I'm embarrassed to say how many of the AFI top 100 from 2007 or 2009 I haven't seen so I'm picking them off

Taxi Driver - holy **** are you kidding me? Maybe my favorite movie ever.

Annie Hall - first 20 min was above average but then it got really enjoyable. Loved it

Spring Breakers- Don't have anything novel to add about this one that hasn't already been said. I enjoyed it though I think it is worth one watch. The softcore porn aspect kept me entertained

That movie needed to be HC to achieve any success... toss in some nasty HC scenes and I will watch.

Are you kidding me.. never seen Taxi Driver?

Just saw Life Itself for the first time (you probably watched it all) but I have to say I'm speechless.
I randomly stumbled upon it on Netflix today after reading some reviews in here a long time ago and didn't really feel the need to watch it back then.
As a 19 year old from Germany who never heard from Ebert I probably didn't have the same connection to him as most of you did and so it developed bit by bit during the movie.

There are so many parallels that you can draw between Ebert's life and your own, it's just astonishing.
But the scene that really got me was where the music stops and Chaz talks about Roger's last moments and his death. It was literally breathtaking.
I sank in the chair while having my mouth wide open and I had that intense feeling that went beyond having goosebumps or eyes filled with tears, just plain speechlessness.

Hearing about death in a so intimate way brought up a string of pictures in my head (I can't even remember what it was) which showed me why
life is so important and why you should live every day as if it were your last so you could look back and say "Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to do".

Especially in these times where young people are struggling with the peak of needs, the "self-fulfillment" as Abraham Maslow stated, because
it's such an individual experience and everyone has an own definition, the movie fits in perfectly in the society by telling us (in my opinion): Do what you really love.

Sorry for my bad English but I had to write it (even if it's only for the times in the future where I lose my motivation and re-read it).

I think the review should not have any spoiler. Its nice you liked it... But when you talk about the last 15 min, I had to skip it so that I do not know about the movie. Will see it probably ... After reading your review!

Oh yeah I watched life itself on netflix the other day and it was great as expected. very inspiring

I don't really think it's a spoiler cause it doesn't take anything away from the movie, all in all it's an autobiography and, well, I guess you know the ending of it. But I'll edit it a bit.

What's so great about It Follows? It's the first horror film I've seen in 10+ years, so it's fair to say I'm not a big fan of the genre. I never felt the urge to leave the cinema and generally enjoyed it but it didn't strike me as the masterpiece many thinks it is. Did you find it scary?

I felt the same way about cabin in the woods

think the expectations are just low for horror movies

Cabin in the Woods isn't a horror movie though.

woah you haven't seen many films from 2007???

i highly recommend you forget about the AFI and check out the write up I did for the year in film draft and just watch every film in my write up.

satisfaction guaranteed.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=112


edit: OK not sure what you mean cuz you say 2007/2009 but then cite taxi driver n annie hall.

A person who doesn't like the genre but still enjoyed the movie? Sounds like a good movie.

What's great about the movie? Why did you enjoy it?

Finally got around to watching Looper tonight after buying it years ago.

I enjoyed it but the main thing on my mind through the whole film was how much Joseph Gordon Levett looks like young Robert De Niro. Never noticed it watching his other movies but it was clear as day in this one.

Nikolai went from driver to being able to "replace Semyon as boss of London organization" pretty fast in Eastern Promises. Hadn't he only been made a day or two before making that proclamation? Saying that, it was a good movie and a sequel done well would be alotta fun.

i just watched that and a history of violence for the first time a couple weeks ago

that is a good point ha

Sunset Blvd.... So good

I guess it all depends on your definition of "scary". If you define it as a lot of scenes that make you jump in your seat and/or a lot of blood and gore, then no, It Follows isn't scary. For me, I liked the movie because it made me feel very tense and nervous throughout because I was never sure when the **** was going to go down. I felt a constant state of dread watching the movie, which I think is a bit unusual for a horror movie. For most horror movies, their effect on the audience is something like a roller coaster with adrenaline highs whenever the villain gets close or kills someone and then a lull in-between before the next killing. It Follows made me feel a high sense of dread throughout - and especially at points where you'd expect a lull.

There are some really beautiful camera shots and set-ups that are atypical for horror movies. I've read a lot of reviews praising the director's use of the wide-shots.I agree with what this reviewer said from the A.V. Club:

I especially like two sequences:

I can't see It Follows not being in my top 10 favorite movies of 2015.

agree. and it made me like the movie even more.

Another question:

[spoiler]I thought the ending was deliberately ambiguous and playing on the 'anyone in the back of a frame could be it'.[/spoiler]