Well I enjoyed watching a good sci-fi action film anyway. 

tronyn, calm down. star wars is totally build upon other works (not fucking with a franchise/name/work though). see the "everything is a remix" series.

shambler: is it like remakequake? 

shit remakes are not.

Also, Star Wars argument is flawed, Tronyn is not saying there should not be remakes, more that every film released nowadays should not be a remake. 

As opposed to being like Quaddicted?

I'm on the side of everything is a remake to some extent and only quality matters. Well made things add to the mythology or concepts they're based on, badly made ones feed off them.

Even the most original stuff, like Portal is based on previously broken ground. 

HATE!

;) 

I actually have very little interest in Star Wars at its best, and think it's kids' stuff and fairytale bullshit.

What I was trying to say, and horribly failed at saying, was the original property of it, I can respect. If I strain myself enough maaaybe I could respect the original property of Twilight simply because it was an original (in the legal, can-withstand-lawsuits sense) property. I just feel like post-2000, something has gone wrong as hell which has made the mainstream movie business the devil's whore.

On the other hand while I did recently argue that the world is so fucked up that not reproducing is logical (lol and I still believe that), I can still say, TV has gotten so much better post-2000 that every movie could be complete garbage and it would still be a net gain from my point of view.

Anyway. I will try, again, to calm down. 

Thanks, Nitin. You're so reasonable, and you know so much about film (btw I have now watched enough Argentio films to know that the pattern does not change), but I do have cheesy views about the idealism of art. I wasn't even born in the 70's yet, and I don't want a cheesy 70's revival, I just want the spirit of creativity from the 70's to come back. Bah. Whatever that's enough. The atmosphere is still clear enough, to see. 

HATE!

;) 

to help you calm down, out of my recent viewings I would recommend The Fall (2006).

Also Ides of March is a decent watch. And Julia's Eyes.

But if you really want to see something special, make some time for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. 

to help you calm down, out of my recent viewings I would recommend The Fall (2006).

Also Ides of March is a decent watch. And Julia's Eyes.

But if you really want to see something special, make some time for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. 

 

 

 

Sometimes it seems like reboots are really just using the title or a previous movie to rope in an audience and make it an easier sell to a studio.
Then the director and such try to tell their own story within the confines of the reboot. 

Yeah The Fall is a great film. Hard to find though. There is still originality around though.

Anyone seen The Nines with Ryan Reynolds? Can't say I've ever seen a movie with a plot like this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/
Deserves better than 6.5.

I was thinking the other day, sure there's a lack of originality in Hollywood, but average movies are still watchable. Go back to the 60's, 70's and 80's and average films were a lot worse than they are now. There are way more decent'ish movies to watch now than in decades previous. That's my opinion anyway. 

The 70's in particular is a goldmine of quality. 

moved to IMDB's list feature.

The movie one still has about 300 more to add when I get the time. I intend to update both as I watch more stuff, but who knows how that will go.

http://www.imdb.com/list/eaf_lvQ5NWE/

http://www.imdb.com/list/tRA4ZACG66o/ 

I guess it depends what you're looking for in a movie. You seem to like a good script and are quite a big fan of all the older stuff. A look at your list and there's only 11 films you recommend in your top 100 from the last 12 years in the 2000s. I've seen 53 films from your list, btw.

My personal favourite 4 movies are ALL post 2000 (I won't mention them because you'll laugh lol, none are even in your top 100). I tend to like atmosphere and a good score.

By the way speaking of atmosphere, anyone seen Eden Log? Excellent, dark (like The Descent dark), horror/sci-fi. 

yeah its all personal preference obviously, so post your 4 already :)

Also, that isnt really meant to be a top list, it sort of is in its current state of 297 titles, but there's another 300 or so I need to add and there is no way I could sensibly rank those. 

Saw it and even posted about it here. Basically it seemed like an okay indie film with an interesting simplistic/dirty style, but it was somewhat spoiled for me, because I had to watch a poorly dubbed version which seemed to highlight the movie's shortcomings and made it feel cheaper than it probabably would have otherwise. Will need to rewatch it some time. 

4823, 4 and 5 just bet better. Thanks for the tolerance and the wit. I remember arguing earlier that community contributions give one a proportionate right to be an unpleasant person. Well I hope my maps excuse me.

And thanks for the recommendations nitin.
Overall things are pretty good. Even if we were stuck in the perpetual 80's (my god) my pessimism is just bitching. The main thing is that culture could be complete garbage but optimism or pessimism about the world, would still be an entirely different thing (ie Steven Pinker's The Better Angels Of Our Nature). 

well the posts I mean are as obvious as my shitty math abilities

in terms of film taste, I'm pretty sure I tend to like films that are critically acclaimed (except my favourite movie of all time, Ravenous, which has an RT rating of 40% but which I could not love more), I'm just narrow genre-wise. If it's classic scifi, horror or drama, hopefully I've seen it and evaluated it. 

Scarface (198x)
Totally confused, overall I did not like this too much. The beginning was nice but Tony started to get on my nerves (both accent and character) and it went all clichee textbook "bad things happen to bad people who do drugs". Best thing was some of the music and reliving GTA Vice City (which probably triggered my positive response to the music). Interesting just how much they copied right from this movie. Those IP pirates, tssk tssk!
6/10 maybe, I don't plan to rewatch it though. Maybe it is a cultural thing, maybe it is that I am watching it not in the 80s, but bleh. Heat seems like a movie you could compare it to and that one I've seen like 4 times so far.

PS: The image of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/ totally looks like Legolas in thumbnails. 

i think i agree. 

I've seen it a month or two ago and while I didn't dislike it, I really don't get its status as a "classic".