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Maddie

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I forgot to put this here .... the Big Driver .....

If anyone would like to watch it, for free, its at the Solar Movies website, you don't have to sign or up or download anything.

It was mindblowing and chilling, keeps you on the edge of your seat kind. :icon_eek: I was surprised that it was released exactly same month and year as the Good Marriage, because between the two, I thought it should have been the one in the theaters! It was dirty, disgusting and filthy and horrifying. but It was Excellent!!! One of his best Ever put to film, I thought the film was better than the written story .
 

ghost19

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Sep 25, 2011
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Finally got around after all these years to watching Boondock Saints....I don't get it....very slow and just seemed boring the whole way thru. It's one of my fiance's favorite movies but I just couldn't bring myself to like it...lol
 

swiftdog2.0

I tell you one and one makes three...
Mar 16, 2010
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Finally got around after all these years to watching Boondock Saints....I don't get it....very slow and just seemed boring the whole way thru. It's one of my fiance's favorite movies but I just couldn't bring myself to like it...lol

It helps if you're from Boston! Except most of it was filmed in Canada.
 

danie

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Feb 26, 2008
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20th Century Women
Annette Bening was very good in this, but the movie didn't really seem to have a plot--just several characters' stories strung together around a feminism theme. I kept waiting for the emotional punch it seemed to be building to, but it never came.
 

Neil W

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May 27, 2008
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The Dark Tower - a sci-fi western which uses some names and ideas from Stephen King's books - might not be disappointing if you haven't read the books
Everything Everything - a young woman with a defective immune system longs to escape for her sterile home - likeable romantic drama
The Big Sick - a Pakistani taxi driver and would be stand-up falls for a white woman but can't tell his muslim family - excellent romantic comedy
 

kingricefan

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Jul 11, 2006
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While on my three day trip to Seattle, at my brother's house we watched The 40 Year Old Virgin, American Pie and Wild Things. These were all re-watches for me. All are good. Wild Things should be on everyone's list of movies to see as it's full of twists and turns that you just don't see coming.
 

fljoe0

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Apr 5, 2008
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Finally got around after all these years to watching Boondock Saints....I don't get it....very slow and just seemed boring the whole way thru. It's one of my fiance's favorite movies but I just couldn't bring myself to like it...lol

I love it. Maybe you should watch it again later. When the movie was initially released, it wasn't well liked but over the years it developed a rabid cult following. so, you weren't the only one that didn't like the first time they saw it. I think it's hilarious.
 

Gerald

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Sep 8, 2011
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Prophecy (John Frankenheimer, 1979)

Prophecy (1979) - IMDb

I hadn't seen it before, although I heard about it (it was possibly mentioned in Danse Macabre?) Never knew if this was considered a (cult)classic or not. You don't see it turn up on many 'best horrorfilms ever' lists and now I know why.

In essence it could have been really good. It is very King-like in location: the beautiful nature of Maine shot in wide panaromas. I recognised names of places from King stories, like Androscoggin River (I think it was mentioned in 'N', but other stories too probably). The dispute between the local people and the loggers lends it a tense atmosphere. Also the ecological (horror)story is interesting and given emotional weight by the fact that Talia Shire's character is pregnant.
However the film moves at a very slow pace - the most exciting thing to happen in the first hour is an attack by a seemingly crazed raccoon. It picks up a little after that, but when we are first shown the physical effects of pollution on the wildlife, the special effects let the film down in a major way. The film looks like a cross between a major studio film (the wide landscape shots) and an absolute B-movie (the special effects). The camerawork is quite atmospheric though all the way: the mist on a lake, shots of the headlights of a car flashing over the tree trunks as it speeds. I would say it's mainly worth watching for the photography of the landscape, apart from that it's highly uneven. Still, you'd expect a lot more from a John Frankenheimer film based on a script by David 'The Omen' Seltzer.
(Actually, I'd guess Frankenheimer simply isn't good in horror/sci-fi - he also made the ill-fated Island of dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando.)
 
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Steffen

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Watched Death Note on Netflix last night. It started off well, but his gf became annoying and predictable, and the dude playing "L" was a crappy actor. It's always nice to see Willem Dafoe though (who was one of my initial choices for playing Pennywise).

For the record, I never saw the original anime series (or manga or whatever you call it). I hate that stuff.
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
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Spokane, WA
Prophecy (John Frankenheimer, 1979)

Prophecy (1979) - IMDb

I hadn't seen it before, although I heard about it (it was possibly mentioned in Danse Macabre?) Never knew if this was considered a (cult)classic or not. You don't see it turn up on many 'best horrorfilms ever' lists and now I know why.

In essence it could have been really good. It is very King-like in location: the beautiful nature of Maine shot in wide panaromas. I recognised names of places from King stories, like Androscoggin River (I think it was mentioned in 'N', but other stories too probably). The dispute between the local people and the loggers lends it a tense atmosphere. Also the ecological (horror)story is interesting and given emotional weight by the fact that Talia Shire's character is pregnant.
However the film moves at a very slow pace - the most exciting thing to happen in the first hour is an attack by a seemingly crazed raccoon. It picks up a little after that, but when we are first shown the physical effects of pollution on the wildlife, the special effects let the film down in a major way. The film looks like a cross between a major studio film (the wide landscape shots) and an absolute B-movie (the special effects). The camerawork is quite atmospheric though all the way: the mist on a lake, shots of the headlights of a car flashing over the tree trunks as it speeds. I would say it's mainly worth watching for the photography of the landscape, apart from that it's highly uneven. Still, you'd expect a lot more from a John Frankenheimer film based on a script by David 'The Omen' Seltzer.
(Actually, I'd guess Frankenheimer simply isn't good in horror/sci-fi - he also made the ill-fated Island of dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando.)
I laughed out loud when the sleeping bag exploded. I have to say that for its time Prophecy was a pretty good movie and it was released right about the time there was a new interest in saving Mother earth from the pollution that we humans were creating in abundance, so it was a topical movie that made people who saw it think afterwards about what we were doing with our pollution. This one is due for a major remake.