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[Cain]

3. Source Code
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Midnight in Paris

Having seen about 85% of your list (want to see but haven't yet seen Another Earth, Hugo, Hanna and I hate the X-Men movie series); I think these 3 were the only really good ones. The ones I could see myself rewatching in the future anyway.

 

[Kane52630]

I really liked Drive but it had some of the art house tropes that made me bored every now and then.

 

[Cain]

I really liked Drive but it had some of the art house tropes that made me bored every now and then.

It's very slow burn and thusly really not for everybody but I love that it's not pretentious about it all either unlike say Melancholia. I could deal with quiet movies; I'm a Terence Malick fan for pete's sake lol. I loved the **** out of the director's Valhalla Rising toowhich is a reason I went to see Drive so I had no real problem with any of that.

 

[WalkingDeadMike]

I hate the X-Men movie series

First class was way, way better than any of the other X-movies.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Having seen about 85% of your list (want to see but haven't yet seen Another Earth, Hugo, Hanna and I hate the X-Men movie series); I think these 3 were the only really good ones. The ones I could see myself rewatching in the future anyway.

Yeah, well, to you then.

No, actually, I haven't seen a whole lot of stuff in theaters this year.

 

[Hush]

Drive is good but I do not think it was the end all be all of film this year.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I love art house stuff.

 

[Kane52630]

It's very slow burn and thusly really not for everybody but I love that it's not pretentious about it all either unlike say Melancholia. I could deal with quiet movies; I'm a Terence Malick fan for pete's sake lol. I loved the **** out of the director's Valhalla Rising toowhich is a reason I went to see Drive so I had no real problem with any of that.

See I didn't want to use the word pretentious for Drive but at times it was very much so. As I said before it's a great film (I gave it a 9/10) but those moments in the film brought it down.

I love art house stuff.

This is why you fail.

 

[Cain]

Drive is good but I do not think it was the end all be all of film this year.

I don't think it would ever be viewed that way either. It's not the most original film around. But it's great genre film making. The atmosphere of the whole thing was very reminiscent of gritty 70's and early 80's meticulous crime cinema like Night Moves and Thief and I dug that a lot personally.

 

[Tron Bonne]

No, this is why I am better, faster, stronger. Love the slowness. Love. It.

 

[Charlie Boy]

I really liked Drive but it had some of the art house tropes that made me bored every now and then.

The thing about Drive is although it was a slow burn, you kne once it reached its boiling point **** was gonna get crazy, and it did. Throw in the fact that everyone involved gave some really solid performances, even the little kid. Drive was just a lot of fun, and I wasn't really expecting to love it as much as I do.

 

[Kane52630]

The thing about Drive is although it was a slow burn, you kne once it reached its boiling point **** was gonna get crazy, and it did. Throw in the fact that everyone involved gave some really solid performances, even the little kid. Drive was just a lot of fun, and I wasn't really expecting to love it as much as I do.

Oh I get that it's a slow burn and I love the performances but a couple of scenes they used for that slow burn did not add anything to the story or it could've been better. Yeah I wasn't expecting it to good coming in and it proved me wrong.

No, this is why I am better, faster, stronger. Love the slowness. Love. It.

Speaking of Faster, that was a great film. It's similar to Drive in the premise but instead of it having nightlife feel from the 80's, Faster was in a classic noir setting.

 

[Drz]

I've heard like nothing but good things about Drive. I didn't have much drive (pun intended) to see it, because I honestly thought the trailers looked pretty weak and generic. By the time I keep hearing all this astounding buzz, it has left all the local theaters.

I saw the trailer for Drive after seeing the film and man it looked so crap, they practically give away the entire plotline too there lol.

It's very slow burn and thusly really not for everybody but I love that it's not pretentious about it all either unlike say Melancholia. I could deal with quiet movies; I'm a Terence Malick fan for pete's sake lol. I loved the **** out of the director's Valhalla Rising toowhich is a reason I went to see Drive so I had no real problem with any of that.

<3 Valhalal Rising.

 

[chamber-music]

Driver was like a hypnotic noir Taxi Driver with a 80s/70s vibe.

Melancholia was boring as hell. Skip watching that and go rent Von Triers Dogville co-founder Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy instead.

I've heard like nothing but good things about Drive. I didn't have much drive (pun intended) to see it, because I honestly thought the trailers looked pretty weak and generic. By the time I keep hearing all this astounding buzz, it has left all the local theaters.

I never get why folks right off films by the trailers as most trailers look generic and by numbers.

Has anyone seen I Saw The Devil. Those South Koreans sure make crazy violent messed up revenge movies. It stars the guy who plays Storm Shadow in the GI Joe movies as a badass CIA agent who goes after the serial killer who murdered his wife and the serial killer is played by the lead from Oldboy.

That sounds rather generic but its not because the CIA catches the serial killer brutally beats the guts out of him then lets him go. It turns into this sick cat and mouse movie. There is also a crazy cannibal.

 

[The Morningstar]

Yea, "hypnotic" is how i'd describe Drive.

 

[Kane52630]

Has anyone seen I Saw The Devil. Those South Koreans sure make crazy violent messed up revenge movies. It stars the guy who plays Storm Shadow in the GI Joe movies as a badass CIA agent who goes after the serial killer who murdered his wife and the serial killer is played by the lead from Oldboy.

That sounds rather generic but its not because the CIA catches the serial killer brutally beats the guts out of him then lets him go. It turns into this sick cat and mouse movie. There is also a crazy cannibal.

Yes i've seen it months ago, it's just amazing. I Saw The Devil is on my top 10 of last year and it's probably the best revenge film in a while.

 

[Drz]

That sounds rather generic but its not because the CIA catches the serial killer brutally beats the guts out of him then lets him go. It turns into this sick cat and mouse movie. There is also a crazy cannibal.

Yeah it's a good movie with an interesting take on the Mouse and Cat game.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I haven't seen I Saw the Devil, but I've been enjoying Korean movies. I watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance a few months ago and then Castaway on the Moon a couple weeks ago. They were both great (although in very different ways).

 

[Anubis]

I like that movie I'm a Cyborg but that's okay.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I never get why folks right off films by the trailers as most trailers look generic and by numbers.

I disagree. I've seen pretty trailers that are pretty exciting, and in the end, that's the whole job of a trailer: to sell you on seeing a film. If a trailer really doesn't deliver that for me, I tend not to pay a whole lot of attention to it. And Drive just wasn't one of those movies that came to my attention pre-trailer.

 

[chamber-music]

Most trailers come off boring and generic too me even the ones for good movies probably because they are made up by marketing men.

I haven't seen I Saw the Devil, but I've been enjoying Korean movies. I watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance a few months ago and then Castaway on the Moon a couple weeks ago. They were both great (although in very different ways).

Have you seen the rest of the vengence movies Old Boy & Lady Vengence?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Started on Oldboy but fell asleep right after he gets out of his little room. Not the movie's fault; I was really tired. I've got them on my Netflix queue, so I'll watch them eventually.

Korean action movies worry me a little bit, though. I'm not really into gore in movies, and they tend to just throw a bit of extreme gore in here and there so casually that I don't even see it coming. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance was that way. It'd be going along fine, maybe even cracking a few jokes here and there, and then bam, a dude gets his head caved in or a chick's getting tortured.

 

[Anubis]

Oldboy's got one of the all time most f**ked up endings.

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah the ending to Oldboy was very odd, I didn't know if the movie was good or bad but it was certainly weird.

 

[The Morningstar]

Ichi the Killer. That is all.