The Movie House - Part 8

Aliens is amazing

RealGunner wrote:Nearly bought Alien anthology few years back.

You've seen them RG?

Major surprise to me

I said nearly bought it lol. I haven't seen any.

RealGunner wrote:I said nearly bought it lol. I haven't seen any.

Watch the first two.

That goes for all of you

Alien (1979)

8.3/10

Great sci-fi thriller. I can't believe it's aged so well. If you told me it was made 5 years ago I'd believe you. Obviously some technology looks old in the ship but the quality of the picture looks magnificent. Had the same suspense feel that I loved in The Thing (1982). Definitely worth the watch.

Arrival 8.7/10

Liked it more than Interstellar. Probably my favorite movie this year. Denis does it again, absolutely gripping. Those who said it's slow, I couldn't disagree more.

Very beautiful as well. Overall just fantastic. I bought into and agree with the hype.

Did an Alien movie night with friends a few months back. We got all the way to Prometheus and stopped.

For me this is the order of GOATness

Aliens
Alien
Alien 3
Alien Ressurection

Yea don't get it either how Arrival was slow. It was one of those times I didn't realise time had flown by.


Although I don't think it was better than Interstellar in anyway tbh.

Yeah I rate Interstellar slightly higher. And both fall behind Inception (goat film my opinion).

Inception - 9.9
Interstellar - 9.3
Arrival - 8.8

Since we've got so many Arrival lovers on here

https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/song-exploder-johann-johannsson-arrival-score

Such a great score and individual piece from it which composer Johann Johannsson talks about himself.

Music was so good man. Specially during THAT end montage when there were minimum dialogues and the scenes were playing with music in the background

:banderas:

Best score in a long time. Absolutely floored me. I was literally thinking during the movie how it's probably the best score i've ever heard.

The World According to Garp (1982)

My all-time favorite Robin Williams movie, but unfortunately is among his least known considering how young he is in it. Also a fantastic performance from Glenn Close and John Lithgow in supporting roles.

Whimsical, hilarious and realistic yet very tragic in many ways. I've watched this movie many times over the years (my mom bought it on VHS when I was a kid and I just stumbled on it one day) and it still holds up. The symmetry on display in this movie has always fascinated me.

Might watch arrival tomorrow if whole of GL is vouching for it.

Interstellar was GOAT as well imo

McLewis wrote:Did an Alien movie night with friends a few months back. We got all the way to Prometheus and stopped.

For me this is the order of GOATness

Aliens
Alien
Alien 3
Alien Ressurection

GOAT films. cant wait for the new one

Soon. I hope this shitty rap from the trailer won't ruin the movie, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2e6Oruy_fA

was bored and had Avatar on my TV in the background earlier..that movie came out in 2009 ffs, I thought it was 2013

can't believe they're saying 2018 for the sequel..9 years

don't really care for it, remember getting into a workplace debate about the best movies and someone was arguing Avatar is

Sam Worthington lucky to be involved in that..such a flash in the pan actor, no idea why cameron had a hard-on for him, he is garbage

I actually think Worthington is a great actor. He's just not a leading man yet.

Can't wait for Avatar tbh. I never doubt James Cameron. People do it every time, and he never fails.

Movie was too cliche story wise but that didn't stop it from being one of the greatest movie experiences I ever had. Absolute GOAT movie experience. Pushed the boundaries and opened imaginations to an incredible world.

Should rewatch it sometime soon tbh.

Don't know if I've ever experience such hype for a movie post-release either. Avatar was ubiquitous shortly after it came out, was all people could talk about.

Downloaded and watched Incendies and Children of Men recently.

Incendies was good, saw the twist coming halfway through but it was very well done. Great acting and storytelling. Villeneuve's versatility is amazing. New Ridley Scott like I said

Children of Men was outstanding. Think its one of my favorite movie of the 2000s. Its scary how I could easily see the world turning into that if infertility happened. I am completely sure that dystopian Britain would look almost exactly like that. That Cuaron's best ever work in my opinion.

Great movies both Emma. Agree on Incendies twist. Saw it coming miles away.

Loved Clive Owen from mid-00s era. Wish he would get more leading roles in good movies.

All Avatar's sequel needs is to be memorable. That's it. A memorable plot and characters to match the ridiculously good visuals.

Can't wait to see what Cameron's gonna do with the visuals. He's revolutionized visual cinema three times now, and my guess is he's going for a fourth.

Fantastic Beasts was good. Way too much exposition for my liking but thats expected from the first movie. The casting was great, I thought everyone played their roles perfectly. I loved Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler and Colin Farell especially. I rate the movie as high as the later Potter films.

For those who seen the movie and read the books

Spoiler:

Love Wes Anderson, wish his movies come out more frequently

Time to watch some movies.

So far on my list to watch:

The Infiltrator (bald guy with goatee, main man Walt )
Don't breathe
The girl on the train
Jason Bourne
The Shallows