What Are Your Favorite DEEP Films Worth Re-watching?

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 7:51 AM

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Yes, some type of antenna is usually needed, based upon the signal strength. I also used to just connect wire and hang it on the wall, or under the curtains.
rabbit ears are also quite cheap at used places. Also there are cheap flat-square type antennas which work well. I used to also just plug into the cable in the wall, even though it wasn't connect to the cable company. The wire in the cable, which sometimes extends outside, would act as antenna fairly well.
Different stations and broadcast locations/directions will affect your reception.
Also, those DVDs are usually available for free borrowing at the Pubic Library.

Yeah... I thought that some people were able to connect through the coaxial. Didn't know why that worked though. If I see a unit at the goodwill I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info.

I could watch those movies on the Stick tonight if I wanted to. I'll have to make a mental note to remember to watch them.

Or you could put a note on your stick - or in your stick. Not that that is perverted.

6STRINGJOKER

Thursday, May 18, 2017 10:54 PM

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Or you could put a note on your stick - or in your stick. Not that that is perverted.

Sounds painful.

Maybe somebody should start a thread about Great Films You Never Saw.

I know Memento and Green Mile are just the start of that list for me. I really don't keep up with new movies anymore at all. If it's not a Disney movie I saw with my niece or a Comic movie I saw with my brother I really don't like watching movies anymore. TV today is generally so much better.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, May 19, 2017 4:58 AM

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Maybe somebody should start a thread about Great Films You Never Saw.

I am unlikely to comment extensively on films I have not seen, or recommend them. Unlike movie critics, such as Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael.

6STRINGJOKER

Saturday, May 20, 2017 9:05 PM

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Maybe somebody should start a thread about Great Films You Never Saw.
I am unlikely to comment extensively on films I have not seen, or recommend them. Unlike movie critics, such as Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael.

Yeah... that wouldn't be the point of the thread lol...

I thought it would be cool to have a thread where you could post movies you've always meant to see because everybody else thinks they're great but for whatever reason you've never seen them, and then other people could say what they thought about them.

I thought of a few more myself....

All of the Pirates movies.
The Godfather movies.
The third Bale Batman movie.

The only one like that for me I ever got around to watching years later was The Sixth Sense and that was just a huge letdown for me. It was actually never ruined for me, but I knew what was going to happen because it was ripped off of Jacob's Ladder, which apparently nobody ever saw.

Strangely, the only movie with M Knight's name in the title that I actually liked was the one that was universally hated. The Village.

I was actually surprised when I found out that he made Devil once the credits were rolling. There's your twist ending!

I think it's a good idea that he decided to take his name out of the titles of his films.

Not that either of those movies were great, but they were a lot better than most of his other flicks.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, May 21, 2017 2:20 AM

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Maybe somebody should start a thread about Great Films You Never Saw.
I am unlikely to comment extensively on films I have not seen, or recommend them. Unlike movie critics, such as Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael.

Yeah... that wouldn't be the point of the thread lol...

I thought it would be cool to have a thread where you could post movies you've always meant to see because everybody else thinks they're great but for whatever reason you've never seen them, and then other people could say what they thought about them.

I thought of a few more myself....

All of the Pirates movies.
The Godfather movies.
The third Bale Batman movie.

The only one like that for me I ever got around to watching years later was The Sixth Sense and that was just a huge letdown for me. It was actually never ruined for me, but I knew what was going to happen because it was ripped off of Jacob's Ladder, which apparently nobody ever saw.

Strangely, the only movie with M Knight's name in the title that I actually liked was the one that was universally hated. The Village.

I didn't know The Village was hated. I really enjoyed it, but all of the thought-provoking parts were absorbed in a few viewings. I enjoyed all of his films from Sixth Sense until Airbender, and not much since then - have not seen Split yet. His credits do not show him directing Devil, only Producing.

I don't understand your contention of Sixth Sense ripping off Jacob's Ladder. Although I have seen Ladder at least once, I don't recall a similarity. Other than Robbins dragging it down, I normally enjoy the works of the rest of the cast.

6STRINGJOKER

Monday, May 22, 2017 10:58 PM

I was just a kid when I saw Jacob's Ladder, so I didn't know anything of politics or celebrity leanings. I liked Robbins at the time because I loved Howard the Duck too. You should watch it again. Maybe I'm looking back on it with sentimentality that it doesn't deserve, but I thought it was a great movie years ago. There are quite a few differences between the two flicks, but the overall "twist" was essentially identical.

I think my favorite movie review I ever read was Ebert's review on The Village. This was my favorite part:

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Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

Priceless...

