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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52542, posted by rich at 08:18, 4/3/2004, in reply to message #52495 |
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What about The Sixth Sense, Never saw it. Don't like hype. Plus, someone told me the ending. Didn't sound that good.
Wild Things, Too busy looking at the lezzy kissing and threesome action to remember the plot  Seriously though, yes, good film.
Twelve Monkeys, OK, I'll give you that one.
Signs, You already said Sixth Sense, you can't count it twice
And it was s***. Even The Vigay says so.
(the new) Planet of the Apes, Oh, f*** off. A s*** film with a chimpletely contrived last few seconds tacked on that even the director didn't know why.
Vanilla Sky, Never saw it. Don't like Tom Cruise. Saw Minority Report and hated the smug b******'s face. Hoped he got caught, but he didn't.
Couldn't watch another Cruister film until Last Samurai.
Unbreakable, You already counted Six Sense... woah! deja vu!
Pulp Fiction, That had an ending? I thought it disappeared up its own navel in a puff of illogic
Phone Booth.... Pretty boy lives. Much more suprising if he'd have taken a bullet. It played out pretty much exactly how you'd expect, apart from a franchise-opening minor twist that is, in itself, hackneyed if you've ever watched Nightmare on Elm Street or indeed pretty much any movie ever.
Plus, Schumacher is a f***ing hack.
need I go on? Quite frankly, yes. Come on, you can't match any of those against something like Usual Suspects. 
[edit] I'm adding one to my own list however - Memento had a great ending. Beginning. Whatever. Which just made Insomnia, by the same director, such a huge dissapointment, played straight out of the big book of Hollywood cliches. Where's the possiblity for moral ambiguity if the subject of the woman's quandry is fucking dead?
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Phil Mellor |
Message #52544, posted by monkeyson2 at 09:19, 4/3/2004, in reply to message #52542 |
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Vanilla Sky, Never saw it. Don't like Tom Cruise. Saw Minority Report and hated the smug b******'s face. Hoped he got caught, but he didn't.
The original, Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), was good, so I expect Vanilla Sky was a load of trousers. |
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Andrew |
Message #52563, posted by andrew at 13:06, 4/3/2004, in reply to message #52544 |
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The Wickerman - one of the most original and unpredictable films I've seen. |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52564, posted by rich at 13:14, 4/3/2004, in reply to message #52563 |
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The Wickerman - one of the most original and unpredictable films I've seen. Slightly older than a decade though. Christ, it's almost as old as me! =:-o
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Kevin Wells |
Message #52594, posted by Revin Kevin at 21:26, 4/3/2004, in reply to message #52564 |
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The Wickerman - one of the most original and unpredictable films I've seen. Slightly older than a decade though. Christ, it's almost as old as me! =:-o
Young bugger.
If were talking about older films Easy Rider they both died in the end.
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52603, posted by rich at 10:09, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52594 |
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If were talking about older films Easy Rider they both died in the end. Not really that suprising - bad men die at the end of the film, no matter how much they might have redeemed themselves in the interim. Not that they did. But anyway, don't get me started on my Leon vs. Nikita diatribe!
Although yes, the manner of their deaths was shocking.
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Mark Scholes |
Message #52607, posted by mavhc at 11:27, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52594 |
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The Wickerman - one of the most original and unpredictable films I've seen. Slightly older than a decade though. Christ, it's almost as old as me! =:-o
Young bugger.
If were talking about older films Easy Rider they both died in the end.
Bah, spoiler |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52614, posted by rich at 12:23, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52607 |
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If were talking about older films Easy Rider they both died in the end. Bah, spoiler
Given the film's age, you should really already be aware of that if you're even remotely interested in that kind of film. And if you're not, well, not really spoiling anything is it? 
BTW: in Close Encounters, aliens did it.
