Your top 3 favorite movie trilogies?

[zinfamous]

Lady Vengeance was perhaps my favorite of the three....
Close between Oldboy and Lady Vengeance though...

Mr Vengeance was a bit weaker IMO. Just seemed a bit "choppy" IMO.

Sympathy was....beyond odd for me. Just too creepy with no good payback, I guess.

I suppose I was into the creep that was OldBoy, but Sympathy was just too fucking out there for me. watching the preview of Lady after that just solidified the creep/boredom so I've had no desire to check it out.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I love Goodfellas, but I wouldn't put it anywhere near Raging Bull.

I honestly feel that DeNiro gave the single greatest performance in the history of film with Raging Bull. ...and I'm not the only one that feels that way.

I think it's the main reason people put it on such a pedestal. (aside from the fact that everything going on with that film is phenomenal).

He was certainly great before (GF 2; Taxi Driver), but Raging Bull is what canonized him.

I disagree. Taxi Driver is the second greatest performance given by a man in a film, and only second to McDowell's performance in A Clockwork Orange, the only film I like better. I'll put several ahead of the Bull for other reasons. I have a penchant for the strange, so I also like Wild at Heart and Lost Highway more. It's in my top 10 though.

 

[zinfamous]

Been there already, it's not trolling, it's just expressing my opinion, people don't tend to agree with it, that doesn't make it trolling. Google the definition.

no no no. this was started like 5 minutes ago. You had not been there at the time of my post.

 

[zinfamous]

I disagree. Taxi Driver is the second greatest performance given by a man in a film, and only second to McDowell's performance in A Clockwork Orange, the only film I like better. I'll put several ahead of the Bull for other reasons. I have a penchant for the strange, so I also like Wild at Heart and Lost Highway more. It's in my top 10 though.

yeah, you're more of a Lynch guy than I am. I love everything he does, but I don't worship at his pedestal like many of his fans do. :\

I started Inland Empire the other day, but didn't finish it. i really need to be in the "proper mood" for Lynch. Is it worth it?

 

[HAL9000]

no no no. this was started like 5 minutes ago. You had not been there at the time of my post.

Sorted.

On a side note, any comments you'd like to aim at me that have nothing to do with the OP please just PM me or start a new thread. Unless your only interested in the public reaction?.... :sneaky:

 

[HAL9000]

I disagree. Taxi Driver is the second greatest performance given by a man in a film, and only second to McDowell's performance in A Clockwork Orange, the only film I like better. I'll put several ahead of the Bull for other reasons. I have a penchant for the strange, so I also like Wild at Heart and Lost Highway more. It's in my top 10 though.

Interesting, but I would argue that Orson Welles' performances in Citizen Kane or The Third Man are better than Taxi Driver.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

Lady Vengeance was perhaps my favorite of the three....
Close between Oldboy and Lady Vengeance though...

Mr Vengeance was a bit weaker IMO. Just seemed a bit "choppy" IMO.

Sympathy was....beyond odd for me. Just too creepy with no good payback, I guess.

I suppose I was into the creep that was OldBoy, but Sympathy was just too fucking out there for me. watching the preview of Lady after that just solidified the creep/boredom so I've had no desire to check it out.

OldBoy may be the most demented of the 3 but I like Sympathy's simple cold brutality. Its a story of a simple plan that just when beyond the point of no return and them some.

Lady is a little boring and I thought it tried to be too artsy FWIW.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Oh shut up you moron, I'm talking to someone who actually wants to discuss not insult. I understand things perfectly, I'm quite intelligent, unless you have something to contribute other than ridiculous insults then keep quiet.

Did what I just wrote you there go over your head too?

Fine then. Capsule review.

Alien: Crushingly isolated claustrophobic bro-rape fantasy, great dialogue, great acting, totally believable every day characters, the most convincing alien planet scene ever filmed, HR Giger everything is sexual art direction, and Harry Dean Stanton.

Aliens: Horrible action romp which automatically takes the film outside the realm of art, handicapping the film for me right there, terrible annoying soundtrack, paper thin characters, simple linear plot, several unbelievable elements which destroy suspension, BAYSPLOSIONS, Paul Riser, happy ending, and a complete dismantling of Scott's "perfect organism" ethos from the first film.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

yeah, you're more of a Lynch guy than I am. I love everything he does, but I don't worship at his pedestal like many of his fans do. :\

I started Inland Empire the other day, but didn't finish it. i really need to be in the "proper mood" for Lynch. Is it worth it?

I actually found it unwatchable.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Interesting, but I would argue that Orson Welles' performances in Citizen Kane or The Third Man are better than Taxi Driver.

Those are epic performances and deserve great recognition. I'll still take Travis Bickle though. I'll also take Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke ahead of Welles.

Maybe there's hope for you yet.

Time for another movie thread!

 

[alkemyst]

Spy Kids
Beethoven
Air Buddy

 

[KeithTalent]

I disagree. Taxi Driver is the second greatest performance given by a man in a film, and only second to McDowell's performance in A Clockwork Orange, the only film I like better. I'll put several ahead of the Bull for other reasons. I have a penchant for the strange, so I also like Wild at Heart and Lost Highway more. It's in my top 10 though.

Not sure if it was my frame of mind, or because I watched Mullholland Drive first (freaking loved that movie), but I really did not enjoy Lost Highway. Did not help I had a horrible DVD copy, but still, I could not get into that one.

KT

 

[zinfamous]

Not sure if it was my frame of mind, or because I watched Mullholland Drive first (freaking loved that movie), but I really did not enjoy Lost Highway. Did not help I had a horrible DVD copy, but still, I could not get into that one.

KT

i didn't like Lost Highway the first time I saw it...though I think I was maybe 15 at the time. What would I know?

Watched it again many years later and dug it. I know it's sad and intolerable, but Mulholland Drive is my favorite Lynch flick--and not because of hot Naomi Watts and her excellent boobies.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Not sure if it was my frame of mind, or because I watched Mullholland Drive first (freaking loved that movie), but I really did not enjoy Lost Highway. Did not help I had a horrible DVD copy, but still, I could not get into that one.

KT

I didn't like it the first time. It gets in your brain though. Definitely worth a second look.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

I didn't like it the first time. It gets in your brain though. Definitely worth a second look.

I dont quite get the love for Mulholland Drive either. Saw it only once though. Just felt like one of those late night Skinemax movies.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

i didn't like Lost Highway the first time I saw it...though I think I was maybe 15 at the time. What would I know?

Watched it again many years later and dug it. I know it's sad and intolerable, but Mulholland Drive is my favorite Lynch flick--and not because of hot Naomi Watts and her excellent boobies.

Patricia Arquette's bewbies > Naomi Watts bewbies.

 

[KeithTalent]

Mullholland is my favourite Lynch film; such a perfect mindfuck and it feels better put together than Lost Highway which felt pretty disjionted to me, plus I had a major woody for Watts in that. Damn, so hot.

KT

 

[Kelemvor]

Star Wars
LotR
Bourne