Movie Magic (and the ones you'd like to disappear...)

How about Blood Simple. A dark little piece from the Coen brothers.

Squire wrote:

How about Blood Simple. A dark little piece from the Coen brothers.

Or the Big Lebowski! A surreal comedy by the same people, it gets funnier and weirder with every viewing and is a great vignette of early 90s America.

I watched The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger over the weekend.

Nothing beats a beer and come Tom Clancy.

Would love to see Hudsucker Proxy again.

i prefer the classics. acting is so underrated in the classics. see philadelphia story, harvey, ice cold in alex, north by northwest....they're all absolutely brill and completely different.

tho for a weekend of indulgence, back to back band of brothers for me!

I recently saw some movies I can recommend - fillums, I meant.

American Gangster - an amazing story of negro gangsterism in New York in the sixties and beyond. Starring Russell Crow and Denzel Washington (the guy who will play Obama when Oliver Stone finally gets around to making the assassination movie in 2016.) Directed by Ridley Scott of Alien fame.

No Country For Old Men - Coen brothers modern Western with the Coen brothers pace and attention to ordinary detail. Into that world laid out in that ordinary detail comes the peculiar characters and this fillum has a few, not least the psychopathic Spanish or Mexican assassin.

The Garage - starring Pat Shortt. This film is the type of thing the Irish should be making - something upbeat and snappy with very modern dialogue, exalting the great little things about living in the arsehole of nowhere. This is the type of film we need in order to induce Dubs down to live here and generate some economy through population and since it won something at Cannes or was nominated I wonder would it draw a few French chicks down here to avail of the advantages of this land of milk and honey?

Not a banjo in sight.

Notting Hill just over on RTE. I still love it.

Breakfast With Pluto - better second time around. Cillian Murphy is class.

Airplane on tv3 at 11.30.

There is no funnier movie

Where did that ragtime come from?

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

Airplane on tv3 at 11.30.

There is no funnier movie

Where did that ragtime come from?

Must have watched it about 400 times when young. "Not a good day for giving up sniffing glue" and Striker and his drinking problem.

There was another film - Top Secret later on with Val Kilmer - I got a kick out of that too.

Auditor #9 wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

Airplane on tv3 at 11.30.

There is no funnier movie

Where did that ragtime come from?

Must have watched it about 400 times when young. "Not a good day for giving up sniffing glue" and Striker and his drinking problem.

There was another film - Top Secret later on with Val Kilmer - I got a kick out of that too.

"I'm sorry, He's a little horse."

Just watched Lions for Lambs, if you haven’t already, go buy it, rent it, see it. Brilliant piece of cinema by Robert Redford.

Auditor #9 wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

Airplane on tv3 at 11.30.

There is no funnier movie

Where did that ragtime come from?

Must have watched it about 400 times when young. "Not a good day for giving up sniffing glue" and Striker and his drinking problem.

There was another film - Top Secret later on with Val Kilmer - I got a kick out of that too.

I hear good things but I never saw it. Ever see Hotshots with Charlie Sheen and Loyd Bridges?

Happy to endorse tonys recommendation on Lions for Lambs.

Couldn't agree less. I saw it when it came out and it was one of those films that made me itch with frustration at how good it could have been, how wonderful the cast - but how dire the script was. It was one cliché after another, as far as I was concerned. Every step in the plot came straight out of Lesson One of Political Thrillers By Numbers.

Aarrgghhh, New Year harmony bites the dust ...

Let's try again:

Man on Wire is not to be missed.

Sorry He3.

I'll take your recommendation on Man on Wire though (despite having ??? over the last suggestion. )

I was recently put off watching Lions by the missus who saw it in the cinema. She said it was dull!
Yesterday after seeing those positive reviews I decided to watch it tonight(being with the rodriguez and alone on my own so to speak), but now Kate here seems to be also unimpressed.

I'll watch it tonight. We'll see who has got the right taste in movies.

Kate P wrote:

Couldn't agree less. I saw it when it came out and it was one of those films that made me itch with frustration at how good it could have been, how wonderful the cast - but how dire the script was. It was one cliché after another, as far as I was concerned. Every step in the plot came straight out of Lesson One of Political Thrillers By Numbers.

I didn’t see it as a political thriller at all, I saw it as 3 interconnecting parables on the present state and nature of western democratic society. I didn’t notice a plot to speak of, good, bad or indifferent.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is my favourite film by far. I've seen it a zillion times since I was a kid, and every time it's on again I sit the whole way through it. Eli Wallach was absolutely magnificent in it.

Films that unaligned likes:

The Life Aquatic
There Will Be Blood
Brick
City of God
Garden State
Half Nelson (Not to be watched if one is feeling fragile)
Breakfast On Pluto

TV shows that unaligned likes:

The Wire
The West Wing
Six Feet Under
Arrested Development
Shameless

These are just the ones I can remember right now.

Good Movies:

The Sixth Sense
Cube
Cube Zero
Schindler's List
Anchorman
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Batman: The Dark Night

Bad Movies:
Cube 2 (Hypercube)

Good TV shows:
Black Books
The IT Crowd
Six Feet Under
Frasier
Father Ted

Being there is outstanding in its field.

Closing scene

With eternal relevance, as this clip shows hilariously - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrhSYSZ23xc

We are not so far from each other

toxic avenger wrote:

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is my favourite film by far. I've seen it a zillion times since I was a kid, and every time it's on again I sit the whole way through it. Eli Wallach was absolutely magnificent in it.

Actually all the dollars trilogy are fantastic. I also like For a few dollars more.
Just before Christmas I watched Once upon a time in the West. Its a bit slower but artistically its amazing with stunning photography and music, but in the end its the study of those hard faces that really gets your attention. Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, were great. Probably lacked the humorous element that Wallach brought to the good, the bad and the ugly.

I saw Lions and Lambs last night and enjoyed it.For me it was a bit too short.

Don't you hate it when the telly shows two very good films at the same time? Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was on last night at the same time as Das Boot.