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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Legends of the fall

    Interview with a Vampire
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • Be Sound
    Be Sound Posts: 199
    thelma and louise

    chicago
    Don't it make you smile
  • pineapplesandwaves
    pineapplesandwaves Posts: 584
    redrock wrote:
    Along with Twelve Monkeys these films show he is a very good actor. Underrated I think. Though he did do crap films too.
    Brad Pitt burst onto the scene as the incredibly hot guy with a fantastic body in Thelma and Louise. I think he got pigeonholed and was considered nothing more than a pretty face. When people hear Brad Pitt, they think 'Sexiest Man Alive', not great actor. The fact he's actually a great actor tends to be overlooked. Sure, he's been involved in some really bad movies, but very few haven't.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Pulp Fiction
    Kill Bill 1 & 2

    All a load of utter shite.
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Pulp Fiction
    Kill Bill 1 & 2

    All a load of utter shite.
    :eek:

    Uma changed my life....:o

    Brad was awesome in Babel too.

    I agree with Chicago...I have never watched it all the way through.
    AWFUL.
    Love the stage show though.
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Todd76 wrote:
    Well I agree that he was amazing in those 2 great movies.....my favorite Brad Pitt role was when he played Floyd the bong smoking room mate in True Romance....classic!!!! ;)

    It pains me to see some of my favorite movies in this list: Lost In Translation, Blair Witch, Magnolia, Sideways, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Unbreakable, Borat etc etc....guess there is no accounting for taste

    One movie I HATED that everyone seems to love is....Gladiator - what a pile of crap (definitely the worst movie ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture)
    I know...I LOVE Sideways. Made me laugh, made me cry. Made me laugh so hard I cried! :p
    And Lost in Translation was phenomenal. I related quite a bit...

    Gladiator?? :eek: Between that and 300, I can die a happy woman. le sigh
    Oh wait...they had plots????
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    TrixieCat wrote:
    :eek:

    Uma changed my life....:o

    How? :confused:
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Byrnzie wrote:
    How? :confused:
    She's hot.
    Sometimes it is the simple things in life that make all of the difference.
    :)
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Pulp Fiction
    Kill Bill 1 & 2

    All a load of utter shite.


    REALLY????????????? Wow - 3 great movies IMO. It doesn't get much better than Pulp Fiction (probably my second favorite movie - behind American Beauty)
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I know...I LOVE Sideways. Made me laugh, made me cry. Made me laugh so hard I cried!
    And Lost in Translation was phenomenal. I related quite a bit...

    I can understand how people might not love Lost In Translation - definitely not a movie made to appeal to the masses. Most people dont have the attention span for a rather slow character study....but I LOVED it. Bill Murray is brilliant in it - his eyes show more emotion than most actors can capture in an entire career.....very subtle

    I'm not sure why Sideways gets the flack that it does....I enjoyed every second of it. The scene near the end where Paul Giamatti cracks into his vintage bottle of wine in that greasy spoon restaurant is amazing......why waste your life waiting for the important moments - create your own moments and savour them :)
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Todd76 wrote:
    REALLY????????????? Wow - 3 great movies IMO. It doesn't get much better than Pulp Fiction (probably my second favorite movie - behind American Beauty)



    I can understand how people might not love Lost In Translation - definitely not a movie made to appeal to the masses. Most people dont have the attention span for a rather slow character study....but I LOVED it. Bill Murray is brilliant in it - his eyes show more emotion than most actors can capture in an entire career.....very subtle

    I'm not sure why Sideways gets the flack that it does....I enjoyed every second of it. The scene near the end where Paul Giamatti cracks into his vintage bottle of wine in that greasy spoon restaurant is amazing......why waste your life waiting for the important moments - create your own moments and savour them :)
    I agree with why people wouldn't like Lost in Translation too. :)
    I prefer those movies...I WANT to think. I want to wonder. I want to be the one to fill in the blanks.
    Paul Giamatti....so funny in Sideways.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I agree with why people wouldn't like Lost in Translation too. :)
    I prefer those movies...I WANT to think. I want to wonder. I want to be the one to fill in the blanks.
    Paul Giamatti....so funny in Sideways.
    but it was ALL blank (lost in translation). If I wanna watch two people looking at eachother and showing emotion, I can go out in the street. I don't think they should pay people to simply ACT that.

