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**AlienBountyHunter** · 02-18-2013, 04:59 PM

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Oh yeah, it's a masterpiece imo. One of the best films of the '00's. It's beautiful to look at, has an amazing score and performances and is incredibly atmospheric and extremely tense throughout. The way the character is made almost mysterious and mythical is amazing. There's a scene at a dinner table that's amongst the most tense scenes I've ever seen, and it's Pitt's best performance ever, he's amazing in it. I'd say it's a masterwork in slow building tension personally. Casey Affleck is also great. So yeah, I'd recommend it to anyone. I love it unhealthily.

Thanks very much. Sounds great!

Another modern western that's pretty solid is Appaloosa. Not a masterpiece by any means but Ed Harris is very good in it. He directs it as well.

**Bubz** · 02-18-2013, 05:03 PM

I saw some of Appaloosa when it was on tv and it looked pretty good. Someone mentioned 3:10 To Yuma earlier and yeah, I really liked that film.

We must not forget Django Unchained

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**Skyfall** · 02-18-2013, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AlienBountyHunter

Good choice. I'm not sure which one you're referring to (original or remake) but I actually prefer the remake. It feels 'grittier' and I really enjoy Christian Bale's performance in it. Haven't seen it in a long time so can't remember loads more about it but top film.

didn't even know it was a remake. the best part to me was...

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Like that a bunch, too. Ben Foster owns. Criterion is releasing the original (based on an Elmore Leonard short story btw) in May.

Ben Foster. I want to check out the original now.

I'm actually taking a samurai & western's film class at PITT right now. Western wise we've watched Shane, StageCoach. actually that's all. We also watched Yojimbo, 7 samurai, Samurai trilogy. watching The searchers tomorrow. still more films to go.

edit: lol, I did forget Django. That's probably my favorite Tarintino movie atm.

Hanoi Cheyenne · 02-18-2013, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Skyfall

I'm actually taking a samurai & western's film class at PITT right now. Western wise we've watched Shane, StageCoach. actually that's all. We also watched Yojimbo, 7 samurai, Samurai trilogy. watching The searchers tomorrow. still more films to go.

My man! see avy
its a good contrast between those two genres to watch Yojimbo and Fistfull of Dollars back to back as FoD is a remake. Theyre both pretty definitive of their genres too imo.
The later Bruce Willis movie Last Man Standing is also a gangster remake of the same story but fuck that movie.

**Skyfall** · 02-18-2013, 05:17 PM

Jan 8 Introduction
Japan Past and Present: The Age of the Shogun
Outlaws, Rebels and Rogues Legend versus history and fact

Jan 15 Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi
[Samurai II, Samurai III] The ideal samurai

Jan 22 Stagecoach
[Shane]
Courage, individualism, honor French 1

Jan 29 47 Ronin (Ichikawa)
[Chushingura (Inagaki), The Alamo] Honor, steadfast loyalty, subterfuge, giri

Feb 5 Seven Samurai
[Magnificent Seven] Last hurrah of a waning tradition?

Feb 12 Yojimbo
[Fistful of Dollars]
[Last Man Standing] Inflicting Armageddon on corruption

Feb 19 Sanjuro
[The Cowboys (John Wayne)] Mentoring young warriors

Feb 26 Broken Arrow
[The searchers, The Wild Bunch, Warriors of the Rainbow (Sideeq Bale)] Native Americans – conflict and empathy

Mar 5 Zatoichi (katsu)
[Zatoichi (Kitano)] Handicapped warrior’s 6th sense
SPRING BREAK

Mar 19 High Noon (Cooper)
[High noon (Skerritt), Rio Bravo]
Defending the meek (undeserving?) Writing 2!
(-0.5/day for lateness)

Mar 26 Shinobi no Mono1 (Raizo Ichikawa)
[Shinobi no Mono 2-4, Samurai Spy] Ninja-the ultimate stealth warrior French II: 7-9

Apr 2 Ox-bow incident
[18 assassins, Hana] Tyranny of the mob French II: 10-12

Apr 9 Ronin
[Ghost dog, Le Samouraï] Western reinvention of the samurai.

