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Recommend MANY MORE Movies vrs. 3 or something

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Argo is OK but it's a bit "good ol' yankees", which was a disappointment as it started off with the suggestion of moral ambiguity.
 
Just having a small break from Serpico. Saw it listed on Sky the other night but don't subscribe to movies so download it is. I'd forgotten how good it is, back when Al Pacino was still good and doing stuff worthy of his talents. Looks like old film night, The Parallax View and The Manchurian Candidate for afters. Alan J. Pakula or John Frankenheimer? Hmmmmmm.
 
I'm going to watch Schindler's List for the first time soon, just waiting on the post. Can't believe I've never watched it. Is it any good?
 
knockando said:
I'm going to watch Schindler's List for the first time soon, just waiting on the post. Can't believe I've never watched it. Is it any good?
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this is a joke right?
yes its good a classic i would say well acted well thought out and deep story. heavy stuff at times not exactly a feel good film but well worth a watch powerful stuff
 
I've also never watched Schindler's List. Never appealed paticularly. Never liked Spielberg anyway. Does my tits in with his oversentimental shite. Not that I'm saying Schindler's List is necessarily guilty of that but I tend to avoid Spielberg films on principle.
 
anyway film im watching at the moment is gus van sants breakout film

DRUGSTORE COWBOY

starring matt dillon, heather graham, william s burroughs

seen this on tv twenty years ago first liked it then. a must see film for any self respecting bl'er.its a bit over simplistic but still worth a watch.
 
Shambles said:
I've also never watched Schindler's List. Never appealed paticularly. Never liked Spielberg anyway. Does my tits in with his oversentimental shite. Not that I'm saying Schindler's List is necessarily guilty of that but I tend to avoid Spielberg films on principle.
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well you would probably hate it then if oversentimentality gets on yer tits.
it does tend to lean in that direction at times.
 
Schindlers List is well worth watching , maybe not if ur looking for something light or funny but its a wonderful piece of filmmaking..... probably Spielbergs most powerful film
 
acieed_ed said:
well you would probably hate it then if oversentimentality gets on yer tits.
it does tend to lean in that direction at times.
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This was a big concern when it came out and is why I never bothered watching it. It's bad enough having your emotions manipulated to breaking point by a sodding alien with a glowy finger let alone one of the most horrific human tragedies in history. I'll admit that Spielberg is a master manipulator but I really cannot stand his films at all. Wouldn't want the schmaltz insulting such an event. There are plenty other films and docs that portray stories about the subject that do so without making me want to vomit at having sentimentality rammed down me throat.
 
i know shambles its just propaganda eminating from you know who in hollywood.
he really portrays the nazis in an unflattering light which is really unfair and the jews as victims...i ask you. a conspiricy if there ever was one i heard off some educated and smart bl'er that the holocost is exaggerated. anyway make up your own mind.


*some opinions may have been created for irony purposes and dont reflect the views of acieed_ed
 
I didn't even realise it was a Spielberg. Not a massive fan either, I feel I have to give it a try though...

I've been watching some Gus van Sants too, acieed_ed, can't remember if I posted about them... think I did, one about skateboarders and one about a school massacre, both set in Portland, Oregon. Paranoid Park and Elephant respectively. Both pretty good. I'd never heard of the guy before, he did Drugstore Cowboy? And now I'm reading Good Will Hunting and Psycho (the remake). It's always an education in EADD.
 
Ha! I'm not overly concerned about Nazis getting a bad rap or Jews being made out to be all innocent or owt. Can just about accept that that may be broadly speaking historically accurate ;)

But in the hands of someone like Spielberg I suspect my sentimentality bone may be pushed to breaking point somehow. Which is a shame as I'd suspect the story itself is one well worth telling. Might get around to reading the book sometime instead.

EDIT: Gus van Sant I do like. Have had Elephant for years now but never gotten around to watching it. Drugstore Cowboy is a stone cold classic though. And another book I really must get a hold of. Have heard it's an absolute belter. I'm pretty sure Good Will Hunting isn't van Sant though. Not sure about Psycho - didn't even know it'd been remade. He did that one about rentboys I forget the name of too, I think. That was a good 'un. Even if you're not a fan of rentboys.
 
Thoroughly recommend Elephant, Shammy. Nothing much happens (appart from the massacre) but it happens in a very watchable way. No sentimentality. No happy ending, no snap moral judgements.
 
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dont let the spielberg thing put you off it is an emotive subject we are dealing with here in schindlers list its about atrocitys committed against humans, people not only jews, gypseys, the mentally handicapped etc not a sentimental film about an alien with a glowing finger.
this film focuses on the jewish angle but doesnt exagerate or overdramtise things.i have seen all the world at war programs and they show far more disturbing and harrowing stuff its a good film.

RE Gus van Sant

i like all his stuff too. didnt know he was connected with the new psycho film gonna look into it.
liked good will hunting its a good film good story.
gonna look for those other ones you mentioned knock cheers.
 
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Thanks for the reminder, Knock. Dunno why I've never gotten around to watching it before. Got so many fillums there's no doubt loads that'll gather dust for years. Was billed as a barely-fictionalised pseudo-documentary about the Columbine shootings. An event with much oddity surrounding it the more you look into it. Can imagine he'd have an interesting take on it but got a bit slated for being too uncritical - ie he didn't just blame it on Marilyn Manson like the rest of the media at the time.
 
I will take your word for it due to lack of arsedness in looking it up. Always thought the big deal about that was that those two actors wrote and directed it as their first film. I guess not. Not seen that one either. Very varied career Mr van Sant has had. Done all sortsa stuff.
 
Damon and Affleck wrote but did not direct. Post any more fillum-related questions here to save your browsing energy :D I'm all pumped up on the shitalin and raring to go!
 
on the subject of Spielberg, anyone seen Band of brothers? not a film, but its brilliant
 
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