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Just watched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World again
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God I loved this film. The humor is perfect, the action is intense, the pacing is fucking nuts. Loved the music, the cast, everything. This is one those films where I think the quotes will stick with you for years. I know they will stick with me for sure. "You just drank half-and-half baby." *Sips from the cup*
Now I need to see how to best give my money to Universal to support this movie. The logical step would be to get the DVD (I don't own a Blue ray player), but I want to hold off until they release the Balls Out Collator's edition of something. I can't remember the last time I bough a movie, (probably the used copy of Pans Labyrinth I bought at a rental store before Netflix all but erased them from the map).
Also can anyone here recommend other "feel good" movies that are not excruciatingly predictable?
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btw, I just got Netflix for a month to try it out and may I say that it BLOWS in Canada. The selection is terrible. I couldn't rent Inside Job nor No Country for Old Men cuz NOT AVAILABLE comes up. ugh.
ok to answer your question on some amazing feel good movies that are entirely unpredictable:
The Remains of the Day
Man on Wire (HOLY CRAP is this ever amazing)
Any of the TOY STORY movies
Waste Land (probably my favourite movie of 2010)
Cool Hand Luke (I love this movie)
Before Sunrise / Before Sunset (both of these are probably the best romantic movies I have ever seen)
there you go, probably the essential 'feel good' movie list best of um... ever?
wow, that's bad English but you know what I mean. If you haven't seen any of those, jump on them please. Let me know how it turns out.
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I watched Hellboy 2 again the other day. I almost had to turn it off. It was just fucking stupid. So plastic, artificial, and shallow. Three years ago I liked it. Something has changed...whatever switch it was that gave stupid bullshit a pass because it's stupid nerd bullshit doesn't work anymore.
But I watched Night Watch the other day and liked it MORE than when I saw it in the theater. It's batshit crazy, off-the-rails, sometimes nonsensical...but it's made with passion and balls. That makes all the difference in the world.
Scott Pilgrim was very refreshing...partially because it's genuinely good-natured. It's not crass, vulgar, exploitative, or mean-spirited. It doesn't cater to lowest common denominator humour, and it has a universal story that anybody can relate to even if they don't get all the video game references. It feels honest, heartfelt, and effortless. Not too many movies like that these days.
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Since you mentioned Before Sunset, I'm going to make an effort to watch every movie on your list. That movie is the standard to which I judge performances for "normal" characters in a film. There is much praise for actors depicting serial killers, the mentally challenged, geniuses, etc, etc. But I have yet to see a more down to earth portrayal of two simple strangers than the couple in Before Sunrise. Looking back, I think it was that film and Forest Gump which triggered my respect for the good Hollywood actors as "pros" in another level. Much like pro athletes play at another level. There is so much talent in films that the fact the 95% of the films are cheesy and predictable makes me want to pull my hair out.The Remains of the Day
Man on Wire (HOLY CRAP is this ever amazing)
Any of the TOY STORY movies
Waste Land (probably my favourite movie of 2010)
Cool Hand Luke (I love this movie)
Before Sunrise / Before Sunset (both of these are probably the best romantic movies I have ever seen)
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Man, I am so over the post- Braveheart epic adventure film it's not even funny.
I feel like there have been three great ones. Braveheart, Gladiator, and that Master and Commander film (if that counts).
I'm not sure why everyone thought Hellboy 2 was so great. It seemed to me to be a pretty average film. Standard superhero cgi fare.
Not interested at all in the new Thor or Captain America, and Cap is a character I really like. I'm totally done with super-hero movies as well
I did like Spider-man 2, though. Alot. Doubt I'll watch the relaunch.
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1. Suck. It is loud, funny, indie, and thoroughly Rock n Roll. There is a healthy dose of the cynic involved.
2. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. This is a 40's movie by Preston Sturges that is probably just required viewing. It is a wonderful screwball comedy, made all the crazier that it goes some places that you just didn't think old b/w movies go.
3. Hausu. (House). Perhaps not a feel-good comedy. More of a classic horror-comedy, but done with such a light hand and goofy-morbid deaths that you'd not notice. The movie itself careens about with crazy excess.
And anything on this list which Edgar Wright put together.
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Also, Flash Gordon. That's a cheerful, colorful, completely loony movie. I absofuckingloutely adore it. I saw it when I was six in the theater, I had the "book of the movie" and everything.
And Phantom of the Paradise? Wow. I actually would have guessed this one, there's some parts that actually kind of reminded me of it in Scott Pilgrim. This is a _great_ rock movie. Some of it is a little quaint now, but some of it is still awesome. Death Records, FTW. They show this from time to time on Fox Movie Channel because the studio head's wife, Jessica Harper, is in it. Other than Suspiria and Manhattan, it's the only other movie I know of that she's in.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is great too...that movie was way ahead of its time. It shares some qualities with A Hard Days Night in the editing and the dialogue full of non-sequiters, but it's got this frenetic, reckless quality that's a joy to watch.
The Shaw Brothers stuff is good too, those are two of their best. I'd slate Five Element Ninjas and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter above them, if not Master of the Flying Guillotine. I'm surprised he didn't put Five Deadly Venoms on there, that feels more Scott Pilgrim than Five Fingers of Death.
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Could you at least sometimes try to make any sense?I better never see this movie (Scott Pilgrim) cuz I don't even think it would make my top ten of the year. I,m sure it's VERY good but I suspect this is being overrated.
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I'm not sure what a feel good movie is but I like Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol (Alistar Sim), When Harry met Sally, Brad Bird, typical stuff.
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Also can anyone here recommend other "feel good" movies that are not excruciatingly predictable?
Now these are not all new.
Fandango
Better off Dead
3 O'Clock High
Pirate Radio(The Ship that Rocked)
Whale Rider
Smoke Signals
Once Were Warriors
Plunkett & Macleane
Across the Universe
August Rush
Coco Before Chanel
Lords of Dogtown
Grosse Pointe Blank
Capote
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Rushmore
Crumb
Secondhand Lions
Nothing But Trouble
Dazed and Confused
Finding Neverland
Bottle Rocket
Just some I can think of off the top of my head.
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Unfairly maligned film. It's a billion times better than any of those fucking Transformers movies, GI Joe, either of the Iron Man movies, Hulk, etc.
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If you ask me, it's the best comic book movie this side of The Dark Knight, and for mostly the same reasons that movie was so good.
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The marvel Hulk movie they made after it was terrible.
Scott Pilgrims closest cousin is certainly Speed Racer. Pilgrim was great, much better than most of the stuff Barney champions like The Social Network. My only problems with Scott Pilgrim was:
1) Script was a bit too hipster try-hard. If people start quoting this film I know I'll start hating it.
2) It needed to be shorter. I felt the film started to lose its energy towards the end (about the time of the 2 DJs).
Oh third thing I just remembered
3) I hated the resolution. Made worse by the fact the filmmakers more or less acknowledge that it was a shit resolution.
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