[Eddyfcknp]

Godfather. 5/10.  Just wasn't for me.  I did enjoy Scarface more.

 

[Eddyfcknp]

2001 space odyssey... ?/10.
I don't know what the **** I just watched.

 

[LouisLoh]

Avengers Age of Ultron - 6/10 
Whiplash - 9/10
Nightcrawler - 8/10

 

[Sattelight]

2001 space odyssey... ?/10.
I don't know what the **** I just watched.

Haha even with the background of having read the book, I definitely experienced a large amount of "What is going on?!" Especially towards the end of the movie. In his top 10 of all-time list, Roger Ebert does a very good job of concisely explaining why he thinks the movie is so great. (emphasis is mine)
 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Film can take us where we cannot go. It can also take our minds outside their shells, and this film by Stanley Kubrick is one of the great visionary experiences in the cinema. Yes, it was a landmark of special effects, so convincing that years later the astronauts, faced with the reality of outer space, compared it to "2001." But it was also a landmark of non-narrative, poetic filmmaking, in which the connections were made by images, not dialog or plot. An ape uses to learn a bone as a weapon, and this tool, flung into the air, transforms itself into a space ship--the tool that will free us from the bondage of this planet. And then the spaceship takes man on a voyage into the interior of what may be the mind of another species.

The debates about the "meaning" of this film still go on. Surely the whole point of the film is that it is beyond meaning, that it takes its character to a place he is so incapable of understanding that a special room--sort of a hotel room--has to be prepared for him there, so that he will not go mad. The movie lyrically and brutally challenges us to break out of the illusion that everyday mundane concerns are what must preoccupy us. It argues that surely man did not learn to think and dream, only to deaden himself with provincialism and selfishness. "2001" is a spiritual experience. But then all good movies are.

Here is the link if anyone is interested: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/ten-greatest-films-of-all-time
 
And here are links to his reviews contemporary (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968), and retrospective (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968) if anyone is interested. 

 

[Eddyfcknp]

Haha even with the background of having read the book, I definitely experienced a large amount of "What is going on?!" Especially towards the end of the movie. In his top 10 of all-time list, Roger Ebert does a very good job of concisely explaining why he thinks the movie is so great. (emphasis is mine)

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Film can take us where we cannot go. It can also take our minds outside their shells, and this film by Stanley Kubrick
 is one of the great visionary experiences in the cinema. Yes, it was a landmark of special effects, so convincing that years later the astronauts, faced with the reality of outer space, compared it to "2001." But it was also a landmark of non-narrative, poetic filmmaking, in which the connections were made by images, not dialog or plot. An ape uses to learn a bone as a weapon, and this tool, flung into the air, transforms itself into a space ship--the tool that will free us from the bondage of this planet. And then the spaceship takes man on a voyage into the interior of what may be the mind of another species.



The debates about the "meaning" of this film still go on. Surely the whole point of the film is that it is beyond meaning, that it takes its character to a place he is so incapable of understanding that a special room--sort of a hotel room--has to be prepared for him there, so that he will not go mad. The movie lyrically and brutally challenges us to break out of the illusion that everyday mundane concerns are what must preoccupy us. It argues that surely man did not learn to think and dream, only to deaden himself with provincialism and selfishness. "2001" is a spiritual experience. But then all good movies are.

Here is the link if anyone is interested: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/ten-greatest-films-of-all-time

And here are links to his reviews contemporary (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968), and retrospective (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968) if anyone is interested. 

The first 2 minutes I turned my Apple TV on and off at least 2 times because I thought video wasn't coming thru... Movie really ****ed with my head. Music was great because it's stuff I would listen to, but it was late so it was also putting me to sleep. For its age I do feel it was filmed well. Other then that I'm still like What did I watch.

 

[Sattelight]

The first 2 minutes I turned my Apple TV on and off at least 2 times because I thought video wasn't coming thru... Movie really ****ed with my head. Music was great because it's stuff I would listen to, but it was late so it was also putting me to sleep. For its age I do feel it was filmed well. Other then that I'm still like What did I watch.

