Just saw The Killer Inside Me - Casey Affleck plays a small-town straight arrow Sheriff’s deputy who indulges his dark side at the expense of most of the people around him. He commits a crime and frames more and more people to cover it up. Really, really good.
[quote]roybot wrote:
Just saw The Killer Inside Me - Casey Affleck plays a small-town straight arrow Sheriff’s deputy who indulges his dark side at the expense of most of the people around him. He commits a crime and frames more more and more people to cover it up. Really, really good. [/quote]
That’s coming up soon on my Netflix queue. Affleck was good in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” as well. Ones of Pitt’s best roles as well. Long movie but worth it in my opinion.
He’s a good actor.
That movie was fucked.
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
He’s a good actor.
That movie was fucked.
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That it was, but I like movies that aren’t necessarily easy viewing just as much as the “sit back and enjoy the ride” type of flick. Casey Affleck was excellent.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
He’s a good actor.
That movie was fucked.
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That it was, but I like movies that aren’t necessarily easy viewing just as much as the “sit back and enjoy the ride” type of flick. Casey Affleck was excellent. [/quote]
Oh do you?
Have you seen Audition?
If not, get to work.
Takeshi Miike makes very rewarding movies.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
He’s a good actor.
That movie was fucked.
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That it was, but I like movies that aren’t necessarily easy viewing just as much as the “sit back and enjoy the ride” type of flick. Casey Affleck was excellent. [/quote]
If that’s the case, I’ve got a ton for you to check out. Start with “Red White & Blue”. Just saw it the other day. Definitely not a “sit back and enjoy the ride” flick.
Murder By Death. Re-watched it after Peter Falk died. It’s still absolutely f’n hysterical. Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Truman Capote, David Niven, and bunch of other notables. A kinda of retro detective/murder mystery comedy.
Wilderness. Confirmed my idea that British horror is absolutely top notch. A bunch of teen delinquents are taken to an isolated forest island as a punishment. Just so happens there’s a crazed killer on the island too. Gory shenanigans ensue.
Dance of the Dead. Ragtag group of teenagers vs. zombies on the night of the senior prom. Basic story, not terrible. Worst part was that a few of the actors playing “teenagers” were very obviously in their 20s or older.
Masters of Horror: Pelts. So apparently Showtime channel has a Masters of Horror tv show or something, and this was one episode. There’s gore (a graphic face-first fall into a bear trap!), there’s strippers and boobs, there’s Dario Argento directing, with John Saxon and Meat Loaf. Not bad for an hour-long show.
Monsters. Aliens crash in Northern Mexico and a photographer has to escort his bosses daughter from Mexico through “the infected zone” back into the US. Pretty good story with as much “realism” as possible, given the situation. Very barely qualified as a “Sci-Fi Horror” movie, as there’s practically no horror, but it’s a solid story and worth a watch (pretty slow-paced, though).
Zombie Honeymoon. Kinda low budget zombie movie where a couple gets married and the guy turns into a zombie on their honeymoon (no bonus points for title creativity). I actually really, really liked it. They worked it almost as a love story that happens to involve a zombie, and it plays out basically how I hope my relationship would, if I ever turned. 
Also, watching the bonus features, it turns out it’s kinda based on a true story, insomuch as the writer/director’s sister got married and her husband died suddenly, shortly afterwards. Their names, jobs, and a bunch of overall plot points are exactly as the same as the characters.
Netflix just got a big influx of new instant movies, including Let Me In, so I’ll try to catch that this weekend based on the recommendations on previous pages here.
[quote]Larzker wrote:
… Affleck was good in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” as well. Ones of Pitt’s best roles as well. Long movie but worth it in my opinion.
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Affleck was FANTASTIC in that film. One of the best performances I’ve ever seen on film. He captured what Ford must have felt like while around James.
I love the irony between Casey and his no-talent brother.
lol
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I’ve said on these forums a thousand times that Nick Cage is the worst actor of our generation, maybe of all time. If he wasn’t Francis Ford Copollas nephew he never would’ve gotten work.
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Yeah, he sucks. Maybe not the worst (that goes to Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves), but he’s overhyped, overexposed, and just plain bad.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that Count Rockula has watched SlingBlade several times in the last few days.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Larzker wrote:
… Affleck was good in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” as well. Ones of Pitt’s best roles as well. Long movie but worth it in my opinion.
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Affleck was FANTASTIC in that film. One of the best performances I’ve ever seen on film. He captured what Ford must have felt like while around James.
I love the irony between Casey and his no-talent brother.
lol
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You know I had not seen this for some reason, now you got me interested. Have to find it. How long has it been out?
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
[quote]Hintonshawn88 wrote:
Drive angry - Let’s just say I HATE Nicholas Cage now. A lot.[/quote]
Now?
It took this long for you to realize his awfulness?
The man has been in a million movies and only worth watching in 4.
They are:
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck
Leaving Las Vegas
Adaptation
I personally have hated him for so long that now I just watch his movies for laughs.
Drive Angry made me laugh a lot, but nearly as much as Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call.[/quote]
BS, Gone in 60 Seconds was a really good film (guess you have to be a car guy though) and National Treasure 1 & 2 are really good as well
Matchstick Men was a decent film as well as was 8MM
8mm was garbage and so were the National Treasure movies.
Those other movies were just whatever to me.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Yeah, he sucks. Maybe not the worst (that goes to Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves), but he’s overhyped, overexposed, and just plain bad.
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Ben Affleck has directed two good movies thus far.
He has even stated that his brother is the one who has more talent as an actor.
So, he’s not all bad.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
“The Jacket”
Excellent thriller with Adrien Brody as a Gulf War vet killed, brought back, then accused of murder he didn’t commit. Film takes us through his trying to find the true killer… plus lots of cool stuff.[/quote]
LOVE The Jacket; never heard of it til I caught it on cable a couple years ago. DVR’d it and watched over and over again.
“I’m in the jacket now.”
3:10 TO YUMA (with Batman and Gladiator) kicks ass.
another good movie w/ Batman (and Wolverine and David Bowie and Gollum) is THE PRESTIGE. Warning: you have to pay attention, and the ending is freaky. Watching a second time is highly recommended (e.g., how did he get in his future-wife’s apt?).
Movies seen last week and this past weekend:
Total Recall. I can’t count how many times I’ve watched this movie.
Scarface - the 1932 version
Crank 2 - High Voltage. Jason Statham is bleeping hilarious in this. Sick movie.
The legend of the Drunken Master
Rambo 3
Bridesmaids
The hurt Locker - Great movie. I can watch this over and over again.
Sukiyaki Western Django - Hilarious, fun Japanese spaghetti western
“Let Me In” (the remake).
Excellent vampire film. Has a sensitivity rarely found in the genre.
John Carpenter’s The Thing
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I’ve said on these forums a thousand times that Nick Cage is the worst actor of our generation, maybe of all time. If he wasn’t Francis Ford Copollas nephew he never would’ve gotten work.
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Yeah, he sucks. Maybe not the worst (that goes to Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves), but he’s overhyped, overexposed, and just plain bad.
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So basically Raising Arizona was his best and only great movie?
You mean you didnt like Wicker Man?