Recent movies that make you say..."wow"

[Koko Ed]

IN the theaters this year my top movie is The Departed. Looks like Marty is finally gonna get his long deserved Oscar.

The other night I came across this spectacular anime I never heard of called Karas; The Prophecy . It reminded me when I first saw Akira. The animation is spectacular but it seems better written than Akira was(there was a severe lack of sympathetic characters in Akira except for Kaori who spent the movie getting abused). It aint Miyazaki (no one tops the master) but I am very interested in finding this movie.

[Adam McLeod]

Regarding The Departed, let me say that it doesn't entirely sit right with me, what Scorcese has done. To remake Infernal Affairs I feel like he would have had to be thinking one of two things.

a) I can do it better, or

b) I can tap into the North American market, regain some late 80s/early 90s magic, and hopefully win my Oscar

If b) is the case, and I hope it isn't, he should probably be ashamed of himself. If a) is the case, I'm not a film critic willing to pass judgement on his success or failure in that arena. What I will say is that in Scorcese's film, the ending changes the...moral tone of the piece, if you will, enough to alter the substance of the film significantly. It ends more like the Beijing edit of Infernal Affairs, where the Chinese government had to insist on its own moral message. What I mean to say is: if he wanted to make a different film, maybe he should have made a different film.

Of course I'm aware that there's a school of thought that will believe that adaptations of other films with added personal directorial idosyncracies are just as valid as adaptations of books or plays the same way. There is always the old adage that artists of genius know enough to constantly steal from everywhere (who is that a butchering of...Eliot?)

So I'll say that, yes, Martin Scorcese is a great man in film, a true historian and scholar of the art, and if anyone deserves an academy award at this point it's probably him. With that said, I think he's a little lost.

Regarding Anime, I think Rintaro surpassed Miyazaki in 2001 when he made Metropolis, but...it's up in the air for me. I do love most of Miyazaki's work as well, which is more moving, emotionally speaking, than Rintaro's stylistic masterpiece.

[xzvrw2]

Flags of our Fathers was just awesome.
It made me go wow a couple times in during it.
I highly recemened it, but it is not for the light of heart.

[GRaduns340]

Originally Posted by xzvrw2

Flags of our Fathers was just awesome.
It made me go wow a couple times in during it.
I highly recemened it, but it is not for the light of heart.

Someone tried to convince me there were some statistical inaccuracies in the ads that movie, but it's actually very accurate. I think their argument was that it couldn't have been as large of a naval fleet, but if you include landing vessels, that's gonna make for a lot of boats. I'm gonna go watch it as soon as I can use one of my discount passes.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Adam McLeod

Regarding The Departed, let me say that it doesn't entirely sit right with me, what Scorcese has done. To remake Infernal Affairs I feel like he would have had to be thinking one of two things.

a) I can do it better, or

b) I can tap into the North American market, regain some late 80s/early 90s magic, and hopefully win my Oscar

If b) is the case, and I hope it isn't, he should probably be ashamed of himself. If a) is the case, I'm not a film critic willing to pass judgement on his success or failure in that arena. What I will say is that in Scorcese's film, the ending changes the...moral tone of the piece, if you will, enough to alter the substance of the film significantly. It ends more like the Beijing edit of Infernal Affairs, where the Chinese government had to insist on its own moral message. What I mean to say is: if he wanted to make a different film, maybe he should have made a different film.

Of course I'm aware that there's a school of thought that will believe that adaptations of other films with added personal directorial idosyncracies are just as valid as adaptations of books or plays the same way. There is always the old adage that artists of genius know enough to constantly steal from everywhere (who is that a butchering of...Eliot?)

So I'll say that, yes, Martin Scorcese is a great man in film, a true historian and scholar of the art, and if anyone deserves an academy award at this point it's probably him. With that said, I think he's a little lost.

Regarding Anime, I think Rintaro surpassed Miyazaki in 2001 when he made Metropolis, but...it's up in the air for me. I do love most of Miyazaki's work as well, which is more moving, emotionally speaking, than Rintaro's stylistic masterpiece.

I didn't really care much for Metropolis. It never grabbed me even the spectacular last reel.

[DCA Fan]

The Prestige reminded me too much of Primer, but it was still good. The Departed was definitely a WOW movie for me.

[Zero-Bee]

Snakes on a Plane gave me hope abou tthe Movie industry. Yeah, on paper, it's a pretty dumb movie, but it had a stupid brillence that reminded me that Hollywood can manage to take something like the horror film genre, and reinvigerate it with a new sence of originality.