lightofdamon

looks like a cool informative movie

thanks

scariest

captain Vidal from Pan's Labrynth
Eye of Sauron


coolest

Mister Glass - Unbreakable
Zod, Ursa and Non - Superman II
Jaws - from MOONRAKER

as a child and teen

ET
16 candles
Breakfast Club
Cloak and Dagger
Star Wars Trilogy
Gremlins
Back to the Future Trilogy
Fletch, Fletch Lives
Indian Jones movies
Wierd Science
Friday


as 38 year old semi movie snob (I adore cool love stories, fantasy, sci fi, doc*mentaries, indie and foreign films)


NOW my faves are - no particular order

KPAX
Harold & Maude
Deadman
Waking Life
Donnie Darko
The Warriors
Amelie
Leaving Las Vegas
Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind
True Romance
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Ghostdog
The YESMEN (not "yes man")
LOTR trilogy
Star Wars
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
American Movie
Serenity
I Like Killing Flies
Rivers and Tides
Touching the Sound
Touch the Void
Baraka
The Wrestler
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Watchmen
The Avengers 2011
Justice League Mortal 2011 ?

thank you

elrocho
and
adethestokie

for the kind words and the knowledge

"In Bruges" looks cool

two movies I saw this week

El Torino - 8.8/10
Pineapple Express - 7/10 (sorry I have not liked comedies lately)


three movies I saw last week

The Wrestler 9.5/10
Let the Right One In 9.2/10
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8.8/10

I wouldn't watch the Marley and me movie or see this movie, even with a gun to my head

El Rocho

not sure how a statement like "better" is provable or makes sense since everyone sees a different film from the person sitting next to them

I think Both of these movies wake up Tons of activity with usually dorment emotions

I liked Magnolia much more than Requiem for a Dream, and I will probably get hammered for attempting to get critics on my side which is normally not necessary or actually relevant in my eyes

but rottentomatoes.com's critics say

these ratings are based on 100's of people's views, not just yours and mines

Requiem for a Dream Magnolia

regular critics 78% 84%
top critics 73% 78%
masses 93% 89%


I will say I unfairly have seen Requiem for a Dream once and Magnolia about 5 times, have you seen them both the same amount of times (wow I forget Magnolia is 3 hours and 5 minutes long)

In this case I seem to agree with the critics and the top critics, and it seems that you agree with the masses who took the time to log in their enthusiasm or dissaproval for this movie. I would say Requiem for a dream has a WAY HUGER cult following and I usually lean heavily towards these types of films and these cult fans, except for this time, so maybe I should watch Requiem again

Also these two movies are almost a given predicting greater critic approval

I imagine the critics would like Magnolia more for many reasons and it might not be entirely because of the films superiority but because it might just be more palatable

I usually don't see eye to eye with the masses or critics, but usually never the masses, so I am thrilled that this lil display kind of fits into my thought process with the higher numbers from the Magnolia matching my interests and me being against the mainstream masses likings

Not calling you mainstream ElRocho, far from it, and have loved reading your words here and on everything I have seen you post and I bet I even love herbal mood levelers as much as you

see you at the movies

Cheers

thanks for the heads up on revolutionary road

cheers

this movie is almost 3 hours long and is worth it
cool story, great cast, and very well acted
check it out if you can (9/10)

Requim for a Dream made me feel the same way!!!!!!!! (8/10)

a bunch of years back I was shopping at a mall with my best friend, and he put two movies in my hand, Magnolia and Requim for a Dream, and said, "Buy these"
I bought them both and had trouble watching both of them.

