Thank you for rating 28 Weeks Later that high, and also for the nice review! Finally someone who agrees with me on this movie...
I didn't see too many positive reviews, but one in the New York Times was pretty accurate:
"28 Weeks Later is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."
I bet that every single person on this planet has seen at least 5 Spielberg movies - despite his being more commercial and less "independent" than other directors.
Thanks! I had that category in the beginning (and about 30 others that are not included here), but I couldn't come up with any good scenes.
I haven't seen Saved! or Das Boot (shouldn't I, as a German movie lover??), so I'll just have to think for a little while longer...
So, how did your boyfriend's brother's wedding go? I'm still waiting for the promised sequels to this beautiful list. There are so few 'movie moments' lists around here.. :-(
Maybe that is the whole point - that I don't like movement without need for resolution. Middle movies always have a hard time with me, I kinda need a whole package (The first part usually is a whole package, especially if a sequel hadn't been planned - like Back to the future, for example).
But TTT has many scenes and characters that I LOVE, so I should probably include it in my Top 50 (it's about time I reorganize it anyway).
PS: Terminator II is great, and so are the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible and X-Men, now that I think about it. Some movies, however, shouldn't have had a sequel, that was just wrong…
I love it, as you can see here :-)
It's not my favorite anymore (that changes every other day, hard to keep my list up-to-date), but I still think it's great. I love Fincher, the actors, the script,.. Se7en is really good, too.
Well, the first reason might just be that it's the second part, and therefore has no real beginning and no satisfying ending. It also switched so much between the different storylines, that it was hard to see it as one complete movie.
The second reason is definately Helm's Deep. It was just dark and wet and soooooo long. It felt as if it made up half of the movie.
Plus: I didn't like Gandalf the White and I loved these Ringwraiths so much in the first part that I was really disappointed by the new flying version.
I agree it's a bit strange not to have it in my Top 50 at all, since I still really liked it (especially Gollum, Eomer and the last march of the ents...). Maybe I will reconsider...
Ha, cool that someone else noticed Brendan Fraser in Now and Then. He was still very unknown back then and I had a major crush on him because of that movie (I was 12, ok?).
Donnie Wahlberg - great performance in The Sixth Sense, gives me the shivers everytime I see it...
Great to see that many Stephen King novels here. Make sure to read It and The Stand, those were my (and many other's) favorites. Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Shining and The Talisman are also really good. The first three parts of Different Seasons (The Body, Apt Pupil, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) were great, but I didn't like the last part (Breathing Methods).
As for the other authors, I highly recommend Of human bondage and The old man and the sea. Good luck with Dante... :-)
Ha, great! I could do that for several episodes ('Bad Girls' comes to mind, it has a very funny script). Buffy just has the best quotes...
Thank you for rating 28 Weeks Later that high, and also for the nice review! Finally someone who agrees with me on this movie...
I didn't see too many positive reviews, but one in the New York Times was pretty accurate:
"28 Weeks Later is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques."
I bet that every single person on this planet has seen at least 5 Spielberg movies - despite his being more commercial and less "independent" than other directors.
So please admit and add him :-)
I haven't seen this one. But since it's even on your general 'favorite movies' list, I might give it a try.
Thanks! I had that category in the beginning (and about 30 others that are not included here), but I couldn't come up with any good scenes.
I haven't seen Saved! or Das Boot (shouldn't I, as a German movie lover??), so I'll just have to think for a little while longer...
So, how did your boyfriend's brother's wedding go? I'm still waiting for the promised sequels to this beautiful list. There are so few 'movie moments' lists around here.. :-(
And Casablanca really is an awesome movie. Damn, I need to change my whole list! That will take days...
Maybe that is the whole point - that I don't like movement without need for resolution. Middle movies always have a hard time with me, I kinda need a whole package (The first part usually is a whole package, especially if a sequel hadn't been planned - like Back to the future, for example).
But TTT has many scenes and characters that I LOVE, so I should probably include it in my Top 50 (it's about time I reorganize it anyway).
PS: Terminator II is great, and so are the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible and X-Men, now that I think about it. Some movies, however, shouldn't have had a sequel, that was just wrong…
I love it, as you can see here :-)
It's not my favorite anymore (that changes every other day, hard to keep my list up-to-date), but I still think it's great. I love Fincher, the actors, the script,.. Se7en is really good, too.
Well, the first reason might just be that it's the second part, and therefore has no real beginning and no satisfying ending. It also switched so much between the different storylines, that it was hard to see it as one complete movie.
The second reason is definately Helm's Deep. It was just dark and wet and soooooo long. It felt as if it made up half of the movie.
Plus: I didn't like Gandalf the White and I loved these Ringwraiths so much in the first part that I was really disappointed by the new flying version.
I agree it's a bit strange not to have it in my Top 50 at all, since I still really liked it (especially Gollum, Eomer and the last march of the ents...). Maybe I will reconsider...
How come there is Se7en, The Game, and Alien3, but not Fight Club, although you had room in the 1999 section? Didn't like it?
Thanks. Gilmore Girls and Buffy both have great (funny and clever) scripts, that's why I love those shows...
Ha, cool that someone else noticed Brendan Fraser in Now and Then. He was still very unknown back then and I had a major crush on him because of that movie (I was 12, ok?).
Donnie Wahlberg - great performance in The Sixth Sense, gives me the shivers everytime I see it...
Ha, that's funny! I didn't know that (I've only seen the 86 version). I'll add it, thanks for the contributions.
Great to see that many Stephen King novels here. Make sure to read It and The Stand, those were my (and many other's) favorites. Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Shining and The Talisman are also really good. The first three parts of Different Seasons (The Body, Apt Pupil, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) were great, but I didn't like the last part (Breathing Methods).
As for the other authors, I highly recommend Of human bondage and The old man and the sea. Good luck with Dante... :-)