    And if I want a blank canvas, I'll write a book. It's not about having a short attention span, it's just about it being crap.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Paul Giamatti....so funny in Sideways.


    i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(

    Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Kill Bill 1 & 2

    All a load of utter shite.


    i think if you watch this on mute then its stunning visually... i know Tarantino steals ideas but as a movie its beautiful to watch... imo :)

    i thought Lost in Tranlsation was excellent... loved it.

    The Virgin Suicides was an excellent movie also... i've not seen MArie Antoniette yet but mrs dunk loved that also :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    i have only ever turned 2 movies off in my life.. Sideways was one... i never even smirked during that movie.. thought it was pretentious shite... and that hot wine women would never go for Giamatti... he was a snivelling wreck in that movie... unbearable :(

    Magnolia is my other one i couldnt watch!!! bored me to death
    Aw you shouldn't have turned off sideways... I can see why it MIGHT be boring to some until a certain point but the last half hour or so is bloody hilarious.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    dunkman wrote:
    i think if you watch this on mute then its stunning visually... i know Tarantino steals ideas but as a movie its beautiful to watch... imo :)

    i thought Lost in Tranlsation was excellent... loved it.

    The Virgin Suicides was an excellent movie also... i've not seen MArie Antoniette yet but mrs dunk loved that also :)

    no no no youve got it all wrong. tarantino doesnt steal ideas, he recontextualises them. he uses movies no bastard has seen anyway and tweaks them for the blank generation. hes doing us a service by broadening our cinematic horizons. either that or hes full of shit... just like i am, writing this. ;):p:D

    as for lost in translation, let it be said i am not the worlds greatest bill murray fan. but i think there was a banality to it that reflected 'real' life. her husband ignored her whilst he was bored, and as both were in a foreign environment, they connected. there's no aphrodisiac like loneliness.

    i liked the virgin suicides but as yet have not seen marie antoinette. but seeings i got a bit of a girlie crush on kirsten dunst, i will.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Aw you shouldn't have turned off sideways... I can see why it MIGHT be boring to some until a certain point but the last half hour or so is bloody hilarious.

    oh trust me i'm glad i did... i couldnt give a fuck how funny the end of it was... the first hour and 8 mins was enough for me... i mean i wouldnt pay to watch Billy Connolly do fuck all for one hour and then come out with 30mins of killer material... if its a comedy i want the laughs all the time.. if its a drama then please have things happen... if its some romance story thing then i want some jug shots... but sideways was about some cock who cried a lot and scared his ex-wife and liked expensive wine whilst his friend was a jock who had shit hair and bored me by speaking in monosyllables. the last 30mins could have been epic... but it was like having sex with Sting... 4 hours of boring shit followed by an orgasm.. .big deal.. Stings a cock :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    if its a drama then please have things happen...
    and yet you liked lost in translation? :confused:

    And yep, some of you say that it's because it reflects real life... but I'm sorry, if I wanna see real life, I'll go out and look at it. If I'm watching a movie I want drama, I wanna escape and live somebody elses life for a couple of hours... I don't wanna people watch! I'd rather get on a bus for a couple of hours than watch lost in translation again.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    and yet you liked lost in translation? :confused:

    my post was fucking awesome and you picked me up on that?!?!?! :D;)

    yeah i liked it but i have a strange drawing to Scarlett... plus it was set in Japan and i'm a sucker for that culture
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    and yet you liked lost in translation? :confused:

    And yep, some of you say that it's because it reflects real life... but I'm sorry, if I wanna see real life, I'll go out and look at it. If I'm watching a movie I want drama, I wanna escape and live somebody elses life for a couple of hours... I don't wanna people watch! I'd rather get on a bus for a couple of hours than watch lost in translation again.

    hmm...interesting helen. the movies i like the best are ones i can relate to. ones that draw some sort of emotion from me. be it anger or empathy.

    i thought sideways was bullshit too. but then again i think the whole wine appreciation/ afficiando crapola thingy is a total wankfest. but there you go. just drink the damn stuff will you. *she says as she takes a sip from her wineglass half full of merlot* :p:D

    thomas haden church was so goddamn annoying in that film. and as for paul giametti... i'm sorry but after watching him in big fat liar countless times with my kids, i can not see him in any other role. :D
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    dunkman wrote:
    my post was fucking awesome and you picked me up on that?!?!?! :D;)

    yeah i liked it but i have a strange drawing to Scarlett... plus it was set in Japan and i'm a sucker for that culture

    twas her arse wasn't it dunk? :p:D
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