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anyone seen "Mama" now thats a seriously scary movie and the actor playing jamie lanister plays the main character
 
Star Trek Into Darkness 3D Imax

This film is more of a remake than a new reboot with plenty of homages to the original series. Having said it is a entertaining popcorn movie, with great effects and twists and turns Simon Pegg was hilarious throughout the film as Scotty and the main villain Cumberbatch as Kahn really stood out in his role

The imax 3d experience of this film was a bit mixed - great and wow in parts but also poor and fuzzy in others - couldve been better.

A enjoyable and entertaining film overall


8/10
 
Decided to watch some of the older ones in my collection once again.

Reservoir Dogs: Classic Tarantino. The violence is still unnerving. The ear cutting scene still gets to me. It remains a very watchable movie, though not everyone's cup of tea.

Requiem for a Dream: Emotionally charged to say the least. It depressed me to the core the last time I saw it and had the same effect this time. With a beautiful soundtrack supporting it, this is an intense film about people falling to their lowest while chasing their dreams. Also, Jennifer Connelly... <3

A Beautiful Mind: Russel Crowe gave one of his best performances in this one. I really enjoyed watching this again. Also, Jennifer Connelly... <3

The Shawshank Redemption: One of my favourites. Morgan Freeman is brilliant in this one. If you haven't yet seen this, watch it. It was well received.

Mean Streets: The first of many collaborations between De Niro and Scorsese. This film pretty much put Keitel, De Niro and more importantly Scorsese on the scene. Scorsese showcased what was to become his signature movie making style. A well received film, this remains one of my favourite gangster movies of all time.
 
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Unknown ( 2011)

A very good script. A man who looses memory after a accident and is in comma. He recalls some parts only. Its about how he finds his identity , because when he wakes up someone has stolen his identity.

8 / 10
 
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Unknown ( 2011)

A very good script. A man who looses memory after a accident and is in comma. He recalls some parts only. Its about how he finds his identity , because when he wakes up someone has stolen his identity.

8 / 10
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This movie has almost the same plot as 'The Bourne Identity'.
I'm just saying.
 
Meant to catch it for a long time, and I finally did - District 9.

Well done, to the South Africans who crafted it.
 
Warm Bodies
7.5/10

GF literally forced me to watch this. I so desperately wanted to hate this movie. But I ended up liking it a lot. Doesn't rape the horror genre like Twilight did. A really sweet funny movie. The ending is too sugary sweet though. But I can let that slide I guess.
 
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Ah Dang we were going to watch it as a group. Might rethink it. Nobody has had a good word to say about it.
 
Varun said:
Meant to catch it for a long time, and I finally did - District 9.

Well done, to the South Africans who crafted it.
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Classic. Same dude is making another one with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Trailer looked wicked.
 
East Is East

Its about a Pakistani man in early 70s in Lancashire , UK. His family. beautiful movie.

Om Puri was brilliant.

8.5 / 10
 
leatherface58 said:
Warm Bodies
7.5/10

GF literally forced me to watch this. I so desperately wanted to hate this movie. But I ended up liking it a lot. Doesn't rape the horror genre like Twilight did. A really sweet funny movie. The ending is too sugary sweet though. But I can let that slide I guess.
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that was a horrible movie..
 
I usually take a look at IMDB website to find a decent film .

Could you guys recommend me some good movies which are not listed in top 250 but are excellent to watch??

Gurus like leaderface58, Zaz and Saadibaba are expected to share their views :)
 
Flightplan.

Jodie Foster falls asleep on a plane and her daughter goes missing. When she wakes up nobody believes her and it turns out her daughter isn't even on the passenger list. So she has to work out if her daughter has been kidnapped by one person, if everyone on the plane is involved in the conspiracy, or if she is just a delusional mental woman herself.

A perfectly watchable psychological/terrorism/mystery thriller, mainly because of the claustrophobic setting.
 
waqar goraya said:
I usually take a look at IMDB website to find a decent film .

Could you guys recommend me some good movies which are not listed in top 250 but are excellent to watch??

