The International (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/

Amazing film until later. Huge waste of a great buildup and tension. Nice soundtrack. Clive Owen. Dammit, it could have been a fantastic movie... (I don't like spoilers). 

I know I'll get flamed for this (assuming anyone has any left in them (speaking of which, maybe if we ignore the ejeet he'll just leave)), but Space Balls wasn't very good... 

as a parody, it was amazing. but you're right, the movie itself wasn't great or anything. 

I agree with you, actually the only Mel Brooks movie I've liked is the original Producers, none of the other spoof/parodies work for me. 

i wanted to ask you, which character change did you find so unacceptable in Death Proof? I actually felt that movie worked really well. 

The International -- yeah, totally agree. It's OK and you're hopefully and then there's "that scene" and you realize it's a boring action movie after all. 

Stuntman Joe. Dont want to go into spoiler territory but I didnt but his change/development/lazy writing at the end.

mwh/spirit, havent seen it yet, but from what I've read 'that' scene is pretty spectacularly staged no? 

I recommend the movie anyways. If it could have hold it's quality throughout the whole, it would be amongst my favourite movies now. If you are definitely going to watch it, don't read anything below. I did not know anything about it before hand and I guess that was part of why I loved it.

Mild spoiler:
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Don't read this if you haven't seen it:
Gur fubbgvat fprar jnf gbb ybat va zl bcvavba. Ng svefg gur ohvyg-hc grafvba rkcybqrq va vg, juvpu jnf avpr, ohg gura vg orpnzr shgvyr (naq n ybg bs rssrpg "jnaxvat"). V ungrq ubj dhvpx naq rnfl gur xvqanccrq thl jnf fhqqrayl ba gurve fvqr. Gur fprar jura gung bar thl inavfurq va gur pne tbg zl ubcrf onpx sbe n xvpxnff raqvat ohg vg jrag gb trarevp onq pyvpurr ynaq vafgrnq. Naq gur raqvat vgfrys jnf whfg jnl gbb enaqbz naq (ntnva) shgvyr gb zr.enaqbz naq (ntnva) shgvyr gb zr.

Now I rot13ned it and forgot what I wrote. Parts of the movie also felt like "hey, we haven't done $ClicheeHollywoodElement yet, let's do it now". 

 

 

 

season 4, only 7 episodes in so far but this is quite possibly the greatest season of drama tv I have come across. 

so many movies to rewatch

http://frood.net/rot13/ 

Power watched the Wire recently, other than the relatively weak S2, it just gets better with each season. S5 is the most amazing piece of TV drama I've ever seen, the actions of the characters perfectly captures the personalities they built up over the previous seasons and the conclusion for each character is wonderfully fitting without any cheesey happy endings (not that it's all miserable by any means).

Wish I could watch it for the first time again. Enjoy nitin. 

I just watched Rio Bravo (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053221/

Western with action, love, good chuckles and an overall very high feel-good factor. Very very good. 

one of the goodies, although I still prefer Stagecoach out of all the john wayne westerns. You might enjoy it too spirit. 

I definitely need to watch some more John Wayne. Somehow I never really knew about him, sure the name and all, but I watched Rio Bravo without knowing any of the actors. Weird how one can block out things. 

Apocalypse Now last night.

OMG soo much better than I remember it! :))) 

also check out some of director Howard Hawks' other stuff like The Big Sleep and Only Angels Have Wings. Not westerns but have all of the qualities you listed above.

ricky, are you one of *those* people that prefer the redux version :) 

Oh I did watch The Big Sleep and loved it. Gonna get the Angels film too then. Bogart is great (and apparently Howard Hawks too). 

some more Hawks recommendations (in roughly order of quality IMHO) :

To Have and Have Not (also with Bogart)
Red River (also with john wayne)
Bringing Up Baby
His Girl Friday
Twentieth Century

The last 3 are screwball comedies so that may or may not be your thing. But definitely try Angels and the first two above. 

*those* people aye? ;p

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redux is better tho... 

but I know the one I watched was about 3 hours 13 minutes long. Didnt get bored though. Except for maybe the bit in Cambodia with the French folk. Interesting though...... That chick was hot - I wonder what they were somking in that pipe..... ? 

the french plantation scene is the biggest difference, plus some other new scenes and rearrangement of old scenes. But that plantation scene is the big difference.