Magnolia (9.5/10) has since blossomed into one of my favorites, but Reqium for a Dream was like getting kicked in the face the entire movie.
It's the most difficult movie I've ever watched, and I have seen "Let Them Die Slowly" banned in most countries, no comparision, Requim slays them all

I just saw "The Wrestler" (9.5/10) another Aronofsky film, and I loved it, but I have to say it had a similar difficult feelings attached to it where it just left me feeling queezy, I would watch The Wrestler 10 times in 10 days because I could relate with it much more, Requim, not likely more than once a year

Leaving Las Vegas is also one of my favorite love stories of all time
Amazing film (9.5/10)

First time I have heard of a Lost fan disliking Cloverfield. I'm a complete Lost freak, and I loved this movie.

Sure, the thing about Hud holding onto the camera the entire time was a bit of a stretch, but haven't you ever heard of "suspension of disbelief"? It's a movie after all, and a monster movie at that - it doesn't need to be totally realistic in every aspect.

hey supersyd

nice hearing from ya

I have heard of suspension of disbelief, I listen to paranormal talk radio and anti government (pirate) radio all day long ........ and I love LOST and Blairwitch

I find it impossible to compare Lost and Cloverfield

LOST is like a 100 hour long movie, soon to be like a 130 hour movie
I love the characters, the twists, the mental worout it puts you through, the highs and lows of emotions, the writers, and the dialogue and I didn't see any of this in Cloverfield, even George Lucas and Peter Jackon have done some admitedly unwatchable stuff in their careers

thanks for your words and thoughts (VERY COOL)

gratefully,

Damon

I am very surprised to see positive feed back on this film

The critics seem to be lumping it into the cinematic abomination category

Plus I have heard from a few different people that were dieing to see this.

They said it was damn near impossible not to walk out of it and was so insulting and painful to spend time with

They loved Sin City, but they said this was a triumphant disaster in every category thinkable

I asked them if they even liked the usual stellar Samuel Jackson

and they both said, only if you don't mind awkwardly forcing yourself to laugh at unwatchable crap

They said, themselves, their friends that went with them and the entire crowd left VERY DEJECTED at life and time wasted

and I thought the secdon trailer looked monumental

any other people see this yet?????????????

not sure how young the youth base is these days

my niece and her man saw it, they are both in the 17/18 yr old range

they said amazing
important
10 out of 10

that "Cellar Door" and "Noemie"
the second two seem real interesting to me
thanks for sharing

For me this movie fell short of my expectations, but they were pretty low even being a huge LOST fan.

In my eyes it just didn't make sense for the camera man NOT to put the camera down and do more significant, logical, life saving an life preserving ativities while this all went down. I understand they made him seem very stupid so that is an excuse, and I suppose someone could argue that he wanted footage of this, but that is just so uncharacteristic to psychological studies of fight or flight, the camera doesn't belong in either human instinct of such a catastrophie therefore making the whole thing fall to pieces for me

I foolishly compare this movie to Blairwitch where I think Blairwitch beats it in three categories

Never see the monster = more suspense and intrigue = Blair witch WINS

cared about the characters way more, I can envision all three characters and their moods from BLAIRWITCH, and I saw this at least 10 or so earlier, and I can't recall anything important about the characters from Cloverfield including their appearance

Plus the whole why we are filming and why we are not putting the camera down thing = goes to Blar Witch as well BW made snse, Cloverfield needed unfeasable actions to hold the story together

For me at least

The Soloist

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIJbwo0-f0

Saw this trailer at The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night (01/06/09)

WOWWY!
Yes Please
looks like a triumph

Robert Downey Jr
Jamie Foxx

I am really looking forward to this movie.

A few movie fans buddies of mine saw this and said they had to go out to a diner afterwards and sit down and talk about how much they loved it

Thats enough for me

Yes it is dieing

...........

and being reborn

we are going through the bumps currently

this is a human evolution thing, not a business thing

as far as money and the boxoffices go, many people are getting lazier, and unimaginative so in turn people will keep flooding the theatres

Judging films successfulness based on dollars made from movies comparing the past and present is tough for me to gage, since the opportunity to see films has become limitless compared to sparce showings of films in the past and the prices keep going up so I guess there are multiple factors to consider