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    Quote Originally Posted by Ukan Kizmiaz
    The Ice Storm - 1997
    Another winner which I had never heard of. Thanks Kizmiaz.

    This thread is paying dividends. I would green myself if the system allowed!

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    Somebody recommended 'Get Low' so I downloaded it. I was settling in to watch it when I realised it was Origin II tonight. I feel that I should get enthusiastic about Origin but rugby/footy just bores me so I cranked up this movie.

    Anyway Get Low* has a couple of my favourite actors, Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Nice story about an ageing Duvall living alone in the forest with some dark secret from his past.

    As a compromise to the footy I turned the movie off to watch the last 15 mins of Origin.

    I generally consider myself to be Blues supporter despite having lived in QLD for a quite a while. The Inglis disallowed try for QLD was fekin outrageous. How can that finger touch be considered a knock on? It was just part of the frenzy of the tackle.

    OK so NSW went on to score another try but who says they would have done that if the QLD try had stood?

    Anyway Get Low also features Sissy Spacek who I haven't seen for a while and has some nice philosophical observations on life.

    Good shout whoever recommended it! (the forum does not allow searching for words less than 4 characters)

    *it is from 2009 so this post is 4 years early

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    "The Wild Bunch. One of the great westerns of all time. Pekinpah at his best.

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    I just realized I've never seen that one. Thanks for the heads-up, Davis.


    Though they are entirely frivolous, I did enjoy various Trinity movies.


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    "Hard times " been mentioned ?
    Charles Bronson as Chaney , James Coburn as Speed , streetfighting in New Orleans during the great depression.

    One of my all time favorite movies that I come back to every few years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    watched this one again recently after a very long time loved it nice and different, super slow and a bit trippy Aguirre the wrath of god (1972)
    I recently watched Herzog's documentary 'My Best Fiend' which describes his strange, combative but intensely close relationship with the highly eccentric actor Klaus Kinski (who also plays the vampire in Herzog's Nosferatu: The Vampyre).

    I have meaning to dig up Aguirre since then, which was one of their earliest collaborations.

    Will make a point of doing this now.
    Klaus Kinski daughter, Nastassjia, was also an excellent actress. Here are two of my favorite movies by two equally great directors :
    - Tess (Roman Polanski - 1979)
    - Paris Texs (Wim Wenders - 1984)
    The things we regret most is the things we didn't do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    "The Wild Bunch. One of the great westerns of all time. Pekinpah at his best.
    I remember my brother talking about this when it was finally released. The opening scenes if I remember correctly are hyper-violent.

    One of the grittiest and controversial thrillers of all-time and banned in the United Kingdom for over 18 years,
    The Wild Bunch (1969) - News

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbu View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    "The Wild Bunch. One of the great westerns of all time. Pekinpah at his best.
    I remember my brother talking about this when it was finally released. The opening scenes if I remember correctly are hyper-violent.

    One of the grittiest and controversial thrillers of all-time and banned in the United Kingdom for over 18 years,
    The Wild Bunch (1969) - News
    It was violent for its time, although little would shock the movie watchers of today.

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    Watching "The Big Trail". B&W. 1930. Quite amazing for a movie made 85 years ago. I had no idea they were making such professionally done movies then.

    And bonus: John Wayne at 23 years old - I think his first movie.

    Not for everybody, but historically interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbu View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    "The Wild Bunch. One of the great westerns of all time. Pekinpah at his best.
    I remember my brother talking about this when it was finally released. The opening scenes if I remember correctly are hyper-violent.

    One of the grittiest and controversial thrillers of all-time and banned in the United Kingdom for over 18 years,
    The Wild Bunch (1969) - News
    I love The Ballad of Cable Hogue by Pekinpah. Great characters.

    The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - IMDb

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Somebody recommended 'Get Low' so I downloaded it. Get Low* has a couple of my favourite actors, Robert Duvall and Bill Murray.

    Good shout whoever recommended it! (the forum does not allow searching for words less than 4 characters)

    *it is from 2009 so this post is 4 years early
    I'm afraid you got it wrong. No Robert Duvall or Bill Murray here


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    Wake in Fright (1971)



    One of the best ever Australian movies. About a teacher who gets involved with a group of hard drinking outback types and quickly descends into a personal hell. One the best ever performances of Donald Pleasance as Doc Tydon.

    "Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here."
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    3 part mini series on kickass Tut

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    ^The thread is MOVIES FROM TEN YEARS AGO OR MORE, not TV series from last week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    ^The thread is MOVIES FROM TEN YEARS AGO OR MORE, not TV series from last week.
    Sorry for my mistake ,, Any chance of it being transferd the correct thread

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    ^Just repost it in the movie and tv downloads thread in Multimedia forum. It will be a long wait before a mod moves it.

    I looked tut up....any good?

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    Not a classic but if you need to keep a kid entertained for an hour and a half you could do worse than...



    Jack Black hams it up as rock slob imposter teacher.
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    Artificial Intelligence - 2001

    Don't know how I had never heard of this but it is a clever analysis of emotions and whether they can ever be replicated by software and what they might feel like if they were.

    The little geezer from The 6th Sense stars and it was from 2001 so he is still a little geezer in this movie.

    He plays a robot child designed to fulfill the emotional needs of couples without children. He is programmed to have emotional responses so he actually behaves like a real child but that in turn makes him a genuinely emotional creation rather than simply an automaton which are where his problems start.

    8/10

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Artificial Intelligence - 2001

    Don't know how I had never heard of this but it is a clever analysis of emotions and whether they can ever be replicated by software and what they might feel like if they were.

    The little geezer from The 6th Sense stars and it was from 2001 so he is still a little geezer in this movie.

    He plays a robot child designed to fulfill the emotional needs of couples without children. He is programmed to have emotional responses so he actually behaves like a real child but that in turn makes him a genuinely emotional creation rather than simply an automaton which are where his problems start.

    8/10
    Steven Spielberg took this on from Stanley Kubrick. Apparently it was one of Kubrick's pet projects, and they used to discuss it all the time.

    I think he did a masterful job.

    The Horror Digest: A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Kubrick vs Spielberg

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    Bad Santa - 2003

    Billy Bob Thornton as the ultimate boozing, lechering, thieving anti-santa who grows a heart when a fat loser kid latches onto him.



    Loved it when it came out and never got round to re-watching it till now.

    Good for a giggle.

    7/10


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    Watched this oldie but goody for the first time last night..



    Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller-psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The second to last feature film of his extensive career, it is often considered by critics and scholars to be his last great film before his death. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern.



    London is held in the grip of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder his victims by strangling them with a necktie. When short-tempered ex-Royal Air Force officer Blaney discovers his ex-wife murdered, Blaney becomes a suspect. Forced to go on the run, Blaney attempts to take refuge with his best friend, fruit merchant Bob Rusk, however Rusk may, in fact, be the necktie murderer himself.




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    One of my favorites, though unsurprisingly not one you'd drop into casual conversation The OST has got some great tracks on it. L7 - Shitlist, Burn - NiN, Forkboy - Lard.. punishing stuff. Great scene in it when Harrelson is in the Batonga prison and he's cracking the joke about Johnny in the back seat... before it all kicks off.
    Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

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    Leaving Las Vegas

    Seen it when it came out around 95 and remember thinking it was good but on re-watching I thing is very good.

    Nic Cage leads in a strangely absorbing portrait of an alcoholic going down the plughole and his relationship with a hooker with whom he finds a kind of love under the hollow glitzyness of Vegas.

    It is based on a true story and the real character committed suicide shortly after filming began.

    7/10

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    A Simple Plan. Which it is, initially. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton.

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