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Muzgash.
Posts: 16/77
There are so many classics... my head would expload if I tried to name a bunch of them...

But to name a few I would have to say Fight Club, Rebel Without a Cause, Gladiator ('00 the one with Russel Crow), Hook, Star Wars, and the Indiana Jones series... just not the one about young Indiana.
Ziff
Posts: 699/1800
Originally posted by Abnormal Freak
Made to suck? Hardly. ED1 is a college project, if I'm thinking correctly. Some things about it suck, but overall I think it's a fantastic movie, no sucking involved. And ED2 is just meant to be a hilarious horror/gore movie, and there are so many nifty film techniques used in there; it's such a beautifully well made film. Then there's AOD, which practically drops all horror aspects and relies on ridiculous humor and an adventure story. All three movies kick ass. Pfft, they hardly suck. ;p A movie like Monsturd is a movie meant to suck, not Evil Dead.



I never said that they don't rule hard. You ever hear of the term parody?
Valcion
Posts: 185/585
I had to watch House of Games for my film as lit class, and that was a pretty cool movie. Probably my favorite out of what i've seen so far (besides The Graduate, but really, that movie is pretty damn hard to beat). Basically its about a psychologist who falls in love with a con man. I ain't going to spoil it for ya, but if you like psychological stuff, you should see it. There's a lot of cool things that they do that i have to write a paper on (which i'm procastinating on right now).
Abnormal Freak
Posts: 47/87
Made to suck? Hardly. ED1 is a college project, if I'm thinking correctly. Some things about it suck, but overall I think it's a fantastic movie, no sucking involved. And ED2 is just meant to be a hilarious horror/gore movie, and there are so many nifty film techniques used in there; it's such a beautifully well made film. Then there's AOD, which practically drops all horror aspects and relies on ridiculous humor and an adventure story. All three movies kick ass. Pfft, they hardly suck. ;p A movie like Monsturd is a movie meant to suck, not Evil Dead.
Ziff
Posts: 677/1800
The best thing about ED is that it was MADE to suck! Although a recurring theory is that Ash's adventures were all hallucinations.
Abnormal Freak
Posts: 46/87
Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination
... and in addition it was referenced a sentence later!

;)


Huh, where? :P I see you mention it only once.

Anyway. Last night I watched Night of the Living Dead for the second time ever. :o And it rocked just as much as the first time. It's such a good movie, very moody and low budget, comparable to Carnival of Souls. It's the only of Romero's "Dead" movies that I like, though I haven't seen Land of the Dead yet. Dawn and Day both had cool parts, but overall I just don't think they're so good. Dawn gets a lot of praise, but I don't find much enjoyable about it. If I cared about such things as social commentary on big, bad consumerist America, maybe then I'd like the movie, but I don't care for such things.

Since I love horror movies, might as well go on... The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, from 1974? Yeah, there's a great movie. Also has a whole lot of mood, and the last half hour or something is just relentless. When I watched it with some buddies, though, they had more fun simply making fun of it. Hum. I've never seen the remake. Maybe I will someday.

Yeah... And then there's the Evil Dead movies. Probably my favorite horror movies, but I think I like John Carpenter's The Thing the most. But yeah...I first watched all three of the ED movies in junior high. They really impressed me, big time. The Evil Dead is the first movie that made me look at how a movie is made. Funny, 'cos it has so many continuity errors, but I really think it's an exceptionally well made film, especially for a buncha college students.
Ziff
Posts: 672/1800
Originally posted by Abnormal Freak
Well, and Eastwood's movie is, simply, Unforgiven. There is no "the."


Ah ha, but the article should be used when making a statement to an ambiguous title and in addition it was referenced a sentence later!

Abnormal Freak
Posts: 45/87
Well, and Eastwood's movie is, simply, Unforgiven. ;) There is no "the."
Ziff
Posts: 667/1800
I was talking about Eastwood's movie

I should've made myself more clear.
Abnormal Freak
Posts: 44/87
Granted, Criterion DVDs are the best DVDs just because they put so much care into the movies they release. I also love how movies recorded in mono or stereo, they release in mono or stereo. I hate this 5.1 surround remastering crap, I really do. 5.1 surround is such a hokey piece of shit for movies.

Never seen The Unforgiven (that '60s movie, right?), but I have seen Eastwood's Unforgiven. Anyone who can't enjoy that movie has got to have something wrong with them. :o
Ziff
Posts: 661/1800
Depends...The 1970s Western was pretty good. The Unforgiven? Great movie. Plus, I've a bit of a love for Western films...particularly the Italian Spaghetti Western.

As for DVDs...superbit is decent, but I've basically stopped buying anything but Criterion Collection DVDs. I'm currently getting all the Akira Kurosawa and David Cronenberg films that they have released. I am trying REALLY hard to find a copy of Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons, directed by Cronenberg.
Toxic
Posts: 113/251
Steve McQueen is the man! I sat through the nugget that is Bullitt soley for the chase scene (HE DID HIS OWN STUNTS!!@!)

What a man.
NSNick
Posts: 638/2228
Yeah, I saw a little over half of Seven Samurai, it seemed pretty good, but I think I prefer The Magnificent Seven. It's got a little more polish, and characters I can better empathize with, most likely due to being in English. Also, most of the actors in The Magnificent Seven are awesome-- Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn.
Abnormal Freak
Posts: 43/87
Originally posted by NSNick
I think the only good Western that I've seen is The Magnificent Seven.


TMS is pretty cool. I really gotta get around to seeing Seven Samurai, which if you don't know is the movie TMS is based on.
Uncle Elmo
Posts: 165/308
The only good western I've seen is Wild Wild West...

Ok, I joke. I don't like Western's at all I'm afraid. All macho posturing and racism. Boooring.
NSNick
Posts: 631/2228
I think the only good Western that I've seen is The Magnificent Seven.
Abnormal Freak
Posts: 42/87
Originally posted by Toxic
As for older classics, I guess we can shift gears to...oh I dunno. How about The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Spaghetti western at its finest. Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name, epitome of cool. Possibly the greatest western ever?


I haven't seen a lot of westerns, but yeah, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is my favorite so far, and is one of my top 10 favorite movies. Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West is cool too, but just not nearly as grand and beautiful, IMO.

Now I just gotta see the first two movies with The Man with No Name, plus A Fistful of Dynamite. Waiting for the special editions of those movies to get released in the US, and I'm really hoping they don't package Dynamite as "Duck, You Sucker".
Tommathy
Posts: 156/339
"All About Eve"

Really, what else needs to be said? It's a movie that gets better the second time you watch it.

Not to mention it has Bette Davis.
NSNick
Posts: 619/2228
It shames me to say it, but I haven't seen any of Eastwood's westerns.



I definitely need to do that.
Toxic
Posts: 111/251
The overall presentation annoyed me, the fact that they plastered their logo over evreything, and that the first disc of Snatch didn't have audio for me


As for older classics, I guess we can shift gears to...oh I dunno. How about The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Spaghetti western at its finest. Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name, epitome of cool. Possibly the greatest western ever?
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