So....Who's going to see the "The Interview"?

[PraXis]

NK hacked us with a bunch of Commodore 64s? I smell horsesqueeze.

 

[Pal]

France, Italy, Germany, Europe, China and Japan all make good movies.

Way less formulaic then ours too. None of that 90 minutes = three 30 minute predictable acts either.

Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, etc. ..not American actors

...and of course the stunning and vivacious Italian actress Monica Bellucci.

I never wrote anything about good movies but if I did I would have put South America and the Caribbean way ahead of Europe and Asia. What I wrote was movies people wanted to see. If you look up the top grossing films worldwide you'd find that nearly every single one of them was made by Americans. The few that aren't like the Bond series (which I personally find unwatchable) are still distributed by American studios.

Formulaic? You do realize Americans created the formula? I could list a couple hundred movies from classics to war films to gangster to sci fi to black films to animation that changed filmmaking as we know it. All made by Americans.

And I'll see your Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, etc and raise you Brando, Nicholson, Pacino, Denzel, Hoffman, Fonda, Hanks, De Niro, Lemmon, Newman and Hackman.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

sure,...whatever. Those guys are good actors too.

Nicholson, Pacino, Deniro, and such keep playing the same character over and over, but it's amusing.

I just took umbrage that only American movies are worth watching.

A good story is a good story, despite it's origin. And if the films of other countries sucked so bad we wouldn't constantly be 'remaking' them.

Dragon Tattoo
Old Boy
The Grudge/Ju-On
etc.

a good story is a good story. Be it on film, in books, animated, in a comic book, or tumbling out the mouth of a friend.

 

[VictorB]

NK hacked us with a bunch of Commodore 64s? I smell horsesqueeze.

They were using 128s.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

I hear they're in negotiations for an Amiga.

It's On!

 

[HenryHill]

I have no real interest in seeing the movie, but I wanted to go just to tempt fate.

 

[SteveGangi]

I would go see it NOW, just to be contrary.

 

[PraXis]

Once you get a "threat," it becomes a legal issue. No theater wants to touch this movie "just in case" because if AMC (for example) aired it, and there was just ONE incident (whether it's actual "terror" or not), the victims' lawyuhs would have a field day.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

yeah reading the paper I'm not sure it's Sony's fault really.

5 big movie chains said, "we're not showing it" so I don't think Sony pulled it as much as gave in to the fact that the theaters weren't going to show it.

If they're smart they'll make it a cult thing, build up interest and release it on dvd. A lot of people will buy it just because it's "a thing" now.

 

[Pal]

sure,...whatever. Those guys are good actors too.

Nicholson, Pacino, Deniro, and such keep playing the same character over and over, but it's amusing.

I just took umbrage that only American movies are worth watching.

A good story is a good story, despite it's origin. And if the films of other countries sucked so bad we wouldn't constantly be 'remaking' them.

Dragon Tattoo
Old Boy
The Grudge/Ju-On
etc.

a good story is a good story. Be it on film, in books, animated, in a comic book, or tumbling out the mouth of a friend.

I find it ridiculous that you'd rip Jack, Al and Bobby D when Chan and Lee's range is/was singular. As for remakes, bad directors and bad actors need to eat.

 

[Kashmir]

If they're smart they'll make it a cult thing, build up interest and release it on dvd. A lot of people will buy it just because it's "a thing" now.

If they're smart, they'll do parts of it over, and get rid of the non-fiction controversy. That was stupid to begin with. These Hollywood types are in their own world. They think they can do and get away with anything. One of these days they'll get hit with a terrorist attack that will shake their liberal asses silly.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

I find it ridiculous that you'd rip Jack, Al and Bobby D when Chan and Lee's range is/was singular. As for remakes, bad directors and bad actors need to eat.

didn't rip anyone. Jack, Bobby D, and Pacino have been phoning it in for many years playing the same character over and over. That's just a fact. ...we won't even mention Brando or his metal bucket hats.

Doesn't mean they're not amusing to watch.

I love Pacino in The Devils Advocate, but he's doing a Pacino caricature.

I like movies, that's all. Doesn't matter what country makes them. Some of the most interesting movies I've seen weren't made in the US.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knu5zKiK5hw[/ame]

You can have asian movies with ambiguous endings, or french or italian movies that are basically just character studys....

stuff like that doesn't get made here. Our movies have become very....for lack of a better word,...dumb.

Doesn't mean we don't still make some really great ones,..but by and large,....hell just look at the news and the Seth Rogen fiasco.

The Flowers of War is another great movie not made in America..

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xor4tfTEwPA[/ame]

If you like movies a lot you almost owe it to yourself to see what films other countries make.


...I'd recommend avoiding A Serbian Film though,.. unless you like therapy and nightmares.

 

[kmk108]

First of all that's funny another country making a movie anyone would want to see. Other than that I'd be fine with it.

Bollywood is popular around the world, except here.

 

[SteveGangi]

There have been foreign movies (foreign to us that is) that absolutely rock...

The Girl trilogy (With The Dragon tattoo, Played With Fire, Kicked The Hornets Nest)
Let The Right One In
The Professional (Jean Reno)
The Grudge (the original)
The Black Death (Sean Bean)
The 7 Samurai (Kurasawa) (copied to make the Magnificent 7)
The 47 Ronin (Kurasawa)
Yojimbo (was copied for A Fistful Of Dollars)
Kuroneko (an amazing ghost/vampire film that uses lighting and acting instead of CGI or effects)

etc etc etc

 

[69 Goldtop]

The movie is in bad taste. I`m afraid to watch naked and afraid anymore.

 

[foxtrot]

Infernal Affairs, which was remade into the American The Departed is pretty good too.

Some years back I got into foreign films a bit. Sometimes it can be hard to navigate and find what's good, but there are a lot of really good foreign films.

 

[hecube]

They were using 128s.

Well if they can do that kind of hack with antiquated computers, just imagine what they'd do with up-to-date computers...

 

[foxtrot]

While NK as a country may be pretty backwards, their cyber units are very well-funded and equipped. They also pick out and train some of their cyber warriors at very early ages.

That said, "hacking" doesn't really require much in the way of fancy computers.

 

[MUSTANGCAT]

I saw the previews at the theater and, I said "wow" then. I'm not surprised by the cyber hacking on this. Think about it, comedy or not, a movie about killing a world leader? Sony genius who figured this out must be the same one who put all the bugs inside "Saints Row IV." I believe people who never played sports or music sometimes turn out to be evil geniuses.

 

[hecube]