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 6:43 AM

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You should watch it again. Maybe I'm looking back on it with sentimentality that it doesn't deserve, but I thought it was a great movie years ago. There are quite a few differences between the two flicks, but the overall "twist" was essentially identical.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no plans to treat you like a child.
I just forced myself to suffer through this Tim Robbins dreck again. This torture was made worse by the DVD not having subtitles available, so trying to decipher Robbins' mumbling the whole film was exasperating.
My recall of the film was another drug-addled foray into anti-Vietnam diatribe. But a few days ago when I checked, the synopsis on the DVD cover and also in imdb hide these facts, so I wondered if I had mistaken the film for another. And then at the end it does reveal that it is a pretend depiction of the hallucinogen drug BZ.
I will admit that during the past week, the TV has been showing Eric the Viking, and it was quite difficult to differentiate his performances in these two films. In fact, I cannot now recall any performance he has given that was not the same, other than Top Gun.
Most of the cast I have enjoyed in their other works, other than Costanza. This film also came out the same year as Navy Seals, which share many of the same group from Top Gun, the upcoming Terminator 2.
I am left to believe you did not actually watch The Sixth Sense. I could find no similarities. Nobody had addiction to wacky drugs. There were no hippies pretending to be soldiers. The whole film was not just a dream. You seemed to have completely missed some excellent scenes, and their meanings. How did Robbins help so many people he met and interacted with, like both the Willis and Osment characters?
If there was any rip-off involved, perhaps this dreck stole from Deer Hunter, Coming Home, or other lame wastes of time. I wish I could ask for my time back. I gotta watch Arrival or Edge of Tomorrow, Braveheart again to wash this rubbish from my mind.

SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 1:46 PM

Good one Brenda, that's one of my favorites. Have you ever seen "A Man Called Horse"?

SGG

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My top one is "Little Big Man".

6STRINGJOKER

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 4:10 AM

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You should watch it again. Maybe I'm looking back on it with sentimentality that it doesn't deserve, but I thought it was a great movie years ago. There are quite a few differences between the two flicks, but the overall "twist" was essentially identical.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no plans to treat you like a child.
I just forced myself to suffer through this Tim Robbins dreck again. This torture was made worse by the DVD not having subtitles available, so trying to decipher Robbins' mumbling the whole film was exasperating.
My recall of the film was another drug-addled foray into anti-Vietnam diatribe. But a few days ago when I checked, the synopsis on the DVD cover and also in imdb hide these facts, so I wondered if I had mistaken the film for another. And then at the end it does reveal that it is a pretend depiction of the hallucinogen drug BZ.
I will admit that during the past week, the TV has been showing Eric the Viking, and it was quite difficult to differentiate his performances in these two films. In fact, I cannot now recall any performance he has given that was not the same, other than Top Gun.
Most of the cast I have enjoyed in their other works, other than Costanza. This film also came out the same year as Navy Seals, which share many of the same group from Top Gun, the upcoming Terminator 2.
I am left to believe you did not actually watch The Sixth Sense. I could find no similarities. Nobody had addiction to wacky drugs. There were no hippies pretending to be soldiers. The whole film was not just a dream. You seemed to have completely missed some excellent scenes, and their meanings. How did Robbins help so many people he met and interacted with, like both the Willis and Osment characters?
If there was any rip-off involved, perhaps this dreck stole from Deer Hunter, Coming Home, or other lame wastes of time. I wish I could ask for my time back. I gotta watch Arrival or Edge of Tomorrow, Braveheart again to wash this rubbish from my mind.

I think you were so focused on what you hated about the movie that you didn't recognize that the "Twist Ending" in The Sixth Sense was pretty much directly ripped off from the ending of Jacob's Ladder.

I never said it was a shot for shot remake and I did say that I might be giving it more credit than it deserves from the eyes of a kid who saw it many years ago.

Sorry you didn't like it. That's pretty much the same way I felt when I finally got around to watching Sixth Sense.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 5:08 AM

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You should watch it again.
, but the overall "twist" was essentially identical.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no plans to treat you like a child.

I am left to believe you did not actually watch The Sixth Sense. I could find no similarities. Nobody had addiction to wacky drugs. There were no hippies pretending to be soldiers. The whole film was not just a dream. You seemed to have completely missed some excellent scenes, and their meanings. How did Robbins help so many people he met and interacted with, like both the Willis and Osment characters?
If there was any rip-off involved, perhaps this dreck stole from Deer Hunter, Coming Home, or other lame wastes of time.

I think you were so focused on what you hated about the movie that you didn't recognize that the "Twist Ending" in The Sixth Sense was pretty much directly ripped off from the ending of Jacob's Ladder.

I still don't know what you are talking about.
One is a poignant reveal of a spirit who has not passed over, yet while unaware of his demise he continues to help those that he can, as he did in the secular world. He becomes aware of his latent mortality.
The other is the same lame "it was all a dream" hocum, with the excuse that it was all from drugs. No memory revealed, no spiritual awakening, no helping others, nothing actually happened during his dreams, nothing except the reveal that you just wasted 2 hours of your life.

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