What are some movies you think people should see that are not big pieces of hollywood crap? What should we avoid? I like b/cult movies.
Everyone should see
   The Evil Dead trilogy
   Re-animator  trilogy
   Bubba Ho-Tep

I just saw "Hancock" amazing pile of $h!t

o and awesome TV shows.
"Freaks and Geeks"
  "Spaced"

some recent "documentaries" by a notable person. ( which i wont name because  it will ignote a politcal flame war) but best doc i ve seen has to be " on any sunday"

i too was very disappointed by Hancock

Bubba Ho-Tep is freaking GREAT!  You have to kind of suspend your disbelief a bit and just enjoy that the 2 main characters actually believe they are who they say they are (Elvis & JFK living in a nursing home).  It's a really fun movie!

One of my favorites is an obscure documentary, "Vernon, Florida".  You can get it on Netflix.  It's about an hour long, and it's about half a dozen residents of a small, rural Florida town.  The "main" character is an avid turkey hunter & is just a bit obsessive about turkeys.  But if you are a people watcher, it's a must-see!

one of the worst piles of excrement i have seen this year was "the happening"
pointless,pointless,pointless-
but, i have to give mknightshymallalaain (whatever) the gold star for discovering that all you need for "special effects"
is to go out to a f**kn pasture when the wind is blowing- talk about your low oeverhead.

the happening was terrible too. i am hoping that "the day the earth stood still" will be much better.

Titanic.  Don't forget about Titanic.

well, the hell with my first post. the worst in my opinion is "fahrenheit 9/11" or sicko. mainly because in docs, i expect things to not be taken out of context. which in my opinion they were

Quote from: Caffeine on December 05, 2008, 05:38:40 AM
Bubba Ho-Tep is freaking GREAT!  You have to kind of suspend your disbelief a bit and just enjoy that the 2 main characters actually believe they are who they say they are (Elvis & JFK living in a nursing home).  It's a really fun movie!

One of my favorites is an obscure documentary, "Vernon, Florida".  You can get it on Netflix.  It's about an hour long, and it's about half a dozen residents of a small, rural Florida town.  The "main" character is an avid turkey hunter & is just a bit obsessive about turkeys.  But if you are a people watcher, it's a must-see!

yeah i was glad i got to see bubba ho-tep in theaters. it was a low budget movie so there was only 1 print is the bay area that got passed around. its one of the most original movies ive seen in years. they believe they are who they say they are. and elvis talking about the "growth on his pecker" was great. the "vernon,florida" sound interesting ill have to see that.

Ah...and the wonderful movies of Ed Wood.

Quote from: frankieG on December 05, 2008, 12:02:01 AM
i too was very disappointed by Hancock

Likewise.

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on December 06, 2008, 09:40:04 PM
well, the hell with my first post. the worst in my opinion is "fahrenheit 9/11" or sicko. mainly because in docs, i expect things to not be taken out of context. which in my opinion they were

/threadjack
Yama, did you actually WATCH Fahrenheit 911?  Beginning to end?  I did, and it's one of the only times I have even seen an theater audience (including me) stand and applaud at the end of a movie.

Any documentary takes a point of view.  Any and every documentary ever made.  This one presented lies and distortions and showed them for what they are.  It showed the result (American soldiers dying) as well.  It presented possible motives (greed and profit) for the lies and distortions.

We STILL have Americans dying almost every day in Iraq and we will until we have the sense to bring them home.  Hopefully Obama has the sense to do that and hopefully he can see the exact same thing happening in Afghanistan and bring them home as well.

Some of you are uncomfortable with the basic fact that Bush and Cheney lied us into a war.  They did; it's history.  They will claim "bad intelligence" until they die, but they chose what intelligence to believe (and in some cases to fabricate).  Michael Moore didn't like it and he made a movie about it.

I have not yet had a chance to see Sicko (I live in the reddest state in the Union and it never showed in my town).  I need to buy the DVD.
/threadjack off

I haven't seen a current movie this year, mainly because I am a curmudgeon enough to expect that I should be able to watch a movie without having to listen to people in the theater talking to each other or talking on their cell phone in a conversational voice while the movie is playing.  Is that only a (redneck) regional problem or does that happen in bigger cities as well?

Quote from: trumpetguy on December 07, 2008, 09:46:45 AMYama, did you actually WATCH Fahrenheit 911?  Beginning to end?  I did, and it's one of the only times I have even seen an theater audience (including me) stand and applaud at the end of a movie.

Any documentary takes a point of view.  Any and every documentary ever made.  This one presented lies and distortions and showed them for what they are.  It showed the result (American soldiers dying) as well.  It presented possible motives (greed and profit) for the lies and distortions.