Gurus like leaderface58, Zaz and Saadibaba are expected to share their views :)
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True Romance (Written by Tarantino. Just look at the cast. Will make you drool)

Zodiac (One of the finest true crime movies ever)

Dark City(The "Intelligent" Matrix. Much more cerebral and a highly entertaining and thought provoking science fiction film.)

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that was a horrible movie..
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I liked it though. Twilight is a wannabe Warm Bodies IMO.
 
waqar goraya said:
I usually take a look at IMDB website to find a decent film .

Could you guys recommend me some good movies which are not listed in top 250 but are excellent to watch??

Gurus like leaderface58, Zaz and Saadibaba are expected to share their views :)
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I don't know which movies are in that top but I expect ''The Science of Sleep'' (improved eternal sunshine to me) and ''A Russian Ark'' (good movie if you are interested in film-making, a lot of tricks for one shot filming) aren't. Also, ''Auberge Espagnole''(but I understand some people find it a bit unfocused, a bit like the characters) and ''Seraphine''.

And Zodiac is extremly good.
 
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Flightplan.

Jodie Foster falls asleep on a plane and her daughter goes missing. When she wakes up nobody believes her and it turns out her daughter isn't even on the passenger list. So she has to work out if her daughter has been kidnapped by one person, if everyone on the plane is involved in the conspiracy, or if she is just a delusional mental woman herself.

A perfectly watchable psychological/terrorism/mystery thriller, mainly because of the claustrophobic setting.
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I liked this film a lot and am surprised at the low reviews it has on IMDB.
 
leatherface58 said:
True Romance (Written by Tarantino. Just look at the cast. Will make you drool)

Zodiac (One of the finest true crime movies ever)

Dark City(The "Intelligent" Matrix. Much more cerebral and a highly entertaining and thought provoking science fiction film.)
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Agree with the bolded and will catch Dark City. My life would be poorer without PP. Honestly I've been alerted to some good TV shows and movies because of you guys.
 
Jodie Foster's Flightplan was a pretty decent reworking of The Lady Vanishes by Hitchcock. Interestingly, Julianne Moore's The Forgotten had a similar premise. Plus, both Moore and Foster played Clarice Starling. Talk about coincidences!
 
DeadlyVenom said:
I liked this film a lot and am surprised at the low reviews it has on IMDB.
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Yer I wouldn't watch it 20 times or rate it 5-stars or anything, but it was perfectly decent for a middle/low rated film IMO and not a bad way to spend 90 minutes. Jodie was also in Panic Room which exists in a similar scenario!
 
I absolutely loved panic room. The way the burglars change in personality was really fascinating stuff. Plus, the opening tracking shot was all class.
 
waqar goraya said:
I usually take a look at IMDB website to find a decent film .

Could you guys recommend me some good movies which are not listed in top 250 but are excellent to watch??

Gurus like leaderface58, Zaz and Saadibaba are expected to share their views :)
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What genre of movies are you interested in WG ?

For horror, Leatherface is the absolute undisputed champion on this forum.

I myself like everything but mostly into psychological thrillers, crime dramas and dialogue oriented movies. If you can give me your favorite movies, maybe I can get a better idea of what movies to recommend to you based on your taste.
 
leatherface58 said:
True Romance (Written by Tarantino. Just look at the cast. Will make you drool)

Zodiac (One of the finest true crime movies ever)

Dark City(The "Intelligent" Matrix. Much more cerebral and a highly entertaining and thought provoking science fiction film.)
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I have already watched Zodiac,

Will surely watch True Romance and Dark city, although I do not like Science fiction stuff that much but Dark City is mysterious at the same time !
 
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endymion248 said:
I don't know which movies are in that top but I expect ''The Science of Sleep'' (improved eternal sunshine to me) and ''A Russian Ark'' (good movie if you are interested in film-making, a lot of tricks for one shot filming) aren't. Also, ''Auberge Espagnole''(but I understand some people find it a bit unfocused, a bit like the characters) and ''Seraphine''.

And Zodiac is extremly good.
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Following is the list of top 250 movies voted by users on this website, I found it very useful in finding quality movies :)

You must also have a look ....

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref_=nb_mv_3_chttp
 
saadibaba said:
What genre of movies are you interested in WG ?

For horror, Leatherface is the absolute undisputed champion on this forum.

