Good Movies recently?

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The other day I saw Children of Men, I was amazed of the camera angles, saturation, and creativity. Really an outstanding movie.

[Fergie]

I saw that movei a loong time ago, I want to see the Town, I heard it was good.

[Jazzhands]

The other day I saw Children of Men, I was amazed of the camera angles, saturation, and creativity. Really an outstanding movie.

It was better artistically than I thought it would be when I first saw it. It was also rather kick-ass.

WSWS gave a good review of Get Low, which may be the only good review they've ever given of anything ever. Can anyone vouch for that movie?

[Kuppo Shakur]

Good Movies recently?

LOL.

[praxis1966]

My favorite movie so far this year has been Brooklyn's Finest, for reasons I described in this post (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1870231&postcount=20). Although, I've yet to see The Town, which I hear is pretty phenomenal, and I'm seeing Howl this weekend (separate discussion on that film in particular here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/howl-t142153/index.html)) so that could very conceivably change in the immediate future.

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Did you guys see the documentary with it? It featured Naomi Klein Slavoj Zizek to name a few...

[Os Cangaceiros]

Dogtooth (Greece, 2009)
Ex Drummer (Belgium, 2007)
Svidd Neger (Norway, 2003)

[Marxach-Léinínach]

Come and See

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Children of men is probably one of the most underestimated films ever.

[IllicitPopsicle]

Children of Men kicked my ass. I saw it once a couple of years ago and haven't seen it since. I just can't find it (edit: on cable), and I really want to watch it over again.

[Invader Zim]

Good Movies recently?

LOL.

Actually, 2009/10 has had some really good for films. Scott Pilgrim, Four Lions, Kickass, Skeletons, Toy Story 3, Inception, anybody? That is just off the top of my head this year.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Actually, 2009/10 has had some really good for films. Scott Pilgrim, Four Lions, Kickass, Skeletons, Toy Story 3, Inception, anybody? That is just off the top of my head this year.

Agree.

[Pirate Utopian]

Black Dynamite!
2PSueHOY-Jk

[Magón]

Inception was a good movie, and so was Shutter Island. (Yeah, DiCaprio's been in some good movies lately that deal with fucking your mind up.)

A Prophet, which is a French Crime Drama/Thriller is pretty good. When they say it's like the Godfather, they're not lying, but I say it's a better film then the Godfather in many ways.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Inception was a good movie, and so was Shutter Island. (Yeah, DiCaprio's been in some good movies lately that deal with fucking your mind up.)

A Prophet, which is a French Crime Drama/Thriller is pretty good. When they say it's like the Godfather, they're not lying, but I say it's a better film then the Godfather in many ways.

I agree 100% with Un Prophete. That was a great movie, although I wonder if that's really what French prison is like...I've heard and read that France has some of the worst prisons in Western Europe, La Sante prison being especially infamous.

[Magón]

I agree 100% with Un Prophete. That was a great movie, although I wonder if that's really what French prison is like...I've heard and read that France has some of the worst prisons in Western Europe, La Sante prison being especially infamous.

Yeah, it really is a great movie. I wish more movies that try to achieve a 'Godfather'-esque feel, could achieve what A Prophet has.

As for French Prisons, I haven't really looked into it, but I have heard of La Sante and it's infamy.

[Invincible Summer]

Actually, 2009/10 has had some really good for films. Scott Pilgrim, Four Lions, Kickass, Skeletons, Toy Story 3, Inception, anybody? That is just off the top of my head this year.


Inception was a good movie, and so was Shutter Island. (Yeah, DiCaprio's been in some good movies lately that deal with fucking your mind up.)

A Prophet, which is a French Crime Drama/Thriller is pretty good. When they say it's like the Godfather, they're not lying, but I say it's a better film then the Godfather in many ways.

I hate to be "That Guy That's Too cool for Inception," but it really wasn't that impressive. Visually it was pretty cool i guess, but the philosophical themes were pretty weak and superficial once you get past the "FUCK! A dream within a dream... within a dream!?!"




Children of Men was definitely good. (500) Days of Summer was excellent, and I really liked Atonement too.

[AK]

A Serbian Film/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)Srpski film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)

lol.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Some of the best recent movies, in my opinion, are the new animated ones like Up, Coraline, Mary & Max, Wall-E.

And then we have goodies such as The Hangover, Law Abiding Citizen, Inglorious Bastards, District 9, Year One, Watchmen, Rec2, The dark Knight.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Children of Men was awesome, quite an accurate portrayal of if the BNP ever got into power :lol: The conflict scene at the end is one of the best i've seen, the entire movie is quite underrated.

[Os Cangaceiros]

A Serbian Film/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)Srpski film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film)

lol.

LOL I've actually seen that film.

One scene in it actually made me a little physically ill, albeit only a tiny bit. I really liked the EBM, Infected Mushroom-esque soundtrack that it had...it really fit the movie perfectly. It was also suprisingly crisp and well-produced and well-acted, for a movie of it's kind.

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The Town was coolio

[Invader Zim]

I hate to be "That Guy That's Too cool for Inception," but it really wasn't that impressive. Visually it was pretty cool i guess, but the philosophical themes were pretty weak and superficial once you get past the "FUCK! A dream within a dream... within a dream!?!"




Children of Men was definitely good. (500) Days of Summer was excellent, and I really liked Atonement too.

Silence, you! You are now barred from holding an opinion for the next 10 hours.

