Alright, I've created this thread in an attempt to open up some discussion about awesome and great (or bad) movies that you've recently seen and want to talk about. For me, I recently saw a couple of movies or TV show DVDs I felt compelled to speak about, but didn't have a forum to do so.
The sands of time have quickly made me forget. But this weekend I've had the pleasure of watching both The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (which I've seen before when I was young) and also The Shawshank Redemption (which I had also seen when I was younger). I saw both of these movies on TV, and didn't realize which movies they actually were until this weekend when I decided to rewatch them both.
My god, both movies are awesome. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is such an amazing western, definitely entertaining. My one complaint is that the movie does seem to run on abit much. The movie does well with itself to avoid a huge plot and drives itself forward through situations and scenarios (easily recognizable cliche's that help people follow the movie while eating pop corn, or occasionally going take a piss). Clint Eastwood is such a bad ass, but Lee Van Cleef is 10x more bad than him. Like at the beginning when he is hired to kill a man, and the man who he is hired to kill pays Lee (The Bad) to kill the man who sent him. Well, old Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) obliges, but informs the man that he sees through on a task once he's taken up on it. He shoots the man, and his son comes running down the stairs in shock, but then Angel Eyes busts him in the face too. This was the highlight of the movie, because this young gun reminded me of Opaque. Then, when Lee goes back to collect his money for killing the man, he informs his boss that the man, before being brutally shot, payed him to kill him. The boss laughs, but angel eyes tells him what he told his last victim (minus the kid): When he's hired to do a job, he follows through on it.
He then kills the man, and takes both heaps of cash. This is the extreme opposite of what we now understand to be EMO and why this movie is so amazing.
Anyway, it's an awesome movie and I hadn't seen it until this weekend for a long, long time. And I was so young back then that I didn't realize what it was, and the same holds true with the Shawshank Redemption.
I had caught portions of this movie on TV (Brooks' suicide), but never caught the ENTIRE movie. I watched it this Sunday and find myself willing to pay full price for a DVD containing these particular captured beams of light. The movie is about a man named Andy (Tim Robbins. If that name doesn't ring a bell think the Public Access News Guy from Anchorman), wrongly accused of murdering his wife and her male mistress. The movie is smart, compelling and totally unpretentious despite being chalked full of metaphoric symbolism and extremely fluent and gripping writing. It also stars Morgan Freeman as a fellow inmate and confidant of Andy. Shawshank is the prison, run by a malicious warden up to no good, and under the guise of God. I won't ruin the surprise for anybody who hasn't seen it, but:
Come-uppin's in this movie are plentiful and cleverly written.
So that's what this thread is about. If you've recently seen Firefly, no need to start up a Firefly thread or bump ancient relics from the past, just talk about it in here.