I myself like everything but mostly into psychological thrillers, crime dramas and dialogue oriented movies. If you can give me your favorite movies, maybe I can get a better idea of what movies to recommend to you based on your taste.
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I am quite open to any film , but do not appreciate horror and science fiction that much ...

The genre like psychological thrillers, dramas , romance and mystery all are acceptable to me ...

I have many favourite movies , some of them namely are ;

Seven
V for Vandetta
American Beauty
The Silence of Lambs
The Bourne trilogy
Braveheart
Gladiator
The Kings Speech
The Green Mile
A walk to Remember
Sherlock Holms
The Dark Knight trilogy
Fight Club
Goodfellas
The usual suspects
Memento
One flew over the kuckoo's nest
The Departed
Truman show
LA Confidential
A few Good Men
Shutter Island
Blood Diamond
Kill Bill
The sixth sense
Die Hard
Unforgiven 1992
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan
Goodwill hunting
The pianist
No country for oldmen
Zodiac

and then ofcourse there is nothing like "TLOTR" or "Godfather"......

I did not enjoy Pulp fiction, Doninie Darko , The Big libowsky and Mulholland Drive that much....
 
waqar goraya said:
I am quite open to any film , but do not appreciate horror and science fiction that much ...

The genre like psychological thrillers, dramas , romance and mystery all are acceptable to me ...

I have many favourite movies , some of them namely are ;

Seven
V for Vandetta
American Beauty
The Silence of Lambs
The Bourne trilogy
Braveheart
Gladiator
The Kings Speech
The Green Mile
A walk to Remember
Sherlock Holms
The Dark Knight trilogy
Fight Club
Goodfellas
The usual suspects
Memento
One flew over the kuckoo's nest
The Departed
Truman show
LA Confidential
A few Good Men
Shutter Island
Blood Diamond
Kill Bill
The sixth sense
Die Hard
Unforgiven 1992
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan
Goodwill hunting
The pianist
No country for oldmen
Zodiac

and then ofcourse there is nothing like "TLOTR" or "Godfather"......

I did not enjoy Pulp fiction, Doninie Darko , The Big libowsky and Mulholland Drive that much....
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Wow, pretty impressive list of favorite movies. Very similar to mine. I will have to think of offbeat movies to recommend as you've seen pretty much all the good ones.

"Changing Lanes" with Ben Affleck and Samuel Jackson. A drama-thriller with strong elements of fate and irony in the story line.
"The next three days" with Russel Crowe - a man tries to get his innocent wife escape from prison, very suspecful if a bit over the top at times.
"Payback" with Mel Gibson - a classic crime genre movie, very stylized but hugely entertaining.
"Before the devil knows you're dead" with Philip Seymore Hoffman, two brothers decide to rob their own parents jewelry store and things go very very wrong. Powerful performances by the main leads.
In the older movies, try Al Pacino's "Dog day afternoon" - bank robbery and hostage drama, possibly Pacino's best performance outside Godfather II.

Will give more suggestions as they come to me. Let me know how you like them :)
 
You've listed 'The Pianist' twice.

But yeah, epic film. One of the best WW II films of the 21st century, put it that way.
 
Varun said:
You've listed 'The Pianist' twice.

But yeah, epic film. One of the best WW II films of the 21st century, put it that way.
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I liked it but I wouldn't give it WWII's best movie. There are several other movies which are much superior that Pianist like Schiendlers list, Saving Private Ryan and Thin red line.
 
saadibaba said:
I liked it but I wouldn't give it WWII's best movie. There are several other movies which are much superior that Pianist like Schiendlers list, Saving Private Ryan and Thin red line.
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Okay, depends on what perspective of WW 2 you're looking at. The Pianist fixates on the Jews' struggle in Poland, while something like Pearl Harbor or Saving Private Ryan is geared towards America's situation in the war.
 
Which reminds me, WG if you haven't seen Thin red line, I would recommend it. But don't watch it just for the cast as you will be disappointed. The most powerful acting in the movie is by Nick Nolte. It's philosophical, slow and confusing, typical Terrence Malik. But it has a very dark and emotional core, if you get it, you'll get hooked to it, if you don't, you'll find it the most boring movie of your life, its just that kind of movie.
 
