man i would love a coffee table book about the coffee ambush scene in ronin
― omar little, Monday, February 20, 2012 12:18 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just tried fruitlessly to find the lego playset somebody made of that scene
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
I spent some of the movie trying to figure out how Sean Bean would come back, what his angle really was - he's one of the big name stars, surely that wasn't just it?
Pretty okay with both the DeNiros being outside the top 5 - resigned to Inception not showing up - curious as to whether it'll be Children of Men or Lethal Weapon.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
i've never heard anyone non ILX rave about Ronin much.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Robert De Niro, action man
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
6. Iron Eagle
― ( -- ( .) - ( .) / (am0n), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
I would totally stab someone for The Good Thief.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:20 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
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― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ilx totally turned me onto the Miami Vice film in the Mann poll, when everyone else still seemed to hate it. since then though a lotta folk have jumped on board and recognised how amazing it is.
― piscesx, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
RONIN!!!!! :D
That fucking car chase owns me. And I love that this movie holds up to regular rewatching. It's got a really raw, naturalistic, almost 70's quality to it, that so much of it's intensity is just story + character
Man today's list is giving me a sugar rush like a kid at a birthday party.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
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― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
yes, watched Miami Vice last night, finally. thx ilx boosters, it was great.
― woof, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw there is a chance top 5 will have to wail til tomorrow. will let you folks know later~~
#6 shortly...
― omar little, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
<3 Omar thank you!!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
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#6
CHILDREN OF MEN
Alfonso Cuarón2006United Kingdom/United States(628 points, 20 votes)
"Harrowing" is the best word to describe those action sequences. Plus, I love how arbitrary the series of events are: companions you think are going to help Owen are rubbed off sudddenly, wrenchingly, while characters you assume are peripheral suddenly step in. I also admire how Owen isn't given any cute character tags other than that he once had a kid who died young: he's a smarter-than-average guy suddenly thrust into a situation beyond his control.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
the long tracking shots are unreal. the action sequences are great because, while they owe a slight debt to Saving Private Ryan, they aren't indulgent; they aren't Michael Bay'd to death.
― don weiner
It has a badass opening (EXPLOSION! GO BOOM!) And all the action is pretty awesome: the ambush in the car, the refugee camp. At one point there is blood on the lens which isn't new but it's still a cool device (for me). The thing that works in it's favor the most is that no one spends any time languishing over the deaths of everyone. It could have been one I-will-always-miss-you scene one after another but instead it opts to distract me with more violence.
― earinfections (Nick Twisp)
i loved this but my audience was TERRIBLE - laughing at any halfway funny or surprising line, APPLAUDING when anything bad happens to anybody in the second half like its some fuckin die hard type action/revenge flick, and one frat-lookin dude started laughing really hard during the long awful shot of clive owen in the building, when dude was running up the stairs, and when his girlfriend gave him a wtf look he said as explanation 'there was chickens'
― and what
'Children of Men', the new Alfonso Cuaron sci-fi flick
― omar little, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
terrific movie.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
still waiting for him to make that gravity flick
there were so many surprising moments in it, the first time i saw it, that just blew me away
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
what color is the boathouse at hereford?
how the fuck should i know
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
children of men is so good. so good!!! SO GOOD
― max, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I really need to watch CoM.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
would love to see a movie where ronin teamed up with the children of men
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
The Wages of Fear is totally going in my queue. Diaboliques is pretty wicked.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
He has made that gravity flick
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
he has?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
children of men is one of those movies that is legit politically interesting. right wingers freaked out about about the obvious stuff (the hooded 'abu ghraib' prisoner, general visual level of sympathy for people in internment camps) but i feel like there's plenty of easy ways to explain what's going on in this movie from a conservative pov
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's out in November
off to work! will let you know about the top five shortly.
― omar little, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
nice.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
see, I like CoM, but I was happy just seeing it once. The action sequences are fab but it just never felt like a long-term keeper to me.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
com, ronin and blade runner are probably my favorite movies of the 00s, 90s and 80s respectively.
― max, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
love the no shoes bit in COM. Possibly a nod to Die Hard?
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
bit late on catching up with today's films but i was busy watching sorcerer (fucking awesome btw). also in my quest to see other movies by directors whose movies how up in ilx's top 15, i watched y tu mama tambien yesterday. it's kind of lol to think this guy is also responsible for CoM which is great too.
― Jibe, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure i've mentioned this before but one day i locked myself out of my flat and my roommates had gone to see a movie so i went to the theater and actually paid for a ticket so that i could go in and get the keys. it had just started. it was called "children of men", and i had never heard of it. i figured well, i paid for the ticket, might as well see it. o_O
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
did u like it
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Cuaron's filmography is kind of all over the place
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
does seem true insofar as once you know the 'gotchas' it doesn't seem as worthwhile to watch
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Children of Men is the best new movie I've seen in a decade. Confession: also one of the several movies I didn't vote for that placed today because I knew it would have strong support. I did this so I could promote all-time-awesomest movies I thought had less of a chance.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
signed, 'rick roll video' xp
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
rick roll is not the video in my dn!! >:|
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
s1ocki i loved it. i had no idea what it was going to be about, not even what kind of movie it was. i had never even heard of it. this is the way to see movies imo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
ya i think i saw it with very little foreknowledge, just heard it was really good or something
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
VIENNA.
― omar 13337713 (Leee), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
As I said somewhere way upthread, the Julianne Moore car chase scene in CoM (no spoilers!) is probably one of my favorite action sequences of all time. It was genuinely thrilling and shocking and logistically impressive.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
spoilers: two people, one ping pong ball
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
no rules.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
really don't like com!
― iatee, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
lol the whole list is a sham now that blade runner's on it. it's a fucking inaction movie
leon is the shit. my #6. besson's best work - portman's and oldman's too. venus as a boy!
heat's great, nothing new to say about it
i didn't vote for ronin. when i was 13-14 it was one of my favorite movies on the planet, for pretty much the same reasons as everyone else. i rented it from blockbuster and dubbed a copy so i could watch it any time. watched it again recently and couldn't get into it at all. maybe i just saw it too many times. the music during the car chases irritated the shit out of me, and i think it drags on too long with some of the double crosses and shit. i got this vibe from it where i felt like the irl version of deniro's character would be some kind of libertarian blowhard who reads a lot of harry turtledove novels.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:29 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark
its in post-prod!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
I have to go look at the thread to remember why tho
― iatee, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link