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Pan's Labyrinth
The Usual Suspects

All very good. If you watched any tell me plz lol

Also: Favorite directors, anyone?

I've watched those two. I had to watch Pan's Labyrinth for an elective in college a long time ago. Children's Storybook Writing. I'm not kidding XD

And the Usual Suspects is stellar. Observe Kevin Spacey's facial expressions for the whole movie. He's an amazing actor to be able to simulate emotion through the major features of his face. The eyebrows and forehead and in particular.

Favorite Directors: David Cronenberg, Guy Ritchie, and Koji Shiraishi off the top of my head. My Favorite Movie of all time is Cube. Fight Club comes pretty close.

I'm looking for some Noir of any kind. Both classic and post-modern neo-noir is fine. Speaking of which, go watch Assassination of a High School President. It manages to relay the classic noir with modern sensibilities. Plus it makes High School SRS BUSINESS, which if it were a Japanese setting would just feel right and typical. In a Western setting...

yeah i keep hearing that alot. Chinatown seems to be the proto-example of a well-done noir. I'll be getting to that soon.

Anyways, have you ever seen a movie purely for its "just because" merit? Like say, Sharknado. Oh god, that movie was terrible and not even bad good. I think I already ranted about it before but basically you don't see the sharks OR the tornado until the very end (which is what the trailer reveals and teases to be the whole movie). Bad science abound for sure such as a swimming pool exploding by tossing a flaming gas can into it, and tossing glorified molotovs into tornadoes to completely disable them.

I'm watching Ghost Shark next, which I know will instantly be way more enjoyable. I just saw the retarded opening: After ruining a stereotypical redneck's prized catch, a shark is shot, detonated, and desacrated by guns and grenades. Dying, it makes its way to a conviniently placed mystic cave where it dies and turns into a ghost. It is now capable of appearing wherever there is water. Even a bucket of water.

By the by would love to hear your opinions on this trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiF3BRRiZgg‎



I'm also into sci-fi stuffs. 12 Monkeys, Total Recall (the old one--it's just better), aformentioned Cube, Real Steel, Minority Report, and I don't know why but I loved AI despite its detractors.

Not sure if noire, but I just recently finished The Godfather and I can confidently say that I didn't even feel the long run-time. I'll watch part 2 next week, possibly the week after that, but honestly if I wasn't as busy I would have gone and watched it immediately after the first.

Also 2001: A Space Odyssey for sci-fi. Didn't like it, but if you're into symbolism or whatever then maybe you will.

I did the latter too, but it was pretty hard to do the minute the first weird thing happened.

And the first weird thing was the black screen for about 2 goddamn minutes at the beginning.

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My friend and I watched Birdemic together for laughs, but eventually it stopped being funny bad and just became boring bad. A truly shitty movie. I've never seen Sharknado, I've just watched clips of it on Youtube and the Nostalgia Critic episode. The corny B-movie action looks fun but everything else seems like a pain to sit through.

If you want a good list of shitty shark movies the AVGN guy has a video of it.
http://cinemassacre.com/2013/08/06/top-40-shitty-shark-movies/

The only thing I like about Sharknado is its curious case. More of a meta: that its popularity was only boosted by the fact that it was promoted through social media. No other major movie had been promoted that way before and it was such a success that people around the world were suckered into to think that it was pure awesome when it was in fact a shitty B-Movie.

Have you ever watched something that had your expectations but felt utterly disappointed about when you finally saw it? Also, have you seen Donnie Darko? I thought that cult classic was a tad overhyped. I can see why it's darkly popular though and its one of those movies that require constant rewatching to understand the wtf ending.

2001: A Space Odyssey for sure.

It wasn't bad, but it was just something that really wasn't for me.

Just finished watching The Artist (a 2011 silent film) on YouTube. Even though it was almost fully silent and the subtitle was in French for their dialogues (while the scene objects like newspaper titles, and even the twist were in English), I still understand the most of the plot and the whole story. Recommended for those who missed kind of these silent films. 8.5/10

A French silent film made in 2011 sounds like something pretentious hipsters would rave about.

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A French silent film made in 2011 sounds like something pretentious hipsters would rave about.