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Lol saadibaba. Thanks for the horror champion compliment. I try to watch obscure but reasonably decent horror movies which do not cross moral lines. Movies like A Serbian film, Human Centipede cross certain lines which they shouldn't. It's not about the violence but the depravity in which these films seem to swim and enjoy it. These movies belong in a dark corner and shouldn't be watched. But there is an audience for them and I won't judge them.
 
Fargo. A neoshakespearean tragicomedy in the snow. It's just so good.
 
I don't like Horror movies, probably never will due to very good visual memory. I think I was 4 and I saw this movie, I was watching this at my neighbor's home and got scared half way. So, I got out of their house and went back to my home. I still remember how quickly I opened their garden's door and rushed back to home. I also remembered many scenes of Evil Dead even being very young, but I did watch them because it was giving me lots of fear-pleasure.

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It means Old Fort in English.
 
leatherface58 said:
Lol saadibaba. Thanks for the horror champion compliment. I try to watch obscure but reasonably decent horror movies which do not cross moral lines. Movies like A Serbian film, Human Centipede cross certain lines which they shouldn't. It's not about the violence but the depravity in which these films seem to swim and enjoy it. These movies belong in a dark corner and shouldn't be watched. But there is an audience for them and I won't judge them.
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I have a lot of respect for the horror movie genre even though I have not delved into it as much as a true horror movie aficionado like you. The few classic horror movies I have seen have left a lasting impression on me, movies like Evil Dead, The exorcist, The ring, Rosemary's baby etc. are masterpieces in their own right.

Then you have sci-fi horror like Event Horizon, Alien series, The fly, Sphere etc. amazingly creative and prophetic with an eerie parity with today's world, portraying the similarities between that world and our current moral and ethical struggles and the detached nature of our modern society. In ways, these movies will live longer than the current Oscar bait crap we get to swallow every year in the name of "class". Hence, my respect for them.
 
saadibaba said:
I have a lot of respect for the horror movie genre even though I have not delved into it as much as a true horror movie aficionado like you. The few classic horror movies I have seen have left a lasting impression on me, movies like Evil Dead, The exorcist, The ring, Rosemary's baby etc. are masterpieces in their own right.

Then you have sci-fi horror like Event Horizon, Alien series, The fly, Sphere etc. amazingly creative and prophetic with an eerie parity with today's world, portraying the similarities between that world and our current moral and ethical struggles and the detached nature of our modern society. In ways, these movies will live longer than the current Oscar bait crap we get to swallow every year in the name of "class". Hence, my respect for them.
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Agree 100%.

Hitchcock never won a competition Oscar, Kubrick never got a directing oscar, Coppola didn't win best director for Godfather. Oscars screw up quite often and cannot dictate our taste.
 
saadibaba said:
Wow, pretty impressive list of favorite movies. Very similar to mine. I will have to think of offbeat movies to recommend as you've seen pretty much all the good ones.

"Changing Lanes" with Ben Affleck and Samuel Jackson. A drama-thriller with strong elements of fate and irony in the story line.
"The next three days" with Russel Crowe - a man tries to get his innocent wife escape from prison, very suspecful if a bit over the top at times.
"Payback" with Mel Gibson - a classic crime genre movie, very stylized but hugely entertaining.
"Before the devil knows you're dead" with Philip Seymore Hoffman, two brothers decide to rob their own parents jewelry store and things go very very wrong. Powerful performances by the main leads.
In the older movies, try Al Pacino's "Dog day afternoon" - bank robbery and hostage drama, possibly Pacino's best performance outside Godfather II.

Will give more suggestions as they come to me. Let me know how you like them :)
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Surely, I will watch and share my experience with you ..

Al Pacino's and Robert Del Rio's Heat is also an awesome movie ,

James said:
waqar has very fine taste :)
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Thanks, I have that kind of an instinct to judge the quality , type and kind of an item does not matter...:P

Varun said:
You've listed 'The Pianist' twice.

But yeah, epic film. One of the best WW II films of the 21st century, put it that way.
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You are right this time ...Although Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's list are slightly better movies but they belong to 20th century :yk

James said:
Fargo. A neoshakespearean tragicomedy in the snow. It's just so good.
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Fargo (1996) is also a special movie ..

