Movie Roundtable

[JGlass]

Excalibur>Rosemary's Baby

One of the all time great horror films, Rosemary's Baby depicts the strange events that surround the pregnancy of Rosemary Woodhouse. The film is absolutely devoid of horrific images, except for one creepy pair of baby eyes, but is still absolutely gripping in the way they deliver the horror of the reality surrounding Rosemary. Never before has a sitting room full of old people been so terrifying.

The film is well known for using camera tricks to draw the audience in, and its most notable shot comes when Rosemary accepts a call in the other room. Oddly enough, the director chose to put the camera on her, but to hide most of her body with a door. The result: movie audiences all around the country leaned to the right to try to see around the door frame, and though it's obviously a failing effort, I'm sure you'll be hard pressed not to try to see around the door frame as well.

Overall this is one of the most intriguing horror films I've ever seen, and one that let's your imagination scare you more than anything on the screen will.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

(awesome pick JGlass)

Rosemary's Baby>Yojimbo

Japanese samurai film from Akira Kurosawa about a wandering ronin who comes across a village being plagued by two warring families. Contains lots of clever references fore-telling some of the action, and was an inspiration for Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars, although Leone claims he was influenced by the novel Red Harvest which Kurosawa apparently didn't read.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

Yojimbo>Open Water

Not the best movie, but based on true events and the thought of being abandoned in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks not knowing if but when your going to die,is a shit your self moment. Plus having the one person that is out there with you die and you see them get eaten would suck to high hell.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Open Water>Ronin

Hmm, I'll try and move off of samurai related films after this one!

Ronin was a mid-90s action film with De Niro and Reno in the leads and boasts one of the best car-chases ever filmed. I view this film as a gateway between Heat and the Bourne trilogy, and is a real under-rated beauty... aside from some dodgy Irish accents!

 

[Post]

Ronin>Next Friday

This film was ok and definitely had it's share of laughable moments, but it did not live up to the first. Mike Epps did a good job of filling Chris Tucker's absence. I love the scenes at the record shop when Mike Epps crazy ex tries to beat him up and when they put a brick through his windshield.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Next Friday>Y Tu Mama Bien

So I haven't actually seen this film but couldn't think of another film that begins with 'Y'. It is one of those that I've always wanted to see but just never got round to. Am I right in thinking it's the same director who did Babel or was that another South American?

 

[Post]

Y Tu Mama Bien> Not Without my Daughter


I remember seeing this film as a child and being very interested. It is about an American woman married to a Iranian (Persian? Not sure what is PC) man. They go to visit his family in Iran and have problems. She wants to leave and he tells her to hit the bricks, but she can't take their daughter with her.

I was born, raised, and currently live in the southeast Michigan. The Detroit metropolitan area of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans (403,445) in the United States.

I had hoped that seeing this movie would help me answer questions about Middle Eastern people...it didn't. I was 11 and didn't know shit.

 

[Daniel]

Not Without My Daughter > Robin Hood: Prince Of Theives

I'll make no bones about it. This is one of my favourite movies of all-time. Yes the main character and English folk hero has an American accent. Yes it is romanticised to the point of cartoon lunacy. But it's awesome. I remember it being my favourite film when I was younger to the point where I had a day off school and worked out how many times I could watch it in a day.

Alan Rickman is supurb in it (in fact, he's been brilliant in every movie I've seen him in). Kevin Costner as Robin Hood just works, as does Morgan Freeman as Azeem. It's also very quotable ("because it's dull you twit, it'll hurt more"). For me, it's one of the greatest films ever made.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves>School Ties

Remember a time where big things were expected of Chris O'Donnell? It was a long time ago, but along with Scent of a Woman, he had one of his good performances in this very under-rated film also starring Brendan Fraser, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and a few other semi-familiar faces. The story deals with Fraser who is accepted to a high-class school on the back of his abilities at American Football but encounters a lot of anti-Semitism. Definitely a worthwhile film to watch to see how far a lot of the actors have come since.

 

[Post]

School Ties> Some Like It Hot

My grandmother showed me this movie when I was very young and it has been a favorite ever since. Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis and traveling musicians that must disguise themselves as women to avoid being wacked by the mob.

