The Ultimate Movie Thread of Ultimate Destiny

I just saw Gone Girl, and it was pretty good. Ben Affleck is Ben Affleck, but everyone else is pretty good. The story is merely okay, but it is entertaining. I've seen critics describing Gone Girl as a Hitchcockian thriller, and I think that's largely accurate. It would be easy to spoil the plot, so I'm not going to say much more about it except that it's about 2 1/2 hours long, and I was getting a little tired at the end, even though it doesn't drag.
 
UniversalWolf said:
.. it's about 2 1/2 hours long, and I was getting a little tired at the end, even though it doesn't drag.
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I'd tell the same about Strange Days, which is pretty good American sci-fi thriller from 1995, with impressive 145 min. footage and decent detective plot written by James Cameron.
 
Thanks for the recommendation Valcik! I'm in the middle of it now, and loving it.

I also recently saw Apollo 13. It's not as good as it could be, but still pretty great.
 
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Ridley Scott may very well be the greatest visual director of all time. And I think that is his best work.
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Akira Kurosawa




Martin Scorsese




And holy shit Stanley Krubrick.





Ridley Scott is Campy. Blade Runner is the only film where he actually utilized natural lighting, and he is a crap editor.


If you have any other examples to lay before me, by all means do so.
 
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Gladiator
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Black Hawk Down
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Okay, calling anyone the best at anything is silly and means nothing. But the man knows his stuff.
 
It's hard to choose a favorite of his. I have a soft spot for Gladiator myself.
 
I forgot Alien and Gladiator,

Way better done than Blade Runner.

I was wrong.


He has, however, done alot of sub-par crap in this decade.

Avatar? Really?
 
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No you haven't. You posted some great pieces of cinematic art as well. And a lot of Ridley's movies are indeed flawed.

I was thinking that his works are great in the sense of their sets, costumes, authenticity and atmosphere first and foremost. I wasn't thinking of cinematography or editing or composition at all.
 
You have a point, and remembering that with films such as Gladiator, makes me even angrier.

Especially with crap like Robin Hood.

And then something Awesome like Prometheus,

And then Back to crap like The Counselor.


I get doing things differently, but he stopped pushing the envelope.
 
My favorite Ridley Scott movie that everyone forgets about is American Gangster. He's made a lot of different kinds of films over the years, for example Thelma & Louise. He's definitely not infallible, and he has a few stinkers to his credit (Robin Hood), but even the bad ones look good, probably because Scott started as an art director.

But yeah, don't do drugs.
 
Akratus said:
Ridley Scott may very well be the greatest visual director of all time. And I think that is his best work.
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mhmm ... I dont know. I am a really big Alien fan, love that franchise, and I think it was one of Scotts best work. But I believe the last movies by Scott have been everything between good and mediocre, with Prometheus beeing rather shallow. Its not a bad movie, it has some great moments, really, but it is far from beeing a masterpiece like Alien. Why is that? Well I can only explain it the way how I see it. And the main issue in my opinion is not what Prometheus does not explain to the audience, mysteries and unsolved questions are not much of a problem, as how it can be see with Alien and Aliens. Its the whole setting around Prometheus, many of the details. It was much better in Alien. Like the Characters for example. In Alien all of the characters have been believable, their reactions, their personalities and the way how they fitt in to the setting. But prometheus? You must ask your self if they hired a monkey to do the writting for the characters. Scientists that dont act like scientist, taking off their helemets in a potentially dangerous environment, making a map of the area and then ... getting lost, entering some kind of unkown alien ship without any weapons - hell even the guys in Alien had weapons with them when they explored the ship! And many more of such stupid stuff.

Some of Scots movies are really good, like Gladiator, but then he made Prometheus and I asked my self why they made it like that. The visuals are awesome, but as said, some of the details in the movie are ... so stupid and unbelievable.
 
Yes Ridley Scott does a wonderful job, as long as he gets a good script writer. Sadly he doesn't seem to see that as a priority.

If you want to know, it was Lost writer Damon Lindelof who fucked up the prometheus script and introduced all the ambiguity and lackluster ending.

As far as movie visuals go, I'll always love 'The Dark Crystal' from 1982. I'll never stop loving puppets and marionettes, as well as minatures. One of my favorite shows, and certainly my favorite show from my childhood also happens to be Thunderbirds, another puppetry masterpiece.
 
My Girlfriend and I just re-watched Dark Crystal, incidentally. We always cheat and shoe-horn it into our Halloween marathon by merit of the tone. I don't know what it is-- there are darker kids movies from the same era, more complex ones, better-written ones, but Dark Crystal just has something (aside from muppets) that sets it apart. And I say this having not seen it until I was 26, so it can't be nostalgia, either.

Glad to have another Super Marionation fan aboard, btw. The Thunderbirds movie was a mutant afterbirth of a film, though. I hope you were spared it.
 
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My Girlfriend and I just re-watched Dark Crystal, incidentally. We always cheat and shoe-horn it into our Halloween marathon by merit of the tone. I don't know what it is-- there are darker kids movies from the same era, more complex ones, better-written ones, but Dark Crystal just has something (aside from muppets) that sets it apart. And I say this having not seen it until I was 26, so it can't be nostalgia, either.

Glad to have another Super Marionation fan aboard, btw.
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The Thunderbirds movie was a mutant afterbirth of a film, though. I hope you were spared it.
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I sure was!



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