Non-english movies.
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jonesy
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That is an absolutely brilliant idea for a module. I'm sure it's an incredible movie too, it's just that the concept caught my mind for a moment.Barendd Nobeard said:
Barendd Nobeard
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Just be sure and play Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" from his "Peer Gynt Suite" during the mod. It's used in the movie quite a bit and that piece of music has never been the same since. There's clips at amazon.com if you haven't heard it before.Wrath of the Swarm said:
Ankh-Morpork Guard
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Beat me to it. Definatly a great movie.Crothian said:
mojo1701
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Barendd Nobeard said:
Ok, so I did. I guess I had to actually search, instead of manually search.
Given that, here are the last few movies I saw (along with the actors/actresses you might recognize). I saw all these in theatres, too:
Zemsta (Revenge). I have this on NTSC DVD. I saw this in theatres, and it was great. It is directed by Andrzej Wajda (he won an Oscar. I forget what for...), and stars Roman Polanski, and... just look at it.
Ogniem i Mieczem. (With Fire and Sword). This was a good one, too. First one I saw that wasn't a kid's one, and it also stars Izabella Scorupco, from GoldenEye.
Stara Basn: Kiedy Slonce bylo bogiem. (The Old Tale: When the Sun was god). The last one I saw. It was good, but my dad, who read the book, said it was very inaccurate from the book.
BTW, all these were originally books. The second one was written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905 for his novel "Quo Vadis?" That reminds me:
Quo Vadis. Even though there's nothing there in the IMDb link, it was a good movie, if you can find it. Takes place in Roman times, with the emperor Nero, and the persecution of the Christians...
There's a lot of others that are actually contemporary ones, and not based on history, but these ones I loved. Any more questions, just ask.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
Just off the top of my head. I'm not really going to count the first two.
Tons of Anime, of course, which I watch subtitled.
Lots of Hong Kong stuff, which I'll watch subtitled.
City of Lost Children
Triplets of Belleville (no subtitles were shown, but then there's like four lines of dialog in the entire movie
)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which we did get here, shown in a major theater and subtitled: I'm pretty sure that's a first, here.).
Tons of Anime, of course, which I watch subtitled.
Lots of Hong Kong stuff, which I'll watch subtitled.
City of Lost Children
Triplets of Belleville (no subtitles were shown, but then there's like four lines of dialog in the entire movie
)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which we did get here, shown in a major theater and subtitled: I'm pretty sure that's a first, here.).
Tanager
Registered User
Some gems in Spanish,
Amores perros, simply brilliant.
Abre los ojos , the source material for the far inferior Vanilla Sky
El espinoza del diablo moody and creepy, I saw this in Mexico, in Spanish with no subtitles. The film is so well put together that I still accurately understood most of what was going on.
Some local fare:
Le Déclin de l'empire Américain and it's sequel Les invasions barbares,
Jesus de Montreal and well, I'm almost ashsamed, but Coyote. What can I say? Mitsou puts a smile on my face. Nearly forgot, Crusing bar.
Other french films, Rappenau's Cyranno de Bergerac, although this one really looses something if you watch it subtitled. Same director Le hussard sur le toit wasn't bad either.
Amores perros, simply brilliant.
Abre los ojos , the source material for the far inferior Vanilla Sky
El espinoza del diablo moody and creepy, I saw this in Mexico, in Spanish with no subtitles. The film is so well put together that I still accurately understood most of what was going on.
Some local fare:
Le Déclin de l'empire Américain and it's sequel Les invasions barbares,
Jesus de Montreal and well, I'm almost ashsamed, but Coyote. What can I say? Mitsou puts a smile on my face. Nearly forgot, Crusing bar.
Other french films, Rappenau's Cyranno de Bergerac, although this one really looses something if you watch it subtitled. Same director Le hussard sur le toit wasn't bad either.
rbingham2000
Explorer
Count me in as a fan of foreign action cinema.
The Killer has already been mentioned. The goal of the title character is to raise the money needed to fix the eyes of a singer he blinded while executing a hit in a restaurant, but the main emotional focus of the movie is the bond of friendship that develops between the assassin and a maverick cop who's charged with taking him down. They join forces in two very bloody shoot-outs, including the shattering finale at the church.
Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies are also noteworthy. I've only seen Supercop, Operation Condor and Rumble in the Bronx, and all of them were good. All of them had laugh-your-ass-off moments and some outrageous stunts -- Jackie Chan is notorious for doing his own stunts in his movies.
There's also some European action flicks worth mentioning as well, such as Run Lola Run, La Femme Nikita, and Leon (The Professional).
Finally, I'm hoping to see El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's first feature, which he made for just $7000 or something for the Mexican direct-to-video industry.
The Killer has already been mentioned. The goal of the title character is to raise the money needed to fix the eyes of a singer he blinded while executing a hit in a restaurant, but the main emotional focus of the movie is the bond of friendship that develops between the assassin and a maverick cop who's charged with taking him down. They join forces in two very bloody shoot-outs, including the shattering finale at the church.
Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies are also noteworthy. I've only seen Supercop, Operation Condor and Rumble in the Bronx, and all of them were good. All of them had laugh-your-ass-off moments and some outrageous stunts -- Jackie Chan is notorious for doing his own stunts in his movies.
There's also some European action flicks worth mentioning as well, such as Run Lola Run, La Femme Nikita, and Leon (The Professional).
Finally, I'm hoping to see El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez's first feature, which he made for just $7000 or something for the Mexican direct-to-video industry.
Hypersmurf
Moderatarrrrh...
Three in French:
Francis Veber's Le Dîner de cons (The Dinner Game) and Le Placard (The Closet) - both farces that I found hilarious. Veber's done a couple of other movies with a François Pignon character - I'll have to track them down some time.
And the Animaniacs sketch, Les Boutons et la ballon (Buttons and the Balloon) - a Buttons and Mindy skit done entirely in French. Just because.
(rbingham - my copy of El Mariachi is on the flip side of my Desperado DVD. Check the DVD section at your local video store...)
-Hyp.
Francis Veber's Le Dîner de cons (The Dinner Game) and Le Placard (The Closet) - both farces that I found hilarious. Veber's done a couple of other movies with a François Pignon character - I'll have to track them down some time.
And the Animaniacs sketch, Les Boutons et la ballon (Buttons and the Balloon) - a Buttons and Mindy skit done entirely in French. Just because.
(rbingham - my copy of El Mariachi is on the flip side of my Desperado DVD. Check the DVD section at your local video store...)
-Hyp.