And if you like fantasy , novelistic type romantic movie then Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish are also worth watching.....(these 2 movies are bit like curious case of Benjamin Button but better than that)
 
saadibaba said:
I liked it but I wouldn't give it WWII's best movie. There are several other movies which are much superior that Pianist like Schiendlers list, Saving Private Ryan and Thin red line.
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If we consider that Inglorious Basterds is not WWII movie, I don't think that one can separate between these movies as to which is best. Personally, I love the Pianist the most.

Another one is the boy in the stripped pyjamas. It's not a really good movie, a lot of clichés and, most of all, not very believable. But the movie overcomes all these writting problems and the end delivered a punch in my guts like I have not felt in years. Might be because I always feel sick seeing anything related to concentration camps due to a childhood visit :/
 
saadibaba said:
Which reminds me, WG if you haven't seen Thin red line, I would recommend it. But don't watch it just for the cast as you will be disappointed. The most powerful acting in the movie is by Nick Nolte. It's philosophical, slow and confusing, typical Terrence Malik. But it has a very dark and emotional core, if you get it, you'll get hooked to it, if you don't, you'll find it the most boring movie of your life, its just that kind of movie.
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Looks promising :)

Just checked on IMDB and it suggests Oliver Stone's Platoon as similar movie to this,

I watched Platoon few days back and I was impressed with this film.
 
saadibaba said:
I have a lot of respect for the horror movie genre even though I have not delved into it as much as a true horror movie aficionado like you. The few classic horror movies I have seen have left a lasting impression on me, movies like Evil Dead, The exorcist, The ring, Rosemary's baby etc. are masterpieces in their own right.
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The main problem is that the genre has its classics, ie those you listed and Shining or Saw but, after that, it's just a tiresome ocean of repetitions of these, dozens every year, hence the bad name the genre gets. When a movie manages to overcome these boundaries or excell into them, like Drag me to Hell, the sixth sense, the Orphanage (spanish) or the Others, it always gets the recognition deserved.
 
endymion248 said:
Another one is the boy in the stripped pyjamas. It's not a really good movie, a lot of clichés and, most of all, not very believable. But the movie overcomes all these writting problems and the end delivered a punch in my guts like I have not felt in years. Might be because I always feel sick seeing anything related to concentration camps due to a childhood visit :/
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The ending makes the film. It is quasi-predictable but also brilliantly staged. I think about it quite often.
 
waqar goraya said:
Looks promising :)

Just checked on IMDB and it suggests Oliver Stone's Platoon as similar movie to this,

I watched Platoon few days back and I was impressed with this film.
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If you like it, a movie that I find even better is New World. It may not have the grandiose themes of the Thin Red Line but the cinematography and work on silent dialogue (eye stares, expressions,...) is mindblowing.

@Saadibaba: considering how much you love TTRL (it's the third time you mention it), have you ever read the WWI masterpiecese of LF Celine? He captured the same themes, generalized them to his post-war medical experience and revolutionized how novels are written, all in one book. :danish
 
I have already watched payback ...I watched it probably 5 or 6 years back , when I used to have chance of watching a film only after months .....And boy till today some images are fresh in my mind......Quality entertaining movie, but IMDB disappoints here with only 7/10 rating......
 
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James said:
The ending makes the film. It is quasi-predictable but also brilliantly staged. I think about it quite often.
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Exactly. I think that the ''surreal'' feel about it is brilliantly used and that's what delivers the sentimental punch. As in using how impossible it feels that such a multitude would be killed in camps to make us believe that the two kids could, actually, interact and be friends (which is most people's critic, as well as tight records of gazing held by nazis). And the ending links both, makes you swallow the irregularities and generates the empathy with boys thanks to the unlikeliness of the situation of WII. I remember that I felt like my heart was floating at the end, as in an absurd dream. Quite brilliant ending indeed.
 