In their journey, they encounter Marilyn Monroe's character, a beautiful singer, and Curtis ends uo falling in love with her. This is a great example of old school comedy.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

Some Like It Hot>The Breaks

To me is one of the funniest movies around, I can watch it over and over. If you haven't seen it check it out. It about an Irish white boy who fell of a boat on the way to America and got picked up by a black fisherman and raised by his family, so he grew up in the hood and acts like he's black.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

The Breaks>Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre is centred around the Mexican gang culture as a way of life and is a tale about a member leaving the gang and assisting a family trying to make it across the border to America. The tattoos of the gang members left a lasting impression on me as I've only ever seen flashes of that via 'The Shield' but certainly not to the same extent.

 

[Post]

Sin Nombre> Elf

A Christmas movie that I enjoy. Will Ferrell's character get a little annoying, but it is intentionally done (I think). James Caan is great in this. Artie Lange has a good bit part as the pissed off Santa, and that midget boss cracks me up.

The scenes with Will Ferrell (Buddy) interacting with the department store manager (Faizon Love) are priceless.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

Elf>Feast

It stars Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Judah Friedlander, and a cameo by Jason Mewes. It's a entertaining horror movie that has its moments about a group of strangers that find themselves trapped in a bar in mexico (I think) where they are forced to fight for survival against some creatures that are out for blood. This movie also spawned two horrible sequals that are not worth watching.

 

[FSWWE]

Feast > The Tourist

I saw this movie in theater and i really enjoyed it...
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie had a great chemistry and the movie was very good!
Also I love Venice here :O

 

[Fast-Debrid618]

The Tourist > The Lost Boys

..For me this is the best vampire movie ever. This movie was from 1987 and if I am going to compare this to Twilight this movie was far from it. Old school rocks! And actually I have been looking for a copy of it because I want to watch it over and over again. And I'm sure to never get tired of watching it.

 

[JJohns]

The Lost Boys > Serenity

Definitely an underrated film, especially if you watched Firefly. I think that holds Serenity back as a film is the fact that Joss Whedon's writing really isn't the best, but Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Adam "Not Really A" Baldwin and Alan Tudyk did an excellent job bringing their characters to the Silver Screen, and Chiwetel Ejiofor made the Operative, a character that easily could have been played over the top, into a rather cold and calculating protagonist, with his rather understated way of performing the character.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Serenity > You've Got Mail

By no means a 'Sleepless in Seattle' but Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were paired up in this competent rom-com about a decade after SiS but have substantially more time together in this film. While not a huge Meg Ryan fan, when she is allowed to be bubbly and zany she really seems to glow and radiate positivity. The subject matter of the film, that of a major bookstore chain buying out the independent shops, is one that I liked and almost a foretelling of what is happening currently with fewer and fewer independent shops being able to survive. But the 2 main characters live happily ever after.

 

[FSWWE]

You've Got Mail > Little Fockers

This is a good movie, probably my least favorite of the trilogy.
It really didn't do anything that good for the Fockers history, but it has funny moments and a good cast, I like the fact that they hired all the cast (you know what I mean) from the previous movies.
Ben Stiller has really a good chemistry with Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson IMO.
That part of the needle in grandpas dick xD OMG just killed me.

Good Movie, not my favorite tough.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

Little Fockers>Secret Window

This movie stars Johnny Depp, who plays a famous mystery writer who is separated from his wife and staying at his remote lake house, where he is then confronted by a stranger named John Shooter( John Turturro ) who claims Depps character has plagairized one of his short stories and demands justice. The movie take some twists and turns from there and I consider it one of Depps better movies.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Secret Window > Warrior King

Warrior King was Tony Jaa's next film after the brilliant Ong Bak, and features a scene where a man, not Nathan Jones (yes, THE Nathan Jones, 'G'day!') as I originally thought although he is in it and takes/gives a beating, throws a baby elephant across a room.

...

No you read that correctly. A giant man throws a baby elephant across a room. There's also a brilliant unbroken shot of Tony kicking the shit out of a whole building of people in one sequence.

 

[Mac Attack]

Warrior King>Ghost Busters

Ghost Busters is actually a very great movie. It has the supernatural appeal to it as well as the comical relief that is presented in it. I think that it is overall a very funny movie but its action scenes as well as its humor scenes are good. The animations could use work though. I think this is one of those movies where I would reboot and make it more realistic.