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Watched some movies over the weekend

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So I watched a few movies over the weekend and man...

Got through:

Back to the Future (I Know, I know, sacrilege right? I've never seen it til now).

Casino (De Niro)

Crimson Tide

And all I can say is... Wow!

They don't make em like they use to, each one of these left me more impressed than the last, just fantastic films.

The only thing I will say and I don't know what it was, I've watched a lot of violent films and it never really bothered me that much, but that scene in Casino with Pesci and his brother... Wow... Just something about the way they filmed that, to me one of the most graphically violent scenes I've ever seen, got quite uncomfortable watching it and that virtually never happens.
 
Mr Person said:
Hmmm.....never saw Casino but it is on the Netflix list.



Try "Moon" if you like more thoughtful sci-fi.
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Ehh Moon was okay but it was pretty obvious go with "Primer" if you really want to think
 
Crovax said:
Ehh Moon was okay but it was pretty obvious go with "Primer" if you really want to think
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I didn't mean to suggest that it was complex, rather that it raises troubling concerns about applications of future technology.
 
PoS said:
What? For shame! My respect for you just went down a few notches. :2razz:
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Its not like he said he never saw Goodfellas.

Wait... have you seen Goodfellas Jetboogieman?
 
You picked some great choices. And very different from each other too.
 
Mr Person said:
I didn't mean to suggest that it was complex, rather that it raises troubling concerns about applications of future technology.
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Possibly, but people have been talking about it seriously since 1996 and it's almost always been universally condemned
 
Spartacus FPV said:
Its not like he said he never saw Goodfellas.

Wait... have you seen Goodfellas Jetboogieman?
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Yeah Absolutely, I was reading some stuff about the two as their both Scorcese, contemporary critics said it was too much like Goodfellas which I can see.

But apparently in retrospect some of those same critics actually believe Casino was better than Goodfellas and I actually find myself agreeing with that, the relationships between the characters were actually a lot more complex IMO, particularly between De Niro and Sharon Stone, compared to Liotta and Lorraine Bracco (not saying they were bad or anything) as an example.
 
I'm exposing my GF to some film. She loves Cohen brother's flicks, and Barton Fink just came up on Neflix. I warned her it was odd, but she loved it. What a cast, Turturro, Goodman, Buscemi, Jon Polito (RIP), Tony Shaloub, Michael Learner...
 
beefheart said:
I'm exposing my GF to some film. She loves Cohen brother's flicks, and Barton Fink just came up on Neflix. I warned her it was odd, but she loved it. What a cast, Turturro, Goodman, Buscemi, Jon Polito (RIP), Tony Shaloub, Michael Learner...
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My top 3 Coen bros. movies:

1. Miller's Crossing (one of the best gangster films ever)
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Big Lebowski
 
Jetboogieman said:
So I watched a few movies over the weekend and man...

Got through:

Back to the Future (I Know, I know, sacrilege right? I've never seen it til now).

Casino (De Niro)

Crimson Tide

And all I can say is... Wow!

They don't make em like they use to, each one of these left me more impressed than the last, just fantastic films.

The only thing I will say and I don't know what it was, I've watched a lot of violent films and it never really bothered me that much, but that scene in Casino with Pesci and his brother... Wow... Just something about the way they filmed that, to me one of the most graphically violent scenes I've ever seen, got quite uncomfortable watching it and that virtually never happens.
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They deserved it.
 
PoS said:
My top 3 Coen bros. movies:

1. Miller's Crossing (one of the best gangster films ever)
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Big Lebowski
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Lebowski is always first, then Fargo, then Miller's Crossing and Hudsucker Proxy and No Country
 
Oh, and last Sat, we went to FilmBar and watched Raising Arizona again....love that film....
 
beefheart said:
Lebowski is always first
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Movie was a life changer.

raw
 
Jetboogieman said:
Movie was a life changer.

raw
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Get a load of this. I am about 80% sure that my surprise birthday trip this year is going to be to the LebowskiFest in LA in early March...

Yeah, be jealous.
 
Jetboogieman said:
As the movie points out, the brother probably didn't.

But Nicky was a total psycho who hurt a lot of people so I'm inclined to agree there.
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I give Joe Pesci credit. He does a great gangster psycho but he does stuff like My Cousin Vinny or With Honors just as well.
 
Jetboogieman said:
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I always wanted to go to a Lebowski fest..hell I can fly most everywhere, but never made it.

BTW, the website has amazing posters and shirts and what have you.

Oh and my mate is a Lebowski fanatic, she is me, but with a vagina.
 
Fletch said:
Where on Earth would I find a woman that wonderful?
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I'm a lucky man. But it took till I was 50 to meet her. And...the kicker is, we should have met so many times earlier in our lives. Her best friend is someone I went to HS with, small school, she would come over to sit in classes, go to our dances. We went to the same university, same major, but never met. She lived in Europe and went to Prague often, I used to go there several times a year. We met on FB...a (former) good friend of mine who was pretending to be separated from his wife friended her. I asked him, as a friend to not pursue her (since he was a married cheater scumbag and all) and because I was smitten. Of course he did anyways, and lied to me about it, and to his wife (he had lots of experience doing that). She saw him for the cheating a-hole he was, and we got together...we have been inseparable ever since. Love is love...no matter how long it takes. As for my ex friend...he refuses to grow up and be serious about one person at a time and is a really lonely person who created all the bad in his life, but accepts zero responsibility for it.
 
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