What was the last movie you saw?

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: What was the last movie you saw?

:nod:
They want Shymalan to fall into a specific movie-making role, but he hasn't done so. That confuses critics a lot. :p

All of his previous movies I always left the theater thinking about some deeper metaphysical analogy in the movie. I didn't see one right away in The Happening, and still haven't. Maybe that's just because either there isn't one or its just too deep this time. Either way, it was good.

Its "bland" because in most cases, every step the hero makes, is exactly the one you/I would have made. Hes a science teacher, and a fatherfigure; distant and close in the same time.

The peculiar thing is that we never get to actually know what the hell are these characters were watching. Its like windowpeeking into someones life for a short ammount of time. We get to see what they are doing, we get to set ourselves into their shoes, metaphorically, and then it all ends. We dont get to know them, we never know them.

Its an interesting step, and has obviously been done so to inspire a conversation. At least we didnt get 30 years of drama crammed into 15 minutes of character development.

I saw it exactly as it- a short spanned window into someones life, in a natural crisis.

You can easily draw the parallels. In "TWOTW" with Tom Cruise, the danger was as vivid and real as someone aiming a gun at you (its terrorizing), and so was the movie. This is a whole different view on a crisis with a 100% mortality rate. Its like AIDs. We all know it kills, we all know the danger, and we somehow strive to stay away from it, but all in all, unless were ****ed ourselves, we dont piss our pants every time we hear the word... AIDs or HIV.

MNS really tried to do something different, and he succeeded. Too bad the elitist always preach "Hollywood is unoriginal" and then when something different comes along, they b!tch about it not having entertainment value enough.

Meh.

Christ says 7.5/10

[Kreepy Kitteh =^o.O^=]

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I am yet to watch a Shymalan movie, The idea of his movies from what Chris has explained sounds quite interesting so whats a good one to watch first?

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: What was the last movie you saw?

MNS 3 best movies to date are-

Signs, Sixth Sense and Unbreakable

They have all a rating of 7+ points in IMDB, which means the movies are kickass. Sixth Sense is in TOP250 list, which is quite an honour.

Now that Ive spilled the beans, watch Sixth Sense first, as a matter of fact, go watch it NOW, any means necessary, any way possible. Dont spoil the movie for yourself, you need to experience the emotional journey of the characters. Its one of the better horror/thriller movies in years, and Bruce Willis gives a perfomance of his life there.

Willis also stars in Unbreakable, which is my favourite MNS movie. Signs is just one of the best alien invasion movies ever made.

Start with the three, then move on to the other 3, which have gotten mixed, or even bad reviews.

[Kreepy Kitteh =^o.O^=]

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ohh i have seen sixth sense! Awesome film ill have to watch unbreakable. Signs i don't think i will enjoy..

EDIT: the place i usually watch movies has a really crap quality source

[Repulse]

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Enemy At The Gate?

Awwwwesome Film! Made me reinstall Red Orchestra!

[jake_]

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ohh i have seen sixth sense! Awesome film ill have to watch unbreakable. Signs i don't think i will enjoy..

EDIT: the place i usually watch movies has a really crap quality source

You'll enjoy it, its not exactly what you might expect at first.

[Kreepy Kitteh =^o.O^=]

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Enemy At The Gate?

Awwwwesome Film! Made me reinstall Red Orchestra!

Sure is!! And Jude Law plays an awesome part

You'll enjoy it, its not exactly what you might expect at first.

Lol it's ok soo far, i keep getting the feeling that any minute Bruce Willis is going to bust out a new super hero costume lol.. ill see how it wraps up and tell u what i think :p

edit: LOL @ the bench pressing scene!

[waaah_wah]

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We Were Soldiers is just awesome

[TheEn|gma]

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An excellent movie. Frankly, I think people who hate it, just lack the life experience and havent encountered emotions, people, situations resembling those in the movie. For example, I could immediately recognize my own old history teacher, and myself, in the main character.

What's that a teacher with a completly un-realistic relationship with his student, who chases after a girlfriend that has the biggest goo-goo eyes on the face of the planet (which is her only bargaining tool to convey any form of communication).

Wahlberg doesnt know how to act- get a grip, morons. There are different people with different stress tolerance. The danger presented in the movie, is so vague, so indirect, that the fear youll feel is so much less potent than the fear of being aimed at with a hunting rifle.

There are differences between stress tolerances and having very few facial expressions. I've seen him in other films and he was acceptable, evidently the direction he was given was either awful or just a rough day. The accent and how softly he spoke even under the circumstances made it feel more like a dumbed down children's tale than a so called thriler.

The few seconds where he's recalling his teaching motto for lack of a better word in terms of science was plain cheesy and cringe worthy.

The let's die together ******** was cheesy and easy way to finish get the film over and present the act of god line that had been so "casually" dropped into play in the lesson you see him teach.

Its an excellent thriller, as a matter of fact, the movie is just as menacing as the description sounds in IMDB-.

srsly? Thriller? Go watch some good thriller pieces, Spooks is the cream-crop not exactly a film but several series long. It was clearly obvious when people were going to die as there was strong wind, making it painfully obvious to the audience that it was the plants. Okay maybe he was trying to get some dramatic irony across, we knew and I suspect most people just because frustrated with their inability to see what was to clear.

Thrillers are dependant on attachment to the characters, in which there was none, I saw no reason to want them to live infact nearer the end it was the opposite. Good musical pieces is the easiest effect in thrillers to pull off and I don't really recall the tempo being raised to a point where I was tense.

Its still MNS at its finest, in the sense that its completely different from any of his movies. Well done. Haters- grow up, look at it in 5 years, from a grownups perspective.

Grown-up perspective? What's that exactly? Pretended their is more depth to a film that was at best, crudely acted and executed? Your starting to remind me of the long-black haired guy with wrist-bands that colours his hair a random shade every other week, wearing platform boots to look like an "individual"

I wait to be beaten into submission of your opinion.


No back to normal service: TITS OR GTFO

[Kreepy Kitteh =^o.O^=]

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^^ it's on! *ding* *ding* :p

[I am RKO]

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We Were Soldiers is just awesome

I have a WWS moment, everytime i'm in the huey on PR.

I like Wahlberg films, so i'll wait till its out on DVD and watch it.

[Mayflower]

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I like Wahlberg films

Heard that The Happening wasn't so great .. but still, Wahlberg's a great sniper :evil:

[Kylee!]

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Heard that The Happening wasn't so great .. but still, Wahlberg's a great sniper :evil:

Thats always true, I love that movie, and I love Wahlberg.

[jake_]

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Heard that The Happening wasn't so great .. but still, Wahlberg's a great sniper :evil:

Hearing something is good or bad means next to nothing.

Critics usually are narrow minded and look for something to fit into a mold. You have to go see a movie yourself to make a call like that.

[imported_Nefarious]

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I'm eventually going to get around to watching The Godfather Part 1 and Capote starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I actually know someone who is the spitting image of Hoffman, its scary.