Does anyone....

[weazel]

Make decent movies anymore, and who decides a book is a classic?

Borrowed The Mummy and The Matrix from the local library today,  two of the worst movies I've ever seen, I'm hoping Gone in 60 Seconds is better as it's up next...somehow I doubt it's worth the rental fee either.

Picked up Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as well, sheesh...and I thought Les Miserables was a plodding piece of crap.

Dunno about crime, but it should be mandatory punishment for criminals to be forced to read it...or would that be cruel and unusual?

Oh well, I have Disneys Lord of the Rings to fall back on.

Grabbed it for my daughter.  

[Sandman]

I think you'll find Gone in Sixty Seconds to be even worse than the other two.

[Nash]

...and if the animated version of Lord of the Rings is the same one I saw 20 odd years ago, it's going to do nothing to restore your faith.

Hmm... just off the top of my head I really liked Permanent Midnight with Ben Stiller. Give that one a go maybe.

[Kanth]

get some foreign films, they don't have as much crap in them as we put in ours these days and usually have an actual story and not just a series of special effects and violence tacked together.

[easymo]

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Looks like you want something classical.  Might I recommend "Orgasmo"

[weazel]

Or trying to be cute?

I've never heard of it.

Originally posted by easymo
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Looks like you want something classical.  Might I recommend "Orgasmo"

[AKDejaVu]

I actually enjoyed "The Matrix".  At least there was a possible escape behind the ludicrous stunts.  I hate that it spawned a whole new generation of superhuman freeze frame fight scenes.  It makes going back and watching "The Matrix" a little bit painful.

Get Amelie if you haven't seen it already.  Its different... well written and well acted.

AKDejaVu

[AKDejaVu]

BTW.. Orgasmo is a classic.  Its the tender story of a poor Mormon boy who gets caught up in the seedy world of pornography and ends up wearing an orgasm inducing crotch weapon in an attempt to fight crime.

AKDejaVu

[weazel]

Nice eye candy, but definately lacking in comparison to the original.

Chi McBride wasn't too bad, should have used him in Cages role.

I remember seeing the movie at the theatre when I was a kid, they even had "Eleanor" on display in the lobby.  

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I think you'll find Gone in Sixty Seconds to be even worse than the other two.

[Nash]

heh Deja that sounds awesome!

Yeah, Amelie was good too.

[whgates3]

Originally posted by weazel
Make decent movies anymore?...

not in america - and less and less elsewhere, as most foreign studios adopt the highly profitable american studio model of doing business

Originally posted by weazel
...and who decides a book is a classic?

if it can be published profitably after the copyright expires (i.e. if it was published before Walt Disney was founded)it is probably a classic

[mrfish]

were you expecting gone in 60 seconds to be good? not to ride ya but-

it just doesn't sound like the kind of thing someone would expect to be good, but rather it's more like what you'd expect to be a run of the mill hollywood crash'm, splosion, one-liner thingy they're so good at- the guy's shirt is always open, the chick has big tits so on....so on.....

'pi' was pretty good as far as movies go, also 'the cube', a belgian film called 'man bites dog' absolutely kicks bellybutton <-but that one's not for the kiddies, get the full version

seems most classic books are a shade boring, but you might like gabriel garcia marquez- he wrote some great books that are hardly describable '100 years of solitude' jumps to mind but they're all good except his latest stuff- also 'cosmic banditos' by allan weisbecker is a great book and is being republished for the first time in a long while only recently.

[funkedup]

Man Bites Dog is hilarious.

[Dowding (Work)]

Films suck. Books rule.

Books in my 'To be read pile':

Stalingrad
Cross of Iron
Goshawk Squadron
Down and out in London and Paris

[-tronski-]

Cross of Iron was a good movie!

 Tronsky