― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 23 April 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
more than VAN wilder, in case you thought they meant gene.
― da croupier, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
And it turns out the hotel porter wasn't really dead, he just got a little carried away playing hide and seek with his kid!
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
for best romcom? yes
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
more like the third wheel.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Last shot is the ghost of Harry Lime smiling down on them from the top of the Prater Riesenrad.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the Vienna Big Wheel to you.
this thread has that problem where only your serious movie motherfuckers went and saw it.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I went and saw it.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ok well it also has that problem then.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
well i tried to get a discussion started about east german prostitutes but nobody went there with me
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
well the one in this film isn't going anywhere good before the wall comes down but as far as that's concerned we could just as well as be talking about that clooney/soderbergh noir number
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
and you know not to holla but I couldn't give a shit less for a minute about how the "stasi creep" is "sanctified" or whatever, lots of antiheros have gotten by with much much more in the way of redemption for a lot less sand
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i think part of it is that most brits and americans know jack shit about east germany and so this film functions as a de facto history lesson whether it likes it or not; it fails in this regard i think, but it's not fair to look at it only from that pov
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
my biggest complaint: no musical numbers
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
which is where "top secret" really pulls away from the pack
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
this movie really needed Omar Sharif.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 19 June 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
And Hildegard Knef.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
most brits and americans know jack shit about east germany and so this film functions as a de facto history lesson
right, and I think it's especially cheeky to complain about the treatment of the protagonist here when like 2/3rds of the entire anglophone cinematic tradition is about those colorful rapey blood-soaked sociopaths who built our respective countries into what they are today, america esp. with all them westerns (also I finally watched gangs of ny lol)
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i complain about those too!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
though the usual western trope is the exact reverse, right? the law-abiding man of peace who circumstances force to become a killer in order to protect his family/town/etc
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"You are a good-looking boy. You have big, broad shoulders. But he is a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
what the fuck does this have to with the fact that the protagonist's evolution into a Rilke-loving quasi-softie is convincing?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw it. I liked it, though I had a little more trouble with the believability of Dreyman, rather than Wiesler.
― clotpoll, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
fukk all y'all i CRIED REAL TEARS at the end of this
― Just got offed, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
so this is showing on the big screen here soon - worth seeing? didn't want to go through the thread for fear of spoilers. should be noted I'm not a big fan of calculated shmaltz (I did cry in theaters during A.I. though)
― 囧 (dyao), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
it's pretty good, looks really nice, and obv the historical setting is fascinating. but maybe leave 10 mins before the end if you don't like schmaltz :)
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
haha - not sure how the people I would be seeing it with would take it. I'll tell them I need to make some stock trades
― 囧 (dyao), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yes it's good. leave when they stop steaming envelopes because maybe you are allergic to envelopes.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked this a lot, saw it in the cinema and really loved it until the end, which is pretty shit. But apart from that enjoyable.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link