Brazil (1985)

[Anian]

Lord of the Rings
- books - sometimes boring, to me especially the whole 2nd book felt stretched out for no reason and the end of the 3rd was also as boring as hell. Also I remember I was really confusing some characters, like Galadriel, Eowyn and Arwen got really confusing to me (though that might be cause of what age I was).
- movies - definetly better action is when it's seen (mines of Moria, battle for Gondor etc.), they removed some of the good parts (like how the hobbits got the swords in the books and some of the elf forrest parts) and prolonged some others (like that freaking ending of the 3rd movie, god damn that was boring). Also Frodo and the rest of the hobbits go really emo towards the end. I liked the burns between Legolas and the dwarf though.
They're probably a basic and recommended introduction to fantasy, but I say they're far from perfect and sometimes...well, clunky. The whole dead army, the earth shattering, Gandalf coming alive, some of the locations as well...very clunky.

I actually read Hobbit before LotR and though it's much more of a simpler story, it sort of seemed more fantasy and magical and somehow the less you knew of the world, the bigger and more mysterious it seemed. And I remember it more fondly than Rings, I'm looking forward to the movie.

[selmiak]

The same is true of Kubric. The Shining is certainly a better film than it is a novel.

they are both great. I red the last 300 or so pages of shining in one long night and could't put the book away... the book is much more enthralling while the film is visually impressive. Which is quite easy to do for a film over a book...

Somehow Brazil didn't get me as much as for example 12 monkeys did. I should rewatch it though, as the idea is great, but the ending is lame... maybe it'll get me this time.

[Dualnames]

Also, Videodrome, is now officially killed from the list. Still not close.

[Wyz]

I've just seen a film you might find interesting: The Science of Sleep

[Igor Hardy]

I've just seen a film you might find interesting: The Science of Sleep

I think what you were trying to say is The Silence of Sheep.

[Dualnames]

I've just seen a film you might find interesting: The Science of Sleep

He actually meant exactly that. It's on my watch list, Wyz

[Ponch]

Also, Videodrome, is now officially killed from the list. Still not close.

Lies! Long live the new flesh! 

[Dualnames]

Also, Videodrome, is now officially killed from the list. Still not close.

Lies! Long live the new flesh!  

It was weird man, but i don;t want weird, that's the thing here.
If i wanted weird, trust me I've seen weird that even japanese couldn't stand.

I also watched the network (1976), fantastic movie! 

[Eigen]

Talking about different movies, I watched David Lynch's Eraserhead the other day and it was great. I didn't understand a part of it! Might have to watch it again after some time, perhaps it makes more sense then. All I know is it made me value silence and quietness around me (which I can still find even in the city) a lot more.

Another movie I recently watched was Death Race 2000. A classic I had heard so much about but hadn't really seen. Watched it and I can say it's a bad movie, no doubt about it, but the kind of bad you have to see for yourself.

[Dualnames]

I've seen Eraserhead, and now, Children of Men is in the list of films I've watched.

FUCKING AMAZING, AND WTF TO A GREEK SONG IN THE MOVIE. LOL AT THAT.

[Dualnames]

Science of sleep almost.. almost got the brazil vibe at exactly 1 hour, and then lost it. Still a very fantastic movie, pointing out that some times we dream of a person differently and we behave like complete fuckheads towards that person in reality.

I also watched 8 and 1/2 being a movie that really portrays that what I'm trying with a certain project is already doomed. If you've seen the movie and really tried something deep and big, you'll be totally hooked with this one.