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Films that make you say "My God, there are still great films being made"
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I enjoyed Seraphim Falls enormously. I like westerns, and that was a film which looked great, felt modern rather than just a pastiche and yet didn't hit any bum notes from the point of view of the genre.
The Prestige. Beautifully done, and remarkably creepy.
Man on Wire may be the best thing I've seen, I was absolutely captivated. Agreed that Grizzly Man is excellent too.
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The Departed. Watched it again at the weekend, just excellent.
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Gran Torino
30 days of Night
Bladerunner
...and all the LOTR films I'm afraid....Posted 2 years ago # -
Moon is brilliant, good script, great acting, and a class example in making the most out of a minimal budget. Dark Knight/Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Juno. I must admit to really enjoying Transformers/Tran2, for the totally juvenile joy of Blowing Shit Up. Some may not agree, but some of the recent animations have been great fun, too, especially now they've got 3D pretty well sussed, particularly Coraline.
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Lives of others
Into the wild
Juno
Little miss sunshine, and I really liked Gran torino.Posted 2 years ago # -
Taken and Veronica Guerin both spring to mind as brilliant
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There Will Be Blood is probably the best thing I've seen in recent years in the "They don't make films like that anymore" arena
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into the wild
bridge to terabithia (me and my kids love it)Posted 2 years ago # -
Gladiator-purely on a visual basis.
Little miss sunshine-again, shot beautifully and i didn't really get it, right until the end, and then it just all made sense. Great film.Posted 2 years ago # -
oh I forgot - Bubba Ho Tep! Never **** with the king! LOL
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District 9 and Last King of Scotland (not that new I know) I thoroughly enjoyed.
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Films that have stood out for me over the last year or two
No Country For Old Men
District 9
Let The Right one in
The Orphanage
Up
There Will Be Blood
The Wrestler
Mesrine Killer Instrinct
Gomorrah
Coraline
I'm Not There
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Gone Baby Gone
In Bruges
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordPosted 2 years ago # -
Lots. But I just saw The Fountain. Amazing.
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Watchmen
In Bruges
Hard Candy
No Country For Old MenPosted 2 years ago # -
Hot Fuzz
along with much of the above...Posted 2 years ago # -
District 9 and Hurt Locker are both excellent. Pans Labyrinth although not that new is a spectacularly good film. But my favourite film of recent times is In Bruge. By a long way, just fantastic from start to finish.
It is amazing how many truly shit movies are out there though.
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Layer Cake for me, twas a great film
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Layer Cake? really?
Up.
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have none of you seen Frost/nixon? shame on you, tis bloody brilliant!!!
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giant shark vs massive octopuss...
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frost/nixon is v good
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Snakes on a Plane
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'Tell No-One', only film I remember seeing where I could feel my heart beat rise & fall with the film (the bit in the park when his wife walks in..).
+1 for 'The Lives of Others' too.Posted 2 years ago # -
"In Bruges"
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recent goodies for me have been
Juno
In Bruges
Kite Runner
The Wrestler
Diving Bell and the ButterflyPosted 2 years ago # -
pans lab
mongol
saints ans soldiers
tsotsi
this is england
dead mans shoes
assembly
assasination of jesse james
the fall
training dayPosted 2 years ago # -
have none of you seen Frost/nixon? shame on you, tis bloody brilliant!!!
Yes. Very good, though Sheen's performance does descend into too much pastiche at times and he's acted out of every scene by Langella.
Finally got round to watching Lives of Others a couple of weeks ago - exactly as good as I hoped it would be.
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Seven Pounds was very good.
Watched Bronson at the weekend. Quite dark and very funny at times. Tom Hardys portrayal of Charles Bronson aka Michael Peterson was brilliant.Posted 2 years ago # -
Agree with lots of the above, but also:
3:10 to Yuma
Let the Right One InPosted 2 years ago # -
I watched "Shoot 'Em Up" the other night. I don't think there was a plot, just a long series of gunfights, chases and a completely gratuitous hooker in corset and black stockings. Brilliant for it's simplicity. As the ad says, did exactly what it said on the tin.
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Man on Wire. Best film I've seen in the last few years.
Joe
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This had me in tears
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Right, the OP asked about films that are being made now, some of these films are from the 70's! Unless we're measuring time geologically.
The more recent films I've seen that I thought were good were In Burges, Dark Knight and Gran Torino.
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