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Exactly. I think that the ''surreal'' feel about it is brilliantly used and that's what delivers the sentimental punch. As in using how impossible it feels that such a multitude would be killed in camps to make us believe that the two kids could, actually, interact and be friends (which is most people's critic, as well as tight records of gazing held by nazis). And the ending links both, makes you swallow the irregularities and generates the empathy with boys thanks to the unlikeliness of the situation of WII.
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The fence always being between these two boys until the moment of their death is a beautiful allegory for several things. It displays that conflict is only manifested within developed, oppositional and power-hungry adult minds, that the child's mind is astonishingly innocent for the most part; it displays that war in general is an exercise of absurdity and futility; it displays that in spite of their ethnic and national differences, human beings are not really enemies of one another after all; and it displays that our one irrevocable commonality is that we will all experience death. There could of course be many more things that this simple material division represents on a more profound level.
 
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The fence always being between these two boys until the moment of their death is a beautiful allegory for several things. It displays that conflict is only manifested within developed, oppositional and power-hungry adult minds, that the child's mind is astonishingly innocent for the most part; it displays that war in general is an exercise of absurdity and futility; it displays that in spite of their ethnic and national differences, human beings are not really enemies of one another after all; and it displays that our one irrevocable commonality is that we will all experience death. There could of course be many more things that this simple material division represents on a more profound level.
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I am always amazed at how often child candidity (if the word exists :P) is used in arts to describe how absurd an event is or, on the opposite end, how natural. In this case, it's mainly in the kids incomprehension of what's happening (in particular the nazi's son). I scene I particularly liked is when they first meet and think of eachother's name as a joke. To continue your metaphore, it is really the only time there is a fence between them.
 
I love the child's-eye view as an artistic device for so many reasons including those that you mention. I tend to hang on the metaphor of the fence because it appears to me at the forefront of the author's mind - I read the book as well, and its back cover blurb simply reads like this:

The story of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.

In my view it is as if the very existence of 'lines' is abhorred from the beginning, so every impulse in the reader and two central child characters is to cross the fence - but in the breaking down of divisions throughout history, innocent life has always been one of the prices paid.
 
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I think this is just an editor's lazy attempt at a pre-face posing as a back cover. Isn't the whole point of the book the tragic crossing on the fence. It is fore-shadowingly stated at the beginning when one of the kid doesn't realize that the fence is supposed to keep prisonners in rather than innocent kids looking for companions out.
 
Yes, and perhaps it's very telling that Bruno is indiscriminately scooped up by the Nazi soldier and marched into the gas chamber, with no apparent recognition of the idea that he looks closer to a well-groomed Western European cherub than an imprisoned emaciated Jew: the Holocaust was a senseless mass slaughter, and nobody knew what was going on before it was too late.

I recommend 'Conspiracy' if you're interest in the Holocaust, a BBC/HBO film. It's just filmed in one room mainly, dramatising the Wannsee Conference where the Final Solution was decided, with Ken Branagh and Stanley Tucci the executors. Again it touches on the idea that the Holocaust was history's most horrific incidence of what happens when 'normal' people do nothing to stop evil. A fascinating script, mainly of banter between Nazis of different backgrounds, opinions and levels of awareness, a debate that ends along with the film in a sickeningly quiet fashion, marking the general acceptance that the extermination of an entire race should be a beneficial idea.
 
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waqar goraya said:
Looks promising :)

Just checked on IMDB and it suggests Oliver Stone's Platoon as similar movie to this,

I watched Platoon few days back and I was impressed with this film.
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In a way it is similar to Platoon in exploring the inanity of war and the moral and ethical struggle going on inside each soldiers mind.

waqar goraya said:
I have already watched payback ...I watched it probably 5 or 6 years back , when I used to have chance of watching a film only after months .....And boy till today some images are fresh in my mind......Quality entertaining movie, but IMDB disappoints here with only 7/10 rating......
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7/10 is not bad IMO for a commercial movie like Payback. The use of blue filter throughout the movie is still something that has stuck with me over all these years.
 
endymion248 said:
The main problem is that the genre has its classics, ie those you listed and Shining or Saw but, after that, it's just a tiresome ocean of repetitions of these, dozens every year, hence the bad name the genre gets. When a movie manages to overcome these boundaries or excell into them, like Drag me to Hell, the sixth sense, the Orphanage (spanish) or the Others, it always gets the recognition deserved.
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Totally agree with you here. This genre has been spoiled by certain studios who have found it profitable to churn out redoes, sequels and blatant copies of old classics just to attract the younger theatre going audience.

endymion248 said:
If you like it, a movie that I find even better is New World. It may not have the grandiose themes of the Thin Red Line but the cinematography and work on silent dialogue (eye stares, expressions,...) is mindblowing.

