Assualt on pricint 13-This was the one from a couple years ago with lawrence fishburne and ethan hawke and it was aweful.
The plot was stupid and the action wasnt that stimulating and the twist at the end was pretty obvious.1/5

Donnie Brasco-Starring Johnny Depp and Al pacino.was a pretty good gangster film with johnny depp playing an undercover fbi agent in the mob and pacino as an ageing hitman.It was based on a true story and was pretty good.Unlike many other mob movies this raps up in only 2hrs so that was a nice touch(the godfather films wher great but 3 hrs takes up ur hole afternoon).4/5

The original Assault on Precinct 13 is roughly 68x better than the remake.

more info:
The Man from Earth is a 2007 science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. The film stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist of the story. The screenplay for this movie was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and was completed on his death bed in April 1998, making it his final piece of work.[2] The movie gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks and its producer publicly thanked users of these networks for this.

The film tells a story of John Oldman, a man claiming to be a Cro-Magnon ,i.e., Magdalenian caveman, who still survives after 14,000 years. The entire film is shot in a small house and its porch, relying solely on the conversation of the characters to keep the plot moving: the film is an intellectual discourse between the alleged 14,000-year-old Cro-Magnon and his professor and teacher friends at his farewell party.

the hangover, twice, with a few whiskey and ice, on the airplane ride and return. success. extraordinary movie.

I watched Man from Earth recently as well and also found it interesting.

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I really enjoyed The Pianist, Adrien Brody is great and the movie was very well done...3.5/4

Click on op's link for part 1 of this thread. Lots of great recommendations/reviews/discussion on hundreds of films, often lesser known gems. Or you could start by cherry picking the IMDB top 250 or AFI top 100. or pick a filmmaker/actor you like and run em all down. You liked clockwork orange, well Kubrick is a f'n legend, watch his stuff.

Grosse Point Blank -- Fun because John Cusack has some sort of an interesting charm that I'm not sure I see anything very much like in any other actor. A surprisingly decent action scene or two, a lot of fun bits of conversation thrown back and forth between people, some slightly annoyingly unlikely events here and there, but hey, how else are you going to have a romantic comedy involving a hitman? All in all not great, but fun and worth a rental.

The Great Man, Benny Urquidez, makes an appearance as an especially homicidal hitman. He's very familiar to old school martial arts fans, and he has a fight scene with Jackie Chan in one of his movies (either Wheels on Meals or Dragons Forever, I forget) that some aficionados say is the best fight scene ever filmed. You do get to see him move a bit, which is nice. Everything isn't chopped up into a close up of an anonymous foot and such.

I think its just that he seems normal. That he could be your friend?

I like Joan Cusack a lot. She is extremely underrated.

I looked like John Cusack when I was young. I can't stand Say Anything, ugho, cloying claptrap, unripened Cameron Crowe.

He seems thoughtful and sometimes like he's really discovering his part in real time instead of playing it back. I don't know, I'm sure there are a lot of elements there I couldn't pin down and that don't show up in every performance. The normal part seems on track, too -- he does seem to usually let you in. I dunno, I just find him easy to relate to in some way, so I tend to get behind his characters a lot. Sometimes there's something off about him so I don't always follow him all the way, but he seems to let a lot through, without mediation, successfully. And he can do it without being a dick. There's an essential likability there.

Compare to DeNiro, who can let you in very deeply, but almost always maintains a feeling of otherness and indecipherability to me. I can feel astonished at how good DeNiro is at what he's doing, and how true it is, but it feels more like a particular than universal truth, and a particular rather than general connection. I can see myself as a John Cusack character here and there. I can hardly ever see myself as fully understanding the mysteries and strangeness of a DeNiro character.

Wow, Blarg, there's a lot in that post.

Very nicely done. Very insightful, seriously.

I don't feel like I know too terribly much about the art of acting or what goes into it, but I like what you've written here. I think it can be applied to any art, and is a worthwhile meditation on aesthetics in general.

Sorry to get all heavy.

As you were. Nothing to see here.

To Live and Die in L.A. - pretty cool movie, I had seen it before, but only parts. Gil Grissom was actually a good actor before CSI.

But more important: Reservoir Dogs.

If you watch that, it becomes immediately clear why Tarantino will never get actors like Al Pacino - it would simply be a waste of talent, since his characters are all so darn one-dimensional. Even Mr. White. Which is a shame, Harvey Keitel is a great actor.
But it is a good popcorn movie.

So DeNiro in Jackie Brown was what?

One of my favourite ever performances?

Im not sure what it is about this moive but I can watch this over and over again. This only happens with a very small amount of movies. Cusack seems to always deliver at the very least decent movies and I like to watch all of his.

wow, I though this movie was ****, no offense

to be fair though I saw it a long time ago and I was prolly 15 or so when I saw it

No, you were right. It was ****.

I really hated it, then I revisited it in an effort to find what value I might have missed.

I suppose my Bridget Fonda fetish was satisfied, but that's about it.

I watched A Bridge Too Far as it was on TV the other day - what an epic movie with an amazing cast. Great story too.

Deadgirl
Pretty meh movie, it's ok to watch but it could've been sooo much better. I was really dissapointed how this one ended, the idea is interesting though. 7/10.

Saw Eastern Promises last night. Good, not great. Plot was a lil meh for me, but Viggo Mortensen was very very good. Lots of graphic violence, which is always nice.

Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs was entertaining. I give it a 7.0. Nothing spectacular, no great message but a fun movie for kids.

City Of God.

First movie i watched in many months. Basically about this kind of gang war in some suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Enjoyed it, kept me interested anyways, worth a watch imo.

Note that I didn't say that I liked the movie. I didn't. I thought De Niro was great in it though.

VERY worth a watch.

I thought this was beautifully made, and very entertaining to boot.

The DVD extras include a documentary on Rio and the slums that produce this sort of awful situation, and it is fascinating, really.