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #52618, posted by Phlamethrower at 12:34, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52614 |
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BTW: in Close Encounters, aliens did it. Noooooooooooo!  |
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Mark Scholes |
Message #52623, posted by mavhc at 13:00, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52614 |
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Given the film's age, you should really already be aware of that if you're even remotely interested in that kind of film. I plan to watch it some day, never read much about it though |
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Andrew |
Message #52646, posted by andrew at 22:08, 5/3/2004, in reply to message #52564 |
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The Wickerman - one of the most original and unpredictable films I've seen. . Christ, it's almost as old as me! =:-o
You cranky old ***********r
Here's another couple, one older by a bit than a decade, but compare and contrast:
Licence to Kill (1989) : Hardly dated; original contemporary storyline; unpretentious revenge story but clever, quite original ending.
Goldeneye (1995): More recent but hackneyed, tired megalomaniac baloney which takes Bond and Bond-girls right back to the beginning. Villain and super-project destroyed at the end. What a letdown after the work done by Dalton
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Simon Wilson |
Message #52647, posted by ksattic at 02:26, 6/3/2004, in reply to message #52542 |
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Phone Booth.... Pretty boy lives. Much more suprising if he'd have taken a bullet.
Hmm... that's open to debate. I don't think he lived. What was he injected with?
How about:
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- A Clockwork Orange
- American Beauty (at least I didn't predict the ending)
- Requiem For A Dream |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52648, posted by rich at 11:25, 6/3/2004, in reply to message #52647 |
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Phone Booth.... Pretty boy lives. Much more suprising if he'd have taken a bullet.
Hmm... that's open to debate. I don't think he lived. What was he injected with?
I don't think that's how the game was played - he survived the sniper rifle, so he survived the game. To then kill the guy when he's in the ambulance would have broken the psycho's own rules. He was a sick fuck, but in his own mind a moral man. Plus, someone else gave the injection, didn't they?
How about:
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- A Clockwork Orange
Sixties and seventies, weren't they? Not from the past decade, certainly.
Cuckoos nest ended pretty much the way you would expect - I fought the law, and the law won. Clockwork Orange I never saw all the way through - after all the hype, I found it a little dull apart from a few bits of the old ultraviolence.
- American Beauty (at least I didn't predict the ending) Sorry, but this must be the most over-rated piece of crap it's ever been my misfortune to sit through. What exactly did everyone see in this film!?
- Requiem For A Dream Mmm, Jennifer Connelly... Yeah, good film. The ending was still kind of expected - drug users have fun to start with, but come to sticky end - but I guess the intensity was unexpected.
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Phil Mellor |
Message #52653, posted by monkeyson2 at 14:31, 6/3/2004, in reply to message #52648 |
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- American Beauty (at least I didn't predict the ending) Sorry, but this must be the most over-rated piece of crap it's ever been my misfortune to sit through. What exactly did everyone see in this film!?
Mena Suvari? Thora Birch? |
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Andrew |
Message #52655, posted by andrew at 16:14, 6/3/2004, in reply to message #52653 |
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Thora Hurd?
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Jason Togneri |
Message #52678, posted by filecore at 19:30, 7/3/2004, in reply to message #52648 |
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Hmm... that's open to debate. I don't think he lived. What was he injected with? I don't think that's how the game was played - he survived the sniper rifle, so he survived the game. To then kill the guy when he's in the ambulance would have broken the psycho's own rules. He was a sick f***, but in his own mind a moral man. Plus, someone else gave the injection, didn't they?
Obviously neither of you really watched the film. After he was injected (a relaxant of some sort, or a drowsiness-inducing painkiller probably), the sniper tells him that he has gotten away this time and it's good that he came clean with his wife, but that he had better STAY honest and good, because the sniper would "be watching"...
So he survived |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #52690, posted by rich at 09:26, 8/3/2004, in reply to message #52678 |
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Obviously neither of you really watched the film Hmm, sorry for not memorising a Joel Shumacher film I once saw about a year ago!
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Jason Togneri |
Message #52691, posted by filecore at 09:29, 8/3/2004, in reply to message #52690 |
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Hmm, sorry for not memorising a Joel Shumacher film I once saw about a year ago! Sorry I couldn't resist - my girlfriend's uni showed it (they abuse a spare auditorium with a projector to show free movies ) just about a week ago, so it's still fresh in my mind. Otherwise I'd probably be as clueless as the rest of you |
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