Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

theevilgirl · Post by **theevilgirl** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:26 am

Bully.

true story.

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:12 am

eLBe wrote:I would recomend Black Cat White Cat,

can't remember much cept that it cracked me up....good film will definatly being watching it again soon and will let you know more details after this weekend.

watched on Sat, heres a quick overview

set on the bank of the danube. Kid falls in love but is married off to the daughter of a gangster by his father to pay off his debts which the gangster had conned him into.

great score.
director is Emir Kusturica, 1998

definatly recomend it to anyone, as long as your the type of prat that dosn't like subtitles.

triky · Post by **triky** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:02 am

bright maroon wrote:I like asian psychological horror/crime films..but they have been failing me lately..When done well they are great, but alot of misses...

Have you seen Shiri? It's a korean film. I only saw it once but it was wicked. I would defo recommend that if you're into asian crime films.

if you like french films, 99F is a good one which just came out on dvd. It's from a book by frederic beigbeder. he wrote a previous book called Nouvelles sous Ecstasy which he wrote while on X. anyway this other book is about the corporate marketing and publicity world and it was made into a film. i highly recommend it if you can get an english or at least a subtitled version.

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:56 pm

pk- wrote:
Dubloke wrote:****DONT READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO WATCH MEMENTO****

Diss04 wrote:if thats the one about the guy wiv amnaesia then thats a sick film. if not then i have no frame of reference i'm afraid lol
Yeah it is

Parson wrote:thats one of the most perfect scripts ever. nothin random about it.
I'm not saying it's not a good script, just I didnt quite understand it
Did his wife have diabetes, did she die? did he kill the right guy?
he's been killing the wrong guys over and over for ages, and (i think, it's been a while since i watched it) they were all people that the geezer from the matrix wanted dead

Watched this last night (nice one for the heads up), yeh his wifes alive and has diabetes, well she might have died but after the incident. He's now stuck with the last memory, and the only way to deal with it is to keep searching and destroying the memory of anything which he cant cope with.

People will use him, but he doesnt mind because it might help him change. Well thats what i think i got from it.

Interesting film, im not sure if id get it if i watched it 5 times more.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:51 pm

A Man Called Dave wrote:The most depressing film is Happiness hold tight anyone who finishes watching that without a couple of scars on the arms.

It is blackly funny - think the bit where the phone harrassment guy finally meets up with the author with the rape fantasy is downright hilarious. As is the emo guitar chick and her affair with the russian cabbie. And the end scene is one of the funniest yet wrongest scenes I've ever seen in a film.

jazzamataz · Post by **jazzamataz** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:13 pm

Clerks - for the first time in a long time.
I've actually found the dialogue to be wittier now i'm older. I remember seeing it once as a kid and thinking it was a really, really boring film - but i've grown to like the nuances of Kevin Smith, and his "alternative," view on things. Others may disgaree and call it the inane ramblings and ideas of stoners put to paper/film - but if you're missing the point of - that's all it's meant to be - and nothing more, then there's not really much i can say to sway you... Plus i think the idea of a girl suffering a nervous breakdown after unknowingly having sex with a guy suffering "rigor mortis," is hillarious.

Brick - I really really liked this film.
It felt a bit strange watching it at first, but that's because it took me 20 or so minutes to work out it was a "film noir," as it were. It's a detective story based around high school and when a girl ends up being murdered.

It seems to be a straight translation from a previous story though - the concept of setting the story in a high school doesn't translate so well, but i applauded the idea. (basically, the execution wasn't so great).

you have a rogue detective played by an outcast, the school dean is the "head of department," a drug dealer with obvious flaws, and so on...

Again, it was the dialogue that swayed it for me - it's not a fast paced movie and this allows for some great dialogue and internal monos. (Big fan of the soliloquy.)

and Megan Goode makes an appearance (she always holds my attention) - which is hillarious, and stylised in it's sexuality because she has some "first year," skivvy eating her out at every oppertunity as far as i can gather - he seems to pop out from between her legs on command, so i can only guess that's what he's doing down there...

I'm going to watch "Jules et Jim" tonight...

Some french film, based on two guys loving the same woman and being best friends at the same time during WW1...

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:14 pm

I loved Dolce Vita the other night.

triky · Post by **triky** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:17 pm

jazz... jules et jim is a wicked film, i hope you enjoy it...

jazzamataz · Post by **jazzamataz** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:28 pm

^

Thanks...

I love foreign films, and black and whites, so i'm looking forward to this.

do you have any reccomendations?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:47 pm

^ Watch 'La Haine' if you haven't already.

jazzamataz · Post by **jazzamataz** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:51 pm

^ I think my flatmate has that

Cool - will check it out... actually, loads of french cinema is great...
I loved Leon (Jean Luc Besson film) and Taxi... wasn't so keen on Baise-Moi, but i could watch it.

triky · Post by **triky** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:56 pm

yeah. la haine is excellent. in the same line you got also "Ma cité va craquer".
More recent films i would recommend "La Môme" on edith piaf's life (but i have not seen it although it won many awards) or "Indigènes", which is a film about the northern africans when they fought with the french during the second world war. It was after this film came out that finally the french government officially recognised what the north africans had done for the army during the war. I really liked this one. I think i cried actually at the end.

a man called dave · Post by **a man called dave** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:12 pm

kins83 wrote:^ Watch 'La Haine' if you haven't already.

Easily one of my Fav's had to do an exam on this for Film Studies.

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:22 pm

you should watch The Wages of Fear if you have not

bjackman · Post by **bjackman** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:39 pm

anyone seen Children of Men? apparently Anti War Dub by Digital Mystikz is in it

would you recommend?

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:39 pm

highly recommend children of men yes

bjackman · Post by **bjackman** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:40 pm

anyone seen Children of Men? apparently Anti War Dub by Digital Mystikz is in it

would you recommend it?

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:19 pm

Jazzamataz wrote:Brick - I really really liked this film.
It felt a bit strange watching it at first, but that's because it took me 20 or so minutes to work out it was a "film noir," as it were. It's a detective story based around high school and when a girl ends up being murdered.

It seems to be a straight translation from a previous story though - the concept of setting the story in a high school doesn't translate so well, but i applauded the idea. (basically, the execution wasn't so great).

you have a rogue detective played by an outcast, the school dean is the "head of department," a drug dealer with obvious flaws, and so on...

Again, it was the dialogue that swayed it for me - it's not a fast paced movie and this allows for some great dialogue and internal monos. (Big fan of the soliloquy.)

and Megan Goode makes an appearance (she always holds my attention) - which is hillarious, and stylised in it's sexuality because she has some "first year," skivvy eating her out at every oppertunity as far as i can gather - he seems to pop out from between her legs on command, so i can only guess that's what he's doing down there...

Brick is brilliant, i mentioned this on the other film thread but seems i was ignored. and actually i thought that the high school setting transferred reasonably well. also, i liked some of the humour - such as when the main protagonist and the pin are sitting there discussing murder, their meating interrupted by the pin's mum coming in and offering them some cookies.

made me laugh anyway

a man called dave · Post by **a man called dave** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:19 pm

Thought Brick was really nice aswell

drksteppa · Post by **drksteppa** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:37 pm

hmmmm. last movie i enjoyed was "kingdom" with jamie foxx.
watch it! pretty wikked shit.

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