That's what it was, but loads of people actually really liked it, I never saw it though. :P

Has anyone here seen Predators? I just watched it now, and wow, it sucked. :P

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Just finished watching The Artist (a 2011 silent film) on YouTube. Even though it was almost fully silent and the subtitle was in French for their dialogues (while the scene objects like newspaper titles, and even the twist were in English), I still understand the most of the plot and the whole story. Recommended for those who missed kind of these silent films. 8.5/10

I really, really liked this movie. I saw it in my Anthropology elective, had to write an essay based on the movie, and enjoyed it the whole way through. Some of my classmates didn't enjoy it at all and just complained about how boring it was because it was something they weren't used to.

Hmph. Their loss.

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Except it's actually really well received by common audiences and the story is very easy to follow.

Speaking of which, Mustika have you watched any other silent films?

'The Artist' was the first long-lengthy silent film I watched. I did notice if the silent films were used to be popular in around 1920-1930 when there used to be Chaplin and Lloyd (honestly I don't really know him). Sadly, it's getting rarer due to all these talkies movies.
I'll try to find some on YouTube. They got plenty silent shorts around here.

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I really, really liked this movie. I saw it in my Anthropology elective, had to write an essay based on the movie, and enjoyed it the whole way through. Some of my classmates didn't enjoy it at all and just complained about how boring it was because it was something they weren't used to.

Hmph. Their loss.

Wow, an essay from a film? That should be easy as you enjoyed it as well. Well, they might realize the film goodness sooner or later, personally think it's too good to be missed.

Also, for those who live near Leavitt Theater, seems you guys are lucky: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20140509-NEWS-140509692

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Except it's actually really well received by common audiences and the story is very easy to follow.

It's very hard to not read the number of awards it garnered on the wiki page Mustika linked. I wasn't referring to the movie itself, but why people would make that kind of movie in this day and age. It's not really some sort of a different genre of film, it's just a more outdated version of film. It would be like a piano with 18 keys. Sure you can still make good music, but why limit yourself when you can just as easily use a piano with 88 keys and make even better music? Listening to the actual delivery of the lines would make you feel more immersed than when you have to imagine how they said the line you just read. The actual, realistic sound of the environment would make you feel more immersed than when there's always a constant stream of classical music to set the atmosphere.


What I can imagine silent films have that films with voices don't is the old-school feel. Which made me say a modern silent film sounds hipster.

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It was made to be a homage to silent films

I... didn't know that. I thought they just made a silent film just for the sake of making a silent film. I retract my hipster statement lmao. But I still think silent films are less superior.

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I also really disagree with your point that silent films are less immersive, and are limiting in that way. I'm assuming you've never seen a silent film. The music often plays to fit the mood of the scene, and without sound actors have to rely on facial expressions and body language. Also, you can read intertitles in whatever voice you want.

A music that fits the mood of the scene instead of just hearing what the character would actually hear would feel less natural, and to be honest I think that would be less immersive. Sure, film scores would add to the experience, but I imagine I wouldn't like having to completely rely on them to set the tone. Also the fact that I read the intertitles in whatever voice I wanted instead of actually hearing how they were said feels even less natural. No amount of facial expression or body language can really give an equal impact than the actual delivery of the line.

I know sound really isn't needed for a good story, but I think it adds immensely to the entertainment value of a good story, and makes the good story an even better one.


But you're right, I have never watched a silent film ever. The things I said were what was stopping me from watching them. I'll try to find time to actually watch The Artist instead of talking shit about it without even seeing it.

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I haven't seen much by Lloyd actually. Chaplin is pretty good. My favorite is Buster Keaton. I laughed like a dumbass at The General which surprised me because I didn't think I'd react that way to a silent film. He does stunt comedy (I think it's called) and some of the things he does are insane. I don't think any insurance company will allow actors today to do the stuff he did lol. Not like it matters because you can just create CG danger :P. Anyway maybe you should give that a watch if you're interested in more. It's on Youtube, yay public domain.

Stunt comedy? Think I know what you mean, perhaps we thought the scene funny when there were two people hitting each other with objects around with their straight face, or someone got fallen into something like the trash dump from 2nd floor due to his own stupidity XD

I found a short silent film here:

To be honest, I laughed in almost the whole minutes of it. Maybe because I really praise this type of film much. It's like, "Old, but still Gold" saying.
Notice the climax of stunt comedy appears after halfway of the video X9