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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I normally end up watching films that have been run many many times and i also have my faves to watch.
But every now and then i watch a film that really makes me sit back and think....
The film 2012 ,the other night was such a film .
The end of the world type of film and i know you have take some things with a pinch of salt , but i couldnt stop thinking about it..... 
Are there any films (not talking porn here) that get you really thinking ....what if ?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Good lord - great topic 
Hell in the Pacific - enemies growing to depend on each other
Pan's Labyrinth - the cruelty of fairy tales before they were Disneyfied
Late Spring - b/w Japanese movie about a father's sacrifice
The Snow Goose - so many ingredients
the list is endless |
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Here Comes the Devil is a fairly recent Mexican film, quite a fresh spin on the tired old changeling tropes.
A Field in England is psychedelic madness... Not so much thought provoking as brain melting.
Session 9 is a massively underappreciated psychological horror which leaves you guessing, to say the least...
Just a few I've seen recently, sure there's more... |
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"Old boy and i saw the devil.
Both koren films and both excellent in their own ways.
(the latter is definately not for the fainthearted)
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Oldboy is incredible. Not seen the latter yet... Used to have it on DVD , but my ex took it before I could watch it! Grrrr. |
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"District 9"
i love u, cos i was gonna say it grrrrr
a criminally overlooked film, and the special effects actually are rather magnificent, moreso than recent blockbusters. |
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A few more
Strawberry Statement - Columbia University protests of 1968 - raw ending
The Usual Suspects - brilliant denouement
The Third Man - wonderfully atmospheric
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Day after tomorrow.
I saw it and was talking to a friend who is a meteorologist. He gave me a book that is not credited in the film at all. It is out of print now and was written years ago by a couple of professors of meteorology and explained exactly how it could happen. And probably did at various points in earths history. Just over a period of weeks not days. Something about a minor deviation in the jet stream and off we go. Scary stuff!!
And thought it was a bit cheeky they never credited it in the film as it was clearly based on the book! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Day after tomorrow.
I saw it and was talking to a friend who is a meteorologist. He gave me a book that is not credited in the film at all. It is out of print now and was written years ago by a couple of professors of meteorology and explained exactly how it could happen. And probably did at various points in earths history. Just over a period of weeks not days. Something about a minor deviation in the jet stream and off we go. Scary stuff!!
And thought it was a bit cheeky they never credited it in the film as it was clearly based on the book!"
Loved this film though i love dennis quaid 
A very thought provoking film |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Day after tomorrow.
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And thought it was a bit cheeky they never credited it in the film as it was clearly based on the book!"
Difficult to prove if that book was based on facts that were out there anyway.
Same thing as the authors of Holy Blood and Holy Grail lost their case against Dan Brown. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Day after tomorrow.
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And thought it was a bit cheeky they never credited it in the film as it was clearly based on the book!
Difficult to prove if that book was based on facts that were out there anyway.
Same thing as the authors of Holy Blood and Holy Grail lost their case against Dan Brown."
I think the world at large should take legal action against Dan Brown for crimes against the English language. |
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"Bugsy malone how i wish i was in that film looked a hoot and bet it was fun to be in.
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I always wanted one of those peddle cars!! Of course I own a splurge gun, fnar fnar!! |
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I loved both the 28 days and weeks later films, whilst not strictly 'zombie' movies they pulled off the typical premise perfectly, everything feeling as vicious, brutal and merciless as such a scenario would most likely be - no 'cool' moments with heroes stylishly taking out legions of monsters with katanas and bullets whilst spouting bad ass one liners, just real, believable characters fighting for their lives, and not always successfully. |
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The woodsman, Kevin Bacon could have lost his career playing a pedophile who is released into the community but his skill as an actor made the film a gripping study of reformation and dare I say it, you end up caring about his charecter it's one of the best films I have ever seen as most movies that deal with this subject are from the point of view of the victim or those trying to catch the pedophile, this is a fresh look at crime and punishment and asks the question can pedophiles be rehabilitated? |
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"District 9
i love u, cos i was gonna say it grrrrr
a criminally overlooked film, and the special effects actually are rather magnificent, moreso than recent blockbusters."
Favourite film of all time. Watched it twice in a row the first time I watched it! |
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The films on TV over the, Christmas. period. They always remind me of, Christmas. Because, that's the only time they are ever on TV. IE, The. Wizard. of. Oz. / A. Christmas. Carol. / Scrooge. / etc, LMAO. |
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"The films on TV over the, Christmas. period. They always remind me of, Christmas. Because, that's the only time they are ever on TV. IE, The. Wizard. of. Oz. / A. Christmas. Carol. / Scrooge. / etc, LMAO. "
Don't forget ELF  |
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