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Payback was a fun movie, I don't think I caught the director's cut though. Some of those movies Morgan Freeman was making a while back qualify, Along Came A Spider, Seven was already mentioned. In The Line Of Fire was an exciting thriller imo. The Firm, The Pelican Brief, At Close Range as well.

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03-13-2015 , 06:26 PM

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riverboatking

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director's cut is much darker and not as "fun".

love both versions tho, i'm also a big fan of the books.

03-13-2015 , 08:10 PM

#12428

bobhalford

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Begin Again and Flashbacks of a Fool are two films I've enjoyed in the recent past.

03-13-2015 , 08:21 PM

#12429

lycosid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by amoeba

Ran out of time to edit original post. Great companion pieces between Korea and US :

Memories of Murder
and
Zodiac

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
And
Mystic River

Lady Vengeance > Mr Vengeance

03-13-2015 , 10:40 PM

#12430

amoeba

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Agree to disagree. There is more coherence in Lady Vengeance but Mr. hit me in the gut a lot more.

03-14-2015 , 08:06 AM

#12431

BustoRhymes

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Quote:

Originally Posted by riverboatking

i also really enjoyed payback the directors cut (much darker then the theatrical release).

Love Payback. Every line is quotable.

Quote:

We made a deal; if she'd stop hookin', I'd stop shooting people.

...maybe we were aimin' high.

Quote:

Crooked cops. Do they come in any other way? If I'd been just a little dumber, I could have joined the force myself.

Quote:

"If I know you, you want this Resnick guy for something he won't like."

"Yeah, I'm gonna kill him."

"That's something he won't like."

Quote:

The problem with kicking a Chow's ass is an hour later you wanna do it again.

Quote:

I think all those stories about you being dead are true. You're just too thick-headed to admit it.

03-14-2015 , 09:49 AM

#12432

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Quote:

Originally Posted by amoeba

Finally, somebody watches A Touch of Sin. Jiang Wu is fantastic in it and it really is a fantastic juxtaposition of the problems of modern China with elements of classic Chinese literature such as The Water Margin.

The one Chinese movie I want to see is "Black Coal, Thin Ice".

Finished this last night. Great movie! Would recommend to anyone. Pretty sure it is streaming on Netflix now.

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03-14-2015 , 03:03 PM

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Finally watched Interstellar. Wonderful visuals. That's about the only positive thing I want to say about it. Heavy-handed, pretentious, and contrived. Terrible dialogue. Ridiculous plot execution. I'm a Nolan fan, and this is the first of his films that I have disliked. Have always found McConaughey super annoying (have not seen Mud/TD/DBC yet so I'm willing to change my mind), so went in with fairly low expectations. Not low enough, I guess. I don't understand why this film was received as well as it was. It is pretty to look at, but that's really about it.

03-14-2015 , 05:39 PM

#12434

BustoRhymes

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Don't forget Killer Joe when completing your McConaughey filmography

03-14-2015 , 06:37 PM

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riverboatking

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killer joe was AWESOME.

03-14-2015 , 07:09 PM

#12436

R*R

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Quote:

Originally Posted by riverboatking

killer joe was AWESOME.

If I had to describe Killer Joe in one word it would be disturbing.

03-14-2015 , 07:15 PM

#12437

riverboatking

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ya I like dark **** heh.
thought that everyone involved gave really outstanding performances and there were some truly hilarious lines/deliveries even within the deeply disturbing scenes.

03-14-2015 , 07:31 PM

#12438

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Ghost Busters

03-14-2015 , 07:32 PM

#12439

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Not much to say about the movie other than the evil ghost loses.

03-14-2015 , 08:12 PM

#12440

Cranberry Tea

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I was rooting for Stay-Puft to win.

03-14-2015 , 08:13 PM

#12441

Cranberry Tea

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I think Ghostbusters is literally the first movie I can remember seeing.

03-14-2015 , 08:51 PM

#12442

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The first movie I remember going to go see for sure was Shampoo. It was at a drive in and a double feature with some kid's movie. I remember it because I was getting to "see" a rated R movie. I'm sure I slept through it.

03-14-2015 , 08:58 PM

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I saw Jaws in the theater. Not sure which was first. My mom had to take my little brother out of the movie because he was crying ha ha.

03-14-2015 , 09:02 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I saw Jaws in the theater. Not sure which was first. My mom had to take my little brother out of the movie because he was crying ha ha.

My younger brother cried when terminator died in the molten lava scene. Then I found out watching an interview that Cain Velasquez did as well. Yes, the same Cain who whooped Dos Santos.

03-14-2015 , 09:05 PM

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My brother didn't cry because he was sad that the shark died. He cried because he was a scaredy cat haha.

03-14-2015 , 10:35 PM

#12446

ythelongface

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I saw Jaws in the drive in when I was about 6. That same year we went to the beach on vacation. There was nothing getting me in that ocean!

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03-14-2015 , 11:48 PM

#12447

Dominic

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I remember seeing 3 movies as my earliest, but I'm not sure which is first:

American Grafitti at the drive-in with my family, in the station wagon.
Cold Turkey with my uncle and cousins.
Peter Pan again with my uncle and cousins.

03-14-2015 , 11:50 PM

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I remember being scared to see Apollo Creed get beat to death. I went into the lobby during that part until mom came and got me and told me the coast was clear.

03-15-2015 , 12:10 AM

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I remember writing Rocky 2. In 5th grade we had to do skits and my grpup did the rematch between Rocky and Apollo where Rocky wins. Never found out how they got a hold of our script.

03-15-2015 , 06:27 AM

#12450

pissychips

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rbenuck4

Chef

A bit of a disappointment here. This was obviously a love child of Jon Favreau (he stars, directs, and he wrote it). It follows a chef for a high-end restaurant who gets a bad review, implodes, gets fired, and tries to get his life in order after that. There are way too many arcs that aren't completed, most egregiously the Scarlett Johanson one. She plays the hostess who sort of has a thing going with Favreau. The best scene in the movie is him cooking for her and her giving him the come **** me eyes, but really she's just making love to his food. It's a wonderful scene, and may be worth watching just to see her doing her thing alongside the cooking. All the cooking scenes are fun to watch, and made me hungry despite just having finished a big dinner. Unfortunately about half way through the movie, they have a strange conversation, and then we never see her again. Big mistake.

The middle half of the movie is him getting a food truck from Robert Downey Jr. (again, a weird cameo that didn't go anywhere), and driving across the country making food along the way. It felt like a really extended montage, and I was very bored throughout this sequence. The big arc that it solves is his relationship with his son, which honestly I didn't care about, especially with so many other interesting options. After the montage is over, the movie wraps up a couple loose ends in a nice bow with a quick 5 minute ending that doesn't really make sense, and still leaves a bunch of things unanswered.

If you are a big foodie, then you will enjoy this for the cooking scenes, but as a movie, I felt it fell a bit flat.

I am not a foodie at all but loved Chef. I watched it on a date and got laid.

I recommended it to 2 friends (1 who never had more than 1 date with a girl in his life) and they both got laid.

As far as I'm aware it has a 100% strike record as a first date.

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