That was "The Matrix" part one and two. It was just a rehashing of the themes with CGI effects that were brilliant but the story just became more muddled and redundant.
I just made that up. Is that what cgi means?
No, I'm sure you know it's computer generated images. "Star Wars" was the first major studio release to use CGI.
CGIs are starting to hurt my eyes. I never expected this to happen,my god i always liked special affects but this is bizarre,something inside of me rebels,like Thomas Rebello !!!
Who is a real person.
"Matrix Revolution" was overloaded with CGI -- on my wide screen TV it started to give me a headache (I had already modified the dynamic range 'cause the sound was ear shattering). It's like an omelet with too much filling of ingredients that don't taste good together. It was a video game on speed. The plot got lost in a lot of metaphysical mumbo jumbo that any competant sci-fi writer would have thrown into the trash.
And I thought "Moulin Rouge!" was rather too kinetic in spots -- this was an assault on the senses and I can believe Ebert and Roeper gave it a thumbs-up. They are slipping.
No, eoe and I didn't know that, LW, thus the question. I just guessed...
Ok wow I really need to go see some of these movies. Now don't take this the wrong way ok. but what are your ages people? My guess is your 25-30 years my seinors! Go see a great new Movie that I never get bored with The Matrix hey if you like it see 2 and 3. This movie has it all love, guns, twists and speciel effects.
Yesterday afternoon, we found a tape of "Beverly Hills Cop". Not a heavy weight movie, but I laughed 'til I cried. Eddie Murphy is fabulous in his part. And I LOVE the music. That's my kinda stuff!
Love the sabotaged car tailpipe!
Disenter don't take this in a bad way but a generation weaned on video games will love CGI movies like Matrix. I'm more drawn to scripts and acting. Different movies, different generations. It's all good.
Ok last night I watched MY Cousin Vinny, I liked it it was funny. I will have to look into more of these oldies but goodies.
You won't be dissapointed checking out those old movies and there are so many it takes a lifetime to appreciate them all.
dissenter--go get "GEt Shorty" for a very good time. Im still pissed that it never won anything that year, (I think it was 1768)
Excellent recommendation, farmerman.
The Usual Suspects (with Gabriel Byrne & Kevin Spacey)
Last of the Mohicans (with Daniel Day Lewis & Madeleine Stowe)
Harvey (with James Stewart & Harvey)
High Noon (with Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly)
My Man Godfrey (with William Powell & Carole Lombard)
Love and a Bullet (with Treach & Delroy Lindo)
Formula 51 (with Samuel L jackson & Robert Carlyle)
Reservoir Dogs (with Tim Roth & Harvey Keitel)
Excalibur (with Nicol Williamson & Helen Mirren)
The Mark of Zorro (with Tyrone Power)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Gary Oldman and Wynona Rider)
The Professional (with Jean Reno and Gary Oldman)
Ronin (Robert De Niro and Jean Reno)
Godfather I (with Al Pacino & Marlon Brando)
Godfather II (with Al Pacino & Robert De Niro)
Blazing Saddles (with Cleavon Little & Gene Wilder)
Young Frankenstein (with Gene WIlder and Marty Feldman)
Tombstone (with Kurt Russell * Val Kilmer, is best role ever)
...How could I forget!
The Scarlet Pimpernel (with Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon)
My husband and I have watched "Tombstone" so many times, we can quote it line by line. One of the few movies we both adored.
"Law don't go 'round here, lawdog."
BBB
The Old Man In The Sea with Spencer Tracy;
Swimming to Cambodia,Spalding Gray's monologue;
All The President's Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman;
Any of The Mind's Eye computerized animation films.
BBB
I clicked on google to refresh my memory of the film short "Troppo Oregano" so I could link it here... and found only a quote by myself mentioning it before on able2know.com.
Hmmm.
There are so many good films that I like (and many have been mentioned) that I do not know where to begin:
Some of my favourites:
Fanny & Alexander, The Seventh Seal, After the Rehearsal (Bergman)
Stalker, The Sacrifice, Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Lightyears away (Tanner)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)
Cria Cuervos (Saura)
Les Uns et les Autres (Lelouche)
E la nave va (Fellini)
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ferreri)
The Piano (Campion)
Once were Warriors (Tamahori)
To live (Zhang Yi Mou)
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
The Pillowbook (Greenaway)
Other films would never make it in this list but I could list them by category:
Comedy: everything by Monty Python, Leningrad Cowboys go America, all films by Jaques Tati
Action comedy: Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Romantic Comedy: Moonstruck
Thriller: Angel Heart
Romantic thriller: Sea of Love
Romance: Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune
Musical: Hair
Erotic: Emmanuelle
Animation: Who framed Roger Rabbit
War: Apocalypse Now (redux)
SciFi: Soylent Green
SciFi thriller: Aliens
SciFi Comedy: Spaceballs
And many etceteras. Having filled all this space I still keep thinking of more titles to add (like Citizen Kane), but I have to draw the line somewhere. Still, I haven't mentioned the film I have seen most often (7x), an obscure Dutch movie called De Afstand ("The Distance", not brilliant, but I was working as an operator in a cinema at the time).