Apr 16 The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise)
[Dances with Wolves] Going native – merging the warrior traditions.

Apr 24 FINAL DUE by NOON in my mailbox in Asian Studies Center, 4th floor, Posvar Hall (lateness penalized with -0.5/per day)
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this is all I get to watch. pretty good deal. I forgot about 47 Ronin. and yeah, I liked Yojimbo and only just got your avy last week.

asdf0501 · 02-18-2013, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Skyfall

Jan 8 Introduction
Japan Past and Present: The Age of the Shogun
Outlaws, Rebels and Rogues Legend versus history and fact

Jan 15 Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi
[Samurai II, Samurai III] The ideal samurai

Jan 22 Stagecoach
[Shane]
Courage, individualism, honor French 1

Jan 29 47 Ronin (Ichikawa)
[Chushingura (Inagaki), The Alamo] Honor, steadfast loyalty, subterfuge, giri

Feb 5 Seven Samurai
[Magnificent Seven] Last hurrah of a waning tradition?

Feb 12 Yojimbo
[Fistful of Dollars]
[Last Man Standing] Inflicting Armageddon on corruption

Feb 19 Sanjuro
[The Cowboys (John Wayne)] Mentoring young warriors

Feb 26 Broken Arrow
[The searchers, The Wild Bunch, Warriors of the Rainbow (Sideeq Bale)] Native Americans – conflict and empathy

Mar 5 Zatoichi (katsu)
[Zatoichi (Kitano)] Handicapped warrior’s 6th sense
SPRING BREAK

Mar 19 High Noon (Cooper)
[High noon (Skerritt), Rio Bravo]
Defending the meek (undeserving?) Writing 2!
(-0.5/day for lateness)

Mar 26 Shinobi no Mono1 (Raizo Ichikawa)
[Shinobi no Mono 2-4, Samurai Spy] Ninja-the ultimate stealth warrior French II: 7-9

Apr 2 Ox-bow incident
[18 assassins, Hana] Tyranny of the mob French II: 10-12

Apr 9 Ronin
[Ghost dog, Le Samouraï] Western reinvention of the samurai.

Apr 16 The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise)
[Dances with Wolves] Going native – merging the warrior traditions.

Apr 24 FINAL DUE by NOON in my mailbox in Asian Studies Center, 4th floor, Posvar Hall (lateness penalized with -0.5/per day)

In bolded the awesome ones.

Rio Bravo in particular is like the happiest motherfucking bad-ass movie ever made.

There so many awesome westerns between the 30's and the 60's that is almost impossible to saw it all of them

Hanoi Cheyenne · 02-18-2013, 05:29 PM

hot damn that class looks sweeeeeet skyfall, nice one

**Bubz** · 02-18-2013, 05:31 PM

So you're watching good films Skyfall?

Le samourai is one of my favourite films ever, that class is worth it just for that.

**WOOLCOCK** · 02-19-2013, 08:05 AM

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Destiny was pimping this yesterday and combined with Bubz continually harping on about it being one of the best films 2012 had to offer and me declaring God to make me a eunuch if I delayed watching any longer, I decided to check it out.

Jesus christ, its powerful, poignant and certainly leaves a lasting impression on you. I must have had it confused with another film because I was expecting this uplifting and beautiful magical tale, and instead the beauty was enshrined in the hearbreak and community spirit embodied by the devotion of this tiny community to not abandon their little home, 'The Bathtub'. I particularly loved the camera effects and how the film was shot in a way that let us the viewer see the world and home as 6 year old HushPuppy does. The beauty is obviously that as an adult our perception of the community differs greatly and what seems a hospitable and homely place to HushPuppy is actually in startling difference to the child abuse, chronic alcoholism and bleak outlook on life that we the viewer witnesses as an adult. Quvenzhané Wallis is tremendous as the protagonist with such an eery presence for a 5 year old at the time of shooting. The camerawork and aesthetic visual really lends itself to magnifying the presence and charm of this tiny girl wise well beyond her years and it makes the tumultous and piercing scenes truly stand out.