We STILL have Americans dying almost every day in Iraq and we will until we have the sense to bring them home.  Hopefully Obama has the sense to do that and hopefully he can see the exact same thing happening in Afghanistan and bring them home as well.

Some of you are uncomfortable with the basic fact that Bush and Cheney lied us into a war.  They did; it's history.  They will claim "bad intelligence" until they die, but they chose what intelligence to believe (and in some cases to fabricate).  Michael Moore didn't like it and he made a movie about it.

I have not yet had a chance to see Sicko (I live in the reddest state in the Union and it never showed in my town).  I need to buy the DVD.
/threadjack off

I don't know if An did, but I sure as hell did.  You're correct in the fact that a documentary is always spoken from a single person's point of view and that point of view is ALWAYS biased.  F9/11 is a documentary spoken from the point of view of an almost ludicrously biased person who bases his bias on issues that are vague at best.

It's a good idea to investigate everyone's view and not base your own on those of a lunatic.

Also you might want to look into some history...we were lied into EVERY war.  We've never entered or exited a war sans deceit.

Quote from: trumpetguy on December 07, 2008, 09:46:45 AM


/threadjack
Yama, did you actually WATCH Fahrenheit 911?  Beginning to end?  I did, and it's one of the only times I have even seen an theater audience (including me) stand and applaud at the end of a movie.

Any documentary takes a point of view.  Any and every documentary ever made.  This one presented lies and distortions and showed them for what they are.  It showed the result (American soldiers dying) as well.  It presented possible motives (greed and profit) for the lies and distortions.

We STILL have Americans dying almost every day in Iraq and we will until we have the sense to bring them home.  Hopefully Obama has the sense to do that and hopefully he can see the exact same thing happening in Afghanistan and bring them home as well.

Some of you are uncomfortable with the basic fact that Bush and Cheney lied us into a war.  They did; it's history.  They will claim "bad intelligence" until they die, but they chose what intelligence to believe (and in some cases to fabricate).  Michael Moore didn't like it and he made a movie about it.

I have not yet had a chance to see Sicko (I live in the reddest state in the Union and it never showed in my town).  I need to buy the DVD.
/threadjack off

I haven't seen a current movie this year, mainly because I am a curmudgeon enough to expect that I should be able to watch a movie without having to listen to people in the theater talking to each other or talking on their cell phone in a conversational voice while the movie is playing.  Is that only a (redneck) regional problem or does that happen in bigger cities as well?

I was applauding that the movie was over.    His movies are preaching to the converted. Those that watch his movies or read his books think he is the greatest the rest of us cant stand him. People talk in theaters everywhere. Its the type of people not area. I think.

actually TG i did. im not close minded like some people are. i watch before i Buddha Loves You. many things in that film were taken outr of context and used for his, POV, i wont say propagsanda, to me thats a bit harsh. No president, not even your precious never can do wrong obama, can prove or disprove the info provided by the cia. it may have been faulty, some WMD material was found, albeit a bit late, but then again. meh its liek preaching to the choir, anyhoo enough threadjacking , i dont want to ruin this thread, TG if you wish pm me and we can discuss further. ( in fact i ask you to do this. id liek to get your points of view, and discuss this in detail) i await your pm [/threadjack for good]

Sh!tfest of the century:  Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull



In the running:
Lady in the Water
The Dark Knight (minus Keith Ledger)
That one with your m@m


There's been so many crappy movies....

Quote from: wladziu on December 08, 2008, 05:16:25 AM
Sh!tfest of the century:  Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull



In the running:
Lady in the Water
The Dark Knight (minus Keith Ledger)
That one with your m@m


There's been so many crappy movies....

LOL indeed

I was looking forward to seeing the crystal skull...then southpark said there was aliens in it...which I confirmed...now there's absolutely no way I'll ever see it.

Lady in the Water was AWESOME!  Absolutely one of the funniest movies.

I still want to see Dark Knight.  It's Batman...it's going to be corny...

For the sake of adding something, though:  Juno rocked

Dark Knight wasn't corny.  It was more like being constipated:  waiting a really long time for something to happen, then being let down when something finally does.




Oh!  That oil drilling movie!   WTF!!?!?!?!   "I GAVE AWAY MY CHILD!"  WTF!!

Juno rocked.

No Country For Old Men was actually less disturbing than the book, IMO, but a good flick.

I just saw Milk in the Castro.  The only place to see it.     Good flick.

Not exactly a movie, but the best sci-fi TV show ever - and a better use of time than a lot of movies - was Firefly.

A Princess Bride was, of course, classic.  And Good Morning, Vietnam.  And A Fish Called Wanda.

The Sixth Sense was decent.  Everything M. Knight has done since then has sucked.

Winged Migration is the best documentary ever, IMO.