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My Favorite Year - great comedy, Oscar nominated performance by the incredible Peter O'Toole.
Witness - Harrison Ford in my favorite non Star Wars non Indy role. Really well paced and good story, etc.
Oh how I think this should be on another thread, but I just can't help going on and on. I love so many older films and am happy to recommend them.
Ah it is worth it. The young William Peterson is so cool. And a menacing villain/monster. This is the one before Silence of the Lambs, but same author. I know Peterson went on to big fame in CSI, but I do like his earlier work, too.
hmmmm.... I watched Tarkovsky's 'Offret' a few weeks ago, and I didn't like the film. actually I turned it off after 90 minutes. I just didn't connect to the characters, the story and the atmosphere.
I've never seen that one, but strongly recommend Stalker. You need to be in the right frame of mind but it is one of the visually most stunning films I've ever watched.
Not old as in fossilized and ancient, just older than the movies today, because they are. Perhaps I chose the wrong word, sorry about any confusion!
Let me join you on this quest. Tons of great films listed here.
If that was my list, I would be completely overwhelmed on where to start. So many excellent choices. I want to sit down and watch a great film that I haven't seen in a while, but I'm not sure what. So many choices here, too.
What are your choices? How long has it been since you put in Munich? That's has to be a guaranteed good time for you.
But first I have to finally discover the original Star Wars trilogy !!!
Well I am speechless. You truly haven't ever seen the first 3, not even the very first original and amazing for its time Star Wars? I don't know where you live, but get yourself to a rental place now or get it online! The first is brilliant and the first 3 did so much to influence other movies, it is hard to underestimate their impact in our culture.
Like MR? Ha, I tease. I need to see the original trilogy all the way through, instead of all in bits and pieces. I am not a Star Wars fan, mind you, but as long as Yoda is there I'll watch. I love that little green bugger.
It is weird when you love a film, yet it brings out strong emotions in you that are uncomfortable to express. This is like me and Toy Story 3, a film where as the credits roll I don't feel like a man. But I am fine with showing emotion when it comes to films, but like it best when I am alone with it and get a solo reaction without anyone surrounding me. I am eager to watch Munich, but I have to be in the right frame of mind, and want to feel ready for it.
That's why movies are so dear to my heart. I read a book, something sad happens, and though I may feel a tear or two, I move on. I look at a painting evoking suffering, I say "wow", and move on. But when I see a film, and I am there with the characters, hoping for them, and watching them give it everything they have, and I get emotional. Just watching a musical montage of AFI's quotes gets me tearing up, and only films can make me react so palpably. I owe so much to films, and I wouldn't be the man I am today without them. They truly are capsules to other times, things we can always go to when we just want to see the faces of actors and actresses we love that have now passed on.
It's why the 30's and 40's gave us such classic drama and romantic films, because they had to work upon an excellent story, instead of action, CGI, the like.
Then throughout the 50's, 60's, and 70's, when action and horror movies started to appear more fluidly, we had great films such as 'Deliverance' that relied on a really creepy atmosphere and believability to scare the audience: yet again, no CGI, no jump scares every six seconds, and a time where horror films could still compete with the best of the best and take home Oscars.
And when the 80's arrived, followed by the 90's, we had some of the action greats starting up and continuing on: Steven Seagal's early films, the Die Hard series, The Terminator series, the Lethal Weapon series, etc., that are only seen by film connoisseurs, and thus, sadly, those who don't appreciate art, will never appreciate such great films that mean a lot to so many others.
Thanks for the motivation, I'll make sure to watch them very soon :)
What??
Are you ... trying to mention a scene from a movie?? ... I am only guessing ... it would be kinda nice to hear what you are trying to say.
I'm actually into amateur film making myself, being a film director at Ultimate Projects Productions, a small, amateur film production team that I founded about a year ago, and has since grown in size to YouTube and such.
I wouldn't say that my generation is 'messed up' or anything; sure we may not be a 'perfect' generation, and there are problems with some of us, but the majority of youth i know are a great and interesting bunch of young, individual, and talented people.
Yes, we use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Mobile phones (Cellphones) etc. on a regular basis, but that's just because of how our surrounding is throughout our bringing-up, and more modern ways of communicating etc. (and, yes, we do meet up to communicate aswell)
Sorry if I sound like a typical teenager of our times, but I just don't like how our generation seems to be stuck on this 'stereotypical' view of a bad example. There are many great, and insipring, youngsters my age around. You just have to see past the groups of idiots, known as 'chavs' / gangs in most areas of my age that appear every so often, and manage to fill the complete view on what our generation is.
Again, sorry for the row.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/rodney-king-dick-clark-titanic-real-death-major-110858944.html
Scroll down to the bit about Paul McCartney. IF YOU'RE BRAVE. :|
Usually "what's wrong with young people today"-remarks come from very old people.
Ignorance and stupidity is not solely owned by the youth. All generations have their rather large slice of afore mentioned character traits.
Ask me about teenage idols in movie, tv and music and you'll find my knowledge lacking. And while I enjoy history books there is a lot of it and I find that my knowledge on more than one occassion is lacking or limited.
On behaviour I can honestly not blame one particular generation. Having a shoppingtrolly smashed into my legs this weekend by a pensioner and being told rudely to get out of her way ensured my that bad behaviour comes in all ages.