So much can be said for the relationship between HushPuppy and her father. Dwight Henry is magnificent as the dad who alternated between doting and attentive dad and cruel and violent drunk. The range in the scenes between the pair is heartbreaking and the gradual build from the first half to the second does a remarkable job in adding suspense to their plight and pondering where their direction is heading. People who've seen the film will know what I'm referring to when I say the scene between them in front of a bus outside a shelter is piercing in emotion and heartbreak and the subsquent climax to the very end is a wonderful journey. I was also a fan of the almost surrealist shooting of the scene in the bar as it encapsulates how HushPuppy views this new setting which she has no understanding of. The teasing of this doting woman perhaps being her mum was beautiful and her eventual decision to return to the place she calls home felt like a genuine moment of clarity on her part.

It won't be a film for everyone in due part to the dialogue, camerawork and lack of a clear plot (I think the narrative and overarching journey is enough to convey your interest, but I could understand someone finding the pace off-putting) but if you give it your attention the emotion and powerful approach the film strives to create will certainly leave an impression on you.

blarg_ · 02-19-2013, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by WOOLCOCK

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Destiny was pimping this yesterday and combined with Bubz continually harping on about it being one of the best films 2012 had to offer and me declaring God to make me a eunuch if I delayed watching any longer, I decided to check it out.

Jesus christ, its powerful, poignant and certainly leaves a lasting impression on you. I must have had it confused with another film because I was expecting this uplifting and beautiful magical tale, and instead the beauty was enshrined in the hearbreak and community spirit embodied by the devotion of this tiny community to not abandon their little home, 'The Bathtub'. I particularly loved the camera effects and how the film was shot in a way that let us the viewer see the world and home as 6 year old HushPuppy does. The beauty is obviously that as an adult our perception of the community differs greatly and what seems a hospitable and homely place to HushPuppy is actually in startling difference to the child abuse, chronic alcoholism and bleak outlook on life that we the viewer witnesses as an adult. Quvenzhané Wallis is tremendous as the protagonist with such an eery presence for a 5 year old at the time of shooting. The camerawork and aesthetic visual really lends itself to magnifying the presence and charm of this tiny girl wise well beyond her years and it makes the tumultous and piercing scenes truly stand out.

So much can be said for the relationship between HushPuppy and her father. Dwight Henry is magnificent as the dad who alternated between doting and attentive dad and cruel and violent drunk. The range in the scenes between the pair is heartbreaking and the gradual build from the first half to the second does a remarkable job in adding suspense to their plight and pondering where their direction is heading. People who've seen the film will know what I'm referring to when I say the scene between them in front of a bus outside a shelter is piercing in emotion and heartbreak and the subsquent climax to the very end is a wonderful journey. I was also a fan of the almost surrealist shooting of the scene in the bar as it encapsulates how HushPuppy views this new setting which she has no understanding of. The teasing of this doting woman perhaps being her mum was beautiful and her eventual decision to return to the place she calls home felt like a genuine moment of clarity on her part.

It won't be a film for everyone in due part to the dialogue, camerawork and lack of a clear plot (I think the narrative and overarching journey is enough to convey your interest, but I could understand someone finding the pace off-putting) but if you give it your attention the emotion and powerful approach the film strives to create will certainly leave an impression on you.

Holy shit WOOLCOCK

Very solid review of a sleeper hit that took me by surprise too. I did a quick summary of BOTSW the other day. Not nearly as detailed as this though

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Just saw "Beasts Of The Southern Wild." Imagine if Henry Darger and William Faulkner had colluded, bought drugs from Carl Hiaasen ,thrown Maurice Sendack under a bus, and hijacked the writing of Where the Wild Things Are. It was like that. Only beautiful and frightening and maybe Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou can pay for my therapy.