But seriously, I enjoyed the film; and while I agree that the philosophical themes weren't as deep as has been popularly, and critically, suggested I still think they were as interesting as you are likely to get from a big blockbuster Hollywood film. Indeed I am amazed that a Hollywood studio would invest that kind of money into what, thematically at least, is Art House material. I think, in that respect it was also very good and also important. It proved that the modern blockbuster can be about ideas as opposed to re-shooting the same movie we have all seen; but making it smurfs in space. That said, I don't think it is the fourth best film ever shot, as the IMDb listings currently suggest; but it was very good.

Incidentally, I entirely agree regarding both Children of Men and (500) Days of Summer.

[Invincible Summer]

Don't get me wrong - I liked Inception as a sci-fi summer blockbuster type of film... but definitely was not good as a sci-fi thriller/psychological thriller as it was marketed.

[RED DAVE]

My wife and I, as a married couple, enjoyed "Up."

RED DAVE

[brigadista]

my favorite version of Adulthood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaYZHXnALY&feature=player_embedded

[praxis1966]

I don't know what all the fuss is over (500) Days of Summer. I mean, I suppose if it were the first indie film I'd ever seen I'd probably like it a lot more, but it wasn't so I don't. It has the same driving pathos of damned near every other American indie I've ever seen: Life is miserable, but occasionally hilarious. That would've been fine, except it fell short in the hilarious department. I wouldn't say I hated it, but I didn't love it either. It just left me, well, flat is all. If you wanna know what American indie of recent memory within that same milieu that I did find interesting, I'd direct anyone reading this to Noah Baumbach's 2005 film The Squid and the Whale.

In re my first post, I saw Howl last weekend. Absolutely brilliant in my estimation. I don't know that it would top Brooklyn's Finest at this point, but as I type this I'm intellectually having a hard time deciding which I liked better. I definitely think it helped to have the directors on hand immediately afterward for a Q&A as well. I'm not familiar with their other work (or maybe I am and just wasn't paying attention during the credits; I see so many films it's anybody's guess), so it was helpful to know that these guys (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) were primarily documentarians. Its abstract, non-sequential time line, medium shifts between color film stock to black and white to animated sequences, and multi-threaded narrative structure seemed obvious rather than convoluted once I was made aware of that info. As our film and lit mod more or less said of it in the thread dedicated to Howl, it was less a biopic or courtroom drama (though it was certainly both those as well) than it was Allen Ginsberg's poetry breathed onto film. A.O. Scott of the NY Times wrote a pretty decent review of it here (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/movies/24howl.html?_r=1).

[Magón]

I recently just saw two foreign films: Harry Brown w/Michael Caine staring in it. Awesome show. And the other's Terribly Happy, from Denmark. Pretty cool shows all around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsslA308XV8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVOSfHFNlcI

[Niccolò Rossi]

I watched A Serious Man yesterday. Hilarious. Probably the funniest movie I've seen this year (or the last!). If you like the Coen brothers you're bound to enjoy it.

Nic.

[The Vegan Marxist]

Harry Brown was astonishingly a really good movie. I quite enjoyed it!

[Invincible Summer]

I don't know what all the fuss is over (500) Days of Summer. I mean, I suppose if it were the first indie film I'd ever seen I'd probably like it a lot more, but it wasn't so I don't. It has the same driving pathos of damned near every other American indie I've ever seen: Life is miserable, but occasionally hilarious. That would've been fine, except it fell short in the hilarious department. I wouldn't say I hated it, but I didn't love it either. It just left me, well, flat is all. If you wanna know what American indie of recent memory within that same milieu that I did find interesting, I'd direct anyone reading this to Noah Baumbach's 2005 film The Squid and the Whale.



It wasn't my first "indie film." I liked it... it just had this melancholic charm about it. Whatever.

Brick (another movie with JGL) was a lot better but it's a different genre altogether.

[praxis1966]

It wasn't my first "indie film." I liked it... it just had this melancholic charm about it. Whatever.

I dunno, I'm not going to argue something as subjective as taste. I personally just think that there have been plenty of stylistically similar indies that were far better. Sorry if the "first indie film" bit sounded like an accusation, lulz... It was intended to be more of a commentary on the fact that maybe I'm a little biased because I've seen so many damned similar movies that it could just be that I'm a little jaded. Incidentally, if you want something poignant and hilarious at the same time from the same year (2009) that was also an indie, I'd suggest Away We Go.


Brick (another movie with JGL) was a lot better but it's a different genre altogether.

Oh, yeah, I completely agree about Brick. When I first read about it, I didn't think there was any way in hell that the film noir genre superimposed over the top of a teen drama would actually work, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Nora Zehetner was great, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was even better. It was great seeing him come of age as an actor in the space of two hours...

[x359594]

...I saw Howl last weekend. Absolutely brilliant in my estimation...Its abstract, non-sequential time line, medium shifts between color film stock to black and white to animated sequences, and multi-threaded narrative structure seemed obvious rather than convoluted once I was made aware of that info. As our film and lit mod more or less said of it in the thread dedicated to Howl, it was less a biopic or courtroom drama (though it was certainly both those as well) than it was Allen Ginsberg's poetry breathed onto film...

A succinct and apt summary. Howl does indeed qualify as a recent good film. Another that I saw recently is Godard's latest Film Socialisme, a brilliant piece of work. At 80 Godard is still going strong.