I started this thread for people who want to talk about movies... old, new... whatever.
I don't get creeped out by movies, horror movies have never had that effect on me other than the obvious"guyjumpsoutfrombehindthedoorway" scare that makes anyone jump a little bit. Put the toughest most macho guy in the world into a dark room and have someone grab his arm... he'll react.
Yesterday we went to see The Conjuring. Holy wow. It's scary on a number of levels. First, because it's based on events that really happened. 2nd,... demonic possesion anyone?
But mainly it was because the acting and direction were so well done that the film did not need to depend on cheap "gotchas" or gore. The emotional intensity of the actors and the storyline relentlessy send you into a heightened adrenaline level... to the point of giving you the shakes when you finally crash later. You believed you were in the house with these people, and you were scared for them, not for yourself. Of course, even with that, I couldn't help laughing as I watched my daughter (18 this week!) cowering andcovering her eyes and laughing as she whispered "Why isn't this movie over yet?!"
NOT for the under 17 crowd or the faint of heart, but a very well made horror movie. Prolly the best I've ever seen.
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Any movie that can create a visceral response has done its job.
For me Monsters Ball was awful until I realized that the sense of wanting to die was exactly what the director wanted. (Took a couple years to get there and will never see it again.)
Recently Jack Reacher where the sniper set up in a parking garage. Too easy, too real, way scary.
Saving Private Ryan - Never sat in a theater for a good five minutes after it was over: stunned. As did everyone else.
Bridge on the River Kwai - Chilling how the sanity of both the Commanders is tested and broken.
GATTACA - Think it can't happen?
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Private Ryan got to me too, the first 20 minutes was almost too much. A lot of vets who were there couldn't watch it, they said it was TOO accurate and took them back to memories that they didn't want.
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If you liked Saving Private Ryan you should watch Band of Brothers. (Miniseries, technically, not movie.)
I like good movies regardless of genre. There are too many to list in one go, but here's a starter set:
The Usual Suspects
Three O'Clock High
Roxanne
Breaking Away
Sneakers
The Sting
Highlander
Ronin
Hijacking a bit: Over There from the FX network. Excellent TV but only one Season.
The Pacific as well from Spielberg and Hanks.
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I'm going to hijack as well.
NCIS. I love that show
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LA Confidential - Great subtle plot
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@graemev wrote:If you liked Saving Private Ryan you should watch Band of Brothers. (Miniseries, technically, not movie.)
LOVED that series, that was well made!
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I should add that the horror genre is not my normal type of movie. We love a lot of different things, but sci fi and your basic superhero movies are my favorites. Anything by Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, LOTR... Star Trek, Star Wars... etc. The Avengers.
I saw a few minutes of a cheap SiFi channel version of Thor.... I had to laugh. The Thor character was so pathetic... Chris Hemsworth would have just chuckled at him for a moment... then pounded him into dust with Odin's hammer.
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@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:
Oooh, agreed, I love NCIS. Lots of disturbing stories, but, very moving and great characters and mysteries to solve.
I used to watch that faithfully (starting with S2), but then I missed a few episodes and couldn't catch up, then I missed a whole season, now I'm down to just waiting til it's on Netflix or BluRay and just catching up all at once some day..
The one thing that irks me about it is the fact that their technologies _ALWAYS_ end up working. Every time the team needs access to a secret government network, McGee knows about it and is able to hack in and get just the info they need w/o being detected. 🙂
"McGee knows about it and is able to hack in and get just the info they need w/o being detected."
Kinda like CSI photo enhancement!! They can resolve a housefly in a coal mine from a '50s newsprint halftone!
Kinda like CSI photo enhancement!! They can resolve a housefly in a coal mine from a '50s newsprint halftone!
Yea, NCIS has some magical government digital infinate zoom also.....
One phrase says it all: "NCIS Double hack"
I don't watch much TV, but I like Longmire. Anyone remember Life on Mars? I liked it until the ending. One show I used to like years ago was Nowhere Man -- remember that one?
For movies I like comedy, sci-fi, historic fiction, action adventure, and 3D animated stuff. My favorite has to be Tommy Boy (I laughed, I cried etc etc). I also really liked American Grafitti in it's time. Not to mention The Iron Giant...
That reminded me: American History X
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