slow (i.e. no crotch or flatulence jokes) for some, but I love this dude!

ever seen 'defending your life'? i think that's my favorite albert brooks movie, although i haven't seen all of his movies.

some other movies i dig:

-10 (not really a lesser known movie, but the younger people here might not have seen it before)

-bubba ho-tep (pretty good movie about elvis and a black JFK in a nursing home, fighting a mummy)

-dear wendy (saw it on IFC one night. not the greatest, but still a good movie)

-beyond the valley of the dolls (this movie is just......it's really bad, but bad in the way you can't stop watching it, and there are some parts in it that had me saying out loud "holy shit!" made in the early '70s and written by roger ebert)

that's all i can think of right now.

catefrances

Matt Lukin wrote:

The Vanishing (http://imdb.com/title/tt0096163/)

ooh yes way better than the crap hollywood version.


the last supper.

catefrances

jamie uk wrote:

Twin Town.
An early Rhys Ifans role, very funny, very dark.
p.s. I shit on Fight club . Seriously, that Ed Norton is wooden, in the extreme. Pitt is under rated as an actor though, in Meet Joe Black he is simply excellent.

seriously you have got to be joking.

Byrnzie

Made
Ivans XTC
The Straight Story
La Haine
Cinema Paradiso - Directors cut
The Battle Of Algiers
Grizzly Man (Think 'Into the wild' with bears)
The Proposition
The Indian Runner
Last Tango In Paris
Waking Life
Slacker
Rivers Edge
Network
Man Bites Dog
Cool Hand Luke

dunkman

I watched the Wind That Shakes The Barley last night and thought it was pretty good stuff.. powerful film actually.

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

I watched the Wind That Shakes The Barley last night and thought it was pretty good stuff.. powerful film actually.

oh very much so dunk. it made me so angry. but then the irish are very close to my heart. and the ending... i just thought wow... i could scarcely believe it.

dunkman

catefrances wrote:

oh very much so dunk. it made me so angry. but then the irish are very close to my heart. and the ending... i just thought wow... i could scarcely believe it.

i thought that there were far too many scots in the Black and Tans for my liking... all the vicious bastards seemed to be scottish?!?!? i thought the ending was slightly too dramatic.. i just didnt think that Teddy would be the one who would shout fire on his own brother.. but you never know? i mean Michael had Fredo killed didnt he

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

i thought that there were far too many scots in the Black and Tans for my liking... all the vicious bastards seemed to be scottish?!?!? i thought the ending was slightly too dramatic.. i just didnt think that Teddy would be the one who would shout fire on his own brother.. but you never know? i mean Michael had Fredo killed didnt he

fredo betrayed the family. and so did teddy. and for what? i kept hoping he wouldnt give the order but...

Heineken Helen

get rid of the spoilers :eek: or put a warning up.

I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

get rid of the spoilers :eek : or put a warning up.

I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!

yeah dunk... put up a warning.


injustice, helen... thats what stokes the anger. :(

Sian-of-the-dead

I recommend....

"Dead Man's Shoes" - Amazing movie by Shane Meadows who also directed 'This Is England' (nice recommendation urbanhippie... you beat me to it! )

"The Devil's Rejects" - DON'T dismiss this one.... it is a 'horror' movie (for want of a better word) but it really is visual treat. The last scene, shot to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird in it's entirity, is absolutely stunning and oddly emotional. How Rob Zombie created these characters that are complete bastards, yet you feel sorry for them and see their human side is amazing... even if you only watch it once, watch it.

"Into The Wild" - Nuff said really

and finally....

"Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - An instant Tim Burton classic, brilliant musically, cinematically and visually. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sasha Baron Cohen and Timothy Spall are all magnificent. Go and see it in the cinema before it goes to DVD!!!

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

get rid of the spoilers :eek: or put a warning up.

I dunno, the wind that shakes the barley was good but there's nothing that makes me angrier than in the name of the father :mad: now THAT'S powerful!

at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie

Perceptual

Requiem for a Dream

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie

cause you can and the truth is probably not all that interesting.

dunkman

catefrances wrote:

cause you can and the truth is probably not all that interesting.

i know but the truth of In Name Father is actually interesting enough without embellishing the story with inaccuracies? just find it weird... same with Braveheart.. why he even meets the queen is beyond me... i mean it wasnt like William Wallace's life was ever dull

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

i know but the truth of In Name Father is actually interesting enough without embellishing the story with inaccuracies? just find it weird... same with Braveheart.. why he even meets the queen is beyond me... i mean it wasnt like William Wallace's life was ever dull

well i'm still wondering why superman is so earth humanlike when he is an alien.

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

at least Barley was accurate... In The Name Father has so many "artistic licence" moments its almost funny... like Braveheart did... why lie in a movie

I don't care about accuracy in this case... I don't watch a film to learn history. I'm saying that as a film in the name of the father was MUCH more powerful. the wind that shakes the barley, they weren't even real people, were they?

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

I don't care about accuracy in this case... I don't watch a film to learn history. I'm saying that as a film in the name of the father was MUCH more powerful. the wind that shakes the barley, they weren't even real people, were they?

but INOTF made you angry because of its power.. and yet some scenes create anger and yet didnt happen... his dad being in the same prison... all of them being tried in court together, etc... i'm saying that if you're going to make a film that stirs up some ill-feeling towards people, the British in this case, then it should be at least accurate.

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

but INOTF made you angry because of its power.. and yet some scenes create anger and yet didnt happen... his dad being in the same prison... all of them being tried in court together, etc... i'm saying that if you're going to make a film that stirs up some ill-feeling towards people, the British in this case, then it should be at least accurate.

Hmm... I'm sure Emma Thompson didn't make her big speech in the court either... if they had shown the courts as they probably WERE it would have been pretty dull... were we supposed to sit through fucking YEARS of deliberations? The main point of the story is accurate though, they were found guilty of something they didn't do blah blah blah, scenes were changed for dramatic effect. Show me ONE film where everything was word for word fact for fact scene for scene, it doesn't happen! Nobody watches a film expecting to learn the facts of the case.

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Show me ONE film where everything was word for word fact for fact scene for scene, it doesn't happen! Nobody watches a film expecting to learn the facts of the case.

Born Free

and i do!!! i watch a movie like Amistad and i want it to be as close as possible to the actual events... INOTF is a brilliant film though... i just don't understand why as story as good as that needs to have fictional frilling up.