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| bart |
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more 1997....
The Devil's Advocate
The Boxer
Mrs. Brown
The Full Monty
Face/Off (disparage at will, I found it inspiringly over the top) |
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:57 am |
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MINOR SPOILERS for 12 Monkeys & Fifth Element
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I thought 12 Monkeys was pretty intriguing and sharp for about 2/3rds of the film, and then slumped hugely with the goofy environmental group. I thought Fifth Element had an even worse drop off into awful, when the film shifted to that other planet, with the extremely annoying host and an extended shootouts.
Imo, Natural Born Killers was a good ride until about halfway through. I liked nothing about Leaving Las Vegas.
Still haven't gotten around to watching Shawshank Redemption.
Hadn't heard anything about Fearless before. I like Bridges and Rossellini. Don't think the Dvd is kicking around here anymore though. The Ice Storm was pretty good (and often cited as a precursor to American Beauty). |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:11 am |
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gromit wrote: MINOR SPOILERS for 12 Monkeys & Fifth Element
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I thought 12 Monkeys was pretty intriguing and sharp for about 2/3rds of the film, and then slumped hugely with the goofy environmental group. I thought Fifth Element had an even worse drop off into awful, when the film shifted to that other planet, with the extremely annoying host and an extended shootouts.
Imo, Natural Born Killers was a good ride until about halfway through. I liked nothing about Leaving Las Vegas.
Still haven't gotten around to watching Shawshank Redemption.
Hadn't heard anything about Fearless before. I like Bridges and Rossellini. Don't think the Dvd is kicking around here anymore though. The Ice Storm was pretty good (and often cited as a precursor to American Beauty).
I thought 12 Monkeys had one really big logical gap, that you could drive a car through:
All of Bruce Willis's flashbacks were more or less correct, except the one where he places Brad Pitt's character in the airport, getting on the plane. That one was clearly wrong (instead of ambiguous), and clearly out of synch with the others - so I couldn't buy it in that universe. And it wasn't like you could confuse Brad Pitt with the real culprit (whose name I'm forgetting right now).
I saw this with a friend (after her husband had seen it). The husband and I agreed, she didn't. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:32 pm |
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| Another top 1990's movie for me was Fargo. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:14 pm |
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New forum suggestion:
FILMS OF THE '90S. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:14 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: Another top 1990's movie for me was Fargo.
Me too, in triplicate. One I forgot, but near the top of the list. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:10 pm |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:36 am |
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| The Grifters!!! - a great 1990 film |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:38 am |
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Trish wrote: The Grifters!!! - a great 1990 film
Word. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:46 am |
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Lady:
David Morse. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:46 am |
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| Anjelica Huston's performance in that film is my favorite female acting performance - especially the scene near the very end |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:16 am |
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| that's excellent Gary I'm glad she enjoyed it |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:22 am |
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Mr. Brownstone wrote: Lady:
David Morse.
Thanks, Tim. It's been ten years, and I'm slowly losing what little mind I had.
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I found out this morning that The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was based on a real case involving an 18-yr-old Mexican-American goatherder and Marines that were sent to the border "as advisors" to the Border Patrol, much like they want to do with the National Guard now. And although there are small numbers of National Guard there now, there are so many ways that this could go wrong if it's done sloppily.
I thought the movie had a lot of problems deciding what it wanted to be when it grew up, but this does add to it. (Although it's still a mess.) |
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:36 am |
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12 Monkeys had the core logic problem of all time travel films, which is that chaos theory (and really, basic causality) shows clearly how small changes in antecedent conditions can wreak big changes years in the future. A time traveler's mere presence in the past displaces air and insects and plants and dust particles and so on, changes the use of water and food, causes pedestrians to subtly shift their paths and arrive somewhere at slightly different moments and, in the case of a male, have a different one of billions of sperm cells happen to be "in the lead" at a moment of fertilization. Bruce Willis could spend five minutes in the past, and he would never return to the future from whence he came. In fact, his mere presence would insure that he would wink out of existence and be somewhere else with different memories.
So, given that, I usually check my brain at the door of the theater and just enjoy the ride. |
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