If you get a chance, I would highly recommend checking out the book. It is great on its own and serves as a very useful (perhaps essential?) compliment to the movie, especially for the first and last bits. The book also feels like more of a "story" than the movie while inspiring the same type of awe and wonder without so much of the "What is going on" although its still there to some extent for sure. However if the movie didn't do much for you on its own than I doubt the book will really change that

 

[Zojokkeli]

The first 2 minutes I turned my Apple TV on and off at least 2 times because I thought video wasn't coming thru... Movie really ****ed with my head. Music was great because it's stuff I would listen to, but it was late so it was also putting me to sleep. For its age I do feel it was filmed well. Other then that I'm still like What did I watch.

 
If you want something that truly messes with your head, try Holy Mountain. I don't even know where to start with that one.. Single weirdest movie experience, followed closely by Inland Empire.

 

[Eddyfcknp]

   
If you want something that truly messes with your head, try Holy Mountain. I don't even know where to start with that one.. Single weirdest movie experience, followed closely by Inland Empire.

 
Just watched the trailer to Holy Mountain... HELL NO.

 

[WraithApe]

 
The Angels' Melancholy - 4/10
 
Brazenly disgusting, morally transgressive (or simply pretentious, depending on your view), with surprisingly good cinematography - there's beauty in the repugnance, the images of death, depravity and decay. It has a certain spellbinding quality, which almost overcomes the very long run time and frequent periods of torpor. An easy film to hate but not one quickly forgotten, once seen.

 

[WraithApe]

   
If you want something that truly messes with your head, try Holy Mountain. I don't even know where to start with that one.. Single weirdest movie experience, followed closely by Inland Empire.

 
As much as I'm a Lynch fan, Inland Empire was a step too far for me. Long, tedious in large part and unfathomably weird - not to mention all shot in grainy digital. My favourite Lynch film remains Lost Highway, which isn't exactly straight down the line either..

 

[Zojokkeli]

As much as I'm a Lynch fan, Inland Empire was a step too far for me. Long, tedious in large part and unfathomably weird - not to mention all shot in grainy digital. My favourite Lynch film remains Lost Highway, which isn't exactly straight down the line either..

I didn't like Inland Empire either, and Lost Highway is probably my favourite Lynch film too. I haven't seen Eraserhead though, so that may still change.

 

[metalsonata]

The Matrix (1999): 8/10
 
God, I'd forgotten just how bad some of the dialogue is, and how the last quarter of the movie is just one mind-numbing action set piece after another. Still a lot of fun though, and a serious vehicle for nostalgia.

 

[Focker]

   
Just watched the trailer to Holy Mountain... HELL NO.

 
+1

 

[Focker]

  The Matrix (1999): 8/10
 
God, I'd forgotten just how bad some of the dialogue is, and how the last quarter of the movie is just one mind-numbing action set piece after another. Still a lot of fun though, and a serious vehicle for nostalgia.

 
Ah man, I loved that film...I've seen it so many times I can't even count. 
 
Too bad they never made any sequels. 

 

[eke2k6]

Ah man, I loved that film...I've seen it so many times I can't even count. 

Too bad they never made any sequels. 

I really don't know why everyone s**ts on the sequels. I thought they were pretty much as good, especially conceptually.

Reloaded expanded on the original by introducing the Merovingian. He explored the fabric of existence itself with the cause/effect dogma. Then the Architect and Oracle represented the duality of the idea of choice. They conveyed how powerful our choices can be, yet how little control we have when looking at the grand scheme of things.

Revolutions looked at humanity itself. It expands on the capability of humans to simultaneously be both repulsive and wonderful creatures. At the end, it's a celebration of humanity, and how our flaws make us the glorious and ambitious creatures we are.


One could write several Masters level theses based on the ideas presented in that trilogy. It's almost like John Steinbeck's novels set to a dystopian future.