Film recommendation.

The Wrestler was good.  Rourke was great in both that and Sin City.

If you want to see a good horror I'd recommend Rec.  It's Spanish but it's very well done.  I think there's a cheap and shameless hollywood knock-off called Quarantine which I won't be watching, but Rec is a good one.

I watched about half of one of Tarantino's films a few years ago (Kill Bill) and haven't gone near him since.

Grandma's Boy is an excellent comedy.

Yeah, you get the impression he loves himself, that Tarantino bloke.  It's impossible to criticize any of his work because there's always someone who'll tell you that it's meant to be that way.  For example, some of the acting in Inglourious Basterds was poor and I said so and then I was berrated as "it was meant to be like that".

Jackie Brown is better IMO
but like I do have a thing for Pam Grier

Foxy.

Jackie Brown is fantastic. A lot to do with the great cast, and the Elmore Leonard story, but give QT his props, he directed it brilliantly.

where did I park the van?

Superfly
Seven
Bad Lieutenant
Scarface
Mama turns 100

good parts in all of these
BL is a tougher watch than Scarface... which says a bit.

I'm a relative Fincher fan. Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac were all good. Alien 3 (fan of the series Aliens, Cameron's being my favourite) but the new cut of it is a big improvement on the original release, suggest people check it out if they only seen first cut. Also 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' was an interesting concept, and fairly entertaining.

I've read about Zodiac Killer in San Fransisco
is this film about these events (60's-'70's)?

Fight Club has the Pixies at the end
good use of music in film

well i watched "No Country for Old Men" last night
pretty good
best film I see this year although the only other film I watch is Iron Man

the psychopathic killer dude was excellent actor.
I think Milllers Crossing was better but this was better than Fargo

those brothers have certainty made some very good films.

Donny Brasco - I watched that last night for the first time (Extended edition - extra 15 mins). A very well done movie.

Good film, Johnny Depp is good in that (as always). Similar to Mou Gaan Dou (Infernal Affairs) Hong Kong movie trilogy, then remade as hollywood movie Scorsese's 'The Departed' which is also very good.

There Will Be Blood - watched for the 2nd time last week. A great movie, powerhouse stuff from Daniel Day-Lewis. Steve-O2009-09-04 16:07:59

The Departed is a very good movie but the first hour of it is possibly the boringest hour of anyone's life.

Love Donnie Darko, great film that.

Does anybody know of any good horrors?  I like horrors but good ones are few and far between and I don't have time to sift through all the fecal matter that is the majority of horrors.

Watching an oldie at the mo which is quite good - 3 days of the Condor. Robert Redford.

Want to see [REC] missed it at last years film festival, have been told it is a very good horror. Also was told 'Orphan' was surprisingly good, maybe not great, but that's in the theaters now.

Have been branching out to crazy Japanese films; Watched 'Battle Royale', worth a look... Death Note 1 and 2. As well as a few animes; Ghost in the Shell, Akira and some Miyazki films. On Japanese, still haven't seen Seven Samurai and any other Kurosawa, need to sit down and see some of them. 

REC is a very good movie.  Well worth a watch, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I thought Orphan looked good.  It's got an average rating on imdb (from memory) but I'll just rent it for free when it comes out (perks of working at Video Ezy).

I've seen Battle Royale, it was quite good.  I know I'll be viciously attacked for saying this, but the Americanised version of it (called The Condemned) is a more enjoyable film.  People love to say that the original movie is always better but I can't agree in this case.  And in a number of ways Battle Royale isn't original either.  As a side note, the reason the children are put on the island to fight in Battle Royale is very, very weak unless I seriously missed something.

The Exorcist scares the sh*t out of me but somehow fascinating.  I find "Seven" quite disturbing.

These are not films but TV series that you can get on DVD - "Band Of Brothers" & "Underbelly - Series 1"  Apparently, the latter can not be shown in Victoria & Victorians are not allowed to possess copies of the DVD because of on-going court cases/investigations.

We should post copies to Archie, Carlos and Vargas this week then tip the cops off.

Last night they had "The Grudge" on telly. WTF was that all about? It seemed very disjointed.

Where can you get the tin case edition LG?  I've only got the boring multi-box edition.  I know you can get the original fold-out box for $29.99.  Also, the Blu-Ray version is available for $80 which is quite good value considering the length of the series.  Be fantastic to see it in Hi Def.  Like you LG I liked the last episode & knowing what became of them in later years.

One episode drew a parallel to a useless ex-boss of mine.  The voice-over said, referring to a commanding officer..."He was a bad officer not because he made bad decisions but because he didn't make any decisions".  In the end of the episode that officer was relieved of his command during an attack because he lost it & lost momentum, & couldn't make any decisions during the battle which cost too many of his unit's men.

I'm sure the tin case box set is in Whitcoulls. They have both versions going very cheap at the mo.

Horror movies:

Some of the classics are still the best (Exorcist, Omen, Poltergeist...)

Most modern horros are tripe but Se7en was brilliant (is it horror or thriller?) The Ring was good. Stir of Echoes and Shutter are ok (i.e. have some good moments).

Inglorious Basterds looks like garbage. Another attempt by Americans to rewrite WWII.

Best war movies:
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers (although not a movie but must be mentioned)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Great Escape
A Bridge Too Far
The Dambusters
The Longest Day
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Downfall - one of the best but don't watch when you're tired as it's in German with subtitles so need to concentrate (actually Letters is the same)

Flags of our Fathers was a snorefest.

People say Inglorious Basterds was amazing but it really wasn't.  Enjoyable enough but it was too long.  Like other Tarantino movies it relied on dialogue (dialogue which wasn't particularly good at all).  Not by any means saying it was bad, mind.

Between the 2 Clint Eastwood directed movies - Flags Of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima, I thought Letters was better.  It showed the human side of a soldier.

Das Boot rates as a mention, again with English subtitles.  It's not the same having English dialogue, it takes away the authenticity.

I've not seen Inglorious Basterds or Valkyrie, but the thought of Pitt & Cruise respectively playing such characters puts me off.

What about Battle Of Britain?

Kubrick's 'Full Metal Jacket' and Oliver Stone's 'Platoon'?

Films I've seen recently (actually that I can think of that I've seen in last few months) that I thought were pretty good, 'In Bruges' Colin Farrell is pretty funny in that and also 'Frost/Nixon'. 'Yes man' was surprisingly alright. No one actually went on a rant about how amazing 'The Hangover' was, I thought it was good, but was expecting much better after what everyone had told me.

Has anyone even mentioned District 9? This was great!

probably going to go and see the hurt locker tonight, which has had some very good reviews.

Cool, so long as it is more factual than fantasy. BOB was based on a true story. Thanks for the tip.

Hurt Locker is really good, as is District 9

I thought Hurt Locker was pretty good, but no where near as amazing as I was lead to believe it was going to be.  One thing I did find a bit weird was the fact that the phrase "hurt locker" was never mentioned or referenced in the film at all - in fact, I still have no idea what it means or how it is related to the movie (although I can obviously guess).  I was a bit pissed when I got there, so maybe it was mentioned, but I can't recall it.

You want to be in your 70's??