@Saadibaba: considering how much you love TTRL (it's the third time you mention it), have you ever read the WWI masterpiecese of LF Celine? He captured the same themes, generalized them to his post-war medical experience and revolutionized how novels are written, all in one book. :danish
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I really wanted to like New World but somehow got lost in the middle and totally detached from the story by the end.

TTRL is a movie very close to my heart. I was going through some very emotionally tough times when I first discovered the movie and found it to be a cathartic self exploring ride every time I watched it. Almost had an opium like quality to it. Haven't read LF Celine, will check it out for sure once I finish the book I have been dragging on for the last few months.
 
James said:
Yes, and perhaps it's very telling that Bruno is indiscriminately scooped up by the Nazi soldier and marched into the gas chamber, with no apparent recognition of the idea that he looks closer to a well-groomed Western European cherub than an imprisoned emaciated Jew: the Holocaust was a senseless mass slaughter, and nobody knew what was going on before it was too late.

I recommend 'Conspiracy' if you're interest in the Holocaust, a BBC/HBO film. It's just filmed in one room mainly, dramatising the Wannsee Conference where the Final Solution was decided, with Ken Branagh and Stanley Tucci the executors. Again it touches on the idea that the Holocaust was history's most horrific incidence of what happens when 'normal' people do nothing to stop evil. A fascinating script, mainly of banter between Nazis of different backgrounds, opinions and levels of awareness, a debate that ends along with the film in a sickeningly quiet fashion, marking the general acceptance that the extermination of an entire race should be a beneficial idea.
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Awesome awesome awesome movie. The coldness and detachment of the main characters from what they were discussing is harrowingly painful to watch, yet it gives us a great insight into the workings of organized psychopathy.
 
Caught The Last Stand overnight. Cheesy action flick, but good enough for a singular watch. A merit going its way is its effective distinction between urban and rural America.
 
I think many blockbuster or classic movies leave a trend which is followed by others .....

For example Die Hard is an awesome movie but many people do not like it as much because they have already seen many similar things in other movies which actually are inspired from this very movie...Many ideas of such a movie are copied or reused in other films from time to time ....

And when you turn to watch such a classical film , you do not admire as much as you should because you have seen similar ideas in other films already...

This is my personal experience and observation..
 
Black Christmas AKA The Halloween Before Halloween. (1973)
10/10

Used the same tropes that Halloween used except it used them 5 years BEFORE and did them more effectively IMO. Lack of violence, more suspense, a seemingly unstoppable killer, likeable female protagonist.

Interestingly, the director went on to make A Christmas Story :))
 
Watched 'The Great Gatsby' last night and my god it was horrible! Its quite difficult to grasp what the script is all about and its incredibly long.
 
waqar goraya said:
I am quite open to any film , but do not appreciate horror and science fiction that much ...

The genre like psychological thrillers, dramas , romance and mystery all are acceptable to me ...

I have many favourite movies , some of them namely are ;

Seven
V for Vandetta
American Beauty
The Silence of Lambs
The Bourne trilogy
Braveheart
Gladiator
The Kings Speech
The Green Mile
A walk to Remember
Sherlock Holms
The Dark Knight trilogy
Fight Club
Goodfellas
The usual suspects
Memento
One flew over the kuckoo's nest
The Departed
Truman show
LA Confidential
A few Good Men
Shutter Island
Blood Diamond
Kill Bill
The sixth sense
Die Hard
Unforgiven 1992
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan
Goodwill hunting
The pianist
No country for oldmen
Zodiac

and then ofcourse there is nothing like "TLOTR" or "Godfather"......

I did not enjoy Pulp fiction, Doninie Darko , The Big libowsky and Mulholland Drive that much....
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Three noticeable absentees
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Scent of a Woman
3. A Beautiful Mind.
 
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