Queue on 18/2/2008 at 18:30
Best movies:
- Sweeney Todd
- Across the Universe
(so I like musicals!)
- 3:10 to Yuma
- No Country for Old Men
- Rescue Dawn
The absolute worst movie:
- Transformers
(without a doubt, one of the worst ever made...wasn't this the same movie we've seen over and over with the same old patriotic swelling music accenting certain scenes so we know when to "feel something"?)
Scots Taffer on 18/2/2008 at 23:37
Quote Posted by Stitch
Is it? The book was absolutely
terrible.
I might have to rent it.
It's utter whimsy and verging on entirely too cute, but any movie that opens with a guy randomly getting some from a princess captured by a witch only five seconds he ventures into a magical kingdom is getting my vote. Also Michelle Pfeiffer still has her catwoman miaow, woof woof *sliderule*.
Plus I read that Gaiman acknowledged that his hodgepodge novel (cobbled together from a miniseries or something) was about 10 hours of material, good or bad, so it's been adapted pretty heavily.
henke on 19/2/2008 at 07:43
Watched Rescue Dawn yesterday. It's a good, solid war-movie, and really beautifully shot in places.
Can anyone reccomend some other good Herzog movies? I've only seen RD and Woyzeck so far.
Angel Dust on 19/2/2008 at 10:31
Definitely check out the other stuff he did with Klaus Kinski. "Aguirre: The Wrath of God" is regarded as his best film and Kinski is amazing but "Nosferatu", "Fitzcarraldo" (which is my personal favourite) are also excellent. "Cobra Vedre" is an uneven film but still filled with magnificent scenes in particular the closing one.
All his films are beautifully shot and usually have fantastic music also. He has also made many documentaries the most well known being the absolutely brilliant "The Grizzly Man". He also did a documentary on the person that "Rescue Dawn" is based on called "Little Dieter Needs To Fly". Once you've watched a few of these films I highly recommend "Burden Of Dreams" and "My Best Fiend". Both are documentaries with the former, not actually by Herzog, being about the making of "Fitzcarraldo" and is a fascinating insight into the man. "My Best Fiend" is a documentary Herzog made about his tumultuous relationship with Klaus Kinski.
And finally if you watch all of those then you'll probably have alot of fun, as I did, with "Incident At Loch Ness" were Herzog slyly sends up himself in a sort Christopher Guest like mockumentary.
LesserFollies on 19/2/2008 at 18:03
Aguirre is my favorite movie EVAR :cool:
Also check out "Heart of Glass," if only because all the actors were hypnotized.
<3 Herzog
Morte on 21/2/2008 at 17:17
Finally watched No Country For Old Men yesterday, and it slides pretty neatly into my number one spot. Only thing that could threaten it is There Will Be Blood, which I'll probably get around to seeing next week. Just masterful all the way through.
Jason Moyer on 21/2/2008 at 17:34
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Well, wow, I don't know what kind of shape my 2007 list is in after The Mist but fuck me, that was a whole lot of movie.
Holy hell. I didn't even realize they made a movie of this. Need to track this down when the DVD is out. Actually, I need to track down a copy of the game that was based on the story again.
The_Raven on 21/2/2008 at 21:49
You mean Half-Life?
heretic on 21/2/2008 at 22:03
Or Silent Hill for that matter.
He's probably talking about the more directly based text adventure that came out back in '85 or so. I found it a while back, but couldn't get it to run in any of the emulators I'd tried.
Edit: It's (
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1065) abandonware now for those interested. Works fine after extraction too.
