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

[chekov]

watched this really weird japanese film called The Woman of the Dunes yesterday

was a bit much for me, didn't especially enjoy it although the soundtrack and some of the shots were really nice

[Laszlo]

The majority of the coen bros films i've seen are thoroughly underwhelming. Not bad just not worth buying on dvd.

Lebowski is wicked though.

[hubb]

I could understand that if you had said Paul Thomas Anderson or Woody Allen, but definitely not with their work. Which ones have you seen?

Not bad just not worth buying on dvd.

Ahh ok. I think rewatching films isn't the greatest measure. I'd rather watch street trash or lethal weapon 1 a couple of times than say the pledge or chinatown or the like.

[Laszlo]

Which ones have you seen?

Raising Arizona - Saw it too long ago to really have an opinion at this point
Miller's Crossing - Good. Perfectly entertaining but nothing special (has been done in other films)
Fargo - Really liked this when I first saw it. Years later it hasn't aged well.
The Big Lebowski - Wicked
The Man Who Wasn't There - Again, it's entertaining enough but a bit meh.
The Ladykillers - Downright awful.
No Country for Old Men - Clearly one of the better ones.
Burn After Reading - Entertaining but..
True Grit - Entertaining but..

[hubb]

Totally agree then - but only because I haven't watched Fargo, Barton Fink in a long time. I loved true grit though.
I haven't been able to watch country for old men yet actually - tried like a 10 times but fall asleep.

I think watching their stuff is mandatory though.

Burn before watching imo

[Laszlo]

I think their films are a lot better than most American films from the last fifteen years or so but that isn't saying a great deal. They're well crafted and so on but in comparison to the rest of cinema history they're just ok films (on the whole).

[hubb]

Yeah!
Good directors in hollywood are very rarely american.
The best american directors are actors.
Like Mel Gibson who is australian (hmmm), Clint Eastwood (meh but...) and Sean Penn (crossing guard and the pledge).

I think Chronenburg is canadian and Lynch has never really been hollywood.

Darren Aronofsky has been terrible since he became successful.

Brian dePalma can't get his projects financed and Scorsese has been awful for thirty years.

Maybe Kathryn Bigelow is the best mainstream director actually. ¨
Enjoyed most of her films.

Weird. Imo

[Laszlo]

Scorsese has been awful for thirty years.

Goodfellas is

[hubb]

I thought it was too. Even when having a discussion with a mate about how bad I thought Scorsese was, aswell as raging bull, mean streets and taxi driver but tried to rewatch goodfellas and it was unbearable. Haven't dared watching any of the others again because I'm 'afraid' it will taint them. Ray Liotta is really bad in it .

[Nihilism]

I thought it was too. Even when having a discussion with a mate about how bad I thought Scorsese was, aswell as raging bull, mean streets and taxi driver but tried to rewatch goodfellas and it was unbearable. Haven't dared watching any of the others again because I'm 'afraid' it will taint them.

What?

[hubb]

Do you want me to respond or ?

[Jizz]

To be honest, i thought The Departed was pretty good

[Laszlo]

To be honest, i thought The Departed was pretty good

It is very good but very, very stolen from Infernal Affairs.

[bennyfroobs]

To be honest, i thought The Departed was pretty good

It is very good but very, very stolen from Infernal Affairs.

never seen internal affairs. what is it?

[Laszlo]

To be honest, i thought The Departed was pretty good

It is very good but very, very stolen from Infernal Affairs.

never seen internal affairs. what is it?

Chinese Departed, basically
There's three of them though. I recommend them! While we're on that tip, have a look at City On Fire if you want to see the inspiration for Reservoir Dogs.

[NickUndercover]

Hong-Kong original. The Departed is basically a remake. I like the departed but infernal affairs is better imo

[bennyfroobs]

ahh sick! ill defo watch them. quite like asian cinema.

watched a fairly cool movie about yakuza the other day. called Outrage. if anything it was just an insight into how fucking sly they are haha

(or Outrageous but im pretty sure it was Outrage)

[Laszlo]

Hong-Kong original. The Departed is basically a remake. I like the departed but infernal affairs is better imo

I mean honestly, some of the Departed is a shot-for-shot copy of Infernal Affairs. The Oscar he got for it was a joke imo.
I still really like The Departed, it's an enjoyable film, but there's not a whole lot of creativity going on there.

[Laszlo]

ahh sick! ill defo watch them. quite like asian cinema.

watched a fairly cool movie about yakuza the other day. called Outrage. if anything it was just an insight into how fucking sly they are haha

(or Outrageous but im pretty sure it was Outrage)

If you liked that then definitely check out Takeshi Kitano's other stuff. Like, for real - badman films!

[Liam92]

I thought it was too. Even when having a discussion with a mate about how bad I thought Scorsese was, aswell as raging bull, mean streets and taxi driver but tried to rewatch goodfellas and it was unbearable. Haven't dared watching any of the others again because I'm 'afraid' it will taint them. Ray Liotta is really bad in it .

wow, really?! Easily in my top favourite, all time.



C'mon, Joe Pesci is just terrifying throughout this film, unreal performance imo. Ray Liotta's great in it too.

Also, "good shot, what do you want from me?"