-
Welcome
to BookAndReader! We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!
Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.
one of my fav film.
- Thread starter Crystal
- Start date
bobbyburns
New Member
Abulafia said:
looking at it like that kinda ruins the film altogether. it's a shitty memento rip-off, there's not a whole lot to it, but it's entertaining in the same way porno is. imagining irreversible without the ultra-violence, horror and fucking scenes doesn't leave much, in spite of the rich dialogue and profound subject matter, to carry the plot forward ... er, backward.
Themistocles
New Member
Martin said:
All three, I would agree, are excellent films, even if Fight Club did have a crappy ending. At any rate, I didn't *get* it.
My own picks would also include Stalingrad and Princess Mononoke.
petulant_seraph
New Member
Raise the Red Lantern starring the ever beautiful Gong Li and directed by Zhang Yimou. The most stunning, claustrophobic film I've ever seen
Martin
Active Member
Let's combine both your opinions, and make it a great movie with a great ending!
I love everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written, and I love everything David Fincher has ever made, so it was kinda a shoe-in for me. Add to that two of my favourite actors, and you've got yourself a great film!
Cheers
I love everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written, and I love everything David Fincher has ever made, so it was kinda a shoe-in for me. Add to that two of my favourite actors, and you've got yourself a great film!
Cheers
bobbyburns
New Member
no, watercrystal, I only like the special effects. you're naughty.
watercrystal said:Thanks.
Found this :STraw dogs
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential video
One of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 1970s, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and discovers a frighteningly feral and vicious side to himself. Though Straw Dogs has a reputation for graphic violence, it actually looks tame by contemporary standards. Instead, the violence is psychological, and the suspense and shocks are induced by the editing--you're more terrified by what you think you see than by what you are actually shown. --Marshall Fine --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
DVD features
Despite its superior tone and a few debatable assertions, the Straw Dogs commentary by Peckinpah scholar Stephen Prince is astutely observant and thematically cohesive, effectively placing the film in its proper sociopolitical context. Prince's articulate reasoning corrects decades of misguided critical analysis while supporting Peckinpah's artistic intentions, including the fact that Dustin Hoffman plays the "heavy," and not the British bullies who provoke him to violence. The superb BBC... read more
Link:
bobbyburns
New Member
it's an awesome film. peckinpah edited it so that it almost seemed like dustin hoffman's character was observing himself, which changed the setting giving it a really dark tone.
found another one!
Here is another. any one has seen it yet?
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The first movie produced by Afghanistan filmmakers after the fall of the Taliban, Osama is a searing portrait of life under the oppressive fundamentalist regime. Because women are not allowed to work, a widow disguises her young daughter (Marina Golbahari) as a boy so they won't starve to death. Simply walking the streets is frightening enough, but when the disguised girl is rounded up with all the boys in the town for religious training, her peril becomes absolutely harrowing. Golbahari's face--beautiful but taut with terror--is riveting. The movie captures both her plight and the miseries of daily life in spare, vivid images. At one point, her mother is nearly killed for exposing her feet while riding on the back of a bicycle; for the entire scene, the camera shows only her feet, with the spokes of the wheel radiating out behind as she lowers her burka over them. --Bret Fetzer
Here is another. any one has seen it yet?
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The first movie produced by Afghanistan filmmakers after the fall of the Taliban, Osama is a searing portrait of life under the oppressive fundamentalist regime. Because women are not allowed to work, a widow disguises her young daughter (Marina Golbahari) as a boy so they won't starve to death. Simply walking the streets is frightening enough, but when the disguised girl is rounded up with all the boys in the town for religious training, her peril becomes absolutely harrowing. Golbahari's face--beautiful but taut with terror--is riveting. The movie captures both her plight and the miseries of daily life in spare, vivid images. At one point, her mother is nearly killed for exposing her feet while riding on the back of a bicycle; for the entire scene, the camera shows only her feet, with the spokes of the wheel radiating out behind as she lowers her burka over them. --Bret Fetzer
I want to see Tale of two sisters
Based loosely on an old Korean folk tale that has been filmed no less than five times previously, Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters twists the source material more or less beyond recognition, keeping the father, stepmother and two daughters from the original but abandoning much of the rest. Rather than a literal adaptation, Kim's version is a successful attempt to update the story to a contemporary setting retaining the scary, sad and touching elements of the original.
The film begins with sisters Su-mi (Im Soo-jung) and Su-yeon (Moon Geun-young) returning to their family home after an unspecified illness. There is an unusually close bond between the siblings, and Su-mi is highly protective of her younger sister Su-yeon. It is soon revealed that this is due in part to the apparent abuse that Su-yeon suffers at the hands of their classically wicked stepmother (Yeom Jeong-ah).
However, a revelation that comes further into the film makes it clear that not all is as it first appeared, and much of what had been presented as reality was in fact a single individual's distorted viewpoint. Further revelations twist the tale even further, turning the film into a narrative jigsaw puzzle that is ultimately left for the viewer to solve.
And I want to see The Village
The Village' depicts the thrilling tale of an isolated town confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. At first glance, this village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. But when curious, headstrong Lucius Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the future of the village.
Based loosely on an old Korean folk tale that has been filmed no less than five times previously, Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters twists the source material more or less beyond recognition, keeping the father, stepmother and two daughters from the original but abandoning much of the rest. Rather than a literal adaptation, Kim's version is a successful attempt to update the story to a contemporary setting retaining the scary, sad and touching elements of the original.
The film begins with sisters Su-mi (Im Soo-jung) and Su-yeon (Moon Geun-young) returning to their family home after an unspecified illness. There is an unusually close bond between the siblings, and Su-mi is highly protective of her younger sister Su-yeon. It is soon revealed that this is due in part to the apparent abuse that Su-yeon suffers at the hands of their classically wicked stepmother (Yeom Jeong-ah).
However, a revelation that comes further into the film makes it clear that not all is as it first appeared, and much of what had been presented as reality was in fact a single individual's distorted viewpoint. Further revelations twist the tale even further, turning the film into a narrative jigsaw puzzle that is ultimately left for the viewer to solve.
And I want to see The Village
The Village' depicts the thrilling tale of an isolated town confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. At first glance, this village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. But when curious, headstrong Lucius Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the future of the village.
Thea
New Member
I saw The Village recently and was pleasantly surprised, after hearing everyone talk about how terribly predictable it was. I even knew the twists at the end, because some jerk on a forum gave them away, and while that did spoil the experience somewhat, I still thought it was very well done. It's my favorite of Shyamalan's films.
Jenem
kickbox
Thea said:
I saw it quite early, so I didn't see any reviews until afterward - and I didn't agree with many of the reviews I read. I didn't find it entirely predictable, though I did see one element coming - but not 'til just before the reveal. I think I may agree with you, Thea, that it's my favorite; though it's a tough call for me because I really enjoy all Shyamalan's films. I adore Joaquin Phoenix. He's brilliant. I fell in love with him in Quills and have never been disappointed with any of his performances.