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Post by mllemass on Jan 10, 2019 0:11:39 GMT
It’s one of my favourite Stephen King stories, and it’s rare that a movie ends up as good as the book. There are differences between them, but the movie really captures the feel of the book.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 10, 2019 0:27:58 GMT
I have problems watching prision movies. I can't bear all the violence. I know it is considered a good film. I don’t usually like Prison movies either Magda but The Sawshank Redemption is SUCH a good story. I don’t remember it being a violent movie. It’s more an uplifting movie about friendship. If I remember well! |
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 10, 2019 0:33:37 GMT
I watched all of them. The last two at the cinema (at a cinematheque), the first two on tv. I've never watched: Titanic The Lord of the Rings (just half of the first one) Jaws Rocky The Shawshank Redemption I watched Jaws for first time a few years ago and I really liked it! It’s of course a Hollywood blockbuster but one of those old school Hollywood movies so it doesn’t have a super fast rhythm (I hate that!). It’s slightly gory but also thrilling. And the last hour or so it is practically a Moby Dick adaptation. |
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 10, 2019 0:39:41 GMT
I am sure there are a lot!
Singin' in the Rain
The Fast and Furious movies that everyone seems to have watched!
The Sound of Music
Avatar
The Hunger Games movies
Transformers movies
A lot of action movies, I guess!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 10, 2019 0:40:18 GMT
Well I went through the Hollywood Reporter's list of top 100 movies and found I have not watched these 19 films from the list - Singin' in the Rain The Empire Strikes Back Up LotR: Return of the King Beauty and the Beast LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring Wall-e Brokeback Mountain West Side Story Amelie Thelma and Louise The Dark Knight The Big Lebowski Jurassic Park The Matrix Toy Story Fight Club The Princess Bride Pulp Fiction I've seen all except Up, Wall-e and strangely (because I liked Batman), The Dark Night. (Lotr I already said I didn't watch). I agree with Ellie, you should watch Amélie and Singing in the Rain. I liked The Big Lebowski. I can't understand why people like The Princess Bride so much. |
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 10, 2019 0:52:11 GMT
I don’t usually like Prison movies either Magda but The Sawshank Redemption is SUCH a good story. I don’t remember it being a violent movie. It’s more an uplifting movie about friendship. If I remember well! It isn't necessary that the violence be explicit. From time to time I think about watching it but... |
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Post by roverpup on Jan 10, 2019 1:33:16 GMT
Well I went through the Hollywood Reporter's list of top 100 movies and found I have not watched these 19 films from the list - Singin' in the Rain The Empire Strikes Back Up LotR: Return of the King Beauty and the Beast LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring Wall-e Brokeback Mountain West Side Story Amelie Thelma and Louise The Dark Knight The Big Lebowski Jurassic Park The Matrix Toy Story Fight Club The Princess Bride Pulp Fiction I've seen all except Up, Wall-e and strangely (because I liked Batman), The Dark Night. (Lotr I already said I didn't watch). I agree with Ellie, you should watch Amélie and Singing in the Rain. I liked The Big Lebowski. I can't understand why people like The Princess Bride so much. I believe it when everyone says that Singin' In the Rain is a glorious movie and I think it's wonderful that people love and enjoy it... but I just don't like singing or dancing in movies unless it is a bio about a musician/composer or dancer. It's not the movie - it's me. Just a personal quirk. Amadeus and Coalminer's Daughter are great and I loved them. Oliver (the only movie I ever walked out on) and Oklahoma! et al, may be great musicals but I have tried to watch a number of them and I just... couldn't. Funny thing is, I absolutely LOVE musical theatre, so if I had a chance to see Singin' In the Rain on stage, I'd be there in a flash! Probably the only musical film I really liked was the Wizard of Oz. It was wonderful. But the reasons I really like that particular movie is veeeeeery complicated. 😊 If I ever get a chance I will watch Amélie. Promise!😘 |
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Post by queenzod on Jan 10, 2019 2:08:59 GMT
Agreed on Shawshank. Maybe not a brilliant piece of filmmaking, but really, really good. The violence is only at the beginning, really. I always cover my eyes during that part. But it’s so worth it!
And all y’all who haven’t seen Casablanca! For shame, lol. One of THE bestest, most classic movies ever.
I want y’all to think about how you’ve wasted your lives. 😂
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Post by mllemass on Jan 10, 2019 3:02:16 GMT
I know it sounds weird, but there are certain movies that feel like they were made especially for me, and The Princess Bride is one of them. It’s not even that I particularly like that type of movie, but that one was special.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 10, 2019 3:29:41 GMT
I@roverdog have you watched Cabaret? The first time I watched it, I wasn’t very keen to watch musical movies (I enjoyed them more now) but I was surprised how dark and complex it was. Also how the mood was so historical accurate: the scene with the young nazi boy singing is so creepy even today it gives me chills! Berlin was indeed a very amoral city at the time full not just of eccentric characters as on the movie but also high criminality. One of Hitler’s promises was to end with all that.
The way the movie is almost always during the night with seedy places and seedy characters until that scene in daylight and with families and young healthy people singing a catchy song about a better future and purity slowly revealing that they are nazis is so scary! I particularly like the perplexed reaction of an old man listening the young nazis singing about how the future belongs to them! It’s so thought-provoking! Old people rightfully scared of a young generation, depravity or at least amorality (it was much more extreme in real life: drugs, serial killers, rape, etc.) causing a moral movement that did even much more harm and finally frivolous and debauched characters becoming gradually virtuous as they contemplate what is coming!
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