Film Club!

[One-Way]

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arteom, you're okay with titles that are not available on Netflix streaming, right? Is it okay with you if I choose a title that is not available on streaming, but is available as a DVD or Blu-ray?

I'll probably use up all the films I have that are available as streaming, but will eventually step into films that are not available as such.

[arteom]

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Yeah that is fine one-way, I was having a hard time finding a film that was available to be streamed on netflix myself.

[One-Way]

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I have a bunch I've been meaning to watch, but yeah, if you'd like to pick something that's not available on streaming, that's fine with me as well.

[One-Way]

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I let you down, arteom. I've been sick and busy, so I apologize. I'll watch this as soon as I can.

[arteom]

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That's okay one-way, feel better.

[armogrid]

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never saw "the hidden fortress", but love akira kurosawa's work (especially yojimbo, rashomon, seven samurai). i will check it out, but obviously late for the dec.3 review deadline.


how about scorsese's Shutter Island next?

[One-Way]

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armogrid, please watch Hidden Fortress, if you have the chance to do so in the next few days. I won't be able to see this film until perhaps next week, so I'm being a hypocrite and delaying the film. Perhaps we can extend the deadline for Hidden Fortress to Friday, December 17.

I also don't want to come off as a Film Nazi, but Shutter Island isn't really something I was hoping to be suggested. I love Martin Scorsese and have seen the film twice, and it's probably a film the majority of us have seen already. I'm really hoping for this thread to recommend independent, foreign, and rarely seen films that we all might have missed... or great classics that we haven't really caught up with yet. I'll wait to see what others (arteom) have to say.

[arteom]

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I guess I am somewhere in-between, I wouldn't mind watching some more mainstream movies that are said to have a good amount of depth to them, but I think things would be allot more interesting if like one-way said we kept it to foreign/independent/old-classics we haven't seen. I haven't seen shutter island, was rather turned off Scorsese after seeing his re-make of infernal affairs (the remake was called the departed). Have been avoiding shutter island.

[One-Way]

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The Departed was very good film, in my opinion. Shutter Island is nothing more than an exercise in filmmaking. The production design and cinematography are top notch, but it's really nothing in terms of its story. The flashbacks sequences are also very nicely done and it's Martin Scorsese at his most emotional. I don't like films based on such horrid sources, so it's a turn off.

[arteom]

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The Departed seemed rough around the edges compared to the original asian version; infernal affairs. My opinion, original set a high bar.